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Absolutely wild. The US financial services regulator has had their website suddenly deleted this weekend and according to the NY Times they’ve been told to stop all supervisory activity (ie regulation).

It’s supposed to be protected by an act of Congress but President Musk has decided to ignore that.

consumerfinance.gov/

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I noticed that "Contact us" button. It took me to a link to open an e-mail message, which I sent. (Up to you if you're comfortable sending a message.)

There's also a phone number, but it's only available during the week: consumerfinance.gov/about-us/c…

Like many people who think they know something about computers and the Internet, they killed the main page but left other pages in place. As if you triple-locked your front door but left the back door and windows open.

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Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/poli…
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The CFPB - today closed with an Elon Musk tweet “RIP CFPB” - was set up after the 2007/08 financial crisis. It was also investigating micro payment apps, like X.

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CFPB workers have been fired overnight using emails which addressed them as EmployeeFirstName wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb…
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everything he’s focused on is “… and was investigating Musk company <name>”
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what would you do with the $711+ million dollar surplus the agency has?
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why would American consumers/voters want a consumer… watchdog. Oh yeah.
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is there still any scenario left how tis coup can not end up in a worldwide financial and economic crisis?

looks like they really want to kill the dollar in favor of bitcoin stored on „X pay“ or however they want to call it

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Americans learning their "Nation of Laws" is a house of cards

... as if that wasn't obvious already from Round 1

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If you want to start a crime syndicate, United States is the place to go in 2025.
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If you change .gov to .govwayback.com (and might have to take www. off the front), there's a service that looks it up on the Wayback Machine and redirects you.

But yeah, the smell of burnt books is getting thick.

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The only ones who can prosecute him over this are the DOJ which are totally run by T and his cronies. We will need changes in the future to ensure the DOJ is independent of the administration to avoid this kind of unchecked corruption. Not sure how it will be done, but it certainly is necessary.
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Homepage is down, but links in the hamburger menu and footer that I clicked are still functional
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This is too wild. It seems there’s no stopping them and we’re just at the beginning.
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nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/poli…
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The main page isn’t there but the website is working normally. I opened different links and they were working

consumerfinance.gov/enforcemen…

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I seriously can't understand how we are not legitimately at the point where police should actually step in and arrest him.

I had assumed they'd move slowly enough to consolidate power, but he's basically just self-appointing himself as king over America and acting as if he was. At this point he has violated multiple laws. Sure Trump may pardon him, but they'll have to go through the steps first and first he'll spend some time behind bars along the way (instead of gutting America)

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This is all probably because
1: Musk doesn’t want to be investigated
2: Musk want X to be the everything including banking app.
🤮
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In which country they start every day with:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,"
#FuckElon #FuckTrump
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the rest of the site still seems to work ... usaid.gov/ is not 404 but just empty page, whiel again rest of site still works. the US is really being destroyed strongly by the fat orange one
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huh. sounds like he is trying to hide something or it is somehow linked to him.
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Presumably this will make it easier for x.com to become a bank, fulfilling Musk’s original plan
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The U.S. congress is dead, the people's representatives drowned by a flood of babbling trump sheep.
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This is not quite correct. It takes an act of Congress to shut it down. But it hasn't been shut down. Instead, its director has instructed its employees to stop operations. The agency still exists (so no law is broken) - it just isn't doing anything any more.
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This is stealing from us, the American people.

#CFPB works for us, returning +$25 billion to consumers since 2010. Consumers who were cheated by big banks, credit card companies, & other financial institutions.

This bureau was a place people could go to report fraud, scams, & basic unfairness like advertising a bonus and then not honoring it. They investigated it all.

The government is ours, & Musk is stealing it from us. It’s a heist. Spread the word!

#cfpb