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American exceptionalism.
 

The cruelty is the point.

The gqp wants black people to die so that white people can eventually replace them. It’s crazy, but that’s what they want.
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SIAP, but this is gonna blow up in a big way tomorrow.

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President Donald Trump’s budget office Monday ordered a total freeze on “all federal financial assistance” that could be targeted under his previous executive orders pausing funding for a wide range of priorities — from domestic infrastructure and energy projects to diversity-related programs and foreign aid.

The new order could affect billions of dollars in grants to state and local governments while causing disruptions to programs that benefit many households. There was also widespread confusion over how the memo would be implemented and whether it would face legal challenges.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891

 

More from Roll Call here:

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As written the pause could affect a big swath of programs that aid lower-income households, including: Medicaid; school breakfast and lunch programs; Section 8 rental assistance; Title I education grants; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; state grants for child care; Head Start; and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. 

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Program and EPA grants to states and localities for clean water infrastructure — both of which fund a large chunk of congressional earmarks each year — could also be impacted.

Foreign aid grants are likely to be put on hold as well as clean energy projects, as those are specifically named in earlier executive orders.

https://rollcall.com/2025/01/27/trump-white-house-orders-freeze-on-federal-grants-loans/

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13 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

"Most post mortems" that I've heard do not mention Christian Nationalism or Project 2025 at all. That's likely because the people doing post mortems didn't like talking about the former and used the latter as shorthand as though everybody knew exactly what it was in their analyses leading up to the election.

They narrow-mindedly focus on things that are easy and habitual. The best example of this is the way they focus on the tiny percentage of the vote that they claim determines outcome. They're obsessed with the horserace aspect of coverage. If only the Dem horse had a bigger nose. Look at the horses in toto.

Among the elephants (mixed metaphors, anyone?) which they ignore in what must be a gigantic room, is what the majority as a whole voted for. A totally amoral man has been elected president. The voters know this because they regularly rationalize away his vile and wicked deeds or embrace them. Those who didn't vote gave silent approval. I can say this because every aspect of Trump's character is public. Even so, analysts shy from talk of morality because it's subjective. They shy from talking about religion because it's just not done.

I've seen nothing about those aspects of the election in the analyses I've heard on the radio, seen linked from here, or viewed on TV news.

I make myself tiresome by repeating this; they don't grasp the new paradigm. I don't know whether that's laziness or timidity. We're not talking about stupid people, so it's not ignorance.

Dem messaging is exceptionally low in the list of considerations about what just happened in November. They've tried lots of stuff that doesn't work because they still operate like a political party pressing a policy agenda. That's what they are. The war being waged by the GOPs has succeeded in marginalizing Dems as socialist enemies of democracy. All of this while Donald Trump is gutting government to build a fief.

Long post. Sorry about that. 

Dem messaging is near the top of considerations as to what just happened.  People who should have been locks to vote dem stayed home in the millions. 
 

You realize this election was really close and could very well have turned on the demographic groups I mentioned yes? And these are people who have consistently complained about not being listened to by the Democratic Party. You don’t have to convince me they’re wrong, you have to convince them. 
 

kind of like all the should be dem voters in Harris County that continue to stay home because they have felt ignored for the past 3 decades. They keep telling the dems this and the dems don’t learn

 

 

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7 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

It doesn't make a shit whether he's on the golf course or in the Oval Office.  He's an incompetent moron.

It's the worker bees from Project 2025 we have to worry about.  He's an empty, regard-charismatic, stupid, narcissistic vessel they're using to launch fascism. 

You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

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11 minutes ago, Elvis said:

You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

What has he accomplished? 

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Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

What has he accomplished? 

 incompetent terror 

yes lobo can have the band name. 

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4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

What has he accomplished? 

I'm not saying he's right, but he's doing stuff.  Otherwise, why would you care if he's president and oppose him?  This thread is 137 pages long....so far.

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21 minutes ago, Elvis said:

You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

Being incompetent, and hiring incompetents (Hegseth,) is a national terror. Nuance. Go ask Esposito.

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1 minute ago, Elvis said:

I'm not saying he's right, but he's doing stuff.  Otherwise, why would you care if he's president and oppose him?  This thread is 137 pages long....so far.

Yes, he’s doing stuff. Cool. I oppose him because he’s a traitorous POS

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12 minutes ago, Elvis said:

I'm not saying he's right, but he's doing stuff.  Otherwise, why would you care if he's president and oppose him?  This thread is 137 pages long....so far.

He’s done stuff. There you have it. 

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33 minutes ago, Elvis said:

You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

yes, he is, and what you are seeing is the national and world terror (from some, obv not all) that he is, indeed, doing what he said he was going to do. some of those things he said he was going to do - and is doing - are things that many people screamed from the rooftop only an incompetent would do. i mean the other really active thread is people realizing oh shit, yes he is doing what he said he would do and they are now terrified. 

it can be both.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-exile-us-criminals-b2687309.html?utm_source=reddit.com

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President Donald Trump on Monday told Republican members of the House that he would launch a plan to subject recidivist American criminals to a punishment never before used in the United States and last used in the United Kingdom nearly two centuries ago: Forced exile.

