Dark_Cloud_Overhead

i think we all already know the answer. I think ethics is such a foreign word to Trump and Musk that this agency's existence didn't even register with them until Schiff brought it to their attention.

Yep, the message is crystal clear at this point. It's perfectly okay to be a criminal as long as you bend the knee and promise to serve the criminal-in-chief. Going right along with this is his pardoning of Blago today. I wouldn't be surprised if he pardoned Harvey Weinstein at this point.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292123/the-trump-administration-has-stopped-work-at-the-cfpb-heres-what-the-agency-does It implements U.S. consumer finance laws and issues new rules for lenders and other financial institutions, such as one announced last year to wipe medical debt from credit reports. The CFPB also goes after companies it suspects of dishonest or illegal activity. "At its core, it's a law enforcement agency," Rohit Chopra, the former director of the CFPB appointed by President Biden, told NPR on Monday. "It takes big financial institutions to court who cheat consumers, whether it's a credit reporting agency or a large bank or a credit card giant." But who needs any of that I guess, so yeah, now they're shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You know the one created after the 2008 bank system collapse in order to stop something like that from ever happening again. So yay for unchecked, rampant greed and making Americans broke again.

I kind of felt like with the last part of season 2 of Doom Patrol it was getting a bit more serious and not so wackadoodle actually... and then I got to season 3. Yeah, and so much for that thought. Just full-blown, non-stop crazy town now, and there's still one last season. It couldn't possibly get any more out there though. Could it?

Buy it from f'ing whom? It is the Palestinian people's land, and they do not want to give it up, especially not to the U.S. or Israel who bombed the hell out of the place in the first place, which is the whole reason it needs to be rebuilt now. Blowing the place up and then using that as an excuse to steal the people's territory... Are we just supposed to be full on gangster's now? I mean, I know this shit is just a distraction, but it still pisses me off with how nonchalantly he's trying to pass off what's essentially being a part of a genocide as nothing more than a real estate deal.

I like dog-ee, as in doggie doo doo. Cuz that's what it is to me.

Close, but no cigar, Gohan.

Stupid Bulma, building a translator for a frog. Show's how lonely she is. LOL

Yeah, kind of ridiculous actually. That and his ability to control seemingly hundreds of people at once from a tremendous distance. Only explanation I can think of for that one is if when his strings attach to someone they also attach him to their senses somehow. Even then, splitting his focus so many ways should be basically impossible, but so many other things in the show are too, so what's one more I guess.

Geez, 6 months?! He was at it for that long, and they all reacted the same damn way. What assholes, all of them. Guess they don't have the hippocratic oath in that world.

Baby 5, yeah he needs you. Needs you for your wallet. LOL

Tears of a Clown? I love that song. What exactly makes this guy a clown anyway? Just that he's got some face makeup on?

"So no party?" LOL Is it really the finale next week? This season went by too fast.

Kay. Best just hope none of the kids in your neighborhood get the sudden urge to have a snowball fight.

I hate to say it, but I kind of actually agree with him for once on this one. I've tried drinking through a paper straw before and it's just yuck. When I'm having my iced matcha, I want it to taste like matcha, not an old newspaper. He needs to stop with the executive orders already, seriously. It's beyond ridiculous at this point.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/05/eggs-stolden-pennsylvania/78244304007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Okay, fess up. Which one of you did it. Whoever it is, all I got to say is they must really like their eggs poached.

Been listening and thinking about what Musk is really after in getting access to the payment system, and the thing that I've heard that makes the most sense to me is kind of the most obvious I think. He's looking to monetize it, but not by doing something as obviously illegal as messing with people's bank accounts or anything like that. I think that idea is pretty farfetched. Not so much that it would be impossible for him to do it necessarily, but just it would make no sense that he would ever try something like that when there's a much more attractive and safer alternative for him. Just the data itself is worth its weight in gold. Okay, so it doesn't have any actual weight cuz it's data, but you know what I mean. https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/blog-what-will-elon-musk-and-his-tech-bros-do-with-your-personal-data/ Since Musk acquired X, he has promoted turning the social media platform into a financial services “everything app” including banking services and virtual payment platform that would encompass your “entire financial life.” This business model is not unlike the massive and dominant financial services payment apps in China like WeChat and AliPay that blur the lines between banking and commerce. Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra, whom Trump fired on Saturday, has warned that these apps have become state surveillance tools that closely monitor the lives of Chinese people. Musk has developed this plan for years, acquiring money service transmitter licenses in multiple states. And, just a week a ago, X signed a deal to partner with Visa to provide peer-to-peer payments for tasks like splitting bills with friends or buying a coffee by connecting to people’s debit cards and bank accounts, which represents the first step in actually creating Musk’s long-sought, Chinese-inspired platform. And what might give Musk’s newly muscular social media-payments platform a critical edge in a market filled with other powerful banks and financial services companies? Well, access to the federal payment data and sensitive personal information of tens of millions of Americans just might do the trick. Combining that data with what X already extracts and Musk’s Starlink satellite internet usage data would then create a powerful, textured, database of private information on all of us. They've been trying to assuage people's fears saying he was only give read-only access, but that's all he really needs. He is the exact type of person this information is supposed to be kept away from at all costs and why all this really should be scaring the shit out of people. With every story the last couple weeks, I keep hearing one thing echoing over an over again in my mind: "Big Brother is watching you." Trump may be something of a buffoon, who's mostly just concerned with always being the center of attention, but he's the perfect smokescreen for a guy like Musk whose ambitions appear far grander and much more dangerous. He is exactly the type of would-be tyrant Orwell was warning us about.

Just two questions... Who's working on building the Snowpiercer, and how soon can I get my ticket for it?

C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees "The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force." Incompetence at its finest. They had no way of apparently sending the list in a classified manner to the office of personal management, so they had no recourse but to do it this way in order to comply with Trump's executive order. Geez louise. What insanity.

Guy's just a gutless wonder. Love's swinging his big tariff club around, making a big show of what a tough guy he is, but the second shit gets real he looks for nearest exit. Mexico and Canada repositioning some troops inside their country is nothing but an empty gesture that lets him save face. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/us-canada-trade-fentanyl-fact-check/index.html If this was really about drugs or illegal border crossings he wouldn't be lumping Canada into this anyway.

Better watch out if you try that. I don't think he's been potty trained.

They're both just playing patty cake at this point. Crazy.

If feeling sorry for yourself was a sport, Bulma would be the undisputed champion.

He speaks? Cuz of the D name. What is with the D name? Apparently it doesn't mix well with Celestial Dragons it would seem. Can't think of why else he would bring it up. Man I want double One Piece back so bad!