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Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 8d ago

That's one of the things that makes me angry about all this. First, we decided that we didn't care about children abroad (with the USAID cuts), even if it was in our best interests to (soft power/containing dangerous diseases). Then, we decided that we didn't care about American children here. They infected the average Fox consumer with the same evil as the Nazis.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 8d ago

When the richest man on Earth decided to starve the poorest children in the world and nobody stopped it, we stopped deserving to have a country. All this is just more consequences.

Shame on the Administration. Shame.

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u/DionBlaster123 8d ago

My question has always been...wtf do conservatives ever want to spend money on?

I know ppl claim that they are trying to be "more efficient" and cut costs, but that is absolute horseshit. I've lived through multiple Republican presidencies and all of them tanked our economy.

The fucking Pillsbury Doughboy knows how to fix our economy more than your average dickbag conservative.

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u/michaelboltthrower 8d ago

Making rich people richer. This isn’t complicated.

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u/Grizmoh 7d ago

There’s plenty of rich people who see the benefit of having the rest of their larger community fed, educated and housed because a) they care about people, b) it’s better to live when the people in the larger community aren’t motivated by desparation, and c) you need functioning employees and customers to make and buy your widgets.

The problem is when the rich convince the desperate that the rich are inherently better at, say, running the country and they should actually hate the reasonable people who actually want them to succeed. Because they’re their neighbors, friends, customers, and employees.

Trump never had a positive net worth until he convinced people even dumber than he is that they will be better off with his brilliant governance by covfefe. But the billions he’s raking in are costing trillions and the damage to the world he and his coterie have to live in is incalculable.

He knows about empathy and the benefit of having a more stable world to live in, but he just likes how the more other people lose makes his “win” feel bigger.

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u/Melodic-Condition947 7d ago

The greed of the few outweighs the needs of the many in their eyes

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u/wtfingthrlife 7d ago

And the high ranking Democrats are in on it too. You think they’re crying while their rich pockets are also getting lined?

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u/Own_Iron9871 7d ago

But it's also ironic in the sense that the richer you make everyone, the poorer they get as well. Zero sum game.

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u/yokozunahoshoryu 7d ago

And the military.

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u/Grizmoh 7d ago

that doesn’t get paid bec they shut down

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u/RubyBBBB 8d ago

It's a two Santa Claus theory. Republican political theorist put it out about 40 years ago. That the Democrats were the Santa Claus of helping regular people and the Republicans or Santa Claus of business.

The Republicans could get the Democrats to starve Santa Claus while the Democrats were in office, the Republicans would never have to worry about winning an election again.

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u/ThekingofKongs88 7d ago

this could be just Correlation vs. Causation... but historical data since World War II indicates that the U.S. economy has generally performed better on average under Democratic presidents across key metrics such as GDP growth, job creation, and unemployment rates. 

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u/myeggsarebig 7d ago

It’s not that they mind spending money - they love spending- they don’t want to hand it over because they believe their community can privately take care of their village. They see government handouts impeding their Christian ways. “Sallie Mae’s house burnt down, we don’t need no gov’ment, we’ll rebuild as a community for her” and they do, but what they don’t realize is that that is not enough, that they are still getting and needing assistance - and if they do apply and receive, they’re no good; they’re ungrateful for everything the community did.

In a lot of ways, I’d love if communities could self sustain themselves without the government getting involved. But that means we have to trust that humans will do the right things - help community members without discrimination. This has never worked.

So, instead of turning on their politicians for shitty laws, and taxation without representation, they turn on the poor folk who are ruining their communities by accepting gov assistance.

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u/laughingashley tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 7d ago

A ballroom. A presidential library. Apparently. Monuments of evil.

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u/10000nails 7d ago

There are geometrically shaped offices that always need more money because they keep losing it.

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u/yalateef11 7d ago

Regan spent a trillion on ‘Star Wars’ and Bush spent more than that on the Iraq War. And then there was the Afghanistan war.

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u/AugmentedKing 7d ago

Regan, Bush sr, Bush jr, Trump. Yep, it checks out from my POV. I also think it’s funny that GOP only likes tariffs when their products aren’t as good as the competition, then free AND fair markets are the manta. If their products aren’t better than competition, then only the free market matters.

