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.
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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.
I don't disagree that it matters. But I can't help but think of every block of Cheetolini's agenda as just temporary because he'll simply keep taking it higher and higher until it hits the supreme court, and gets his way anyway.
That was his entire plan from the beginning. He knows that literally everything he tries to do is going to get challenged. And he knows that if he sticks to his guns and it gets to the SC, he wins every time.
If the SC was unbiased, I wouldn't be so brazen about it. But we are at the point where nothing will make a permanent difference except dragging him and his cronies through the streets and damn the personal consequences.
The tree of liberty and all that jazz...
Edited to add: I should point out that I'm not American. I'm a Canadian who is terrified of your shit spreading north and dragging us into a fight we don't want and literally begging you guys to fucking do something about it.
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.
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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 highly doubt those had any affect on the decision whatsoever.
The Trump administration is not the type to rapidly reverse course just because of outrage. It depends on outrage. Whatever spurred this is part of a larger play.
You can find optimistic lessons in those elections, but the White House is on its own shit now.
Almost certainly Republicans of power (money or political) didn't like the order, because it would have economic impacts for them or their constituents. It was an insane order that would have harmed everyone everywhere. Those are the only people that matter to him.
Trump himself wouldn't care, but other Republicans sure as hell would. They can certainly increase pressure after things like that
Let’s keep that same energy for the midterms
There was similar energy in the mid terms after RvW was overturned, but it seemed to have dried up by the time of the election. I'm always hopeful, but it's not a bet I would take.
Never, ever place any bets on the intelligence of the American electorate.
Well, unless you're betting against it.
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The economy is going to crash and burn like a crack-ho driving a Pontiac Sunfire when he "saves it" via tariffs, and grocery aisles are going to be empty of produce because they deport and scare the workforce that picks it.
Be prepared for him to declare martial law just after the midterms because it's going to be an epic loss.
"Yeah, so we're going to hold off on elections because we're declaring a state of emergency and we'll let you know when that state of emergency is over."
Absolutely guarantee they'll try it.
It'll piss Americans off and we'll get a Democrat back in office, then 4 years later we'll have completely forgotten Republican's traitorous actions and re-elect them.
I think this is still optimistic, even considering how much harm this would inevitably cause. I think they're going to get around transferring power somehow
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I sure as hell hope so. I get people have things going on, but not voting is just letting us get fucked.
"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo."
Uh...What??
They're still freezing the funding, they just don't want to tell anyone about it.
But like, that's how you freeze the funding... Agencies operate as normal until there is an official memo saying not to.
"Sorry guys, the spending freeze wasn't supposed to be announced yet! It's supposed to be part of a larger plan later this year meant to kickstart a 'The Purge' type situation which we think will be really great for the American people! Stay tuned and we'll have more info in the coming months! Be on the lookout for Armageddon 26, and let's make America GREAT again!"
The rest of the world
What a mook.
Don't worry, it'll be resumed in a month or two.
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