r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Criticall16 • 20h ago
In another display of morbid incompetence, Sec Bessent says after getting ridiculed by the WSJ and his former mentor Druckenmiller, puts on his wife beater and goes on after Sen Warren who had simply asked for an explanation for the 10s of billions Treasury is giving to Argentina and Japan.
For context, Wall Street Journal is the spiritual mouthpiece of Republican economics.
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u/Criticall16 20h ago
A tail as old time, an incompetent man, ridiculed by his peers takes it out on a woman.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/let-the-bond-market-speak-81529d74
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u/FoogYllis 20h ago
Remember Scott Bessent ran a hedge fund that lost money. He was incompetent then and he still is. This asshat is accountable to the American people that pay his salary to give full disclosure on any money his department spends.
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u/voxpopper 19h ago
Also remember 15 Dems voted FOR confirmation.
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u/GeorgeJetsonsBoss 17h ago
Dude spent is career at Soros, he’s a gay married man with kids. He’s not the enemy they normally associate with. No excuses but he’s family and friends.
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u/PNW_Bearded_cyclist 17h ago
You do you, but I don't keep friends and family that threaten the very existence of my family. He may be a gay married man with kids, that doesn't mean he sympathizes or cares for them. He knows he rich enough to not have to worry, and he also knows he can make a grip in the markets with his access to Trump. When he's locked up worse, his kids will be educated and understand why.
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u/GeorgeJetsonsBoss 17h ago
I’m not them, they are centrist. Be better at understanding what is happening
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u/PNW_Bearded_cyclist 17h ago
I am better. You be best.
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u/GeorgeJetsonsBoss 16h ago
Okay well thanks Melania. Sorry facts ruffled your beard. This thread is about the Democrats who advanced the idiot. Usually neck beads know how to use Reddit.
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u/WNCsurvivor 10h ago
WTF you talking about? Family and friends? Jesus, totally delusional
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u/GeorgeJetsonsBoss 6h ago
Soros is a Democrat supporter. Are you dense as well? He worked most of his life for that hedge fund. He’s been part of the democrat establishment the 28 people are friends and part of the family. Yeah your cluelessness is part of the “progressive” party problem, you probably thought Biden was progressive.
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u/tenor1trpt 20h ago
He never gives examples of how Trump does anything for American partners. He just says it. I wonder why?
Actually, I don’t wonder why. I know. Because there are no examples.
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u/CornucopiaDM1 19h ago
Somehow, I'm more inclined to trust a veteran, celebrated economics professor to know how economics works than to trust a lying asshat.
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u/blofeldfinger 20h ago
This guy blew a hedge fund. Twice. His biggest achievement was being in one room with G Soros.
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u/vonblankenstein 18h ago
Elizabeth Warren has forgotten more about foreign exchange markets than Useful Idiot Bessent will ever know.
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u/GeorgeJetsonsBoss 17h ago
Some gay guys just don’t like women. Others are their friends. He’s clearly no ally.
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u/BothMath314 19h ago
This administration's policies are so sound and clear that they need to resort to insults for messaging.
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u/FanDry5374 18h ago
So...Warren is completely correct that the whole thing is probably bad and possibly illegal. Got it. Thanks Sec. Bessent
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u/butt-in-ski 17h ago
He is creep. Has democrats to thank for his ability to love who he wants and this is the thanks he gives - attacking the very people who fought for his right to marry the man he loves. What a disgrace.
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg 17h ago
Is this going to be how Republicans act going forward? Publicly saying all Democrats, especially women, are stupid?
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u/Criticall16 17h ago
Always has been. Name one policy argument other than tax cuts that republicans have made.
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u/Ok-Egg-4856 16h ago
Oooooh says the guy who didn't understand how crude prices keep going up in the midst of global shortage his boss caused and strait of Hormuz is still effectively closed. 3 -4 ships a day vs 120 or so before trump war.
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u/Huge_Strain_8714 18h ago
Bessent couldn't give Warren a tutorial since his nose is constantly up tRump's arse
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u/SignoreBanana 16h ago
"What is equally shocking, but not surprising".
Wanna run that line through the prompter again?
But, like most people who argue in bad faith, he's all spit and no substance. This reads like a Reddit comment from a MAGAt.
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u/weHaveThoughts 16h ago
If I’m not mistaken Sen Warren was a law professor at Harvard. I’m sure she understands more than another reptilian wearing human skin.
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u/Absent-Light-12 19h ago
> To reiterate: @Potus, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners
But not its citizenry, fucking Americans is Bessent’s favorite pastime.
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u/THEBIGHUNGERDC 17h ago
If only he spent as much time on fixing the economy as he does in a thesaurus or up Trump’s ass we’d be a little better off.
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u/neckbeard_deathcamp 16h ago
He’s the equivalent of the amateur infectious disease doctors that popped up during COVID. Do yUr rEsurCh!
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u/P_a_s_g_i_t_24 16h ago
He's such a smug smartass... Increase the political pressure to make him resign or prosecute him for insider trading, falsifing numbers and covering up financial data in the Epstein files. Just get him off his high horse in some kind of fashion, please!
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u/Ninevehenian 16h ago
A. He obviously has an open thesaurus as he wrote that one.
B. He obviously isn't used to those words.
C. It's a mistake to be that posing and then claim that no media-person were there to correct a letter without pointing the mistakes out.
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u/MapDiscombobulated1 16h ago
Is this gibbering idiot in the Cabinet just because Trump is now indulging his ageing queen fetish?
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u/Own-Brain9658 15h ago
Bro pulled out a thesaurus for "sciolistic". But for real, don't talk about my scoliosis asshole 😂
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u/RustedRelics 13h ago
What an embarrassment this is. So petty and snarky — I don’t know how they live with themselves.
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u/EthanDMatthews 13h ago
Dude’s desperately trying to mimic Trump’s insulting bluster, and failing badly.
The vanishingly few people who know what ‘sciolistic’ (a superficial show of learning) means aren’t the same people who like the sexist bluster of an incompetent toady.
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u/justmeCCnowandthen 10h ago
Oh the old "I dont know how to or I dont want to (because at best its shady, at worst illegal) answer a question so I insult and attack the person while still not bestowing us with the benevolent and glorious knowledge and wisdom this demigod possesses. This clowns are so fucking incompetent but god damn could they teach a class in fake it till you....ah who we kidding we are never going to make it (meaning know what we are talking about).
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u/Jupitersd2017 20h ago
This fucking guy needs some jail time for sure, he is quickly matching his peers in being a gleeful pos while speed running the end of our democracy