TRUMP is baaaaaaaaaaaack !!!!!

Well, this will be news for you, but I was there. I don't have to.
You're only talking about that last Great Recession. You are correct that we saw that we were fucked in 2008.
However, Obama wasn't sworn in until January 2009.
Are you telling me you don't remember that day in September when Bush addressed the nation that we are looking at being historically fucked economically? McCain and Obama cancelled the campaigning for a while and met with Bush at the White House.
Used deficit spending to keep us from going into a Depression. Less than a month after taking office, he signed into law The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $831 billion economic stimulus package that most economist agree is the single most important piece of legislation that staved off us spiraling into a Great Depression.

You don't remember?
I remember. I was referring to Obama bailing out the banks. I don’t necessarily disagree
I do have an enormous issue with his treatment of Iran. And his hot microphone comment about Netanyahu
 
the fascists always lose eventually. iran will get there.

if you think the color of the skin or the genetics of the iranian people is the reason they're oppressed, or that there's something fundamentally different about the people of iran from the people of anywhere else, then I know which side you're on
Lol. Lmao. Iranians consider themselves white
 
save me WaPo fact checkers, I am being corn-cobbed! You are my only hope!
leia organa this is our most desperate hour GIF by Star Wars
 
I’m not going to reply in a scathing manner. But of course - reply, I shall!
Why did the US put the Shah in power?
Answer- oil.
When was Persia , more secular?
Answer- under the Shah. Before the Ayatollah’s regimes.
Why are the citizens of Iran still not. Zoastrian ?
Answer- Muslim conquest
Why aren’t Jews still in Iran?
They left in fear of their lives , when the first Ayatollah came into power. Imagine that!!
Almost every Persian I know is Jewish. Beverly Hills has some of the most successful ones.
However, every Persian I know still has family in Iran. There are many many Jews still in Iran.
All have not escaped to England and the US. Many refuse to be ran out.
 
I remember. I was referring to Obama bailing out the banks. I don’t necessarily disagree
I do have an enormous issue with his treatment of Iran. And his hot microphone comment about Netanyahu
Bush, bailed out the banks.
Obama made them pay us back early, and with interest.
It was called TARP or the Troubled Asset Relief Program, designed to purchase toxic assets from banks. $700 billion dollars. October 2008.

Nice s/hit sandwich to hand to Obama three months later. He handled it like a 'G'. He strengthened the law, and cut salary increases for bank officers until their debt with the government was settled. Guess what?
They paid it back early with interest.

Barack Obama Yes GIF by Obama
 

House Republicans’ Hunter Biden Investigation Begins With a Thud​


(Bloomberg) -- House Republicans failed in the opening salvo of their investigation into the finances of Joe Biden’s family to produce evidence substantiating their claims that US intelligence officials worked with Twitter Inc. to suppress an unflattering 2020 news story on the president’s *******.

Former Twitter Inc. officials testified Wednesday that their decision to limit the spread of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s now-infamous laptop and his overseas business dealings was, in hindsight, a mistake. But they said they weren’t directed by the FBI or other US intelligence officials, and the action wasn’t politically motivated.

Many of the documents Republicans displayed at the hearing were from the so-called “Twitter Files,” a series of reports shared by journalists who were invited by Elon Musk to examine Twitter’s handling of controversial decisions made under the company’s previous leaders. The first installment of the Twitter Files focused on the company’s treatment of the New York Post story.

Musk handpicked several journalists and gave them access to company emails and Slack messages, and many of those messages were then published on Twitter. Most of the reports suggest without evidence that Twitter made decisions based on demands or pressure from the FBI and the Biden campaign.

“I think you guys wanted to take it down,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who also sits on the Oversight committee, said of the story, which was published just weeks before the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump lost to Biden. “I think you got played by the FBI.”

Republicans repeatedly asked witnesses to recall years-old emails, the contents of which the former employees said they no longer have access to and do not recall the details. At one point, the power in the room went out and the panel had to recess, stretching the hearing into the afternoon.

James Baker, a former lawyer for Twitter who also previously worked for the FBI, said he didn’t act “as an agent or an operator of the government” while working for the social media company. Baker said the company’s actions were “fully consistent with the First Amendment.”

“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” Baker told the panel


Committee chair James Comer and other Republicans asserted that the FBI advised senior Twitter executives to question the validity of any Hunter Biden story. Comer also alleged that the federal government used a private company “to accomplish what it constitutionally cannot: limit the free exercise of speech.”

“We owe it to the American people to provide answers about this collusion to censor information about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s business schemes,” Comer said.

Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz demanded that his Republican counterparts produce evidence.

“Why haven’t we seen the hard drive?” he asked of Hunter Biden’s laptop. “Why don’t you share it with the American people?”

The witnesses did acknowledge regular meetings with law enforcement in the months ahead of the 2020 election, but those were focused on worries about foreign interference and misuse of social media.

The New York Post had claimed that information from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed he introduced a top executive from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, to his ******* while he was vice president and overseeing the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. Hunter Biden also served on Burisma’s board.

Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, called the hearing “tragic,” pointing, as several other Democrats did, to the proliferation of right-wing messaging on social media that ultimately led to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.

“If our colleagues wanted to examine a serious problem involving American democracy and social media, it is staring us in the face right now,” Raskin said. “Twitter and other social media companies acted as central organizing and staging grounds for the Jan. 6 violent insurrection against Congress and the vice president.”

Vijaya Gadde, a former top lawyer at Twitter, testified that when the New York Post first tweeted articles about Hunter Biden’s laptop, some of images or information “looked like they may have been obtained through hacking.”

Gadde said the company applied its 2018 policy to prevent Twitter from being a “dumping ground for hacked materials” and blocked links to articles embedding the source materials.

Twitter, she said, reversed course within 24 hours and should have acted sooner. But “at no point did Twitter otherwise prevent tweeting, reporting, discussing or describing the contents of Mr. Biden’s laptop,” she said.

The former officials’ testimony didn’t sit well with Republicans. “You exercised an amazing amount of clout and power over the American electorate,” Republican Andy Biggs said, even if just for a short period.

Some of the GOP questions were far-ranging and combative — including complaints from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene that her own personal Twitter account had been shut down after warnings. Representative Nancy Mace focused on Twitter suppression of Covid-19 information that questioned guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“House Republicans are making it their top priority to stage a bizarre political stunt” instead of working with Biden on issues he laid out in the State of the Union address, White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement before the hearing.

Midway through it, the White House brushed it off completely.
 
but you think it's their fault they have an oppressive government?

that's still pretty fucked up
Their fault? Where did I ever say that.? I blame their oppressive government. Try , not telling me what I think. Try reading my posts, instead of coming to your own conclusions.
 
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