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[quote=mooby;1338949][url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-spurred-existential-crisis-at-fox-news-lawsuit-exhibits-show/ar-AA18l836?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=c011769e979b47469317d51221c83c39&ei=14[/url]

Even if absolutely nothing comes out of the Dominion lawsuit, I am thoroughly enjoying what Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham/etc. think about Trump in private.

[url]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tucker-carlson-who-passionately-hates-trump-shows-more-capitol-footage/ar-AA18mt19?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=84da7e85c2a747238e897001df4a81db&ei=15[/url][/quote]

Im surprised people are surprised by this. I think most are exhausted by Trump in conservative media

Also if Democrats are refusing to support Biden publicly to run, I imagine privately in the media, Capitol Hill, etc people are expressing dissatisfaction as well.

Tuckers text messages are good, but his footage this week about the Jan 6 lies are the bigger story.
-josh hawley running footage was an edited lie, where both Dems and gop were running to a marked location
-Buffalo headress guy was escorted by police around the capitol like he was on a toured and allowed to access the senate floor by police
-Lied about Barry Loudermilk taking rioters on a reconnaissance mission
- video evidence of capitol police standing around in riot gear not doing a thing

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Those Capitol police should be charged too. They should have thrown his ass to the ground and maced him

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[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1338961]Those Capitol police should be charged too. They should have thrown his ass to the ground and maced him[/quote]

Totally agree.

The January 6 committee failed to answer the security questions in general…fbi admitted it had undercover officers in the crowd and they didn’t do anything to stop it, Mayor denied national guard request in a written letter, Pelosi denied more more security for the capitol grounds, Capitol police in riot gear film sitting off to the side not doing a thing while the riot was going on, police causally parading people inside the capitol and around the building and then out the exit.


Pelosi statement is already out saying why this footage was with held out from defendants charged…saying it was the security footage and she didn’t have the authority(false as McCarthy had the authority to release it to the media)…we will see if this is a due process issue now.

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[quote=Chico23231;1338963]Totally agree.

The January 6 committee failed to answer the security questions in general…fbi admitted it had undercover officers in the crowd and they didn’t do anything to stop it, Mayor denied national guard request in a written letter, Pelosi denied more more security for the capitol grounds, Capitol police in riot gear film sitting off to the side not doing a thing while the riot was going on, police causally parading people inside the capitol and around the building and then out the exit.


Pelosi statement is already out saying why this footage was with held out from defendants charged…saying it was the security footage and she didn’t have the authority(false as McCarthy had the authority to release it to the media)…we will see if this is a due process issue now.[/quote]

[B]LOL, just when you think chico can't get any dumber .....he surprises you![/B]

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[quote=MTK;1338952]What a hot mess Faux news is, and the fact their hosts are still straight up lying to everyone every night is simply amazing. Do these people have any morals at all? Seriously don't know how they sleep at night. Tucker is basically a national security threat with the way he's downplaying and spinning Jan 6.[/quote]

They are representative of the new corporate America. Prosperity of the brand is more important than prosperity of America.

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Republicans and Child welfare......or not.


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-paves-way-170820213.html[/url]

[B][SIZE="6"]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Paves Way for Child Labor Exploitation[/SIZE][/B]

The law means the state will no longer have to verify the age of children under 16 before they take a job, which means 14- and 15-year-olds would be able to work without a special permit. The state’s Republican-controlled Senate voted 24-9 last Thursday to send the bill to the governor’s desk. “There is no reason that anyone should have to get the government’s permission to get a job,” said state Sen. Clint Penzo, who sponsored the bill.


The new law comes as the Biden administration promised to crack down on child labor violations days after a New York Times investigation exposed the extent to which migrant children are employed in dangerous jobs across the United States. Child labor violations have quadrupled since 2015, according to data from the Department of Labor.

[B]Arkansas isn’t the only state that wants to make it easier for employers to hire children. Iowa, Ohio, and Minnesota are also considering bills that would loosen restrictions. The bill in Iowa would allow 14-year-olds to work in meatpacking plants. The Department of Labor announced last month that Packers Sanitation Services had paid $1.5 million in fines for illegally employing over 100 children to clean meatpacking plants on overnight shifts[/B].

