Posted on 03/13/2019 5:22:03 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
The hearing, held by Democrat Chairwoman Maxine Waters, was titled, "Holding Megabanks Accountable: An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Pattern of Consumer Abuses."
The Los Angeles Times reported: "Sloan was the first megabank chief executive whom Waters, an outspoken critic of Wells Fargo, summoned to appear before the House Financial Services Committee since she took over as its chairwoman in January following the midterm elections that gave Democrats control of the House."
Ocasio-Cortez used her time during the hearing to push her political agenda against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and against the fossil fuel industry.
"Why was the bank involved in the caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with?" Ocasio-Cortez asked.
"I don't know how to answer that question because we weren't," Sloan responded.
"Uh, so in finan--, you've, you were financing, involved in debt financing in CoreCivic and GEO group, correct?" Ocasio-Cortez responded.
"For a period of time, we were involved in financing one of the firms, we are not anymore," Sloan responded. "I'm not familiar with the specific assertion you are making, we were not involved in that."
It only got worse from there.
"Should Wells Fargo be held responsible for the damages incurred by Climate Change due to the financing of fossil fuels and these projects?" Ocasio-Cortez asked.
"I don't know how'd you calculate that, Congresswoman," Sloan responded.
"Say from spills, or when we have to reinvest in infrastructure building sea walls from the erosion of, um, from the erosion of infrastructure or cleanups, wildfires, etc...," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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“Say from spills, or when we have to reinvest in infrastructure building sea walls from the erosion of, um, from the erosion of infrastructure or cleanups, wildfires, etc...,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Idiocracy has come to life, about 500 years earlier than predicted.
I really don’t know how these people do it.
If I were “summoned” before these vermin, the only thing I would say is “!(@* you, you brainless twat.”
Let ‘em throw me in the Gulag, then.
While i’m no fan of Wells and it’s millions of falsely created accounts and its other documented deceits the past several years, it is GREAT reading this conversation and seeing how EASILY she gets flustered.
He made her look like a fool.
This walking pinata just wants money from anywhere she can get it.
And her followers are stupid enough to think she is getting it for them.
“Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass.”
I wonder if someone in NYC has these sorts of thoughts on AOC as Louise did in “Being There”, lol.
There are few things I find more infuriating than dunb-as-a-rock liberals who exude a complete and total condescending air of “I know it all”.
Lately, it seems like I am living in a dystopian Ayn Rand world. The looters are popping up everywhere.
By their insane standards, everyone is guilty of everything "collective guilt".
Why shouldn't Occasio Cortez be held responsible for the destruction of Yazidi children by Isis?
Didn't she contribute to a Soros funded group that defended their muslim allies in court?/S
I gotta give a big “LIKE” to the writer who has moved past the BS political label and on to calling AOC the “socialist” that she clearly is.
Somehow she misses the guilt of the one contributing to demand for the product: herself.
“Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears.”
Mad Maxine certainly qualifies for Louise’s description.
Somewhere a village is short one of it’s idiots.
Kind of like Congressman Hank Johnson and Guam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q
The Admiral took it all in stride and did not call him what MR. Johnson deserved to be called.
The reaction of the Admiral’s secretaries was hilarious.
The 80s featured a number of Freaky Friday-style ‘body swap’ films. The absurdity of a child functioning in an adult world was played for laughs along with an adult being forced to deal with kids as peers all day.
AOC is the real - and quite unfunny - version of the kid putting on a suit and glasses and pretending to know something, anything.
A media tacitly admitting that they are bored with cynical Dem fossils like Sanders and Warren and a media desperate for any spark of hope have hyped AOC beyond all rationality despite her obvious inability to match such praise with word or deed.
He made her look like a fool.
AOC is the House Financial Services Committee chair?
I bet she did not have a bank account prior to her getting elected. We know she stole from a tip jar at her bartender job.
Soapbax virtue signalling is not a plan.
it might benefit AOC to sleep at a Holiday Inn every once in a while.
Wells Fargo is full of $hit 24/7 but kudos for putting this cunning stunt in her place.
Hm. I was thinking of a different spanish word other than "Pinata" that begins with "P" to describe her.
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