With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told Musk Watch.
Right in front of our eyes. How the f did we get here? This must be stopped. Please someone smart step up and stop this invasion by White Christian Nationalists.
I live in a state that has historically gone to the Democrats for the general elections, at least the last three I’m pretty sure both Obama’s as well I just didn’t live here for that.
We have a republican trifecta in state government right now, you should see the house bills they are pouring in that are all project 2025. We have successfully smacked a few of them down simply by logging onto the house committee website to make public comment in opposition.
They have one that’s being heard today that was seeking to eliminate a whole bunch of classes from what is considered adequate education in public school. Those classes were stuff like art and music but also civics and personal finance.
All it took was a couple people posting about it online with instructions on how to oppose it online, 23,000 people opposed this new bill. Something like 84 people supported it
Even if the sponsor withdraws it I think the Senate can still vote on it, but if they pass it that will be insane. 23,000 people objected and this was just us of last week. There’s probably more today since public comment can be made until 11:59 PM tonight.
Anyway my point to this long story is that it’s really important that everyone pay attention to what is happening in their state unless they have a democrat controlled state government.
Please don’t get so distracted by President Musk that you aren’t paying attention to what they are doing in your state. Once they pass these laws it’s going to be real hard to get rid of them, it’s a lot easier to prevent them from happening.
Right on! Stay active and push back. Sorry you live in a shitty state. My county in a blue state went red this year. I put my house up for sale the day after the election and I am going into the deep deep blue.
But if you leave, it will only make your county and state redder. Stay where you are, vote next election and flip your county back. Fight don't flee! 🙂
Oh I’m so sorry that happened! Yeah it’s bad here, they have full control of the state.
The only good thing is that I could drive to Massachusetts or Vermont or Maine in an hour or so if I need anything from a blue state. I would love to live in Massachusetts again, it’s just that as a disabled person with a chronic illness I’m unwilling to give up my PCP since he’s the only one I have that actually believes in chronic illness. But I already have to drive to Massachusetts for mental healthcare because we just don’t have any available here. There’s been a crisis level shortage for a couple decades.
Thank you for fighting to keep your state sane too!! We need Massachusetts. Mass and California are the best states I have ever lived in in this country and when things get scary I remind myself that you guys are only an hour away.
There is a protest next week at Plymouth Rock that I found on Common Cause. Looking for work but if not employed I'm already signed up. Just cannot figure out how to make a sign. I'll come up with something -- not very creative but somehow maybe with all that practice raising kids at the last minute I come up with something! Or, I'll just go without one -- but I'll be there.
It's incredible to me how Americans are just letting all this happen. The Elon cult is real and powerful. They truly believe anything he says. I live it in my own house. The reality is that until we can confirm what Elon has, what he's done with it, or what he plans to do with it, and tie it to real-world situations and how this impacts Americans' daily lives, with those real risks, they just won't see the harm that's being done. Over the weekend, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina admitted that much of what Trump is doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense.” But, Tillis adds, “nobody should bellyache about that.” Add that to Vance saying that the President doesn't have to listen to the courts and we are in a constitutional crisis. So now what? I'm not sure we are getting out of this with an intact Constitution. The Constitution is still not back on our government webpage, and no one is even talking about that....there is too much other corruptoin to talk about daily.
Good people are afraid of being labeled conspiracy theorists or of being dramatic. We will regret this. I can only help that the Dem leaders, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney are planning. We need a tactical team to go in and take our givernment back.
The thing is is that we don’t have a lot of power to do anything with the federal government, that that’s actually up to our elected officials.
And it’s really a shame that the Democrats fight harder for us when they are fighting back then they do when they actually have power to do stuff.
I’m not going out to take to the streets to get beaten and arrested or killed, I did my part, I voted for Kamala, I show up in the legislative of office building for my state to make testimony for or against bills that they are introducing in the state I live in because that can make a difference.
It’s up to the elected officials to do something about the lawlessness. That’s why we elected them. Maybe if they had done something about the crimes from January 6 we wouldn’t be in this position today. But the Dems really wanted a strong Republican party to fight against. At least now the resistance is back
We need a tactical team to go in and take our government back and eliminate the criminals. They will not abide by the law. They have told us for years what they intend to do. I can only hope that we have some leaders who understand this and have been planning for the worst case scenario.