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[url]https://katv.com/news/nation-world/maryland-bill-would-prevent-anyone-under-25-from-being-charged-with-felony-murder-democratic-delegate-charlotte-cruchfield-justice-reform-youth-accountability-and-safety-act[/url]

Maryland bill would prevent anyone under 25 from being charged with felony murder

Please tell me this is fake news?

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[quote=Chico23231;1339012][url]https://katv.com/news/nation-world/maryland-bill-would-prevent-anyone-under-25-from-being-charged-with-felony-murder-democratic-delegate-charlotte-cruchfield-justice-reform-youth-accountability-and-safety-act[/url]

Maryland bill would prevent anyone under 25 from being charged with felony murder

Please tell me this is fake news?[/quote]

I've always been one who is hesitant to charge children (Some numbnuts prosecutor tried to charge an 8 year old here in AZ a few years back), but 25???? That's friggen insane.

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[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-censured-colorado-2020-statements-rcna74092"]Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado over false 2020 statements[/URL]

The big lie continues to crumble

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[quote=Chico23231;1339012][url]https://katv.com/news/nation-world/maryland-bill-would-prevent-anyone-under-25-from-being-charged-with-felony-murder-democratic-delegate-charlotte-cruchfield-justice-reform-youth-accountability-and-safety-act[/url]

Maryland bill would prevent anyone under 25 from being charged with felony murder

Please tell me this is fake news?[/quote]

I'd like to say it is but it isn't. It should be known that they can still be charged with murder just not felony murder. I'd like to see statistics as to what percentage of murders in Maryland are committed by 18-25 year olds. My guess is it is significant.

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Aren't all murders felonies? I believe a felony is anything punishable by more than 1 year of prison time.

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The way I read it is a felony murder is a murder while a felony was being committed i.e. robbing a bank and then someone getting killed by being hit by the getaway car. I might be wrong. Regardless I think this bill is a bad idea.

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[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1339047]The way I read it is a felony murder is a murder while a felony was being committed i.e. robbing a bank and then someone getting killed by being hit by the getaway car. I might be wrong. Regardless I think this bill is a bad idea.[/quote]

+1 bad idea.

I'm all for reform, but not for violent offenders.

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This could go in to WTF but this is crazy
[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gulf-cartel-apologizes-americans-are-kidnapped-killed-mexico-rcna74242[/url]

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Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger seem like real cool fellas.

Deborah Wasserman Schultz = Cuntbag
Deborah Wasserman Schultz = Ugly as sin

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Obama, I obviously don't love his politics, but I'd absolutely love to go out and get drunk with him. Never really heard of him before he ran for President, didn't love him as President, but he definitely seems like a guy that could take some shots, chug some beers, and be fun to hang out with.

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1339073]Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger seem like real cool fellas.

Deborah Wasserman Schultz = Cuntbag
Deborah Wasserman Schultz = Ugly as sin[/quote]

Lol…looks like G1 is about to appear with another episode of “Words Hurt”.

Legal baller Johnathan Turley summed it up best with what took place today with Taibbi and Shellenberger:

I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information. They have accused these two journalists as threatening the safety of others by disclosing government censorship efforts. It would all make Joe McCarthy blush.

Bad look today by dems

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[quote=Chico23231;1339077]Lol…looks like G1 is about to appear with another episode of “Words Hurt”.

Legal baller Johnathan Turley summed it up best with what took place today with Taibbi and Shellenberger:

I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information. They have accused these two journalists as threatening the safety of others by disclosing government censorship efforts. It would all make Joe McCarthy blush.

[B]Bad look today by dems[/B][/quote]

90%+ of Republicans in office are either complicit or cowardly too. Fuck em all.

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Still think we need at least 4 parties or 0 parties.

Give me a liberal, democrat, republican, conservative 4 party system or give me 0 parties. And we're all "independent".

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Nikki Haley and Andrew Yang should run together. That would be an interesting experiment.

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[quote=Chico23231;1339077]Lol…looks like G1 is about to appear with another episode of “Words Hurt”.

Legal baller Johnathan Turley summed it up best with what took place today with Taibbi and Shellenberger:

I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information. They have accused these two journalists as threatening the safety of others by disclosing government censorship efforts. It would all make Joe McCarthy blush.

Bad look today by dems[/quote]

This covers the two of you pretty well.

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[url]https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry[/url]

Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda

As another narrative falls apart about Jan 6, here is a full blown liberal admitting she was misled by a corrupt media and other things she initially believed before those false lies were found to be just that and this is great by her:

“I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and The New York Times.

I believed that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian propaganda. Dozens of former intel officials said so. Johns Hopkins University said so. [[url]https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say][/url].

“Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden”, said ‘CNN Fact-Check’, with plenty of double quote marks. [[url]https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9c][/url]

I believed this all — til it was debunked.

I believed that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia — until that assertion was dropped. [[url]https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/][/url]

I believed that President Trump was a Russian asset, because the legacy media I read, said so [[url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book][/url].

I believed in the entire Steele dossier, until I didn’t, because it all fell apart. [[url]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382][/url].

Was there in fact an “infamous pee tape”? So many other bad things were being said about the man — why not? [[url]https://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-pee-tape-probably-exists-2021-10][/url]

I believed that Pres Trump instigated the riot at the Capitol — because I did not know that his admonition to his supporters to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” had been deleted from all of the news coverage that I read. [[url]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shield][/url]

Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled.”

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HuffPost
Bill To Ban Child Marriage In West Virginia Defeated By Republicans


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/bill-ban-child-marriage-west-154957060.html[/url]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.

The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.

The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates.

The vote came shortly after the bill’s main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children.

Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver.

“For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote.

In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day.

Some of the bill’s opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia

According to the nonprofit group Unchained At Last, which seeks to end forced and child marriage, seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018. Supporters of such legislation say it reduces domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and improves the lives of teens.

Although recent figures are unavailable, according to the Pew Research Center, West Virginia had the highest rate of child marriages among the states in 2014, when the state’s five-year average was 7.1 marriages for every 1,000 children ages 15 to 17.

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[quote=Chico23231;1339088][url]https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry[/url]

Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda

As another narrative falls apart about Jan 6, here is a full blown liberal admitting she was misled by a corrupt media and other things she initially believed before those false lies were found to be just that and this is great by her:

“I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and The New York Times.

I believed that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian propaganda. Dozens of former intel officials said so. Johns Hopkins University said so. [[url]https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say][/url].

“Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden”, said ‘CNN Fact-Check’, with plenty of double quote marks. [[url]https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9c][/url]

I believed this all — til it was debunked.

I believed that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia — until that assertion was dropped. [[url]https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/][/url]

I believed that President Trump was a Russian asset, because the legacy media I read, said so [[url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book][/url].

I believed in the entire Steele dossier, until I didn’t, because it all fell apart. [[url]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382][/url].

Was there in fact an “infamous pee tape”? So many other bad things were being said about the man — why not? [[url]https://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-pee-tape-probably-exists-2021-10][/url]

I believed that Pres Trump instigated the riot at the Capitol — because I did not know that his admonition to his supporters to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” had been deleted from all of the news coverage that I read. [[url]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shield][/url]

Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled.”[/quote]

You had me until the last one. He clearly told them to go down to the Capitol and stop the counting of the electoral votes. Very blatant. He should be in jail for that if nothing else.

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[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1339090][B]You had me until the last one.[/B] He clearly told them to go down to the Capitol and stop the counting of the electoral votes. Very blatant. He should be in jail for that if nothing else.[/quote]

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Absolutely no federal bailout of SVB. Incompetence at SVB and at Silicon Valley VC caused the crisis by withdrawing all their money…and now they want tax payers to pick up the tab.

Fuck silicon valley and everyone in that community who live a life in one of the wealthiest areas in the world and look down on everyone else.

