@meowski @interfluidity Yeah pretty much all of them although #BenCarson and #MikeHuckabee are coin tosses to some extent. They better understand the office of #POTUS and how not to abuse the power of the executive branch.
@meowski @interfluidity There are plenty of people other than #Trump who would have stemmed the bleeding in that regard. The #GOP field in 2016 and 2024 were chock full of them.
I will forever be disappointed that the #GOP chose #Trump over the likes of #TedCruz, #MarcoRubio, #BenCarson, #VivekRamaswamy, #MikeHuckabee, etc.
Former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner confirmed to lead HUD
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/turner-confirmation-hud-secretary
* TX House Representatives 2013-17
* HUD executes housing laws, incl. helping low-income people find homes & combating housing discrimination
* Turner a skeptic for gov assistance to alleviate poverty
* welfare: “one of most destructive things for the family” <-- Ch. Koch/libertarian billionaire playbook 101
#USpol #ScottTurner #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #BlackConservatism
Democrats Fought Trump1 Policy on Transgender Homeless People. Will They Again?
https://www.notus.org/policy/trans-homeless-shelter-rule
* 2019 Trump1 HUD Sec. Ben Carson tried to allow women's homeless shelters to ban trans women
* infuriated Democrats; Biden admin. withdrew Carson's proposal
* Title IX: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113801832628239656 << over-ruled 2025-Jan-09
* GOP attacks on trans rights centerpiece of 2024 campaign
#GOP #Trump1 #BenCarson #TitleIX
#Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #transgenocide
/1 Black conservative Ben Carson an anti-critical race theory proponent
[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805209780268350
* Noem & Carson's Fox News op-ed against critical race theory
* recall that ideology posited pre-Civil War slaves benefited f. slavery 
#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism #antiCRT #CRT
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #KristiNoem
#Christofascism #transgenocide
[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/06/gop-gov-kristi-noem-signs-1776-pledge-to-ban-anti-american-indoctrination-in-public-schools
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cultural-challenge-defeat-anti-american-indoctrination-dr-ben-carson-gov-kristi-noem
* "1776 Pledge to Save Our Schools"
* informal vow by Noem, other GOP incl. fmr US Sec. Housing & Urban Development Ben Carson
Ben Carson
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805166317422013
1776 Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_Commission
* Trump1 advisory comm.
* supported so-called "patriotic education"
[thread] Ben Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson#Remarks_on_transgender_use_of_homeless_shelters
* Am. retired neurosurgeon/academic
* Seventh-day Adventist Church
* apocalypse beliefs, literal reading of Book of Genesis
* 2017-2021 Trump1 Sec. Housing & Urban Development
* 2019 transphobic remarks wh. barring trans women f. homeless shelters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church
Transgenocide: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113591011564014172
#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide
