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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AOC is like the college freshman who comes home for Thanksgiving and wows the extended family sitting at the table with all of the wisdom she has obtained over the last two months.
That is one of the best analogies ever.
We should make use of that.
Touchy feely professors giving her good grades for telling them what they want to hear. Not much fact based or critical thinking her whole 4(?) years.
Were I running a company after seeing her in action I would seriously think twice about hiring any BU grads.
AOC doing her utmost best to make stumps look brilliant.
Were I running a company after seeing her in action I would seriously think twice about hiring any BU grads.
You are correct. They will control it all. It is madness.
I LOVE HER..!
Funny, attractive, makes great facial expressions...
STUPID AS HELL...! And not because we disagree on everything important, no. People use the word stupid too widely.
I love her because fortunately she’s not just liberal, but TOO liberal:
Specifically she’s too liberal for older lib voters to take seriously, and the young people who do take her seriously generally don’t vote.
The cameras love her and the MSM will find it impossible to ignore her.
She’s Trump, but extremely stupid and much younger.
She’s PERFECT.
My dream ticket: Biden/Cortez, arrogant bully molester and dancing cute idiot
I imagine her old bar colleagues have a drinking game around her.........whenever she flaps her jaws they drink. They must stay permanently hammered.....
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Yeah, especially since she actually was a DAPL protester, they left an environmental disaster for North Dakota to clean up. Even human waste. Hypocrite!
She wears Stupid like it’s a Badge of Honor.
It is madness.
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We haven’t yet seen palpable economic fear set in but it will. Just a matter of time. When the credit and stock markets sense the coming chaos look out below.
With our rapidly growing $22 trillion national what could go wrong? Will will soon be “living in interesting times” as the Chinese say.
This is where paid actresses don’t make got representatives. You can only coach her so much. Her handlers let her down too. It’s absurd to try and ask questions that require a deep understanding of multiple organizations, especially if the questions are inflammatory - you’re going to get owned.
That said, it won’t stop them continuing...
She wears Stupid like it’s a Badge of Honor.
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An adoring media defends her. They are actually proud of her stupidity.
” My dream ticket: Biden/Cortez “
Biden would have a field day getting ‘handsy’ with her.
The old fashioned way. Her daddy bought it.
Texas migrant charity boss steps down amid questions over finances
Oh, yeah, I want her reelected again and again until she’s a toothless old hag. What a gift!
Very dumb response, IMO. It basically says, "if you can come up with a figure, we might pay it."
Why isn't his response: "We are not responsible for what customers do with the money they borrow! We are only responsible to our investors for making sure that it gets paid back."
I don’t think it was a dumb response. There is literally no way to calculate such a thing that would hold up in court.
Did you ever think the US would live out the movie FOR REAL...?
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