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John Fetterman's Question at Senate Hearing Leaves Witness Speechless

He asked a good question.

A shame the CEO didn't answer it.
 
Yes. Elizebeth Warren and some others are introducing a bill that will force payback of these huge bonuses if your bank fails shortly after you paid yourself millions.
That should be a bill that gets 100% of the votes, unfortunately very few will support it.
 
Then maybe the government shouldn't have dropped the ball on oversight and should have prevented extreme mismanagement.
No disagreement there. Two things can be possible at the same time.
 
Fetterman is being used. The Democrats wanted to make sure they kept the Senate majority, so they pushed and used a poor suffering guy to do it.
Oz had as much of a chance getting voted in as Fetterman. Rs should have chosen a better candidate. That's on them not Ds.
 
So if the banks get bailed out, we should demand that the bankers continue working. Uh, okay. I guess they will keep working at the banks.

I think working more in the sense of actually being functional and of enough value to justify the bailout to begin with.....though I guess if you meant them ACTUALLY working, that might be a step in the right direction too.
 
Oz had as much of a chance getting voted in as Fetterman. Rs should have chosen a better candidate. That's on them not Ds.
This has nothing to do with his opponent.

The Democrats used and abused Fetterman. They pushed him and pushed him, despite the fact he was physically and mentally unable to handle a political campaign.
 
it was neural synapses misfiring at it's worse. He was struggling to put this idiotic idea together, that no Senator even considers.
I dont know if he is more brainwashed. impaired, or just unable to speak -but its a trainwreck when he does
You must believe that Donald is a profound moron then, yes?
 
You tell yourself that.
I admit Oz was a mediocre candidate. But i also believe that Fetterman's best interests were not thought of by his handlers. All they cared about was keeping the Senate in Dem hands and to hell with his physical/mental health.
 
I admit Oz was a mediocre candidate. But i also believe that Fetterman's best interests were not thought of by his handlers. All they cared about was keeping the Senate in Dem hands and to hell with his physical/mental health.
How is that different than the Republicans running Herschel Walker?
 
It's a great question. We give them millions if not billions and we give struggling moms just enough to feed her kids.

Not even enough money to feed their kids. I chat with somebody online who has less money in the bank than the cost of a root canal/crown at her dentist, who refused to accept monthly payments for it. She has three kids and lives in a tiny old apartment. If any bank is bailed out, there will be a lot more stories like hers throughout John Fetterman's term.
 
Not sure what the uproar is over this question. If bankers want welfare they should have to work.

Republicans are fully aware John Fetterman's stroke happened in the speech-cognition area of his brain. They know it is why he stuttered the question. So being the basket of deplorables that they are, Republicans followed their fake god's lead and decided calling him mentally and physically unfit for the job because of his medical history made more sense than answering a question they wanted to avoid hearing.
 
I see a lot of people disparaging him and not a lot of people answering the simple question.

Hillary Clinton said it best: "A basket of deplorables." Everyone who disparages Senator John Fetterman is in that basket,.

Turn it around and ask them how they would feel about good questions being blamed on their medical histories.
 
I agree.

I find it offensive that conservatives are attacking him for it. As if the idea of putting conditions on getting public money for bankers and other big corporations is absurd but it's fine with those who are low income.

Republicans only care about rich people, corporations, whoever will give them money and power. They were never for the little man. If they cared about people in poverty, nobody would be in poverty anymore.

I will never understand it because most of them know what Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount, the Second Commandment (which he said), and the Golden Rule (which he said) and believe Jesus is God.
 
But Tuberville was because......football.

Yep, his election victory Alabama's version of Trump the Terrorist People like his celebrity and don't care about the fact that college football has nothing to do with politics.
 
We need public banks that provide low-interest loans. The entire banking system is corrupt.
I personally have my accounts with a credit union, although I cannot say I know all the differences.
 
Fetterman is being used. The Democrats wanted to make sure they kept the Senate majority, so they pushed and used a poor suffering guy to do it.

Exactly how is a lieutenant governor a "poor suffering guy"? Did you think John Fetterman was unemployed? Did you think he had no experience with any political office? Who did you think he was, if not the second-most powerful person in Pennsylvania?

I am sure you chose to ignore both his job title and the fact that he started his U.S. Senate campaign before the stroke happened.
 
This has nothing to do with his opponent.

The Democrats used and abused Fetterman. They pushed him and pushed him, despite the fact he was physically and mentally unable to handle a political campaign.

If John Fetterman was mentally and physically unable to handle a political campaign, he would have dropped out of the race immediately and quit his job.

Do you ever think about how stupid you look while posting completely false statements specifically to mock very smart Democrats?
 
How is that different than the Republicans running Herschel Walker?

Republicans did exactly the same thing in both Pennsylvania and Georgia: pick a guy with no political experience who does not even live in that state full-time just because he is a national celebrity with a home there, having no concerns for his lack of moral values.

I never saw any Republican admit these facts about either Oz or Walker, who both ran against high-level politicians with no history of living in other states.
 
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Your 'desire' has already been granted. In response to his stupid position, tjhe fact remains...the bankers ARE working. How is it possible you 'people' cant see how stupid his question is?
If the hypothetical CEO runs the hypothetical bank into the ground- the bank is no more.
So where is this hypothetical banker working if his/her former employer has closed up?
How does that qualify as still ‘working?’
To receive the golden parachute, why are they not *at minimum* held to the same standards as TANF or food stamp recipients?
Why shouldn’t both be subjected to the same miserable experience- and both be required to follow the same set of rules to receive their “handout?”
Why shouldn’t they be job searching, getting papers signed to *prove* themselves worthy of receiving assistance?
Why such scrutiny for the poor?
Especially when the banker has objectively done more harm to a far larger number of people?
Why do they get a pass?
 
Do you ever think about how stupid you look while posting completely false statements specifically to mock very smart Democrats?
I like it best when they call Kamala Harris a dumbass.

They best not sit down for any sort of test in the same room with her. The cognitive dissonance, when the grading is done, will definitely explode their heads.
 
I like it best when they call Kamala Harris a dumbass.

They best not sit down for any sort of test in the same room with her. The cognitive dissonance, when the grading is done, will definitely explode their heads.

IOW all you care about is hating all Democrats no matter what and being in the basket of depolorables.
 
IOW all you care about is hating all Democrats no matter what and being in the basket of depolorables.

Feels like you missed the mark on this one....he was saying that she is smarter than all of those that call her stupid, and that after grading the tests and finding this fact out, they would be beside themselves.
 
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