Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Shorter Trump: Government of, by, and for the Rich

President* Trump on banking regulations:
"There is nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than [JP Morgan C.E.O.] Jamie [Dimon]. So he has to tell me about it, but we expect to be cutting a lot from Dodd-Frank because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, that have nice businesses, they can’t borrow money,”
Dodd-Frank wasn't put into place so that our Grifter-in-Chief and his buddies could rake in more money. It was enacted to provide some protection for the American people from rapacious thieves like Dimon and other friends of Trump.

Remember back during the campaign when Trump was lambasting Hillary for being friends with Wall Street? No doubt Spicer the Liar and Lying Conway are stuffing that down the memory hole as fast as they can.

Trump also scrapped the "fiduciary duty rule", which required financial planners and brokers to act in the best interests of their clients, not just their own wallets.

And the Grift goes on....

2 comments:

Leo Knight said...

I suppose the reason they want to get rid of the rule that says, "Don't cheat your clients" is that they want to cheat their clients?

dinthebeast said...

I just hope they haven't figured out a way to get filthy rich by crashing the economy again, because if they have, now they can.

-Doug in Oakland