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CONSTITIONAL CRISES GALORE

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reports that when Judge Kelly questioned CFPB Acting Director English’s lawyer, Deepak Gupta, about whether the interim nature of Imposter Mulvaney’s appointment lessened its illegality, “Gupta argued that compounds the problem because it ‘circumvents the … Continue reading

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I’VE ASKED MYSELF MANY TIMES

how the corporate-owned print media could possibly think it would attract readers with banal, homogenized, cookie-cutter content, but what Atcheson makes clear is that the ownership of course is not interested in quality but rather the political possibilities in consolidation. … Continue reading

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OUR ENEMIES WITHIN

Are the right-wing plutocratics who hatched a slow-acting coup as a backlash against democracy and the gains for social justice achieved during the 1960s. As John Atcheson timelines at Common Dreams, the coup was designed “to completely change the cultural … Continue reading

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OH, I GET IT

Trump is really exempting Fox from his poll because he wants to know which is the SECOND fakest news source.

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A NEW STRING TO THE KOCHS’ BOW

Heaven help us — they’re now investing in media as part of their grand scheme to overthrow American demoocracy.

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THIMBLE RIGGING FROM TRUMP

He wants a FAKE NEWS contest in which Fox is exempted — but Fox is just about the fakest of them all. But it’s good at licking his boots. The President grows more demented by the day.

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THE “MAINSTREAM” MEDIA WON’T GET REAL

Their calling Mick Mulvaney a “fiscal hawk” is like calling Steve Bannon a “populist.” Like a pirhana, Mulvaney goes after any spending that benefits working Americans. That’s when he chomps his vicious little jaws. Otherwise, he’s fine with the military-industrial … Continue reading

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ELIZABETH WARREN BETTER PUT ON HER COMBAT BOOTS

and take a posse down to the CFPB on Monday to ensure that, as mandated by law, the Deputy Director becomes Acting Director and the GOP does not get to do a replay of its theft of the Supreme Court … Continue reading

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TRUMP NEVER HAD A POPULIST AGENDA

As evidenced by every step he’s taken, mostly likely his grotesque tweeting that the poor, pitiful financial institutions need to be protected from the CFPB. Trump and the GOP Establishment’s agenda are perfectly in sync, and so, Steve Bannon, there … Continue reading

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ANTI-AMERICAN ZEALOT MICK MULVANEY

He is indeed a sad, sick joke. Btw, that’s the way Mulvaney characterized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that he will now lead if Trump has his way. Vulpine Mulvaney hates anything that prevents the American people from being exploited. … Continue reading

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