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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
Not AOC. That would be Max Maxine...
She’s a puppet, so any so-called journalist who ‘interviews’ her-HAS to have the feeling that they’re being diddled!
Participating in Kabuki makes YOU Kabuki
She’s a puppet, so any so-called journalist who ‘interviews’ her-HAS to have the feeling that they’re being diddled!
Participating in Kabuki makes YOU Kabuki
Idiocracy has come to life, about 500 years earlier than predicted.
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Based on Gallup polling the House of Representatives has, for some time, been consistently polling down in the mid teens. So its no easy task making the legislative body look worse than it is, but AOC is “doing her best” to move the bar even lower. Disgraceful that she was allowed to be on a major committee.
That dimwit reads anything her handlers put in front of her. It’s fun to watch her go on vapor lock when anyone disputes what’s she been told to read.
It’s a shame occasional cortex was the one grilling and losing. The wells fargo company, primarily in local banking, has some of the shadiest practices...
mmmmmmm “...pompus twit..” at it again.....
KYPD
Occasional-Cortex?
The Admiral took it all in stride and did not call him what MR. Johnson deserved to be called.
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The admiral should have asked him if he was being facetious, then waited for a response. Of course Hank would have obliged and said yes thereby fully exposing him for the mindless idiot he is.
Interesting background on who is holding the strings for this Communist Puppet:
https://politichicks.com/2019/03/must-watch-video-the-brains-behind-aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
The word ends with “ta” too, I’d bet, just like “piñata”.
She and Diane and others want her GONE.
If she doesn’t have a script, she’s finished.
And you KNOW she threw a tantrum after her failed Wells confrontation.
LOL
I’d still pass.
So AOC is from the future?
Unfortunately, most of today’s journalists will love her and the pitches will come in at 14 mph.
It’s funny. In all the surveys I’ve taken about how Wells Fargo can win me back as a customer after their misdeeds, this guy rocking her was the first way that impressed me.
Can someone tell me how this twit got a degree?
If she were my bartender I would close out and find a different bar.
My spanish is rusty, but I think so.
I know people say she should be ignored, but I don’t think so. She isn’t bright, but she is ambitious, a Leftist, a minority, a female, and aggressive.
She is going to bank on people folding like a cheap suit when they have to deal with her, and that is going to take her a long way.
This guy from Wells Fargo didn’t fold, but many will. And even the stupidest, beady-eyed thug, while intellectually limited (which describes her) recognizes weakness.
It is people like her that lead and populate tyrannies.
I used to read that book (Atlas Shrugged) once every few years, but it depresses me too much now.
Lately, it seems like I am living in a dystopian Ayn Rand world.
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We are about to enter a dyfunctional world where a new crop of voters who have never paid taxes, never served their country, never run a business, never held a responsible job, and never raised a family will soon be telling us what to do. Moreover, some of them are not even in this country legally and are not citizens.
You ARE seeing that dystopian world emerge now.
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