A bigot is in charge of HUD who despises us.
Talk about doublespeak!
About yesterday.
For about nine months I have been trying to find a contractor to remodel the bathroom at the cottage and I had a lockbox on the back door but somehow the storm door got locked so I had to go up to the Cape to show him what I want done.
It is three and a half hour drive up to Wellfleet where I spent about forty-five minutes talking to him and a three and a half hour drive home, but it sounds like it was worth it. He is raring to go and he didn’t flinch when he say that I am trans.
But I did find that a tree limb came down over the winter and brought down with it the cable wires… so that means more work.
Ben Carson questioned on HUD's lack of LGBTQ nondiscrimination guidanceSo explaining what are rights are will confuse us.
“We are all now more stupid than we were when we came in the room today,” Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., said after a heated exchange with the HUD secretary.
NBC News
By Eileen Street
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said in a hearing Wednesday that a Democratic congressman “might not like” and “probably wouldn’t agree with” the department’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination guidance, if the agency were to provide it.
During the House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., said he was “very disappointed” with HUD's decision not to replace the LGBTQ nondiscrimination guidance that the department removed from its website soon after Carson was appointed by President Donald Trump over two years ago. The guidance, provided in 2009 by the Obama administration, was intended to help HUD housing providers and shelters interpret the agency’s rules so as not to discriminate against LGBTQ service recipients.
“So, how will these grantees comply with the regs without this guidance, sir?” Quigley asked Carson.
Carson responded that the guidance “was pretty much obliterated” by rules HUD issued in 2012 and 2016. The secretary added that HUD “concluded that putting that sub-regulatory guidance" regarding anti-LGBTQ discrimination "actually confused the issue." He said his agency — which is responsible for national policy and programs that address America’s housing needs and enforces fair housing laws — was trying to “simplify things” and said the rules still stand and have not been changed.
Talk about doublespeak!
“From my conversations with many legal experts throughout government, my suspicion is that you would probably dislike the sub-regulatory guidance that would be put up," Carson said. "This provides you with considerably more freedom," he added, referring to HUD's lack of specific LGBTQ discrimination guidance.In 1984 George Orwell used “doublethink” and “newspeak…”
Quigley said: “Are you suggesting that doing nothing provides greater protection? By putting no guidance up on the website is providing this?
“I'm suggesting that you might not like the sub-regulatory guidance that was put up,” Carson answered.
Quigley continued: “And why is that? I'm a glutton for punishment, sir.”
“Because you probably wouldn't agree with it,” Carson replied.
“Because it goes along with allowing people to discriminate against LGBTQ youth?” Quigley inquired.
“Because it goes along with allowing people to discriminate against LGBTQ youth?” Quigley inquired.
Carson then reiterated that the rules in place “allow people to have a nondiscriminatory atmosphere, and that's what we are trying to achieve.”
“All right, we are all now more stupid than we were when we came in the room today, sir," Quigley eventually concluded.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.I don’t know about you but I think that the Trump administration has “doublethink” and “newspeak” down pat.
About yesterday.
For about nine months I have been trying to find a contractor to remodel the bathroom at the cottage and I had a lockbox on the back door but somehow the storm door got locked so I had to go up to the Cape to show him what I want done.
It is three and a half hour drive up to Wellfleet where I spent about forty-five minutes talking to him and a three and a half hour drive home, but it sounds like it was worth it. He is raring to go and he didn’t flinch when he say that I am trans.
But I did find that a tree limb came down over the winter and brought down with it the cable wires… so that means more work.
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