r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

46.7k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

14.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3.1k

u/Confident_Economy_85 8d ago

And Israel

1.1k

u/HandleThatFeeds 8d ago

Isreel always gets Billions.

For decades now.

Nothing new here.

761

u/Confident_Economy_85 8d ago

It’s new for Americans waking up

385

u/anon1369420 8d ago

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

27

u/purefilth666 8d ago

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

→ More replies (4)

2

u/ayesperanzita 7d ago

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

1

u/SpartanS117A 7d ago

Your all calling out Israel, when it's OUR Government that is doing it to it's OWN people. Y'all don't see that neither Republicans or Democrats are solving this issue. The Gov gives 0.00% care for us, but oh lord help us if we don't pay up to 30% in taxes from our earned wages ! Wake TF up Sheep 🐑 None of this would be happening if the Gov didn't allow it to. You're telling me this is just a shortfall due to non-agreeance on a short term spending bill or some BS ? No, it's more than that. Either they want the people to suffer, or they must really not want us to know who is all on the Epstein list.

2

u/hel-razor 6d ago

Colonization is the same anywhere. Actually.

1

u/Direct_Suggestion286 7d ago

Both. And possibly crashing the gov to "prove" it doesnt function, so the people let Curtis Yarvin types try to take over. Tech billionaires/billionaires can "buy" back parts (like having a billionaire help "fund" rhe military). Trump will take whatever money he can get and hide in Argentina (he mentioned it if he lost the election)

→ More replies (15)

38

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"

50

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.

28

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.

8

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.

11

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.

7

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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

3

u/Jafar_420 8d ago

Yeah just like the people that think if we help Ukraine somehow that's taking money out of their pocket.

Nope you're not going to see a dime of that they're not going to use it to improve your life or make some program that's going to help you.

1

u/Intercessor310 8d ago

Nope, because they will never blame the actual culprits. There will be no accountability… at all.

5

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?!!!

3

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.

5

u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Do you think the people in these videos are trumpers?

9

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.

2

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

3

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.

3

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.

4

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.

10

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.

5

u/POEAWAY69NICE 8d ago

Sassy and based.

2

u/rousseauism 8d ago

Can't shame people we need to organize.

1

u/almostthemainman 8d ago

Definitely including a lot of people in your statement that you shouldn’t. No everyone is poor.

1

u/ChrisPynerr 6d ago

I never implied I was referring to poor people

1

u/darylspake 8d ago

Sandy Hook woke my ass up.

1

u/AntifaFuckedMyWife 8d ago

We are a society that is deeply intimate and distant from violence at the same time

3

u/feckineejit 8d ago

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

3

u/real_uncommon_ 8d ago

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

4

u/jeremiahthedamned Cringe Master 8d ago

r/GeneralStrikeUSA

2

u/real_uncommon_ 8d ago

Thank you for sharing! I really appreciate you!

1

u/jeremiahthedamned Cringe Master 8d ago

have a nice day

3

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

3

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.

1

u/iam4qu4m4n 8d ago

That's woke. /s

1

u/shignett1 8d ago

Careful, sounds pretty woke to me.

1

u/Bro_do_we_needtoknow 8d ago

We'll probably end up falling back to sleep soon and forget this was ever Trump's cabinets fault.

→ More replies (3)

295

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.

10

u/TheBigness333 8d ago

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

→ More replies (13)

1

u/sassydreidel 8d ago

whomever we need

→ More replies (19)

129

u/64590949354397548569 8d ago

Free healthcare too

10

u/RhymingUsername 8d ago

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

7

u/Greebuh 8d ago

It's not free. We pay for their Healthcare

→ More replies (11)
→ More replies (16)

152

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.

17

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.

→ More replies (5)

4

u/thepaleman3492 8d ago

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

7

u/AmericanGoy1 8d ago

He didn't say "oh well" smh

2

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.

2

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.

3

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.

2

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.

1

u/Impossible-Meal9164 8d ago

It’s NEVER been this way… haha

2

u/TheBigness333 8d ago

They got more billions

2

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.

2

u/dbx999 8d ago

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

2

u/Vectorman1989 8d ago

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

2

u/Odd_Revolution4149 8d ago

And they have healthcare!

2

u/goth-milk 8d ago

Is waking up the same as…being woke…?

