The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.
Why it matters: It’s an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration, a day after top officials defended the funding freeze — which a judge temporarily halted on Tuesday — as necessary to ensure all government spending was aligned with the president’s vision.
The only backlash that matters in the end is the one that sees him hanging from his ankles in the middle of a town square. Until then, he’ll just try something else.
This matters though. It means my cousins lab gets funding back so they will be able to pay for power without which they would have lost millions in samples because the refrigeration would have died.
Probably helps that Dems yesterday in an Iowa special just flipped a state senate district. That district voted for Trump by a 21% margin in 2024. A dem just won it by ~3-4%
There also was an overperformed by 14 points in a Minnesota special election (getting 90% of the vote) yesterday too
His horrible actions have fired people up
I just wish him telling the world what he was going to do would have fired people up in November.
People were really fired up for the generic democrat against Trump. People were not fired up for the geriatric democrat that actually was running.
I think you missed a few months towards the end there…
Na, people had hope Harris would be different. Then she quashed it.
You, and everyone like you, let perfect be the enemy of good and progress.
You, and the ones like you, are fools.
I, and people like me, want to be able to vote on our party’s nominee instead of it being decided for us. If people like you think wanting democracy is the enemy of good and progress, then Trump and his kingship worldview has already won.
Hmm… it’s almost like you can’t just one issue a problem away. It’s almost like being a one issue idiot is the cause of what we are seeing right now… Hmmm…
It’s almost like progress takes time, while dismantling shit takes a week… HMMM…
It’s almost like we, unfortunately, have to work for progress brick by brick… HMMMMMMMMM…
It’s almost like you and everyone like you being complacent about the takeover of the USA is why we are where we are now… HMMMMMMMMMMM…
It’s almost like you and those like you will now never get what you say you want…
Who would’ve thought, right?
Put your best jester outfit on, because the new king of the USA has fools like you to thank for his reign. I’m sure he would clap for you to do more of your silly little dances. You know… “for democracy”.
People were really fired up for the generic democrat against Trump. People were not fired up for the geriatric democrat that actually was running.
Harris was a geriatric?
Many people drew a direct line between Biden’s weaknesses and the Harris campaign, and Harris didn’t really try that hard to differentiate the two. She might have if there was an actual primary, but we’ll never know.
His horrible actions have fired people up
I like how Americans can only get fired up while actively being abused. Once the abuse wears off we just re-elect our abusers.
So, assuming we’re allowed to vote in 4 years, we’ll probably put a Democrat in office, only to put our abusers back in 4 years later.
I’ve hit rock bottom once: I lost my job, went into bankruptcy, had to move back home with my folks, car was undriveable, and my girlfriend had gone back to her ex. It was, for all intents and purposes, the worst time of my life. I even failed joining the Army to escape my misery.
But, the beautiful thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only way to go from there is up. It was hard, and I had to rely on family and friends. But eventually I made it. I went to college, got my first developer job, got into a great (at the time) relationship, and moved out of my parent’s house and back on my own. I am better for it.
All of that to say that maybe (yes, I’m being optimistic) Trump is what this country needs to hit rock bottom, do some self reflection, and pull ourselves back up to a better place.
The biggest takeaway I learned way back when is that no matter how bad things get, the world keeps spinning. We can either we could sit out and watch the world move on without us, or get up and keep moving.
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