The official Thread for Trash/Repug CRAPICATION of America, the planet

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Mulvaney Looks to Weaken Oversight of Military Lending

The Trump administration is planning to suspend routine examinations of lenders for violations of the Military Lending Act, which

was devised to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging, according to internal agency do ents.

intends to scrap the use of so-called supervisory examinations of lenders,

arguing that such proactive oversight is not explicitly laid out in the legislation,

the main consumer measure protecting active-duty service members,

The consumer bureau conducted dozens of investigations into payday and other lenders during the Obama administration without any significant legal opposition, and

no lenders are currently challenging its oversight based on the law,

The agency’s supervisory exams have been critical in uncovering previous instances of wrongdoing and led to several of its biggest fines.

In 2014, the bureau fined one of the largest payday lenders in the country, Ace Cash Express, $10 million after determining

the company, based in Texas,steered low-income borrowers, including those in the military, into a succession of financially damaging high-interest loans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/u...y-lending.html

All y'all rightwingnutjobs, esp the vets, voted for Trash to screw vets, right?

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The Trump administration is dismantling financial protections for the military

Predatory lenders disproportionately target military members. The CFPB will no longer supervise them.

The federal government’s top consumer watchdog has decided it no longer needs to proactively supervise banks, credit card companies, and other lenders

who deal with members of the military and their families to make sure they’re not committing fraud or abuse.

will put service members in the claws of predatory lenders and

put their careers and livelihoods — and potentially US national security — at risk.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ney-cfpb-loans

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‘Not what 9-1-1 was designed for’: Devin Nunes slammed for ‘calling the police’ on protesting cons uents


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/not...e+Raw+Story%29

Thanks, CA rednecks, bubbas, assholes!

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Ben Carson to Gut Anti-Segregation Rule in New Attack on Fair Housing Act



HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced late Monday that he was moving to

roll back the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule (AFFH),

a 2015 regulation the Obama administration passed

to ensure that local governments that receive federal funding combat racial segregation in housing.

The rule was introduced with the intent of making sure communities were observing the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which banned housing discrimination based on race.

Under AFFH, well-off communities that accept federal grants have been pushed to introduce affordable housing to de-concentrate poverty.

Carson has derided the rule as “social engineering” and

claimed on Monday that the rule was “suffocating investment” in distressed neighborhoods.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/be...r-housing-act/

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Without the AFFH in place, communities will be free to shut low-income families out of middle-class areas.
“You’re going back to communities willfully blinding themselves to patterns of segregation,”

Sara Pratt, a former HUD attorney under the Obama administration, told NBC News.

“Without this rule, communities will not do the work to eliminate discrimination and segregation.”

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Corporate crime is being ignored by Trump administration as it focuses on locking up immigrants


Among the reasons the Trump administration gives for these brutal policies is that they are necessary for “restoring law and order” and “making America safe again.”

But the “law and order” the president seeks to “restore,”

does not seem to apply to violations committed by the corporate class,

and the threats that America must be made “safe” from, apparently,

do not include pollution, rip-offs and recklessness that are unleashed by deregulated corporate greed.

Enforcement against corporate criminals and regulatory violations, a new Public Citizen report finds, has dramatically plummeted since Trump took office.

Public Citizen found that in 11 out of 12 agencies led by a Trump administration official for most of 2017,

the dollar amount of penalties imposed on corporate violators dropped, in most cases by more than 50 percent.



At the DOJ,

corporate penalties dropped 90 percent;

at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), penalty amounts against all violators dropped by 94 percent.

Even those who did not expect robust corporate enforcement from President Donald Trump are shocked.

When legendary academic and political dissident Noam Chomsky mentioned the report on Democracy Now!, he said the rollback in corporate enforcement the report revealed was so drastic, it was “almost comical.”

How can we make sense of this law enforcement disparity?

Consider the two categories of people Trump surrounds himself with.

One category is the far-right ideologues,

white nationalists and ultraconservative militants.

It’s the Breitbart and Alex Jones wing of the Republican party.

It includes anti-immigration ideologues like Stephen Miller and his former boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and

recklessly hawkish figures like John Bolton.

It includes infamous but erstwhile advisers like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka.

These are the self-identified “deplorables,” and they seem to take delight in the way they alarm Democrats and moderate conservatives alike.

We have them to thank for this xenophobic and prejudiced “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

The second category is the corporate class,

which consists of billionaires and CEOs.

During Trump’s first year in office alone,

he had triple the number of CEO meetings as Obama had over the course of seven years.

