A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.

DONALD TRUMP HAS made no secret of his desire for revenge.

On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.

Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in civil society.

Up for a potential fast-track vote next week in the House of Representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”

  • Lightscription@lemmy.world
    2116·
    14 days ago

    He really did go through all that shaming and embattlement. Think of the stress and the assassination attempt. There should be a price paid to the victor when the opponent he overcame would have done to him even more than he already went through. He will bring the fight to the Deep State. Listen to the actual policy decisions.

    Just for a couple of examples, tell me you don’t you think that the policy for the IGs to be physically separated from who they are regulating and for Federal institutions to be decentralized from the NW corridor aren’t great ideas in so many ways.

    • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
      56·
      14 days ago

      Breaking up the Deep State by having the World’s RICHEST Man who is the CEO of MULTIPLE Businesses with Government Contracts being in Charge of Oversight and Regulation? Like that Deep State?

      • Lightscription@lemmy.world
        112·
        13 days ago

        Then you are not paying attention. Look how the corporate Democrats cozyed up to the neocons and the Cheneys. They really don’t like Trump. The CIA establishment is deep blue. The party switched.

        C. Wright Mills https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/27993/chapter/211702330

        I don’t care if people can’t tolerate different perspectives on the left and feel the compulsion to cast out and silence dissent.

        That is genuinely what it looks like to me. I pay attention.

        • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
          41·
          12 days ago

          I pay attention.

          Hey, good for you! My dog likes to watch tennis. Could say he PAYS ATTENTION. I wouldn’t say he understands wtf is going on, but attention is being paid…

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      47·
      14 days ago

      the Deep State

      Please define.

      There should be a price paid to the victor when the opponent he overcame would have done to him even more than he already went through.

      What the fuck are you talking about.

      Think of the stress and the assassination attempt.

      You mean by that conservative kid who was acting alone? That assassination attempt?

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      45·
      14 days ago

      My, my, America is fucked in the head since clearly a sizable number of voting people think like this, while Democrats, liberals and progressives quabble over issues that seem more like worrying whether they are wearing the right color shoes.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        264·
        14 days ago

        Democrats, liberals and progressives quabble over issues that seem more like worrying whether they are wearing the right color shoes.

        When the entire upper echelon of the national party is content and happy because they’re suckling from the corporate teat that tends to happen. We’ve tried to run pro working class candidates but the national party absolutely loves to rat fuck them.

    • hombre fundido@lemmy.world
      24·
      14 days ago

      Why doesn’t he just use the presidential weather machine against his enemies? Wouldn’t he get the keys to it during transition?

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      16·
      14 days ago

      They can’t talk to who they’re regulating and he’s going to break up any coherent structure… and that’s good??

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        16·
        14 days ago

        The wealthy love periods when our economy collapses, it gives them the opportunity to buy all of the assets from everyone down below for pennies on the dollar. Five years later they’ve made 20x what they spent and can sell that back to the poor schmucks for twice what it’s worth.