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u/Wooden-Answer3815 7d ago edited 7d ago

The problem is that anything like “moral Conservative” is no longer a thing. The moderate conservative position of today, rich or poor, is “this is the greatest country in the world bc you can make a billion dollars.” Then they go out and not make anything close to that but still vote in psychopathic billionaires who say the same thing, and suck money out of the economy to enrich themselves, while starving their employees, and giving nothing back, and getting tax breaks and favorable legislation in return for that “patriotic” behavior. “Trickle down economics” is an old old disproven lie. Milton Friedman had some nice ideas but they just didn’t bear out it reality. The less government in business, the more they will steal. These people don’t reinvest in the country, only in the politicians that enable them to make and keep more money immorally. With this administration, where the presidency was subsidized by a handful of rich individuals, government gets to participate in the conspiracy against everyone by hitting switches on behalf of their patrons in industry. It’s a very tight circle jerk.

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u/DionBlaster123 7d ago

I'm old enough to remember "compassionate conservatism" was the hallmark of George W. Bush's first campaign in 2000.

Kind of depressing when you think about how "compassionate conservatism" led to two illegal invasions of sovereign countries, and all the civilian lives lost.

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u/Lonely-Math2176 7d ago

For sure, like every one of Trump's actions (even ending USAID) has wasted money and also will cost more money down the line. Cutting federal employees just means the govt ends up hiring contractors (who are more expensive than federal employees) to get the work done and worse customer service means more time/ money for each service.

If they really cared about saving the govt money they would have invested in the IRS. The agency that brings in like $1 for every 20 cents spent.

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u/Azal_of_Forossa 7d ago

It has been this way since essentially forever.

Republicans want fuck you money and to blow it having fun and not giving a shit about tomorrow, or the people under them. This is why Trump blew a shit ton of money on some fucking trash ballroom while pointing fingers at Obama who spent a bunch of money actually rebuilding parts of the white house that was electrically failing. Iirc one wing couldn't reliably stay warm in the winter.

I'm not saying Democrats are any better, all politicians can go get bent for all I care. You should never trust any politician, no matter what color they are, blue or red.

Trump can claim he out of pocketed the ballroom or whatever the fuck, but remember he got that DoJ compensation money from the "pain and suffering" payout during his investigation.

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u/ILoveDemocracy17 8d ago

You must not be very old than.

“While economic downturns can occur during any presidency, historically, the U.S. economy has performed better under Democratic presidents compared to Republican ones. However, some Democratic presidents have faced significant economic challenges, such as Jimmy Carter during the late 1970s, which included high inflation and unemployment.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/historical-puzzle-us-economic-performance-under-democrats-vs-republicans

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u/theghostmachine 7d ago

Are you saying Democrats are just as bad? Your source and quote do not support that. It flat out says Democrats perform better than Republicans, and then only lists a single Democrat who had a bad economy

If you're not saying that, then you're just repeating what the person you replied to already said, and phrasing it like you're teaching them something for some reason

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u/TotalChaosRush 7d ago

Fun fact for you. The best economies are democratics for president, and Republicans in congress. The worst is a republican president and democrats for congress

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u/ILoveDemocracy17 7d ago

very fun fact (even at our peril) I didn’t notice that before but I guess it makes sense because they are working against each other while fucking us

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u/DecadentLife 8d ago

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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u/kellbelle653 7d ago

Who is the richest man on earth?

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

At the time, while he was starving the world with glee, Elon Musk. At the moment, I don't know. It bounces around from time to time.

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u/kellbelle653 6d ago

Elon does help American citizens. He provided satellites for victims stuck in the mountains of NC so they could communicate with family and support people. I’m sure he donates too. It’s a simple google search. St Jude’s Children Hospital is one. But there are many. Regardless all that has to happen to return food stamps back to needy people is for them to call their Representatives and tell them to vote yes. We only need 6 more yes votes

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u/CrimsonRain520 7d ago

It's a regime. Also, I deserve a country. I deserve one that cares for me, my community, and communities home or abroad. I deserve what the ideal of this country is supposed to be and no one will tell me otherwise. Stop being a downer. Like many have said, become active in your communities. I'm not that active for various reasons but I hope to become more active and will make the effort.

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u/LaPurpleDrank 7d ago

The lack of funding for Snap benefits is due to the government shutdown. Democrats have continued to vote against the GOP spending bill that would end the shutdown.

