All three of the top GOP candidates (Trump, DeSantis, Haley) have created divisions on race, history, and/or gender. They intentionally distort the facts. I expect this of at least one candidate from either party, but not from everyone on the top (of either major party). Haven’t seen this before now.

Trump quoting Hitler is Stephen Miller whispering in his ear. Miller is a smart cookie. He helps pulls the strings behind the curtain but is careful to never take credit. Something else, is Holocaust denial far behind? After all, it’s what the morons they bow down to want to hear.

I still think Haley is aiming for the VP spot. She knows the GOP won’t nominate her as POTUS in 2024, but she’ll have a good chance at POTUS in 2028 if she can just get on the ticket as VP in 2024.

And ain’t it just the height of irony that Republicans (who represent management!) have somehow convinced working people that laws and policies that benefit the richest are somehow designed to bestow happiness and prosperity on the rest of us?

I’ll vote for the Democratic nominee and whomever I like in the Primary, but I’m checking out. I no longer watch political news stories and may stop reading them for a while.

Here’s hoping 2024 isn’t as bad as I expect it will be.

I still remember how worn out I was by all the politicking the last time the election rolled around. I think checking out from the news might be the way to go this time. I can't think of anything that would change me voting Democratic, and I don't need to suffer through all the agita that comes along with the election.

European countries are already scared of another
 

…. T——p presidency. They are trying to Trump-proof their governments and policies due to how so many voters in our country are sucked down the rabbit hole of the cult leadership offered by a dangerous person who leads the GOP.

It’s distressing how people think this person is going to make our country better. How is it better to cheat and defraud for personal gain? How is this person better when just uttering that name will be the biggest longest lasting mistake that cannot be undone once they get their way by voting for a criminal with a long criminal history in cheating others and profiting from the suffering they inflict on others???

Here is the CNN article that speaks about European countries doing what they can before the cult of T——p destroys what is left of our country and our country’s ally’s across the globe.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/world...cmd/index.html

I had an interesting set of thoughts come to me concerning the voters in Iowa: could it be that all the aging Phelps, Tammy Faye & Jimmy Baker, and Pat Robertson 700 haters club members migrated to Iowa and retire there as gasping Republican control freaks to solidify their terrible racist, hate filled “religious” agenda and make sure nobody disobeys their generational toxic hold on Americans who will never be like them in a heart beat???

I am voting for President Joe Biden or any democrat who will kick butt and stop the farcical power grab of the toxic party ruining America’s reputation for democratic norms that have anchored our country for more than 200 years. I believe we have what it takes as voters to make a difference and show the world that D.T.’s brand of Amerikan fascism and authoritarian style of leadership is NOT what voters want.

Please please help stop the GOP from destroying our country.

Vote Blue.

Ron DeSatan dropped out of GOP race! Don't know what this will do for Nicky Haley and T---p, and I don't really care. But the small threat of Ron DeSatan ending up as president is finally off my mind. The bad news - DeSatan will still probably be governor of Florida until 2028.

[QUOTE=GeorgiaMa'am;1295812].......snipped...The bad news - DeSatan will still probably be governor of Florida until 2028........
Exactly....that azzhat MADE SURE he could, by passing a bill as such, saying if he lost his bid for President, he WOULD still be Governor! Ugggghhhhhh...sucks for Fla....

[QUOTE=clay;1295828]Without a vote in Florida? Isn't that like, skipping over the voters?

[QUOTE=GeorgiaMa'am;1295836]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!

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???

The strategist clearing the way for T***p
 

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.

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.

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. :(

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.

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.

There is a temporary ban on the freeze, or lift. We were able to draw HUD funds today but not funds from grants. It takes three days for the funds to arrive though so we're not taking a deep breath yet. cheeto already put out a statement that this was a revocation of the memo, not the freeze. We're not out of the water by a long shot.

ICE has been patrolling our food banks. I've been immersed in ICE response trainings all day and our directing team starts training the agency on Friday.

My kiddo works in HIV care and we've been back and forth all day regarding policy development. It's so ominous.

We learned yesterday that the large secure database we use to document and track domestic violence incidents, services, and sheltering has eliminated the word "gender" and only offers ways to document services to individuals with a sex of "male" or "female".

So we won't be able to track incidents of domestic violence for the trans community nor will we be able to provide statistics that justify funding and grants for trans-inclusive services and safe shelters.