And the Proton CEO said Republicans are the ones looking out for the little guy. Hey Andy Yen, feeling like a hypocritical asshole yet?
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He can't hear you over the sound of him being rich
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Guess why my bank thought it was okay as of today to charge me 5.95 overdraft my account for billpay fee, when I have never used billpay and don't have it setup. But they will charge me a 35 dollar overdraft fee on it. Got wait until Monday and agrue that they should remove it.
Had this account for 10 plus years and just last two weeks they pulled similar stunt. First was changing me 5.99 for a monthly mataince fee. They claim that was normal but never gotten it before in 10 years. They remove that. But now they pull this. Probably because now can't file a complaint to the CFEB.
If possible get with a Credit Union. Banks are the work of the devil.
Credit Union have never let have a checking account. So not option for me.
Thats odd, Ive never heard of a Credit Union that Doesnt have checking.
Didn't say they didn't have that. Saying I been denied a checking they will only offer me a savings which is useless to me.
Oh Okay, Im sorry to hear that :(
Top 10 reasons I self hosted my email instead of going with a provider when degoogling
Who needs consumer protection when the prices of groceries are so low now...
So now America is great again? Can you feel it?
I'm sure Trump will let Elonazi pick a well qualified highschool graduate run it.
Trump doesn't care about grocery prices. That's what the people want. He only cares about stock prices because that's what the elite he surrounded himself with want.
If he only cares about stock prices then next week he's in for a big disappointment.
This was one of the best things being done for the American people, and the broligarchs want the entire department gone.
So… he’s flat-out proving in broad daylight that he has no intention to serve America in any capacity. There’s no subtlety, no pageantry, no pretending….
He is in office for the sole purpose to entrench himself within the protections afforded a president- and nothing else.
And the fact that he is doing this isn’t what’s surprising or even unexpected. We knew this was going to happen. No, what’s surprise is how he’s not even bothering to hide it-
As if he knew ahead of all this- that there’s nothing anyone will do about it.
Something a LOT more than what we’re seeing stinks here….
Why bother hiding it? His base isn’t looking and if they do see it they won’t blame him. Absolutely zero incentive to be discrete.
I thought for sure he’d be more subtle about it. Or at least ease into the truly disgusting policy he has planned.
But yeah. Good point.
He never has been before, why start now? He is famously not able to be secretive and even leaks top-secret to non-allied governments just so he can brag. I really, truly, don’t understand how you expected subtly from the “dictator on day 1” guy.
It’s not that I necessarily expected subtlety in the way you’re thinking. It’s that I guess I expected things to ease into his planned dictatorship. When he was elected in 2016, as I recall, he didn’t hit the ground running with his Nazi shit. He was more covert. Dog whistly…
But I guess now that he’s essentially neutered any opposition, there’s no restoration for him to wade us towards the deep end.
I mean, he literally promises it and in the end, does it matter if he does it right away or in a few months? That worthless country handed the worst person with the craziest revenge fantasies an insane amount of power and essentially begged him to go hog wild. All he has done in the last for years is scream more and more about how much damage he wants to do, how fast he wants to do it, and how little he cares about doing it cleanly.
I’m not trying to make you feel bad but, like, maybe believe people when they literally promise to be monsters. The U.S. is full of a lot of people, including even a bunch of dipshit conservatives, feeling regret because the obvious happened and frankly I have very little sympathy. “Who could have seen this comi-“ everyone; fucking everyone saw it coming it was right there with bright lights and blaring alarm bells.
I knew he would do this shit. It’s not about disbelief. It’s about how blatantly brazen he is about doing it in the wide open.
Again, there were literally no signs saying that he’d be discrete, zero, and a million pointing to him being crude, overt, and aggressive in how he approached this term. The republicans have never been much to care and Trump and this entire era of that party as defined by him have made themselves so distinct because they say the quiet parts out loud. It’s the whole brand.
I do not know why you expected any different. The very small part of me that hoped it would happen differently, that thought that maybe the rest of the party would help contain him, did so because it didn’t want to fall further into the despair that is a world where the U.S. accelerates its efforts to be a fucking blight on the world.
At this point, I honestly don’t think you understand what it is I’m trying to say here and I can’t explain it any better than I have.
I didn’t expect a different outcome. I don’t know how to be more clear about this. I just expected a different method of execution.
And since you’re not getting it- this is me admitting I was wrong in my assumption. But for some reason, you felt the need to illustrate that I was wrong in thinking he’d be more subtle? After I said I was wrong in thinking he’d be more subtle?
Seriously… I don’t get the motive here.
I’ve been very clear that I’m talking exactly about, and I’ll separate it so you can understand:
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You assumption that the execution would be cleaner and/or more gentle, and
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That I know you’re admitting you’re wrong but I’m just wholly surprised at how you even got to that wrong answer in the first place.
I’m not being tricky with my words, but the U.S. is largely nearly illiterate so maybe that’s part of it. The motive at first was just the second point wondering how you even thought it’d be vaguely ok at any point and how you missed all the signs.
this was a good example of the many things I liked about the biden administration and why I have said on multiple occasions that he was the best president of my lifetime. So as crazy as this is for all of you realize for me the worst was chosen over the best.
Finally I can pay with my first born for a event ticket! Get out of my government, ticket master here I come!
I'm surprised he hasn't shut it down yet. But maybe he is planning to appoint Mark Zuckerberg to head it or something
Oh no not the CFPB
The cfpb is actually good