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Post by Tero » Sat Aug 11, 2018 2:47 am

Trump has lost 100% of Ohio housewives:

The vote breakdown in Ohio’s special election this week amplified a trend that's been building in the suburbs during the Trump era — and illustrated how the traditional Republican path to victory has been upended in key congressional districts.

Deep suburban antipathy toward President Donald Trump has turned the old GOP electoral coalition inside-out in many areas in 2017 and 2018 — like Ohio’s 12th District, which for two decades sent former Rep. Pat Tiberi to Congress on the back of his popularity in the Columbus suburbs. His anointed successor, Republican Troy Balderson, took a different path to a small special-election lead, instead building on Trump’s rural strength while Democrat Danny O'Connor cut deeply into Tiberi’s old base.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:19 am

More winning! Getting government off the backs of banks working to Make America Great Again™!

'Mulvaney Looks to Weaken Oversight of Military Lending'
The Trump administration is planning to suspend routine inspections of lenders for violations of the Military Lending Act, which was devised to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging, according to internal agency documents.

Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, intends to scrap the use of so-called supervisory inspections of lenders, arguing that such proactive oversight is not explicitly laid out in the legislation, the main consumer measure protecting active-duty service members, according to a two-page draft of the change.

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The proposal surprised advocates for military families, who have urged the government to use its powers to crack down harder on unscrupulous lenders. The consumer bureau conducted dozens of investigations into payday and other lenders during the Obama administration without any significant legal opposition, and no lenders are currently challenging its oversight based on the law, according to administration officials.

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The agency’s supervisory exams have been critical in uncovering previous instances of wrongdoing and led to several of its biggest fines. In 2014, the bureau fined one of the largest payday lenders in the country, Ace Cash Express, $10 million after determining the company, based in Texas, steered low-income borrowers, including those in the military, into a succession of financially damaging high-interest loans.

Instead of conducting inspections that might find similar patterns, the bureau will now rely solely on complaints funneled through its website, hotlines, the military and people who believe they have been victims of abuse.

“It will go from a proactive system to something that is completely reactive,” said Christopher L. Peterson, a University of Utah law professor who served in a variety of top positions at the bureau from 2012 to 2016. “Over time, it is going to have a real impact on the lives of these people who devote their lives to the service of our country.”

[Spokesman for Mulvaney] Mr. Czwartacki, who said Mr. Mulvaney is urging Congress to quickly pass a measure that would give him the power to resume supervisory inspections, noted that the agency’s goal was “to protect service members, but we also have to abide by the law.”

“We are 100 percent committed to seeing that happens,” he added.

But the banking and payday industries are likely to fight any such legislation and quick passage is anything but guaranteed. The industry has been lobbying to loosen enforcement for years, in part by trying to exempt an array of fees from the 36 percent rate cap.

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:01 pm

So much winning! Getting government off the backs of profitable colleges by insuring that their profits are not threatened with possible loss of access to federal student aid.

'DeVos ends Obama-era protections for students of for-profit colleges'
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos moved Friday to end rules passed under the Obama administration that penalized for-profit colleges with a record of leaving graduates in crippling debt and with few job prospects.

In a statement that appeared on the Education Department's website on Friday, the agency claimed the move was born out of an effort to treat all types of institutions "fairly."

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DeVos' plan to roll back the gainful employment rule was first reported last month. At that time, the agency refused to comment on the proposal until its completion and publication.

DeVos has taken a number of steps to roll back other Obama-era rules targeting for-profit colleges, including dismantling a team dedicated to uncovering fraud at such institutions and reinstating a for-profit college accreditor despite her own staff's warnings that the organization did not meet federal standards.

