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[–] 208 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 71 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    I have theory that the Republican party (note, not voters) is made of three very different factions:

    • Christians hoping to bring about Armageddon and the end of times so they can get to heaven. How they hope to get to heaven by supporting Trump is beyond me. In the mean time, they'll settle for Christian theocratic dictatorship.
    • Atheist tech-bros that can see the environment is going to shit. Their plan is to remove as many people as possible to reduce the impact of humans on the environment, replacing them with AI and robots as needed.
    • Old, oil connected and/or corrupt politicians that just don't give a fuck so long as they get a fat pay cheque. They are too rich and old to ever feel the consequences of this administration.

    While they have wildly different motivations, they seem to agree on letting people die serves their goals.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    It's actually, in order of demographic size, biggest to least:

    • Politicians that just don't give a fuck so long as they keep a fat pay cheque.
    • Tech-bros that want to replace people with AI so as to get keep fat pay cheque..
    • Christians/religious whose hate, xenophobia, and intolerance is more important than anything else
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    [–] 129 points 10 months ago (23 children)

    You MUST Stop FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

    -Republicans LITERALLY!

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  • [–] 73 points 10 months ago (21 children)

    It's even worse than that. It's quite literally taking food BACK out of their mouths.

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    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"

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    "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."

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 69 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 64 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    From the admin whose favorite way of passing the time is ignoring court orders.

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  • [+] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago

    Ah yes, the Trump starvation agenda.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago

    Please stop linking to CBS News.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] 23 points 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Hungry people can't think. Hungry people can't fight. Hungry people eventually stop being a barrier to power.

    Same with the sick.

    They really don't have an end goal beyond that. They want to take what they please, and enjoy killing some people in the process.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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    [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    He should come take mine back personally so I can ruin his day.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    Fucker can ignore a court order, twice, states can ignore whatever he says.

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    [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's like he wants us to physically overthrow him

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Bread and Games: it's how one keeps the populous under control. Everyone knows that, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Im sure the state's right ppl are real upset over this.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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