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re: Barack Obama just surprised an entire aircraft full of veterans on Veterans Day.
Posted by Eurocat on 11/11/25 at 3:16 pm to hogcard1964
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In America it is pretty much new. In Japan, no, they have even 100 year mortgages.
I'm talking politics not justice.
I can see an average American man or woman coming home tonight and saying to his or her wife or husband
"Damn things are sure getting expensive at the supermarket, do we really want to invite your parents over for thanksgiving, and you won't believe what I saw when I went online to look at our next years health insurance plan.....oh honey turn on the news maybe something important is going on......sh*t, just more "going after Clinton" stuff instead of figuring out a GOP health care plan...:
By the way the Federal Statute of Limitations for a freaking bank robbery is FIVE years. I think about three times that more important things can be focused on.
I can see an average American man or woman coming home tonight and saying to his or her wife or husband
"Damn things are sure getting expensive at the supermarket, do we really want to invite your parents over for thanksgiving, and you won't believe what I saw when I went online to look at our next years health insurance plan.....oh honey turn on the news maybe something important is going on......sh*t, just more "going after Clinton" stuff instead of figuring out a GOP health care plan...:
By the way the Federal Statute of Limitations for a freaking bank robbery is FIVE years. I think about three times that more important things can be focused on.
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You ignored this key word. WAS. It WAS needed. And like many things created (example: Unions), it was used and abused by the left to target conservatives.
This wasn't the organization that did this kind of targeting, that was more the IRS and DOJ.
What Does the CFPB Regulate?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is charged with creating rules and taking enforcement actions to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices by a wide range of financial institutions and businesses. Its actions involve banks, mortgage servicers, credit card companies, student loan processors, payday lenders, money transfer providers, credit reporting agencies and debt collectors. rhe CFPB passed rules capping bank overdraft fees and removing medical debt from credit reports. The bureau sued financial services companies for misleading consumers and employers for misleading workers. It also focused on curbing junk fees and predatory lending practices.
What Put the Agency in the Crosshairs?
Before Trump took office, banks and industry groups sometimes sued to block some of the agency’s rules. For example, when the CFPB issued a rule in 2017 to limit the number of payments the providers of payday loans, vehicle title loans, and high-cost installment loans could take from customer bank accounts, trade associations for payday lenders challenged the bureau’s Federal Reserve funding as unconstitutional. In May 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected their argument and upheld the CFPB’s funding and oversight model.
re: Moderate Dems … it's not infighting, it's a purge.
Posted by Eurocat on 11/11/25 at 2:51 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
I know Dan too. Went to school with him.
I don't quite get the reason the GOP, which has so many other issues to deal with right now, want to spend time and energy on something that happened in 2013-2015 or about 12 years ago.
Meanwhile we have stuff like this going on - why not go attack racism in American companies taking place as of now! Today!
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Seems like personal vendetta's and grudges matter more to the Department of Justice than actual discrimination and other problems.
Meanwhile we have stuff like this going on - why not go attack racism in American companies taking place as of now! Today!
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Seems like personal vendetta's and grudges matter more to the Department of Justice than actual discrimination and other problems.
So if a bank screws you, you have nowhere to turn?
When conservatives were pushed out of bank accounts, it was this agency that helped them.
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A New York business frozen out of its checking account. A Georgia chemotherapy patient denied a credit card refund after a product dispute. A New Jersey service member defrauded out of their savings. These consumers — along with hundreds of others — reached out to their congressional representatives for help in the past 12 months.
“I have been unable to pay my rent, utilities, personal bills, student loans, or my credit card. I have been unable to buy groceries or put gas in my car,” wrote the New Yorker, who contacted Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ office.
Records show their representatives — all Republicans — referred them to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency formed in the wake of the Great Recession to shield Americans from unfair or abusive business practices. All three consumers got relief, according to agency data.
Then the lawmakers — along with nearly every other Republican in Congress — voted to slash the agency’s funding by nearly half as part of President Donald Trump’s signature legislative package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a step toward the administration’s goal of gutting the agency.
