Tempers flare between Dem Rep. Maxine
Waters and Scott Bessent over inflation:
‘Can you shut up?’
New York Post,
by
Josh Christenson
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
2/4/2026 12:16:12 PM
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) lashed out at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — telling him at one point to “shut up” — after a tense exchange over inflation. Waters suggested that President Trump’s tariffs were inflationary and immigration enforcement was tanking housing affordability during a House Financial Services Committee hearing about the state of the US economy. “Will you be the voice of reason in the administration and urge Trump to stop waging a war on American consumers?” the California Democrat pleaded. “Yes or no?" “You seem confused as to the definition of inflation,” Bessent began before Waters interrupted him to re-ask the question.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Zbogwan2 2/4/2026 12:22:15 PM (No. 2064783)
POOR Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is a Total Zero! No ands, Ifs or buts or being! Nothing more needs to be said!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ocho reales 2/4/2026 12:33:23 PM (No. 2064790)
Maxine Waters showed her incredible ignorance of the real world as far back as the 1990's when she accused the CIA of distributing cocaine in the black community in California. And she is still in Congress! She has had a Congressional sinecure for 30 years. What a shame her district is represented by such a weak and unserious politician!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 2/4/2026 12:36:16 PM (No. 2064792)
Maxine Waters is truly retarded. She has never had a coherent thought, but she is the only one who doesn't seem to know it. If she is the best the black community has to offer they're in real trouble.
42 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 2/4/2026 12:40:22 PM (No. 2064799)
Aunt Esther is a big dummy!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/4/2026 12:46:04 PM (No. 2064808)
Oh, come on, Auntie. It's not that bad lest Sec. Bessent washes your mouth out with soap for talking like that, ma'am.
24 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/4/2026 12:47:41 PM (No. 2064809)
Craxy Maxine, still dumber than a box of rocks and meaner than a snake.
34 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/4/2026 12:49:34 PM (No. 2064812)
She needs to hear that every day. Ess tee eff yuu.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 2/4/2026 1:07:49 PM (No. 2064817)
Ahhh... the old "Have you stopped beating your wife?" question.
If I had been Bessent,.. I would have asked Waters if she had stopped eating turds for breakfast.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MissNan 2/4/2026 1:09:46 PM (No. 2064818)
Was she wearing the wig that looks like roadkill?
26 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/4/2026 1:18:27 PM (No. 2064820)
Every time Mr. Bessent arrives on Capital Hill to testify on some photo op committee hearing it's like watching a battle of wits with a sack of hammers.
24 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 2/4/2026 1:19:30 PM (No. 2064821)
Apparently, Maxine the wig Waters is truly a representative of her voters. Stupid, uneducated, and woefully unable to think rationally. I'm pretty sure the founding fathers did not expect the people to elect such incompetent and obviously brain damage people to be a representative when founding this country.
38 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/4/2026 1:39:33 PM (No. 2064829)
what a embarrassment she is. Is she really in congress?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
vhs68 2/4/2026 1:47:29 PM (No. 2064832)
Well, the good news is that (Aunt Ester) Maxine will soon be following her nephew; Lamont, to the promised land.
18 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 2/4/2026 2:12:36 PM (No. 2064834)
Poor Maxine. She couldn't understand Bessent's big words like the, and, and it, plus no, when he tried to talk to her. Maybe if she got a new wig, it might help.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/4/2026 2:36:00 PM (No. 2064846)
Hilarious. Bessent trying to educate an idiot.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 2/4/2026 2:39:33 PM (No. 2064848)
2 facts not in dispute:
1) Sec Bessent is, typically, THE smartest man/person in the room.
2) He is the epitome of “gentleman.”
But to have him take on Auuunnt Esther would be TV gold. I’d probably take out a 2d on my house to watch that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/4/2026 2:55:32 PM (No. 2064852)
Missed opportunity...he might have said, "I don't think that word means what you think it does."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/4/2026 3:08:05 PM (No. 2064862)
MAD Maxine 'Septic System Waters' with a Dead Rat Wig, is NUTS. I would refuse to answer her questions until she could say it with respect, and none of this Yes or No BS.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chagrined 2/4/2026 3:40:34 PM (No. 2064868)
John Adams quote: "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
John Adams knew what he was talking about. No one can say those who elected Representative Maxine Waters (Dumb*** - Calif.) have any general knowledge. . .of anything anywhere!
11 people like this.
That eminent economist, Rep. Maxine "Wigs" Waters (D., Plantet of the Apes). You can take the girl out of the ghetto---- to that mansion in Hancock Park that is not even in her district--- but you can't take the ghetto out of the girl. She's never taken Econ 101 obviously, but she can sure spew gravity-defying economics anyway.... a lot of hate and vitriol with it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/4/2026 6:02:11 PM (No. 2064907)
Bessent's response should be: "Are you done with your photo op so that I may respond to your incoherent rant?" If they continue to yell at him, simply say "you obviously came here to only provide your own misguided, misleading testimony highlighting your complete misunderstanding of the subject. I have better things to do than waste my time here." Pick up his things and walk out without another word.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
danu 2/4/2026 6:50:56 PM (No. 2064927)
how is it that these dimwits are so appallingly awful to admin officials w/ 300x her brainpower?
if it were a white male barking at her she'd wail 'racism!!!' for a month.
is it because he's a southerner?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
athina 2/4/2026 9:11:12 PM (No. 2064968)
She actually said ‘can you shut him up’ to the chairperson.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 2/4/2026 9:49:11 PM (No. 2064986)
Mad Max strikes again...her IQ must be somewhere about Somali level..and the stupid dolts that keep electing her...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/4/2026 10:01:03 PM (No. 2064994)
Ol' Mad Maxine. Flapping her gums and displaying her single-digit IQ.... again.
Like they say, "There ain't No Fool like an Old Fool."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/5/2026 12:53:02 AM (No. 2065009)
Wow! I didn’t know Maxine, the elder pig of the racist-wing of the Democrat Party, was still alive! /s
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 2/5/2026 5:20:56 AM (No. 2065019)
And where was this moral outrage when Biden caused 20% cumulative inflation?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
judy 2/5/2026 5:22:22 AM (No. 2065020)
Dems are trained to outtalk ..overtalk ..interrrupt.. ask a 5 minute question... aka statement...giving the other person no time to respond...I suggest the house & senate make rules ...this is an embarrassing performance for the TV cameras...
3 people like this.
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