The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.
Why it matters: It’s an astonishing reversal by the Trump administration, a day after top officials defended the funding freeze — which a judge temporarily halted on Tuesday — as necessary to ensure all government spending was aligned with the president’s vision.
I’ve hit rock bottom once: I lost my job, went into bankruptcy, had to move back home with my folks, car was undriveable, and my girlfriend had gone back to her ex. It was, for all intents and purposes, the worst time of my life. I even failed joining the Army to escape my misery.
But, the beautiful thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only way to go from there is up. It was hard, and I had to rely on family and friends. But eventually I made it. I went to college, got my first developer job, got into a great (at the time) relationship, and moved out of my parent’s house and back on my own. I am better for it.
All of that to say that maybe (yes, I’m being optimistic) Trump is what this country needs to hit rock bottom, do some self reflection, and pull ourselves back up to a better place.
The biggest takeaway I learned way back when is that no matter how bad things get, the world keeps spinning. We can either we could sit out and watch the world move on without us, or get up and keep moving.
It sounds like you don’t understand that most people don’t have the safety net you had when you needed it. He wants to make it so nobody can count on the govt to provide that safety net for those people without other options. You’re not just being optimistic, you’re being naive and uninformed and ignorant, and frankly, harmful.
Given the level of responses I’m getting, I believe you’re right. 🤷♂️
Rock bottom for a country means millions of people a year dying preventable deaths.
These kind of “experiments” have a name — “genocide”. Atleast that’s what the social engineering in Camodia and China ended up being called, due to the immense human loss resulting from them.
These are unfortunately contradictory ideas. It sounds like you had a positive journey in the end, but there are many individuals - especially people struggling with addiction - who will tell you that there is no rock bottom. The world does keep on spinning. And as long as you are alive, you can go lower. There is no point where you go so low that you hit bedrock and the world stops spinning.
Plenty of people think they hit rock bottom and later discover that what they thought of as their lowest point eventually became a time they now think of as “the good days”.
There is nothing inevitable or guaranteed about hitting rock bottom and climbing your way back up. It is hard work, and it sounds like you know that personally. Whatever comes next will be a terrible struggle for all of us, and there is no guarantee of success. But we do have to try anyway.
That presumes the part of the country which allowed this is capable of self-reflection.
It also presumes that the pulling back up will be done by the same who are responsible for hitting the rock bottom.
Not necessarily. If enough of them die drinking raw milk…
crosses fingers
This “it’ll be good for us” optimistic bullshit often doesn’t correctly conceptualize what “rock bottom” looks like for an entire country
I thought we had learned the first time, but impressively the bottom has gone much lower.
I’m guessing your rock bottom did not involve a concentration camp,
Okay, there’s one (well more than one) problem with this: America ain’t anywhere near rock bottom, and Trump won’t get it anywhere near rock bottom. If you want to know what rock bottom looks like on a country-wide scale look up developing countries in central Africa or pre-war Syria. If y’all don’t manage to put a stop to the American downward slide you’ll find yourselves in free fall towards the third world. And no I don’t mean the “America is a third world country” third world; I’m talking about the actual, ruled-by-military-dictatorships third world.