Overall, members of Congress have steered nearly 24,000 complaints to the CFPB since it opened its doors in 2011. Roughly 10,000 of those were referred by the offices of current and former Republican lawmakers, ProPublica found. “This is how members of Congress from both parties get help for the people who live in their districts,” said Erie Meyer, the CFPB’s former chief technologist, who left the agency in February. The agency has a particular mandate to help service members and seniors, she noted. “This is how, if a service member is getting screwed on an auto loan, this is the only place they can go.”
When conservatives were pushed out of bank accounts, it was this agency that helped them.
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A New York business frozen out of its checking account. A Georgia chemotherapy patient denied a credit card refund after a product dispute. A New Jersey service member defrauded out of their savings. These consumers — along with hundreds of others — reached out to their congressional representatives for help in the past 12 months.
“I have been unable to pay my rent, utilities, personal bills, student loans, or my credit card. I have been unable to buy groceries or put gas in my car,” wrote the New Yorker, who contacted Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ office.
Records show their representatives — all Republicans — referred them to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency formed in the wake of the Great Recession to shield Americans from unfair or abusive business practices. All three consumers got relief, according to agency data.
Then the lawmakers — along with nearly every other Republican in Congress — voted to slash the agency’s funding by nearly half as part of President Donald Trump’s signature legislative package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a step toward the administration’s goal of gutting the agency.
Overall, members of Congress have steered nearly 24,000 complaints to the CFPB since it opened its doors in 2011. Roughly 10,000 of those were referred by the offices of current and former Republican lawmakers, ProPublica found. “This is how members of Congress from both parties get help for the people who live in their districts,” said Erie Meyer, the CFPB’s former chief technologist, who left the agency in February. The agency has a particular mandate to help service members and seniors, she noted. “This is how, if a service member is getting screwed on an auto loan, this is the only place they can go.”
Yeah banks would like it, it's easy money and if too many people the banks get bailed out again and again.
re: Women in NYC voted for this, should good men risk their lives and freedom to defend them?
Posted by Eurocat on 11/11/25 at 2:06 pm to burger bearcat
A large percent of people on the subways every day are from outside the city or tourists.
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Keep in mind that Staten Island and places like Long Island tend to vote GOP, but work in NYC, and often (not always) take the train in and switch to the subway. Some can walk from Penn Station or Grand Central (not many, but some) and some take busses.
Seeing a woman on a NY subway does not mean she is a "NYC Voter". She could be from Louisiana.
NY Subways serve four million people a day. The odds of something happening to you are not zero, but they are pretty low.
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Newspapers don't do articles with headlines "Four Million people took subway today and 99.9999 percent are perfectly okay".
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Keep in mind that Staten Island and places like Long Island tend to vote GOP, but work in NYC, and often (not always) take the train in and switch to the subway. Some can walk from Penn Station or Grand Central (not many, but some) and some take busses.
Seeing a woman on a NY subway does not mean she is a "NYC Voter". She could be from Louisiana.
NY Subways serve four million people a day. The odds of something happening to you are not zero, but they are pretty low.
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Newspapers don't do articles with headlines "Four Million people took subway today and 99.9999 percent are perfectly okay".
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
I believe I can fly - R Kelly
I believe I can fly - R Kelly
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Tucker Carlson Successfully Argues Nobody Really Believes Tucker Carlson Is Reporting Facts
By Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on August 10, 2021
When Tucker Carlson says on his show “[r]emember the facts of the story; these are undisputed" no reasonable person would believe that he was about to state facts. At least, that was Tucker Carlson's own argument in defending himself from a libel suit.
That argument convinced U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, who dismissed a lawsuit brought by model and actress Karen McDougal. McDougal sued for defamation, alleging Carlson baselessly told his audience she was extorting the President. President Trump allegedly paid $150,000 to help keep quiet a year-long affair with the former Playboy model.
