Nothing captures the callous hypocrisy of #MAGA more than destroying the Consumer Protection Agency

It has one job - help American consumers. But even that fig leaf demands too much from the greedy oligarchs.
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Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/trump-administration-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it

Deletion of the bureau’s website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to ‘undermine an agency that’s helped people’

The Guardian

@randahl

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States 👆

...bragging about his ability to smear opponents with nicknames. SMH

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#AmericanClownEmperor

Could the $1.8b insurrection payoff fund simply be a cover to get #TACOTrump immunity from tax crimes?

Could be, as reports indicate he isn't backing down on the immunity from tax investigations
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Trump reportedly mulling retreat from $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/senate-democrats-challenge-trump-slush-fund

Trump reportedly mulling retreat from $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Democrats decry president’s ‘most brazen act of self-dealing yet’ and vow to challenge fund in Congress

The Guardian

JFC, these people are destroying a fully functional monitoring system.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html

Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

The New York Times

@gottalaff.bsky.social

Trump needs his brown shirts to retain power.

This "anti-weaponisation" slush fund is how he cements their loyalty. Pardons were not enough. This is a retainer for future violence

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@hans @randahl

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Since Trump took office (the second time), I've used the hashtag #ThisIsAmericaNow to drive home the point that it is now a pariah state.

The MAGA regime cannot be trusted. It cannot be appeased. It cannot be relied up for any assistance to its allies.

Allies are still too slow to accept this and reorient to a world not build around reliance on the USA

@randahl

I disagree.

This is not confusion across the US administration. It is a deliberate strategy of contradictory messaging so:
- they can claim any position they want at any time
- Trump can flip positions as soon as a better grift comes along
- All lower levels are discredited, and real interactions with the government must be done with Trump (or his key agents) in backroom deals.

It is nothing less than the destruction of functional government and rise of autocracy.
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Buried by the daily chaos machine, we find that Trump directly cost the US government $40 billion.

How? By pulling the USA out of a tax haven crackdown.
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Trump Clears Way for Corporate Tax Dodge Hidden in the Fine Print https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/economy/offshore-tax-havens-trump.html

Trump Clears Way for Companies to Avoid Taxes in Havens Including Malta and Cyprus

U.S. companies skirted at least $40 billion in taxes since the beginning of 2025 thanks to schemes in places like Malta, Bermuda and Cyprus.

The New York Times

@oliviaoftroye

JFC, "scandal and ethical collapse" went out the window in the #GOP 2016 primary (and maybe sooner).

Keep up. It is exactly this win-at-all costs that attracts the bullies, cheaters and conmen that make up the GOP coalition. It is a party that PROMISES to cheat.
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@kali

Trump uses chaos to make himself the focus of attention, seize power and to grift.

Whether he has dementia or not, the next three years will be chaos.
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