Jay Weber Show transcript 4-17-25
I love winning.
I will never get tired of winning. And I’ve got a stack of wins here that are smaller-but significant- and that you probably won’t hear of otherwise.
The first win is against senator Liz Warren’s ugly baby- the consumer financial protection bureau.
It was about this time last year that squats with unions got Biden’s white house to force a new rule on credit card late fees into place.
And like everything Liz Warren proposes it might sound reasonable in a sentence. But then the actual plan is stupid and deceptive.
And-as always seems to be the case with warren proposals-it ends up being unconstitutional.
Yesterday a federal judge threw out a rule that capped all credit card late fees at eight dollars.
See?
Sounds reasonable.
But the banking and lending industries say such a regulation would have simply led to a shell game in which the credit card companies and banks simply would have had to charge more for their-other-fees…or even cut back other perks…like rewards.
The reason is: contrary to what squats and AOC and Bernie Sanders want to claim: these companies are not ‘screwing people’. On fees.
They insist-there is a cost- to consumers not paying their bills on time-
And for the business model to work- those delinquents need to be charged the costs of the ‘lost business’...or everyone else will be required to pay.
Moreover- it was the US chamber of commerce and the American bankers association that brought the lawsuit- saying the financial protection bureau exceeded its statutory authority in about five different ways.
There always seem to be 15 unintended consequences to any democrat proposal. Because so few of them have ever been in the private sector- and yet- they pretend to know how everything works. They just end up screwing everything up.
But any time Liz Warren’s unconstitutional, irrational consumer financial protection bureau takes a loss-that’s a win for the country.
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Next win. I love this: Trump’s Ag Secretary says the fed govt will be bringing back timber and mineral production-
Timber production to start managing our national forests again, and preventing deadly wildfires-
And mineral production for important tech and national security reasons.
And it sounds like Trump’s regulators are simply going to shred and bulldoze through the thick net of silly environmental regulations that the leftists have put around logging and mining as a way to ..quote. Protect our forests…which has really been about blocking necessary forest management and/or important public projects.
Brooke Rollins is our AG Sect now-and says she is ordering the expansion of eight mining projects the feds currently oversee-and says she’s fast-tracking at least 8 more mining projects…as well as authorized more mineral exploration.
Those are huge. Huge wins, after decades of increasingly caving into the eco-zealots for no reason.
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In fact- just this week- we got word that the Trump administration intends to overhaul the endangered species act to erase all the abuse of it- by the activist left. This would genuinely be ‘epic’
And Scalia was basically looking into the future, because ever since, the environmentalists have used this expansive definition of ‘harm’ to block all sorts of worthy projects and development…in the name of…the snail darter…and the delta smelt…and the prairie chicken. A .and the diamond turtle…and any other unique weed, cricket, or lizard that they could find on land that someone wanted to develop or put a pipeline under.
And it’s got to stop.
Other countries laugh at us for not being able to ‘build things’ anymore. Even with a streamlined federal and state permitting process-we’ve got public works projects that have been on the books for 10, 20, 30 years.
Many others have been blocked-permanently- over a toad or a turtle.
Some of the examples in a wash times story are laughable:
My friends- modifying the endangered species act to take it away from the eco-zealots as a cutesy way to kill off all worthy development projects-would be massive. Massive win. We’ll keep our eye on this one, because it would be huge. And considering the so-called chevron case recently, and a few other decisions this current supreme court has made that finally reign in a runaway administrative state-and all of the lefty activists within our EPA, and USDA, and interior dept-etc.-
I cannot see ‘this court’s siding with the eco-zealots on this definition change.
It’d be a massive win.
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Here’s another major Trump move to watch: his white house is also going to try to erase silly climate laws that have been passed in the states- that waste taxpayer money and only defraud and bully the public.
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes:
Can you imagine if Trump kills off scores of global warming laws and carbon credit schemes…cap-and-trade laws…and state taxes on fossil fuel companies…which have become popular within the last few years?
This will have the eco-zealots and the green energy bullies leaping out of windows and hanging themselves from ‘environmentally sustainable rafters’...
Ugh. I want to see trump trash all these state laws and have the supreme court make it clear: local and state governments cannot try to dictate national policy.
Man-that’d be great.
As one energy expert says: the trump admin is adding the power and weight of the federal government to the legal challenges that the energy companies have against these blue cities and stats….and based on the law…we can expect many of these extortionist global warming laws to get rolled back or erased.
My god- wouldn’t that be a wonderful win for America?
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