“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.”
🤮 🤮 🤮🤮 🤮 🤮
I fucking hate these people so much… “The things that aim to improve peoples lives don’t enrich my donors or please the hateful heritage foundation so they’re bad.”
“those we serve” aka shareholders
This is absolutely bonkers, halts 10% of the US GDP overnight and will spark civil unrest if it goes on too long.
… will spark civil unrest …
Don’t tease me.
They want that so they have an excuse to deploy the military against civilians.
He’s already said he’s thinking of using the insurrection act to invoke martial law within the next 90 days.
I can’t stand comments like this. You act like civil unrest won’t get people hurt, or maybe even killed.
Birthing pains, bro. Birthing pains.
Positive change doesn’t come without sacrifice.
If you wanna make an omelette, some people gotta die.
Easy to say that on the internet. I don’t see anybody picking up their pitch forks to stop this.
Maybe crack a history book sometime and check out how we got all the nice freedoms we have now 😂
The history books for this haven’t been written…
History tends to repeat itself. And clearly we haven’t learned any lessons, so it’s gonna repeat itself again.
German history 1933-1945.
We tried back in November, but too many people were screeching about BlUeMaGa, bOtHSiDeS and gEnoCiDe jOe
So it is what it is
Those folks pale in comparison to the Dems not bothering to say they’d change anything.
Trump: IM GOING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY
Dems: We’re not going to do that and we’ll do A and B
You: WHAT ABOUT Z AND Y!!! FUCK YOU WE’LL GIVE THIS COUNTRY TO TRUMP000!!!
Or rather, people continuously excused the rightward shift of Democrats, resulting in them thinking they dint need to be responsible to responding to their base, which they largely abandoned.
But sure, keep blaming the voters instead of those that held power and could have actually changed strategy.
We already had an answer for that, RCV and other FPTP alternatives were spreading just fine, all that had to happen was to keep Orange Face out of office last election and the Democrats would have fallen later. After Drump was in jail and MAGA imploded
But nooo, y’all fell for quite possibly a right-wing propaganda campaign and now we’re all paying for it
But we sure taught the DNC a lesson at those polls amiright!
Uh… have you been living under a rock? There have been multiple assassination attempts recently, one successful.
One successful? What are you talking about, the shooter in the first one ended up dead.
They didn’t even catch him:
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Rights are written in blood.
I can’t stand comments like this. You act like people aren’t going to be hurt and die without civil unrest.
I would agree with you if they had mentioned people getting violent, but instead their tone is more like they hope something causes a change. They are not gleefully wishing for violence here imo
Hard to tell, I was pointing out the joking tone of it. Bcz civil unrest isn’t a joke, whether it’s warranted or not. It ends up being scary for a lot of people.
We are well past the point of shit being scary for a lot of people.
Agreed. I took it as gallows humor. But who knows. We are fucked right now.
Since you’re wondering aloud –
Fascists control the US federal government, and many state governments. There will be violence. The only questions are who starts it, when, how much, and who wins.
It’s coming, let’s get it over with so we can be done with this dark hour in history more quickly.
It’s a little frightening that you think there’s much chance it benefits anybody other than the fascists.
This isn’t the pre-revolutionary era where a large amount of people would effectively take up arms and pose a credible threat.
They have the mechanisms of government, they have the militias, they have the backing of a significant chunk of the populace, they have the most businessmen, they have their own locked down media ecosystem, etc etc.
We can look to N Korea and Russia and see that a population can indeed be stabilized under modern totalitarian rule, it just took some practice for humanity to learn how to pull it off. And you want to roll the dice on this now, here?
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Sadly, the civil unrest will be from Republicans who somehow blame everyone else for their dear leader taking a shit on the country, again.
Might actually break the spell. Granted, they’re morons, so it might not.
It won’t. These people are stupid enough to cheer him on after his first term in office ended with a fucking insurrection. They don’t give two shits about law or anyone else.
They do care about their own pocketbooks. Halting 10% of the economy is as bad or worse than Covid.
These morons were fine with covid except when it affected them personally, and even then they didn’t care enough to vote against the person who undermined the covid response. They never blamed the Republicans for shutting down the government multiple times for no reason other than to obstruct a Dem president.
They are too stupid to link this to their suffering. They will just blame Dems based on whatever the orange turd says.
Jesus… This will directly and unequivocally shrink the economy. That money? It’s paid to businesses for services. He just fucked our GDP.
And it’s going to disproportionately affect red states, because those are the states that receive the most federal grants.
They want to kill off the little fish that need that money. Also, this is a death nail for most nonprofits. Nonprofit, is a dirty word to oligarchs. Why do good things for no personal gain?! Watch for profit large corporations snap up assets and market shares of services previously provided by nonprofits and charities.
Everything he’s done so far, and most of what he will do, will be bad for our economy
Which is the point.
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This is straight up just misinformation, delete this. Deep seek is not a source.
I didn’t reference it as a source you need to get a grip lol
It’s as accurate as me roughly working it out would be.