Greenland is going to be our penal colony isn't it?? 🤣 it's all making sense now!

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just a fyi for mags ...

California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far.
 
In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it received.
 
Louisiana took $34.5 billion more federal dollars than it paid.

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just a fyi for mags ...
California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far.
 
In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it received.
 
Louisiana took $34.5 billion more federal dollars than it paid.

It has always been this way. California is basically keeping several other states a float but no Republican will ever know or admit this.
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Yes, he’s doing stuff. Cool. I oppose him because he’s a traitorous POS

And a convicted felon who is supposed to set a precedence for Americans.
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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, sasquatch69 said:

Looks like many of the EOs and memos released so far still had metadata on them showing they were authored by … the architects of Project 2025. Color me shocked. 
 

https://www.mediaite.com/news/federal-agency-scrubs-metadata-after-memo-exposes-authors-were-affiliated-with-controversial-project-2025/

"Sherk, formerly of the Heritage Foundation, has argued for eliminating workers who “want [to] be a political activist on the job” and replacing them with staff who align with presidential policy goals."

Some animals are more equal than others.

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9 minutes ago, troph said:

JD’s not going to bring reason and accountability if he rises to power. He’s arguably more dangerous because he can look the part of a traditional politician. 

And, he actually understands and probably better knows how to implement the P2025 agenda.

HOWEVER, unlike Trump, he can't cover it all with a veneer of "hilarious bigotry" and would be massively unpopular.

I think things would actually be worse under Vance, but I am also relatively certain it would mean the complete electoral destruction of the GOP.

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29 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Oh no big deal- just Trump and Project 2025 assholes usurping the power of the purse from Congress and creating a constitutional crisis. It’s Day 9

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

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2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

They'll probably do this, but it is diametrically opposed to their reasons for dismantling the administrative state.  At least the ostensible, political philosophy reasons:  that Congress impermissibly delegates its authority to executive agencies and that is undemocratic.

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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And, he actually understands and probably better knows how to implement the P2025 agenda.

HOWEVER, unlike Trump, he can't cover it all with a veneer of "hilarious bigotry" and would be massively unpopular.

I think things would actually be worse under Vance, but I am also relatively certain it would mean the complete electoral destruction of the GOP.

I’ve given up the hope that GOP is long term turbo fucked. Unless a state like Texas, Florida or Ohio flips reliably we are in deep doo doo. That doesn’t even consider the internal gerrymandering of state congressional districts that further compounds the issue. GOP has a broader territorial reach in our modern electoral politics. 

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Just now, troph said:

I’ve given up the hope that GOP is long term turbo fucked. Unless a state like Texas, Florida or Ohio flips reliably we are in deep doo doo. That doesn’t even consider the internal gerrymandering of congressional districts that further compounds the issue. GOP has a broader territorial reach in our modern electoral politics. 

You raise a valid point about the subtle GOP takeover of state legislatures and congressional delegations.

But, at least at the federal level, I think the GOP is going to have a massive problem on their hands when they lose Trump, however that occurs.  Once they can't cover this shit with "hilarious bigotry," they're going to have a rough time and the more insidious portions of their agenda will be more front and center.

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You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

Do you want to know who Trump is? He’s this guy:

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He’s just signing whatever shit is placed in front of him. He doesn’t read the EOs. He understands next to nothing about them. As long as he’s able to line his pockets he doesn’t give AF what insane policy is put in place. Therefore, he’s both a moron and a national terror.
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

You raise a valid point about the subtle GOP takeover of state legislatures and congressional delegations.

But, at least at the federal level, I think the GOP is going to have a massive problem on their hands when they lose Trump, however that occurs.  Once they can't cover this shit with "hilarious bigotry," they're going to have a rough time and the more insidious portions of their agenda will be more front and center.

Until the democrats learn to fight back I just don’t see it. I mean shit they are maddeningly silent right now. Just a bunch of political imbeciles. 

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Fight Come At Me GIF by Indiana Jones
 

this scene is the dems - fancy ideas the best ideas and they think it’s enough. they fail to realize they brought a knife to a gun fight and are done before the fight starts. 

learn how to fight stop assuming the pure ideas will win the day. 

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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

just a fyi for mags ...

California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far.
 
In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it received.
 
Louisiana took $34.5 billion more federal dollars than it paid.

 

1 hour ago, Nivek said:


It has always been this way. California is basically keeping several other states a float but no Republican will ever know or admit this.

yeah, and yet they cheer on, re: Texags, the notion that California should secede. Cutting loose the 5th largest economy in the world doesn't seem like a good idea.

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16 minutes ago, troph said:

Until the democrats learn to fight back I just don’t see it. I mean shit they are maddeningly silent right now. Just a bunch of political imbeciles. 

Well, I think a lot of this shit is going to turn out to be massively unpopular.  But Trump is a genius at deflecting blame and dodging accountability.

I think it comes home to roost on whoever replaces him.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

JD’s not going to bring reason and accountability if he rises to power. He’s arguably more dangerous because he can look the part of a traditional politician. 

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

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23 hours ago, F250 said:

I forgot that you are the Salesforce tech support guy that peddles misinformation in the CR.

Your life has been a waste.

A bit of an aside, but the market seems to love Salesforce's AI story as they are at $366 (up 5.5%) and looking to break their all-time high PR. Stassney, are you mega rich from accumulating the stock for a decade or what?

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this is horrible, not that trump or musk give a shit ....

Tomorrow, 42 million Americans might not be able to buy food after Trump shuts down SNAP payments at 5:00 p.m. Students will have to drop out of college if they don't get their student loans.

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25 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

It was a cult of personality but now it’s not. Project 2025 is the platform and the philosophy is trumpism. 

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6 minutes ago, troph said:

It was a cult of personality but now it’s not. Project 2025 is the platform and the philosophy is trumpism. 

Yeah.  The conservative media empire used Trump to create a cult of personality because it expedited their goal.  But this has its genesis in the Tea Party and beyond.  This is the culmination of about 30 years of work by a bunch of absolute ghouls, and I don't think it's ending with Trump's demise.

 

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37 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

Vance has no appeal to anyone outside of the alt-right, and they don't even really like him because he looks kinda gay and has an Indian wife. We'd be lucky long-term if Trump died on the shitter and Vance had to take over the mantle of Trumpism. He might be temporarily more effective at implementing certain shit, but he would be much less resistant to normal political pressures than Trump's celebrity allows him to be and the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Vance has no appeal to anyone outside of the alt-right, and they don't even really like him because he looks kinda gay and has an Indian wife. We'd be lucky long-term if Trump died on the shitter and Vance had to take over the mantle of Trumpism. He might be temporarily more effective at implementing certain shit, but he would be much less resistant to normal political pressures than Trump's celebrity allows him to be and the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

This is true.  Trump is the only one with a cult following.  DeSantis tried being Trump without the baggage and got nowhere.

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If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

 

he's going to drop a TON of new rules / regs on the woke universities 

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23 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

I kind of agreed with everything you said before this.  But I think the conservative media would slob his knob, or Vivek's, or Noem's, or anybody's, and it would work.  They are spoon feeding whatever they want to half the country.  They convinced people that being an intellectual is a bad thing, that Fauci is a monster, etc.  They can sell absolutely anything and anyone to that horde.

Hell, Joe Rogan and others have helped this party of crusty old white men somehow connect better with young people.  Even Latinos got on board.  The right completely controls the flow of information to half the country, to the point that they think anything contrary is a lie or a plot.  They can make JD Vance, or anyone else, a star.  If Joe Rogan decides that Vance is awesome, then he is.

And all of this will be compounded by the upcoming liberal exodus from this country.

I see nothing that points to anything but a very long run of power for them.

I want to be wrong.  But this is a perfect storm for them.  Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

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Let me explain how this pause on federal grants and assistance is going to go:

1. It’s going to hurt a lot of people and cause job losses and missed rent payments and service shutdowns. DJT voters will be hit hardest. 

2.  Some of it will be turned back on but worse and with his cronies grifting.

3.  DJT will announce that he fixed it just like he turned on the faucet in California and people will believe it. 

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Quick update on the current status of higher ed: shit show

 

We already have students who have trouble with FAFSA, so this is going to take it to another level. This also impacts those students who have Pell Grants as well, which is just cruel.

I’m having an emergency meeting with all departments within my division (I’m the dean) on what to do in case ICE shows up on campus because faculty are freaking out. We in administration are having a hard time telling if students not showing up yesterday and today are because they were just lost on campus, forgot class began, or are scared of ICE showing up. 

I just thought of this. I don't work in financial aid but a student just told me yesterday she just got her financial aid cleared and she was hoping it would get disbursed before tomorrow's tuition deadline. I told her to contact the accounting office/accounts payable to tell them that FinAid is coming, and most likely it will be fine.................................. That answer just got a bit more complicated if she relies on a Pell Grant. 

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9 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

I just thought of this. I don't work in financial aid but a student just told me yesterday she just got her financial aid cleared and she was hoping it would get disbursed before tomorrow's tuition deadline. I told her to contact the accounting office/accounts payable to tell them that FinAid is coming, and most likely it will be fine.................................. That answer just got a bit more complicated if she relies on a Pell Grant. 

You also know that there is a 24 year old Liberty University graduate who is put in charge of some of the decisions because they volunteered as Trump organizer in one of the red states.



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