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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

get fucked, asswipe.

an act of congress created the agency. it needs an act of congress to eliminate it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 14 points 16 hours ago

lol welp. We’re seeing exactly how much that “rule” is worth right now. And unfortunately, it’s demonstrably worth less than the paper it’s written on.

This is a constitutional crisis, and a coup as well; it’s just that neither Congress or the SC is going to lift a fucking finger to do anything about it. Which is par for the course, if I’m honest.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Michael "Up Trump's Ass" Johnson: "Well you see it's not our job to question the president"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

It takes an act of Congress to eliminate it, but apparently a rogue President can make them sit on their hands and be useless.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, if it was going to be this simple there's no way the CFPB would have survived Trump's first term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What can congress even do to stop him? Let's say they even impeached and convicted him, who would have the courage and power to remove him from office at this point? It's a pretty fucked up situation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can do a lot. Do you remember the last twenty years under Democrat presidents? Republicans obstructed tons of things successfully, even when they were in the minority.

It's a question of planning and willpower. Of course there are no perfect solutions, so don't ask for those.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 16 hours ago

Well, yeah, but Democratic leadership is going to be too concerned about moving towards the center to pick up non-existent swing voters. They don’t want to be tOo diViSiVE (heavens forbid).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Awww you think law is relevant to Trump

[–] TacoButtPlug 2 points 1 day ago