Nope. The introduction of new financial securities based on mortgages is what destroyed housing wealth and led to the Great Recession. Obama turned it around, but a lot more people would have suffered, if it hadn’t.

This.

Right? Even if China engineered this as a bioweapon - basically the most anti-China stance I’ve seen out there - WHY IS THE US GOVERNMENT JUST NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? WHY ARE WE BEING ATTACKED AND KILLED BY A FOREIGN COUNTRY ON OUR OWN SOIL AND THE PRESIDENT IS JUST TELLING US TO PROCEED AS NORMAL BECAUSE…

Yes, yes, Obama was relentlessly surface level. When GDP was in decline and the unemployment rate was over 10%, turning the economy around and bringing unemployment under 5% was surface level stuff.

I skimmed through it and saw in short order: mocking gym teachers, mocking today’s youth for being fat, and equating the Republican response to one of the worst pandemics in a century to a Netflix documentary about tigers.

Also that the biggest issue in the US epidemic was China lying about it and doing nothing.

He’s the youth minister who thinks he’s hip.

“Remember that time that China started a big global pandemic that created the worst public health crisis in over a century”

Just like most Never-Trumpers, he gave up his pretend “principles” the minute he figured out it wasn’t politically viable.

I find no irony in the fact that the current right wing talking point is that China caused all this by putting itself before the rest the world while at the same time screaming “America First”.

Remember, Ben Sasse is supposed to be the “intellectual,” “moderate,” “sensible” Republican.

So he’s one of those guys who constantly expresses “deep concern” at everything the President says/does, then votes in line with him anyway? Illinois used to have a Congressman like that, but we voted Peter Roskam out.

Yes. Omaha has gotten a lot more liberal (the 2nd Congressional District went for Obama in 2008, before the state powers that be gerrymandered the fuck out of it to include all of those right-wing military FUCKS south of Omaha in Sarpy County, almost 100% ensuring that that will not happen again), and so is Lincoln,…

Sasse is the worst.  He wanted the luxury of being a Trump skeptic/critic but didn’t want to stand up to him even once about anything important.  He makes Romney look like goddamned GI Joe.  Nebraska people, what’s up?  Omaha is a cool city.  How is this moron getting support?  Is the rest of the state garbage?

Thank you, GOP, for working so hard to make former president Obama look good in comparison. The Obama years now seem like a veritable ‘golden age’ sandwiched between two shitshow GOP presidencies.

Domhnall has an innate decency that makes Billy almost uncomfortable to watch...

I don’t love it. I wanted to, but I don’t.

Vikram must watched a screener that featured “Run to You”, but they had to replace the song before the episode actually aired because they couldn’t clear the rights to it in time.

You are both correct.

I watched live on HBO but didn’t hear ‘Run To You’?