“The document states that the contingency fund is reserved for such things as helping individuals in disaster areas. It cited Tropical Storm Melissa, which could become a major hurricane in the coming days, as an example of why it’s important to have funds available to mobilize quickly in the event of a disaster. The document was obtained by The Associated Press and was first reported by Axios.”
Trump isn't supposed to be able to deploy the national guard the way he did, he wasn't allowed to move funds for the wall, he shouldn't be able to decimate the Dept of Education, they shouldn't be able to deport people without a trial.
The Trump admin can almost do anything it wants, so they could use the funds, they've chosen not to.
In 1 year (midterms), and in 3, US voters who starved from this will forget all about it and vote based on whatever outrage pops up on cable news or their social feed. And, more specifically, not vote in primaries where both party's problems can really be addressed.
Well duh, obviously if it wasn't for all the illegal Mexican gang members taking all the food stamps there would have been plenty of money to help the people that deserved it, like them.
I still wonder if they are banking on making 2025 just such a miserable year that it's comparitively easy to make 2026 feel good.
Turn SNAP back on, dial back the tariffs. People feel a remarkable improvement in food security and prices. Might still be in worse shape than end of 2024, but people will tend to remember change in experience rather than their experience in absolute terms.
The narrative will inevitably be that somehow the GOP figured out how to overcome those pesky democrats and restore the things that the democrats broke.
If things remained persistently broken, then the narrative couldn't really overcome people's actual experience. They strongly branded and made it clear that this was the Trump show, he's got the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. When it comes to 'right now', it's hard to ignore that reality. But once they make it 'last year's problem', then mental gymnastics can resume to blame the democrats.
Hell they could resolve this crisis by ultimately letting the democrats have what they are asking for and the voters would still credit the GOP with restoring the benefits that the democrats are demanding. They've already set the stage by saying democrats want to give all the money to illegal immigrants (which they explicitly don't) and so there will be some BS to claim they 'compromised' by getting the democrats to give up illegal immigrant eligibility (they aren't eligible and were never asked to be) and then take credit for the 'good' version of the outcome.
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
He's also doing it because it's what billionaires want.
Hmm these people don't want to work a 996 to afford my enshitified garbage, better fund lobbying to starve them to death and if that doesn't work I'll make sure to fund propaganda to stoke racial tensions then just in case they get wise as a last line of defense why not fund the modern day Gestapo
Incase anyone wants to help their local community. I talked to my local food pantry today and they said they prefer financial donations vs food drops. They can make a dollar go further than we can at the grocery store
Work with a food bank and this is spot on, except they do get food donations that make sense from farmers and food service companies. But people buying food at the grocery store will do worse than the food bank can do with their connections, experience, and volume.
Times have changed since then though. Modern public infrastructure is a lot better suited for troop movements compared to the 1700s and 1800s when there was plenty of revolutions occurring across Europe. People seem to have this idea that they're going to take out their guns and start guerrilla warfaring massive groups of armed troops.
I do believe we need to be more aggressive, more proactive, but there is a good chance that it might be expected. It's entirely possible that they're just waiting for an excuse to start gunning people down in the streets.
Right now the soldiers and ice feel invulnerable, untouchable. Imagine being a foot soldier in an area where most folks now want you dead. Doesn't matter if its crappy hunting rifles shooting at you, they will kill you, they demoralize you. All of a sudden your brothers and sisters want you dead and you're not quite sure what you're even doing there. Worse, maybe you're not onboard with all of the stupid shit Trump and his ilk are doing, maybe you decide you're actually with the civilians.
No question though, so much death is on the way, but the fight is worth it for our children and future.
a qoute from ff13, when lightning was discussing wether to destroy a FAL'CIE that can make food/supplies out of thin air. and "she said hungry people are an angry people." by destroying the very thing that feeds people will cause the people to start persecuting "l'cie people" and demand thier executions.(of course this was all engineered by the fal'cie as a contigency)
he would need the miltiary on his side, but it doesnt seem like they are too keen to do this, considered they are also furloughed. that 130mil isnt even going to the troops too.
