Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.
Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.
These are powerful institutions, but they won’t be in four years. Not unless they fight back.
I remember a time that it was frowned upon for a president to sign so many executive orders.
I don’t get how they have the staff and time to churn out these orders. As soon as you can react, the next order drops. We bombed Iran, remember that? They’re erasing climate change initiatives. They are showing up at courthouses to disappear people. It’s hard to keep up. I guess that’s the point.
This is a plan developed& implemented by multiple people & their lackeys over a period of *decades*. If you can’t see past Trump to focus on the tech bros, Christian nationalists, & white supremacists behind him, you’ll literally spend the rest of your life feeling blindsided
Perhaps Conservatives were t trusted workers because they were unqualified- lacking intelligence & knowledge and corrupt?
It could be argued that the more aggressive moves to fast track a dictatorship are a shiny object designed to distract us from all of the progress they are making with all of these institutions. The real issue though is the institutions themselves clearly want to submit. It’s hard to block that.
What is needed is to start imposing costs on these places. Boycotts, protests, etc. It’s a hard thing to do as activists though. There is only so much bandwidth. It would be better if blue states put some muscle into this, but so far they have been arguably more useless than congressional Dems.
Blue states have tremendous power to affect the calculations of corporations deciding whether to get in bed with Trump. They need to use it.
trump is overstepping here in the U.S. He thinks he is king not only of America but the entire world. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Watching this happen from Canada is infuriating & terrifying. Honestly, the lack of pushback has been more upsetting than the increasingly authoritarian behaviours. I saw that coming several years ago but didn’t expect complicity & cooperation by so many who could have made a difference. I’m sorry.
Same. I'm still in shock that he's in power again. Stunning to me. Can you imagine any of this crap happening in Canada? I just can't. I use to say if you elect him again you deserve what you get, but never did I think it would be this horrible, depraved, indifferent and so cruel. It's terrifying.
AND we are only 7+MONTHS INTO THIS...GONNA GET LOTS WORSE
At one time… no one could imagine this here either, but here we are.
Please pay attention to what is happening in Canada. It's a lot quieter here, but it's happening. Bill C2 and C5 (and Bill 5 in Ontario) should cause you concern.
Oh, don't worry. I've been concerned about Canada for a long time. Not a happy camper here.
Never say never (think freedumb convoy & prairie provinces). Use our rapid decline as a cautionary tale & make sure that your defenses against a similar trajectory are truly insurmountable.
As an older American, someone who was boots on the ground in the 60-70's it is such a sad moment. I won't be around to witness what it will take to put this country back together. People should have been on the streets months ago, 24/7 and work stoppages. It is too late.All guardrails FAILED.
Control of business and country's major institutions. National Socialism by definition.
Horrifying.... they/we must stay strong against Felon 47
Don't forget Gabbard saying DoJ is looking into Marc Elias not posting on X as evidence of wrongdoing
This is straight out of Nigel Farage’s playbook. He took a bank to court in the UK and won. I think there should be a limit to the amount of legal cases a President is allowed to file. He’s costing the taxpayers a fortune.
Oh hell. Is now the time to move money overseas?
“People don’t understand”… some don’t because they’re busy or actively turning away; some do; and Trump voters are cheering it on… they want the destruction of the government that they think has ____________ (fill in blank bad thing they think govt has done to them according to their sources)
Can high ranking officers in the US military figure out if Executive Orders violate the Constitution?
And? What do we do?
AS IF ...
BANKS?!! are discriminating against wealthy conservatives? What bizarro universe is he living in? Banks having an issue with crypto I understand. Banks prefer their own pretend world of money. They don't need yours.
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Or they do, but they think they're shielded from the harm
Crypto will bankrupt us and the world. It's all smoke and no substance. Speculative investments caused a great part of the great depression and the 2008 meltdown.
Am I stupid or isn't this opening up opportunities for money laundering - The criminals must be thrilled and open to sending more money to Trump to encourage him to stamp on bank's rights to deny deposits of dubious origins.
Perhaps someone could have handed him a pen filled with/ invisible ink- think where we might be-
Is “crypto company” an immutable trait? a protected class? Can I refuse to make a wedding cake for a “crypto company”?
