How A 2005 Law to Prevent Bankruptcies Led to the 2008 Recession

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28. like I said, keep on rolling with that tosh that the banks were victims and needed that law

to survive. The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act or 2005 has been a disaster for a staggering number of our fellow citizens. Whilst you are at it, defend the disastrous repeal of Glass Steagall and the even worse re-legalising of most derivatives under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that DIRECTLY led to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.

You calling my critique of those rapacious and disastrous bills as grasping at straws is not just factually ludicrous, it is politically suicidal as well if you try and posit that into a poltical platform for a run in 2020.

You say I am defaming a potential nominee, but all I am doing is calling out actual votes and legislative procedural actions and their repercussions. It is an absolutely fair part of the vetting process. So sorry you feel that highlighting that is defamation, as it is most certainly not. Apparently you are not even familiar with the actual definition of the word 'defame' ie. defamation. Let me help you out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of, depending on the law of the country, an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed.

Absolutely zero what I said was false, as much as you may wish it was. Own it.