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[blackhawks]

Senator Corpone does not mention how Trump will improve a single issue that Sen. Foghorn Leghorn raises.

It would appear that more than just Zab differs with you and the shitkicker in the video you posted.

“Has the economy improved under Joe Biden? There’s literally no question,” said Justin Wolfers, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.

In January 2021, the start of Biden’s term, “everything sucked,” according to Wolfers. Unemployment was at 6.3% and the economy had yet to rebound from the shock of Covid-19. Wolfers described that time as “one of the worst economic moments of my life.”

Two and a half years later, the US economy is in a much healthier spot.

The US economy continued to add jobs at a robust pace last month
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/01/economy/jobs-report-august-final/index.html

[arizona1]

Listen and ask yourself how ANYONE (beyond zab) can say that Biden;s economy is doing great.

Do you understand how the economy works? When people spend money, the economy is doing well. You've never understood how the world functions.

Black Friday online sales reach record level, according to Adobe Analytics
Online Black Friday shopping sales climbed 7.5% from last year, according to the company
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/25/black-friday-shoppers-spent-a-record-9point8-billion-in-us-online-sales-up-7point5percent-from-last-year.html

[longrider51]

OMG if that LA uber right wing nut is your North Star for valid information, Lord help you! Many economic indicators are historically decent to very favorable, working down inflation issue much better than most countries, housing really not that bad, cost remains issue, consumer consumption & retail sales quite good. Most of the obvious disconnect is from being talked down by doom and gloom merchants in conservative media. I have to admit Rs are quite adept purveyors of negativism to distract from their lack of policy initiatives and the pervasive rot throughout their cult...er, party.

[fuagf]

conix, Perception and reality are sorely out of sync -- "Listen and ask yourself
how ANYONE (beyond zab) can say that Biden;s economy is doing great."

Why Biden’s strong economy feels so bad to most Americans
[...]
“Has the economy improved under Joe Biden? There’s literally no question,” said Justin Wolfers,
a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173305428

And he would know much more than you about matters of economy. As would zab.

To your video: Kennedy's rants are little but revisiting the Red Scares of yesterday.

‘Professor or comrade?’ Republicans go full red scare on Soviet-born Biden pick

Senator asks Saule Omarova, nominated to be comptroller of the currency, if he should call her ‘professor or comrade’

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 19 Nov 2021 06.45 AEDT
Last modified on Fri 19 Nov 2021 08.33 AEDT


Saule Omarova, 55, appears before a Senate committee on banking, housing and urban affairs hearing for her nomination to be comptroller of the currency.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

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Three decades have passed since their hero, Ronald Reagan, went to Berlin to exhort Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”, the Soviet Union collapsed and America claimed victory in the cold war.

Paul Gosar retweets same video aimed at AOC after House censures him – report
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/18/paul-gosar-retweets-video-aoc-twitter

For Republicans in Washington, however, these appear to be mere historical footnotes. On Thursday they dusted off the “red scare” playbook to portray Joe Biden’s choice to run one of the agencies that oversees the banking industry as a dangerous communist.

Saule Omarova .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/business/saule-omarova-banks-capitalism-occ.html , 55, was nominated in September to be America’s next comptroller of the currency. If confirmed, she would be the first woman and person of colour in the role in its 158-year-history.

[ Insert: Saule Omarova gets candid: Banks sank her nomination to become a key regulator
December 13, 20216:59 PM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
David Gura
[...]
'Professor or comrade'
Referring to her opponents generally, Omarova said that "they made a strategic decision that the best chance of defeating me was to kind of generate this ... politicized backlash against me personally. In other words, demonize me personally."
P - Omarova added that the attacks made her "a caricature of ... this evil person, probably a spy for the Soviet Union, never you mind the fact that that country doesn't even exist."
P - "I guess that strategy paid off," she added.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/18/senate-republicans-red-scare-saule-omarova-biden-nominee ]

Omarova was born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union and moved to the US in 1991. For John Kennedy of Louisiana, a member of the Senate banking committee, this was like a red rag to a bull.

Questioning whether Omarova was still a member of communist youth organisations, Kennedy said

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”

Someone off-camera: “Oh my goodness.”

Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s comptroller currency pick: “I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.” pic.twitter.com/CEiCWNwx2N

— The Recount (@therecount) November 18, 2021

: “I don’t mean any disrespect: I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”

[conix, That is the sort of insincere insult you often use.]

The remark prompted gasps in the hearing room on Capitol Hill.

Omarova replied, slowly and firmly: “Senator, I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.

“I do not remember joining any Facebook group that subscribes to that ideology. I would never knowingly join any such group. There is no record of me actually participating in any Marxist or communist discussions of any kind.”

Omarova then told how her family suffered under the communist regime.

“I grew up without knowing half of my family. My grandmother herself escaped death twice under the Stalin regime. This is what’s seared in my mind. That’s who I am. I remember that history. I came to this country. I’m proud to be an American and this is why I’m here today, Senator.”

Omarova has worked mainly as a lawyer and most recently as a law professor at Cornell University. She has testified often as an expert witness on financial regulation and even worked briefly in the administration of George W Bush.

But in a letter to Omarova after she was nominated, Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania requested a copy of a graduation paper she wrote about Karl Marx when she was an undergraduate at Moscow State University – “in the original Russian” .

At Thursday’s hearing, Toomey noted that Omarova has written several academic papers that propose sweeping changes to the banking system.

“Taken in totality, her ideas do amount to a socialist manifesto for American financial services,” he said.

The attacks, echoed by rightwing media, earned rebuke from the Democratic chairman of the committee, Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

He said: “Senate Republicans have a formula. Start with a passing and inaccurate reference to her academic work, distort the substance beyond recognition, mix in words – Marx, Lenin, communism. End with insinuations about Professor Omarova loyalties to her chosen country.

“That’s how Republicans turn a qualified woman into a Marxist boogeyman … Now we know what happens when Trumpism meets McCarthyism.”

This was a reference to the 1950s “red scare”, when the Republican senator Joseph McCarthy, of Wisconsin, insisted hundreds of communists had infiltrated the US government, pursuing a witch-hunt that reached into the army and Hollywood.

On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts added: “This is a vicious smear campaign, coordinated by Republicans who are doing the bidding of the large banks.

“Sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s red scare tactics … welcome to Washington in 2021.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/18/senate-republicans-red-scare-saule-omarova-biden-nominee