CRUSTY MINGE posted:

They already have stopped lending to each other, that's why the repo operations are ongoing since like, October.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Nixon was a paranoid creep who sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to help his candidacy resulting in tens of thousands of American and over a MILLION Vietnamese dead. The only point he should have gotten for Vietnam was the point of an impalement spike in his colon.
Any policy you want to give him credit for, remember he was facing massive Democratic supermajorities.
gently caress Nixon in hell forever.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Brigade.

Chichevache posted:

Both of them have probably used the n word as well.

colachute posted:

The reasons the banks committed fraud is because they knew they could get away with it because they are 100% “too big to fail.” “Big” doesn’t mean power, “big” means so entrenched in our economy that if they fail, the economy fails.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Yikes

mlmp08 posted:

Source?

Mustang posted:

a BDE from the 82nd deploying to Kuwait due to the events at the embassy in Baghdad. Happy New year's fellas

quote:

A US defense official told CNN later Tuesday that the US Military is expected to soon deploy additional forces to the Middle East in response to the situation. The number of troops will initially be less than a thousand additional US soldiers drawn mostly from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, according to the official.

A larger force involving several thousand soldiers, a brigade-type element, has also been placed on stand-by and could also be deployed to the region if the need arises.

The US also earlier deployed about 100 US Marines from a crisis response task force based in Kuwait to bolster security at the embassy. Those Marines flew into the embassy compound aboard MV-22 Osprey aircraft.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Banks fail, occupants of homes take possession because bank can't be bothered to stay in business and take mortgage payments, mortgage payments now shift to SUV purchases and consumer goods.

I see no problem with letting a bank fail, just let the families that hold mortgages under them take the home in concession for the bank being a bunch of dumb fucks with money. The government would gently caress it up though, by taxing the dismissed value of the mortgage as income.

Imagine what people would buy if their mortgage just disappeared one day. All that junk. That would sustain the economy alone.

colachute posted:

AIG would have failed. They’re one of the largest providers of every kind of insurance you can imagine.

Suddenly you millions of people people who had nothing to do with the housing market without health insurance, life insurance, homeowners insurance, etc etc etc.

You also have a lot of people getting laid off because the banks aren’t in service anymore, drastically increasing unemployment. I’m not talking executives, I’m talking lower level people.

Banks stop loaning to each other. If that stops then our entire economy will come to a screeching halt.

The reasons the banks committed fraud is because they knew they could get away with it because they are 100% “too big to fail.” “Big” doesn’t mean power, “big” means so entrenched in our economy that if they fail, the economy fails.

Proud Christian Mom posted:

It's not hard to understand how the rich keep getting away with it when y'all keep carrying water for the banks

bulletsponge13 posted:

Trump is going to MASSTAC Baghdad.

Proud Christian Mom posted:

It's not hard to understand how the rich keep getting away with it when y'all keep carrying water for the banks

Proud Christian Mom posted:

It's not hard to understand how the rich keep getting away with it when y'all keep carrying water for the banks

Stultus Maximus posted:

82nd supplies the bodies for the GRF so this isn't surprising.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Nixon was a motherfucker who broke this country and the New Deal Coalition. Anyone who thinks he was anything even close to Obama, as bad as you think he was, has no idea just how truly monstrous Dick Nixon was.

Excerpt from Hunter S Thompson's Nixon obituary which you should go read posted:

Nixon's spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives -- whether you're me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin's daughter or your fiancee's 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don't even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.

He has poisoned our water forever. Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man making GBS threads in his own nest. But he also poo poo in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

my father was very happy he owned a ford, but jfc i can never buy a gm or chrysler again

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

the car bailout happened right after my parents lost their house in the mortgage apocalypse


my father was very happy he owned a ford, but jfc i can never buy a gm or chrysler again

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I like my Mondeo, but it's a European model anyway

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

the car bailout happened right after my parents lost their house in the mortgage apocalypse


my father was very happy he owned a ford, but jfc i can never buy a gm or chrysler again

Godholio posted:

Ford took a bunch of federal loan money too, they just did it early enough they didn't need it from TARP.

FrozenVent posted:

Thompson would have had a ball of a time dealing with Trump, president Donald.

Smiling Jack posted: