Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[nycfan]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5254186/cfpb-consumer-financial-protection-cfpb-trump-chopra

“… Chopra was tapped by former President Joe Biden to lead the bureau in 2021. The position has a five-year term, but the Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that the president can fire the director at will.

In a resignation letter posted on X, Chopra said watchdog agencies such as the CFPB work to enforce laws to "check the enormous influence that powerful firms have over our daily lives."

… "The incoming Administration has a unique and important opportunity to institute meaningful reforms to the CFPB, in both the immediate and long-term, that can help transform the agency into the credible and durable regulator Americans deserve," the Consumer Bankers Association wrote in a white paper in January.

The association called for some immediate changes, including rescinding CFPB's rules on overdrafts and credit card late fees.

… At a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee in December, ranking member Tim Scott, R-S.C., called for Chopra to resign on Trump's first day in office and expressed disgust that the CFPB had continued to issue rules and reports in the waning weeks of the Biden administration. …”

 

[finesse]

How would/did you feel about discussions of Biden's assassinations? I got no use for the asshole myself but it's bad for the country, bad for the world and bad for the office if it were to happen. Most particularly is how much better off we'd be with him disgraced than any sort of thing that could be twisted into martyrdom. The Cult of St. Trump would be a vomitous abomination on the world.

 

[nycfan]

WSJ Editorial Board hates Trump’s tariffs but loves shutting down the CFPB.

 

[Paine]

Yes, please. Letters aren’t going to cut it right now.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

Need folks at OPM as well, at a minimum.

 

[Paine]

Great start. Much better than Schumer’s strategy of sitting back and waiting for these literal authoritarians to be hoisted by their own petard.

 

[nycfan]

"Mr Beattie, did you say that 'competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work'?"
"Senator, I'm focused on the future."
"I'll ask again: Mr Beattie, did you say that 'competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work'?"
"Anonymous smears."
"I have the tweet right here! Mr Beattie, did you not say that 'competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work'?"
"I resent your characterization of my words. My account was hacked."

 

[Healing]

Great start. Much better than Schumer’s strategy of sitting back and waiting for these literal authoritarians to be hoisted by their own petard.

Yep. The Schumer-type approach is basically collaboration, at this point. Rhetorical street fighters, or get the fuck out the way.

 

[ZenMode]

Panama Bends to U.S. Pressure, Grants Free Navy Passage Through Canal

Panama Bends to U.S. Pressure, Grants Free Navy Passage Through Canal

Panama promised free passage for US warships through the Panama Canal and said it will withdraw from China’s signature lending program after Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted the government during his visit on Sunday.

gcaptain.com

 

[ZenMode]

Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause

Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has agreed to deploy 10,000 national guard troops to block drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border.

www.foxnews.com

 

[WaynetheDrain]

Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause

Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has agreed to deploy 10,000 national guard troops to block drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border.

www.foxnews.com

'Ooof!' Trump mocked for falling for 'trick' in Mexico tariff deal

President Donald Trump temporarily backed down on his tariff threats against Mexico after reaching an agreement with his counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo — which prompted a range of reactions.The two nations' presidents each announced an agreement on sending Mexican forces to the border to...

www.rawstory.com

"Mexico has made similar agreements without the threat of tariffs," posted Sam Stein, of The Bulwark and MSNBC. "Here in 2021 they agreed to surge the same number of troops to help with migration. Here in 2022 they agreed to invest an additional $1.5b. Here in 2023 were 15 administrative actions."

 

[nycfan]

Panama Bends to U.S. Pressure, Grants Free Navy Passage Through Canal

Panama Bends to U.S. Pressure, Grants Free Navy Passage Through Canal

Panama promised free passage for US warships through the Panama Canal and said it will withdraw from China’s signature lending program after Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted the government during his visit on Sunday.

gcaptain.com

Pound foolishness … threaten to invade an ally to shake a few duckets from their pockets and give Trump a chance to preen about what a successful bully he is.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

“I’d like to see them become the 51st state … we don’t need them for anything …”

 

[TullyHeel]

What a clown.

 

[nycfan]

 

[uncgriff]

“I’d like to see them become the 51st state … we don’t need them for anything …”

If Canada was a state they would have the same votes in the Senate as Wyoming lol. Basically another California.

 

[nycfan]

 

[BlooVooDoo]

Why do they even take his calls? This guy was hoping to get to third base after the senior prom less than a year ago.