That's the first I’ve seen of anybody writing about this, but it seems pretty obvious to me that creating a starving, impoverished underclass is not an accidental side-effect of oligarchic greed. Widespread poverty will ultimately cost them money in absolute terms, as poor people cannot buy their products, and policing the destitute is more expensive than feeding them. But they are not interested in the money, per se, they are interested in the power they can exert over an impoverished society. If it costs them two thirds their potential wealth, it's a price well-worth paying, for them.
It's almost impossible to imagine a dilettante like JD Vance actually taking over the presidency from the demented, soul-less fuckhead Trump. Really, the couchfucker actually thinks Trump is an ersatz king who can do as he wishes. This is the reality.
It's about time someone clawed back some of the SNAP benefits handed out to illegal, communist, transgender, pigeons I always get stuck behind on line at Wegman's.
Order the head of USDA and all deputies to appear and promptly arrest them for contempt.........then squirrel them away in some shithole on the African continent "We don't know where they are..........sorry!!!!!"
"Fold! Such uh old time word not many people remember. But I use it it means 'times', it means 'times things in a bag' and it means 'TACO' when I fold, it's in the bag!"
Until this shit actually gets enforced, by... i don't know, bringing to heel these motherfuckers... anything a judge says DOES NOT MATTER. Doesn't matter how good or powerful or influential the judge is.
I learned from Heather Cox Richardson's Nov 6th video chat that Trump told Senate Republicans to end the filibuster not only to shove through the ACA cuts but to pass voter suppression laws. There is no bottom.
A Trump supporter told me that if Democrats wanted Obamacare to be permanent they should have made them so when they created them. I pointed out that in our brave new modern world every single bit of legislation that requires funding (i.e., all of it) also requires routine review and ensuring that it's still necessary, appropriate and functional.
That is, these CRs are PART of responsible governance; at least when people who care about the country are in power.
Will Yale please revoke Couch-fucker McGee's law diploma, and the ABA Ohio revoke his license, for insisting that courts do not have the right to tell the senile orange menace what he MUST do?
This whole piece needs to be sent to Chris Jansen and she needs to BE FORCED to read it.
They keep using that Republican framing and so people don't know that they're trying to steal the subsidies to cover tax cuts for billionaires -- and they're trying to starve Americans to force Democrats to give in to THAT.
The whole story is that the Republicans voted to extend the tax cuts to the rich and insisted that the tariffs would offset those cuts, but the tariffs are actually a tax on imported goods that is paid by the taxpayers. Now, the tariffs are probably going to be abolished by the Supreme Court and will have to be repaid to those who paid them. So now the GOP is in a panic because the deficit is going to go even higher and they have no way to get more funds except to cut programs for people who need them, like the subsides on ACA, Medicaid and Medicare and other social programs. That will be a disaster for them and they will surely lose in the midterms “bigly”! Additionally, one million jobs have been cut since the beginning of Trump’s term, in direct contradiction to his promise to increase jobs, manufacturing and prosperity, which he has not. So that is where we are now. Are we great, yet? Is this Age Golden, yet?
Ya know who ELSE starved Enemies of the State to death? Funny how, whenever faced with a moral dilemma, Trump asks himself "what would Hitler do?"
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/starving-you-is-the-point-the-neuroscience
That's the first I’ve seen of anybody writing about this, but it seems pretty obvious to me that creating a starving, impoverished underclass is not an accidental side-effect of oligarchic greed. Widespread poverty will ultimately cost them money in absolute terms, as poor people cannot buy their products, and policing the destitute is more expensive than feeding them. But they are not interested in the money, per se, they are interested in the power they can exert over an impoverished society. If it costs them two thirds their potential wealth, it's a price well-worth paying, for them.
JD, your ignorance is showing.
always
It's almost impossible to imagine a dilettante like JD Vance actually taking over the presidency from the demented, soul-less fuckhead Trump. Really, the couchfucker actually thinks Trump is an ersatz king who can do as he wishes. This is the reality.
Well, Xtiains, y'all still think getting Roe v. Wade overturned was worth all this bullshit?
I bet they actually do
And that is baasically the entire problem
It's about time someone clawed back some of the SNAP benefits handed out to illegal, communist, transgender, pigeons I always get stuck behind on line at Wegman's.
A Yahoo headline said the Supreme Court froze the appeals court's ruling to immediately fund SNAP.
Former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Roger Taney just took what I believe the afterlife calls a Victory Lap.
Supreme Cult says fuck you America. Wash, rinse repeat.
Order the head of USDA and all deputies to appear and promptly arrest them for contempt.........then squirrel them away in some shithole on the African continent "We don't know where they are..........sorry!!!!!"
Ta, Robyn. I know SO many people who have and need SNAP. I remember when I did. Universal. Basic. Income. It's coming, although I could not say when.
My guess is in 50 years.
"Fold! Such uh old time word not many people remember. But I use it it means 'times', it means 'times things in a bag' and it means 'TACO' when I fold, it's in the bag!"
Until this shit actually gets enforced, by... i don't know, bringing to heel these motherfuckers... anything a judge says DOES NOT MATTER. Doesn't matter how good or powerful or influential the judge is.
The time of judges is LONG FUCKING GONE.
"demanding that Republicans end the filibuster"
I learned from Heather Cox Richardson's Nov 6th video chat that Trump told Senate Republicans to end the filibuster not only to shove through the ACA cuts but to pass voter suppression laws. There is no bottom.
There is a bottom and we're there. But it's spreading. It's now "Bottom Sprawl".
Yes, bottoms tend to go pear-shaped with age...
A Trump supporter told me that if Democrats wanted Obamacare to be permanent they should have made them so when they created them. I pointed out that in our brave new modern world every single bit of legislation that requires funding (i.e., all of it) also requires routine review and ensuring that it's still necessary, appropriate and functional.
That is, these CRs are PART of responsible governance; at least when people who care about the country are in power.
Will Yale please revoke Couch-fucker McGee's law diploma, and the ABA Ohio revoke his license, for insisting that courts do not have the right to tell the senile orange menace what he MUST do?
This whole piece needs to be sent to Chris Jansen and she needs to BE FORCED to read it.
They keep using that Republican framing and so people don't know that they're trying to steal the subsidies to cover tax cuts for billionaires -- and they're trying to starve Americans to force Democrats to give in to THAT.
The whole story is that the Republicans voted to extend the tax cuts to the rich and insisted that the tariffs would offset those cuts, but the tariffs are actually a tax on imported goods that is paid by the taxpayers. Now, the tariffs are probably going to be abolished by the Supreme Court and will have to be repaid to those who paid them. So now the GOP is in a panic because the deficit is going to go even higher and they have no way to get more funds except to cut programs for people who need them, like the subsides on ACA, Medicaid and Medicare and other social programs. That will be a disaster for them and they will surely lose in the midterms “bigly”! Additionally, one million jobs have been cut since the beginning of Trump’s term, in direct contradiction to his promise to increase jobs, manufacturing and prosperity, which he has not. So that is where we are now. Are we great, yet? Is this Age Golden, yet?
"no way to get more funds except reduce the trillion dollar warandmurder budget."