I think many of us do understand, but the average American has no ability to stop him. It’s up to you, the media and legal system to figure out what can be done. The other MAGA who’s worship him, don’t care because it doesn’t affect them
The average person is the only person able to stop him. Not as individuals, but as a collective. The media and legal system won’t save us. The working class needs to get organized. Find a group to be involved in that is trying to fight this. That’s the only way out of this. Don’t wait for a hero.
The country as you know it will never be the same when the president gets done” fixing it.”
So we are living a Soft Dictatorship soon to transform into a full Dictatorship. We keep fighting in the courts and vote people. Midterms is going to be the key here.
Are you able to vote out a soft dictatorship? Theres still some friendlier federal courts but that power has already been stripped away and will keep being stripped away. We are in free fall. A year is a long time to be in free fall. Look at how much has already happened.
A piece on NPR a few years ago documented how much harder it is for a black person to get a loan than a white person. FYI: It's a lot harder.
BS! Another excuse to do whatever he want's How do they know they're conservatives??? Who's bank ever asked anything political. He's boxing us into where we have to succumb to his power, his world he's creating for himself.That's why the 200 million dollar ballroom, 400 million plus for a damn plane
Land of the free to except of Trump doesn't like it then you will be punished
Thoughts about how to resist significantly enough to make an impact on our sleeping country? I'm asking everyone, gathering ideas.
I understand what’s happening but I feel powerless to stop it.
Banks discriminate against conservatives?! Banks fucking invented conservatives.
Far, FAR too many don't want to.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Not quite. They don’t give a shit.
I see another major financial crisis of massive proportions happening in the not too distant future… Crypto will at some point implode / I think that’s inevitable Frankly, if I were Jamie Dimon or D Solomon etc I’d tell T to f*ck off but I doubt that’ll happen
When do you think John Roberts finally says, "Oh, shit!"
He won’t. He gets his cut of the redistribution of wealth & retires in style.
Remember when Obama did a few EO’s and the Republicans had a melt down?
Aw the poor banks. Walked themselves right into this. Obama with the dem party’s blessing bailed them out and they repaid the party by letting trump walk into office 2Xs. Just another example of white male privilege over people actually capable and bright enough to be in the top jobs in our country
It‘s not democracy anymore. It’s not capitalism anymore. It’s not free anymore. It’s not brave anymore.
Is crypto a recognized currency? I wonder how a bank can be forced to accept crypto. It's like demanding they take Monopoly money or Confederate dollars.
I demand my bank accept payment in dryer lint and wet leaves.
Just guessing, but the assumption would be you have a lot of those resources readily available..? 😁
🤣 but so true…
And this what I believe this is all about. Crypto. Donald realized how much real money he can make out of these scams/schemes and he's doing his best to make sure Crypto is never regulated. The rest is a smokescreen.
He’s essentially planning the biggest crypto “rug pull” ever.
It goes hand in hand with that big bill they passed for him. Wealth transfer comes in different ways and forms. Crypto is a very lucrative way of fleecing his cult members.
It's money laundering. I guess if I were as bad at business as Trump is, I wouldn't feel safe unless I had a few billion dollars saved.
Remember this, if you don't think this affects you. "First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me"
Executive orders aren’t laws! They’re masturbatory post it notes.
Huge majority don’t have a clue what’s going on in our country. They only watch mainstream media or none at all. Clueless
There is a job out there if you choose to accept it. Anyone?
Not that don't want to understand, it's they're are still too many DUMB American F'cks in plain English! Sorry, cushy wussy time has passed!
So sad 😞
What happened to the common sense freedom of private entities to refuse service for any non-racist reason? Only in a dictatorship
I guarantee this is only of it they say, drop a conservative. I'm sure that if it where left wing people or companies that disagree with trump there will only be cheers. Not prosecution.
Can we get an insider at Duestche Bank to talk about Kennedy "loaning him money?"
The felon has taken what was before infrequent and basic executive orders and turned them into a continuous release of fascist proclamations that override the legislative branch duties. They have acquiesced and bent the knee to allow this to happen with the blessings of the corrupt Supreme Court.