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Post by Animavore » Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:05 pm

This sounds like an interesting one.
Republican strategist eviscerates US president in new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies

Donald Trump has divided opinion like no other president. This book, by Rick Wilson, pulls no punches in its condemnation of his party, his president, his opponents and himself

Rick Wilson is a long-time Republican strategist and the architect of all manner of knives-out campaign ads, including one particularly vicious spot from the 2008 presidential campaign that hammered Barack Obama’s connection to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright with the tag: “Barack Obama: Too Radical, Too Risky.”

He helped start the Never Trump movement. It cost him friends and all manner of potential political work. It subjected him to the threats and fury of Trump’s troll army. He was labelled a Rino (Republican in name only) and a party traitor.

And he didn’t care. Right is right, and Trump was clearly, transparently, unquestionably wrong.

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Ironic people calling him a "party traitor".
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Post by Tero » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:12 pm

Charlottesville riddled with barriers, security and flowers on 'Unite the Right' anniversary
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This year's "Unite The Right" rally is aimed at advocating for "white civil rights." It is set to take place Sunday in Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Square with a march from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Organizers tried to mount the gathering in Charlottesville, but gave up a legal fight with the city over a permit.

The nation's capital, which abuts Northern Virginia, ensures heavy security, banning guns from the premises regardless of legal permits. Counterprotesters will also be kept away from the white nationalists.

Glass bottles, skateboards, knives, air rifles and a dozen other items are also prohibited.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:05 pm

Unhinged review: Omarosa dishes the dirt on Trump's circle – and few are spared
Trump’s ex-adviser sprinkles a few crumbs for Mueller and offers several personnel critiques, but offers little introspection
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Trump’s sex-adviser sprinkles a few crumbs for Mueller and offers several personnel critiques, but offers little introspection
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:33 am

another Onion snippet ain't that?
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:46 pm

So, the Deep State is playing the long game. Breaking with previous statements and with standard procedure, the FBI has fired Peter Strzok. Sure, it looks like they've caved to political pressure from the Trump administration, but there's no question that this a manifestation of some devious plan to thwart the beautiful project to Make America Great Again™.

'Peter Strzok fired from FBI after anti-Trump texts, lawyer says'
Peter Strzok — the FBI special agent who was heavily criticized by President Trump, the president's allies and a blistering Justice Department Inspector General report — has officially been fired from the FBI, according to his lawyer.

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"Late Friday afternoon, the Deputy Director of the FBI overruled the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and departed from established precedent by firing 21-year FBI veteran Peter Strzok," Aitan Goelman, attorney for Strzok, said. "In doing so he reversed the decision of the career FBI official responsible for employee discipline who concluded, through an independent review process, that a 60-day suspension and demotion from supervisory duties was the appropriate punishment."

"The decision to fire Special Agent Strzok is not only a departure from typical Bureau practice, but also contradicts Director Wray's testimony to Congress and his assurances that the FBI intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters," Goelman continued.

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:17 pm

Former Fox News executive who is now White House news director being chummy with his erstwhile company? Well sure, a reasonable person might see an ethical problem with that but after all, the White House thinks it's in the public interest. Therefore it's waiving the requirement to comply with the rules.

"White House: It’s in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News"
It is “in the public interest” for the White House's top communicator to be excused from federal ethics laws so he can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump’s top lawyer.

Bill Shine, Trump’s newly minted communications director, and Larry Kudlow, the White House’s top economist, who worked at CNBC before his White House post, have both been excused from provisions of the law, which seeks to prevent administration officials from advancing the financial interests of relatives or former employers.

“The Administration has an interest in you interacting with Covered Organizations such as Fox News,” wrote White House counsel Don McGahn in a July 13 memo granting an ethics waivers to Shine, a former Fox executive. “[T]he need for your services outweighs the concern that a reasonable person may question the integrity of the White House Office’s programs and operations.”

Kudlow, a former CNBC host, received a similar waiver allowing him to communicate with former colleagues.

Including Shine and Kudlow, the White House has granted a total of 20 waivers to provisions of various federal ethics laws and the ethics pledge that President Trump instituted by executive order the week he took office. Federal agencies have granted many more such waivers.

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[The waivers] underscore the perceived importance for the White House in working with—and drawing senior staff from—news outlets seen as friendly to the president and his agenda.

As McGahn put it in permitting high-level White House meetings with Fox, “I have determined that it is appropriate and in the public interest.”

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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:26 pm

Hey, there's nothing illegal here. If the rules are waived then no rules are broken - like if they waived laws against murder then killing someone wouldn't be wrong.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:00 pm

A record of accomplishment: Zero tolerance enforcement at the borders while helping corporations by getting government off their backs -- MAGA!™

'Trumped-up justice: New report shows corporate crime going unpunished under Trump'
The horrors of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” enforcement policies against immigrants have been widely reported, but certainely bear repeating. There is the eponymous “zero-tolerance” Justice Department (DOJ) policy that instructs U.S. attorneys to prosecute first-time border crossers. The workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that terrorize entire communities. The thousands of children who were separated from their parents as a result of the accelerated enforcement, hundreds of whom remain separated from their parents or relatives in spite of a court order requiring the administration to reunite families by July 26. It's a grotesque parody of a legal system these children endure, with toddlers as young as three forced to attend deportation proceedings alone.

Among the reasons the Trump administration gives for these brutal policies is that they are necessary for “restoring law and order” and “making America safe again.” But the “law and order” the president seeks to “restore,” does not seem apply to violations committed by the corporate class, and the threats that America must be made “safe” from, apparently, do not include pollution, rip-offs and recklessness that are unleashed by deregulated corporate greed. Enforcement against corporate criminals and regulatory violations, a new Public Citizen report finds, has dramatically plummeted since Trump took office.

Public Citizen found that in 11 out of 12 agencies led by a Trump administration official for most of 2017, the dollar amount of penalties imposed on corporate violators dropped, in most cases by more than 50 percent.

At the DOJ, corporate penalties dropped 90 percent; at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), penalty amounts against all violators dropped by 94 percent.

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How can we make sense of this law enforcement disparity? Consider the two categories of people Trump surrounds himself with.

One category is the far-right ideologues, white nationalists and ultraconservative militants. It’s the Breitbart and Alex Jones wing of the Republican party. It includes anti-immigration ideologues like Stephen Miller and his former boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and recklessly hawkish figures like John Bolton. It includes infamous but erstwhile advisers like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka.

These are the self-identified “deplorables,” and they seem to take delight in the way they alarm Democrats and moderate conservatives alike.

We have them to thank for this xenophobic and prejudiced “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

The second category is the corporate class, which consists of billionaires and CEOs. During Trump’s first year in office alone, he had triple the number of CEO meetings as Obama had over the course of seven years. Trump, a corporate executive himself, and the executives and former executives in his immediate circle include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former adviser Carl Icahn, and intimate allies such as Las Vegas Sands’ Sheldon Adelson, Dow Chemical’s Andrew Liveris and Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman.

Compared to the deplorables, they are sometimes portrayed as a positive influence on Trump. Some executives aligned with this camp, such as JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, have criticized Trump’s zero-tolerance approach to immigration.

We also have them to thank for the tax scam legislation that, while dribbling nary a trickle-down to working Americans, has spawned “eye-popping” multimillion-dollar payouts for the C-suite set.

These influences seem to have forged a demented law enforcement doctrine of treating immigrants like “animals” that “infest our country” — and corporations like people.

The result feels at once deeply offensive and disturbingly inevitable.

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Aug 15, 2018 6:12 am

This is how easy to hack the American voting system. Even a 11 year old can do it.

11-year-old hacks replica of Florida’s election system in 10 minutes
The results come as the Trump administration has warned Russia is working to underline US election security ahead of the 2018 midterm elections
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Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:26 pm

The solution is obvious: we need to put democracy on hold until a strong leader can secure our nation. :tea:

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Post by Animavore » Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:49 pm

Your president. President Trump.

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