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The Great Tommy Emmanuel: "Lewis & Clark" [VIDEO]

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JC12/21/2020 8:36:45 pm PST

re: #52 Barefoot Grin

So, does anyone think we’d have avoided Trump if the Obama administration had aggressively pursued criminal charges against the leaders of the financial institutions that created the 2007-08 Great global recession? I saw it brought up in a tweet feed. I am a “no.” I think Obama should have been more aggressive, though I understand the imperative of just getting the country back on a reliable economic footing, but I think the crazies that love Trump were just waiting for a leader to mouth their grievances regardless. I guess going after swindlers might have put the lie to the Tea Party protests about how Democrats are the party of high taxes and useless programs, but I don’t really think there was ever that much thought in the astroturf movement that led to Trump.

If the DOJ went after white collar crime with the same amount of effort they spend going after drugs, then Trump and his 3 eldest kids would have been in jail for a variety of crimes before Obama ever became president.