Notes from the Resistance
American Express, Visa, Mastercard move ahead with code to track gun store purchases in California [More]
The moneyed elites pulling the strings want your guns confiscated.
Remember that if the day ever comes when you might think they could use some help.
[Via WiscoDave]
Treasury confirms terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump,’ Kamala,’ ‘Biden’ used in private bank transaction searches – A letter sent from the Treasury to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., also confirms the searches push began under the Trump administration [More]
I’m wondering why I can still pass thought TSA and Secret Service checkpoints, and think I need to up my “Hate” game more…
[Via Antigone]
“Please Give me the money, I’ll pay it back soon, Banker’s Gife (sic) to me in advance.” [More]
Life imitates art:
“Mohamed Worku”…?
Dare I presume he’s not from around here…?
[Via Steve T]
Faith leaders and religious liberty advocates are up in arms over news the federal government encouraged banks and other financial institutions to search customers’ private accounts using the search term “religious texts.” [More]
So now they’re all upset because it’s their ox getting gored?
Hey, you never know when Merrick and Chris might neeed to ID some extremists.
Funny, they were quiet when they came for MAGA supporters and for gun owners…
Starting to feel like useful idiots yet, “faith community“…?
Probably not, because that would require them not being idiots.
[Via Michael G]
GUCU is not barring members from purchasing firearms. GUCU members may use their debit cards for these purposes. The GUCU User Agreement described in this article is for use with their person-to-person payment service, which is operated through a third-party provider and allows for transactions using a phone or email. The terms described are required by the third-party providers. The person-to-person services are not mandatory, but when members opt in, the terms apply. [More]
We’ve known about @$$hole payment processors for some time… I’m wondering what’s different…
[Via Jess]
In Chicago and other cities, gunmen have been forcing people to unlock their phones with their pass codes or technology that recognizes thumbprints and faces, according to police. Once in, the robbers drain victims’ bank accounts. The payoff is often $1,000 or more — a lot more than criminals typically score by just stealing a wallet. [More]
While Democrats focus on enabling banks to disarm you.
Hey, how hard would it be to fake an app that looks like a bank icon and acts like you’re doing a transaction but actually works behind the facade to install a backdoor into the receiving account, and as a 911 call…?
[Via bondmen]
Jordan subpoenas Bank of America, continuing probe into bank info-sharing with FBI [More]
Now watch hyperventilating Democrats turn concerns over precrime snitchware development into “Republicans and NRA want more dead children!”
[Via Jess]
Ohio: Gun Owner Credit Card Privacy Bill Being Heard in Committee Tomorrow [More]
If you’re an Ohio gun owner and a regular around here, I shouldn’t need to explain why your voice is needed.
A male Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. supervisor in San Francisco invited employees to a strip club. A supervisor in Denver had sex with his employee, told other employees about it and pressed her to drink whiskey during work. Senior bank examiners texted female employees photos of their penises. All of the men remained employed at the agency. [More]
And when the house of cards collapses and burns, ordinary lives throughout the land are ruined, and the elites get richer, how many of the derelict guards who let it happen on their watch while they ignored their duties and reveled in self-serving corruption will be called to account?
And why is the insider, whose desk the buck supposedly stops at, not even mentioned? What color is his parachute?
At least any bank left standing will still have Merchant Category Codes…
DOJ Warns Financial Institutions That They Can’t Reject Illegal Immigrants’ Credit Applications [More]
But rejecting gun businesses is A-OK as far as the @$$hole feds are concerned.
[Via Michael G]
Gun Manufacturer Ruger Alleges Discrimination from Wells Fargo in Letter to Texas Lawmakers – The gun company is asking state lawmakers to investigate why the Texas Attorney General’s Office concluded the banking giant didn’t discriminate against them. [More]
Why didn’t Tucker ask Ken Paxton about that?
It’s not the first time I’ve scratched my head.
Ol’ Wells Fargo sure has changed…
And Ruger knows a thing or two about discriminating.
[Via Jess]
Bank of America Turns Over Information on Gun Owners to the FBI [More]
Bastard snitches.
I’m wondering if lawsuits by customers and then by shareholders might be in the cards…
And if there’s ever a change in administrations, criminal prosecutions…
A coalition of 14 attorneys general condemned payment networks majors including Visa Inc, American Express Co and Mastercard Inc for pausing work on a merchant code to help detect suspicious gun sales in the United States. [More]
That tells me everything I need to know.