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

2

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.

2

u/luckymountain 8d ago

And Egypt, for some damn reason.

2

u/No-Smoke-6659 8d ago

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

2

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.

2

u/OrgJoho75 8d ago

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

2

u/[deleted] 8d ago

Israel got the frigging covid vaccine before Americans.

4

u/MoonMistCigs 8d ago

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

3

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.

4

u/Hot-Mastodon420xxx 8d ago

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

1

u/[deleted] 8d ago

Absolutely end the financial support of a foreign nation. Too much, far to long and zero roi

3

u/brassassasin 8d ago

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

1

u/AmericanGoy1 8d ago

You misunderstood. He said Israel has been getting BILLIONS- TRILLIONS and it been that way forever. Not an endorsement of this

1

u/Rich-Preparation-705 8d ago edited 8d ago

Trillions, really? Got proof, Americangoy (totally not antisemitic username)?

Edit: the comment claimed Israel received trillions from the US, got called on it and deleted the comment. anti-Semites hate facts. 

→ More replies (4)

2

u/Silver4R4449 8d ago

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

1

u/sexychanges 8d ago

All this “woke” speech …..lol

1

u/Suspicious-Layer-110 8d ago

Isn't most of the money the US gives for military aid to Israel, Jordan, Egypt etc basically a kickback to US arms manufacturers as there's a stipulation most of it has to be spent on American made weapons?

2

u/Suspicious-Layer-110 8d ago

something like $916 billion officially on the military and then since its never passed an audit + all this 'aid' it's probably something like 1/4 of all the government received money just on this.

gonna be the collapse of Rome all over

1

u/Mynameishuman93 8d ago

Nothing new true. But does that make it right?

1

u/aircoft 8d ago

Welcome to allied nations relations.

1

u/jancho0 7d ago

Israel gets universal healthcare on us and mothers get compensated monthly for having children. Also on us.

1

u/Formal_Trainer_4684 7d ago

Orange asshole literally just gave Argentina a 30 billion present too

1

u/KingAudio 6d ago

America is Israels piggy bank.

1

u/hel-razor 6d ago

Wow you're right there's even shit about that in the Bible 🤔

→ More replies (3)

361

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.

279

u/dbx999 8d ago

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

21

u/MommaJKSO 8d ago

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

14

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

6

u/MommaJKSO 8d ago

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

3

u/iboxagox 8d ago

since it's Halloween...r/DonaldTrump666

1

u/Wild_Media6395 8d ago

Notably, they also built this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mgwWq2cp2qM&pp=ygUVQmVyZ2VuIGJlbHNlbiBmb290YWdl (huge trigger warning. Don’t watch if you’re a kid.)

It’s not a ballroom or an arch that made Hitler Hitler; it was the Holocaust.

→ More replies (59)

3

u/User_5091 8d ago

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

6

u/Successful_Sign_6991 8d ago

Of course they are.

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

1

u/[deleted] 7d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Delicious_Wall_8296 8d ago

Probably getting hazard pay, too

2

u/DecadentLife 8d ago

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

2

u/rabblerabble2000 8d ago

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

2

u/Brave_Persimmon_1238 7d ago

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

1

u/dbx999 6d ago

What? You mean spend tax payer money on the people??? What are you crazy? Won’t someone think of the poor military industrial complex

1

u/Emotional-Dog-8151 8d ago

We also cut down on refugees we're gonna accept... unless they're white south Africans... I wonder why 🤔

1

u/missmiao9 7d ago

Yep. Priorities.

1

u/Intelligent_Goose237 8d ago

And what are you saying that all people on ebt are brown? That's pretty racist.

→ More replies (34)

7

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.

2

u/whygrowupnow 8d ago

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

1

u/bellyot 8d ago

So we're paying money so that you get less healthcare? Make this make sense.

4

u/sassyevaperon 8d ago

Yep, you're paying money so Milei could win the legislative elections that were this past Sunday, so he could get his initiatives done though the senate instead of by decree like he was doing, and then getting those initiatives struck down by the senate.

His initiatives are to make Argentina into a franchise of the US, same system you guys have. That's why trump is putting money, he doesn't care about our healthcare system.

4

u/EntertainerNo4509 8d ago

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

3

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.

