Donald Trump has long railed against everything from low-flow showerheads to LED lightbulbs. After failed attempts to undo appliance regulations in his first term, he may have found a new end-run to achieve his goal — but for now confusion reigns.

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        Or dementia. Or rapists. Or conmen, money launderers or frauds.

        Fortunately he runs a cult so they will all say everything beautiful.

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      His base prefers he hurt others and them rather than help others and help them. Ideally he will hurt others and help them but hurting others is their second place thing to do and helping everyone is verboten.

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        Lazy thinking.

        • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
        • Codifying marriage equality
        • Student loan forgiveness and payment plan restructuring
        • At the state and local level, increasing minimum wage
        • Improving bank regulations to avoid another crash
        • Infrastructure act benefits communities
        • Covid relief

        Regardless of what happened later, these were good things that benefited normal citizens.

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          I tagged them last year as a “FUD/Misinfo spreader”, every encounter with them has an 80% chance of reinforcing the tag lol