Big Banks - don't want clients who are criminals or running Ponzi Crypto companies. Big surprise.
Trumpublican ‘conservatives’ already have all the money, which they’re conserving for themselves. So who’s discriminating against them?!?!
We keep preachin' ! Let's hope some of it gets thru before its too late!
Now you get it. Republicans see what is going on but they are willfully blind to it. They don’t want to see. They are red through and though, even if that means calling fascism democracy.
Trump will not stop if they appease him!!!
Crypto owners are desperate to turn their fake bitcoin into salt-of-the-earth-hard-earned real money.
Also, you’re flat wrong, bitcoiners that have done their homework have NO desire to turn their Bitcoin back into Fiat EXCEPT to facilitate spot purchases of goods or services, because we have to, as we don’t hold “legal tender”.
Cathy with all due respect, the reason we Bitcoin is that what you think is “good money” is actually not. My parents had to work 15 hours to buy a share of the S&P 500, I have to work 200 hours. Why? Why do we tolerate a (supposed) 2% decrease in the value of our money PER YEAR? More like 6-8%.
The opposite is true 😄.
A reminder that about a third of a very affluent and bored country just decided to start believing mental-illness level nonsense about politics and the world, and the collapse of our polity is now quickly following. bsky.app/profile/nich...
I think those with doubts and questionmarks and not so educated past need more spelling out. Who swore allegience to the orange guy cult and have been maass brainwashed and feel some need to have a limit in what to agree to.
You warned them, lots of people warned them and they either didn't listen or as you said, they don't want to. It's terrifying, isn't it?
Join a credit union.
This is great advice. I love my CU. They work for us.
They won’t be safe either. CU boards should start thinking of ways to maliciously comply when the mandates are imposed.
It's probably not too late to buy gold.
It’s the Baker refusing to make a cake for the gay couple - IN REVERSE! Note they will decide who gets served by executive order? Mobsters!
What explains all the capitulation...? I listened to the Pres. of Columbia...her reasoning made zero sense... She sounded even a bit psychotic in her attempts to explain the university 's capitulation. These powerful institutions...are 'supposed' to lead by example...they're supposed to have wisdom!
Is this how Russia came to be ruled by oligarchs? And why won't they tell him to fxxk off?
The difference is that Russia never have had anything close to a real democracy. The Russian people have always been oppressed.
Discriminate against conservatives? Have they ever met a banker? Bankers ARE conservative. But they probably avoid doing business with grifters and con men, whom Trump equates with "conservative."
Trump = Extortionist in Chief
If it conflicts with stockholder/investors interests it may add some influential people to the dump Trump column. I'm looking for a bright side here.
Still don’t know how to stop it.
Loans secured by bitcoin? I think I foresee the next banking disaster.
Does that include credit unions and coops? That will be interesting to see. These are in the hands of members.
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Crypto has the potential to bankrupt the nation. My god! They are looting everything!
Dictatorship
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Americans appear to be way to stupid, gullible, and ill-informed to support a democracy.
All entities that are capitulating are enabling Trump’s further bullying and holding other entities ransom. What is wrong with these spineless entities that are not willing to do their part to save our democracy? If YOU have not been targeted, Trump has not gotten around to YOU yet. Fight!!!
I think banks take anybody's money.
Nobody is whining about China banning crypto and talking about stablecoin.
They only like liberal crypto companies. 🙄🤡
They will cave too. When it all caves, we strike with an iron fist ‼️❓ Is that what we do?
#ItsACoup and this is fascism
Can someone just bomb us into oblivion already? Thaaaaaanks!
WTF
When we take back power, in addition to outlawing racist and Nazi terms and symbols (see Germany, September 1945), we need to abolish Executive Orders (the most ridiculously weaponized feature of this sham government).
I fear they don't want to. So I stay quiet about that counting on the hope of others.💙
Or - they are profiting.
They want to establish a stable coin governed by private entities, which will not be stable at all. They want to crash the current money system. They want to deregulate that. The wealthy elites want to steal your last dime.
Has he managed to throw half the people who voted for him under the bus yet?
This is exactly how fascism rolls. One day you’re in the inner circle, they next, you learn you’re actually the bullseye.
