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    There is SNAP funding.

    Even the Republicans ensured that there was 5 Billion Dollars prepared to ensure that SNAP funding could not easily run out.

    It is being Withheld by Trump

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    No funding, but there’s 40 billion to “buy” the election in Argentina…

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    Just watch.

    In 1 year (midterms), and in 3, US voters who starved from this will forget all about it and vote based on whatever outrage pops up on cable news or their social feed. And, more specifically, not vote in primaries where both party’s problems can really be addressed.

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      Well duh, obviously if it wasn’t for all the illegal Mexican gang members taking all the food stamps there would have been plenty of money to help the people that deserved it, like them.

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      All the bad things they still blame on Biden, even when Trump was president. Overall it still hurts non-whites a tiny bit more, so they’re ok with it.

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      I still wonder if they are banking on making 2025 just such a miserable year that it’s comparitively easy to make 2026 feel good.

      Turn SNAP back on, dial back the tariffs. People feel a remarkable improvement in food security and prices. Might still be in worse shape than end of 2024, but people will tend to remember change in experience rather than their experience in absolute terms.

      The narrative will inevitably be that somehow the GOP figured out how to overcome those pesky democrats and restore the things that the democrats broke.

      If things remained persistently broken, then the narrative couldn’t really overcome people’s actual experience. They strongly branded and made it clear that this was the Trump show, he’s got the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. When it comes to ‘right now’, it’s hard to ignore that reality. But once they make it ‘last year’s problem’, then mental gymnastics can resume to blame the democrats.

      Hell they could resolve this crisis by ultimately letting the democrats have what they are asking for and the voters would still credit the GOP with restoring the benefits that the democrats are demanding. They’ve already set the stage by saying democrats want to give all the money to illegal immigrants (which they explicitly don’t) and so there will be some BS to claim they ‘compromised’ by getting the democrats to give up illegal immigrant eligibility (they aren’t eligible and were never asked to be) and then take credit for the ‘good’ version of the outcome.

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    He’s also doing it because it’s what billionaires want.

    Hmm these people don’t want to work a 996 to afford my enshitified garbage, better fund lobbying to starve them to death and if that doesn’t work I’ll make sure to fund propaganda to stoke racial tensions then just in case they get wise as a last line of defense why not fund the modern day Gestapo

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        Times have changed since then though. Modern public infrastructure is a lot better suited for troop movements compared to the 1700s and 1800s when there was plenty of revolutions occurring across Europe. People seem to have this idea that they’re going to take out their guns and start guerrilla warfaring massive groups of armed troops.

        I do believe we need to be more aggressive, more proactive, but there is a good chance that it might be expected. It’s entirely possible that they’re just waiting for an excuse to start gunning people down in the streets.

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          Right now the soldiers and ice feel invulnerable, untouchable. Imagine being a foot soldier in an area where most folks now want you dead. Doesn’t matter if its crappy hunting rifles shooting at you, they will kill you, they demoralize you. All of a sudden your brothers and sisters want you dead and you’re not quite sure what you’re even doing there. Worse, maybe you’re not onboard with all of the stupid shit Trump and his ilk are doing, maybe you decide you’re actually with the civilians.

          No question though, so much death is on the way, but the fight is worth it for our children and future.

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    The US government seems to want people to violently revolt.

    I imagine they want to use it as an excuse to take absolute power. But I don’t think they thought it thoroughly.

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    A tyrant exercises power in a manner that is arbitrary, unreasonable, and cruel.

    Trump makes it a point to always do all 3 simultaneously

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    MAGAts seeth with resentment at being told that they are backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They want to hurt people because they have been hurt. They never think about improving themselves or not being backwards, ignorant, stupid racists. They love Donald Trump because he hurts people. MAGA had a hardon for cruelty.

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    I thought it hurt enough in the aughts, and in 2017-2020 that we’d do something about it, but we didn’t.

    So it’s going to hurt more. Our aristocrats seem determined to let the third estate know its place.