MAGAts seeth with resentment at being told that they are backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They want to hurt people because they have been hurt. They never think about improving themselves or not being backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They love Donald Trump because he hurts people. MAGA had a hardon for cruelty.
i dont think magats have been hurt, they are afraid of the same reprisal, they used to oppress minorities, also facing the music, that thier voting pattern has consequences.
So, my first question is why hasn't it been an issue before? Was the timing so that they wouldn't miss a payment? Or was there a vote to make an exception for snap? Not in favor of this at all, I just don't understand the mechanisms of a lot of this.
I was under the impression the US had the highest gun ownership per capita in the world. I'm sure those patriots are gonna rise against this tyranny. Any time now...
I’m a gun owner, but the US has the “highest rate” of ownership in a way that most Americans don’t understand stats. We have a shitload of guns, enough for like one in every humans arms. However only like 45% of homes have guns. Like me most of us gun owners don’t just own one, we own like… a number that’s greater than 5. So it skews the data.
Still I thankfully live in Blue AF California. My guns are for when we go to secede. Which I feel is getting sooner. Cascadia and all that.
I wish there was a way to prevent this dickhead from accessing his McDonald’s budget while others are starved. I don’t even need him to go hungry, just no access to his preferred slop.
Would be pretty strange if there were go fund mes around the world to feed hungry Americans meanwhile going into trillions of debt whilst holding the positions they do on the market and in WH. I don’t think a country could fail harder at sustaining a society. This is embarrassing. Even compared to Roman times. Like they failed… but not so stupidly. This is the stupidest fail ever.
Russia/star link yup thats why the heavy push into using the voting machines in red states. oh if you're not aware this is also what happened mitch mcconells last senate election, but no news media called it out over it, they largely buried it. now hes pretending to have these "freezes" to avoid any confrontation of the issue.
it make sense, since the gop is concerned, they always threaten to cut MEDICAID/CARE, and snap, or subsidies but they never actually do it, just for sound bites for fox and murdoch. now with TRUMP, they are afraid of not offending him, so they are rubberstamping all his demands.
plus the "cuts" were always used a distraction from the corporate tax cuts, now they actually have to Cut the very thing they always teased the magats about for decades.
ikr? Can we start labeling this as a Republican choice, not just Trump?
This is a Republican administration operating with support from a Republican-controlled Senate and House and by Republican judges and other appointees.
Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan, it's a Republican plan. Let's start talking about the party that's doing this to America so they can't just claim it was "all Trump" and be believed when it all comes tumbling down around them.
Not sure if you're just blatantly ignorant of what's actually happening or if this is just an attempt to smear Democrats, but it'd be nice if a Republican could take the extra 5 minutes to actually read about what's going on. I'll do it for you (you're welcome).
Sen. Hawley introduced the "Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025" on Oct. 21st. It's currently with the Senate Appropriations Committee, as of that time. It's not likely to go anywhere though as REPUBLICAN LEADERS, are not prioritizing it. From a Politico article, there were several quotes from Republicans stating that they don't want a stopgap, that it doesn't actually fix the problem.
But hey, it's so much more convenient to just blame Democrats for every problem, isn't it?
They have 53/100 in the Senate, and because this is less than 60, it permits the FILIBUSTER to take place on the part of the democrats, who are refusing to let the budget go to vote.
What do you mean by this? The democrats are literally engaging in a filibuster. Did you not see Katherine Clark say “There will be families that are going to suffer… but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”?
They literally just have to let the budget go to vote.
For one thing the filibuster standing rule can be ditched by simple majority. Neil Gorsuch's nomination is in fact an example of the Senate overcoming the filibuster if they want to. The SC nomination was so important to the GOP they did it.
However, the consequences of the government shutdown are not as important as having a conservative majority in the supreme court to the GOP. Or the GOP are intentionally delaying as a strategy to try to let the narrative of blaming the democrats sink in before they 'miraculously' overcome it and take credit for fixing it after the democrats 'broke' it.
Republicans tried to piecemeal their way to cutting the ACA subsidies. Dems actually resisted that bad deal for a change. If Trump is so damn good at making deals, why are deals not getting made?
Elections have consequences. If Republicans wanted a supermajority they should have worked harder on election day. Now they have to negotiate, they're just choosing not to.
Maybe the democrats should have worked hard enough to get a majority. Or chosen to negotiate by allowing the bill for temporary snap funding to pass.
