VA just called and approved my upcoming colonoscopy so by me, they are still funded and up and running. The dumbest thing Trump could do is to gut Social Security and the VA....talk about losing votes....folks have no idea how many vets and seniors are reliant upon their benefits to survive...want to increase homelessness? Shutter the VA and Social Security
Seems like it would be a huge overreach by the Executive Branch. Should make for a tough decision for "Trump's" Supreme Court.
They ruled out Social Security, Medicare, and other payments for "individuals". Who knows at this point. The MAGA crew are literally making this up as they go.
You wouldn't by chance have an EXACT address of said actions are occurring? Just want to make sure I stay way clear of there. #BAM
Man you're wasting your time trying to compare the posting styles of Barfo and the guy from the Montana compound
some of the services that lost funding in the unconstitutional freeze by Trump are things like safe drinking water EPA, suicide prevention hotline, health care services for homeless or disabled people, doctors without borders, lots of emergency services. Medical clinics. At a time when shelter, well being and health care as well as mental illness are front page issues, gutting them will amplify their impact on our society. Nothing good comes of this. We are now a govt of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires and fuck the people. Congress according to the constitution has the purse strings, not the executive branch of govt. Already we are witnessing the selling of democracy to the empowered 1% of the population who will now own and control everything you use or buy. Trump is accomplishing what JP Morgan tried to do.
I do post about other things besides politics from time to time, when those topics arise, which is rare. You may want to take a look at all the thread topics in the OT section sometime, and the fact there is a clear political bend with an infatuation for an orange person as the theme for 90% of them. You also may take a look at who starts these threads. It isn’t me. Single me out all you want but just know you’re doing it with blinders on.
So, Trump has basically moved to remove transgendered people from the military and from existence. He's removing decades and decades of equality protections to hurt the rights of minorities. He's shutting down federal funding for poor people, a lot of those minorities. He's ordered the stoppage of life saving medicines in poor countries across the world, in what looks like an attempt to purge a large number of the population. It will certainly cause endemics if not another pandemic. His war on immigrants is causing farms to not have workers so prices will go up further. He's inacting tariffs, so prices will go up further. This is only what week 2-3. He's got what 163 more weeks to come after the rest of the LBTGQ community, to come after minorities, to maybe come after you. Pretty soon we will likely see him stop sending funds to blue states. Sounds like project 25 is up and running. For those of you who said this wouldn't be bad, or that he wouldn't do any crazy shit, you can take your heads out of your asses now, or at least admit you knew/hoped he'd do all this, and wanted it the whole time.
Busy news day allows this huge news to fly under the radar https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...obbling-agency-amid-legal-battles-2025-01-28/
I have some family that’s lived in St Helen’s for 30 years. They say there’s sister cousins just out of town. I take their word for it.
eggs are a reflection of chicken layer pellets and scratch going from 22 bucks for two bags to 40 bucks for two bags...it's almost not worth having chickens with the doubled cost in feed. I justify it by valuing them for pest control, composting and manure but even having chickens now the cost of feeding them has made it less worthwhile for sure. I'm undecided upon getting new chics in the spring
Daily reminder that if you voted for Trump this is all your fault. You are responsible for the downfall of the country. And just another reminder, when you lose something from all this, no one will feel sorry for you. I do however, feel awful for the people who were and are and are going to be affected that DIDNT vote for trump. You fucked everything up with voting for Trump. You are to blame. This is your fault.
