HUD housing is already a shithole in most areas. I guarantee nobody on DOGE even understands what HUD does. I live in HUD housing because in on SSDI.

I’m going to be homeless soon, if I’m not disappeared before any changes happen to HUD.

As someone currently on SSDI and terrified by what’s been happening in the last 100 or so days…that’s not funny 😜

His time at DOGE may “drop significantly,” but in the same call he made it clear he intends to continue his political work until (at least) 2029. “I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term, just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back, which will do if it has the chance,” he said, adding he still plans to spend “a day or two a week” at the quasi agency.

He’s just not going to be in the spotlight, but he will absolutely still control Trump and DOGE on a daily basis

Which makes the debt ceiling fight that’s coming up even more interesting. (article from March 24th)

The U.S. is most likely to default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn’t act, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicted Monday.

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Debt limit forecasters are expected to release a narrower X-date prediction after most tax receipts have landed at the IRS in April. While it’s “quite unlikely,” there is still a possibility that the U.S. could run out of borrowing power in early June if that gush of tax revenue comes in far below projections, the Bipartisan Policy Center cautioned.

The cost-cutting efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency effort headed by Elon Musk could also affect cash flow enough to change the X-date prediction, along with the strength of the economy, tariffs and any new spending or cuts Congress approves, the center said.

Given how DOGE is inflating it’s cost cutting savings by over $140 Billion, the tariff trade war, and congress’ habit of pushing things to the brink when their luck is going to run out sooner or later – this could get ugly quick.

I am terrified this is going to happen to me being on SSDI and in HUD housing. Glad to know my fears are justified now 🤨

EDIT: Uhhhhhhh…11 million out of 73 million purged? 🫣

Wait….so we’re just going to ignore the separation of church and state, never mind spouting off sexist bullshit?

Jesus Karens cross age, race, and gender gaps with ease but it’s often in my experience been older ladies.

The sad thing is that these are also the type who usually spread hate more than they spread love via racism, sexism, generationism, looking down on anyone not believing the same way they believe, and just generally being assholes except for one hour a week.

I worked in retail for 7 years. Every damn Sunday we would get at least one customer in their Sunday best turn into an impatient, vile, insulting human being towards us because of something in the weekly ad or whatever. I wasn’t particularly religious despite attending Catholic school for every grade until high school graduation, but this solidified my loss of faith even more.

Oh, and it was a tiny bit of an influence on me becoming an alcoholic too! Yay!

So let’s say…somehow…every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?

Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I’m not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn’t a white male.

I can guarantee you I would again waste countless hours just spinning stuff around again if I tried using it now 😆

Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States’ third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.

I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.

Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!

While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.

I switched from Kindle Paperwhite 1st Gen to a Kobo Clara Color a month or so ago. It was cheaper than Amazon’s color Kindle offering plus Amazon not letting readers download their books pushed me out. I did try the jailbreak for the Kindle and…I gave up on it after numerous issues that I ran into probably relating to the age of my Paperwhite.

I mostly use Overdrive (Libby) to get books from my library. The Kobo has Overdrive support…mostly due to Kobo store availability and whether or not you have multiple library cards with multiple libraries. I’m in NY state and have a library card with my city library and then one with the NY Public Library. This isn’t really a reflection on Kobo, more so Overdrive being shitty and not willing to update their Kobo app to work with how they migrated from the Overdrive app to Libby.

This is where Calibre comes in handy, I download the book to my phone from Libby, transfer it to my Mac and use Calibre to add it to it to my Kobo. It’s not pretty like Overdrive’s Kindle integration where you basically press a few buttons in the Libby app and the book is sent to your kindle.

As far as reading the book in general, I don’t really notice that huge of a difference other than better technology. I did have some slight bugginess when I first used it, but after a full charge and a few reboots it seems to be fine now. I don’t have a current gen Kindle to compare it to, so someone else can speak to that. I do wish it wasn’t such a hassle to get my library books to it, but at least I have access to all my books!

Man this is a trip I remember Beryl and when it turned to Compiz. I spent way more time than I care to admit just spinning stuff around and playing with effects than accomplishing anything of meaningful value.

Don’t forget the “parasites” too, which I guess would be considered part of the “undesirables” 🤷🏻‍♂️

This definitely is not just for immigration purposes

Yes, he is a symptom, but he’s also morphing the disease at breakneck speed to encompass anyone who isn’t an able-bodied white male. I’m not fluent in diseases, so I don’t know what I’m talking about but it sure as hell seems more than just a symptom.

I want one too! Only because I love Lego 😆

Jokes on them, I have facial paralysis!

Trump said. “I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country. But you’ll have to be looking at the laws.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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