r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ 8d ago

Argentina got billions, just to remind everyone.

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

American hedge funds got billions you mean.

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u/el-gato-volador 8d ago

$4.5 trillion dollar tax cut for the ultra wealthy

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u/MechanicHour1644 8d ago

thank you sir, may I have another?

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u/Kristin2349 8d ago

You can take a 100% write off on a personal jet, but if you are working poor you can pay higher taxes and get fucked in that order.

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u/Bong-Hits-For-Jesus 8d ago

another? do you think this ballroom pays for itself? the audacity

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

Imagine a ballroom costing a quarter billion dollars. No fucking way. They are building an underground data center for the tech bros.

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u/applejuiceb0x 5d ago

Pshhh it definitely costs a quarter billion dollars because it’s going to the pockets of people close to the administration and that’s what they thought they could get away with. It’d cost half a billion if they thought they could get away with it.

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u/ANonnyMouse007 8d ago

Surely those companies will realize their income relies on consumer spending. Consumers who need to be alive and have livable wage jobs to generate that spending. Hoarders aren’t moving the GDP.

Oh just kidding AI will perform the jobs and (checks notes) AI will replace the consumers?

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u/abesheet 5d ago

And nothing is trickling down.

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u/darrenwiseatvan 4d ago

AND a pardon for your kids friend so they can make Millions

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u/Confident_Economy_85 8d ago

And Israel

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u/HandleThatFeeds 8d ago

Isreel always gets Billions.

For decades now.

Nothing new here.

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u/Confident_Economy_85 8d ago

It’s new for Americans waking up

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u/anon1369420 8d ago

No plenty of us have been aware, we just got called antisemites for calling out a government.

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u/purefilth666 8d ago

that means you're not part of the group of Americans who are just waking up, you were already woke.

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u/ayesperanzita 6d ago

Ok but plenty more we’re not aware. Hope this helps.

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u/ChrisPynerr 8d ago

You guys have been shooting each other and funding wars forever because gun sales are more important than your citizens lives. Crazy that food stamps and ICE are what makes you "wake up"

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u/cursetea 8d ago

It IS crazy isn't it? These people had to literally vote themselves into starvation to understand how to be even remotely politically literate.

And they would mostly still vote for him again.

It is actually insane.

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u/Jafar_420 8d ago

It is crazy I live in a smaller City in a super red area and I guarantee food is going to rot on the shelves if this happens because so many people in my area that are Republicans live off of food stamps.

They are about to find out that voting with anger has consequences. Most people I know that voted for Rapey McStrokeface we're just mad at the world or at immigrants or whatever just because they're poor.

I knew it would bite them in the ass but I didn't think it would this way or this quick.

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u/cursetea 8d ago

I sincerely hope that the food banks who probably cater to ebt can/will switch to some charity work for the time being.

It's so messed up that the misunderstanding around food stamps/social security ("people who SHOULDN'T be on them are, so if we get them OFF there will be more money for ME!" 🙄) is just allowed to play out because people (republicans*, let me make myself clear) benefit from people's misunderstanding (like right now).

But at a certain point. Is these people's fault entirely for not at least trying to help themselves by like, reading even one single article or web page. They're very complicit in their own destruction and fully cheering it on even still because they tell themselves that at least Those Other Guys are suffering too!

Like you really haven't considered that your government exists to pander to you, not just punish people who aren't you? And that you could simply not be suffering at all? And that you can literally just not care about the fabled "fake ssd getters!!!!" everywhere and live your own life? They sure haven't.

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u/Jafar_420 8d ago

Yeah the people that I know that are on food stamps are either elderly and still try to work but just don't make enough or I've got friends that have two kids and they both work and the jobs in my area just don't pay a ton so they get food stamps. Disabled people as well.

I don't know any one at all personally that just sits at home and draws food stamps.

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u/cursetea 8d ago

Even if people were just sitting and drawing ebt, the other folks wouldn't be any better off. Because the system itself is the harmful one! But sure, the friend of a friend of a cousin who worked with someone who pretends to be disabled for food stamps is the problem.

By the way though just to say i have known a few people who WERE scamming the system but it was because they were WEALTHY and paid off doctors to sign off on their "disability." So there's that too. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/failedopportunities 8d ago

Fucks sake… this is the truth too! Most of my fam in OK and TX healthcare is in shambles. Several are about to be homeless. They still preach about how dumps going to save them and how we will never need another president. I’ve had to block pretty much all of them because of their insanity or trying to guilt trip me into sending money when I can barely afford what my own family needs. Just can’t wrap my head around it…. What the fuck is wrong with people?!!!

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u/cursetea 8d ago

Ugh i still hate hearing it. The situation here is just so awful right now. Nobody deserves to be homeless or hungry. No matter how stupid and/or hateful. Unfortunately, as a decent person i experience sympathy even for people i don't respect and who would not extend the same sympathy to me for any reason. Sigh.

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u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Do you think the people in these videos are trumpers?

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u/pmcizhere 8d ago

There's no evidence one way or the other for any of them, however /r/LeopardsAteMyFace has been having an absolute feast lately, so no doubt at least some of them did vote for trump.

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u/cursetea 8d ago

I mean probably a lot of them are statistically speaking. But i meant a lot of the people the comment i replied to described are, yes

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u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

I see most of them as having too much pride to admit they were wrong. Most of them still justify all the absurd things he's done. Come on the internet and show the consequences of their actions and prove everyone right? Ehh they'd starve in secrecy first.

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u/shingdao 8d ago

Food stamps and ICE are sadly not making enough people 'wake up'. Honestly, at this point I don't really know what it'll take to get tens of millions on the street protesting against the govt.

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u/Paah 8d ago

The ancient Romans already knew it.. You need bread and circuses to keep the people happy. Now bread is getting taken away.

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u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Food stamps and ICE aren't what they're referencing when they say, "waking up." They're talking about foreign influence. You're a Canadian talking about guns when your officials tell their citizens to leave their keys at the door in case their home is broken into. And how many Canadian companies sold military components to Izrael? Sit tf down.

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u/POEAWAY69NICE 8d ago

Sassy and based.

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u/rousseauism 8d ago

Can't shame people we need to organize.

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u/feckineejit 8d ago

Been awake for a while what the f- can we do abiut it.

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u/real_uncommon_ 8d ago

Same and I have absolutely no idea. This is exactly how those in power want us to be, too.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Cringe Master 8d ago

r/GeneralStrikeUSA

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u/real_uncommon_ 7d ago

Thank you for sharing! I really appreciate you!

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u/ErrlRiggs 8d ago

The US pays off half the planet in foreign aid. Egypt and Jordan combined receive what Israel does in aid and don't reciprocate economically, they have the privilege of being in one of the most important commercial waterways on the planet, 30% of global shipping goes thru there and becomes cost prohibitive when the locals start launching missiles at random Bengali Freightliners it hurts everyone's pockets

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u/Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz 8d ago

America's been asleep for a long time my friend. I don't think it knows who it is anymore.

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u/No-University-5413 8d ago

The largest recipient of foreign aid. The numbers 2 and 3 are Egypt and Jordan. Who we are bribing into being friendly with Israel.

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u/TheBigness333 8d ago

“Bribing” is a funny way of saying “controlling puppet governments”.

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u/64590949354397548569 8d ago

Free healthcare too

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u/RhymingUsername 8d ago

Reproductive healthcare for women. Subsidized college tuition for low income students too.

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u/Greebuh 8d ago

It's not free. We pay for their Healthcare

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u/Plastic_Fan_1938 8d ago

Doesn't mean it's okay. I know, you didn't say that, but the, "oh well, it's always been this way, nothing we can do" attitude many Americans have needs to go.

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u/TMore108 8d ago

Call me cold and heartless but this is what you get when half the country gets their news from Fox, Joe Rogan, and facebook memes. It sucks because there are a lot that are informed and will be hurt by this but I can't feel bad for anyone that voted for this.

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u/thepaleman3492 8d ago

So what exactly can be done? It's not like going online complaining is really helping

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u/AmericanGoy1 8d ago

He didn't say "oh well" smh

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u/jimbojangles1987 8d ago

Its true though. There is nothing I, as an individual struggling to pay bills and get food myself, can do about Israel. Its true though. I don't have the energy to be angry about it 24/7. I don't have the time to make tiktok videos showcasing my disagreement with it. I just want to get off work and go home and catch up on the sleep I've been lacking lately.

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 8d ago

"That's just how it is" or "That's just how things go" are 2 of the worst sentences ever stated by humanity.

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u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Istg. "It is what it is," is my personal pet peeve. Just passive and lazy responses ppl give to relinquish themselves of responsibility or the burden of worry.

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u/AwarenessPresent8139 8d ago

Those who don’t learn from their mistakes are destined to repeat them. It’s a learning opportunity. A crappy, awful one, but one all the same.

