This is ill advised at best and downright stupid at worst. El Presidente might have been acting in accord with Project 2025 mandate, but the problem there is that Project 2025 didn’t take obvious risk factors into account. About 80 million people are being directly affected by the funding freeze that Trump implemented last night and if you’re a Medicaid recipient (or involved with Head Start) game over pal. Try to get some health care. As Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote on the social platform X, “My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night’s federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health insurance from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.” Other than that, everything’s fine. The Hill:
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) similarly shared claims of states losing access, and multiple states confirmed outages to The Hill.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Tuesday afternoon that the White House was “aware of the Medicaid website portal outage” but had “confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent.”
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) similarly shared claims of states losing access, and multiple states confirmed outages to The Hill.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Tuesday afternoon that the White House was “aware of the Medicaid website portal outage” but had “confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent.”
An OMB memo issued Tuesday stated, “Any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause.”
We shall see. Either this was a screw up or it was a test for something bigger. I’m going to present you with an admittedly depressing dystopian scenario. This is my imagination running wild, but based on what we know about Trump and what we’ve seen so far, I sincerely don’t know that what I’m about to say is out of the question. What if Trump just pulls the plug on all the payments, Social Security, Medicare, you name it and we’re all left high and dry?
And then, being left high and dry, we take to the streets. And you know that would happen. And then while we’re in the streets, what if the fascist lunatic in the White House decides to call out the National Guard? Or any branch of the military. You know Pete Hegseth is where he is because he will obey an order to open fire on civilians that Mark Esper would not.
So what if we’re all just shot dead in the streets? I know how whacky this may sound but you tell me where my thought processes are wrong. You tell me why it couldn’t happen. I’m listening.
Remember Trump pardoning all those Jan-sixer criminals, including members of the Oaf-Bleepers and Loud Boys? I figured he’d want to set up his own private militia group led by the worst of the Jan6 felons. He doesn’t trust US forces to fire on citizens but his private, SS militia guard will. I wonder who he’ll put in charge? Enrique Tarrio? Elmer Rhodes? None of them would hesitate to pull the trigger multiple times.
And if he allows them to take prisoners, I can bet sexual.assault suddenly becomes legak?
RW Nazi thugs, are testing the “waters” again! But now, they’re in POWER! So, RW States w/the highest, POOR populations……you still lovin’ your tRump?
And you folks think I’ve been harsh talking about arming yourselves for a war? If all this is happening ONE WEEK IN…what the phuck do you think the future holds? Study WW2 and tell me I’m crazy…of course you’d have to pull your collective heads out of the sand. THIS MAN IS A MORONIC NAZI. By the way singing kumbaya or pretending won’t save you. Decide whether to be victims or not. MAKE A DECISION.
I’m with you. I think it’s entirely possible that my little doomsday scenario could take place. And I’m not a conspiracy theorist but just look at who is in charge of the government and tell me that what I said is “impossible.” Hitler was democractically elected. He took office in January, by March Dachau was up and running.
because they take an oath to the Constitution and not Hegseth nor Trump & various groups will sue? idk
I’m sure that the Jews had no idea they were going to the Death camps whenever they got on the trains. Likewise we have a president who is a fan of Mein Kampf.
I’m more inclined to isay it was ill-advised at best and downright EVIL at worst.
I think they want to provoke a civil war or failing that widespread violent civil unrest to take over the rest of the government and tell their followers we started it.