Politics-What's on your mind?

[clay]

[QUOTE=GeorgiaMa'am;1295836]

Originally Posted by clay

Without a vote in Florida? Isn't that like, skipping over the voters?

Exactly! He even created his own maps for redistricting, and was allowed to keep those redistictings! What it did was break up predominantly black precincts, I think it was Arizona who did the same, BUT their maps were made to go back to originals (whichever state it was!)

He is a BULLY, misogynistic, homophobic, racist pig. He has banned DEI teachings/classes in educational institutions, really "damaged" libraries in banned books, and a lot more. He is a piece of work. He is real short, wears elevator heels in his shoes so he "looks" taller..LOL

I can NOT stand him and DID NOT vote for him and never will!

[Kätzchen]

I can hardly believe that there will be anybody left to stop the terrifying person who is upending our country. Those people who stormed the capital on January 6th got out of jail yesterday. It’s so terrifying to even try to stay informed about what will happen next.


The day they arrest Captain Lucifer, can’t come quick enough.

ETA: Does anybody know if Bob Woodward is protected by a pardon from Biden in case the Orange jackass tries to do him harm???

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Stephen Miller is the wizard behind the curtain for T***p. He fixes T***p's strategic mistakes. It was Miller's idea to "flood" the playing field with so many resolutions during the first week of T***p's second presidency that no sizeable group would be able to organize against any single idea.

You may recall Stephen Miller as the racist little twerp who made national news for himself in high school when he protested that students should not have to pick up their own trash, because janitors were paid to do that for them. He's come a long way since then - a long, scary way. I suggest that he is more evil and smarter than T***p. And now he is T***p's Deputy Chief of Staff.

You can hear about Miller and his climb to power on the Monday, January 27, 2025 episode of The Daily. by the New York Times. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

[easygoingfemme]

The federal funding freeze. At work, our housing funds were frozen this morning. This is funding to house women (trans inclusive) and children who are homeless due to domestic violence, human trafficking, and severe mental health disabilities. It's frozen. We have a message that it will be made available "shortly" but I don't know what "shortly" is, or if that's true.

[easygoingfemme]

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

Thanks for keeping us posted about deeply concerning news affecting non-profits, housing and DV agencies. Hopefully this merits a speedy lawsuit with speedy repercussions for those who upend lives of those who have no where else to go.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

Scary. Very scary.

If I had to make a guess, I'd guess "shortly" is 90 days, since that's the amount of time T***p's resolutions delayed a lot of other programs while he supposedly figures out if they're in line with his overall plans. Who does that? Nobody can just go into a new job and say "I'm halting all operations for 90 days while I decide what to do and get up to speed on everything."

I'm really angry on your behalf, and on the behalf of all your clients.

[easygoingfemme]

Tonight a temporary ban on the freeze was put in for "some programming". I don't know what programs will get their funding back tomorrow.

If this goes past two weeks I have to start laying off staff. We literally won't be able to cover payroll. Let alone how to handle landlords waiting for us to pay rent and utility companies waiting for their pay.

Thankfully with tenant rights laws in New York it would take months to sometimes years for an eviction to go through so we should be able to keep everyone currently housed in their homes.