This article from the Carnegie Foundation for Peace titled Three Powerful Forces That May Thwart Trump's Plans, contradicts using this Orban-like, and before him Hitler-like tactic.
So, thinking about Elon Musk having access to the levers of payment lead me to this dark thought: what if the Trumpist Taliban just decides that health care for federal employees no longer covers reproductive care, such as birth control and abortion? That's 2.3 million families affected. ScaryAF.
Duffy is awful. Just like all the rest of the unqualified losers Trump is appointing. The first two weeks of the tyrant have been worse than I expected. And my expectations were the stuff of nightmares.
I just saw the OPM instructions for HHS and the language is beyond chilling. Under the pretense of “Defending Women” they are launching a vicious gender based apartheid. They are no longer allowed to even use the word gender but must always use sex and it is to be understood there are only 2 sexes. They are being required to scrub all documents, studies, papers of anything about “gender identity” and change the word gender to sex everywhere it appears. They are forbidden to request or supply pronouns. Most chillingly, rights are referred to as sex specific. Whenever conservatives say they want to protect women, what they mean is they plan to police and constrict us.
Everyone should be reading Project 2025 at this point who has not read it so that there are no surprises. There will still be horror, but so far, from my reading, he is sticking pretty much to what is laid out in there and it gets much, much worse. It is a blueprint for turning the US into a third world, Christian Nationalist theocracy. Think Iran only with pseudoChristianity.
Would be wise to resist anyway. Leaving is also an option.
Under Hitler such a program was called KKK-Kinder Küche-Kirche, and women who had at least 4 children got rewards. Orban has tried rewarding families for having children and more children but a research study I read said that under illiberal governments people are reluctant to have children because they don't know what the future holds for them. Whatever, it has not been successful in Hungary. The continent with the most children is in Africa, and if the US and Hungary and other countries did not have such racists in their population dominating the agenda, we would be seeking to recruit immigrants from there.
Yes, I have referenced that, and pointed out often, the Lebensborn children were shamed after the war, even though it wasn’t their fault they were a horrible breeding experiment. One of the girls in Abba was such a one.
It is truly a horrible, as were all of the Nazi "experiments"! I have read articles on children finding out that they were part of this program which would be a disturbing experience in and of itself. Trump and Heritage Foundation Project 2025 drafters seem sick and twisted as well.
I’m waiting for the Evilangelicals to duplicate it for their Orange messiah. The Duggars and their ilk already are raising their “Army for Jesus”. That Quiverful bunch are truly loathsome. And in spite of the horrible abuses of the girls, they keep sticking them on TV. See “Shiny, Happy people” if you are not familiar. Any time people are bred as a commodity is disgusting.
Yes. I have seen Shiny, Happy People, and it is sickening. Also, read articles about the daughter that put her children in public school, but then changed her mind. The power of the family is great!
I was going to call Trump and Musk the Nazis, as that is how they roll. Finding out what Musk is doing and who he has hired, some just out of high school kid is destroying the lives of millions of civil servants.
Also a friend who works for a non-profit that does environmental work, says that there are government partners they have who have been called into the office, but there is no office for them to go into, so her job is thinking of inviting them into theirs.
I feel like a lot comes down to how much they want to pretend the public supports them. They won the election, and their early moves, while horrific, are mostly directed at devastating people whom they think the public doesn't care about that much. If they make further moves at the federal level on reproductive health care, it's going to be deeply unpopular and there's no pretending otherwise. It's a question of at what moment do they want to admit that yes, we're a fascist dictatorship and we don't give a fuck what any of you, including our own voters, think. That moment is coming, but I'm not sure it's happened yet. It gets much worse when it does, because the only thing holding them back right now is not wanting to be too unpopular.
Exactly. And the GOP in congress know this and are willing to capitulate. It's all about power. Democracy is eroding right before our eyes, and in the cruelest of ways.
I met a man who had been electrocuted while trimming a tree and his trimmer got too close to the electrical wire running through it. His description of the feeling suggests that the electric chair is essentially cooking someone alive. So many of the cruelty crowd would like to see its use resumed. They also seem to like hanging.
Maybe they should emulate the Taliban and line us all up in a stadium , make us kneel to the almighty male and his control of us, and simply shoot us all in the back of the head.
I’m mad at you for tempting me into clicking on the idiotic frank barry article- “you know who didn’t have harsh words on abortion the last 3 Dems that won, Biden barely mentioned it” oh reaaaaahhhhhhhheaheally Barry- you mean BEFORE. Roe was overturned and I had bodily autonomy still? This wack job has an agenda or his logical reasoning skills and selective use of data wouldn’t be so bad
Unsaid but implied by RFK, Jr.:" I won't accept any studies that do not confirm my own or President Trump 's uninformed, ignorant opinions on abortion medication."