Trump, a corporate executive himself, and the executives and former executives in his immediate circle include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former adviser Carl Icahn, and intimate allies such as Las Vegas Sands’ Sheldon Adelson, Dow Chemical’s Andrew Liveris and Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/cor...e+Raw+Story%29

White MALE supremacist ideologues and the oligarchy, tells Trash was to do, and he caves to swamp monsters like flaccid .

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Trump’s Labor Department Is Expanding Its Imposition of Religious Fundamentalism

The new appointee to the Department of Labor's Wages and Hours Division potentially has influence over its policies regarding family and maternity leave for private employers and government contractors.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) moved

to further cement the imposition of fundamentalist Christian religious beliefs on economic and employment policies

last week through a new directive and an appointment to the federal agency.

So-called religious freedom and natural law advocate Steven Begakis

was on Monday appointed policy adviser to the agency’sWages and Hours Division (WHD), which oversees enforcement of rules regarding family leave, wage theft, and employment discrimination.

The news came just after

DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on Friday announced a directive instructing its staff to “in all their activities … take into account recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and White House executive orders that protect religious freedom,”

The DOL directive imposing religious beliefs sets out new guidelines

for the OFCCP to follow “in anticipation of an addition to the Department’s regulatory agenda followed by rule-making informed by public comment.”

it does task OFCCP auditors with granting companies—including those with no formal religious affiliation—a religious exemption from LGBT discrimination charges, if certain requirements are met.”

“This is an attempt to encourage businesses to take taxpayer dollars and then fire people for being transgender,”

“Religious organizations have ample protections under federal law, but they are not allowed to use federal money to discriminate against people.

The language of this directive is so broad and so vague because it is

part of a long line of attempts by this administration to sow confusion and encourage any employer to act on their worst prejudices.

No employer should be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to fire someone because of who they are.”

https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/...undamentalism/

"religious freedom" is actually Christian Sharia extremism to persecute people for "un Biblical" behaviour.

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Trump's Military 'Parade' to Cost Almost $100 Million: US Department of Defense

The figure includes $50 million from the Pentagon and $42 million from interagency partners.

https://www.alternet.org/trumps-mili...rtment-defense
Repugs so delireiously ed up

Tricky y Nixon:

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US interior secretary's school friend blocking climate research, scientists say

Trump administration forces some scientific funding to be reviewed by adviser who was

high-school football teammate of Ryan Zinke

At the beginning of 2018, interior secretary Ryan Zinke instated a new requirement that

scientific funding above $50,000 must undergo an additional review to ensure expenditures “better align with the administration’s priorities”.

Zinke has signaled that climate change is not one of those priorities:

this week, he told Breitbart News that “environmental terrorist groups” were responsible for the ongoing wildfires in northern California and, ignoring scientific research on the issue, dismissed the role of climate change.

Steve Howke, one of Zinke’s high-school football teammates, oversees this review.

Howke’s highest degree is a bachelor’s in business administration.

Until Zinke appointed him as an interior department senior adviser to the acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget,

Howke had spent his entire career working in credit unions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...scientists-say

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Trump's 'Immoral' Plan to Allow Coal States to Self-Regulate Could Send 365 Million Tons of Carbon Into Atmosphere

"Yet another reminder that this administration values polluter profits over Americans' basic right to clean air."

the president would soon unveil a plan to give several other states the right to self-regulate regarding pollution—but the states in question this time are coal producers, and

Trump's proposal is likely to cause an explosion in emission rates as well as a worsening of the climate crisis.
At a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday, Trump is expected to unveil a plan to allow states to determine whether they'll regulate coal plant emissions, and if so, how.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...?cd-origin=rss

Trash intends to up quality of life to the max as the planet burns up.

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the oligarchy gets their little cheap Trash to pull dirty trick$$$ for them

Trump to Relax Rules for Coal-Fired Plants, Likely Leading to Surge in CO2 Emissions

Trump is set to continue his administration’s methodical effort to dismantle the

Obama

administration’s signature measures to combat climate change, this time by delivering a gift to the coal industry.

to propose a broad nixing of regulations on emissions from coal plants as part of an effort to keep them operating for longer rather than phasing them out.

The new rules would replace the so-called Clean Power Plan for the electricity sector in a move that would

hand more power to the states and could very well lead to a sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

The change in rule that the administration will put forward “is

projected to release at least 12 times the amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

compared with the Obama rule over the next decade,”

the man who leads the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean air office has been key to delivering these proposed changes that favor the companies that employed him when he was in the private sector.

For many environmental experts, the role of William L. Wehrum in loosening requirements that were meant to combat climate change has been key.

“They basically found the most aggressive and knowledgeable fox and said, ‘Here are the keys to the hen house’,”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...emissions.html

"states rights" where slave/red states just LOVE to make money from blacks (stuff).

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Republicans threaten North Carolina Supreme Court: 'Rule how we want, or we'll impeach you'

North Carolina Republicans escalated their assault on democracy to yet another level on Friday when state party executive director

Dallas Woodhouse issued a barely disguised threat to impeach the Democratic justices on the state Supreme Court

if they block the GOP's attempt to put several deceptively worded cons utional amendments on the November ballot,

an effort that’s been widely criticized as a partisan power grab.​

“Rule the way we want or we’ll boot you out of your jobs”—

making no attempt whatsoever to disguise their contempt for the rule of law and judicial independence.

Earlier this year, Pennsylvania Republicans threatened to impeach their state Supreme Court after it struck down the GOP’s congressional gerrymander and replaced it with a fairer map.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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once a slave state ...
Georgia candidates decry plan to close voting sites in mostly black county


A plan to close most polling places in a predominantly black Georgia county ahead of November’s elections is

drawing opposition from the state’s gubernatorial candidates and voting rights activists,

who deem it blatant voter suppression.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/geo...e+Raw+Story%29

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manslaughter: Trash and his oligarchical kakistocracy GUILTY

E.P.A.’s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency’s Numbers Show

The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants, and

the fine print includes an acknowledgment that

the plan would increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400 premature deaths annually.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/c...er=rss&emc=rss

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Trump’s August Assault on Climate Policy


If the proposed rule is finalized,

the U.S. would have weaker fuel-economy standards than the European Union, South Korea, India, Japan, China, and even Saudi Arabia.
On August 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly proposed freezing the fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks that were adopted under President Obama.

On Tuesday, the E.P.A. unveiled the Affordable Clean Energy (A.C.E.) rule, a proposal to neuter Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which was designed to decrease carbon emissions from coal-powered electric plants.

Together, these policies are as abominable as they are unsurprising:

they represent the fossil-fuel industry’s warmest fantasies, and

a fulfillment, more or less, of various Trump promises.https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-august-assault-on-climate-policy?mbid=nl_Daily%20082118&CNDID=43758549&utm_s ource=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dail y%20082118&utm_content=&spMailingID=14103592&spUse rID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1461888749&spReport Id=MTQ2MTg4ODc0OQS2

Trash as the oligarchy's little, cheap , campaigning for dark money donations for 2020.

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Trump’s August Assault on Climate Policy

If the proposed rule is finalized,

the U.S. would have weaker fuel-economy standards than

the European Union,

South Korea,

India,

Japan,

China, and

even Saudi Arabia.

On August 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly proposed freezing the fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks that were adopted under President Obama.

On Tuesday, the E.P.A. unveiled the Affordable Clean Energy (A.C.E.) rule, a proposal to neuter Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which was designed to decrease carbon emissions from coal-powered electric plants.

Together, these policies are as abominable as they are unsurprising:

they represent the fossil-fuel industry’s warmest fantasies, and

a fulfillment, more or less, of various Trump promises.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-august-assault-on-climate-policy?mbid=nl_Daily%20082118&CNDID=43758549&utm_s ource=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dail y%20082118&utm_content=&spMailingID=14103592&spUse rID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1461888749&spReport Id=MTQ2MTg4ODc0OQS2

Trash as the oligarchy's little, cheap , campaigning for dark money donations for 2020.

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A Black and Sooty Mess





President Trump tosses a tangled lifeline to the declining coal industry.

It will lead to more deaths,

it won’t help workers and

it will make global warming worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/o...er=rss&emc=rss

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Devos, white she-devil, implementing Biblical hate, Christian Sharia, white supremacy

Education Department fails to report thousands of racial discrimination complaints in schools

Students in American schools are increasingly reporting more incidents of racial discrimination, yet the Department of Education is underreporting their complaints

more than 2,000 allegations of race-based discrimination in schools were excluded from the department’s annual reports.

under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ leadership, the department is now cutting back the OCR’s work.

During the Obama administration, the office increased its enforcement of civil rights laws in schools.

The Trump administration is doing just the opposite.

DeVos has already rescinded protection for transgender students and

is trying to reduce the number of complaints that OCR will consider.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1790093

[FrostKing]

Yet the left claims to not be anti-White

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Trump Asks Sessions to ‘Look Into Corruption’ of His Political Foes: ‘Come On Jeff, You Can Do It’

the Commander in Chief turned his ire to the embattled Sesssions, ostensibly asking why the Department of Justice hasn’t been looking into what Trump sees as coordinated political attacks he’s received.

Trump tweeted the two-parter:

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

“Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”

Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the “other side”

including

deleted Emails,

Comey lies & leaks,

Mueller conflicts,

McCabe,

Strzok,

Page,

Ohr......

5:17 AM - Aug 24, 2018

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Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

....FISA abuse,

Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier,

the Clinton Foundation,

illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign,

Russian collusion by Dems -

and so much more.

Open up the papers & do ents without redaction?

Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!

5:28 AM - Aug 24, 2018

UPDATE: Trump wasn’t done tweeting vitriol towards his sitting AG, adding:

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over “classified” information.

Gee, this is “small potatoes” compared to what Hillary Clinton did!

So unfair Jeff, Double Standard.

6:10 AM - Aug 24, 2018

https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-appeals-to-sessions-to-investigate-political-rivals-come-on-jeff-you-can-do-it/

a whataboutism NOT written by Trash.

PVL non-indicted-co-conspirator illegit so-called Pres Trash telling the (personal legal dept) DoJ to go after Trash's political enemies.

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Lindsey Graham: ‘Very Likely’ Donald Trump Will Replace Jeff Sessions

But hiring a new attorney general before the midterm elections would be a “non-starter,” the senator said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__082418

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Education Dept. Proposals On Guns In Schools Sparks Outcry

The Education Department says it is weighing whether to allow states to use federal funds to purchase guns for schools, prompting a storm of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and educators.

the agency is reviewing legislation governing federal academic enrichment grants

to see if the money can be used to buy firearms.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eduation-department-proposals-on-guns-in-schools-prompt-outcry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_c ampaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Repugs deny health to non-whites, but want to pay for guns in schools.

DoE: student rape, OK.

LGBT and racist harassment: OK

Predatory college loans scams: OK

For-profit rip-off fraudulent so-called colleges: OK

Repugs lowering the threshold for acceptable insanity in MISgovernance.

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Pesticide Studies Won E.P.A.’s Trust, Until Trump’s Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’

Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation.

Trump administration wants to restrict how human studies like Chamacos are used in rule-making. A government proposal this year, called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, could stop them from being used to justify regulating pesticides, lead and pollutants like soot, and undermine foundational research behind national air-quality rules. The E.P.A., which has funded these kinds of studies, is now labeling many of them “secret science.”

But weeks after Donald J. Trump was elected president, CropLife America, the main agrochemical trade group, pe ioned the E.P.A. to “halt regulatory decisions that are highly influenced and/or determined by the results of epidemiological studies” unless universities were forced to share more of their data.

“It is a naked attempt to use a false claim that something nefarious is going on with these studies in an effort to allow industry to challenge conclusions that are not in their favor,”

“There is a breadth of information available on the potential adverse neurodevelopmental effects in infants and children as a result of prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos,” the agency concluded in 2016,

The pesticide industry’s reaction was loud and intense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/b...er=rss&emc=rss

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Is this Pootin-toy Repug an outlier, or is he out loud with what other Repugs and Repug supporters want?

California Republican says Justice Department should bow to Trump's will, endorses 'loyalty test'



Dana Rohrabacher, the embattled Orange County congressman known for his close ties to the Kremlin, said Friday that

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should resign after showing disloyalty to President Trump by refusing to shut down the Russia investigation.

“The fact that Jeff Sessions has not quit is a disloyalty to this president and to the country,”

Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) told Fox Business Network.

“The fact is, if he disagrees with what the president wants him to do, he should resign.”

With no one to enforce the laws Trump may have broken, and no punishment for any crimes he may have committed, this President would then assume dictatorial powers.

That is what Rohrabacher apparently has endorsed.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...s-loyalty-test

What Rohrbacher wants for JeBo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIJIXMX2zw8

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TX Repugs want to screw their rural base

Texas proposal to close 87 driver license offices would leave 78 counties without centers

There are reports of ridiculously long waits up to 8 hours at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) centers—many of which include hours of waiting in the sun during hot temperatures.

closing 87 centers as a way to close smaller offices and push more people to the megacenters (which are already claiming eight-hour wait times).

A vast majority of the centers proposed to close are the only centers in their county, which would lead to longer travel times.

“We have been told the dollar savings from the closing of the 87 offices would amount to approximately $760,000. However, the wasted dollars and inefficiencies suffered by the citizens of these rural counties will in the long run exceed these savings,”

“Additionally, most rural citizens already drive many miles from home to their county office to receive those services. By closing these offices, it would mean these

citizens would have to travel several counties away to receive services.”

The state already has one of the most strict voter ID laws in the country and adding miles (and time) to someone’s trip for identification will inevitably be a barrier for some.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/24/1790690/-Texas-proposal-to-close-87-driver-license-offices-would-leave-78-counties-without-centers?detail=emaildkre

Is this a backhanded voter suppression tactic?