The economic populisms of Donald Trump, economic populist
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Above [from left]: The President of the United States, Peter Thiel videoblogger Glenn Greenwald, the guy who hosted The Celebrity Apprentice
Wired has been doing excellent work covering the Musk administration, and they have a good report about the ongoing bloodbath at the CFPB:
Dozens of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau employees were terminated on Tuesday evening, sources tell WIRED.
The cuts largely targeted contractors and so-called probationary employees, workers who have served less than two years at the agency. Sources tell WIRED that the CFPB’s enforcement division was hit hard…
Gee, I wonder why they’re particularly focused on destroying the enforcement division.
but it’s unclear how many employees were let go.
Workers were informed that they had been fired with a frenetic email delivered around 9pm ET on Tuesday night. An evidently failed mail merge meant that some affected employees were addressed as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
“This is to provide notification that I am removing you from your position of [Job Title] and federal service consistent with the above references,” the email from acting chief human capital officer Adam Martinez says. “Unfortunately, the Agency finds that that [sic] you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency’s current needs.”
The firings follow a tumultuous few days at CFPB. On Friday, staff for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency shut down a portion of the agency’s homepage after a day of struggling to obtain access to the CMS and other systems. WIRED reported last week that three DOGE staffers, including Gavin Kliger and Nikhil Rajpal were given access to CFPB’s HR, procurement, and financial infrastructure. The DOGE workers were later granted access to all of the agency’s systems on Friday, Bloomberg reported this week, including bank examination and enforcement records.
A government by plutocrats for plutocrats. That’s fundamentally all MAGA has ever been.
There are, however, some job opportunities out there. For example, the Federal Bureau of Wallet Inspectors has opened a branch in Rio de Janeiro:
fucking morons pic.twitter.com/0JsCWHiPvo— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) February 11, 2025
In addition to being one senator who supported a bill with broad bipartisan support in a Democratic senate and nominally cosponsoring a bill with zero chance of passing either House, when he was Missouri’s Attorney General the Running Man literally sued to have the CFPB ruled unconstitutional. [Gilbert Gottfried voice] the populists!