We've given an order for a lot. We can't tell you the price,
Goddamn, that's all we needed to do. Biden orders a shit ton of solar panels and batteries and then just say "nah, I'm not going to tell you the price."
Any Democrat not on this "I'm not saying" budget plan just needs to GTFO of Congress yesterday. Who needs power of the purse when you can just say "make me" when Congress asks you to follow the law?
I'll say it again. These Mennonites are never going to change their stance on vaccines. Most are stuck with beliefs dating back to the early 1700s. Hell the couple in question with the six year old who died speak a broken English + Early 18th Century Low Germanic language.
These people are beyond back woods. Asking them to change is about as likely as having the sun set in the East. Their daughter dying from a preventable disease isn't some lack of prevention, to them it was the will of God.
You might as well walk up to a seven year old and ask them to perform triple bypass surgery. These people are unable to understand a vaccine. They lack the quantifiable knowledge to even begin to comprehend a vaccine.
People might ask how many of their children must die before they vaccinate. The answer is 100% of them. Likely fully explaining vaccines and microbiology to them would likely be seen as human arrogation in God's will. They would rather be wiped from the face of the Earth than to believe they have some sort of say over God's will.
That is the kind of people we are talking about here. They will unquestionably follow the "laws" of their religion even if it means the painful death of everyone they love. You CAN NOT CHANGE these people. It is impossible.
It's because these people are poorly educated. This group of Mennonites is very back woods thinking. There are zero ways they will ever trust vaccines.
You ask what percentage of kids it will take? 0% All of their children could die and they would chalk it up to God's will and get busy on making more.
Most people cannot comprehend just how backwards some of these groups are but think of life early 1700s. That's what you are dealing with. No one can convince these people anymore than someone can make the sun set in the East.
There is nothing that can be done about these people. Hell some don't even speak English, they still speak the old low German language. Like this couple they speak a broken mix between 1700s German and English that's developed in that area.
I cannot stress this enough, these people are never going to vaccinate. The cost of life is completely irrelevant in this aspect.
A core principal of a martyr is being widely liked. No one gives a shit about this dude. Even the people who he surrounds himself with don't give a flying fuck about the dude. Musk himself makes every interaction with him transactional. Add in his default behavior of being an 11 year old edgelord wrapped in a 50 something whale body with hair plugs that's awkward as fuck to be around, and yeah it's not hard to see why nobody likes this fucking billionaire with attachment issues.
Dude needs to ditch the ketamine and perhaps get actual therapy. And actually having a better diet and exercise regimen wouldn't hurt either.
The most recent continuing resolution authorized the President to begin sequestration and placed the national budget on emergency deficit reduction. That was in section 1113 of the law.
Under sequestration, the President is given emergency powers to "fix" the budget and the funding automatically matches what the President says. No need for any additional votes.
So Congress already gave him the green light to do whatever he wants and Congress has already pre-approved it. Now the Department will still be there in name. Senate confirmed officials will most move into advisement roles, but yeah after that last CR, Congress gave Trump the thumbs up to go hog wild.
Now sequestration is a process so I'm sure there will be flights over the process, like on what date an agency is sequestered, the published scope, etc. But Trump has the ability to sequester the full amount for the Department of Education and Congress says the budget automatically will adjust to meet whatever he determines.
Wow. He's a bigger fucking idiot than I originally thought he was. Damn. New York giving Florida a run on the money for biggest fucking idiot in the Senate.
The only thing they like about Trump is the afflicted pain. Even if they have to endure the pain, the fact that someone else is also suffering is exactly what they like.
Family values, religious values, morals... None of that honestly matters to them. They simply want people to suffer.
This is the plan. If anyone was wondering how welfare states would keep running when the federal dollars run out. This is how.
Combine that with making homelessness a crime punishable by five years hard labor and you've got what the end goal of the GOP is.
This dude has fucked his political career and I couldn't be happier.
The two party system has clearly failed. It's allowed zero pushback to Trump in the GOP and it's made cowards of the Democrats.
I would hope that the destruction of democracy in of itself would educate these people but I highly doubt they'll ever learn.
At this rate the leopards are going to need to speak with a nutritionist about how to better balance their diet and daily exercise.
Supposedly the White House Historical Association.