The democrats blocking the last one is them DIRECTLY withholding snap funding until they get what they want.
Their strategy, is that people are stupid and will blame the republicans for the actions of the democrats. More likely though, the democrats are going to give the republicans that supermajority in 2026.
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justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 185 pts · 298d
There is SNAP funding.
Even the Republicans ensured that there was 5 Billion Dollars prepared to ensure that SNAP funding could not easily run out.
It is being Withheld by Trump
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 298d
Any references for this?
sgtpugg@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 298d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 298d
So what's the point of a "Contingency Fund" if it can't be tapped to cover contingencies?
yeather@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 298d
“The document states that the contingency fund is reserved for such things as helping individuals in disaster areas. It cited Tropical Storm Melissa, which could become a major hurricane in the coming days, as an example of why it’s important to have funds available to mobilize quickly in the event of a disaster. The document was obtained by The Associated Press and was first reported by Axios.”
Gov shutdown isn’t enough I guess.
papertowels@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 297d
Damn, they're going to stop feeding folks so they can feed folks in case if emergency. Some genius brain shit right there.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 297d
I reckon it'd be fair to classify the Trump administration as a national disaster.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 297d
It just reads like an excuse.
Trump isn't supposed to be able to deploy the national guard the way he did, he wasn't allowed to move funds for the wall, he shouldn't be able to decimate the Dept of Education, they shouldn't be able to deport people without a trial.
The Trump admin can almost do anything it wants, so they could use the funds, they've chosen not to.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 297d
Precisely.
Asafum@feddit.nl · 117 pts · 298d
No funding, but there's 40 billion to "buy" the election in Argentina...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 30 pts · 298d
And $300 million for a new ballroom, $230 million to compensate him for the FBI investigating his extensive criminal activities, etc...
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
A plane he's converting into AF1, that he will just keep. I think a couple more planes for ICE Barbie....
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 296d
That plane won't even be available until he's out of office, yet we have to pay for renovating it, so he can fly a palace around in his retirement.
Unless he's not planning on leaving. Suddenly he's acting like he knows he has to leave after this term, but, y'know, he LIES.
He's not going anywhere, if he has anything to say about it. Out of office means prison, or worse.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 298d
Failed State.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 50 pts · 298d
State isn't the right word to describe the USA. States have borders and believe in national sovereignty.
America is now just a criminal syndicate with a military.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 298d
Well ok, but also that's pretty much what a state is...
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 298d
A literal traitor to our nation. Enabled and protected by a literal traitor party.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 297d
Just watch.
In 1 year (midterms), and in 3, US voters who starved from this will forget all about it and vote based on whatever outrage pops up on cable news or their social feed. And, more specifically, not vote in primaries where both party's problems can really be addressed.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 297d
Well duh, obviously if it wasn't for all the illegal Mexican gang members taking all the food stamps there would have been plenty of money to help the people that deserved it, like them.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
All the bad things they still blame on Biden, even when Trump was president. Overall it still hurts non-whites a tiny bit more, so they're ok with it.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
I still wonder if they are banking on making 2025 just such a miserable year that it's comparitively easy to make 2026 feel good.
Turn SNAP back on, dial back the tariffs. People feel a remarkable improvement in food security and prices. Might still be in worse shape than end of 2024, but people will tend to remember change in experience rather than their experience in absolute terms.
The narrative will inevitably be that somehow the GOP figured out how to overcome those pesky democrats and restore the things that the democrats broke.
If things remained persistently broken, then the narrative couldn't really overcome people's actual experience. They strongly branded and made it clear that this was the Trump show, he's got the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. When it comes to 'right now', it's hard to ignore that reality. But once they make it 'last year's problem', then mental gymnastics can resume to blame the democrats.
Hell they could resolve this crisis by ultimately letting the democrats have what they are asking for and the voters would still credit the GOP with restoring the benefits that the democrats are demanding. They've already set the stage by saying democrats want to give all the money to illegal immigrants (which they explicitly don't) and so there will be some BS to claim they 'compromised' by getting the democrats to give up illegal immigrant eligibility (they aren't eligible and were never asked to be) and then take credit for the 'good' version of the outcome.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 298d
Interesting history fact of the day: It took about one and a half years from Hitler coming to power to the night of the long knives.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 37 pts · 298d
Republicans: cutting food assistance
Also Republicans: "Waaaah! Why aren't people having kids?"