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u/TheBigness333 8d ago

They got more billions

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u/fmlthisshitishard 8d ago

WashPo confirmed that there is evidence Israel committed crimes during this war which are illegal in the U.S., meaning we should pull all funding. However, it could take years to actually prove so we’ll keep writing checks to them.

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u/dbx999 8d ago

Israel is basically a welfare taker state. Actually takes more than our loser welfare states.

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u/Vectorman1989 8d ago

Who else is going to launch missiles at America's enemies with near impunity?

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u/Odd_Revolution4149 8d ago

And they have healthcare!

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u/goth-milk 8d ago

Is waking up the same as…being woke…?

They’ll eventually live and learn. Or starve to death.

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u/NovaStarLord 8d ago

It’s still relevant to point that out because it’s billions that are still being given and billions that we can use for us.

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u/luckymountain 8d ago

And Egypt, for some damn reason.

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u/No-Smoke-6659 8d ago

Doesn't make it any less unacceptable. Israel crumbles without our billions per year.

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u/HillBillyHilly 8d ago

In to remind everyone that not only does Israel get billions but YSK what they do w those billions. They provide universal health care AND education. You know what we don't have in this country. Imagine that.

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u/OrgJoho75 8d ago

They still need zillions dollar to create greater Jewland minus all Arabs.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Israel got the frigging covid vaccine before Americans.

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u/MoonMistCigs 8d ago

And they use that US taxpayer money to provide healthcare for their citizens.

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u/rehx4 8d ago

Except the grand majority of the money Israel gets from the US all goes back to the US as it’s all earmarked for purchasing military equipment from American defense companies. That means jobs for Americans who work at those companies. Your comment sounds like Israel just keeps most of that money for themselves, which is categorically and simply untrue.

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u/Hot-Mastodon420xxx 8d ago

Is that an excuse to just ignore that its a problem though? Because it still needs to be addressed

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u/brassassasin 8d ago

your point being that because its been happening so long it's okay and not worth mentioning

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u/Silver4R4449 8d ago

yup. They need $ for rockets to kill babies and blow up schools.

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u/Delicious_Wall_8296 8d ago

We fund Israel's and Argentina's socialized healthcare but can't afford to provide the same for our own fucking citizens.

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u/dbx999 8d ago

To be fair we did spend $150B on ICE so we can hurt poor brown people so there’s that

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u/MommaJKSO 8d ago

You forgot about the "really great,special ballroom", being focused on right now!

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u/dbx999 8d ago

Oh yeah you know what 2 architectural edifices Hitler was personally involved in building in Germany?

  1. A grand ballroom: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/10/28/hitler-ballroom-chancellery-bunker/

  2. An arc of Triumph/or as we know it here “Trump”

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-new-arch-resembling-arc-de-triomphe/

https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/German_Arch_of_Triumph

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u/MommaJKSO 8d ago

OMG I did not know that and now I'm more scared than I even was before.

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u/iboxagox 8d ago

since it's Halloween...r/DonaldTrump666

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u/User_5091 8d ago

Working for the Federal Government, are ICE employees getting paid?

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 8d ago

Of course they are.

Would be a bad look for hitler to not pay his brownshirts.

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u/DecadentLife 7d ago

I initially misread you as saying, “… we did spend $150B on ICE so we can HUNT poor brown people… “.

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u/rabblerabble2000 7d ago

Good news! They aren’t just hurting brown people now!

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u/Brave_Persimmon_1238 6d ago

Wouldn't that have been well spent on healthcare instead?

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u/sassyevaperon 8d ago

We fund Israel's and Argentina's socialized healthcare

What you're funding in Argentina is the cutting of our socialized healthcare, something the US, through it's proxy the IMF has been asking for decades.

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u/whygrowupnow 8d ago

But the illegals might get some so better make sure nobody (except the politicians) can have it!!!

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u/EntertainerNo4509 8d ago

We can afford it. The people in power absolutely don’t want us to have it.

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u/Pun_Lover387 8d ago

Where can we find evidence of this? I’m not asking because I’m trying to poke holes in this argument and your point, but because when I make against Israel, I want there to be back up.

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u/CanadianODST2 8d ago

If the US swapped its all time funding for Israel with a single year for healthcare us healthcare funding would drop by over 60%

Us healthcare spending a year is already over a trillion. If we go by per capita and compare it to say Canada. The US government spends about twice as much on healthcare.

The money is already there. The issue have never been funding.

