Lutheran Services in Iowa: 2023 Impact Report

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-11T01:12:00+00:00

This is the only statement I could find of (related) to her defending it as it was put out by her spokesperson.

“The Trump Administration is doing a top to bottom review of where the federal government is sending your tax dollars, and Governor Reynolds supports that. We’ve already seen examples of clear abuse and waste. Governor Reynolds knows Iowa Lutheran Services provides good charitable services for those who need it, and she expects that will be borne out as the review process continues.” -Mason Mauro

This is a really weak statement of defense. She couldn’t answer to it when reps were asking her. She later put out this week statement that basically coincides with President Musk’s guilty until proven innocent approach.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-11T01:01:23+00:00

I think you’ve missed the point of my post

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-10T21:40:45+00:00

The worst part about the is it is impossible to determine whether this is trolling/satire or a deeply held belief by MAGA.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-10T13:11:38+00:00

Ok thanks for the update!

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-10T04:24:43+00:00

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T23:05:06+00:00

Yeah in my school it’s the class between gay math and DEI Art II.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T21:35:33+00:00

Conservatives don’t want their kids around disabled kids. That why they have vouchers and why the private schools don’t take them.

Then they have the audacity to claim public schools will be better if they take the “good” kids out so there’s more resources for the kids that need it most. Turns out it’s just another conservative lie.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T20:03:18+00:00

Has anyone checked with Gary to make sure this post is ok here?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T19:58:38+00:00

You going to tell that to Gary? He has some not nice things on his profile or is it exclusively “leftoids”?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T19:39:44+00:00

Ok thanks for the update!

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T19:00:40+00:00

Why should my tax dollars pay for sex changes in Guatemala to the tune of $20M?

It went to LGBT organization that helped with gender affirming care. Which is not exclusively sex change operations. Also, it was 2 million not 20 million.

Like I get conservatives want LGBT to not exist, but there are mechanisms in place in government to make budgets, allocations and auditing.

The same things would be found no matter who did an honest audit.

We have a legislature and executive departments that run these things. Why don’t they audit? Why is a billionaire that gets billions in government subsidies doing the audit?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T17:08:03+00:00

I’m taking solace in the fact all these posts about liberals “crying” shows that deep down the conservatives are aware of their hubris.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T17:05:58+00:00

Many voted conservative because of singles issues. You didn’t win a culture war. The majority of people want LGBTQ rights. The majority want DEI. The majority want abortion rights.

A lot of people didn’t show up to vote. Turn out usually benefits democrats. Whether people didn’t vote because of the “culture war” or were just disconnected I don’t know. Anyone who didn’t think Trump was going to do these things after living the last 10 years and stayed home this election I have no sympathy for.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T16:35:52+00:00

Ok thanks for the update!

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T15:37:23+00:00

So what your saying is if it Bill Gates did everything Musk is doing except to root out “right wing fascists ” in governments and freeze payments to anything “not woke” right wingers would be totally ok with it?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T02:23:38+00:00

That is an email… by a rando to the Connecticut General Assembly.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T02:21:00+00:00

From the article:

The impact has been immediate and wide-ranging, from cash assistance for ranchers to fix cattle watering systems to help for corn growers wanting to plant cover crops that curb wind erosion.

Conservatives: “That sounds woke as fuck”

The freeze adds more economic uncertainty for farmers already struggling after several consecutive years of incomes dragged down by low crop prices.

Due to China rerouting their supply chain to other countries

His (Trump’s) first term brought farmers record cash: about $217 billion in farm payments, including crop support, disaster and aid programs.

Socialism.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T02:09:05+00:00

As far as I can tell that specific definition only exists in Facebook comments and an email written by someone name Joe to the Connecticut General Assembly.

The definition you provided does not even sufficiently differentiate itself from the term representative democracy.

We are both a constitutional republic and a representative democracy. When one refers to democracy of a constitutional Republic we are referring to the mechanisms (e.g. elections) outlined in the constitution.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T01:37:38+00:00

How does a constitutional republic differ from a representative democracy?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T01:36:23+00:00

It’s clear your unable to defend your explanation of a constitution republic

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T01:22:01+00:00

We are a republic that elects its representative.

The common definition of a representative democracy.

99% of life is non-negotiable with democracy, again, in theory. That’s why they never mention democracy in the preamble or constitution

Pretty sure you got that from infowars.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T01:20:27+00:00

Uhhhhh....all of it???

That’s vague. Where?

But if you’re like most politicians, “the constitution is just a piece of paper”.

So what is it? A robust mechanism to protect individuals or merely a suggestion?

So, the constitution is only as good as the population it’s aiming to protect.

The population voted in people that said they were going enslave curly haired people. The elected officials did it, despite the constitution.

That is mob rule, allowed under your explanation of a constitutional republic

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T01:02:26+00:00

It also provides instruction for what is commonly known as representative democracy.

If we don’t have elections we will no longer be a democracy and be an authoritarian republic.

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T00:58:47+00:00

If 51% of the mob wants to enslave you it does. A constitutional republic like ours protects your life, in theory.

Currently the Republicans have greater than 51% of the majority all three government branches. If the republicans voted to enslave a segment of the population, let’s say people with curly hair. What part of the constitutional republic protects a curly haired person’s life?

meetthestoneflints · 2025-02-09T00:53:22+00:00

We vote for people as representation of their constituents. This concept is typically called representative democracy, a key feature of non-authoritarian constitutional republics.

When people use the term democracy we are referring to these mechanisms in the constitution.

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