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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

boy they have been killing it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Eh I wish they would go back to being satirical.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

thats a pretty tall order nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Good satire is supposed to hurt. If it’s just funny, it’s comedy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's honestly impressive that they still have material. Gives me hope

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I dunno. Look at what it takes with a headline like this. Can't be subtle double take anymore.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yay! My meagre disability income is just barely above the threshold to qualify for SNAP.

You see, the calculations that are done for SNAP eligibility include the amount of my SSDI that goes toward my Medicare premium as part of my income.

Even though I literally never see that money come into my bank account, and thus is not considered income for the purposes of my credit score, or applying to rent an apartment.

Oh but there are Medicare Savings Programs to help with that!

Nope, they count the Medicare premium as income too, don't qualify.

... If SNAP and MSP did not count my automatically deducted Medicare premium as income, I would qualify for both.

If apartments did count my automatically deducted Medicare premium as income, I could rent a modest studio apartment, instead of a room in a literal roach motel that went out of business and is under new management as an 'apartment' with absolutely no renovation whatsoever.

(And because I am under 60/65 and disabled, basically nowhere that bills itself as an apartment for disabled folks will consider me. I'm under 60/65, I don't qualify.

And do not even get me started on Section 8)

... I suppose it is technically possible to renounce Medicare coverage... as a disabled person... and thus basically never be elligible for it or any other kind of health insurance ever again.

Goooood Bless America

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you read the Bible carefully, Jesus did the same thing with the loaves and fishes - a true fact liberals don't want you to know!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Supply side Jesus guides us all

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

At first I thought it was about a controversial Linux packaging system and it made sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Leash laws incoming.