Yep I agree, I fear that it’s going to take some real bad things happening before our military stands up and does something, and even then it won’t be all of them so they might have to battle each other
It really will be the civil war the domestic terrorists have been calling for for years now.
Violence leads to more violence and escalation. I notice more and more people on this newsletter thinking that civil war is a solution to the current difficulties. It is a horrible idea. I'm a veteran and I can tell you that war is literally Hell. We don't want to go there.
Did you know she’s married to a man old enough to be her grandfather? I’m a middle-aged woman and that man is too old for me, but he probably started grooming her when she was still a ripe and fertile teenager. 😂
It also looks like she’s pregnant again already. Good for her she could pump out a domestic supply of infants. It will never be me.
We have to stop worrying about appearing dramatic. We are experiencing an attack on our democracy and life as we know it. We have been warned for years. I can only hope the Dem leaders have taken off their rose colored glasses and are planning a counter attack.
Exactly! My husband thinks it’s all very bad but reassures me that chances are we’ll be fine… I’m thinking dramatic actions are the only power I have to register outrage. Not violent dramatic, but things like cancelling vacations, closing bank accounts, protests or picketing…consumer type actions. Yes to dramatic.
Here we continue with the spoilage of Elon Musk and his invasion of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and probably all regulatory agencies meant to protect us from large scale abusive attacks.
Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland, and Through The Looking Glass mastered the depiction of the irrational world that children and now all those at the mercy of Elon Musk must live within. Do we have any living creative artists like Carroll?
May Rohit Chopra find other ways to administer integrity. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra in November: “The rule will help to protect consumer privacy, guard against fraud, and prevent illegal account closures.” Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Chopra was fired and replaced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent was then replaced by Vought following Vought's Senate confirmation last week."
“The CFPB also filed a lawsuit accusing banks of failing to properly mitigate fraud on the digital payment app Zelle.“
I remember this specifically, I remember when people realized this was a problem and their money was just getting stolen, and then it was instantly stopped because of the CFPB. I’m not sure if they were able to get the stolen funds back, but they were able to stop the scam anyway.
Well, Elon is so moral and ethical I totally trust him to remove himself once he sees information about his competitors - what a load of shit from the white house
Do you have a theory as to why Chris Murphy was at a protest to stop Elon Musk and for the whole clip of it that was published on YouTube or wherever I saw it his Twitter handle was in the upper left-hand corner?
Is it all theater? Is this bread and circuses? Why on earth would Chris Murphy keep his Twitter if president musk is really the threat they claim he is. And of course I know he is I’m just saying that the Democrats are playing games. Why would they stay on Twitter? Why would they advertise their Twitter page in a YouTube video showing their protest against Elon Musk?
Thank you it really made me feel insane watching that protest or press conference or whatever they were doing with the stop musk signs. And I think I was just extra upset about it because I was really happy to see it, I was really pleased with his speech, then I saw his Twitter handle in the left-hand corner of the screen and I realized he was just full of baloney. It’s all for the donations. They’ll be able to help us with this as long as we just vote harder and give them more money for midterms. Just like the last term and the one before that. They can’t do anything unless we vote harder and donate more. But when we do they still don’t. It’s up to them now
Sincere question, trying not to sound hyperbolic: What are the differences between a terrorist act and what is happening? Timothy McVey bombed the structure of a federal building...the outside. Elon Musk is abjectly destroying the function of these institutions, gutting them from the inside. What reasons are there to think he is doing these things as part of *any* American agenda (GOP, MAGA, NAR, DOGE, etc.), instead of for the basic principle of attack?
I cannot believe that the ultra-capitalist class, that would have been supportive of the trump agenda, can sit idly by & watch musk strip THEM of competition. This is going to get even more bizarre, & sad to say, more horrifying.
Once trump, the billionaires and musk have stolen all the money, damaged businesses beyond repair, caused bankruptcies, and thrown the country into massive economic crisis, who's left to buy whatever they're selling? The markets will plummet, retirement saving evaporated and then what? When Trump was asked why no one is looking into musk's wealth, he replied "it's already public - it's his stock holdings, you can look it up. People around the world are dumping their Tesla stock and boycotting his companies. Hmm, Tesla ain't doing so well and it appears he's moved on to stealing from the treasury, getting dirt on his competitors and selling pilfered info to USA's adversaries.
