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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:38 PM Dec 2018

Why is an ex- Trump admin member lecturing new Dem Congresspeople?





Gary Cohn, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played."

No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits.





I don't care for Cohn's condescending tone at all.
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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
1. "I've been a member of the most corrupt and incompetent administration in history,
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:42 PM
Dec 2018

so you better listen to what I say!"

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
6. He's a Dem, I guess but couldn't they find someone else? Someone who knows how to relate to people
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:44 PM
Dec 2018

at least.

OnDoutside

(19,977 posts)
8. He's a toxic Trumper who pushed masterminded the tax giveaway to the 1% and then promptly
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:53 PM
Dec 2018

fucked off to count his money. It's staggering that Democratic people in Congresscan't at least see the optics of normalizing Cohn. They should have refused to hear him.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
5. Ms. O-C has been filing some excellent reports from the halls of Congress.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:44 PM
Dec 2018

Little sunlight might do the place good.

Thank you Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

malaise

(269,211 posts)
11. I really like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 03:57 PM
Dec 2018

# of Corporate CEOs we’ve listened to here: 4
# of Labor leaders: 0

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
13. Gary Cohen and his Ilk is why
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 04:16 PM
Dec 2018

our Democratic Party has taken so many hits in the Last ten years. Once these so called Wall Street types were pushed to the back bench,our Party started to rock and roll.

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