Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions.
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
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"Can you confirm this is not a climate or 'environmental justice' project or include such elements?"
"What impact does this project have on protecting religious minorities, promoting religious freedom, and combatting Christian persecution?"
What does that have to do with anything the CDC does?
https://bsky.app/profile/davelevitan.bsky.social/post/3ljsejpjx7b2u
So is Johnson going to launch his own House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
Are we going to have our very own McCarthy Era?
Interesting fact: Joseph McCarthy's lawyer was Roy Cohn.
Cohn was Trump's mentor
How are Republicans of 2025 going to be able to honestly answer that?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GNGfP1X4Uks&feature=shared
They should've all answered : You mean other than the current administration ?
That's kinda standard making sure the values align.... surprised they didn't ask about any treasonous behaviour as Republicans sure are fucking traitors
You know the USSR fell, right? That the USSR was a left wing country and that modern Russia is a right wing one?
McCarthyism, 1950s America
It's kind of hard to prove what your dog does all day
I keep telling myself to take heart with how incompetent and deranged they are, for the overreaching stupidity will give us our chance.
And I try to tell myself to expect more thuggish inanities regularly.
But it’s still shocking to see it in print like this.
🔵 🇺🇸 💙 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
Because the modern Republican Party is about as anti-American as you can get at that level.
~a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.
Expect black lists
The mayoral hearings this week took me immediately back to the McCarthy era. We are there.
"MAGA, Donald Trump and DOGE."
(I know that's not how it works but they are totalitarian and anti-American.)
Why are we trying to speed run the 1920s thru the 1950s?
Before answering said question...
can you?
Oh ok. Cool.
This administration is full of villains ready to sell us.
"anti-american beliefs"
irony has lost all meaning
They sent out the questionnaire from 1954 by *mistake*
Hopefully they all answer yes, given that the current administration is anti-American
#Krasnov
Like having a felon for a president. Like leaving NATO.
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY