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minus-squareOBJECTION!@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down1·3 months agoIn 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?.. the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?.. raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? We as a society owe this man an apology.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 months agoBen Stein is a piece of shit Nixon aide/apologist. Fuck that guy.
minus-squareOBJECTION!@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoI meant the character, not the actor.
minus-squarethreshold_dwellerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agohttps://www.npr.org/transcripts/598333995
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI know… I just find it hard to separate sometimes (particularly when they’re psychopaths like this dude)
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThere was a time when Republicans were evil, but evil working for America. Now Republicans are evil and working for foreign powers and personal profit. Nixon, for all his evil, wasn’t personally profiting. He had dignity.
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?.. the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?.. raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone?
We as a society owe this man an apology.
Ben Stein is a piece of shit Nixon aide/apologist. Fuck that guy.
I meant the character, not the actor.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/598333995
I know… I just find it hard to separate sometimes (particularly when they’re psychopaths like this dude)
Fair.
There was a time when Republicans were evil, but evil working for America. Now Republicans are evil and working for foreign powers and personal profit.
Nixon, for all his evil, wasn’t personally profiting. He had dignity.