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 298d
also some posts on reddit, some magats are quite gleeful over the cuts.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 35 pts · 298d
Fascists need to be buried 6 feet deep.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 298d
I still like the idea of burying Trump and his kitchen cabinet in a deep geologic repository, where we bury vitrified spent fissile fuel.
To be fair, here in the states, we have a lot of fuel in line to be deposited.
lengau@midwest.social · 15 pts · 298d
It would be a very appropriate message for the tombstone:
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 298d
Super shallow so the piss can soak down and reach
AniZaeger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
His kitchen cabinet is full of pussy-grabbing pinchy pantyhose (pinche pendenos).
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 298d
or the sudden sound of guillotines falling.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 298d
˙dn ʇǝǝɟ xᴉs ɹO
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 298d
He's also doing it because it's what billionaires want.
Cybersec@piefed.social · 8 pts · 298d
Damn it, I knew it was time to go to the gun store but I was putting it off.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 298d
Incase anyone wants to help their local community. I talked to my local food pantry today and they said they prefer financial donations vs food drops. They can make a dollar go further than we can at the grocery store
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 29 pts · 298d
They also know what to get, in terms of what is most useful.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
You're telling me my year old can of pumpkin pie filling isn't useful?
jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d
Work with a food bank and this is spot on, except they do get food donations that make sense from farmers and food service companies. But people buying food at the grocery store will do worse than the food bank can do with their connections, experience, and volume.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 298d
Actually starving people out is a great way to get them to revolt.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 298d
Literally the actual thing that lit off the French Revolution. It wasn't just the taxes. It wasn't the bad labor practices. It wasn't the decadence of the rich. It was women marching to the palace because so many couldn't afford bread.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
Times have changed since then though. Modern public infrastructure is a lot better suited for troop movements compared to the 1700s and 1800s when there was plenty of revolutions occurring across Europe. People seem to have this idea that they're going to take out their guns and start guerrilla warfaring massive groups of armed troops.
I do believe we need to be more aggressive, more proactive, but there is a good chance that it might be expected. It's entirely possible that they're just waiting for an excuse to start gunning people down in the streets.
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 297d
Right now the soldiers and ice feel invulnerable, untouchable. Imagine being a foot soldier in an area where most folks now want you dead. Doesn't matter if its crappy hunting rifles shooting at you, they will kill you, they demoralize you. All of a sudden your brothers and sisters want you dead and you're not quite sure what you're even doing there. Worse, maybe you're not onboard with all of the stupid shit Trump and his ilk are doing, maybe you decide you're actually with the civilians.
No question though, so much death is on the way, but the fight is worth it for our children and future.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 298d
a qoute from ff13, when lightning was discussing wether to destroy a FAL'CIE that can make food/supplies out of thin air. and "she said hungry people are an angry people." by destroying the very thing that feeds people will cause the people to start persecuting "l'cie people" and demand thier executions.(of course this was all engineered by the fal'cie as a contigency)
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
marcos@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 298d
The US government seems to want people to violently revolt.
I imagine they want to use it as an excuse to take absolute power. But I don't think they thought it thoroughly.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 298d
exactly this….
food riots/ looting -> martial law -> dictatorship
papertowels@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 297d
Oh the trump administration is 100% hoping people revolt - they're already discussing invoking the insurrection act
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 298d
he would need the miltiary on his side, but it doesnt seem like they are too keen to do this, considered they are also furloughed. that 130mil isnt even going to the troops too.
BottleCaptain@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 297d
That's probably where ICE comes in. Are they still being paid?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 297d
yes ICE, they made an exception for ice of COURSE.
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 298d
What if they have?
marcos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
If they are right, then the US is fucked.
I really think they are wrong, and that the US is less fucked, but well, I've been wrong several times in my life.
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 298d
Not an US citizen, conservative states seem to have more guns. If there's Civil outcry it could easily be people vs people
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 298d
MAGAts seeth with resentment at being told that they are backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They want to hurt people because they have been hurt. They never think about improving themselves or not being backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They love Donald Trump because he hurts people. MAGA had a hardon for cruelty.
