Summary
Trump abruptly fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, ending his tenure as a key Biden-era regulator retained from the previous administration.
Chopra oversaw sweeping reforms that removed medical debt from credit reports and limited overdraft penalties, measures widely seen by critics as regulatory overreach.
In a social media post, he thanked loyal supporters for helping the bureau hold powerful companies accountable and prepare policies to block foreign data surveillance.
Critics warned his dismissal clearly signals the end of consumer protections and a rollback of the agency’s mission.
Why bother hiding it? His base isn’t looking and if they do see it they won’t blame him. Absolutely zero incentive to be discrete.
I thought for sure he’d be more subtle about it. Or at least ease into the truly disgusting policy he has planned.
But yeah. Good point.
He never has been before, why start now? He is famously not able to be secretive and even leaks top-secret to non-allied governments just so he can brag. I really, truly, don’t understand how you expected subtly from the “dictator on day 1” guy.
It’s not that I necessarily expected subtlety in the way you’re thinking. It’s that I guess I expected things to ease into his planned dictatorship. When he was elected in 2016, as I recall, he didn’t hit the ground running with his Nazi shit. He was more covert. Dog whistly…
But I guess now that he’s essentially neutered any opposition, there’s no restoration for him to wade us towards the deep end.
I mean, he literally promises it and in the end, does it matter if he does it right away or in a few months? That worthless country handed the worst person with the craziest revenge fantasies an insane amount of power and essentially begged him to go hog wild. All he has done in the last for years is scream more and more about how much damage he wants to do, how fast he wants to do it, and how little he cares about doing it cleanly.
I’m not trying to make you feel bad but, like, maybe believe people when they literally promise to be monsters. The U.S. is full of a lot of people, including even a bunch of dipshit conservatives, feeling regret because the obvious happened and frankly I have very little sympathy. “Who could have seen this comi-“ everyone; fucking everyone saw it coming it was right there with bright lights and blaring alarm bells.
I knew he would do this shit. It’s not about disbelief. It’s about how blatantly brazen he is about doing it in the wide open.
Again, there were literally no signs saying that he’d be discrete, zero, and a million pointing to him being crude, overt, and aggressive in how he approached this term. The republicans have never been much to care and Trump and this entire era of that party as defined by him have made themselves so distinct because they say the quiet parts out loud. It’s the whole brand.
I do not know why you expected any different. The very small part of me that hoped it would happen differently, that thought that maybe the rest of the party would help contain him, did so because it didn’t want to fall further into the despair that is a world where the U.S. accelerates its efforts to be a fucking blight on the world.
At this point, I honestly don’t think you understand what it is I’m trying to say here and I can’t explain it any better than I have.
I didn’t expect a different outcome. I don’t know how to be more clear about this. I just expected a different method of execution.
And since you’re not getting it- this is me admitting I was wrong in my assumption. But for some reason, you felt the need to illustrate that I was wrong in thinking he’d be more subtle? After I said I was wrong in thinking he’d be more subtle?
Seriously… I don’t get the motive here.
I’ve been very clear that I’m talking exactly about, and I’ll separate it so you can understand:
You assumption that the execution would be cleaner and/or more gentle, and
That I know you’re admitting you’re wrong but I’m just wholly surprised at how you even got to that wrong answer in the first place.
I’m not being tricky with my words, but the U.S. is largely nearly illiterate so maybe that’s part of it. The motive at first was just the second point wondering how you even thought it’d be vaguely ok at any point and how you missed all the signs.