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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GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’
(www.rawstory.com)
And most of all: go and fucking vote. Every time. In every ballot.
We really need multiple systems built out to inform people of when votes are happening that way there are no excuses and to make sure people get them
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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!
They can make a better choice this Tuesday (and, more importantly, in the mid-terms next year)
Lindy Li is so FOCKING insane and desperate for anyone to like to her. She was a Dem fundraiser for years, and after realizing that just working in the party wasn't going to get her accepted as a candidate to get into office (because of her insanity), she switched to this ultra-MAGA psycho BS she's spouting today.
It's attention whoring at its lowest in order to try and get into office anyway she can. She's not well liked enough due to her clear mental instability, so she thinks hating on whomever the "other side" is will curry enough favor to get a fast track to...something.
well there you go. Sounds like she made some bad life choices.
And to be fair, she'll probably go far. Look at Steven Cheung. The more incompetent, foul-mouthed, and insane you are the more they want you out front.
Somehow I dbout MAGAs plan to vote for an Asian woman no matter how crazed and on their level she is. Only chance she's got is though Trump directly, but she's not white note plastic enough to make it on that level
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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.
Grifting clear as day
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Have you tried not being poor?
Sorry, too busy trying to not be disabled
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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.
That or some unfortunate mental health issues.
Oh everything I believed? Totally the opposite now. Hashtag stable genius.
So no morals or ethics at all. Ok got it.
This tracks because the GOP is the party of unqualified illtempered pedo loving dipshits.. They target the vulnerable because they cherish them as delicacies. Then they blame the victim to assuage their atrophying pangs of guilt about how selfish and selfserving they've become in life and everything.
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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.
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.
Don’t worry, that’s not why I’m asking. No, she’s a rat forever.
I just wonder if it’s always in this direction. My suspicion is that it tends to flow from more discerning parties to less discerning parties, and in the US right now, the republicans are the least discerning of the national parties. I could see people moving from actual leftist parties to the greens (in the places where the greens are either liberal or controlled opposition) in other countries, I’m not sure if they’re leftist in some countries), but that’s still a rightward move.
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If she won the congressional bid, she'd been sold out quicker than Fetterman.
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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Does anyone know of any examples of politicians swinging hard in the opposite direction?
I just learned today that Hitler was a lefty in his early days. True story.
He was always anti-Semitic though. That wasn't unusual for the times however.
Someone describing themselves as a tree hugging progressive railing against supporting society's most vulnerable can go and fuck themselves with a fishing rod though.
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woman of color serving as strategist for the racist party... seems like she could make better choices.
Someone should starve this gop strategist and see how loyal they stay.
‘ 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 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.”
Wow! What a fucking soul-less bitch!
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Hopefully all the people that voted Republican make a better choice next time and vote all the Confederates out.
Here is a better choices:
- don't vote for these Nazi fucks
That's the better choice.
This was my TED talk
Is the choice to not vote Republican again? Because yes, I agree with the better choices argument there.
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Yzma: "It is none of MY concern whether your family has...what was it again?" Peasant: "Uhh, food?" Yzma: "HAH! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!"
Shes right. They should have made a better choice in who to vote for.
I saw her in many debates. She is very dumb
Let's stop pretending like MAGA republicans are upset about the state of SNAP. They get to destroy a program that they already wanted to destroy and get to try and pin the blame on Democrats in the process. It's a win win for them.
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Wow. She probably never had to work in her lifetime...
"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
“Just get richer parents if you wanna eat, kiddo. What’s wrong with you?”
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.
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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Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I'd expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.
They'd just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today's cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!
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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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Your president is the king of avoiding personal responsibility, Lindy. Shut the fuck up.
Hateful ghoul
They call it the American dream but always, always forget that the math just doesn't work if everyone fulfils it. This so-called American dream fundamentally requires that the other 99 get trampled under. But they keep on selling the same rhetoric, and Americans fall for it, again and again and again and again
Lindy Li, huh?
I'm gonna remember that name when I have nothing else to lose.
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Yeah like choose to find places that will hire you rather than ones that say they went with someone else. Duh.
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