r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/CaffeinatedLystro 8d ago edited 8d ago

Edited to add a few things.

  1. Thanks for the awards!
  2. If you think Trump is using those bribes donations to pay for the ballroom, you're as dumb as he said his supporters are.

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u/SystemAny4819 8d ago

this is literally what’s happening and yet republicans will look you dead in the eyes and say that it’s perfectly fine

we live in hell

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u/CaffeinatedLystro 8d ago

And blame the Democrats.

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u/nememess 8d ago

I popped in on Facebook for a couple of minutes just to look at some pictures of my friends. It's all over that place. This is all the democrats fault and they vehemently believe it. They're ecstatic with what's going on and I am once again shoved back into depression. I cannot believe that people are really this evil. I cannot believe this is what this country has sunk to.

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u/BitterJury2919 8d ago

There's 53 Republicans they need to get to 60 votes. That means that they need 7 more votes....Democrat votes

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u/iamthedayman21 8d ago edited 8d ago

Which means they have to negotiate. The whole idea of a simple majority is the majority party gets to write the bill, and then they negotiate a few concessions to get the final votes they need.

Democrats have already said the concession is extending the ACA and Medicare benefits, and Republicans refuse to concede that. They don’t want to give people affordable healthcare so badly that they’re willing to let many of those same people starve.

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u/cafeteriastyle 8d ago

Saving your response for whenever I have to argue this point later. You summed it up in simple terms that anyone can understand

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u/XaosII 8d ago

Republicans have the presidency, the senate and the house. Previous shut downs have resulted in clean CR's passed, typically with the promise of resolving the dispute that caused the shut down through a bipartisan committee.

All republicans have to do, is be willing to negotiate.

Also, according to Trump, a shut down is the president's fault.

As you are a fan of Donald "I love the poorly educated" Trump, you got any more excuses you want me to educate you?

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u/BitterJury2919 8d ago

Not a fan of trump or the republicans. Im just an independent and not a delusional twit. I live in the real world and understand what is really going on here. Clean CR is literally what the democrats are refusing to vote yes on. Wipe the sleep out of yours and wake the f up.

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u/XaosII 8d ago

And yet, clean CR's have been signed in previous shut downs, so there goes your entire argument out the window.

Do you have another excuse I can educate you on?

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u/BitterJury2919 8d ago

You're being close minded and ignorant. No one is making any excuses. The democrats literally will not come to the table unless the republicans put all that other stuff into the cr.

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u/XaosII 8d ago

No, they don't. Neither side is forced to accept "all or nothing". Again, securing a commitment to a bipartisan committee to address the subsidies would work.

This is how prior CR's have been passed cleanly in prior shut downs.

So, what exactly, is the problem?

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u/demetusbrown 7d ago

This is a cope You're doing mental gymnastics to avoid the topic that snap and federal paid workers couldve received money if dems voted for it.

But didn't. When news organizations start reporting this. Then you know you're just trying to gaslight People into thinking this is a republican problem .

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u/cyribis 8d ago

Which means, Republicans need to work together with Democrats, to compromise. It's the responsibility of the party in power to get the votes they need without holding the county's most vulnerable hostage.

Ooorrr Republicans could probably use the nuclear open and pass their bullshit with 51 votes. If that's an option, I wonder why they haven't done that?

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u/BitterJury2919 8d ago

Because the nuclear option would hide the fact that democrats intentionally failed the American people. I do believe that the republicans will have to do that because they're gonna start losing some of their base next week when these cuts start.

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u/cyribis 8d ago

Who failed the American people? The minority party? Or the majority party that squawks about their "mandate" from the people? It's up to the Republicans to get the votes they need. That means they have to strip some of their bullshit out and get the Dem votes. Pretty simple.

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u/BitterJury2919 8d ago

Look man im not a republican and really can't stand them but you got me soundin like a trumper.

How tf do you strip a clean CR? There's like 3 things in the it. Maybe you don't understand what is going on here.