What about the 5 billion dollar contingency fund that is supposed to cover things such as a government shutdown?
Republicans are cowards and are intentionally choosing to hurt those that actually need assistance.
My conspiracy theory, and I’m uneducated in these matters, is that they’ve done something with that emergency fund. Since the money isn’t there anymore they’re caught between admitting they misapropriated/stole it or starving people.
Or they want people to starve to incite the riots that allows them to apply more military pressure. I hate that that’s a sentence I said with so sense of irony
Yep, this is my belief. Trump has been looking for a reason to enact martial law. He’s been making up excuses to extend his enforcement groups throughout the US, and large protests/riots would give them the opportunity.
This isn’t to say they shouldn’t be done. I’d argue they should. That’s their plan, and their hand should be forced if that’s the way it’s going to go. If it doesn’t happen over this, it’ll be something else, and the imagery of them clamping down on starving people is about the best we could hope for. There is just about no one who doesn’t at least see their plight. It’d be the best rallying cry for all Americans, and potentially to outsiders who would help as well.
They already diverted FEMA aid funding toward building concentration camps, everything Elon did with DOGE was so amazingly illegal that he’d be in jail for centuries if convincted of all of it, Trump refused to send money to NYC/NY, other states…
Yeah, the convicted rapist conman fraudster bankruptor in chief?
Turns out he doesn’t give a fuck about rules, he does what he wants because no one has ever stopped him, and our system and society are built to reward and enable sociopathic behavior, or at the very least, are very very far from robust enough to stop him.
They’re using it to keep the military on their side in order to launch a dictatorship. Just my conjecture
Nah. They want people to suffer and think that it is the opposition’s fault.
My conspiracy theory is they’re pulling a coup. Billionaires to donate money to trump to fund ICE and national guard. Every other position can get fucked
It went into the President’s new ballroom. They haven’t actually spent it yet, nor have they made any building plans, but they’ve already decided it will be spent.
I bet the money isn’t there anymore
Of course it is.
Fascists do not respect the law.
Wait till you find out that they also don’t willingly give up power and what has to be done when they don’t.
It’s more fun when they see what giving them 4 years to purge rank and solidify their hold over the country does when you finally decide to actually start to fight back.
You seem like a truly miserable person
You seem like you’re the sort who is comfortable doing nothing while fascists take-over.
And what have you done exactly?
This is the laziest fucking canned response.
No one is holding the president or republicans accountable, so it does not matter if it is illegal or not.
I have a feeling if George Santos had been elected in 2024 he would still be in Congress today.
“the law” is literally meaningless when no one enforces it
Seeing that kind of slanted political vernacular outside of a tabloid and written as a notification on an official government website is incredibly embarrassing.
I’m cringing at how little the Republicans are even bothering to appear like normal people anymore. FFS, run it through ChatGPT or something, you were capable of at least pretending you were not ghouls with fewer tools at your disposal 8 years ago. Who are these government stooges taking Trump and Hegseth instructions for the website banners verbatim?
Some people are broken. Some are broken like a bone, where with the right treatment it can heal. It might never be as good as a bone that never broke, but it can get pretty close. Other people are broken like a glass window. That’s never getting put back together, and everyone around is in danger of stepping on the glass.
Many Republicans are broken like shattered glass.
I feel like this has Stephen Miller written all over it.
The saddest thing about it is how many Americans don’t see that and immediately have the same reaction. Their minds have been poisoned.
Republican when addressing the general public: SNAP recipients are fat lazy freeloaders who spend thousands of dollars of SNAP benefits on soda and chips.
Republicans when addressing SNAP recipients: “Mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us”
It has always been the habit of rightists to co-opt leftist terminology in furtherance of their evil deceptions and propaganda. This is why George Orwell called the fascist party in “1984” IngSoc, which stood ironically for “English Socialism.”
It has nothing to do with principles or being ‘right’. It has everything to do with being ‘right, now’.
It’s just a hammer to either hurt people (the GOP way) or to make the democrats look bad for it hurting people (also the GOP way).
Republicans are liars and can never be trusted.
You’re talking about dipshits that are murdering folks in the Caribbean because they like how the boats explode on the drone camera.
Laws are just wallpaper to these assholes.
Laws only work if they’re enforced. Not only is our corrupt government bought and paid for; the Supreme Court is toothless as well.
America has fallen.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It’s a hard problem, but way harder when you rely on unwritten or vague rules subject to interpretation and goodwill of those in power.
USA since 2016 has been a warning to other places. Keep journalism fair, alive and protected (take a hint Australia, UK). Give rights to protestors (take a hint UK, Germany). Make decorum or traditions into acts of law or part of constitution (take a hint world) so those in power have to follow them.
And make it super easy to impeach and ban via popular vote (say by plurality of at least 40% of voting population. None of this super-majority). Better safe than sorry
Republicans use the list of things that are illegal as their personal todo list.
It’s also how you get a promotion, do enough illegal things and you get to be president even!
are we talking individual charges, magnitude of charges, personal or societal impacts or crimes, like what scale are we using for “enough things”. maybe i would like to be president one day in order to facilitate relations with greece, turkiye, and iran in an international kebab tournament with the prize being you get to take home all the leftover kebab and i want to win it committing the most trivial and frequent of crimes, like jaywalking in front of the police station parking lot.
Well, I think magnitude plays a part.
Go fuck a tween and you should be off to a good start.
It is but who’s going to enforce it?
You honestly think laws still apply to this fascist regime? We’re long past that
To be fair, the laws on that actually mean jack shit if the individual can’t be fired.
I’m a veteran and have been getting emails from the VA blaming Democrats for the shutdown; it’s very unprofessional.
All Republicans must go to prison
Then hell
The Soviets had the right idea with the gulags. Send anyone with a whiff of Nazi about them as far away from society as you can until they are re-educated or dead.
Yes. But do they care? Do they have to care anymore?
Entirely white house decision, now with court order to not do it, to not pay SNAP. It’s not just a violation of Hatch act, there’s, or used to be, an official law preventing propaganda against US citizens.
If we ever get true people’s representation in government priority number one will be to prosecute all the fuckwads who have been perpetrating this. Unfortunately, I am not hopeful that this will happen.
It will happen. The question is whether it’ll happen in time to hold anyone meaningfully accountable
History has shown that the US does not hold anyone in power accountable. Sometimes we pretend to do so by punishing lackeys like Oliver North instead of presidents and politicians who make the decisions to do horribletand illegal things.
SCOTUS knew Trump was going to do this Project 2025 shit, which is why they said the president is above the law and forced Trump on Colorado’s ballot to legitimize an insurrectionist running for office.
I’m not convinced that the US constitution/government will outlive me, at this point.
It wouldn’t be the US government (at least not the as we know it) holding people accountable in my imaginary scenario.
My loyalty is to the spirit of the Constitution, not to a king. I might end up serving as a soldier against the crown.
I don’t care about the document. If anything I’d say it’s fatally flawed in a couple key ways. Not as bad the OG articles of confederation, but pretty bad.
What I care about is making a government that actually serves the majority of the people and represents their interests against the disproportionately powerful
It is my assumption that the Constitution would be overhauled or recreated, depending on how the next ten years plays out.
I’m not convinced that the US constitution/government will outlive me, at this point.
It wouldn’t be the US government (at least not the as we know it) holding people accountable in my imaginary scenario.