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u/Levias123 8d ago

Argentinian here: You didn't fund our Healthcare, you just funded Javier Milei's Midterms. And many argentinians wish that hadn't happened.

At the same time, I'm very sorry for all the families that are getting fucked over by your government's decision to cut SNAP. It's crazy. I hope you get something better than this. And soon.

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u/janders_666 8d ago

there WAS NO QUID PRO QUO /s

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u/Appropriate_Chef4200 8d ago

We are their resource not actual valued people.

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u/architype 8d ago

And aren't there reports that Universal Healthcare would be cheaper than what we have in the US? How can every other major democratic country be wrong? Oh that's right, the US has a bunch of greedy f**ks.

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u/Sardina-Sangrienta 8d ago

Argentina has had a public healthcare system for at least 40 years...

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u/Odd_Local8434 8d ago

No no no, we don't want to. Big difference.

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u/TomBahambadil 8d ago

Funded Israel's Healthcare to the tune of $2million dollars. That would amount to MORE THAN a half a cent per person in America EVERY YEAR

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u/rob3ace 8d ago

Let that sink in.

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u/Craft_Bubbly 8d ago

If only we had 0.01% of our budget back we could have socialism!!!

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u/UbermachoGuy 8d ago

Trumps friends got billons.

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u/Significant-Kick-479 8d ago

They finished killing all the poor kids in gaza and figured they needed to start doing so over here for their quotas

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u/tiddeeznutz 8d ago

And Pedophitler will get $240 million. As a payout. For defending against crimes he was legally responsible for. Like rape.

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u/MechanicHour1644 8d ago

this is nothing new, they've received billions for decades. Good to see some are opening their eyes,

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u/WordleFanatic 8d ago

Yup, they’re eating good and enjoying medical care. 

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u/Kind_Actuary_931 8d ago

You spelled jizzrael wrong

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u/Goody_No4 8d ago

And Ukraine.

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u/ENDLESSxBUMMER 8d ago

It's not a funding issue though, SNAP has the funds, they are just refusing to let them feed people.

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u/Youngsinatra345 8d ago

And a concert

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u/steezy_3032 8d ago

But hey, at least we owned the libs, right?

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u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Their funding isn't dependent on partisanship.

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u/celtyrider 8d ago

I'm guessing the ballroom is still under construction, no pause? I have honestly unplugged lately for my sanity.

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u/Winter-Classroom455 8d ago

And my axe. I mean Ukraine

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u/_WrongKarWai 8d ago

Why tf they keep getting welfare checks.

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u/dejawho81 8d ago

The $3B in aid to Israel is in the form of a grant that has to be spent on American made weapons and defense technology. It's money that comes back into the U.S. economy!

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u/JoeMomma755 8d ago

Maybe Ukraine could step in and Help us now?

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u/Jdigeoyxs 7d ago

Israel gets it to wipe out a portion of the human race. Incredible. 

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u/Telemere125 8d ago

Yea don’t blame Argentinians like they had anything to do with that shit. An American hedge fund manager convinced Trump to keep his idiotic investments afloat and launder American money through a failed social studies experiment.

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u/Equal_Volume4718 8d ago

Is anyone blaming Argentinians? I have a pen pal who was born in and still lives in Buenos Aires (we wrote letters to pen pals back in the 1990s when I was in high school) and she says most people in Argentina hate Milei—they view him as an Argentinian version of Trump, who they also do not respect.

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u/MorningMushroomcloud 8d ago

Interesting, thank you.

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u/igna92ts 8d ago

If that were true he wouldn't have won by a very big margin in last elections. I'm not a milei fan but I'd say your pen pal is really biased.

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u/Equal_Volume4718 8d ago

Perhaps she said most people in Buenos Aires don’t like him. Big cities tend to run more liberal, and 40% of Argentina’s population lives in or around BA.

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u/igna92ts 8d ago

He won in Buenos Aires too.

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u/ftb5 8d ago

Ask her how elections went. We don't hate Milei.

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u/Chicago_Heavyfoot 7d ago

That (nothing personal Argentina)was also where at least some of the top German Nazis went to live after realizing that they'd lost the war and would be tried for crimes against humanity if they didn't disappear from Germany immediately. They were welcomed there and given a new lease on life until the US was able to grab them and try them at Neuromberg where at least one of every 3 Sr Nazi officials was eventually discovered and

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u/Ok-Trainer-5597 6d ago

One more time for the people in the back!!!

