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Nanjeanne

(6,535 posts)
7. Explain it to me like I am 5. How is it legal to withhold money previously appropriated?
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 07:34 AM
12 hrs ago

Seriously I don’t know why government can be allowed to even consider such blackmail.

And why aren’t the Dem Senators, Congresspeople, and Governors from these states not holding joint press conferences? Why aren’t they standing on the steps of the Capitol making some good trouble? What’s the actual coordinated plan on these things? Maybe stuff is happening but I only see some tweeted and then maybe one or two Democrats on a “News” program making some comment. I’d like to see real outrage I guess because I feel it and I’m still on the street in my neighborhood with my sign at our Defend Democracy days.

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This isn't the Onion? iemanja 14 hrs ago #1
Low life vulgarian criminal malaise 13 hrs ago #2
I have a counteroffer jmowreader 13 hrs ago #3
I have another counteroffer: lastlib 12 hrs ago #6
I think the citizens would prefer my idea jmowreader 3 hrs ago #20
Egomaniac is way too kinda word for Trump democrank 13 hrs ago #4
He's a thug. Governing via bribery. Someone needs livetohike 13 hrs ago #5
Explain it to me like I am 5. How is it legal to withhold money previously appropriated? Nanjeanne 12 hrs ago #7
RE: "How is it legal to withhold money previously appropriated?" thesquanderer 12 hrs ago #13
Well that's a pretty fragile democracy that allows for the guardrails to come down so completely! Nanjeanne 11 hrs ago #15
Regarding funds to Ukraine? mobeau69 11 hrs ago #16
It is not legal. It is unconstitutional, and violates the sworn oath the president took Martin Eden 11 hrs ago #17
Thanks. Have any of us realized our democracy Nanjeanne 11 hrs ago #18
Far too many citizens are in denial, not engaged enough to know, or support what's happening. Martin Eden 10 hrs ago #19
You still don't have a Nobel Prize and never will. twodogsbarking 12 hrs ago #8
Doctors must have given him a death sentence. Ilsa 12 hrs ago #9
Oppositional defiance disorder writ large. enigmania 12 hrs ago #10
18 USC 872 James48 12 hrs ago #11
No, but I do like the idea of putting Trump stickers on porta potties tavernier 12 hrs ago #12
Why Doesn't He Just Skip The Chump Change And Re-name...... ColoringFool 11 hrs ago #14
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