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Trump will destroy the government agencies that most help working people

www.theguardian.com Trump will destroy the government agencies that most help working people | Katrina vanden Heuvel

For all its supposed ‘populism’, the new administration will probably target offices that protect consumers

Summary

The second Trump administration could dismantle key government agencies aiding working people, particularly the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Created after the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB has secured major consumer wins under Biden-appointed director Rohit Chopra, such as capping overdraft fees and banning excessive credit card late fees.

Trump previously weakened the agency, and his return could prioritize corporate interests.

Progressives are urged to defend the CFPB’s achievements and use its success as a rallying point in future political campaigns.

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A lot of working people voted for this. It's important to continue to spotlight the dismantling of the working class support and blame the people in power.
While the next 4 years will be donkey shit, it is important to continue highlighting these actions and flag them as actions of the GOP. Repetition is important for it to be heard.
- working people voted for this
  those same people will 100% toe the line when he continues to blame everything on mexicans, gays, women, obama, hillary, etc. same thing when he takes all the credit for good things that he had fuckall to do with
- No.
  A lot of working people voted to blame immigrants, trans people, and wokeism.
  "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
  They voted to be able to put their boot on a colored man's neck. They don't care if someone is putting a boot on their own neck, so long as they get to do it to someone else.
  
  That a quote around 60 years old is still not only relevant but still working to keep power says a lot about how broken things have always been.
- The problem is the right-wing propaganda mill that they all trust more than even friends and family, which will furiously insist it's anything but Dearest Leader's fault.
- A lot of working people voted for this.
  Yup. They were told exactly what was going to happen, and they voted for it.
  It's important to continue to spotlight the dismantling of the working class support and blame the people in power.
  What? Blame the people in power? For doing exactly what they were voted into power to do? Blame the people who voted them in.
  
  Enjoy the schadenfreude of the leopards eating their faces. But at some point you'll either have to forgive them once they realise they've been hoodwinked by psychological warfare waged on the news and social media by individuals and organisations with geopolitical and corporate greed aims in mind, then rebuild your public institutions together and educate them to throw off these infective and destructive ideas and dogma.
  Or shoot them in a gruelling civil war, and beat them so resoundingly that their ideology remains burnt and buried with them and Sherman himself would say "fucking hell".
  Hope and strive for the first, but prepare for and pray the second doesn't become the only way.

Baby product company got away with a slap on the wrist recall for product that was killing kids. Their appointed solution was to announce a convoluted set of instructions on how to permanently destroy part of this device, but you could still go on using the now lesser product, missing a core feature that drove initial purchase. If you agreed and jumped through all the hoops, labeled defaced parts and sent the company photos, you'd receive a measly check for $25 in the mail in several weeks, for a product that was initially over $200.
Obviously a horseshit, non-repair for the damage they caused and the loss of key functionality in product.
Long story short, I emailed the CFPB, said "this seems like bullshit", they said, "yeah, that doesn't seem great, give me a minute..." The next day, I got a direct phone call from a woman at corporate for that large multinational cooperation who was just tripping over herself to offer me any solution I wanted, up to a full refund of original purchase price, without any further hassle.
These systems work if you use them. Fucking trump sycophant idiots voting to take existing benefits away from yourselves and the people you love. Godamned failures of life.

Sorry I ran out of sympathy for the working class.
You reap what sow and you deserve what you get.
- Centrists have had no sympathy for the working class for decades. You're just saying the quiet part out loud now.
  
  Why should they? The working class doesn’t want to look out for itself, so why should they get any different then what they deserve?
- They're getting exactly what they asked for.
  A racist, misogynist, greedy America, to match what they look like on the inside.

that’s what the working class seem to want
- People's wants can be manipulated easily, and there is an entire $500 Billion/year industry in the USA built upon this fact.
  It's time that we admit that what passes for "democracy" in this country is a lie. Voting doesn't exist for people to make informed decisions about how this country should be governed, its purpose is to legitimize the decisions that the oligarchic owners of this country will make.

And?
It's what Americans literally voted or sat on their asses and let happen after all.

Shocking

Poor people*
His whole thing is stealing money from the poor to give to the rich.

Yes. And the dumbasses who need those agencies voted for him.

Trump can't have people getting warned from his cronies more profitable endeavors!

Government agencies, stop.

But think of all that sweet sweet trickle down.

Here we go again. Why do these threads always turn into pointing fingers at each other.
I guess things will never change. It's so ingrained to take the path of least resistance as opposed to focusing on the root.

Yep. ~~The Electoral College screws us again.~~
The stay at homes screws us again
- Might wanna check popular vote results...
  
  49.9 to 48.4. Well shit.
  Y'all really fucked this up.
- "We don't need to run someone people want to vote for! We're second worst!"
  "YOU FUCKERS STAYED HOME?!"

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