Buddy if you have even a napkin math model that can predict this with confidence, you’re going to win the nobel for economics.
Can you share the source for this image? This is fucking huge.
Just done it myself with deepseek. Fed in a list of the executive orders and got it to model scenarios and knock on effects.
That’s worse case, if he manages to deport a significant % of immigrants, retains all funding freezes, doesn’t have anything knocked back in court.
Just realised any tariffs that go into effect are not included in that estimate either.
I do know their limitations. They’re data manipulators and interpreters not generators. All the numbers were verified.
They’re what??
So… the numbers are just made up.
Forgot this place was still trying to convince itself ai hadn’t improved since 2021.
Numbers were all verified and referenced. Although some are inherently estimates (# undocumented, etc)
If you were able to verify the numbers and references generated by the AI, why wouldn’t you just post that? The text generated by something even worse than the latest chatGPT model isn’t exactly compelling evidence.
Source? An AI said it was true.
Tell me you didn’t just post a screenshot of AI slop.
Yeah, a lot of this is congressional mandated funding. You can’t just take that away with the swipe of a pen. If congressional doesn’t act, or many lawsuits don’t get filed to challenge this, we really are living in the beginnings of a fascist regime, and we are meekly accepting it.
we really are living in the beginnings of a fascist regime, and we are meekly accepting it.
Ding ding ding
The thing is, you can maybe take it to court, but the suspension itself while a court examines it might be disruptive.
It looks like there are a number of federal loans preferentially extended to a number of groups (black-owned businesses, female-owned businesses, etc) by the Small Business Administration. If Trump intended to end minority-preferential lending, say, I could see that going over well with people who voted for him, but across-the-board temporary suspension while it’s evaluated seems to me like it’d make a lot of people out there who voted for him unhappy.
This guy is out to harm millions of Americans. If not corrected and just allowed to happen we’ll end up with a recession worse than 08. This is treason to willfully do this as president
Pfft, like this is the first time Trump committed treason
It is also treason to tell an angry armed mob to go to the capitol and fight fight fight but look at all those harsh penalties he got for that
Sadly, I worry the US needs to suffer badly if there is to be any hope of embracing real progress in the future.
After the Great Depression happened the largest wave of worker protections and regulations were passed in US history.
So maybe you’re not wrong, we just need a Great Depression 2 unfortunately
Unfortunately, the US wasn’t a fascist state after the great depression.
Need to? Nope. Is that what will happen? Probably, looking like that’s the only way it will happen
If it’s the only way it’ll happen, then it’s what needs to happen.
So yes, needs to is correct.
I was simply adding to what you said, that it was all avoidable if so many Americans weren’t morons
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If he guts VA benefits, that might be the nail in his coffin. He’s going to piss everyone off, then piss if trained killers even more.
Where the fuck is Congress?
Congress? You mean the two houses which are now firmly in control by Republicans. There there, and the Republican majority couldn’t give a fuck what Trump does, as long as it destroys American democratic institutions. They weren’t coy about this since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congress, this congress, the one which was just installed, and elected this past November, is going to sit back, and watch it all burn. Ask about The Supreme Court next.
Enjoying the fruits of their investments.
People get butthurt when you blame Democrats around here instead of the people doing it, but Democrats are just watching this shit go down.
Democrats have no majority, or control of any of the three [Legislative (Congress), Judicial (DOJ and Supreme Court), or Executive (Presidency)] branches of US Government, what would you have Democrats do, you know, without the Constitutional power to do it?
Beating other congressmen with a cane on the floor of the house would be a good start.
sure, that’d be awesome
Watching silently or outright supporting it. Harris swung to the right because that’s what leadership Dems saw Republicans doing and it worked for them. Any critisism of the tactic, here there everywhere, was silenced. The result was one of the most spectacular political losses of all time, but also…
That fake ass Democrats who were only ever using the party as cover now has been given space to step right.
He makes the ferengi look generous and benevolent.
I saw in another post on this that it could also impact
student loansfederal college grants since those funds are given directly to universities. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out as spring term begins in a month or two.Edited to use the right terminology.
OMB clarified that VA benefits and PELL Grants are not included.
I’m sure that’ll change in… Forty seconds or so but as it stands now, the leopards have delayed eating those faces for now.
As spring term begins in a month or two.
Me preparing for midterms: Eyes look to side, look forward meme.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-federal-grants-aid-pause-freeze-2021835
For now, it is not immediately clear exactly what will be impacted, although there is an exception for funding and grants paid directly to American citizens.
If this impacts farm and small business loans, I suspect that it is not going to take very long to produce a lot of political upset.
Trump advisor: “Sir, the debt limit is looming! Soon we won’t be able to pay out money to anything!”
Trump:" Even if the congress approved it to be spent, we could just not spend it? Legally?"
Advisor:" Well, yes, that is what the debt limit does…"
Trump:" How about just stop spending on the stuff we don’t like? You just said we could do that, even if it was approved…"