Trump/2025ers/Musk/oligarchs with God complexes: the most incompetent, dangerous bunch of nut jobs assembled in one basket that has ever existed on this planet. What is the end game? To burn down their own house with everyone in it? I don't see any winners.
You ask "Who would want to buy a country in chaos?" Russia/China, that's who. Except it won't take much money. It will only need a lethal purge of the USA Executive, Judicial, and Congressional members. Russian oligarchs will then swoop in to scavenger the remains of the American oligarch companies.
Perhaps, however, a smouldering mess and a non-compliant population - to do what? A class of starving people with deep seated hatred and rage? All in the swirl of increasing environmental catastrophes? Also, oligarchs worldwide are in this together. They are likely planning to leave for Mars after they've destroyed everything (they won't make it either, their hubris is their Achilles heel).
The Doge of Venice (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ)[2][a] was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE).[3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic
IF any had chosen to learn more they would have learned they will never have security under a dictator…that everything they have can be taken from them with a snap of one’s fingers.
Musk just screwed them over.
Still feel like selling anti-Canada shit on Amazon Bezos you Bozo?
Right in front of our eyes. How the f did we get here? This must be stopped. Please someone smart step up and stop this invasion by White Christian Nationalists.
I live in a state that has historically gone to the Democrats for the general elections, at least the last three I’m pretty sure both Obama’s as well I just didn’t live here for that.
We have a republican trifecta in state government right now, you should see the house bills they are pouring in that are all project 2025. We have successfully smacked a few of them down simply by logging onto the house committee website to make public comment in opposition.
They have one that’s being heard today that was seeking to eliminate a whole bunch of classes from what is considered adequate education in public school. Those classes were stuff like art and music but also civics and personal finance.
All it took was a couple people posting about it online with instructions on how to oppose it online, 23,000 people opposed this new bill. Something like 84 people supported it
Even if the sponsor withdraws it I think the Senate can still vote on it, but if they pass it that will be insane. 23,000 people objected and this was just us of last week. There’s probably more today since public comment can be made until 11:59 PM tonight.
Anyway my point to this long story is that it’s really important that everyone pay attention to what is happening in their state unless they have a democrat controlled state government.
Please don’t get so distracted by President Musk that you aren’t paying attention to what they are doing in your state. Once they pass these laws it’s going to be real hard to get rid of them, it’s a lot easier to prevent them from happening.
Right on! Stay active and push back. Sorry you live in a shitty state. My county in a blue state went red this year. I put my house up for sale the day after the election and I am going into the deep deep blue.
But if you leave, it will only make your county and state redder. Stay where you are, vote next election and flip your county back. Fight don't flee! 🙂
Oh I’m so sorry that happened! Yeah it’s bad here, they have full control of the state.
The only good thing is that I could drive to Massachusetts or Vermont or Maine in an hour or so if I need anything from a blue state. I would love to live in Massachusetts again, it’s just that as a disabled person with a chronic illness I’m unwilling to give up my PCP since he’s the only one I have that actually believes in chronic illness. But I already have to drive to Massachusetts for mental healthcare because we just don’t have any available here. There’s been a crisis level shortage for a couple decades.
God bless you. You are a fighter and will be okay. Writing from MA.
Thank you for fighting to keep your state sane too!! We need Massachusetts. Mass and California are the best states I have ever lived in in this country and when things get scary I remind myself that you guys are only an hour away.
Closer than an hour for we carry you in our hearts -- believe it!
Try living in FL! The fascists are firmly in control and the populace is right along with them
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Thank you so much for sharing this link! I wasn’t aware of this publication and I just subscribed
Many like AOC are on Substack and YouTube -- searchable.
I would subscribe to AOC. Most of the dems are dead to me though.
Rep Ellen Read in NH has been called “NH’s AOC” they mean it to be derogatory but it made me love her more once I heard that. She’s fantastic.
