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Claire Davis's avatar

That’s absurd that they are equating supporting an individual’s social transition with “practicing medicine without a license” 🤨 There’s nothing this administration can do that is going to stop me from supporting my trans students. If anything, Trump’s bigotry is just furthering my resolve to fight for trans folks with everything I’ve got!! 🏳️‍⚧️

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

I'm with you Claire!

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MissNumbersNinja's avatar

That you so much for your support!

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Seren's avatar

The irony that none of us are getting our loans forgiven under that program anyway… They make it impossible and the success rate is so tiny… He’s just making it doubly impossible for my to get my loans forgiven.

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daisy true's avatar

yet another unconstitutional order that organizations will probably comply in advance with. if only we had a Congress that cared about their oath to uphold the Constitution.

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Rebecca Marks's avatar

How dare someone get an education and have empathy 😒

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Jesse (They/Them/Theirs)'s avatar

Sick and tired of Trump and his people, I never seen someone who sees LGBTQIA+ People and other minorities be having so MUCH thoughts and actions living rent free 24/7 like this, that's a different type of hatred that has to be fixed/find a way for legal system to overturn/overruled and not let Trump continuing to think EOs are laws

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Rebecca Marks's avatar

For real, this obsession he has with treating EOs like laws has so many people who could be standing up and saying “no”, rolling over and showing their bellies; and I don’t think it has ever been more clearly demonstrated that govt agencies are not ‘of the people’. This administration has really pulled the worst out of this country and put it on parade 😡

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Jesse (They/Them/Theirs)'s avatar

Yes I agree with you Rebecca, this timeline, as horrible as it is, I really feel like the new generation needs to be able to fix what is going on with the USA government cuz it's hard to feel represented when people abandon folks when we NEEDED them the most.

Really I can't blame people who doesn't want to vote anymore AFTER they voted local, state and federal and this is the nonsense we get in return. That's just mind-blowing and hard to stay optimistic at staying safe

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Georgette Wolf's avatar

Do the Trump people realize how much their transphobic policies make them sound like 1930s German Nazis?

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Stephany Harris's avatar

In think they understand that all too well and where it like a badge of honor. I think they really are Nazis tbh! If you're not of the master race whites cishet evangelical Christian you get attacked it's exactly the same thing!

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

Georgette, he may be even worse than Hitler. We have not seen the worst of him yet.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

In his essay "Ur-Fascism," Umberto Eco described fourteen characteristics which define fascism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

No points for guessing how many of those characteristics may be identified in Trumpism (spoiler: it's all of them). His is not merely a fascist movement; it is arguably the 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 fascist movement there has ever been. The atrocities it will be capable of, if it is allowed to fully secure itself in power, could very well make the horrors of WWII look positively tame by comparison.

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Stephany Harris's avatar

May I steal this including your words verbatim?

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Have at it!

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Seren's avatar

Isnt that the point?

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Athena Jeanne Zeiter's avatar

I work at a non-profit. I bet next they'll say just retaining us in employment is enough to make them ineligible.

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cory silvers's avatar

I know at this point I should know better but this shit never ceases to enrage me. To hear that guy talk like he knows anything about what's right or good is nauseating.

donald trump is the most dishonest and dishonorable person I can think of. Every word out of his mouth is a lie or a vulgar insult. Every business venture he's engaged in is some sort of fraud or scam. Every last one of his associates is a criminal sack of shit. He has never done anything for anyone other than himself. Not once in his life either as an adult or a child.

He's a rapist and a molester having groped, ogled, harassed, and worse minor children who were unfortunate enough to find themselves as contestants in his sicko pageants. Considering the way they talk about drag shows and queer people in comparison, this one thing is enough to cause an aneurysm. It's just one tiny part of the disgusting mess that is trump and the maga cult. Every accusation is a confession. Every slight is a personal insecurity on his behalf. He knows he's a piece of shit. He can't change that so instead he scapegoats trans people, immigrants, etc. Specifically people who have some sort of diminished capability of fighting back. Trans people are a small demographic so they're rarely around to correct the record. (It doesn't make me any friends but I never back down on this in person even and I never will.) Immigrants have to worry about being deported so they are obviously afraid to speak out of risk everything by doing so.