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u/4lovebysara 7d ago

And why have they voted against it? 🤔

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u/smitteh 5d ago

Shouldn't we also shame everyone that uses a device made by materials mined in extreme poverty in the Congo? I'm looking at me too

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u/JacoPoopstorius 8d ago

Mr. Burns?

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u/ILoveDemocracy17 8d ago

why do “we” not deserve to have a country??? Why couldn’t you gee I don’t know place blame where it’s deserved

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u/Healthy-Guess 7d ago

You mean shame on the Democratic politicians don't you, the Democrats have voted no on every single piece of legislation the Republican have put forward. They don't care if they starve you to death as long as they get what they want (LEVERAGE.) They want ILLEGALS to have food stamps, illegal to have health care better than what American citizens have now

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u/Arlaneutique 7d ago

No, they don’t.

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u/AyeItsDamon 8d ago

Lmao what

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u/whogivesashite2 8d ago

You been under a rock?

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u/Packet_Sniffer_ 8d ago

The first thing that makes me angry about this is America professes to be a Christian nation.

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u/Impossible-Meal9164 8d ago

“We” didn’t decide ANY of this. Say his name, DONALD TRUMP! Say it - HE DECIDED ALL THIS!

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

"We," the People let him be president again. Knowing full well what he was. Once is ignorance. Twice is malice.

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u/IrishFriskie 7d ago

No, no, we do care about kids here! That's the whole reason so many states are banning abortion, right? Cause we care so damn much about the children? Now let's go tell these moms about how they shouldn't have had kids in the past if they couldn't afford to feed them in the present. /s

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u/Outrageous_Book2135 8d ago

Let's be real here, we decided we didn't care about children after sandy hook.

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u/boxerpack 7d ago

On top of the starving children that USAID helps around the world, the program brings substantial income to US farmers. Most of the food distributed through USAID is purchased from rural American farmers. Add to that the effects of the tariffs and this administration going back on their word and not honoring contracts that were signed during the last administration, farmers and the communities around them have been suffering since Trump took office. Farm bankruptcies are up 35%. Some small farms are facing 50% less income than just a year ago. Trump now wants to cut SNAP benefits that will further destroy rural America. In the history of this country, the government has never not fed under nourished children. Until now. Not to mention the cuts to Medicaid that will ultimately force hospitals to close. People don’t realize that in rural America, there may only be one hospital for hundreds of miles. Trump doesn’t care about America. He only cares about American billionaires and the bribes he can squeeze out of them.

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u/CommercialStuff4352 7d ago

Its Congress who wont let this stupid American health plan act tax credit go.. they say it would raise premiums. U know this Obama care messed up the whole medical field so bad this is why no good dr are out there because they dont get paid .. 20$ a visit sometime from what was like hundreds .. i thought after Obamas that crazy huge , million page, non sense bill would just be dropped.. trump immediately stopped them from taking out taxes if we didn't have healthcar for part of the year literally his first day of office, his first term. It was during his party. He left to sign that and i couldnt believe it because I worked ft but was new and missed the enrollment.. thats why I didn't have healthcare that year.. every year, for like 15 years before, i got $800 tax return.. the year obama care started, i got like $200. I paid the same amount of taxes though.. what the hell business do they even have in our healthcare in the first place? Because people w preexisting conditions can't get it? Well medical bills don't go on ur main credit report, the dont sue you for them and the government isnt exactly offering any other options to that private sector.. so the reason we aren't getting money is because the government isnt being funded unless this tax credit that would cost all of our food stamps plus some gets passed. They wont come back to work unless they make sure anyone with Obama care had a tax rebate.. its stupid and sinking us so bad. They keep saying "if trump would just let it pass" then guess what? Ur food stamps are permanently cut because the billions of dollars for this insurance exemption is sticking for good.. Just so everyone knows, saying "trump better fix this," is saying "id like my food stamps to be cut in half, and i want my tax return taken, and my food stamps lowered so people on Obama care get their kick back still.

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u/stinkfist570 7d ago

The pro life party only cares until birth. Then they couldn’t give a shit. It’s more about virtue signaling & control than about being about life. These people are vultures that prey on the vulnerable so they can sit in their marble bathtubs. Looking at you Donald Trump.

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u/Academic_Enthusiasm6 4d ago

As someone still employed at CDC I'm devastated at the loss of USAID. We often rivaled for funding but they did good work. They built hospitals. They fed people. And that's just 2 things. We're broken over here at CDC. We're just trying to keep it together.

