Posted on 06/02/2025 9:52:13 AM PDT by JV3MRC
If you come at a career business savant like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, you better not miss. CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan hilariously had to learn that the hard way on Sunday.
Brennan tried to corner the Treasury Department head from a number of fronts on the economy, such as tariffs and inflation. In response, Bessent repeatedly made Brennan look completely foolish.
Regarding inflation in particular, Brennan whipped out a piece by anti-Trumper strategist Karl Rove (whom she dubbed a “conservative”), arguing that Walmart wouldn’t be able to break even if it just ate the tariffs President Donald Trump was placing on imported goods, thereby leading to higher prices on consumers. “Before consumers, the reality is there will either be less inventory or things at higher prices or both."
Bessent was quick on the draw, and reminded Brennan that she was one of the Armageddon geniuses prophesying the supposedly impending catastrophe of spiking inflation since March, which has not materialized. “Margaret, in March you said there would be big inflation. There hasn’t been any inflation,” Bessent retorted. “Actually the inflation numbers are the best in four years, so why don't we stop trying to say this could happen and wait and see what does happen?”
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Bessent is a smart dude. By orders of magnitude than Yellen.
Everything the globalists told us about the economy since Bush 1 has been a bold faced lie. They tricked America out of trillions of $ and we are getting it back under Trump. Free trade just meant our markets were open to foreigners and theirs were closed to US producers.
They look stupid on inflation, elections, immigration, the alphabet, boiling water…
They are very good at lying to themselves as well as everyone else.
The similarity to the “party members” in the novel, 1984, is amazing.
Most FReepers would be able to make any CBS host look stoopid.
That’s a low bar. A first grader could make Brennan look stupid.
“That’s a low bar. A first grader could make Brennan look stupid.”
About to post a similar thought. I bet Margie trembled in fear of being a contestant on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”
Margaret Margaret, how stupid can you be? Don’t you realize you can’t lie about Republicans to our face? How many face plants must you take, you ignorant slut?
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Sorry for triple post. In a bad cell.
Every time I see her lying a$$ on TV, I think “Jane, you ignorant slut” (SNL reference)
She must be right. She’s relying on the Nobel economist Karl Rove’s analysis.
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