There are three kinds of billionaires under a dictatorship: 1. Those who don't capitulate and are plundered 2. Those who do capitulate and are plundered anyway 3. Those who do capitulate and will be plundered later
These billionaires need to read Bill Brower’s book, Red Notice. Your information is correct.
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4. Those who are defenestrated in Putins Russia.
Horrors. We know!
So conservative banks are discriminating against conservatives. Trump is so fucked up and so are all his people.
They will make a quick buck (a lot of quick bucks) and then sell out before the crash 🤷♂️
Apparently most of Trump’s wealth is in crypto these days, so of course he’ll do everything he can to protect his hoard.
At least not everyone in America is a complete wuss ~ www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...
Executive orders are not law!
America is a tin pot banana Republic
Lawless and reckless; what kind of country will will be left with if no one stops this Trump juggernaut ?
A country like russia.
I am sick of all of this! We fight back or we lose what is ours!
Owning bank shares won’t be wise if banks are making investment decisions to please a financially illiterate president. Most likely outcome- a crash that makes 2008 look like a cake walk.
Yup. 😔
Do not obey in advance!
So now he's trying to strong arm banks Who the hell does he think he is
How would a bank even know?
Somehow doesn't seem very consistent with "small government" and free markets. Maybe this will light a fire under Dimon, Moynihan and the rest of the banking solons
That’s been the case for a long time. Nothing is true until white men say it is, and we dramatically underestimated how strong their denial is, and how weak that renders civil institutions. (We = the many, mostly non-white non-men, who have been screaming at the top of our lungs since 2015).
Interesting extension of this here: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Its time to separate Vought/Miller from King Fucks ears
I have found that my friends and community are just blissfully ignorant. They believe that none of the things happening to the law firms, universities, media, companies, immigrants affects them…. until it does. By the time they wake up, it will be too late.
If you don't think they are Nazis you haven't read how the Nazis rose to power.
Remember when WSJ sneeringly tut tutted authoritarian expert and historian Anne Applebaum in their robust endorsement for Trump? Complicit. All.
Banks discriminate against conservatives?
I’m guessing this is something about protecting their “freedom to redline.”
Yep I bet that’s exactly right.
Lawprofs. You re too damn arrogant to listen to anyone but yourselves. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. www.scribd.com/document/896...
All this oppression, done with taxpayer dollars.
Joyce, with respect, you spent the Biden administration telling everyone on MSNBC Garland was doing the exact right thing, and that the most important consideration was DOJ norms. Many of us knew the danger of not taking aggressive action. It was you who didn't want to understand.
Thank you.
I'm shocked at the complete absence of any courage in the leaders of America's institutions. Absolutely no intestinal fortitude to stand for what is right.
So if "are you a conservative" isn't a question on the banking application then how does one prove discrimination against conservatives?
Where would Republicans be without their victim complex?
some americans have never wanted nice things for all americans…just some americans…so they voted accordingly…malevolents capitalized and here we are
And the shit just keeps rolling on down the road. Midterms cannot come soon enough.
Project 2025.
Seems like this should worry Wall Street a lot, too.
Or they do understand and they like it. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one.
We'll keeping a record of every one that capitulates. www.maga-collaborators.net/Corps
Banks don’t discriminate against conservatives.
Executive order this, executive order that… GMAFB!!!
He threatens everyone and then shakes them down for a big payment to himself…once a fraud always a fraud. He tried to do the same With Ukraine and Zelensky in term 1 which earned him Impeachment 1
With the rise of crypto US will loose all means to fight narcotic smuggling, money laundering and bribery. But probably it's a feature, not a bug.
As long as we have those problems, the Trump regime & its offshoots have an excuse for a bloated ICE operating outside the law. The only question’s what group they target after they run out of brown people.
Will bankers slither around trying to outlast Trump, or will they realize he will never be satisfied & stand up to him before it's too late?
My bet is on the slithering
Would not surprise me if they become sniveling, slithering, capitulating cowards, just like almost all the others🫤
Since crypto companies do not have 'hard assets', loans cannot be made to them based on any collateral (no gold, silver, machinery, etc.), also, their claim to value is based on their personal opinions so they cannot be used to loan out to make money to pay interest to the depositors so, ...
