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'Bessent's plain political speech was short on details but
Posted on: April 25, 2025 at 14:38:45 CT
JeffB MU
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long on specifics:
-Increase fossil fuel usage
-climate change is a hoax
-get back to predatory economics to benefit corruption in the United States
Would you mind giving the exact quotes where he called for the above, or at least linking to the specific parts of the video where he called for the above goals?
To put it kindly, I'm inclined to disbelieve your assertions, but will give you the chance to prove your premises.
He did say that both the IMF and the World Bank had suffered greatly from mission creep and had veered far beyond their core mandates to push for things like funding climate change aversion advocacy, and transgender issues and so on, and that they need to step away from those issues which are not in their core mandate of moderating trade and currency imbalances and to help countries get back on their economic feet with short term loans and help on making necessary adjustments to get back on a sustainable economic path.
That you interpret that as "climate change is a hoax" or that he is advocating for the IMF & World Bank to "increase fossil fuel usage" or to "get back to predatory economics to benefit corruption in the US" is NOT something that he advocated in "plain political speech".
But if you can find that in his "plain political speech", please point us to the exact portions of the video where he said that, or at least to a transcript where he said that.
-Increase fossil fuel usage
-climate change is a hoax
-get back to predatory economics to benefit corruption in the United States
Would you mind giving the exact quotes where he called for the above, or at least linking to the specific parts of the video where he called for the above goals?
To put it kindly, I'm inclined to disbelieve your assertions, but will give you the chance to prove your premises.
He did say that both the IMF and the World Bank had suffered greatly from mission creep and had veered far beyond their core mandates to push for things like funding climate change aversion advocacy, and transgender issues and so on, and that they need to step away from those issues which are not in their core mandate of moderating trade and currency imbalances and to help countries get back on their economic feet with short term loans and help on making necessary adjustments to get back on a sustainable economic path.
That you interpret that as "climate change is a hoax" or that he is advocating for the IMF & World Bank to "increase fossil fuel usage" or to "get back to predatory economics to benefit corruption in the US" is NOT something that he advocated in "plain political speech".
But if you can find that in his "plain political speech", please point us to the exact portions of the video where he said that, or at least to a transcript where he said that.
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'Bessent's plain political speech was short on details but - JeffB MU - 4/25 14:38:45