Cybersec@piefed.social · 9 pts · 298d
And fail to realize they are also in the crosshairs.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 298d
magats, are thirsty for attention, they are excited to be noticed trump, even if they are being targeted.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 298d
i dont think magats have been hurt, they are afraid of the same reprisal, they used to oppress minorities, also facing the music, that thier voting pattern has consequences.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 298d
A tyrant exercises power in a manner that is arbitrary, unreasonable, and cruel.
Trump makes it a point to always do all 3 simultaneously
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 298d
Have they tried having their parents put them on the company board?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 298d
have they tried not being poor? or get an MBA and become a ceo?
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 298d
A shit stain in history
huppakee@piefed.social · 15 pts · 298d
My friend, cruelty is not only the theme of his administration - it's the theme of many of it's backers too.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 298d
are you "there yet" America?
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 298d
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 298d
I thought it hurt enough in the aughts, and in 2017-2020 that we'd do something about it, but we didn't.
So it's going to hurt more. Our aristocrats seem determined to let the third estate know its place.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 297d
Seems to me that cruelty is the theme of conservative governments worldwide.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 297d
Trump said he is probably not going to heaven. I feel kind of certain of that... I mean, assuming there is a god even.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 296d
In what religion would a man like Trump go to a place of eternal bliss after death?
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 296d
Scientific atheism... :)
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 297d
Thanksgiving is going to be crazy. People are going to be so mad about so many things not working
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
Oh god, turkey prices are going to be nuts.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 298d
Trump: Fuck the children
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 298d
Be careful, a conservative might hear you and take it literally.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 297d
Sadly they don't need the prompting they are way ahead of you
t3h_fool@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
So, my first question is why hasn't it been an issue before? Was the timing so that they wouldn't miss a payment? Or was there a vote to make an exception for snap? Not in favor of this at all, I just don't understand the mechanisms of a lot of this.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 297d
The USDA maintains an emergency fund for situations like this. This time they're saying they can't use it, and it's gone to the courts.
t3h_fool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d
I really appreciate the enlightening comment.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 295d
No worries, everything's super confusing right now.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 298d
On the plus side, y'all have a right to bear arms. So that's nice.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 298d
Tbh, if you can't afford food idk how your supposed to afford getting a gun. How does gun taste? Heh heh
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 298d
I was under the impression the US had the highest gun ownership per capita in the world. I'm sure those patriots are gonna rise against this tyranny. Any time now...
mean_bean279@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d
I’m a gun owner, but the US has the “highest rate” of ownership in a way that most Americans don’t understand stats. We have a shitload of guns, enough for like one in every humans arms. However only like 45% of homes have guns. Like me most of us gun owners don’t just own one, we own like… a number that’s greater than 5. So it skews the data.
Still I thankfully live in Blue AF California. My guns are for when we go to secede. Which I feel is getting sooner. Cascadia and all that.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 298d
Hopefully you can also get some solidarity to go along with those rights.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
I wish there was a way to prevent this dickhead from accessing his McDonald’s budget while others are starved. I don’t even need him to go hungry, just no access to his preferred slop.
officermike@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
Guess he'll just have to suffer with his second choice of overcooked steak slathered in ketchup.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 297d
Would be pretty strange if there were go fund mes around the world to feed hungry Americans meanwhile going into trillions of debt whilst holding the positions they do on the market and in WH. I don’t think a country could fail harder at sustaining a society. This is embarrassing. Even compared to Roman times. Like they failed… but not so stupidly. This is the stupidest fail ever.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 296d
lol gofundme. mabye realize its time to leave, or that it was time to leave decades ago when you were old enough to learn about the 2nd amendment.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Snowflake says what
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 298d
It is almost like Americans are getting what they voted for...
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 298d
the election was hacked and stolen, they didn’t vote for this
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 298d
Russia/star link yup thats why the heavy push into using the voting machines in red states. oh if you're not aware this is also what happened mitch mcconells last senate election, but no news media called it out over it, they largely buried it. now hes pretending to have these "freezes" to avoid any confrontation of the issue.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 298d
it make sense, since the gop is concerned, they always threaten to cut MEDICAID/CARE, and snap, or subsidies but they never actually do it, just for sound bites for fox and murdoch. now with TRUMP, they are afraid of not offending him, so they are rubberstamping all his demands.
plus the "cuts" were always used a distraction from the corporate tax cuts, now they actually have to Cut the very thing they always teased the magats about for decades.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 296d
This is a legislative branch action not executive….
