by theluckycountry » Sat 08 Feb 2025, 04:35:02
it's really shaping up to be another duck and cover.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')e won the Republican nomination in the 1928 presidential election and defeated Democratic candidate Al Smith in a landslide. In 1929, Hoover assumed the presidency.
Prior to entering politics he was a former Secretary of Commerce, a bureaucrat, a stooge! No one will miss trump around the dinner table either when he's demonized for "Causing" the next Depression, if it turns out that way. The current English PM is another former bureaucrat, nobodies, not connected to the old ruling classes or political families of the nation.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or many years, both scholars and the American public held Hoover in extremely low esteem, blaming him for the Great Depression and criticizing his efforts
of course they knew a depression was coming, they fucking engineered it with all the debt! That was the Great Taking-01. Land, companies, anything indebted and any thing like a house that you couldn't pay the taxes on. The "Good" banks cleaned up.