... banks could accept those deposits but could not make loans based on them nor pay interest based on them ... They'd only be numbers on the spreadsheet records of assets, and non-income producing assets at that!
Time for an executive order ruling out conspiracy theories.
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Thank you!
A bunch of people bought the GOP bullshit about “small government” and are completely unprepared for how actively intrusive into every aspect of daily life this regime wants to get. I know people are sick of Nazi comparisons but Gleichschaltung really is the best comparison.
Hello again, 1929. Another republican another bank collapse.
Tax crypto and AI. It’s driving up everyone’s power bills. Make finance and high tech carry the costs.
An executive order is not a law. We have to quit treating them like they are.
It’s not up to us (the people). The system is treating it as law because all of his henchman are in charge of everything.
There are in fact things a president can do via executive order. And even if he exceeds his authority he can do a lot of damage before a court weighs in. That’s why universities, law firms and businesses are caving. They shouldn’t be, I agree. But they are frightened.
Frightened yes, and very short sighted if they think caving works.
Agree.
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With SCOTUS in his pocket they might as well be. That is why it’s imperative for the democrats yo win the house and senate by commanding majorities so they must move quickly to undo the damage and impeach and remove Trump from office and Roberts et al from the bench.
And alito and Thomas and kavenaugh etc....
They’re the et al.
We all know that conservatives always have problems getting car loans and mortgages.
We’re encroaching on 2A grounds to stop this.
This is the end of our democratic republic. It is not the beginning of the end, it is the end of the beginning. We have arrived. It’s no longer happening. It has happened. The question now is not “how do we prevent.” The question is “how do we undo.”
I don't know how you unbreak this if Trump's time in office ends
They don’t want to. He has the American people by the balls. PERIOD!
More discrimination against white Republican men. When are these people going to learn that we take discrimination seriously.
These are private businesses. They shouldn’t be forced to take stupid risks because stupid people want to lose everything to a giant scam. If they want to spend enormous amounts of money on…nothing …fine but leave the real world out if it.
All of the banks that refused to make loans to the 6 time bankrupt fuck will now be extorted for anti-semitism.
does seem sorta 4th reichy.
For over two years I've said he's pulling a #FIREsale on the federal gov't. Less blown up helicopters than #LiveFreeOrDieHard but the goal is the same. Cripple a nation's #Infrastructure be that economic (tariffs) or actual physical violence (ICE arrests & detention "camps"). WE. ARE. THERE.
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Push back. Every single time. Businesses can reserve the right to serve anyone.
Project 25 wasn’t the initial name. It started in a russian-backed think-tank titled “The Jericho Brief”. Its goal: To bring down the walls
Banks MUST gamble on crypto? insane!
That’s not what the EO is saying. It’s saying banks can’t discriminate against you if you work in crypto, which 6mo ago the FDIC chair said was happening (albeit years after people who work for US onshore companies have been saying it was happening to them and their family members)
thanks
That headline is insane.
So banks are too 'woke'? Didn't have that one on my bingo card.
Pressure = more payoffs for Trump's wallet. He'll 'pressure' anyone who has lots of $$ and hopefully people will see that it's just bribery and extortion.
We do , it is the entities that brought this administration to power are the ones being lazy, crumbling, cowering to a weak and bully administration.
Or because they support it.
Conservatives believe black people and women are property. Banks allowing them to have their own bank accounts means they are people and that is against Conservative Law. Stop the discrimination!
Not much has changed since Hitler. Americans now amuse themselves with social media while their country evaporates.
it isn't ''happening''.... it has happened.
Trump has pushed the U.S. media toward the fictional world in which Iraq’s Baghdad Bob declared victory and North Korea claimed its leader shot 11 holes-in-one in his first-ever round of golf. Real journalism has already become impossible in this country! www.stopthepresses.news/p/will-journ...
Trump’s Media Takeover Is Happening. youtu.be/Bxf5cTOrBqM
Ask the experts on that subject: Mossad and FSB. They apparently know another group / person they can apply pressure on
What a crock of shit! We’re all going to be on the streets