The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.
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Has it ever been peaceful when we helped other countries rid themselves of theirs? I wonder when our allies will see the comparison of when we need help.
I was asked by a very distressed woman yesterday: "But how can they get them out!?" I swear I didn't blink, or breathe before the words Counter Coup were out of my mouth. And we are Canadians chatting over tea! The world is frightened. Deeply frightened. For and of The States.
Someone needs to start tracking all those loopholes and once the dictator is gone, the congress needs to fix all that loophole so it wouldn't be abused for someone like him...
Where is the national organization to bring all the resistance groups together? Where is our statement of resistance/statement of principles? Now that Trump calls himself King I would think this would rachet up things a bit.
I wish our democratic leaders, any of them would step up and coordinate resistance. They expect regular people to do it but we don't have the resources. Meanwhile they keep acting like everything is normal.
Both parties are corrupt it’s just a matter of degree and type. For the life of me I don’t understand why a 3rd party isn’t swooping in to save the day. But until then the Dems better get off their ass and do something.
Taking up arms is not the way. We are fighting against lawlessness and we must use the laws to win. We do need to start organizing and screaming for action but not with weapons. That will only defeat the cause before it even begins.
I'm thinking about it. I just honestly don't know enough people who would join. Immediate friends but that's only a few. I'm in Kansas City. If anyone would like to help, let me know please.
With a straight face, they write that the country has a significant debt crisis. They do not mention the that the Bush & Trump tax cuts (that disproportionately favored the wealthy) significantly reduced revenue & make up the majority of the current deficit.
This is dictatorship - power overreach, disregard to court rulings, control of Congress, of law enforcement, creation of an internal coup, have their own propaganda machine, scape goats to blame, and a lot of corruption. We are living a very dark time in America.
I have a friend who is a Gold Star widow. Her husband died while on active duty. She and other Gold Star dependents have not recieved their benefits. To add to their pain, they have no idea when they will.
Ugh the democratic leaders need to step up. Call this stuff that's happening out. Call press conferences and make some noise. Only those of us on the left know this is happening because we read and research. Moderate voters and the right have gone back to normal life.
We need to strike these people before they kill us. Show up at your representatives home and remind them who they work for. Burn their house down if they're Republican. Burn any cybertruck you see. Loot businesses that bent the knee to anti-DEI policies. We're almost to the concentration camps.
I can’t take direct credit for this as I saw this earlier come across my feed but: Can we just release a bunch of black widow spiders, bedbugs, mosquitos & other insects into the white house? I’m talking like a lot of them.
There shouldn’t be any loopholes. That’s the problem. They honestly need arrested for violating the constitution already. Supposed to have checks and balances for a reason but I guess not.
See Generals? They are thugs who refuse to follow laws or court orders. He has proven that he only wants total power over us all. Do not let this thug take our country. He is a proven domestic enemy, a traitor to our values and our Constitution. He says he is king, that he is the law. Please act!
That’s always this game plan. Get the people under him to do the dirty work… And say I don’t know them, I never heard of that… Look at how many of his former administrative people Took the hit for him.
Right, as we knew they would. As they dismantle a democracy and take control of a society via police state. Seems like some of you haven’t been paying attention I guess.
Whether you voted Republican or Democrat it's time to tell Congress to start upholding the Constitution. They need to be reminded they are all elected officials, who swore to uphold the Constitution. Remind them the American people elected them and we can very easily not vote for them next election
Constitutional loyal military personnel is an oxymoron if ever there was one. The only condition in which they would ever even consider upholding their oaths as if Trump fucked them over. And In fairness it is very possible that'll happen. But it would be foolish to just sit in hope for it.
if they could get to Kennedy, they can get to Trump. He was bound to piss off the wrong person/contractor at some point. The rest of us get to sit back and watch with popcorn. 🍿 🍿 🍿.
Good. One way or another I'm not going to get hauled off a concentration camp because I'm on antidepressants, so I hope they keep pissing off the Military.
That will never ever happen. Republicans only increase military spending year after year to pay their defense contractor friends. They will cut the VA and military pay and benefits but it won’t amount to much.
I agree that I don't think they'll happen that way. Hell Congress wants to drastically increase their budget at the expense of, you know, everything else.
At this rate I give it a 50/50 chance that this country even exists 4 years from now.
It doesn’t exist in the form you or I thought it did a few years ago. It’s a concept and right now it’s a shitty deal- trumps gonna break so much the left HAS to be salivating at the rebuild…
It won’t exist as we have known it. And I gotta say as someone who has always wanted to cut military spending, I do wonder at the motive here…especially after Trump is pissing everyone off and trying to start wars. It really does seem like he was paid to weaken the country from within.
Please, stop it now! Every day, they work, their tentacles in deeper into the recesses of our government programs, the longer they are in there the harder it will be to get them out.
It’s the same way he grifts everything. Say properties are worth nothing on tax form, overvalue them when listing as collateral. Just a bunch of garden variety racketeering.
It’s Russia. Not just a deal. Seems like these folks have been programmed to believe they are invincible. Why else would they attempt this re-boot and harm people so callously? Of their own accord in fantasy land or sophisticated propaganda and disinformation?
I said long ago he does not care about lawsuits or judges and everyone screamed “checks and balances”. Where are your “check and balances” now? Why aren’t they stopping him? FAFO
HECK ... me thinks these non-untelligent, non- educated, non-thinking and non-sane clowns wouldn't know how to find, study or implement the use of loopholes ... these idiots just keep plowing through at break-neck speed ...
Coming up, the decimation of the Boundary Waters, by drilling, mining etc
He did this with the CFPB in his first term put one moron on the board and used a loophole every 120 days to keep him there. I'm a career mortgage professional. Our industry is not in chaos right now we still protect our borrowers. We have all of the data retained.
I've written, called, yelled at my representative and senators. They are all MIA. Maybe they drank the poison kool-aid and all died. Or, maybe they are all just from TX. So sad!
Start naming the appointees as Defendants in the lawsuits. They don't have the immunity the SC granted to Trump. Make the personally responsible for their failure to follow Court orders. Hold them in contempt.
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A recent example, January 6th.
https://bsky.app/profile/straightgoods.bsky.social/post/3liktmudvls27
US Capitol: 202-224-3121
WH switchboard: 202-456-1414
Please share. Far and wide. And if you aren't calling, then you are complicit in the horrors to come.
Find the teams here:
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
📯🦟🪳✨manifesting✨🪲🕷️📯
Then they get back to work implementing project 2025.
So should everyone show up at work tomorrow?
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
Boycott everything Trump.
Boycott everything Musk
Boycott Visa.
Boycott businesses that have done away with DEI.
Is.
A.
COUP.
Bring in our constitutional loyal military personnel!!
STOP THIS
NOW!!!!!
Source NBC.
At this rate I give it a 50/50 chance that this country even exists 4 years from now.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/politics/hegseth-military-major-budget-cuts
But I had to say it
Thank you for seeing it
JFC
this is a disaster.
It.
Is.
Most definitely!!
https://www.project2025.observer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIjyJFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSKmtuqrWIXJHKtY6zU9FymZmqG55xmUX1B6A-W12_Rm8g5FeN3LG8gKZw_aem_d3dvHeTR9IFoDYKrHqaZeQ
Create Blue State auxiliary positions in veterans services, environmental protection, health care, inspections, bio science, etc.
Put together a sworn FBI, US Atty, IRS aux in every state to investigate Trump violations of their laws. Blue Force!
Frederick Douglass
US Marshal
Coming up, the decimation of the Boundary Waters, by drilling, mining etc
#RepubsNeverHelp