He's another misogynist who's probably paid for inconvenient pregnancies to be terminated. JMHO, of course
So -- regarding RFK's stammered, incoherent response to Senator Baldwin's question on mifepristone, I gather that the 100+ peer-reviewed studies attesting to its safety are not sufficient in the face of what? The Trump administration's policies? Politics over science. Yay. Good to know. Thank you, Senator Baldwin, for your questions which made this reality quite clear. And thank you, Jessica, for posting their interaction.
I am baffled and angered by the sorts of poll results you cite here:
"1) Most Trump voters don’t believe he will further restrict abortion and don’t want him to, and 2) Anti-abortion groups are very unpopular, even among Trump voters."
People did not understand what DT's big-money backers want him to do. They believed his lies about "leaving abortion to the states" and did not comprehend the meaning of the Supremacy Clause. I don't know how to get through.
I live in NJ. Have two daughters. Went to my gyno and asked her in November (after he won) whether we are going to see birth control restricted and abortion rights taken away. She said "it's a state's rights issue, right?" I was flabbergasted. I'm assuming she's pro women's rights as I've been going to this practice for years, but made me wonder either she's not or she's believing the BS.
Stranger yet, he convinced people that, “Giving it back to the states” was some sort of favor. It literally means taking the choice away from you and giving it to the government instead (state or whatever). Polarization is so bad that people think they are winning just to watch their “opponents” AKA fellow citizens suffer. Hell, even having to suffer a little themselves seems to be worth it!
This article from the Carnegie Foundation for Peace titled Three Powerful Forces That May Thwart Trump's Plans, contradicts using this Orban-like, and before him Hitler-like tactic.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/01/trump-population-climate-ai-megatrends?lang=en
So, thinking about Elon Musk having access to the levers of payment lead me to this dark thought: what if the Trumpist Taliban just decides that health care for federal employees no longer covers reproductive care, such as birth control and abortion? That's 2.3 million families affected. ScaryAF.
Well, isn't every menstrual period a possible spontaneous abortion? Shouldn't every woman send in her tampons/pads in every month?
Jessica, You Rock!! Thank you so much.
Duffy is awful. Just like all the rest of the unqualified losers Trump is appointing. The first two weeks of the tyrant have been worse than I expected. And my expectations were the stuff of nightmares.
I just saw the OPM instructions for HHS and the language is beyond chilling. Under the pretense of “Defending Women” they are launching a vicious gender based apartheid. They are no longer allowed to even use the word gender but must always use sex and it is to be understood there are only 2 sexes. They are being required to scrub all documents, studies, papers of anything about “gender identity” and change the word gender to sex everywhere it appears. They are forbidden to request or supply pronouns. Most chillingly, rights are referred to as sex specific. Whenever conservatives say they want to protect women, what they mean is they plan to police and constrict us.
Everyone should be reading Project 2025 at this point who has not read it so that there are no surprises. There will still be horror, but so far, from my reading, he is sticking pretty much to what is laid out in there and it gets much, much worse. It is a blueprint for turning the US into a third world, Christian Nationalist theocracy. Think Iran only with pseudoChristianity.
And kill those of us who resist.
Would be wise to resist anyway. Leaving is also an option.
Under Hitler such a program was called KKK-Kinder Küche-Kirche, and women who had at least 4 children got rewards. Orban has tried rewarding families for having children and more children but a research study I read said that under illiberal governments people are reluctant to have children because they don't know what the future holds for them. Whatever, it has not been successful in Hungary. The continent with the most children is in Africa, and if the US and Hungary and other countries did not have such racists in their population dominating the agenda, we would be seeking to recruit immigrants from there.
Yes, I have referenced that, and pointed out often, the Lebensborn children were shamed after the war, even though it wasn’t their fault they were a horrible breeding experiment. One of the girls in Abba was such a one.
It is truly a horrible, as were all of the Nazi "experiments"! I have read articles on children finding out that they were part of this program which would be a disturbing experience in and of itself. Trump and Heritage Foundation Project 2025 drafters seem sick and twisted as well.
I’m waiting for the Evilangelicals to duplicate it for their Orange messiah. The Duggars and their ilk already are raising their “Army for Jesus”. That Quiverful bunch are truly loathsome. And in spite of the horrible abuses of the girls, they keep sticking them on TV. See “Shiny, Happy people” if you are not familiar. Any time people are bred as a commodity is disgusting.
Yes. I have seen Shiny, Happy People, and it is sickening. Also, read articles about the daughter that put her children in public school, but then changed her mind. The power of the family is great!
