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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The real question is was she lying in 2022 or she only realized it now?

Both should disqualify her.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

It's almost as if the economic "science" for the justification of neoliberalism is ad-hoc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Of course she was lying. All they are capable of doing is lying. lol. The only way it wouldn't be lying is if they actually admitted that the collapse of the US is due to the unfathomable greed of the oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

they were cocky enough to believe the dollar was uniquely important.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If she did know sanctions would backfire, would anyone in the state department have done differently? Russian sanctions make peepee go big.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I suspect the Biden administration installed a dim bulb who reliably does what she’s told, though I don’t know who might be doing the telling. Otherwise she’s much smarter than she seems and a better actor.