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[–] 125 points 2 years ago (1 child)

“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.”

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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."

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    [–] 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is absolutely bonkers, halts 10% of the US GDP overnight and will spark civil unrest if it goes on too long.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago (37 children)

    ... will spark civil unrest ...

    Don't tease me.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sadly, the civil unrest will be from Republicans who somehow blame everyone else for their dear leader taking a shit on the country, again.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Might actually break the spell. Granted, they’re morons, so it might not.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They do care about their own pocketbooks. Halting 10% of the economy is as bad or worse than Covid.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 88 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sadly, I worry the US needs to suffer badly if there is to be any hope of embracing real progress in the future.

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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Where the fuck is Congress?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago*

    He makes the ferengi look generous and benevolent.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I saw in another post on this that it could also impact student loans federal 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.

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