What? He won't be able to starve some kids? That takes all the fun out of it for him.
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So they'll just deny the court order and delay action by appealing, then what?
What he always does ...... keep ignoring court orders untill rulled in his favour.
Pretty much this. It'll get appealed all the way to the SC, where Thomas will write a decision saying "actually all funding is at the President's sole discretion" and that'll be it.
Then trumps famine will begin
Good. Appealing this will force him to take ownership of starving people. He will still lie, but maybe a few more people will see the light.
Anyone who hasn't seen the light by now never will.
You can't just lose hope, especially when things are getting worse and worse by the week.
It does take a long time for anything that the federal government does to actually affect your life or someone you know in a noticeable way. Lots of things might get slightly better or worse, but won't be directly attributable to government, like policies that affect the economy. Other things might get MUCH better or worse, but only for a few people at a time.
Especially if you're dumb, these things can be hard to notice. Some people don't believe us because we've been saying the train is coming for a year now and they haven't seen it. But when they do get hit by it, or they see someone close enough, well... it can start to get through to them.
And we need those few percentage points. It's important to get people to vote against this shit, assuming we still get to vote at all. Be aware that there's also levels of cheating in voting. If they do things that suppress the vote by 5%, with the extreme shit they're doing, we could gain more than 10 points.
Voting still matters. Even if they cheat.
It does take a long time for anything that the federal government does to actually affect your life or someone you know in a noticeable way.
Armed thugs in your city black-bagging people can happen quite suddenly.
Armed thugs in your city black-bagging people can happen quite suddenly.
I bet half the Trump voters won't believe it until they see it. Luckily we don't need all of them.
I like you.
The bulk of them won't but there's a constant little trickle of people realizing it each day
There's a lot of people who are living in a bubble of lies. Sometimes the truth breaks through. That's a chance to shatter the right wing media illusion.
Addressing the problem of the right-wing media outlets being allowed to brainwash people with impunity would be more effective.
Sure but we would have to be in control of the government to do that.
In this case the headline actually works to our advantage. It's clear that Trump is the one fucking with food benefits. Tomorrow, between that and the new healthcare exchange rates being out, he's going to be more unpopular than ever - even some of his base are going to have pitchforks.
Exactly this. His starving base will see exactly how a ~~rouge~~ rogue president isn't good for the country now that it affects them.
He's not rouge, he's orange.
What do you think WE should do about it?
Vote in 2026, flip the House, get a 67 Seat Democratic majority in the Senate, impeach him a 3rd time and actually remove him this time, followed by his mandated jail time on his felony convictions.
Dream on. That's using the badly, maybe irretrievably, broken system to fix itself.
Any effective solution will have to be outside the system.
You do know that none of that is going to happen, right?
Well the question was "what do you think we should do about it", that's what I think we should do. 😉
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It is a good question. Public servants who refuse to follow it will be risking personal liability. That is a big deal for mid-level government workers when people will die as a result of their action or inaction.
Who’s going to fucking make him?
We are no longer a nation of consequences and without those, the criminals ain’t stopping.
LEGAL CONSEQUENCES aren't the same as a pissed off hungry mob.
Even the big 'ol honkers with the red hats will roll up against lack of mac.
I’ve seen neither and they are literally bulldozing the fucking White House.
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That's funny. They will all sit around the table and laugh at "must fund". After the laugh they'll ignore it like they always do and find some other law to break.
Meanwhile everyone else will shake their fist fervently and come up with a neat slogan for a sign.
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This might just convince more people that only Trump can save them, and the legislative branch only serves as an obstacle.
Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.
Edit: I’m still all for continuing and expanding SNAP to be clear. No one should be hungry.
It should show that they had the funds all along and have to be forced to use them instead of using the threat of starvation as a cynical political lever. The truth is that MAGA Reps dont want the SNAP program funded, no matter what. They dont give a fuck about poor and hungry children, especially if they can try to pin the blame on Dems. They think poverty is a moral failing and the poor are just a tool to be used.
They dont give a fuck about poor and hungry children
Oh, they do. They want them dead. And some of them want to molest them first.
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Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.
Yeah but that would take intelligence. Plus he wouldn’t want to risk accidentally helping anyone besides himself.
Yup. He's gonna continue saying the democrats is keeping the government shut, while he is feeding them. Pathetic people fall for this idiotic bullshit. Then again; republicans are traitors.
They should require they updates all the notices on the govt websites saying:
"The Trump Administration is now forced to fund SNAP despite their best efforts to blame the Democrats"
Is that all we can do now is fantasize about a just world? :/
Ok, and WHEN this admin doesn't do it, what then?
To no-ones surprise, he is playing games in defiance of the court orders, and 42 million Americans are now without the food support they need.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-defies-court-snap-ruling
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/01/millions-lose-food-aid-snap-trump-shutdown-00632404
Nothing to see here. They'll cry to their pet Supreme Court justices and this will be overruled.
doing everything possible to avoid the epstein files of his sordid details. distract the COMPLICIT press from the BBB and the files.
40 million starving Americans might create 1789 France. The asswipe, Just Dumb, survived on government welfare programs to put food on his plate. Hypocritical POS.
I'm lowkey worried he's shortsighted enough to want food riots, because he thinks he can declare martial law and never leave power that way.
Traditionally, corrupt governments rely on bread and games to placate the hoi polloi.
tbh did have starving the American population on my bingo card this year. and the worst thing is the people who celebrate it because of some people not spending the money wisely (i agree that maybe buying junk food is a priority when on food stamps) but that according to them is the whole entire country, and lets be honest, its mostly black people they are targeting the most with their "grievances". That's the funny thing about these racist fucks, they think someone like me was born yesterday and can't see through their veiled racism.
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