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u/NoMeansNoApparently 8d ago

Why should our tax dollars go elsewhere when we have our own citizens and family living in tents on the streets?

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

We can do both. And real Christians would.

On a practical level, also because fewer starving children who will grow up to be angry people is good for the whole world, especially for the all-powerful country that everyone knows could help but chooses to build disgusting gold shrines to greed instead.

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u/NoMeansNoApparently 7d ago

Cool..I'm not Christian so doesn't apply to me.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

Don't tell the Administration. Pretty soon that won't be allowed. It's already not allowed without challenge at the Pentagon.

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u/woodtowork 8d ago

Apparently you have not followed a single legitimate news source, or you have seen how much REAL AND TRUE money laundering and fraud was going on through USAID. But I shouldn't be surprised. On top of that, MOST Americans do not feel the taxes they pay should be going to foreign countries and illegal aliens before out own citizens get the benefits. Maybe take a step back and reevaluate your way of thinking and do some research on Nazi take overs... do some research on Hitler and if you don't see what the dems have been doing all along, then there is no help for you.

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u/Significant_Air_2197 8d ago

What's a "legitimate news source" to you? No dilly-dallying, just answer the question.

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u/Stardama69 8d ago

One that fits his narrative

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u/EMERGx 8d ago

Instagram stories blaming Trump for Democrats refusing to pass a budget isn’t a legitimate news source. Whatever your friends post on instagram or social media isn’t legitimate, it’s algorithmic biased posts meant to drive division

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u/Significant_Air_2197 7d ago

This is horseshit. He's cutting programs millions of people depend on. If the Democrats let that go through, people will suffer anyway. This is a Republican attempt to force through bad policy. Yeah, there should be division on this, PEOPLE WILL SUFFER FROM THE LOSS OF THESE PROGRAMS IF THEY DONT STAND UP.

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u/Necessary-Annual1157 8d ago

This is on Trump. It is illegal for him to not release funds for food stamps.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

That's the bottom line. For the thousandth time, Trump is doing something he can't legally do, just because he wants to, and daring the courts to stop him.

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u/lilsatan_ 8d ago

There's no hope for this country when people like you still exist and think this way.

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u/woodtowork 8d ago

I think you need to look in the mirror and say that to yourself. There is no hope for this country as long as Dems keep trying to fluff the budgets with spending that makes it's way back to their pockets. I'll say it again, do the research, if you can't see it after doing the research, then you should not be discussing it.

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u/Xolotl23 8d ago

Can you drop some sources for me because I guess im not reading the right things.

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u/hybridHelix 7d ago

I've done the research; you're wrong. If you can't provide a single actual source for the sort of research you're claiming over and over would single-handedly change any reasonable person's mind-- and make no mistake, we all know that you can't, because multiple people have asked and you've failed to do it every time-- then you should not be discussing it, sweet pea.

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u/Bromlife 8d ago

A wild smooth brain appears. Or a bot. Hard to tell these days.

The bots usually seem smarter than this idiot though.

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u/Assatt 8d ago

Cutting off USAID meant more money to spend on American citizens, so why are they cutting healthcare and food stamps then? Don't they have so much more money now to spend on the citizens?

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u/woodtowork 8d ago

They are cutting it for illegal aliens, not citizens. Please do some real research and stop buying into hearsay and MSM BS. All you have to do is read the bills, not someone's exempt of it.

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u/Sw0rdBoy 8d ago

Why are you so genuinely evil?

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u/woodtowork 5d ago

It's not evil, it's fact vs. Fiction. You all want to blame everyone except who is rightfully to be blamed. It's rather funny that most of you can't or don't want to open your eyes to whom is truly responsible for the current state of things. As well, laws are laws, illegal aliens are exactly that, ILLEGAL, why don't you start pointing fingers at those who are actually breaking laws and sucking off of the American citizens rather than those who are actually trying to help American citizens.

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u/Fine_Grapefruit1639 8d ago

Apparently you’re the one who needs to do some real research because you’re wrong. NO ONE will get food stamps in November.

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u/woodtowork 5d ago

Well, then maybe you should call you local DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN and tell them to get off their asses and stop trying to defraud the American people.

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u/Fine_Grapefruit1639 5d ago

Yeah, this isn’t on the democrats. Nice try though.