I was going to call Trump and Musk the Nazis, as that is how they roll. Finding out what Musk is doing and who he has hired, some just out of high school kid is destroying the lives of millions of civil servants.
I read an article about creepy Elon Musk the other day that said he had someone 21 years old working in the Office of Professional management and too young to report on. So, I was telling someone about it today and then decided to look up if I could find out how old. Read this. It just enforces what I have been saying that the insane are running the asylum in the US. https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-puts-kid-just-graduated-180045885.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALa3XVuBBxeDDAhbtTNQQmHtKv4IPNOTGrIr4AELiWz9mZZKHfr1IRNJDW-_pmJEwf8BjonzHMMbEi-mPPy4MCmqJ0NxCm76hpd5asg9y4AO7ulVpAhPykSEzmfHAd51kwjy3iqL254wlenEBX0zTpe3VLjwFFmJpCpGcrXCE93t
Also a friend who works for a non-profit that does environmental work, says that there are government partners they have who have been called into the office, but there is no office for them to go into, so her job is thinking of inviting them into theirs.
Another powerfully written, thorough summary of this shit show. I don’t know how you do it.
I feel like a lot comes down to how much they want to pretend the public supports them. They won the election, and their early moves, while horrific, are mostly directed at devastating people whom they think the public doesn't care about that much. If they make further moves at the federal level on reproductive health care, it's going to be deeply unpopular and there's no pretending otherwise. It's a question of at what moment do they want to admit that yes, we're a fascist dictatorship and we don't give a fuck what any of you, including our own voters, think. That moment is coming, but I'm not sure it's happened yet. It gets much worse when it does, because the only thing holding them back right now is not wanting to be too unpopular.
Exactly. And the GOP in congress know this and are willing to capitulate. It's all about power. Democracy is eroding right before our eyes, and in the cruelest of ways.
Everyone knows that Trump is a compulsive liar so on the rare occasions when he speaks the truth, no on believes that's what he means to do.
The Department of Life?!?! They really are going for 1984, aren’t they?
Texas hasn’t had death by electric chair since 1964 but perhaps this is a metaphor?
I met a man who had been electrocuted while trimming a tree and his trimmer got too close to the electrical wire running through it. His description of the feeling suggests that the electric chair is essentially cooking someone alive. So many of the cruelty crowd would like to see its use resumed. They also seem to like hanging.
Maybe they should emulate the Taliban and line us all up in a stadium , make us kneel to the almighty male and his control of us, and simply shoot us all in the back of the head.
That is the stuff of their fantasies.
I’m mad at you for tempting me into clicking on the idiotic frank barry article- “you know who didn’t have harsh words on abortion the last 3 Dems that won, Biden barely mentioned it” oh reaaaaahhhhhhhheaheally Barry- you mean BEFORE. Roe was overturned and I had bodily autonomy still? This wack job has an agenda or his logical reasoning skills and selective use of data wouldn’t be so bad
I’m offended for Erin Brokovich.
I hope she sues her for libel!
Unsaid but implied by RFK, Jr.:" I won't accept any studies that do not confirm my own or President Trump 's uninformed, ignorant opinions on abortion medication."
He's another misogynist who's probably paid for inconvenient pregnancies to be terminated. JMHO, of course
So -- regarding RFK's stammered, incoherent response to Senator Baldwin's question on mifepristone, I gather that the 100+ peer-reviewed studies attesting to its safety are not sufficient in the face of what? The Trump administration's policies? Politics over science. Yay. Good to know. Thank you, Senator Baldwin, for your questions which made this reality quite clear. And thank you, Jessica, for posting their interaction.
I am baffled and angered by the sorts of poll results you cite here:
"1) Most Trump voters don’t believe he will further restrict abortion and don’t want him to, and 2) Anti-abortion groups are very unpopular, even among Trump voters."
People did not understand what DT's big-money backers want him to do. They believed his lies about "leaving abortion to the states" and did not comprehend the meaning of the Supremacy Clause. I don't know how to get through.
I live in NJ. Have two daughters. Went to my gyno and asked her in November (after he won) whether we are going to see birth control restricted and abortion rights taken away. She said "it's a state's rights issue, right?" I was flabbergasted. I'm assuming she's pro women's rights as I've been going to this practice for years, but made me wonder either she's not or she's believing the BS.
Stranger yet, he convinced people that, “Giving it back to the states” was some sort of favor. It literally means taking the choice away from you and giving it to the government instead (state or whatever). Polarization is so bad that people think they are winning just to watch their “opponents” AKA fellow citizens suffer. Hell, even having to suffer a little themselves seems to be worth it!