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A better source.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/trump-administration-tells-states-to-undo-full-snap-benefits-00643887
USDA’s latest memo, sent Saturday to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instructed states to deliver just 65 percent of benefits during the government shutdown and required those who already sent full payments to claw back that money.
There really is no bottom to this administrations evil.
It confirms my theory that they are desperately trying to implement the mass killing of people.
The political violence they wanted isn't happening. The dropping vaccine rates isn't fast enough. And now people aren't starving as they should be.
That indicates to me that they are finding out just how hard it is to kill 268,000,000 people. It might have something to do with the fact that 268,000,000 are more than enough to keep themselves alive.
It’s a plausible theory. They want to create a system that inevitably leads to revolution, so they need to weaken those that might revolt as much as possible. They are also stubbornly sticking to the old rightist tactic of inflicting pain and suffering while trying to blame that pain and suffering on their opponents. That tactic is starting to fail, which means they have to fall back to weakening those who will rise up. They are openly admitting that they know their criminal coup has been noticed and won’t be forgotten.
It's not even just that. I can't find a source right now, but I remember reading about how the "dark enlightenment" lunatics have worked out their "ideal" US population for their technofeudalist dystopia, and it's vastly lower than what the population is currently. I believe that's what the commenter was referencing with the "kill 268,000,000" figure: 343 mil - 268 mil = 75 mil, which I think might've been what the thing I read said.
That sounds like a great way to end up being in Russia's shoes with failing to win a war they started. The feudalist part of that technofedualist dystopia is undoubtedly going to have imperialistic ambitions, and—somehow—I don't think Musk's Optimus robots are going to be able to compensate for the fact that they'll have less than half of the combined population of Mexico and Canada.
I have theory that the Republican party (note, not voters) is made of three very different factions:
While they have wildly different motivations, they seem to agree on letting people die serves their goals.
Ok but that middle one sounds way different from the other two. Js, the 1% are responsible for 99% of our pollution.
It's actually, in order of demographic size, biggest to least:
It's so unnecessarily cruel.
You MUST Stop FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
It's even worse than that. It's quite literally taking food BACK out of their mouths.
quite literally
🤔
You gotta realize even the dictionary has given up on this one...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal "in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression" and the informal that means the exact opposite "statement or description that is not literally true or possible"
I find it kind of ironic to say it's actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean "not literally"
"quite literally" would mean there are federal officers or agents in people's homes scraping chewed food out of children's mouths.
I think you mean "virtually taking food BACK out of their mouths."
I think you hit upon an idea they didn't think about. ICE has a new role! Masked food police.
"No soup for you!"
Gives a new meaning to the soup nazi...
Republicans when handing out business loans like candy during COVID:
It’s just too difficult to get all that money back. Just forgive all the loans.
Republicans when children are fed with government benefits
GET THAT FUCKING MONEY BACK RIGHT NOW
As someone from poor rural Midwest, I can tell you from first hand experience, that people have usually ran out of food stamps about 3 weeks into the month.
Meaning, most people on snap are waiting for the first to get groceries because they don't have anything.
And now we are going on week 2 of the month.
So for many. It's now getting close to 3 weeks without food money.
And with the rising food costs, I wouldn't be surprised if people are running out of snap money closer to the midpoint of the month.
So for them. It's been 4 weeks
He’s banking on many of them resorting to crime so he can say, “see! I told you!” and justify martial law and calling the nations guard to come down hard on American citizens.
From the admin whose favorite way of passing the time is ignoring court orders.
"ah yes, we will get right on that. As you stated before, it will take about 3 weeks to change course"
It blows my mind that that ratfucked littlecoward of a traitor to America has actually managed to normalize starving citizens to his little criminal organization masquerading as “politicians”.
He’s got them all on board doing shit they probably never would have believed they’d do when they started out.
They always were on board, they just never had the guts.
"Stop feeding the poor!"
To be fair, we do keep telling them to "eat the rich ". :)
Ah yes, the Trump starvation agenda.
Please stop linking to CBS News.
Uncle Larry loves you!
so what is the purpose of this? Besides the obvious "evilness". Is it to better control the masses? Or retaliation for protesting? For force people to get a second or third job to say he is creating jobs? What is the logic behind this?
It's a tactic to get the Dems, who actually give a shit about starving children, to fold and allow the Republicans to take away our already shit healthcare and to protect pedophiles and child traffickers.
They are holding the most vulnerable Americans hostage in the hopes that it will convince the democrats to allow them to be hurt in a different way, by agreeing to the proposed budget.
But most importantly, they are also trying to extend the duration of the shutdown, while making it seem like they aren't the ones doing it. So the deal they are offering has to stay something that the democrats would never agree to....
So they also benefit from anything other than that being what is in the news, but they have lots of practice making sure the news is talking about stupid stuff instead of important stuff.
As long as the government is shut down, the vote to release the Epstein documents can't happen. Currently if it happened, it would pass. That will be devastating not to just trump, but a large percentage of rich republicans, in and out of government. (As well as a small percentage of rich democrats) so they are just waiting until the situation changes enough that they think a vote would go their way.
And while that does seem both comically evil and too simple to possibly be what it is all about.... or wait... does it still seem too evil and simple to be the real plan?
One of the best TL;DR’s on our current situation that I have seen.
He should come take mine back personally so I can ruin his day.
Fucker can ignore a court order, twice, states can ignore whatever he says.
No.
It's like he wants us to physically overthrow him
Yes he does. He literally wants that to be attempted so he can impose the insurrection act and take all power.
Maybe! My money is he wants the shutdown to keep going so he can justify declaring martial law.
Because he loves democracy....And wishes to reorganize into the first galactic empire.
Bread and Games: it's how one keeps the populous under control. Everyone knows that, right?
Giving away free bread and entertaining everyone is the theory there.
Taking bread away from people and being insufferable pricks about it is a new twist, i guess.
Yeah, good luck with that. People were sent their full SNAP in my state because a judge ordered those benefits to be paid. I get a case for stopping further States' distributions given the more recent judgement, but the idea that they'll be able to claw back money from the States that have already distributed the full amount seems insane. People got sent what they were entitled to, in the amount they were entitled to, after a judge's order saying to do that and before another judge's order saying not to do that. So I just don't conceive of an argument that a court would accept that would retroactively claw that money back from people.
Im sure the state's right ppl are real upset over this.
LOL Democrat states need to announce they are in the planning stage of building the Super Max Prisons that will be needed to house all the convicts once Trump is toppled. ALL ICE and any local and State police that helped will need to have swift trials and LIFE sentences to dissuade this from ever happening again. We were too nice to the Nazis last time. We won't make that same mistake.
Never happen. Politicians have a direct interest in keeping the violent gang members cultivated to protect their interests out of jail. If the enforcers go to jail, how long do you think it'll take the capos to join them?
See, we never actually "punished" the nazis. We gave them jobs and government positions. We gave them benefits and Healthcare and pensions. We couldn't possibly get rid of nazis without getting rid of our neighbors and politicians, so we never did.