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If there's anything Stupid is serious about, it's tariffs. He can be made to blink, though. Mexico and Canada were both able to convince him to drop them with VERY minor concessions on their part.

Vivek Ramaswamy owns 8.9% of the company now which gives him a lot of pull. Probably explains a lot of it.

That is definitely true for the worst of them.

Yup. They are scared and lashing out. McBride is simply the first. There will be more and they KNOW it. Just like they KNOW we aren't predators, that we just want to exist and not have to hide who we are. They just think we are icky. We don't fit into the molds they expect and their minds...

Erasing us from official documents doesn't make us go away. Cat is already out of the bag. People know we exist. Heck, we have several gay members of congress and even a transgender one now.

Yup, he's an internet troll from the 90s who got a LOT of power and is still an internet troll.....

Looks like the are leaving out a LOT of information on what those groups that received money do and BOY can you see an anti-lgbt+ bias and covid conspiracy garbage in said list. It's also lacking the time frame of said payments. Were these one time payments or was it spread out over multiple...

Fair enough.

No, the computer didn't tell them to.. The computer just said 'this appears to be the guy' they are the ones who failed to check to see if the computer was right. It was laziness

Yea. Complete lack of critical thinking on that one.

The writing was on the wall for that when we abandoned the Kurds in Iraq. The US has a track record for leaving allies behind whenever the wind changes. It's going to be a LONG time before that trust can be won back, if ever.

Only way I'd watch is if there happened to be a few Luigi's in the crowd ready to deal with another corrupt billionaire or two.

In the good timeline branching from this one at this moment it would pass and SpaceX's stock would TANK overnight. They would be forced to either fire Musk as CEO or Musk would have to quit USDS(not calling it DOGE anymore, gonna call it the name Congress gave it when it was originally created...

He can't be prosecuted is my understanding, so it would be up to Congress. Once he's out of office he CAN be prosecuted for anything not considered an official act, which I'm sure they can find things if they really look. The man can't help but to lie and cheat.

It won't pass, but I love this: https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-introduce-elon-musk-act-ban-federal-government-contracts-special

A little good news on this front: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/incarcerated-trans-women Also my AG, Anthony Brown, has pledged to fight for transgender rights and against Trump's EOs...

I think it's in relation to Costco rejecting the pressure to end it's DEI initiatives and NOT bending the knee to Trump.

Not just toy buyers. I have, on occasion, bought parts in bulk from Chinese suppliers to use in my electronics hobby. Last one was a batch of shift registers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtestFinderUSA/ Useful subreddit for those who can help.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/02/03/day-without-immigrants-hits-utah/ People in UTAH are fighting back. Looks like they also were able to postpone an anti-union bill as well.