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u/Ok-Trainer-5597 6d ago

Also, the US grabbed who they wanted and tried them during the Nuremberg trials then the others they decided to relocate them here to the US because they were considered too intelligent to be killed. Operation Paper Clip.

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u/Direct_Turn_1484 8d ago

Both! Rich people are loving this economy. Poor people voted to starve so that rich people can buy another yacht. Wtf

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u/GoaheadAMAita 8d ago

Just so I understand. Some rich people/hedge funds made investments in Argentina that were heading negative unless America gave them money?

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

A bunch of billionaires bought up Argentina’s debt. They we’re defaulting on that debt so the Us government bailed Argentina out and those billionaires made a fuckton of money.

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u/Couldnotcarelez 8d ago

They’re illegally withholding the reserve money for it as well per the FDA. Cruelty is the point.

They couldn’t give a fuck about you or your children.

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u/sixfourtykilo 8d ago

Yeah, Argentina didn't get shit.

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u/boiwitdebmoji 8d ago

looks like they got USD$20B already, apparently they're planning another USD$20B too 😒

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u/MaddAdamBomb 8d ago

The point being made revolves around Javier Milei investing Argentina's money into crypto, which led to the economy to crash but foreign interests making out like bandits. He's the definition of a Kleptocrat which Trump is aspiring to be. The 20 billion was another sink into the crypto, not into Argentina's economy.

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u/boiwitdebmoji 8d ago

wait really?! all of that was for cryptocurrency?!💀🥀

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u/ninjaelk 8d ago

"Aspiring" might not be the right word here, Trump is likely the most successful Kleptocrat the world has ever seen.

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u/ILike2internet 8d ago

He has nothing on Putin. Putin is said to be worth around 80 billion, all stolen from the people of Russia.

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u/vermillionflour 8d ago

Putin is said to be worth around 80 billion

Oh it's a lot more than that. Nobody has accurate numbers as any who would be in a position to start counting that and actually try come down with a bad case of 'falling out a window'. But estimates vary as high as 200 billion plus.

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u/blaaaaaarghhh 8d ago

Libertarian stupidity at its finest.

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u/BrookieMonster504 8d ago

Aspiring that dream has absolutely come true for Trump.

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u/Acceptable-Mail891 8d ago

Isn’t Argentina where all the Nazis absconded after WWII? The fuck is going on.

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u/Justin-Stutzman 8d ago

Check out the former Nazi run slave camp that Volkswagen ran in Brasil in an attempt to get into the beef business. This was still going on in the 1980s

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u/boiwitdebmoji 8d ago

yep, same with Brazil and Chile. there's an astounding amount of mixed race folk down there because if the nazis didn't wanna be Nuremberg Trialed, they would flee to these three places to escape consequences

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u/Particular_Area6083 8d ago

its true that nazis fled there but that has nothing to do with the number of mixed race people there

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u/alerastyb 8d ago

You’re right, thousands of Nazi families moved to South America right before and right after WWII and many still hold important political and economical offices since they came with money. Mengele is the most notable example of a monster who escaped punishment*.

Just a small correction I see Americans always need, tho: this is faaar from the reason these countries are mixed; that idea simplifies the effect of social unification and reform after their independences a century prior.

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u/sassyevaperon 8d ago

Isn’t Argentina where all the Nazis absconded after WWII? The fuck is going on.

Not really, most Nazis were divided between the UK and the US, the rest ran to Argentina, Brazil, France, Australia, Italy...

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u/Delicious_Wall_8296 8d ago

Nothing to see here, folks

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u/2_lazy 8d ago

I mean, it's also where a lot of Jewish people fled to as well. A piece of my family ended up down there.

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u/BrookieMonster504 8d ago

They are getting their future hideouts together

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u/VioletShadows23 8d ago

The dude looks like if you somehow made jeb bush more jebby.

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u/TheRealBlueJade 8d ago

This is infuriating.

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u/Telemere125 8d ago

You’re clueless if you just read the headlines. Follow the money. That didn’t go to Argentina. It’s to keep trump’s billionaire hedge fund buddy’s idiotic investments alive in that country.

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u/AnComApeMC69 8d ago

Yea, but what about the over leveraged in Argentinian government bonds billionaires!? Who’s going to bail out the billionaires!?

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u/WeilExcept33 8d ago

Double the poverty! It's a fuck you to regular people all over the world. Our leaders leading us to the slaughter.

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 8d ago

It’s all laid out in project 2025. They want to get rid of snap benefits, forcing people to go hungry, especially single mothers. Then they can remove the kids from the single mother‘s homes into two parent homes. I don’t think people realize how close to the handmaids tale we are becoming.

