The cruelty is the point.
Trump is trying to hold the poorest people hostage to get Democrats to cave.
I hope to see video clips of Trump clutching his chest in agonizing pain and collapsing.
I hope it happens on live TV during one of his ramblings, or that he devolves even farther as another stroke hits him before collapsing and hopefully breaking something on the way down.
I don’t like what monsters like him have made me wish for, but that won’t stop me from celebrating when they are gone. I’m tired of “turn the other cheek” and “meet in the middle” complacency and I have been for a while.
hopefully breaking something on the way down.
Ideally he rolls over Jimmy the Loveseat and Stephen Miller like the fucking boulder in Raiders of the Lost Arc
Whilst loudly voiding his bowels.
Republicans can pass their stupid budget without democrats. All they have to do is give up the rule that allows minority power in the senate. They could even try making schumer actually do a fillibuster where he has to stand up and talk for days on end.
I’m willing to bet this is hurting his own voters more than anyone else.
lol imagine telling a private business what to do! Those fucken libruls!
oh wait…
They are trying to cause riots… because they want to inact martial law… this is the whole plan… best thing to do is keep being peaceful because they don’t understand why people aren’t being violent, because thats exactly what they would be doing…
Matter of fact its what they did on Jan 6…
They are trying to cause riots
This is my exact read on the matter. We can’t be the only ones to see it this way. What surprises me is that more analysts and pundits aren’t talking about the economic violence from this angle. And when the masses finally reach their threshold, the Conservatives will do their “Whaaaat? So much for the tolerant Left.”
Yes being peaceful well fight the “evil” why didn’t we think of that during the world wars.
best thing to do is keep being peaceful
This is a typical abusee mindset.
“I know they’re abusive but if I don’t do anything to anger them they’ll leave me alone”
They won’t. The problem is them, not you.
Peaceful protest is what is meant, instead of violent protest. Peaceful doesn’t mean doing nothing.
Is it though? So you think that people should start rioting so they will enact martial law…
Vs doing nothing and getting martial law anyway.
Exactly.
This article is linked elsewhere on Lemmy
Oh I know, give them Rebates! Corpo scum loves to push rebates on people because many will forget to use them. So give em a taste of the ole rebate loophole. 10% instant rebate for SNAP card holders.
So what law are these stores violating? How are they going to detect and enforce that, if there is in fact a law that exists that actually says this (and again, I don’t believe there is)?
Edit: yeah should have read the article, the answer is in there
At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment.
It’s in the article. I’ll leave the googling of the equal Treatment Rule up to you.
Fair point. I did not read the article before responding, so that is on me.
At the same time, if people are in the program, but are not getting the benefits of the program… are they in the program?
Thing is, in the land of technicalities, the house ALWAYS wins.
And gubmint benefits are nothing but labyrinths of technicalites that applicants have to understand, hurdle and then continue to hurdle, always monitoring for changes and new things to look out for while the “house” (the government) continually seeks to rob that ever-shrinking pot for other things they want more. It is, literally, an ongoing war against the poor and disabled, and one that most only participate in out of sheer desperation.
SNAP is like a rope that people are hanging onto for dear life that the government shakes every now and again to force the weakest to let go of and fly off. I’m not exaggerating. Anyone they can get off the rolls is a win for them, even as huge corporations like WalMart rely on SNAP and other federal subsidies to not have to pay their own workers a living wage. The entire thing is a huge fucking scam. But it’s all some people have.
So let’s say you qualify, you’ve jumped through all the hoops and have provided your documentation and filled out all the forms and had your intake interviews, and miraculously you now have your SNAP EBT card: great! You’re not eating well, but you’re eating, and that’s a plus. Life gets a lot better when you have food in you, no lie. But now you have to reapply/requalify every few months, you have to keep on proving you are eligible, those eligibility guidelines change without notice, and even then you’re just as likely to get a letter that says, "You no longer qualify to be in the SNAP program, let us know if you want a “fair hearing” (in front of an administrative judge in an actual courtroom without a lawyer) with absolutely no inkling beforehand that it is coming.
You don’t know US benefits unless you’ve been forced to rely on them. They are their own form of hell.
So when you ask, “If people are in the program, but are not getting the benefits of the program… are they in the program?” it’s a question that doesn’t apply in reality. It doesn’t apply because if you’re desperate enough to be on SNAP to begin with, you already know you have to keep playing that vicious, cruel game just in case the tap opens again, even a little: the human need for hunger does not abate for a government shutdown. It literally doesn’t matter that you’re not getting the benefits of the program, and frankly you’ve probably already been there before with one of those “you no longer qualify” letters; it matters only that you might, and you have to keep trying every means of helping yourself that is available to you, even if disability means you can’t even walk across a room without help. Today you have fulfilled all the demonic technicalities of that program and maybe, maybe, at some point it can be of some use to you again.
In the meantime, you will just get by, or not. Somehow.
I am very fortunate in that I am no longer on SNAP. But the ones that are . . . it’s only because they have to be. There are virtually no welfare queens outside corporate boardrooms anymore, IMO.
Free market advocates.
Free market? It’s MINE, MINE, MINE!
