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The 1973 Office of Legal counsel's opinion prohibiting prosecuting presidents...

There was never a court ruling, nor a law passed, just this bare-naked opinion from a biased white house office staff.

We need to reject that opinion. Cancel it out permanently.

Crime is crime whoever does it and this is supposed to be a nation of laws, not men.

11 Comments
2024/11/30
22:23 UTC

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It seems the story line of "Wicked" is filled with current politics

Can anyone (who has seen it) deny it? Painfully obvious and deliberately so.

6 Comments
2024/11/30
22:06 UTC

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Good afternoon, I am not an attorney. So I’m asking those of you that are, is there anything we citizens can do, individually or collectively, to force a recount of the general election; or to do something about the seeming complete abandonment of the constitution and structure of governance? TIA

6 Comments
2024/11/30
20:14 UTC

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The Insane Have Taken Over the Asylum

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2024/11/30
17:47 UTC

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Will it really surprise anyone that Trump is following one of the precepts of Project 2025 and siccing his bulldog, Musk, on the Consumer Protection Bureau?

Look at the title, Consumer Protection Bureau.!

The mandate of a Consumer Protection Bureau typically centers on ensuring the rights and interests of consumers are safeguarded. While specific roles and responsibilities can vary by state or jurisdiction, the core mandate generally includes the following:

  1. Protecting Consumer Rights

Ensure consumers have access to safe products and services.

Protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices.

Safeguard privacy and data security for consumers.

  1. Promoting Fair Trade Practices

Encourage fair competition among businesses.

Monitor and address monopolistic practices or anti-competitive behavior.

Ensure transparency in advertising, labeling, and product information.

  1. Ensuring Product and Service Safety

Establish and enforce safety standards for products and services.

Conduct inspections, audits, and investigations into safety violations.

Issue recalls or bans on unsafe products.

  1. Educating and Empowering Consumers

Provide information on consumer rights and responsibilities.

Offer resources to help consumers make informed decisions.

Conduct awareness campaigns about fraud and scams.

  1. Handling Consumer Complaints

Create mechanisms for consumers to report complaints about products, services, or businesses.

Mediate disputes between consumers and businesses.

Provide legal or administrative recourse for consumer grievances.

  1. Regulating and Monitoring Markets

Enforce compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations.

Monitor marketplace trends to address emerging consumer issues.

Collaborate with other agencies and organizations to ensure market fairness.

  1. Promoting Sustainability and Ethical Practices

Encourage businesses to adopt ethical and environmentally sustainable practices.

Advocate for corporate responsibility in production and service delivery.

These responsibilities are often carried out through legislation, regulation, enforcement, and partnerships with other governmental and non-governmental organizations. In the U.S., for example, agencies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are key entities tasked with protecting consumers.

It isn't bad enough Trump will lower taxes on the already obscenely wealthy individuals and corporations, but now will use the power of the Federal Government to attack the same citizens whose taxes support it.

And I'm certain the fact that the agency is fighting Musk who wants to open his own financial services scam, has nothing to do with this menace to the common man.

Read the story:

© The Daily Caller

Elon Musk took to social media Wednesday to demand the shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Musk is spearheading President-elect Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce the size of the federal government. In a post on X, previously known as Twitter, Musk said that the CFPB should be dismantled and claimed that the regulatory agency overseeing potential future payment operations for Musk’s X platform is redundant.

While Trump has advocated for reduced financial industry regulations throughout his campaign, he has not specifically demanded the closure of the CFPB, Politico reported. Although Trump has distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which advises shutting down the CFPB, his administration is expected to curb the agency’s regulatory scope and soften enforcement against corporations, as previously seen during his first term.

The Supreme Court turned down a lawsuit in May that might have led to the shutdown of the CFPB. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, declared it legal for the CFPB to get its money directly from the Federal Reserve rather than through Congress, disappointing the business groups that challenged this funding method.

This controversy surfaced shortly after the CFPB enacted a rule to broaden its oversight over major tech firms offering payment and digital wallet services, potentially affecting X, which is venturing into the payments realm, Politico said. Musk has expressed his ambition for X to evolve into an “everything app,” including financial transactions.

“We’re rapidly transforming the company from what it was, Twitter 1.0, to the everything app,” Musk said during an internal X meeting in Oct. 2023.

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Project 2025 is a rat's nest of conspiracy against America.

2 Comments
2024/11/30
16:10 UTC

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A new thug in town.

Obviously, this guy never read "How to Win friends and influence People".

This guy, Homan, a prime contributor to Trump's Project 2025 initiative and Fox News talking head, thinks like all schoolyard bullies do, that because he has a little power, he has ultimate power.

Not yet confirmed, Tom Holman is already threatening every state in the union that it 'will be his way, or the highway, and if they don't comply with his radical-right agenda he will personally cut off all federal funds to those who won't knuckle down to his extremist demands.

Hundreds of millions of Americans, Republican, Democrat, or Independent depend on these monies to fund Health care services, education, social services, infrastructure, and public safety, to name but a few., and this pipsqueak zealot who wouldn't dare open his mouth if he didn't have a neighborhood bully (Trump) to back him up, thinks he can intimidate the rest of society.

This is Maga at its worst, and Project 2025 at its worst. First, they are trying to menace the US Congress, and now every citizen in the union.

Look at this:

The Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘border czar’ nominee Tom Homan promised to slash federal funding to states who don’t work with his new immigration policies while admitting he has received death threats.

Homan appeared on Mark Levin’s show, Life, Liberty and Levin, on Sunday for an interview discussing the “border crisis.”

Levin, a Trump supporter, told Homan he has a “powerful weapon” to use against governors–notably from sanctuary cities–who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administrations plans. “If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate'...then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party,” Levin said.

Homan replied in the positive. “And that’s going to happen, Guaranteed, President Trump is going to do that,” he said.

Homan then claimed he was “being attacked” and that his family had been forced to move out of his home. “This administration has turned this world upside down, so now I’m being attacked,” Homan said. “I got death threats, my family’s not even living in my home right now,” he continued, without adding further context.

“You can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump,” Homan said.

Last week, Homan warned Democratic governors who pushed back on Fox and Friends, to “get the hell out of the way” and “don’t cross that line.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-border-czar-makes-big-promise-if-states-don-t-cooperate/ar-AA1uGPTF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=87d7f4e44a5e456a89dcc9ca64c8d8a3&ei=59

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2024/11/30
12:40 UTC

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