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The CFPB was created to police abuses by financial institutions against their customers. Billions of dollars have been recovered for defrauded consumers. Elon Musk and Russell Vought are active swiftly to kill it. We discuss this on today's SHART-O-METER.

Trump's supporters are beyond thrilled that he is breaking the government and doing it illegally. They voted for him to do something and he is doing something. All guardrails have failed and it's up to us to do the hard work.

As our government is being dismantled by madmen and the Republicans smile beatifically at the culmination of their decades-long plan to drown the government in the bathtub, Democrats must find their spines, stand up and fight back.

Today I eschew the carefully prepared script and just blather about stuff.

When a plane crashes into the Potomac, the buck stops with everyone but the President. How confirmation bias makes it possible for him to get away with his awful comments after the crash.

The history of oppression shows that the erosion of civil rights is incremental, starting with the small groups that have been framed as undesirable. It might start there, but it doesn't end there.

On the way to discuss why Trump is so hot to annex Greenland, we touch upon a whole range of interesting subjects.

Today we will have some thoughts on the current news and investigate the Overton Window, a way of shifting public sentiment towards the acceptability of either a freedom or a restriction of people's rights.

How do magicians trick you? The same trick is used politically to make things happen that should never be allowed to happen right under your nose. This episode details the trick that exploits the human tendency to be easily distracted by bright, shiny objects while the real goals are achieved out of sight and out of mind.

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