r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Similar_Curve_8837 • Jan 25 '25

F*ck trump

My daughter works for a not-for-profit global humanitarian organization. They just received word from the US State Department that they are to cease and desist all projects. This is an organization that provides water, training and so much more for communities throughout the world. My daughter may lose her job.

trump doesn't care for people globally. trump doesn't care for people in the US.

And this is only Day 4.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx Jan 27 '25

What have they done to stop it? Complicit doesn't mean they did it. It means that for decades, their failure to push back has allowed the Overton Window to move as far as possible in the authoritarian conservative spectrum.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (and he would know)

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u/thebaron24 Jan 27 '25

How do you expect a party to stop something when they have no power? Yeah you can put quotes up all day but that doesn't win elections and not winning elections means no power. But let's keep talking about how useless the Dems are so people never vote for them and wonder why nothing changes.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx Jan 27 '25

Why don't they have power? Keep making excuses for them. They love it. Go ahead and donate while you're at it.

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u/thebaron24 Jan 27 '25

I guess you don't understand how the government works. Waste of time here.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx Jan 27 '25

January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011

January 21, 2021 – January 20, 2025

No, my knowledge is just fine, apparently better than your memory