Amazing how sometimes you just have to wave the shovel near the bullshit to find what you’re looking for with the GOP instead of having to dig.
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"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as ‘one of the largest government handout programs’ that ‘needs to be curtailed’’
A family of 4 has to earn ~$3800/mo or less to get $939 worth of SNAP benefits. $234 a week, $58 per person. And anyone over 16 has to comply with work requirements. You know those folks are living large on the government teat, aren’t they? But I’m sure subsidies for factory farms will still be in place.
Conservatives are horrible, cruel people who get off on hurting others.
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The right’s goal has always been politics of cruelty because they’re devoid of empathy and soulless chuckle-fucks.
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One of the several things that drives me crazy about these fuckwits and the inbreds that keep them in power is how incredibly economically illiterate they are. I mean, these are just powerfully ignorant people all the way around, obviously, but it’s incredible the damage they’re willing to inflict upon themselves and everyone around them in the name of racial grievance.
Illegal immigration is demonized as an insurmountable drag on the nation yet in reality is a net economic positive. Similarly, food benefits to families provide a sort of multiplier effect, providing economic benefits to the people that produce the food, transport it, sell it, they help to keep all of these people employed, and obviously each of these pieces is taxed. All of this would be immediately apparent to anyone with an ounce of economic common sense and/or an interest in understanding how public policy works. Clearly the repnecks have no common sense of any kind nor any interest in public policy whatsoever.
What sort of economic benefit does SNAP provide? Well, I’m glad you asked. Up to $2 for each $1 spent!
How do ya like them apples? (Fresh fruit is SNAP eligible.) So just know that these necks are going to be engaging in yet another blisteringly stupid performative stunt which says, very plainly, We would rather have poor people starve than use the power of government to generate considerable positive economic activity.
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I used to wonder about their rationale for voting against their own economic interests. Now I think it is just like the abused child growing up to be an abuser themself. (Of course, this does not apply to the Kochs and their cynical ilk.)
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I call it chickens who are for chicken McNuggets…
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We’ve spent 40 years waiting for the trickle-down bullshit to show its benefits. As most thinking people predicted, there are none (except for the top 0.01%, which always was the plan, I suppose). Give it up already.
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A lot of it is because the Republican Party has managed to convince people that the Democratic Party wants to take away their guns, doesn’t believe in Jesus and is ok with killing babies (abortion). Never mind that the party doesn’t care about supporting children once born, we are founded on freedom of religion and better firearms regulation can help keep them and their loved ones safe. It’s why you have the Own the Liberals mindset. It’s all fear mongering, but their base soaks it up. Their base forgets that the party really doesn’t have their best interests at heart because of that false narrative the party crafts.
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We can thank decades of right-wing lies, propaganda, misinformation, fear-mongering, etc., for creating and perpetuating the idea that the poor, the marginalized, the economically downtrodden, are somehow the reason for record deficits, economic downturns, etc., meanwhile the wealthy are getting away with enriching themselves and ensuring they play by different rules.
The right’s wet dream/goal since the late ‘60s has been to unravel the New Deal and post-WWII economic policies that created the mighty engine that is and was for a long time, the middle class in the U.S.
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Why do you think public schools are so bad in GOP-run states? As I have said before - paraphrasing Emmanuel Goldstein - the aim is to keep the population stupefied by poverty. An educated population will soon figure out that the wealthy class serves no purpose, and eliminate it.
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And their base will gladly continue to wallow in ignorance and poverty if it means not having to internalize their own moral failings. It’s not a lack of self awareness it’s a blunt refusal of it. It’s like Sympathy For the Devil playing out in real time.
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There are 10 cookies on a plate. A billionaire takes 9 of them, and tells the poor man “Watch out! That immigrant is after your cookie.”
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There’s chicken in Chicken McNuggets?
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I did my own research, Limey/Ray.
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Mental midgets are good like that.
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Lewis Lapham accurately described the Republican form of class warfare:
“Not the aggression that Karl Marx and maybe Ralph Nader had in mind, not the angry poor sacking the mansions of the indolent rich, but the aggrieved rich burning down the huts of the presumptuous and troublemaking poor.”
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Eleventy million percent.
I like to dunk on Terfs as much as the next person. But, in moments of reflection, I am sympathetic to their plight, as they are simply the product of an environment designed in a lab to leave them on the very brink of catastrophe; like Wade Wilson in a vacuum tank. In this state, they are defenseless against the propaganda machine that tells them that [insert helpful government policy here] is the push that finally sends them over the edge to oblivion.
I know the above makes me sound like a pompous liberal elite, but it’s not my intention to belittle “the poors”. They are denied crucial services - especially a decent education - and so cannot develop to their full potential. If you’re the next redneck in a long line of uneducated rednecks who blame immigrants and the gubmint for their lot, and you’re denied an education, then you’re going to become just another uneducated redneck.
And I know what I’m talking about here. Roy Kent’s dad is in his 60s and from south London, so of course he’s a little bit racist. I’m 58 and from south London and I am not racist, because I was blessed with a good education. Some of my siblings and other family members did not get the quality of education I did, and they’re a little bit (or a lot, in some cases) racist. They weren’t born that way, but they learned to be because no one taught them otherwise.
Here endeth the lesson.
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Look no further than the fight over “school choice.” Republicans spout that everyone should have the right to choose where they send their child to school and, therefore, school vouchers are necessary and a good thing. In reality, school choice already exists. If you don’t want the free public school option presented to you, you can pay your own money to send your child to private school. And, if school vouchers become reality, you are only making public schools worse, which is the method of education used by the vast majority of Americans.
Also, besides lining the pockets of their rich friends, Republicans want school choice to send more young, impressionable people to Christian private schools because many of those individuals will be willing to believe whatever they are taught, blindly.
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Isn’t this where the right likes to insert their familiar, predictable trope of, “well they need to try harder and pull themselves up by their bootstraps?”
In all seriousness, you’re very on point, Limey/Ray.
As my late Uncle often told me, “be glad you’re not them…”
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