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Old Yesterday, 03:36 PM   #91
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When the working class wakes up to what’s really going on it’s going to be ugly.
I really think one big problem is the young are more interested in their social media feeds and are either tuned out to what is happening, or believing all the spin those working this coup are putting on their phones. If and when the massive marches and demonstrations begin, I hope the military aren’t going to blindly follow orders if those orders means silencing free speech by force. Wait until the job market that clearly shows what Trump and Musk are up to tanks, hope you are too heavily invested in the stock market.
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And just like that, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau homepage, consumerfinance.gov, is being erased. As of January 30, 2025, CFPB enforcement actions resulted in
$19.7 billion in consumer relief.

The budget for 2025 for CFPB is $823 million. Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has returned $20.7 billion to consumers

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Nothing to see here you crazy liberal, until dawn breaks over all the marbleheads.
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Old Today, 09:24 AM   #94
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So let me understand what Trump and Republicans claim is happening with Musk and Trump

They all claim Trump has won an Historic mandate. And his is doing what Americans elected him to do…

We all a know the mandate line is a lie.

But can Republicans or supporters explain why Trump with such a mandate In control of the presidency the House and the Senate

Be so weak. That their entire agenda is based on executive actions!

You know the ones republicans claimed and I quote

Burgum, a Trump ally who has been floated as his potential running mate, responded: "We've got three branches of government and this president, more like any other, has bypassed Congress.

As recently as October, now-President Biden said you can’t legislate by executive action unless you’re a dictator. Well, in one week, he’s signed more than 30 unilateral actions, and working Americans are getting short shrift,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Or. The party of voter ID was against

Republicans and conservative activists have increasingly been targeting an executive order issued three years ago by the Biden administration that is intended to boost voter registration, claiming it’s unconstitutional and an attempt to interfere in the November election.

Anyone else see a pattern .. republican terms an EO by definition from a democratic is evil and is circumventing the roll of congress and the constitution! Yet an EO by Trump is leadership with no mention of the role of congress or the constitution…. Is the word mandate in the constitution?
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Everyone was warned and those that helped put him in office wanted this apparently, or just assumed it was all talk. Trump and Musk are exposed for exactly who they are, Americans and true conservative patriotic republicans better wake up soon or it will be to late. Another perfect example of who he is was shown in his shameful tweet about why the department of education is being scrapped, don’t want ugly teachers in the schools.
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JD Vance 2022 in case you had any doubt why the FFOTUS picked him

He said he thought this was pessimistic. "I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left," he said. "And turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program."
"I think Trump is going to run again in 2024," he said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people."
"And when the courts stop you," he went on, "stand before the country, and say—" he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order-"the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."
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I would say they’re writing the Democrats campaign but I think they’ve convinced MAGA that bureaucrats have magical powers.
There’s a reason the President is Article 2 in the Constitution.

BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data

NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore

BASH: You are the government
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Trump keeps yelling waste fraud and abuse. And corruption


Yet since . As of February 9th. of this year he's visited Mar-A-Lago more times. Than the WH. His supporters don't seem to care, apparently enriching himself by playing at his own properties and charging the Secret Service up to $650 a day to stay at those properties


Same as last time
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Its A CULT
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Trump keeps yelling waste fraud and abuse. And corruption


Yet since . As of February 9th. of this year he's visited Mar-A-Lago more times. Than the WH. His supporters don't seem to care, apparently enriching himself by playing at his own properties and charging the Secret Service up to $650 a day to stay at those properties


Same as last time
It is the biggest grift of all time, between Trump and Musk, they are just making money off all Americans, blue, red or purple.
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Apparently FElon has spent millions for a propaganda add about USAID during the superbowl
Here’s a little video to get out in front of his lies
https://vimeo.com/1052680025
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Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”


That’s funny not one of Trump nominees. Would answer hypothetical questions,


More loyalty less competency. What could go wrong
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I did not write this but it makes an earlier comment I made .. better

I. believe our current administration is fascist. Not because I dislike them or because I can’t get over an election, but because I've spent too many years reading and learning about the Third Reich to miss the similarities. Not because any administration I dislike must be Nazis, but because things are actually mirroring authoritarian and fascist regimes of the past.
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I think either his good friends are paying him or he’s just a moron. Both have the same result.

Trump: "I'm gonna tell Elon very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's gonna find the same thing. Then I'm gonna go to the military. Let's check the military. We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse."
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Mark Cuban moments ago:
"If you have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Elon Musk, why not invite some democrats to work side by side with your Doge teams and report on what exactly is going on?"

He’s right, there’s no proprietary software or information involved.
Shouldn’t need anymore clearance than the people already involved
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Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal judge's decision early Saturday that blocks Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records, but have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.

But they’re not fascist
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