• mgtzbos@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Bad choices of those on SNAP…

    1. Joined military to serve my country and this is how they treat me!
    2. Worked for government, got DOGE’d, and no one is hiring!
    3. Picked the wrong birth parents and at 6 no one will hire me!
    4. Lost job over 50 and those kids won’t hire me!
    5. Lost job to AI and I went to Standford!
    6. Pro-life and kept my baby! 7)…fill in the blank
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      7 days ago

      Yeah so Vance’s wife did that in a video too. She sending out morse code or is it a tactic to try to look serious. Idk. It’s weird.

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    I was just arguing with my mom about this and she said it’s good people are losing the benefits because she knows people don’t need SNAP, despite needing them herself.

    She then went on to name a few people who receive $800 for their 5 kids and simply sell the card to someone else to get cash for drugs and ask me how to solve that problem.

    Reporting the abuse it wasn’t an option.

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      She then went on to name a few people who receive $800 for their 5 kids and simply sell the card to someone else to get cash for drugs and ask me how to solve that problem.

      That problem is easy to solve. Just stop telling that lie, because that’s the only way that situation exists. It’s a complete MAGA fantasy.

      And if your mother gets SNAP, and is happy it’s gone, remember that about three weeks from now, when she’s begging you to buy her groceries. If you buy her anything, make it a big pack of ramen, and a couple of tins of sardines.

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      perhaps worth pointing out too… focusing on the minimal abuse as a reason the whole program should be cut is very american. i think the rest of the world the attitude is much more that a thing is necessary and abuse is a cost of doing business (like shoplifting: just because there’s some shoplifting doesn’t mean you close the whole store)… it’s very much nobody “undeserving” should get rewarded before people need help

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    Billionaires always out there telling people to have more kids. Billionaires out there always trying to defund and destroy everything that helps kids. Billionaires are always out there grifting all the tax money and getting the politicians they own to destroy social safety nets. Billionaires always out there raping kids. Billionaires always out there jacking up the prices on food, water, utilities, healthcare and housing. Billionaires always out there refusing to pay a wage that allows people to survive in their rigged system. Maybe the better choice we should make is not having billionaires.

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      Don’t forget the connection between Billionaries and child sex traffic (ie. Epstein Files).

      Maybe that’s the reason they want more impoverished childs around.

      Easier targets.

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    Yep. Make better choices at the ballot box. Unimpressed with your options in the ballot box? Make better choices in the primaries.

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    7 days ago

    GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’

    Like voting.

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    Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. She lost her Congressional bid, and years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.

    This person sounds like a grifter and has now found a more receptive audience.

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    Maybe if they WANTED to Eat they Shouldn’t have Voted for the Party who Promised to Take Away Their Food so they can Protect Pedophiles INSTEAD!

    -Republicans who will Continue to Vote Republican!

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    “I have a very hard time believing that the 42 million people who are on SNAP all qualify,” Li said, speaking on Newsmax. “Someone on Newsmax said last night [that] maybe people should start making better choices so they don’t have to rely on the government day in and day out. What happened to personal responsibility? It used to be an American ideal!”

    “We have to be very clear what’s happening here: they built a dependency empire, and it is crumbling right now! And President Trump isn’t starving kids – he’s starving socialist beasts,” Li said.

    “He’s starving the handouts for millions of illegal aliens; why are we putting them first when we have so many Americans – millions of Americans – suffering on the streets? Why are we prioritizing illegals? That is a question that Democrats need to answer.”

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    Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. She lost her Congressional bid, and years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.

    Does anyone know of any examples of politicians swinging hard in the opposite direction? I’m not talking about things like the Lincoln project or changes made up to age 25 or so, but actual significant leftward movement from adult politicians.

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      Elizabeth Warren was a Republican who thought people used bankruptcy as a means of escaping personal liability.

      Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working the system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as “worse than disillusionment” and “like being shocked at a deep-down level”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

      It was after that Elizabeth Warren moved to become more progressive about how bankruptcy laws and financial regulations.

      Widely regarded as a progressive, she was previously a registered Republican, changing her registration to Democrat in 1996. According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee—Gerald Ford in 1976. Her conservatism at the time was not rooted in social issues like abortion or gay rights, but rather on economic policy.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Elizabeth_Warren

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        Ooh, thank you! I may wish she were further left, but I don’t doubt that she earnestly believes in the views she says she holds, which was what I was wondering.

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      You can never trust her again. She doesn’t believe in ideology, she just wants power and is willing to go to any side and any length to get what she feels entitled to.

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    ‘ years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.’

    Lindy Li was a part of Harris’s campaign. Within the time period of them losing the election -> the inauguration she was already a part of Trumps team.

    She has zero credibility and is just a token former Democrat for the GOP to parade around. Disgusting.

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      I mean, that’s a very good demonstration on the common values of these supposedly different groups. Their class solidarity is strong.

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        No, it’s a good demonstration on their common lack of values. They have no class solidarity and will turn on anyone who has helped them in the past if they think they’ll get ahead.

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    "He’s starving the handouts for millions of illegal aliens; why are we putting them first when we have so many Americans – millions of Americans – suffering on the streets? Why are we prioritizing illegals? That is a question that Democrats need to answer.”

    Erm…you aren’t helping the Americans either lady