Oh, man.
More like Encyclopedia…whiney…whiney crybaby…snowflake…woketannica.
Heh. Nailed it.
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merican politics has evolved into pro wrestling
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Or someone who had their head nailed to the floor by the Piranha brothers.
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Leave that to me.
He’s given something like $150M to Trump for him to be elected only just to take on an unpaid job. He lives in an alternate universe! When will he realise he’s been conned?
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He’s flagging getting rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He’s definitely looking to help out the little guy here, and the little guy is definitely asking for massive deregulation of the finance sector and any protections against massive corporate fraud and failure.
“The CFPB is an independent watchdog agency with oversight over banks and other financial institutions, created after the financial crash of 2008 and charged with overseeing consumer protection in the industry.”
Budget is around $700 million (according to Elon, so probably much less), employs 1700 people (jobs are bad, but more jobs, but not these jobs)
“ The agency reports that its work has resulted in over $20.7bn in compensation, cancelled debt and other forms of monetary relief for consumers and has requested responses from companies involved in more than 5.6m consumer complaints.
It has also drawn the attention of the conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025, which called for CFPB to be abolished.”
Farking suckers.
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Still banging on about Harris and your personal grievances when there’s so many other subjects which are current US Politics relevant. Weird. Start a new thread maybe?
Harris consdiering running for President in 2028 or being California Governor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/kamala-harris-advisers-options-open-00191393
But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”
Does that mean that Gavin Newsom will be aiming for a bigger role in 2028.
I think he reaches he is reaching his term limits so will go for a different elected position.
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You don’t think Lachlan Murdoch would take an unpaid job to help regulate media? Or Gina wouldn’t take an unpaid role to regulate mining?
Out of the goodness of their hearts, and on behalf of the little guys, of course…
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Elon may do away with both houses of Congress, and all elected officials, and save heaps.
He could cut out the middle man and just let the big corporations run America, with the King’s Office (Ex White House) to oversee the Kingdom and to store treasure.
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Elon’s the guy who gets murdered by his security first night in the doomsday bunker.
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The Dems have to get Mark Cuban to run. He will wipe the floor with whoever the Republicans put up and will win Texas. Smart guy, great business mind, humanist, but without the unpopular cultural Marxism / homeless ■■■■ hole tag that any blue state candidate is going to cop.
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They need a complete cleanout of the Dem Party operations. As about as good a Essendon when it comes to being tin eared and decision making.
How about they let the primary process do its thing and let the people decide.?
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He’s in a position to potentially decide on what regulations SpaceX has to deal with.
That’s a good result for him.
It’s not a good result for the people.
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His net worth has skyrocketed and Trumps not even in power yet…
Very savvy investment really.
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They did have the primary process. Joe, as the incumbent, won that as incumbents will do.
Having a second in that compressed time frame would have left the winner with no campaign team, no campaign money, and a party that looked visibly divided to the electorate with just days left to build it all back up.
Only Kamala, as part of Joe’s ticket, could inherit the campaign and money built to that point.
Joe should have withdrawn before that first primary.
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On the positive side:
The President and his Cabinet have prescribed powers .
I can’t see the judiciary rolling over on all attempts by Trump to exert his power.
Additionally, a Republican dominated Congress may not roll over completely in adopting legislation to extend Trump’s powers.
In regard to cleaning out the swamp of the Washington bureaucracy, it would need legislation. Additionally there could be a dogfight between Cabinet members on cuts and appointments.
Watch this space on the behaviour of the Judiciary and Congress in his term, including a Congress looking towards installing a Republican as the next President.
His excesses in his first term served to deliver Biden the Presidency.
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