Following a wave of high-profile resignation from Trump’s two primary CEO councils, Trump tweeted Wednesday he was dissolving both the American Manufacturing Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum.
“Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both,” he tweeted. “Thank you all!
The dissolution of the two councils deals a major blow to Trump’s mandate as a leader who would use his business acumen to steer the nation toward economic prosperity. Read more (8/16/17 2:05 PM)
Though Trump tweeted that the decision to disband the groups was his, the Wall Street Journal reported that the industry leaders had chosen to disband before the president’s tweet.
According to the Journal, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone Group LP Chief Executive and leader of Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, call the president on Wednesday to tell him the group was disbanding. Read more (8/16/17 4 PM)
If you’ve been following me for a while, you more than likely know what’s going on, but for those who don’t know: I’ve been in an extremely toxic, abusive relationship for the past 6 ½ years with my son’s father. We have a 3 year old together. While I did leave him last year, I (stupidly) came back in March under the promises of “things would change” etc etc. He has been emotionally, verbally, physically, sexually, and financially abusive. I am cooperating with the state in applying for all kinds of state assistance I am eligible for. I have an apartment and have our most basic needs covered. I need help with covering rent at the end of the month as I can’t do it by myself (my rent is $936), I have no consistent means of transportation (there is no bus/public transit in the city I live in) and I really realllyyy don’t want to have to allow my abuser into my home just to help cover these bills. I can manage on my own, but I need help getting on my feet and establishing my independence in the time being.
Any resources, encouraging words (I have virtually no support system), or other help is so much appreciated.
My PayPal is c.newago@yahoo.com, or PayPal.me/bizaanideewin
Please please don’t send anon hate or criticism, I cannot stress how hard I am struggling with my own guilt and self-blaming right now
Miigwech
I’m having a sale on my website, if donating isn’t your jam.
Bringing this back, with an update: I wasn’t able to survive on my own so I had to let him in. Lo and behold the abuse continues. Today he punched a hole in the bedroom door. My dad is going to cosign for a new apartment for me back in my hometown, as long as I cover the costs he is going to help me move. I’ve already got a rental application submitted. I’m done I’m leaving I’m OUT. I have tangible proof and I can break the lease without repercussions through the domestic violence clause in the lease.
I just need help with the intial moving costs and initial housing costs- the apartment I applied for is $645 a month, security deposit same amount. First months rent and security deposit due at lease signing. Moving costs are around $400 (it’s a 300 mile move so it gets expensive fast)
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG
I’m almost 15% of the way there!! Please boost!
UPDATE: before my best friend came to get me to visit her, he and I got into a huge fight. He was screaming at me at the top of his lungs calling me a selfish bitch and a slut. He then proceeded to tell me Makoons won’t have any parents anymore if I call the cops.
Please boost!! I want to leave BEFORE this escalates!!!!
I don’t know. I’ve gotten a couple asks like this and – yeah. I don’t know.
Some considerations:
America has always had a disgusting underbelly of white nationalists. It’s not as safe to live here as we’d like, but it’s not suddenly dangerous; they’ve had these moments in the spotlight before. Almost everyone correctly considers them evil; I think it’s likely that they’ll terrorize and posture and that’s it. If being scared isn’t helping you, consider spending less time on news sources that make you scared, and focusing on other things. This isn’t a betrayal and it won’t put you in danger. I guarantee you that if this gets worse you’ll hear about it.
Having money makes it easier to react to a sudden emergency and to emigrate or help a friend emigrate if suddenly needed. I know it’s tempting to donate to organizations combatting fascism and white supremacy, and I think that’s a reasonable thing to do if you have a lot of money in savings. If you don’t, that is probably a higher priority than donations. I do not think an emergency that requires tons of people to hide or emigrate is at all likely, but it doesn’t have to be that likely for it to be worth making plans which are a good idea anyway.
Likewise, have a valid passport.
Calling your Congresspeople to express horror at Trump’s ‘not all of the people doing Nazi salutes were white supremacists! and slavery’s not a good reason to take down a statue!’ thing probably has an effect in the correct direction, though I doubt it has much of one at all.
As far as stopping Nazis, I have no idea. When I was trying to persuade people not to vote for Trump I offered to talk with anyone who was thinking about it, and I had some productive and meaningful conversations as a result, but I have nothing to say to someone who thinks non-white people should all be forcibly deported or murdered, which is the explicit position of many of the groups that marched in Charlottesville. I do not have the emotional bandwidth for a conversation and I cannot imagine convincing them of anything. You have to share some premises in common for a conversation; if someone’s premise is ‘genocide is good’ then there isn’t a conversation.
Not only get engaged to someone who will tolerate your horrible clown painting in your shared home, get engaged to someone who will let you put a framed photo of them disliking the painting underneath it
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