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2010 Midterm Elections, or: Barnum Was Right
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Does... does nobody remember the fact that Bush spearheaded the efforts to do the Wall Street Bailout?
Does nobody get the fact that these investment banks... if they fail, they take the vast majority of our economy with them?
I mean, what the fucking hell?
But its easier to blame people for not paying their bills and socialism.
I'm... I'm just soooooooo angry right now. I think I may go stomp a womans head.
Isn't TARP on track to be a net revenue gain for the government? I heard that somewhere. Even if not, we got almost all of it back already!
Excuse me, that kind of behavior is never acceptable when done in anger.
Only acceptable if she's saying something you don't like.
Possibly. I heard a quote from someone TARP-related (Geithner maybe), the gist of which was "the government isn't in the business of making profit", which makes me think they'll be satisfied with breaking even or taking a (relatively) small loss. Some of the TARP bailouts will lose money, AIG was and is a fucking disaster. Fannie/Freddie were technically separate, but they are even bigger money pits. The money that went into actual banks should make a profit, though.
Keep in mind also, the same people complaining about TARP and bailouts in general also complain about unemployment! Jeez, employment would be so much better if a bunch of banks and the auto industry went under.
We don't have question time so all campaigning and "debate" is done through the media.
I'd say TDS used to be more of a The Onion-style of satire (pointing out the absurdities of current events with fake news - you still get some of this with the correspondent reports), but the main focus of the show for the last several years has been to directly reply to stupid shit from politicians and media with contradictory evidence (usually a video clip of the same person saying something completely opposite in the past).
That said, it is certainly unusual for a sitting POTUS to go on a show of this type, but this was a pretty calculated move for the Democratic party - TDS viewers are mostly young liberals and the party needed to remind them to vote.
tarp was signed by bush, it's perfect in every way
now as for the other bailouts...
They couldn't come up with a better story than that? Really?
I'm really kinda getting into the way his show is being set up. Well, I'm warming up to it at least.
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A fair number of the more egregious bailouts were handled outside of the TARP framework, particularly the AIG bailout. I think that that was handled more directly through the Fed.
Also, some of the remaining after effects of the response to the financial meltdown is that a lot of the garbage got moved to the government's or Federal Reserve's books, and never got written down to a realistic valuation. So we're still on the hook for a whole lot of potential downside.
True. Also another one of those things done in September of 2008, I.E. during the other guy's term.
The part that gets me about TARP is that we already tried doing things the tea-baggers way on that. We tried not passing TARP; it failed its first floor vote in the House of Representatives in September 2008. That same day, the stock market lost eight percentage points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its largest single-day points loss in the history of the index. We've tried the Tea Bagger's policies, so we don't even have to speculate about the results. We know definitively and from experience that the results would be economic collapse.
also, voters seem about 4/5 want democrats and pubs to work together once they are over this election
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I think the number I've seen is that it's going to cost around 38 billion. Fair price for avoiding catastrophic meltdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQSy6GRsuuo&p=3E0F25782E3C38DD&index=5&playnext=2
"She-who-must-not-be-named" (Amusingly, she isn't)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapr1khsy78
"Hello Voters" (That splash you just heard was the meme jumping the shark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEL5UKQxsUE
She's the pro-slut-shaming candidate in the race, so I don't think she gets to complain about it when it happens to her. Good on Gawker for bringing in the big guns, and exactly the kind of story that a Republican wouldn't hesitate to use against a Democrat to attack their "family values" credentials.
I'm all for bringing in the big guns, but only when it accomplishes something.
Thanatos, let's be realistic. First we have to get Tea Partiers to think once.
Yeah, I'm basically all for it. Regardless of whether it's true.
The only reason it's a story is because of the social climate and values O'Donnell herself supports. It should never have been a story, but it is because O'Donnell wants it to be...she just wants it to be for, you know, other people. If it weren't for puritanical fucktards like O'Donnell, Gawker wouldn't have wasted internets on such a (comparatively) tame story.
This may or may not make me a bad person.
EDIT: Of course, I do have to wonder why you'd waste time digging up an October Surprise on a candidate that had no chance of winning anyway.
Fake ad from an alaska comedy group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSOWywupmA
They also did this, which I think is simply awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKXwf-cQ278
Nuke her from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
But frankly, I feel pretty much exactly the same way. I'm tired of Democrats losing because they take the high road; I'd rather they be in charge and feel bad about how they got there than they be not in charge, but feel good about not mudslinging quite as much as the Republicans.
I mean sure, lying about this would be fucked up, and true or not the guy spreading the story is a dirtbag.
But still, I'm okay with it. Because absent O'Donnell and her ilk, there's be no reason to make up such a story...it wouldn't work. So even assuming it's a lie, it's a lie only worth telling because O'Donnell wants to live in a world where it is.
Enjoy it, dumbass.
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