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There's a wide gulf between "nothing was disrupted" and "reenorap isn't aware of anything being disrupted". It's also different from "reenorap did not value the things that were disrupted".

Here's a single counterfactual to your statement that nothing was disrupted: approximately 1,500 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities were cancelled abruptly.

> approximately 1,500 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities were cancelled abruptly.

So, it's working as intended? I'm all for cutting as much money from government spending as possible, because we are $36T in debt and we can only get out of this by cutting spending.

What percentage of the $36T debt did those 1,500 grants make up?

Huh? Whether you like it or not, the way we're going to get out of it is printing money.

You've moved your goalposts. And explicitly confirmed that what you meant was not "nothing was disrupted", but rather "nothing I like was disrupted".

Which is fine, just be honest about the statement from the top. If you are sharing an opinion, share an opinion, don't state it as a fact.

I will have to let my wife and many folks she worked with who were illegally terminated, then brought back into uncertain limbo and so on throughout the year that someone on the internet is certain that none of this happened and 2025 was just a bad dream. Their projects and programs still exist and have been progressing well the same as they were 18 months ago.

"nothing has been disrupted"

Who is swallowing the propaganda?

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