Well, many of them used to be Democrats. Rick Perry for example. And Roy Moore, and David Duke, and Phil Gramm, the Prince of Insufficient Light. Traveling the path laid down by Strom Thurmond, Ronald Reagan, and Jesse Helms long before…
Parties are flags of convenience for these people. If it becomes advantageous for them to be Democrats, they will be the most democraty Democrats of all.
Yes…and?
I’m always astounded by these arguments. Protecting customers from empirically predatory companies would hurt the economy a bit, AND WE CAN’T HAVE THAT HAPPEN. Sometimes doing the right thing is uncomfortable, or even painful, and it would be nice if politicians would acknowledge that outside of backwards-justifying platitudes.
This is terrible, but I don’t see how it applies in the case of Equifax. Most of us are not Equifax customers and have no financial agreement with them. I’m not sure how this rule change spells the end of a ginormous class action suit against Equifax by (most of) those they doxxed.
Just want to point out the rules are only for us, the banks are still fully able to join their own class action suits.
Also want to add, i repeat myself but, you all should have been boycotting the economy since the election. Most certainly don’t sign any contracts in the next 4 years.
Mother. fuckers.
BURN THIS SHIT TO THE GROUND
Don’t worry guys!
The free market will sort it out!
Somehow.
Presumably, elves are involved.
The only individuals with representation anymore are the corporations, who not only don’t pay tax’s, but are seemingly above the law.
Taxation without representation, voter suppression, Militarized police, domestic spying, improper civil forfeiture,collapse of due process, indefinite detention are things that happen daily.
The rich now have their own judicial system, (above the law) and the poor go to privatized prisons for long periods for minor infractions
Everything “our” elected (bought and paid for) officials do is directly against us and the laws of the land.
Pure and simple Treason.
I feel overwhelming apathy and I hate it. I don’t want to be negative or feed into a defeatist mindset but I don’t feel like I’m resisting it anymore so much as I’m there already and just trying to hide it so other people keep fighting what feels like a pointless fight because I want to be wrong. I dunno man.
Nah, it’s not treason, treason is giving aid and succor to the declared enemies of the state. The proglottidean schmucks we’ve supposedly elected with our unauditable voting machinery aren’t straightforward enough to be considered treasonous, they’re some kind of lesser, slimier traitor. But I’m not sure how to concisely describe someone who betrays a public trust out of greed, stupidity and lust for fame.
OK, I admit it, I wrote this entire post just so I could say “proglottidean”.
Wouldn’t better if these “petty thefts” were banned and punished by the government instead of having customers and citizens go through the lawsuit way?
And wouldn’t better if the judicial system worked in a way that the winner is not determined by how much money you can invest in your attorney?
Rise up and picket Wells Fargo like I am. Wells Fargo has committed fraud against me and they didn’t care so I picket my local branches. My website tells what Wells Fargo did and why I picket WFHurtMe.com .
We have come full circle. The thirteen colonies were corporate charters of king George (how charters started, gifts from benevolent monarchs), and the Boston Tea Party was about tax breaks given only to the east India company. Everyone has the right to vote now that it has been made next to ceremonial.
No nothing?
That means there’s gotta be something worth stealing!
SMASH Yoink!
I think you might be an entire three-piece-suite screwed; with footstools and a coffee table thrown in for good measure.
this is nothing new for McCain:
What’s needed is a list of banks and financial institutions that require binding arbitration. It’s now on us to not do business with those companies. Until the market pressures these businesses to do the right thing, we have to do it ourselves.
That’s market pressure in the purest form; every dollar is a vote.
Free market capitalism does not work without an informed* consumer - which is why corporations love deceptive advertising, hate labeling laws and have a love/hate relationship with education.
For example when you buy disposable batteries you are voting for birth defects. So lots of people refuse to buy them, because they have been informed of the real-world consequences of encouraging the manufacture of disposable batteries. But the battery companies slyly make rechargeables in 1.2 instead of 1.5 volts, and often with subtly larger exteriors, so uninformed consumers won’t know how to deal with the technical issues and won’t switch to the more cost-effective rechargeable batteries. It’s manipulating the consumer to gain immunity from the “invisible hand” of market pressure. Dollars are votes.
* and reasonably rational (which is a deeper problem)
Whores, whores, and more whores. The first thing they do when they are elected is forget that they were elected to serve the people. We could improve the situation by blowing up the Heritage Foundation, but Democrats don’t pack heat.
Close.
Of course I had to look it up:
pro·glot·tid (prō-glŏt′ĭd) also pro·glot·tis (-glŏt′ĭs)
n. pl. pro·glot·tids also pro·glot·ti·des (-glŏt′ĭ-dēz′)
One of the segments of a tapeworm,
containing both male and female reproductive organs.
