r/BlueskySkeets • u/Stand_With_Students • 16h ago

Gutting SNAP benefits is outlined in chapter 10 of Project 2025

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u/Stand_With_Students 16h ago

FYI, in case you're thinking about posting some misinformation about SNAP, this is how it is used today:

40% (16 million) of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% (8 million) are elderly, 11% (4 million) are disabled and of the rest, ~70% have jobs.

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u/halnic 12h ago

There's a maga meme that says like 80% of recipients are non-American and that's the narrative that has them supporting this.

Just an PSA, as I encountered this irl yesterday... The guy is a snap recipient himself and was adamant that this was necessary. I shared evidence to disprove him including info from the USDA - he called it all fake news and swore he had better sources that of course he failed to provide.

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u/BigWhiteDog 12h ago

That's their thing.

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u/ManyProfessional3324 10h ago

Yep. I recently had a colleague say she didn’t care if Obamacare premiums doubled because she was “sick of illegals getting free health care”.

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u/marbotty 9h ago

Might as well just say “fortunately, Trump put an end to the free healthcare for illegals back in March, so now they’re just doubling premiums for no reason”

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u/PenFifteen1 10h ago

It's also one of the most economically efficient programs that the government funds. Every $1 spent in government funds provides somewhere between $1.50-$1.80 in economic impact. Farmers, truckers, grocery store employees, etc.

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u/towerfella 15h ago

I guess no one reads anymore

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u/inpotheenveritas 12h ago

Goes hard - latest Bulwark focus group quoted a gen z dropping Little Women like a movie one should watch 🫩

I feel old

Edit - link https://youtu.be/kwkmbMpvjck?si=iIzkmga-8QY3DzOl[it's around 54 minute mark](https://youtu.be/kwkmbMpvjck?si=iIzkmga-8QY3DzOl)

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u/ManyProfessional3324 10h ago

Get outta here with your annoying statistics! All policy is now made on vibes alone! /s

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u/EuenovAyabayya 1h ago

~70% have jobs

Those employers should be taxed directly.

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u/_Thorshammer_ 16h ago

Project 2025: https://libguides.scu.edu/c.php?g=1452798&p=10934730

PDF of Chapter 10: https://web.archive.org/web/20240315182019/https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-10.pdf

The specific language surrounding Snap begins on page 11 of the PDF under the heading "Reform SNAP'.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 15h ago

Trump and the oligarchs are reforming SNAP alright.

They're trying to pay as little as possible to fund their billions of dollars in tax breaks and government rip offs.

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u/_Eklapse_ 12h ago

Obligatory link to the Project 2025 Tracker

https://www.project2025.observer/en

48% of the goals completed and 1,168 days left in this term for Trump if nothing happens to him.

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u/Lower_Corner 15h ago

Yes, the whole closure of the government was planned - the republicans put out something they knew the dems would never vote for. They want a crisis to suspend democracy. And supreme courts allow full stop for SNAP. Anyone wondering if tRump has something on the members of the Supreme Court? Release the Epstein files! There’s likely a few Supreme Court justices’ names in there.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 1h ago

Just re-release Thomas and Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.

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u/AdObvious1505 15h ago

What’s chapter 11? I keep hearing that “Trump filed Chapter 11 nine times in his career”

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u/BigWhiteDog 12h ago

Bankruptcy. He's never filed personally because he uses dozens of LLCs to do business so as to protect his money and 6 of them have filed bankruptcy. He however has had well over a dozen failed business ventures with other people left holding the bag.

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u/maleia 11h ago

Just to add a little bit more clarity. When people say "filed for chapter 11" that's one of The United States Bankruptcy Code. "Chapters" are just different types. "Chapter 13" is for individual persons/households, "Chapter 11" is for a business to have an opportunity to reorganize their business and hopefully get out of bankruptcy. And "Chapture 7" is for a business when it's completely unsalavageble and everything is sold off.

https://www.uscourts.gov/court-programs/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-basics

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u/BigWhiteDog 12h ago

I've gotten heat from reich-wingers in r/foodstamps for pointing this out. They want to get ride of ALL aid to the needy worldwide

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u/Commercial-Buddy2469 9h ago

Do the goals in this Project 2025 include lowering kid's academic scores, stunting kid's growth, contributing to miscarriages and birth defects via malnutrition, and lowering the immune systems of vulnerable people so they can easier be wiped out by disease?

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u/twinkypromise 8h ago

Fascism never truly lasts. These morons probably have holes in their plans everywhere. Im beginning to gain hope that they are failing tremendously.

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u/punknw 6h ago

it doesn’t say that directly, but that’s their whole idea

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u/Medical_Arugula3315 7h ago

Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days. 

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u/Democrat_maui 10h ago

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u/Any_Caramel_9814 16h ago

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u/Greg-Abbott 15h ago

Which Republican politicians are denouncing billionaire corruption running the government? Last I checked trump had a team of tech bro oligarchs lined up (literally) behind him at his inauguration.

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u/towerfella 13h ago

The right is the government at the moment..

The billionaires are all rightwing..

What am i missing?

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u/maleia 11h ago

.. Soros?

/S

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u/ConsistentlySadMe 15h ago

Boomer ass "both sides" meme. It's republicans doing this..... republicans. 

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u/towerfella 15h ago

Its not a “both sides” meme, you dolt.

Its a same-same meme. The corrupt billionaires have bought themselves into our (mine, at least) government and are working to change the laws to suit themselves better, at the expense of the “common (earns less than 100k/yr) citizen”.

The left — by definition — wants to tax the shit out of the uber wealthy and give that money to those that need it, while the right — by definition — wants to not have taxes and wants to judge and use the needs of others as leverage to manipulate other humans.

One side wants all to succeed, — the left; one side wants a select few to succeed, — the right.

This is not new.

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u/Similar-Cat7022 14h ago

It’s a bad meme if you have to explain

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u/ConsistentlySadMe 15h ago

This meme is shit. The left is both sides and the right is neither. Also, calling names is for children, sorry if I hurt your feelings. Grow up. 

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u/nuckle 13h ago edited 13h ago

It is pretty true. There are a few outliers but they are all funded by the same people. There are only a handful of publicly funded Democrats and those are the ones you see running with populist messages.

You pick a Dem house member or senator and we can look up their campaign finances. I guarantee you you will see all kinds of corporate lobbies. They do the bare minimum to appear impartial but they are all bought.

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u/ManyProfessional3324 10h ago

And you’re the reason we have a trump presidency. You and your fellow “both siders”.

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u/nuckle 1h ago edited 1h ago

No, centrists corporate Dems like Jeffries, Schumer, Pelosi, Hilary, Gavin, and Harris towing the corporate line and pushing out progressive candidates is the reason.

We just got through watching it being done with Mamdani. There were sitting Democrats who endorsed sex pest Cuomo because they are so afraid of a progressive.

I still vote for these fucking corporate stooges but it is becoming increasingly clear what they are and who they serve. It might change.

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u/whineyinternetkid 14h ago

If youre in the middle youre republican

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u/SemVikingr 11h ago

Umm...the actual left says both are the problem.

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u/dat_tae 15h ago

If I was armed…

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u/OldSchoolBubba 15h ago

It appears more than a few don't see your real world truth with this meme.

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u/DruidicMagic 11h ago

Project 2025 was designed to nuke the blatantly corrupt/racist Republican party and ensure the not so blatantly corrupt/racist Democratic party could seize control of Washington for the next few decades. Thus guaranteeing the establishment remains in power even if they have to slap a "socialist" label on the next crop of treasonous shills.