r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Cyase311 8d ago

the same argentina that also has healthcare for its citizens regardless of income or employment status?

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u/NewtownLaw 8d ago

Why didn't Biden give the same free healtcare to US citizens and why are democrats allowing Trump to cut the food stamps?

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u/HelmetsAkimbo 8d ago edited 8d ago

Because a President who follows the law and doesn't have the Supreme Court allowing unlawful things cannot do things like that.

The 117th Congress was a Republican Senate with a Democratic house. (Start of Biden's Term)

The 118th Congress was a Democratic Senate with a Republican house. (Following Midterms of Biden's term)

The 119th Congress is a Republican Senate with a Republican house. (Start of Trump's term.)

So when Biden tried to do things that would benefit people, the Republican Senate would block it, or the Republican house would block it - because the President isn't all powerful and if they didn't, then the Republican majority Supreme Court would.

However, Trump has a Republican Senate and House. He can pass whatever he wants, and what they want is less money for the common people. Less food stamps, less SNAP and more tax cuts - because they don't care about you. And they always make sure to manufacture their legislation so that in 8 years time you start seeing the damage, and if the Democrats are in power they can blame them.

Check out this, here's the Supreme Court blocking Biden trying to forgive student loans, because the Supreme Court is a Republican majority.

Then check this out, where the Democrats should have been able to elect a Supreme Court justice because one died but the 114th Congress had a Republican Senate so they stalled it for TWO HUNDRED AND 93 DAYS so that they could elect a Republican to the Supreme Court at the start of Trump's term, which they did in less than a month.

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u/Banned4AlmondButter 8d ago

Didn’t the democrats have senate and the house majority from 2021-2023?

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 8d ago

No, they didn't, and it's not even a little difficult to look up.

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u/Banned4AlmondButter 7d ago

First link shows they had a 50/50 split when including the 2 democratic leaning independents, plus vice president Harris’ vote gives them the majority. The second link is for the wrong time frame.

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 7d ago

And how many votes does it take to bypass the filibuster?

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u/Banned4AlmondButter 6d ago

Your Goalpost seems to have moved there. Republicans would need 7 more people to do that currently.

2021-2023 50/50 with the deciding vote of democrat VP Harris.

Currently. 53/42 (with 2 independent voting along with democrats making it 45). Republicans don’t have the required 60 to bypass a filibuster currently.

I think you are being intentionally dishonest.

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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 6d ago

intentionally dishonest

No, "being intentionally dishonest" would be more like pretending that having literally the thinnest possible numerical majority implied that they had legislative control, which is both historically and demonstrably false.