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In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore Endorses Bernie Sanders for President [View all]sheshe2
(98,320 posts)59. Ummmhmmm
Sleep tight.
For when you wake.
A little about Warren. You missed my thread.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287325662
Warren had huge connections...President Obama.
1.
Its not just mortgage companies and big banks that now have to sleep with their eyes open. Credit card companies also now have to play by the rules. In 2012, the bureau ordered three American Express subsidiaries to pay out $85 million to over 250,000 customers they screwed over through illegal practices.
Warren managed to do all of this even while the GOP did everything in their power to cockblock it. And when they failed that mission, they bitched and moaned and managed to prevent her from being nominated head of the CFPB. She then used their tantrum as a pathway to run for Senate.
And she won. Easily.
3. In only three years, she has sponsored at least 36 bills, including the Equal Employment Act for All, the Schedules That Work Act, the Trade Transparency Act, and the Fed Accountability Act. She consistently fights for legislation that champions for womens rights, paid family leave, low-wage workers, fair trade and affordable education.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/9/1524727/-Elizabeth-Warren-s-List-of-Accomplishments-is-Bigger-than-Trump-s-Hanging-Chad
In 2011, while working as an assistant for President Obama, Warren single-handedly conceived of and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency that helps protect the little guy from Wall Streets dirty schemes. Thanks to the newly-formed agency, mortgage lenders can no longer push you into a loan you cannot afford. And these servicers now have to make a good faith effort to keep you out of foreclosure. If they dont, they face hefty civil penalties.
Its not just mortgage companies and big banks that now have to sleep with their eyes open. Credit card companies also now have to play by the rules. In 2012, the bureau ordered three American Express subsidiaries to pay out $85 million to over 250,000 customers they screwed over through illegal practices.
Warren managed to do all of this even while the GOP did everything in their power to cockblock it. And when they failed that mission, they bitched and moaned and managed to prevent her from being nominated head of the CFPB. She then used their tantrum as a pathway to run for Senate.
And she won. Easily.
3. In only three years, she has sponsored at least 36 bills, including the Equal Employment Act for All, the Schedules That Work Act, the Trade Transparency Act, and the Fed Accountability Act. She consistently fights for legislation that champions for womens rights, paid family leave, low-wage workers, fair trade and affordable education.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/9/1524727/-Elizabeth-Warren-s-List-of-Accomplishments-is-Bigger-than-Trump-s-Hanging-Chad
Obama urged her to run for the Senate after the GOP tried to destroy her nomination to chair an agency she created. She withdrew her name after repeated attacks because they feared her.
Hahahaha. Now she is the senior Senator from MA and they fear her more.
Boom. In a short time she has done more than most have in their lifetime.
Elizabeth.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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That's not true at all. Forget Patrick Buchanan/Ralph Nader/Katherine Harris/butterfly ballot?
George II
Oct 2019
#9
Al has but he does chide the "gatekeepers" aka; corporate media conglomerates.
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
#11
So where does he blame Bill Clinton? The premise of your post was it was Clinton's fault.
George II
Oct 2019
#25
That is the premise of my previous post, I never said Al blamed Bill in that video but
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
#30
I lived through that, the LAST thing I would do is blame Bill Clinton for Gore's "loss".
George II
Oct 2019
#32
I didn't believe you would but on that we're in sharp disagreement although as
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
#34
Back in 2000 we didn't have the "corporate media conglomerates" like some think we have today....
George II
Oct 2019
#38
1. If you actually listened to Al on that video, he referred to them as the "gatekeepers" and the
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
#42
You certainly are consistent in failing to ever provide objective evidence
LanternWaste
Nov 2019
#73
Bill for all his political skills was poor on substance in not involving the best
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
#50
Wait...what? Your post blames Clinton's apocryphal "undercutting" of his vice president
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#87
YOU blamed Clinton. YOU said "NOTHING damaged Al Gore's chances more than Bill Clinton"
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#89
From day one of Bill Clinton's first term he was under attack for alleged sexual scandals,
Uncle Joe
Nov 2019
#92
YOUR post puts the primary blame for Gore's defeat squarely on Clinton's shoulders
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#96
YOU wrote that Bill Clinton did nothing but undercut Al Gore's efforts for 8 years.
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#103
Your claim is that Bill Clinton did "nothing but undercut" Al Gore for 8 years.
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#109
Reading the Vanity Fair article did nothing to convince me of any merit to YOUR claim
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#111
Right, but it's SO much easier to blame Clinton with no proof whatsoever. Hillary forgave him...
George II
Oct 2019
#18
That was earth shaking when republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's "safe" Senate seat.
George II
Oct 2019
#53
NY had a Republican senator from 1981-1999 and a Republican governor from 1995-2006. N/T
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#93
Which "moderate states" did Al Gore lose? I don't see any. So now Bill Clinton is responsible...
George II
Oct 2019
#41
Really? The people who said Gore was the same as Bush had nothing to do with it?
NNadir
Oct 2019
#12
Thanks for the distraction, but I was talking about Michael Moore. Michael Moore endorsed...
NNadir
Nov 2019
#63
It's unbelievable that there are still apologists for Nader whose narcissism gave us Bush
redstateblues
Nov 2019
#76
Moore told voters right before the 2000 election that Gore was "the lesser of two evils".
lapucelle
Nov 2019
#98
It's really depressing how many issues people address with a mindless, singular catch all phrase.
NNadir
Nov 2019
#95
Sounds like MM endorses BS because he got arrested once in college for protesting.
betsuni
Oct 2019
#60