Meme Image: A photo of a wonderfully cooked Thanksgiving turkey.

Meme Caption: Food Stamps? No Turkey For You!

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      I hear ya, you’re basically right.

      My thought process is more like people with a food stamp card will still have the card, but it’ll be useless without being reloaded with benefits funds.

      Note that for once the orange shitstain actually did something to help in the meantime, not long after I made that meme, Turnip announced he’s approving the use of emergency funds around $5 billion for SNAP recipients, which is around half of what typically goes out to people, but hey it’s something at least, for now…

      He probably only did that because even in his demented cranium, he’s gotta understand that his ratings will plummet through the floor if he doesn’t do something quick so even the poor and low income families can have a decent meal for Thanksgiving.

      I dunno, I haven’t had food stamps in over 5 years. It’s hardly worth the waste of my time to only qualify for a lousy $27 a month, it costs more than that in gas to get back and forth to their office to comply with their work program requirements.

      Edit: Update, I guess the orange turnip changed his mind… 🤷

      https://lemmings.world/post/36462070

  • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I know we’re trying to be funny but is the joke…people lost their SNAP benefits and can’t afford a turkey? What’s…funny?

    I’m not even trying to be the woke police someone please help me understand.

    Edit: also if the point is just generally feel angry and ashamed by the callousness of the current admin then that’s where I am currently at.

    • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      There are people who complain that people on food stamps can buy nice food on occasion, such as thanksgiving turkey. The joke here is just making their callousness clear.

  • venusaur@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Actually, food banks get a huuuge influx of turkeys every year for thanksgiving and Xmas. They get too many. And now that more SNAP recipients have to go to food banks they might actually get turkey.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 days ago

      True, and I’ve seen food banks giving out entire frozen turkeys before, and yeah that’s a good thing.

      The point of the meme is, here in the USA, they shut down the government, so the government isn’t here to feed the people on the country’s food day…