FEDIT POLITICS Thread

Trump Presidential proclamation, March 6: National Consumer Protection Week

March 5 through March 11, 2017 was National Consumer Protection Week, Trump proclaimed, which "reminds us of the importance of empowering consumers by helping them to more capably identify and report cyber scams, monitor their online privacy and security, and make well-informed decisions."

... and Trump behind the drapes giggled "just like WE did when we shut down that pesky CFPB." Queue Alec Baldwin voiceover "I know I know WHILE we shut down the CFPB and pull all of their budget away, let make 'that' very week National Consumer Protection Weak" What a great idea. I did spell that right didn't I? It'll be yuge!"

 

Executive Order, February 28: Reviewing the 'Waters of the United States' rule

Requests actions for EPA and Army to notify the Fed which waterways do not need to be clean for drinking water

New EPA site shows
https://www.epa.gov/cleanwaterrule/why-clean-water-rules

which clearly indicates that profits come before clean water even if over 33% of Americans count on rivers for clean water. Yet another false Trump duality that his witless minions cannot defend. Clean water? I buy mine in bottles, doesn't everyone?

 

There are so many more but following the request I've started with listing these few abysmal dangerous ideas

 

And now a lighter note about corporate fraud

Bumble Bee agrees to plead guilty in tuna price fixing scheme

Tuna giant Bumble Bee is on the hook for bilking customers.
The company has agreed to plead guilty for its role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of cans and pouches of tuna in the U.S., the Justice Department announced on Monday.

Bumble Bee will also pay a $25 million criminal fine.

"[We] will continue to hold these companies and their executives accountable for conduct that targeted a staple in American households," Andrew Finch, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said in a statement.
In a felony charge filed in U.S. District Court, Justice Department prosecutors say Bumble Bee and its co-conspirators agreed to "fix, raise, and maintain prices of packaged seafood" between 2011 and 2013, after conversations and meetings with representatives of other major packaged seafood firms.

Bumble Bee said it takes the matter "very seriously" and has fully cooperated with the DOJ throughout the investigation.

"We accept full responsibility for needing to earn back any lost trust in our Company and will do so by acting with integrity and transparency in every way we operate our business," Bumble Bee General Counsel Jill Irvin said in a statement.
Irvin said the company hired a chief compliance officer last fall, and has since revised its internal policies.

It's not clear how much federal officials believe the company overcharged customers.

Bumble Bee's senior vice president of sales agreed to plead guilty for his role in the conspiracy in December, as did the senior vice president of trade marketing. Both remain on paid leave.

Limited competition in the seafood industry has been an ongoing issue. Thai Union Group, which owns Chicken of the Sea, dropped plans to buy Bumble Bee in 2015 after the Justice Department expressed concerns



Because this is how we punish crooked excutives once they are caught, we let them keep earning full pay but now they don't even have to work at all.

I Love this country Thank you Yakof Smirnoff

 

Listening to Newt and other old white GOP bogeymen bagging on all thing Bill Maher for his crude comments about Ivanka Trump. Damn do they ALL have their heads up their asses.

First, and most pertinently, the media has always left the first family alone, regardless. Regardless. They all could show some restraint. Including Bill who I generally like but still...

Second, it isn't about what language he used as much as its context. Petty or clever or boorish is irrevelent. It was intended as comedic, where it failed as well. Nobody picks on first family, and especially daughters. Did anyone roast Chelsea Clinton, beside about her haggard looks? OK the Press is mostly liberal and the Dems are libtards so of course they wouldn't pick on her, nor the two Obama girls. Well except for the shot of Malia toking leaf at a concert. But hell if you didn't toke at a concert then I'm not sure I believe you were there. So a bit a press spotlight there is OK. Barry was a fucking hypocrite on that topic anyways and we all know it.

Third, its ALL bullshit that they are using her as a proxy for the enraged anger they have for her bloviating father. Admitted she's a far more articulate speaker than he. She's nicer than he. Far better to ogle, though he does maintain a certain 'curiousity' factor. She might actually be about as much racist as he. Definitely just as entitled as he. Just as prissy. All of this pisses the Press off so much that they've abandoned all premise of objectivity. Scratch that, what objectivity? LOL yeah but still. I expect that she is going to endure, grow from and shine unlike her father after this term is done. She has plenty of mettle and doesn't need much polish. I dunno if she's savvy enough but expect her taking better shots at the press than ole' Blowhard does.

Fourth, this pisses me off, THIS WAS ALL BROUGHT ON BY DONALDS OWN COMMENTS. Doesn't anyone else recall all of his slanted comments "if I wasn't married I'd hit that", while campaigning? He openly lusts for his daughter in a sicko pervy way in private and public and America watched it and voted for him anyways. Too late to complain now ya sicko's.

That is how bad Hillary appeared. Was. Is.


So if Donald can lust after Ivanka openly in the press, and on his tour, then why can't Maher notice/observe and make 'Putin's favorite cocksucker' jokes about her?

Because she's still First Family and it's disgusting on all sides.





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So its just a matter of offense and defense then?


I mean I don't want to sound defensive but that's a positively offensive thing to say.



I'm proud of you

 

Hey Cap..curious..any chance you're a southpaw?

 

Umm why??

 

Sounds like you're locking and loading for a battle...at least a heated skirmish.
I guess never mind...I withdraw my question. Only a joke.
What does it matter in the end whether a person throws righty or lefty.

 

.......or if he can last more than five innings (no homo).

 

My enjoyment of Politics includes roasting BOTH sides when I witness corruption or depravity
and in this day and age there is plenty of fodder to go around

I'm not loaded for bear as much as my good buddy Diablo mentioned on a call the other day that he'd not heard of some of these Trump executive orders so I sifted through to share a few of the juicier ones. None of these matter an iota because Trump is still the prez so it is what it is. My goal is to have future political discussions with humor rather than rancor, and how can one NOT laugh at Trump's ego? or his hair? or his repeated stupidity?

And yes sir, I'm the Irish eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son... and all are lefties.
does that at all matter to ones general inclination towards agitation? It most certainly does we agree.
Good thing there are other Irish around these parts.

 

I laugh at his ego too, but I think his hair is awesome.
To each his own.
I don't really know what you mean by it's a good thing there other Irish around.... I hope you ddn't think I was down on the Irish...(?)...would be pretty ridiculous since my grandmother's surname was Carey.

 

You like the spectacle that is his hair? LOL. It's a comedy I'll give you that. To each..

Yeah looking around, there's quite a number of irishmen frequenting DSP threads besides @irish
so it's no wonder about the general DSP combativeness in that light


To your point I don't know how many other DSP irishmen are southpaws though.

 

If there's ONE natural American monument you'd think Donald Trump would leave alone, it's Grand Canyon-Parashant.

Wrong again. On Friday, Trump's Interior Department added Grand Canyon-Parashant to the list of natural treasures "under review" and subject to declassification as national monuments.

Why? Because they want to open it up to radioactive uranium mining and other destructive activities.

This move is nothing short of horrific. Removing critical protections for this region would open the watershed to toxic uranium mining, putting water sources, wildlife, and communities at risk of radiation contamination.




Really? the gawd damned Grand Canyon too?? "Added to the list"

Craven disgusting Moron.

 

gotta love the same democrats that were screaming for him to go suddenly are outraged and equating his firing to watergate LMFAO