There is a protest next week at Plymouth Rock that I found on Common Cause. Looking for work but if not employed I'm already signed up. Just cannot figure out how to make a sign. I'll come up with something -- not very creative but somehow maybe with all that practice raising kids at the last minute I come up with something! Or, I'll just go without one -- but I'll be there.
It's incredible to me how Americans are just letting all this happen. The Elon cult is real and powerful. They truly believe anything he says. I live it in my own house. The reality is that until we can confirm what Elon has, what he's done with it, or what he plans to do with it, and tie it to real-world situations and how this impacts Americans' daily lives, with those real risks, they just won't see the harm that's being done. Over the weekend, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina admitted that much of what Trump is doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense.” But, Tillis adds, “nobody should bellyache about that.” Add that to Vance saying that the President doesn't have to listen to the courts and we are in a constitutional crisis. So now what? I'm not sure we are getting out of this with an intact Constitution. The Constitution is still not back on our government webpage, and no one is even talking about that....there is too much other corruptoin to talk about daily.
Good people are afraid of being labeled conspiracy theorists or of being dramatic. We will regret this. I can only help that the Dem leaders, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney are planning. We need a tactical team to go in and take our givernment back.
The thing is is that we don’t have a lot of power to do anything with the federal government, that that’s actually up to our elected officials.
And it’s really a shame that the Democrats fight harder for us when they are fighting back then they do when they actually have power to do stuff.
I’m not going out to take to the streets to get beaten and arrested or killed, I did my part, I voted for Kamala, I show up in the legislative of office building for my state to make testimony for or against bills that they are introducing in the state I live in because that can make a difference.
It’s up to the elected officials to do something about the lawlessness. That’s why we elected them. Maybe if they had done something about the crimes from January 6 we wouldn’t be in this position today. But the Dems really wanted a strong Republican party to fight against. At least now the resistance is back
We need a tactical team to go in and take our government back and eliminate the criminals. They will not abide by the law. They have told us for years what they intend to do. I can only hope that we have some leaders who understand this and have been planning for the worst case scenario.
Yep I agree, I fear that it’s going to take some real bad things happening before our military stands up and does something, and even then it won’t be all of them so they might have to battle each other
It really will be the civil war the domestic terrorists have been calling for for years now.
Violence leads to more violence and escalation. I notice more and more people on this newsletter thinking that civil war is a solution to the current difficulties. It is a horrible idea. I'm a veteran and I can tell you that war is literally Hell. We don't want to go there.
What normal person would trust linking their money to musk’s ruined twitter?
That Press Secretary is a liar, too
I don’t believe ANY of them
Are you talking about Kkkaroline??
Did you know she’s married to a man old enough to be her grandfather? I’m a middle-aged woman and that man is too old for me, but he probably started grooming her when she was still a ripe and fertile teenager. 😂
It also looks like she’s pregnant again already. Good for her she could pump out a domestic supply of infants. It will never be me.
We have to stop worrying about appearing dramatic. We are experiencing an attack on our democracy and life as we know it. We have been warned for years. I can only hope the Dem leaders have taken off their rose colored glasses and are planning a counter attack.
Exactly! My husband thinks it’s all very bad but reassures me that chances are we’ll be fine… I’m thinking dramatic actions are the only power I have to register outrage. Not violent dramatic, but things like cancelling vacations, closing bank accounts, protests or picketing…consumer type actions. Yes to dramatic.
Here we continue with the spoilage of Elon Musk and his invasion of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and probably all regulatory agencies meant to protect us from large scale abusive attacks.
Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland, and Through The Looking Glass mastered the depiction of the irrational world that children and now all those at the mercy of Elon Musk must live within. Do we have any living creative artists like Carroll?
May Rohit Chopra find other ways to administer integrity. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra in November: “The rule will help to protect consumer privacy, guard against fraud, and prevent illegal account closures.” Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Chopra was fired and replaced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent was then replaced by Vought following Vought's Senate confirmation last week."
“The CFPB also filed a lawsuit accusing banks of failing to properly mitigate fraud on the digital payment app Zelle.“
I remember this specifically, I remember when people realized this was a problem and their money was just getting stolen, and then it was instantly stopped because of the CFPB. I’m not sure if they were able to get the stolen funds back, but they were able to stop the scam anyway.