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d
ikr? Can we start labeling this as a Republican choice, not just Trump?
This is a Republican administration operating with support from a Republican-controlled Senate and House and by Republican judges and other appointees.
Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan, it's a Republican plan. Let's start talking about the party that's doing this to America so they can't just claim it was "all Trump" and be believed when it all comes tumbling down around them.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 298d
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · -2 pts · 297d
Start living a lifestyle that doesn't depend on America.
odelik@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 297d
This has real, "just think positive thoughts and go for a walk" messages posted towards depressed people vibes.
fort_burp@feddit.nl · -21 pts · 298d
Why don't Democrats do the "lesser of two evils" thing and pass the government funding bill? People are suffering because of this!
jumjummy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
Troll post, useful idiot, or a 🌻 to be
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Yeah why not just give the republicans everything they want?
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -32 pts · 298d
House Republicans offered a bill to keep specifically SNAP funded while everything else is still under negotiation.
Democrats declined.
Alteon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 298d
Not sure if you're just blatantly ignorant of what's actually happening or if this is just an attempt to smear Democrats, but it'd be nice if a Republican could take the extra 5 minutes to actually read about what's going on. I'll do it for you (you're welcome).
Sen. Hawley introduced the "Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025" on Oct. 21st. It's currently with the Senate Appropriations Committee, as of that time. It's not likely to go anywhere though as REPUBLICAN LEADERS, are not prioritizing it. From a Politico article, there were several quotes from Republicans stating that they don't want a stopgap, that it doesn't actually fix the problem.
But hey, it's so much more convenient to just blame Democrats for every problem, isn't it?
Sources [Politico], [Congress.gov]
stratoscaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d
I already have this person tagged as "right-wing douchebag". Huh wonder why
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 298d
Republicans have full control of the fed, numb nuts
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 297d
They have 53/100 in the Senate, and because this is less than 60, it permits the FILIBUSTER to take place on the part of the democrats, who are refusing to let the budget go to vote.
stratoscaster@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 298d
You might be the dumbest person on lemmy I've seen. Conservatives completely control the fed. They could do it if they wanted to.
They're using Democrats as a scapegoat so morons like you fall for the "but the Democrats won't play ball" hook line and sinker.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 297d
What do you mean by this? The democrats are literally engaging in a filibuster. Did you not see Katherine Clark say “There will be families that are going to suffer… but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”?
They literally just have to let the budget go to vote.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
For one thing the filibuster standing rule can be ditched by simple majority. Neil Gorsuch's nomination is in fact an example of the Senate overcoming the filibuster if they want to. The SC nomination was so important to the GOP they did it.
However, the consequences of the government shutdown are not as important as having a conservative majority in the supreme court to the GOP. Or the GOP are intentionally delaying as a strategy to try to let the narrative of blaming the democrats sink in before they 'miraculously' overcome it and take credit for fixing it after the democrats 'broke' it.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 298d
Republicans tried to piecemeal their way to cutting the ACA subsidies. Dems actually resisted that bad deal for a change. If Trump is so damn good at making deals, why are deals not getting made?
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Elections have consequences. If Republicans wanted a supermajority they should have worked harder on election day. Now they have to negotiate, they're just choosing not to.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 296d
Maybe the democrats should have worked hard enough to get a majority. Or chosen to negotiate by allowing the bill for temporary snap funding to pass.
The democrats blocking the last one is them DIRECTLY withholding snap funding until they get what they want.
Their strategy, is that people are stupid and will blame the republicans for the actions of the democrats. More likely though, the democrats are going to give the republicans that supermajority in 2026.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
So the republicans are literally incapable of governing the country without a supermajority, but the democrats are? Who would vote republican then?
Republicans control the house, senate, and presidency. Where's the leadership?
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 296d
Soon, they will have a supermajority.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Wow a Twitter screenshot? From @LeadingReport??? I stand totally corrected and ashamed of all my previous opinions 😝