• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 hours ago

    Can you fucking imagine?

    ‘Yes sir, you actually do have to pay snap, the program that helps families stay fed, you know put food on the table.’

    ‘I think I’ll appeal that.’

    Like fucking what? Wake up sheeple, this administration is beyond awful. Fucking get them out!

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      It’s even worse when you realize that the people that should receive those benefits are paying for this as it is tied up in courts.

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      And when the next court says he has to fund it, he will appeal all the way to Supreme Court and they rule food stamps are unconstitutional and ends it altogether. He even said they should end it. Cruelty is the point.

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    Trump: “We want to pay SNAP, we just don’t know how to! We don’t want to illegally allocate funds, we need the courts to tell us how to proceed!”

    Courts: “This is how to pay it; you have to do so.”

    Trump: [Appeals]

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    So, Trump is maintaining this shutdown because he’s unwilling to maintain the status quo on healthcare, using illegal and unconvincing messages on agency websites to try to blame it on the Democrats, and he just saw on Tuesday that his message is definitely not working. Like, super not working.

    So, what does he hope to gain by continuing to pursue this angle? When you have headlines come out saying that a judge ordered Trump to fund SNAP and that Trump is ignoring and appealing that order, does he think that will somehow make him look good?

    Trump’s brain must be mush at this point.

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      Lying is his only course of action, he is literally backed into a corner, trying to make it seem like he isn’t. If he makes it out of this, it benefits him the more people who didn’t know how dire it was. If he doesn’t make it out, then it doesn’t matter what he said or did while he was backed into a corner, the result will be the same since this isn’t even close to the same scale as what he is up against if the government resumes with the ability to successfully release the Epstein files.

      From his perspective, literally any cost is justified if it has any chance of the Epstein files not getting out.

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    16 hours ago

    Everyone needs to stop paying taxes until we are represented. This needs to be a coast-to-coast protest.

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    22 hours ago

    How DARE they make us FEED STARVING CHILDREN!

    -LITERALLY the Republican Party and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTES FOR THEM!