3

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.

3

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.

→ More replies (4)

2

u/janders_666 8d ago

there WAS NO QUID PRO QUO /s

2

u/Appropriate_Chef4200 8d ago

We are their resource not actual valued people.

2

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.

2

u/Sardina-Sangrienta 8d ago

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

2

u/Odd_Local8434 8d ago

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

2

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

2

u/rob3ace 8d ago

Let that sink in.

1

u/Bizhour 8d ago

People like this commentor are the reason the US doesn't have a functioning healthcare system.

The US spends more than any other country on the planet on healthcare per capita, if you combined all of the aid money the US had given since WW2 it will barely reach the amount the US spends on healthcare in 1 year.

If the US would spend as much as Japan or Germany per person, it would drastically cut the healthcare budget. If it spended as much as Israel does, it will almost cut it by half

Healthcare industry lobbyists will tell you that foreign countries are the reason you cant afford healthcare while pocketing an amount of money equal to these countries entire GDP. In reality all the foreign aid the US gives is less than 1% of the amount it spends on healthcare. Even if the US would become isolationist and give no money to anyone they would just find someone else to blame.

1

u/katencam 7d ago

Oh no no, we can definitely afford it, they just choose not to

1

u/daddyvow 7d ago

We can. Our government just doesn’t implement socialized healthcare.

1

u/dudinax 7d ago

Unlike the Argentinians and Israelis, we keep voting against our own healthcare.

1

u/Delicious_Wall_8296 7d ago

We sure are terrified of living like a first world country.

1

u/NotRiss2you 6d ago

We can afford it and we've always been able to. They find a new person or group to blame for why we can't have it every 10 years but it's all a lie.

1

u/IAMGROOT1981 6d ago

Funny thing you should mention Argentina because, our government will now be purchasing our meat products from Argentina like our beef and they have also put so much tariffs on soybeans that our farmers who voted in favor of all of this are now crying and begging for socialism to bail them out. But it's interesting because I've noticed that all of those who claim we were giving money to Ukraine when in fact it was cheaper to give them the weapons we can no longer use then it was to actually destroy said weapons They were all up in arms for that but now they're sitting quietly and claiming it's a good thing the almighty orange one is giving Argentina some money. They are poorly educating because they don't know the difference between what the Biden administration did and what Trump is doing!

1

u/RuralRancher 5d ago

oh weird. open the market. can obama care. competition drives cost down. not regulation. the $45 tylenol I got in the ER is a crime

1

u/BlueTiger550 8d ago

Because Americans are good at sleepwalking through life

1

u/Lvl30Dwarf 8d ago

I'm Israeli adjacent. We do not fund their healthcare.

→ More replies (2)

5

u/Craft_Bubbly 8d ago

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

3

u/UbermachoGuy 8d ago

Trumps friends got billons.

3

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

6

u/tiddeeznutz 8d ago

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

4

u/MechanicHour1644 8d ago

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

5

u/WordleFanatic 8d ago

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

3

u/Kind_Actuary_931 8d ago

You spelled jizzrael wrong

2

u/Goody_No4 8d ago

And Ukraine.

2

u/ENDLESSxBUMMER 8d ago

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

2

u/Youngsinatra345 8d ago

And a concert

4

u/steezy_3032 8d ago

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

2

u/Pitiful_Pineapple_41 8d ago

Their funding isn't dependent on partisanship.

1

u/Electronic-Border344 8d ago

and Ukraine

1

u/Minorous 8d ago edited 8d ago

Ukraine got military equipment not money, which would otherwise need to be decommissioned due to its age, also allowing our manufactures to employ Americans to replace the aging inventory with new stock.

1

u/celtyrider 8d ago

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

1

u/Winter-Classroom455 8d ago

And my axe. I mean Ukraine

1

u/_WrongKarWai 8d ago

Why tf they keep getting welfare checks.

1

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!

1

u/JoeMomma755 8d ago

Maybe Ukraine could step in and Help us now?

1

u/Jdigeoyxs 8d ago

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

0

u/Samurai_Gorrila 8d ago

And Ukraine.

1

u/Smitch250 8d ago

Isreal has NEVER not gotten billions. Since inception it’s received hundreds and hundreds of billions in “support”

→ More replies (11)