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A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8.
US District Judge Mark T. Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, granted a preliminary injunction to several business and banking organizations that allege the new rule violates several federal statutes.
These organizations, led by the right-leaning US Chamber of Commerce, sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the rule was finalized in March. The rule, which was set to go into effect Tuesday, would save consumers about $10 billion per year by cutting fees from an average of $32, the CFPB estimated.
Stop ordering progressives to be happy with centrism.
I’m not happy with centrism. The term is progressive for a reason. If you abandon all progress short of the goal, you’re not progressing. That just leads to party division, disenfranchisement, and Republican regression. Liberal policies of today were the progressive legislation of the past.
Stop trying to redefine “progressive” to mean “slow walking progress.”
The government is slow, not the ideals. What you fail to understand is that liberal policies that you take for granted today were the progressive policies of the past. You’ll never reach the goal if you discredit and discard everything that comes up short.
Your willful ignorance to recognize that half the nation is in opposition of liberal and progressive ideals is what leads you to point the finger at those who understand that compromise is necessary when Democrats don’t have full control of the government.
If Democrats could successfully maintain presidential and congressional majority for an extended period, politicians would be forced to become more progressive to capture more of the vote. That requires unity, not division.
I understand that progressives fought for them in the past and centrists didn’t, often fighting against them, just like today. Contentment does not produce progress. Which is why people who don’t want progress call discontent divisive.
What the successful progressives of the past understood, that you clearly don’t, is that the opposition to progressives and liberals is Republicans. They succeeded in passing progressive legislation through unity.
Find me a piece of successful legislation passed exclusively by progressive members of Congress. I’ll wait.
That dynamic has changed. The opposition to progressives is liberals and Republicans.
I hope you like Republicans in office. Because that’s how you get Republicans in office.
Ah, the primary centrist thought-terminating cliche. Was wondering when you were gonna use that.
Why don’t you tell us who Bernie supported and voted for for president the last few cycles, and then tell us why you think you’re smarter than him.
Same as me: the least shitty option.
I’m voting for Biden this time around, too. I voted for Clinton in '16. And I’m going to gripe about it the whole fucking time.
That doesn’t mean that centrists oppose Republicans harder than they oppose progressives, and it doesn’t mean they don’t work with Republicans to shut down progressive policy.
Slow progress is still progress. It’s in the name.
One step forward is a step forward if you ignore all the steps back.
Progressives aren’t the one stepping back. We’re being dragged back by Republicans. Don’t blame us for that shit, we’re trying to move forward.
Progressives aren’t stepping anywhere thanks to the efforts of centrists and Republicans working together to block progressive policy.
“Centrists” in this case meaning who, specifically?