Those people constantly tell everyone else how great they are, then they can fix their own problems like everyone else. Fuck them

No federal bailout

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[COLOR="red"][COLOR="Red"]But Bush bailed all the other bank[/COLOR][/COLOR]s![COLOR="Red"][/COLOR]

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[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-close-new-yorks-signature-bank-citing-systemic-risk.html[/url]

Regulators close crypto-focused Signature Bank, citing systemic risk

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This fucking disgrace…of course

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Oh shit…not good.

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[quote=Chico23231;1339203]Oh shit…not good.[/quote]

[B][SIZE="5"]Why Trump is being called out in the Silicon Valley Bank collapse[/SIZE][/B]



[url]https://news.yahoo.com/why-trump-being-called-silicon-173805604.html[/url]


.Some Democrats have been blaming Trump-era regulations for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

.In 2018, Trump signed into law a bill that rolled back provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act and loosened oversight over banks.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said SVB's failure is a "direct result" of those rollbacks.

.Former President Donald Trump is catching heat for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

The reason goes back to 2018.

On Friday, regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank following a tumultuous few days of failing to raise capital and a flood of customers withdrawing their funds from the bank. After crypto-friendly Signature Bank shut down on Sunday, as well, the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation made a controversial move by giving depositors a bailout, vowing to "fully protect" them from any financial losses. Normally, that would only be guaranteed for losses up to $250,000.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the federal agencies' actions, but some Democrats seized on Trump's rollback of consumer protections in the Dodd-Frank Act in 2018 as a primary contributor to SVB's collapse. The rollback lessened scrutiny for banks with under $250 billion in assets, meaning the landmark, post-financial crisis law would only applied to a handful of big banks.

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[quote=Giantone;1339303][B][SIZE="5"]Why Trump is being called out in the Silicon Valley Bank collapse[/SIZE][/B]



[url]https://news.yahoo.com/why-trump-being-called-silicon-173805604.html[/url]


.Some Democrats have been blaming Trump-era regulations for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

.In 2018, Trump signed into law a bill that rolled back provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act and loosened oversight over banks.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said SVB's failure is a "direct result" of those rollbacks.

.Former President Donald Trump is catching heat for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

The reason goes back to 2018.

On Friday, regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank following a tumultuous few days of failing to raise capital and a flood of customers withdrawing their funds from the bank. After crypto-friendly Signature Bank shut down on Sunday, as well, the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation made a controversial move by giving depositors a bailout, vowing to "fully protect" them from any financial losses. Normally, that would only be guaranteed for losses up to $250,000.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the federal agencies' actions, but some Democrats seized on Trump's rollback of consumer protections in the Dodd-Frank Act in 2018 as a primary contributor to SVB's collapse. The rollback lessened scrutiny for banks with under $250 billion in assets, meaning the landmark, post-financial crisis law would only applied to a handful of big banks.[/quote]

As it’s been established, the roll back of the Trump bipartisan bill wasn’t why the collapse happened. but the incompetence of Biden economic policies where he dismissed an inflationary signs and called it transitory, his 1.9 trillion in unnecessary spending along with the stopping of student loan payments which contributed to more inflation. So the fed and treasury responded too late to obvious inflation, caused a credit crisis with bonds.

But really, SVB are complete morons and seemed to focus more on woke bullshit, D&I than risk controls

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[quote=Chico23231;1339313][B]As it’s been established, the roll back of the Trump bipartisan bill wasn’t why the collapse happened.[/B] but the incompetence of Biden economic policies where he dismissed an inflationary signs and called it transitory, his 1.9 trillion in unnecessary spending along with the stopping of student loan payments which contributed to more inflation. So the fed and treasury responded too late to obvious inflation, caused a credit crisis with bonds.

But really, SVB are complete morons and seemed to focus more on woke bullshit, D&I than risk controls[/quote]

LOL, keep spinning you dumb trumpette. Yes , it was.

