All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[TheInvisibleMan]

But that's the point. A lot of white people don't want to believe it's a problem because we don't see jackbooted and tatted skinheads everywhere. So maybe, just maybe, this article will make a few of us white people "woke."

"woke" isn't good enough

you need to be pissed off and ready to drag a motherf***er like this through the streets

[PaulBullion]

Really, if you replaced the names, wouldn't you buy this here as a story from Zimbabwe:

Some background info:

Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who co-authored the 2010 law that established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), said Monday that Deputy Director Leandra English should "clearly" run the agency amid controversy over the appointment of Mick Mulvaney.

“When we wrote the law creating the CFPB, and we deliberately tried to give it some protection from the normal political process,” Frank said on CNN's "New Day."

English, who was tapped by former Director Richard Cordray to be the acting director, filed a complaint Sunday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against President Trump and Mulvaney, after the president nominated Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget director, to lead the CFPB.

Passed in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act established the CFPB and called on the bureau’s deputy director to serve as acting director between Senate-confirmed chiefs. Cordray promoted English, his chief of staff, to the deputy director position shortly before resigning from the bureau on Friday.

But Trump nominated Mulvaney to be the CFPB’s acting director soon afterward on Friday evening, claiming he had the power to do so under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. That law empowers the president to nominate any Senate-confirmed administration official as acting director of a department or agency.

English has asked the court to not only bar Mulvaney from the position, but declare that Dodd-Frank’s line of succession supersedes the vacancies act. English has also asked the court to ban Trump from appointing another acting director.

“In this case because we knew that fighting the large financial interests on behalf of consumers was going to put you in the battlefield everyday, so we did do deliberately special protections,” Frank said Monday. “We gave the director of this agency a five-year term, removable by the president only for cause.”

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/36...onsumer-bureau

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It will get even worse if he is removed from office early. Way worse.

You mean Red Grant with his bible thumping habits? Yeah, that figures to be a problem, but at least Pence would be enough of an adult to resist the temptation to drop nukes on North Korea as a means to bump up sagging poll numbers.

Not only that, Trump has said privately to associates that he feels Access Hollywood tapes of him talking about grabbing women by their privates is a fake and that it's not his voice. He's either that crazy or that cynical in thinking people are gullible enough to believe it. And if that was the case, why was Billy Bush fired?

No, this is cynicism at it's worst. Trump knows his legion of brain dead lemmings hang on his every word as gospel and still believe he walks on water, so yeah, he's counting on his followers being stupid enough to fall for his latest lie. If Trump tweeted tomorrow that Barack Obama was a Klingon infiltrator out to subvert the country, those dopes would accept it without a moment's worth of hesitation.

[ZombieHavoc]

You mean Red Grant with his bible thumping habits? Yeah, that figures to be a problem, but at least Pence would be enough of an adult to resist the temptation to drop nukes on North Korea as a means to bump up sagging poll numbers.

Well, that is bad, but I meant...how the country is working right now with regular, ground level people.

[PaulBullion]

Well, that is bad, but I meant...how the country is working right now with regular, ground level people.

Those regular, ground level people are marching with swastikas, driving cars into crowds, shooting scores of people at concerts. How much lower do you think Trump's base can sink?

[PaulBullion]

Mueller opens probe of Kushner

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/M...Kushner-515202

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Mueller opens probe of Kushner

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/M...Kushner-515202

Well now, that's sure interesting. Will Sunkist Satan come to the defense of his son-in-law, or throw him under the nearest Greyhound if it'll keep the wolves from the Oval Office door?

[Iron Maiden]

Well now, that's sure interesting. Will Sunkist Satan come to the defense of his son-in-law, or throw him under the nearest Greyhound if it'll keep the wolves from the Oval Office door?

And to top it off, Jared and Ivanka don't have many supporters in Washington. Everyone knows they're in over their head. And they're not shy about pulling rank as Daddy's little darlings.

[TheInvisibleMan]

And to top it off, Jared and Ivanka don't have many supporters in Washington. Everyone knows they're in over their head. And they're not shy about pulling rank as Daddy's little darlings.

and no friends in NYC to go back to

many forget that the Trump and his "associate family" are persona non grata among NYCs rich and powerful

[BeastieRunner]

Mueller opens probe of Kushner

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/M...Kushner-515202

Well now, that's sure interesting. Will Sunkist Satan come to the defense of his son-in-law, or throw him under the nearest Greyhound if it'll keep the wolves from the Oval Office door?

I just read that article!

It looks like Kushner will be in the insider to flip if he wants to avoid jail time. But that means he'll have to get a new family.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

If push comes to shove and Dolt45 sacrifices Jared, chances are Ivanka will let him twist in the wind and get blown away. Husbands are a dime a dozen, but a fat inheritance only happens once, no way will Ms. Complicit risk losing that future stash over a man.

[Iron Maiden]

and no friends in NYC to go back to

many forget that the Trump and his "associate family" are persona non grata among NYCs rich and powerful

Trump lost pretty big in New York State, 4.5 million for Hillary, 2.8 million for Trump. In his hometown of NYC, even bigger: 1.9 million (78 %) to less than 500,000 (18 %). They know him all to well in New York.

[ZombieHavoc]

"What If This Had Happened on the Day After 9/11?"
https://www.thenation.com/article/wh...day-after-911/

Re: 2017

Complex ideological threats sometimes demand counterintuitive responses. In such moments, hard as it may be to imagine, rational calculations should rise above the kneejerk emotional responses. True leaders step up and weather criticism in times of crisis. So next time, Americans would do well to set aside comforting illusions and take the world as it is, not as we imagine or wish it to be. The future may depend on it.

That future may well include new “terror” attacks on (or at least in) America’s cities. Expect this president to use those inevitable tragedies to stifle domestic dissent, escalate the ongoing wars, and—just maybe—fan the flames of nativism and white nationalism for petty political gain. The question is which institutions, which groups, will be prepared to fight back? I fear there’ll be few left willing to defy the tide of war. A generation born after 9/11 will vote in the next presidential election. They’ve never known peace. Will they even bother to demand it?

[mojotastic]

Is bad to think on the what if, is better to just accept the reality where we live and try to imrpove it as best as we can.

[ZombieHavoc]

Is bad to think on the what if, is better to just accept the reality where we live and try to imrpove it as best as we can.

That is true, and that's where the quote I included comes in, regarding how Trump would act on something like that.