Now is a good time for mutual aid.
Well any time is a good time for mutual aid…
But if you can assist, if you can donate, if you can lend a hand, now is a pretty good time to do so.
Just gave to my local food bank. Local support will have to supplant the feds. Glad to do so, but I’d love to claw back my federal taxes as there seems to be little representation and help from there anymore.
Depending on the org you are donating to, you should be able to at least deduct it from your federal and depending on the state, state taxes as well.
I was able to donate what my parents were doing over 1.5 years in a single donation that way.
I got a couple of big bills to pay this month, but after that and my pay check another big chunk is going.
Could I use that money? Sure. But it’s a relatively small amount compared to rent/alimony and still leaves enough for me to be stable.
My bigger concern is how long it goes on. I haven’t calculated in increasing expenses.
Who cares: the White House will soon have the brand new, magnificent Epstein Memorial ballroom. Now that’s much more exciting than starving poor people!
Thing about a lot of the government dysfunction is that its being covered by aide systems and overworked people pushed to the edge. I guess this has been true for awhile, under both parties, but its at an unsustainable extreme now.
…And I’m really afraid voters are not going to realize that.
One of the reasons why I often feel like letting the issues accelerate into a wall right now, rather than baby step fixes to put the crash off, is the best long term plan because change will come sooner and we’ll all be better for it.
Yeah.
I feel like most US folks sorta go through life day to day, paycheck to paycheck, and they are not going to realize how stressed that system is until it breaks under their feet.
This is kinda how Trump operated in the business world, relying on (as one example) public investment to kinda just… continue their routine and absorb funky schemes. As one specific example, selling real estate from his private company to his public one at inflated, hyped prices. And he was onto the next controversy before the fallout of that one mattered.
He’s a showman, a salesman, at his core.
It feels like he’s doing the same thing now, prioritizing superficial short term stability; but that only works so long. And there is no one left to hand the bag to now.