I remember this too
Department of government efficiency? Efficiently direct the most funds possible into Musk's bank account.
Well, Elon is so moral and ethical I totally trust him to remove himself once he sees information about his competitors - what a load of shit from the white house
Do you have a theory as to why Chris Murphy was at a protest to stop Elon Musk and for the whole clip of it that was published on YouTube or wherever I saw it his Twitter handle was in the upper left-hand corner?
Is it all theater? Is this bread and circuses? Why on earth would Chris Murphy keep his Twitter if president musk is really the threat they claim he is. And of course I know he is I’m just saying that the Democrats are playing games. Why would they stay on Twitter? Why would they advertise their Twitter page in a YouTube video showing their protest against Elon Musk?
Agreed! What purpose does it serve to rail against Musk as a destructive force when all the while empowering and enriching him?
It's classic example of self-destruction!
Thank you it really made me feel insane watching that protest or press conference or whatever they were doing with the stop musk signs. And I think I was just extra upset about it because I was really happy to see it, I was really pleased with his speech, then I saw his Twitter handle in the left-hand corner of the screen and I realized he was just full of baloney. It’s all for the donations. They’ll be able to help us with this as long as we just vote harder and give them more money for midterms. Just like the last term and the one before that. They can’t do anything unless we vote harder and donate more. But when we do they still don’t. It’s up to them now
"keep your friends close by, but keep your enemies closer."
Nah. Especially when staying on that Nazi platform adds to its value.
Sincere question, trying not to sound hyperbolic: What are the differences between a terrorist act and what is happening? Timothy McVey bombed the structure of a federal building...the outside. Elon Musk is abjectly destroying the function of these institutions, gutting them from the inside. What reasons are there to think he is doing these things as part of *any* American agenda (GOP, MAGA, NAR, DOGE, etc.), instead of for the basic principle of attack?
I cannot believe that the ultra-capitalist class, that would have been supportive of the trump agenda, can sit idly by & watch musk strip THEM of competition. This is going to get even more bizarre, & sad to say, more horrifying.
I don't get it either?!...if I was a competitor of Musk's I'd be livid
"Livid" is far too polite. But who can guess what sort of nefarious plans for mass monopolization may be afoot? (or ahead? Or a head on a pike?)
Once trump, the billionaires and musk have stolen all the money, damaged businesses beyond repair, caused bankruptcies, and thrown the country into massive economic crisis, who's left to buy whatever they're selling? The markets will plummet, retirement saving evaporated and then what? When Trump was asked why no one is looking into musk's wealth, he replied "it's already public - it's his stock holdings, you can look it up. People around the world are dumping their Tesla stock and boycotting his companies. Hmm, Tesla ain't doing so well and it appears he's moved on to stealing from the treasury, getting dirt on his competitors and selling pilfered info to USA's adversaries.
Trump/2025ers/Musk/oligarchs with God complexes: the most incompetent, dangerous bunch of nut jobs assembled in one basket that has ever existed on this planet. What is the end game? To burn down their own house with everyone in it? I don't see any winners.
You ask "Who would want to buy a country in chaos?" Russia/China, that's who. Except it won't take much money. It will only need a lethal purge of the USA Executive, Judicial, and Congressional members. Russian oligarchs will then swoop in to scavenger the remains of the American oligarch companies.
Perhaps, however, a smouldering mess and a non-compliant population - to do what? A class of starving people with deep seated hatred and rage? All in the swirl of increasing environmental catastrophes? Also, oligarchs worldwide are in this together. They are likely planning to leave for Mars after they've destroyed everything (they won't make it either, their hubris is their Achilles heel).
Honest question: has Elon been seen in public lately? Posting on Twitter is not proof of life. Where in the world is he?
no one seems to be getting the word Doge.
The Doge of Venice (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ)[2][a] was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE).[3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic
Alarming. Seriously Alarming and should wake Republicans to the threat these two represent to everyone else.
Not so freaking smart now, are they?
IF any had chosen to learn more they would have learned they will never have security under a dictator…that everything they have can be taken from them with a snap of one’s fingers.
Musk just screwed them over.
Still feel like selling anti-Canada shit on Amazon Bezos you Bozo?