My friends, let’s talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

It was created after the 2008 financial crisis, and its goal was to stop future crises by holding “too big to fail” banks and financial services companies accountable. CFPB looks out for the people who don’t have mountains of cash and endless time to challenge the actions of big banks and credit card companies.

Since then, they’ve spent roughly $700 million on operations. That’s a lot, no doubt, but in return CFPB paid back more than $20 BILLION to the American people. Not to the government, not to lawyers, but to real people getting ripped off by ACTUAL fraudsters double-charging overdraft fees or stealing extra interest on your payments.

So, logically, Elon Musk and Trump are trying to shut it down. I’m sure the fact that the CFPB was going to regulate financial transactions on Twitter (or X, or whatever Elon calls it these days) had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Look — we know what Elon and the White House are trying to do right now. They’re tearing the Constitution to shreds, ignoring court orders, and gutting federal agencies so that ridiculously wealthy people like them can get even more ridiculously wealthy.

I grew up poor. I went through a really hard deployment to Iraq at the height of the war. I have no idea what it’s like to be a billionaire, and I don’t really care. What I want out of life is to help my family, my community, and my country.

I’m fighting back against Elon and Trump with everything I’ve got. But I don’t have the resources they do, and I can’t do this alone.

Please, if you could chip in anything you can afford to help, it’d mean a lot. Donations from people like you are the main way we fund our work, and I’m really proud of that fact.

DONATE : [link removed]

Thanks. Really.

Ruben
 


You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time:
[link removed]


Use of military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform do not imply endorsement by the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense.