Neil Barofsky: U.S. 'Pretty Fucked'

[bhikkhu]

11. Note - those would be the meaningful changes blocked by repugs in congress

as in, the full implementation of the Dodd-Frank bill, applying the Volker Rule, and a list of things that didn't make it into the bill, but should be ready to get done if we don't elect another bunch of asshat Republicans to congress.

Which we probably will do; ironically, they use the same line - "the US is totally fucked!", but when they say it they don't mean that good legislation can't get passed, they mean that a Black Muslim Kenyan somehow became the president and nothing will ever be right again.