In case you haven't noticed, Il Duce Trumpo is rapidly changing the FSoA goobermint into a Dictatorship.  He has spent his first few days in office issuing Presidenttial Orders in almost every area of da goobermint, firing hundreds of people involved in oversight, declaring an Emergency in Energy and now cutting off funding of loan and grant programs.  Basically he is using War Powers to govern by diktat, which is the definition of a dictatorship.  Doesn't matter if CONgress has passed legislation, if he doesn't like where the money is going he cuts off the funding.

Of course previous POTUS have made executive orders on taking office, the difference here is the scope of what he is doing.  He is running the country like Elon Musk runs his companies, as though he is both CEO and majority stock holder.  It doesn't matter what the rest of the Board of Directors think, he makes all the decisions and if they don't agree, too bad.

The Donald gets a thrill from being in charge and dishing out orders, and the more upset people get by his diktats, the more he likes it.  People who have this kind of psychology need constant reinforcement of their power, and he'll keep on doing it and pushing the envelope to demonstrate he is IN CHARGE.  If that means ordering the Marines to invade Greenland and Canada for "National Security", he'll do it.

The question is when or if the CONgress and Amerikan people will realize this and try to put a stop to it before it's too late.  Right now it's not looking too good.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loan-disbursement/index.html

All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House

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Quote from: RE on Jan 28, 2025, 12:06 AMIn case you haven't noticed, Il Duce Trumpo is rapidly changing the FSoA goobermint into a Dictatorship. 

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For the Japanese, a doubling of rice prices is not an existential crisis.  Even statistically poor Japs can afford that.  However, rice is a global staple, particularly in SE Asia and the Indian subcontinent.  In countries like Bangladesh an Cambodia, it means large swaths of the population will be priced out of sustenance level nutrition.  India & Pakistan are teetering on the edge of Nuclear War.  Food riots are likely to follow,

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/23/japan-faces-a-rice-crisis-as-price-nearly-doubles-for-food-staple

Japan faces a 'rice crisis' as price nearly doubles for food staple

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Let them eat rice cakes.





We first will figure out exactly how much rice there is, and where it is," Ishiba said.

*  I agree, that would be a very good idea.