a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal..... republicans wouldn't win the white house back until 1952.
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And only 6 years after they finally got the Whitehouse again, they started plotting for the next massive fuck up era by founding the John Birch Society (which is a major cause for the GOP's current psychosis.
that wasn't ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.
Yeah, I agree. As conservatives go Ike was pretty reasonable.
My point was that almost as soon as the party got the Whitehouse again, influential portions of it started to plot for the next Great Depression like catastrophy.
As an ideological movement, they've proved many times that they cannot be trusted with power.
The rich people made a lot of money from the last Great Depression, I bet that's what they're hoping for again.
Don't forget about the McCarthyism of the late 40s and the 50s. Ronald Reagan was involved with that particular movement since the beginning when he testified in front of Congress (specifically the House Un-American Activities Committee) saying that communists were taking over Hollywood.
fingers crossed history repeats itself lol
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Yeah but the Democrats were competent back then. I don't have confidence in most of the modern Democrats. There are only like 3 of them who seem to get what's going on
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Allowing presidents to pick your justices and then giving them jobs for life is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
What so bizarre is SCOTUS has always been conservative. We get a couple of judges who are not hardcore conservatives and they help make a couple of rulings that aren't just one sided conservative nonsense and suddenly "they are taking over the judiciary with activist judges".
So the conservatives do exactly this, they start stacking their already suck ass conservative courts that always rule for big business with even more extreme ideological fucktards. Every accusation is a confession I suppose.
They have to get approved by our Congress too it's just that they're also not doing their jobs well.
Tankies will continue to say both sides same
Tankies really follow the will of the despots.
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In their view the Great Depression was probably started by a bunch of lazy woke activists who didn't want to work, thus spurring the dust bowl with their uh, inaction. Dust everywhere. No one dusting.
They should sweep the forests, like they do in sweden
Also the law that froze the number of house seats (and this number of electrical college votes), screwing everything up and allowing both Bush and the pedo to "win" was passed in 1929.
It should be triple by now.
It's what Republican's do best; fuck up the economy.
Conservatives are – and have always been – the enemy of the people.
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The Trump depression is going to make 2008 look like a picnic.
In response to 2008 we didn't actually fix anything, bail outs just postpone the inevitable.
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They have all this control but the only box these guys have ticked is removing some brown people from the country (who they are very likely never crossed paths with). Everything else is getting shitter for them, so what's to celebrate?
There will be inflation and you will love it.
The Great Depression featured deflation, for whatever the hell that's worth.
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- Massive amounts of what effectively amounts to gambling on the stock market.
Luckily, we have nothing like that today.
We have an extremely stable, rational market where share prices are based solely on tangible business value and not at all artificially inflated due to completely unrealistic goals and investor greed.
...I'm sorry. I can't even type this with a straight face.
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There is higher than 0% chance that DJT won't reach a deal with Iran "Soon", the possibility of oil crisis and economic recession are still very real.
I want the price of gas to be $25 dollars per gallon
$25 a gallon will cause a severe economic recession. I'm not sure I want a third "one in a lifetime recession"
That’s the point, it’s a small price to pay to get rid of orange man
You know, $25 dollars a gallon isn’t enough, make it $35 dollars a gallon
Right now, prices and availability are being kept semi stable by draw downs on strategic reserves, but that won’t last forever.
Hell, it probably won’t last another month.
Definitely not the flex they think it is.
Remember when the Dems controlled all three bodies and for all that non stop hysterial talk about gun control what happened?.....crickets ..... no change. Why would anyone expect change from either side is always my question.
Sorry when was this that dems had filibuster proof control of house, senate and presidency for a while?
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They don't know a lot of things
Hey, at least this time the republicans aren’t jerking off to nonsense tariffs, right?
Roaring 30s
Make depression great again!
ah yes, party like its the most recent '28. with a beer.
which was illegal at the time.
some kind of dog whistle?
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