Back in 2018, Tucker Carlson told his viewers that Karen McDougal's claim “sounds like a classic case of extortion." This was part of a broader discussion defending President Trump from accusations that he violated campaign finance laws in spending money to keep affairs with two women quiet. Michael Cohen was convicted on charges related to these events and is currently serving out the remainder of his term in home confinement.
According to Judge Vyskocil, “Fox persuasively argues . . . that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism about the statements he makes." She doesn't stop there, writing that “[w]hether the Court frames Mr. Carlson's statements as exaggeration, non-literal commentary, or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same—the statements are not actionable."
Tucker Carlson Successfully Argues Nobody Really Believes Tucker Carlson Is Reporting Facts
By Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on August 10, 2021
When Tucker Carlson says on his show “[r]emember the facts of the story; these are undisputed" no reasonable person would believe that he was about to state facts. At least, that was Tucker Carlson's own argument in defending himself from a libel suit.
That argument convinced U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, who dismissed a lawsuit brought by model and actress Karen McDougal. McDougal sued for defamation, alleging Carlson baselessly told his audience she was extorting the President. President Trump allegedly paid $150,000 to help keep quiet a year-long affair with the former Playboy model.
Back in 2018, Tucker Carlson told his viewers that Karen McDougal's claim “sounds like a classic case of extortion." This was part of a broader discussion defending President Trump from accusations that he violated campaign finance laws in spending money to keep affairs with two women quiet. Michael Cohen was convicted on charges related to these events and is currently serving out the remainder of his term in home confinement.
According to Judge Vyskocil, “Fox persuasively argues . . . that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism about the statements he makes." She doesn't stop there, writing that “[w]hether the Court frames Mr. Carlson's statements as exaggeration, non-literal commentary, or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same—the statements are not actionable."
re: Tangible Links Uncovered among State Dept, USAID & Soros-backed Color Revolution (Thread)
Posted by Eurocat on 11/9/25 at 11:53 pm to Megasaurus
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drone strikes... actually, better idea..what about a hand picked, special prosecuter with his/her hand picked staff of prosecuters, with a hand picked group of investigators to go after all of these MFer's until everyone of them is in prison?
In prison for what? If you were hired as the special prosecutor, what law would you start with, as the main one broken?
The first three would probably be ruled as states perogatives by SCOTUS, they have ruled similarly before.
re: Had never heard about this Florida risk in cold weather
Posted by Eurocat on 11/9/25 at 12:25 am to beaux duke
Yes, I had read about that.
Clicking on her links, she is a "tradwife" who says she is very conservative and very Christian.
Here are some of her other writings about immigration, Islam, etc.
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Here are some of her other writings about immigration, Islam, etc.
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re: Had never heard about this Florida risk in cold weather
Posted by Eurocat on 11/9/25 at 12:03 am to beaux duke
Oh I don't doubt it, I just had never heard of this malady.
Had never heard about this Florida risk in cold weather
Posted by Eurocat on 11/8/25 at 11:52 pm
Cold Front coming to thee southeast and Floridians will have their unique risk
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Temperatures will drop across country as a cold snap moves first into the central U.S. and then eastward.
A blast of frigid air will plunge into the central U.S. and move eastward over the next few days, potentially breaking records in a notably early cold snap. The most extreme cold will occur around November 10.
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Because severe low temperatures will be concentrated in the Southeast, Floridians will need to beware of a notable regional hazard: cold-shocked iguanas that fall out of trees after losing blood flow, which can begin at temperatures as high as 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). Any such animals should be left alone, experts note, as they might not take kindly to rescue attempts once they warm up again.
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Temperatures will drop across country as a cold snap moves first into the central U.S. and then eastward.
A blast of frigid air will plunge into the central U.S. and move eastward over the next few days, potentially breaking records in a notably early cold snap. The most extreme cold will occur around November 10.
EDIT
Because severe low temperatures will be concentrated in the Southeast, Floridians will need to beware of a notable regional hazard: cold-shocked iguanas that fall out of trees after losing blood flow, which can begin at temperatures as high as 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). Any such animals should be left alone, experts note, as they might not take kindly to rescue attempts once they warm up again.
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