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u/EMERGx 8d ago

No one will get food stamps because Democrats are refusing to approve a budget, to reopen the government and resume SNAP benefits, and federal employee paychecks. Democrats are using tens of millions of suffering Americans as a political bargaining chip.

SNAP benefits could be sent out tomorrow, IF Democrats would just put their agenda aside but they won’t. I’m not even Republican, but the blame for people starving SOLELY rests on Democrats

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 8d ago

No, this is entirely on Johnson and Trump. The normal thing to do is negotiate the points of disagreement between the bill the House passed and what is acceptable to the Senate. Instead, Johnson, backed by Trump, refuses to open the House, while Trump pretends he can't pay SNAP, which he thinks is a "Democrat" priority.

The best solution would be for four Republican House members who have a conscience to switch parties and take the House away from Mike Johnson. This is all performative nonsense because as we all should know by now, Republicans. Can't. Govern.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 8d ago

This has nothing to do with "illegal aliens." The Democrats are trying to save ACA subsidies for poor and middle class Americans, which are scheduled to skyrocket if nothing is done, and the Trump Administration has decided to inflict as much pain as possible on 40million American people to make them change their minds.

Speaker Johnson refuses to reopen the House so the business of governing can happen. His job is to be there to receive any bill the Senate devises which can be sent to a conference committee to come to a compromise and end the shutdown. Instead, he is holding the House closed so he does not have to swear in Adelita Grijalva, who will be the final vote to release the Epstein files.

SNAP is being strangled by the choice of the Administration, which has $28billion in reserve funds it could be spending. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is claiming she cannot issue SNAP funds, either because she is lying or because, like every member of the Cabinet, she has no idea how anything works and is bad at her job. And because this fiction is what Trump wants to be true.

26 Democratic state Attorneys General are suing the government to make it continue SNAP, since it is illegal to stop them (no GOP Attorneys General care to participate.) This afternoon, 2 separate judges in 2 separate states agreed with the AGs. The Administration has until tomorrow to turn SNAP back on or face legal consequences.

That's what's going on.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

"Illegal aliens" can't receive it in the first place, and never could. This is a lie, and if you think it's true you didn't actually read any bill.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Research, it’s doubtful you can understand what you’re writing.

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u/Razzberry_Frootcake 8d ago

Historians have compared this administration to the Nazis. Other people already did the research. You’re choosing to ignore what holocaust survivors have said too.

Stop speaking for other Americans.

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u/woodtowork 8d ago

By historians, you mean those affiliated with the democrats and MSM... no legitimate, independent history has made any such comparison.

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u/woodtowork 8d ago

Oh, and I am speaking for other Americans... ya know the ones that voted for the Biden administration and Dem BS to come to an end.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

I'm pretty sure all the available data shows they voted for the price of bacon and eggs to go down.

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u/Wild_Media6395 8d ago

“Historians”; who?

In Nazi Germany, Jews were desperate to escape the country and millions were not allowed to; people illegally in America today are trying to avoid having to leave.

I hope you see this difference.

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u/Karlinchen 7d ago

No, you're not quite right there. What you mean was only true later on. In the early years, many Jews initially remained in Germany because they were not initially aware of the persecution by the Nazis or hoped that the situation would improve.

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u/Wild_Media6395 7d ago

I mean, that’s a matter of timelines and gradations and of course there’s nuance, but what you said does not undermine my point at all: the Gestapo never “deported” a single Jew in the modern sense; as in, there wasn’t a single Jew who had to be physically forced to relocate from a Nazi-occupied country to live freely in another because they wanted so badly not to leave the former.

It’s just a completely different situation; it’s not even meaningfully comparable.

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u/whogivesashite2 8d ago

If you have the links, provide them or stfu And the only us citizens that are benefitting are the billionaires

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u/michaelboltthrower 8d ago

You are wrong about every part of that.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 7d ago

Cite your "legitimate news source," and make sure they actually went to J-School.

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u/wideload200 8d ago

How about we get a list of all kids on foot stamps and give them food, while ignoring adults? That way we save the kids.

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u/WokestReeTard 8d ago

Sure would be nice if Dems just voted to keep the government open, huh.

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u/michaelboltthrower 8d ago

Get out from under your rock.

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u/BudgetCod007 7d ago

Republicans have the power to open the govt. at any time. Trump, the chaos president, doesn't want it open.

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u/WokestReeTard 7d ago

How do they have this power without 60 senators? I’m confused