Because at the end of the day, no matter how much power and wealth he yields, donald trump is a coward. He will never understand the kind of courage it takes to be a young trans person just trying to stand up for oneself and be comfortable in one's own skin. He is incapable of processing anything like that. He is only capable of seeing the world in the most cynical manner possible as it pertains to him personally.

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KOB's avatar

i doubt he has authority to do this. and also. why didn't Biden forgive a our loans via EO. Thanks Biden for leaving us in worst condition than before....

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Brigid Tray's avatar

Biden save plan was on track to forgive more than the eo would have. But agree that one party following the law while the other doesn't, and for evil, is maddening.

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WolverineTransitionComplete's avatar

Oh please! Biden tried to relieve student debt and SCOTUS said it was unconstitutional or some other bullshit.

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KOB's avatar

His attempts to relieve student debt were lukewarm at best. The courts only stopped one way of relieving student loans, there are multiple ways he could have gone about this and he didn't. And he also never fixed the root problem of how interest compounds to the principal on student loans which are predatory in nature. That is still going on and that was a low hanging fruit he could have fixed.

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Kaedi Alexandra Peacecraft's avatar

While it wasn't going to be looking like I was going to be eligible for PSLF anyways, this one does impact me, I still got out grind out over $50,000 in student loans. I'm top of other expenses.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to be keeping an eye out for any other changes to student loan aid and be ready to take out a private loan to cover those expenses should things get worse.

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

this is truly immoral. But trump has said he does not like educated people, since they see what he is doing. How can most people afford an education in this country. Germany covers almost all college level expenses. I will stand against this insanity

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Laura Jai Green's avatar

First they came for the Transgendered,

and you did not speak out -

Because you are not Transgendered.

Then they came for the immigrants,

and you did not speak out -

Because you are not an immigrant.

Then they came for the environmentalists,

and you did not speak out -

Because you are not an environmentalist.

Then they came for the liberals,

and you did not speak out -

Because you are not liberal.

When they come for you -

there will be no one left

to speak for you.

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

This never grows old. Unfortunately.

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

This is more than evil. It is insane. There is something wrong with his brain. But how can an entire political party, GOP, agree with this madman? It is no different than Hitler targeting Jews and others. The main difference, as I see it, is that #47 is not sending people to concentration camps. Wait...immigrants, yes. He despises non-white people, immigrants, except his wife and Elon Musk, and so far has not developed gas chambers. DO NOT THINK IT WON'T HAPPEN HERE. I am an ally of LGBTQ communities, non-white people, immigrants and others. My father's family came from Italy and did dirty work in steel mills. He fought in the Pacific, ww2, many of the immigrants died.

I do not have an answer, except that, besides voting and writing hopeful letters to legislators, someone else said we cannot wait for the midterms to hope things get better. This pres. ignores all manner of laws, including the Constitution. I am retired, from the VA, so I cannot be fired. But I am dependent on Social Security. Still, I do not fear the consequences of speaking out...and acting against the governments illegal actions. Down with Trump, Down with Musk

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Tia's avatar

I am so sick of this man’s cruelty!

he has got to be stopped.

I don’t know how or who but this man cannot continue destroying lives.

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Allison Church's avatar

This...person...is a MONSTER! Outside a history book, about the dictators of World War 2, I haver never seen another filled with so much hate and visceral negativity. He just needs to be GONE!

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DAVID George RINALDI's avatar

Allison, I agree with you 100%. The midterms are too far off

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Calista Jarratt's avatar

His order removes the possibility of any Catholic organization in the medical field from getting their loans forgiven since the actively espouse the genital mutilation of little boys. Same would go for any Jewish or Christian based medical organizations.

Granted, circumcision should stop unless actually medically necessary. No more of this, "but I want my kid to look normal." Mutilated penises are NOT NORMAL.

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J. Ana's avatar

It would seem that if biden's loan forgiveness was an overreach in the courts, turned it away that this would be easily turned away by the courts for being an overreach the other way.

Apparently the Republicans didn't give up anything for Lent, not even their hypocrisy

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