A Supreme Court justice has temporarily paused a lower court's ruling requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the SNAP program by the end of the day Friday.
Republicans want a hopeless electorate as someone who is facing desperation more likely to compromise against their own best interests to meet short term needs
It’s this. A rational person would be fine with the court order, because Trump’s argument was that it wasn’t legal to continue funding SNAP.
But Trump and Republicans aren’t rational. They “lost” the court battle and now must appeal to save face. The subject of the court order is irrelevant - fascist ideology does not permit the autocracy to admit defeat or allow their absolute rule to be challenged.
It’s so simple and yet so damn infuriating. Why are people still under this spell even after everything that has happened?
Still waiting for them to do their own night of long knives and kill or arrest their opponents, the more pushback he gets from the GOP in congress and conservatives on the Supreme Court the more likely it becomes
Republicans want a hopeless electorate as someone who is facing desperation more likely to compromise against their own best interests to meet short term needs
Also authoritarians can’t stand any challenge to their absolute authority.
It’s this. A rational person would be fine with the court order, because Trump’s argument was that it wasn’t legal to continue funding SNAP.
But Trump and Republicans aren’t rational. They “lost” the court battle and now must appeal to save face. The subject of the court order is irrelevant - fascist ideology does not permit the autocracy to admit defeat or allow their absolute rule to be challenged.
It’s so simple and yet so damn infuriating. Why are people still under this spell even after everything that has happened?
Still waiting for them to do their own night of long knives and kill or arrest their opponents, the more pushback he gets from the GOP in congress and conservatives on the Supreme Court the more likely it becomes
Maybe that’s what they think but it can also lead to galvanization, which I think is what’s actually happening.
No, that’s when you dip the poor in molten zinc. That’s only scheduled for next year.
Kinda hard to make that happen when all his actions are all public knowledge.
You’d think that…!
But if even the short term needs aren’t met, over and over again, anything becomes a weapon.
Pitchforks.