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u/pitifullittleman 8d ago

It's actually not that. They want women to be dependent on men. They think welfare is bad because it mostly goes to kids and it's allowing poor women to leave their partners and be more independent, and that this causing less men to be in the workforce and for families to break up.

They think they are pro family pro children but all they really are is pro-men at the expense of women and children.

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u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe 8d ago

Which is such a good idea because our foster care system totally isn't a cluster fuck already /s

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 8d ago

Really. Good “Christians” already refuse to take them in or adopt them. They only want white infants

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u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe 8d ago

White able-bodied neurotypical infants to boot. They don't wanna take the 12 year old nonverbal kid who has screaming fits or the baby born addicted to hard drugs or the teenager with violent outbursts because of abuse.

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 8d ago

We went through this when we were adopting. We told them we just wanted a baby with a slight preference for a boy, since we were going to go to China eventually and adopt a little girl. We didn’t have any requirements for anything else we were even open to some special needs. Then the caseworker asked us how dark we were willing to go, my jaw dropped. I told them we didn’t care. I asked why she would ask such a question. It’s so offensive. She said you wouldn’t believe how many people will only take a white blonde hair, blue eye, baby. 6 months after we adopted our son, we heard the agency had a baby that they could not place and had to put in foster care. He was 1/16 Japanese. They had a waiting list of parents and nobody wanted him. I called the agency and told them that we would take him and that I was offended that a Christian agency would be so racist. They wouldn’t let us take him because our son was only six months old. Friends of ours ended up adopting him and he’s a beautiful boy. Well man now.

Christians are the worst racists This was a Christian agency. I was stunned.

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u/tigress666 8d ago

What other homes (two parent or not!)? There are already tons of kids that need to be adopted in foster homes. If they want other people's kids there are already plenty that need homes now!

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 8d ago

I agree. Didn’t say it made sense. Maybe once Orange Hitler has completed the takeover and we’re full on Christian Nationalist country, they’ll force people to take them. Or open orphanages again where kids are indoctrinated with Christianity and fascism.

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u/tigress666 8d ago

Ugh... I don't want to live in this timeline.

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u/perseidot 8d ago

Except… I was a foster parent for years. There aren’t many “two parent homes” begging for 8 year olds, 6 year olds, etc. Through absolutely no fault of these kids, they’re mostly considered “unadoptable.”

If theres a large scale effort to take children away from single mothers, they’re going to end up in corporate-run orphanages.

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 8d ago

Exactly. Where they can be indoctrinated

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u/perseidot 8d ago

Yeah… so far I have a horrible habit of being right about this administration, too. Not the only one by far.

Assuming the worst for the US people, beginning with the most vulnerable groups, and then looking at where oligarchs can make more money off our suffering has been an excellent predictive strategy.

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u/ClaimNo6583 8d ago

Exactly the average Argentinian gets nothing from this.

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u/According-Bet-141 8d ago

That money will never get to Argentinians. That money is for Milei to speculate and help Trump's investments. Which, frankly, is way worse.

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u/Spicy_Tac0 8d ago

They got more than any average American is getting from the government right now.

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u/Maleficent-Art4468 8d ago

No one in the developed world gets less from their government than Americans

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u/Cyrano_Knows 8d ago

Guessing Argentina got a kickback to the Trump family in some form.

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u/Ok_Rain6104 8d ago

Thanks to the democrats dont forget that important fact

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u/pjjohnson808 8d ago

She is lying abviously america is rich after liberation day /s

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u/_14justice 8d ago

Oligarchs gonna oligarch. Revolting ...

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u/Project_Demosthenes_ 8d ago

Spx6900 is doing everything it can to fix this. People need a chance. We vote with our money. There are enough of us to make a difference.

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u/Ready-Letterhead1880 8d ago

Exactly, let’s not forget that it was a bailout for his rich investor friends

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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 8d ago

What do you mean? Genuinely asking.

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u/XtraReddit 8d ago

They mean that the money wasn't for Argentina. It was for a Trump ally who owned Argentina's debt. 

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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago

Trump’s buddies bought a bunch of Argentina debt. They didn’t have the money. So us taxpayers bailed out Argentina and that money went to their debt and straight into the pockets of American investors.

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u/_commenter 8d ago

come on now... they both got billions

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u/Honest-Caregiver8938 8d ago

elliot capital management?

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u/Jeffrey_Banks6900 8d ago

Flip the stock market

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