Comment on xkcd #2875: 2024

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets.

  Carter’s Volcker Shock was

  And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.

  Democrats forced half as many cloture votes in 05/06, the last year Bush had a Senate majority, as Republicans invoked in 07/08.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh no half as many? So they did do it after all?

    And dude are you really going to try and tell us the peanut farmer president was a bank man?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Carter was a nuclear technician with a 15 year long political career fixated on privatizing the state and national economy. He inherited a peanut farm from his dying father and kept the business afloat precisely because he understood how to obtain cheap lines of credit. Carter wasn’t tilling soil in the 50s. He was a spreadsheets guy.

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