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[B][SIZE="6"]GOP senators pushed to keep banking rules loose one week before SVB collapse[/SIZE][/B]




[url]https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gop-senators-pushed-to-keep-banking-rules-loose-one-week-before-svb-collapse-152706948.html[/url]


The stunning events around Silicon Valley Bank of California and Signature Bank of New York come after years of moves in Washington to ease capital requirements on smaller and regional banks — including one that came just last week.

In a letter dated March 3 to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, and nine of his GOP colleagues expressed concern that an ongoing Federal Reserve review may go beyond a 2018 law that eased regulations on smaller banks and “may unjustly increase capital requirements and have a chilling effect on market making activities and availability of financial services.”

The letter was timed to coincide with Powell’s testimony last week before Congress and referenced a 2022 speech from Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, where he discussed the Fed taking a holistic review of capital standards.

The letter pushed back against ideas for increasing the buffer that banks are required to hold in reserve to guard against losses, arguing that banks “seem to have weathered the real-life stress test of the COVID-19 pandemic well.”

Within days, the banking sector saw the second- and third-largest bank failures in history.

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[quote=Giantone;1339347][B][SIZE="6"]GOP senators pushed to keep banking rules loose one week before SVB collapse[/SIZE][/B]




[url]https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gop-senators-pushed-to-keep-banking-rules-loose-one-week-before-svb-collapse-152706948.html[/url]


The stunning events around Silicon Valley Bank of California and Signature Bank of New York come after years of moves in Washington to ease capital requirements on smaller and regional banks — including one that came just last week.

In a letter dated March 3 to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, and nine of his GOP colleagues expressed concern that an ongoing Federal Reserve review may go beyond a 2018 law that eased regulations on smaller banks and “may unjustly increase capital requirements and have a chilling effect on market making activities and availability of financial services.”

The letter was timed to coincide with Powell’s testimony last week before Congress and referenced a 2022 speech from Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, where he discussed the Fed taking a holistic review of capital standards.

The letter pushed back against ideas for increasing the buffer that banks are required to hold in reserve to guard against losses, arguing that banks “seem to have weathered the real-life stress test of the COVID-19 pandemic well.”

Within days, the banking sector saw the second- and third-largest bank failures in history.[/quote]

Of course neither of banks that failed have anything to do with this…but please continue.

Barney Frank being a director at Signature is a cherry on top. He was actually lobbying to ease restrictions on banks

And Powell should continue with a rate hike of a quarter point.

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[quote=Chico23231;1339356]Of course neither of banks that failed have anything to do with this…but please continue.

Barney Frank being a director at Signature is a cherry on top. He was actually lobbying to ease restrictions on banks

And Powell should continue with a rate hike of a quarter point.[/quote]

New study concluded by sdskinsfan2001 journal:

WWI = Trump's fault

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Nothing has changed in here. Chico refuses to believe that anything Obama did was reversed by Trump simply because Obama did it and there could certainly be no consequences for the pettiness. SD thinks that 2018 and WW1 are equally responsible for 2023. Lol.

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[quote=punch it in;1339360]Nothing has changed in here. Chico refuses to believe that anything Obama did was reversed by Trump simply because Obama did it and there could certainly be no consequences for the pettiness. [B]SD thinks that 2018 and WW1 are equally responsible for 2023.[/B] Lol.[/quote]

It's all connected:

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1339359]New study concluded by sdskinsfan2001 journal:

WWI = Trump's fault[/quote]

My favorite takes are Trump knew interest rates would rise and set another trap for Biden. Much like inflation, Covid, Ukraine, etc

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[quote=punch it in;1339360][B]Nothing has changed in here. [/B]Chico refuses to believe that anything Obama did was reversed by Trump simply because Obama did it and there could certainly be no consequences for the pettiness. SD thinks that 2018 and WW1 are equally responsible for 2023. Lol.[/quote]

And from the underrated Out Cold movie:

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The No. 1 cause of the SVB Crash = SV Fucking Bank!

Every time something happens, it's a race to see who controls the narrative on if it's the republicans or democrats fault.

Fuck em' both anyways! Andrew Yang 2024!!

[url]https://www.forwardparty.com/[/url]

Not left. Not right. FORWARD. #takecommand