Why is Reuters calling state attorneys general “U.S. attorneys general”?
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
Senators Menendez, Warren urge regulators to support new gun sale code [More]
And that tells me everything I need to know, too.
[Via Steve T]
Silicon Valley Bank Spent $74 Million on Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Causes [More]
No worries. Buying Swamp politicians means help is on the way.
You know, for “small investors.”
[Via bondmen]
SVB Failure Sparks Blame Game Over Trump-Era Regulatory Rule [More]
Yeah, more central government control, that’s always the answer, because they do so well at everything else. Plus it’s in the Constitution somewhere, isn’t it?
The less someone’s actions are regulated, the more they bear responsibility for them. It’s like a law of nature or something. Meanwhile, the major banks think it’s good business to collude on policies that alienate tens of millions of Second Amendment-believing gun owners.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman calls on the US government to consider a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank if private investors won’t step up [More]
Visa, Mastercard Pause Work on Code Aimed at Tracking Gun Purchases [More]
Let’s hope one of the “legal concerns” is what their liability would be should one of their “suspicious activity report” snitch tips result in customer death(s) from an overreacting SWAT response.
[Via WiscoDave]
Whistleblower: FBI’s D.C. Office Tried To Sic Local Agents On Innocents After Bank Of America Volunteered Gun Records… ‘Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, datamined its customer base,’ whistleblower George Hill told the House Judiciary Committee. [More]
Who’s still doing business with them?
I wonder how many “staunch defenders of the Second Amendment” are on this list and ready to vote “bailout” when called upon…
[Via Michael G]
Hemorrhaging losses, the Fed’s problems are now the taxpayer’s [More]
They always have been.
That those calling to audit the fed are either ridiculed or ignored should tell us everything we need to know about our “representatives” and the “watchdog press.”
But if the merchant codes don’t go to the SKU (stock keeping unit) level and identify specific items purchased, some may question what the big deal is. For that, look to the proponents of the codes and how they have announced they intend to use them. [More]
The rope-selling “capitalists” don’t seem to realize what historically happens when their usefulness is up.
Wells Fargo Cancels Prominent Florida Gun Dealer’s Accounts, Implies it Won’t Work With Gun Companies [More]
Dale Robertson shakes his head.
So why continue to bail out frauds?
[Via Henry Bowman]
Florida’s new agriculture commissioner proposes ban on Merchant Category Codes for gun, ammo purchases [More]
ICYMI:
[Via Jess]
NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, condemned the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Martin J. Gruenberg as Chair and Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Gruenberg led the FDIC from 2011-2018, during which the Obama administration conducted the illegal Operation Choke Point scheme to deny banking services to firearm businesses. NSSF opposed his confirmation in the strongest terms as he has already demonstrated a lack of respect for the law and unparalleled disdain for the Constitutionally-protected firearm and ammunition industry. [More]
Confirmed by voice vote to protect the Vichycons from accountability. Any gun owner familiar with the Hughes Amendment knows the type of treason that allows the self-serving tyrannical bastards to get away with.
See any Senate Republicans demanding to end that practice and record all votes?
The removal of Denise George comes just days after she filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase in New York and accused the company of helping Epstein finance the illegal exploitation of women and children in the U.S. Virgin Islands and beyond. Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. did not provide a reason for relieving George of her duties… [More]
You mean the Democrat governor…?
I don’t suppose powerful connections have anything to do with it…
It’s confusing, though, if JP Morgan really did profit from Epstein’s escapades, why did it reportedly take such a blue-nosed approach during Operation Chokepoint and try to … uh … stiff porn stars? [More]
Not all perversions are sexual.
For some reason, the IT term “GIGO” (Garbage In, Garbage Out) comes to mind. That and Priscilla Sims Brown sitting at her desk in a trance asking, “Magic 8 Ball: Should I report this purchase to the feds?” and then acting on its response. [More]
Who knew Amalgamated kept a trio of precogs in a tank over at HQ?
Gillibrand calls upon feds to implement advisory for financial institutions to report suspicious gun purchases [More]
What an evil political whore.
And I can prove it.
I’ve got a new AmmoLand article on the bank codes I have yet to promote here. I had solo granddaughter duty for 3 hours today and I’m behind on everything.
[Via Jess]
