Remember that thing where Red state residents were lambasting Obamacare because it was a clear example of government overreach, coddling, and poor spending, only to then complain that their Affordable Care Act money ran dry? Welp, time is a flat circle. Despite the data that shows that the largest demographic benefiting from food stamps are White folks and Walmart, so much of the anti-food stamp discourse has centered on blaming the poor instead of addressing the root cause of their shortcomings. “Go get a job!” holds a lot of sway when you ignore that most food stamp recipients have jobs. AI-supercharged welfare queen deepfakes may have been a pleasure to watch and chew toast at, but the reality is that a lot of us are much closer to needing social safety nets than we realize. That’s why several of the Red states that threw their arms up in celebration that the swamp was getting drained via the Big Beautiful Bill are now suing the government to get food stamps reinstated. Raw Story has coverage:
There are now 25 states that are parties to a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to block the elimination of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Nov. 1.
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The attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, as well as the governors of Kansas, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, joined in the national lawsuit[.]
But hey, no need to listen to your rumbling stomachs or look out for lawsuits when you could just trust the truth of whatever the president says!
As far as the actual numbers go, it’s a mixed bag but it isn’t nearly as prosperous as he’s suggesting. . His bold claims are about as true as you’d expect from someone who thinks his doctors are repeatedly giving him IQ tests. (Even if you believe that IQ is a legitimate way to measure intelligence 1) there’s no need for that many in such a short time frame (IQ is supposed to be a stable measurement, right?) and 2) doctors don’t give IQ tests as part of some general checkup. They do, however, screen for dementia.)
Does anyone else find it strange that all of these Make America Great Again policies just look like subsidies for indentured servitude and the prison industrial complex? Seriously — what else would you call bringing back debt peonage and deputizing plantation overseers? What’s a better way to encourage crime and recidivism than gutting both public and higher education, make environmental regulations so lax that you’re just begging companies to go back to dumping lead in the water, curbing mental health and addiction services? I wonder if that has anything to do with Palantir being one of the funders of Trump’s ballroom renovations. Meh, it’s probably nothing.
It’s a strange calculus that allows for a country with widespread preventable hunger to be considered great. If there’s any hope of America being great again, the states returning victorious with loaves to feed their constituents is a likely part of it.
Red States Join In Lawsuit Against Trump Government For Killing SNAP Funds [Raw Story]
Related: Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Remember that thing where Red state residents were lambasting Obamacare because it was a clear example of government overreach, coddling, and poor spending, only to then complain that their Affordable Care Act money ran dry? Welp, time is a flat circle. Despite the data that shows that the largest demographic benefiting from food stamps are White folks and Walmart, so much of the anti-food stamp discourse has centered on blaming the poor instead of addressing the root cause of their shortcomings. “Go get a job!” holds a lot of sway when you ignore that most food stamp recipients have jobs. AI-supercharged welfare queen deepfakes may have been a pleasure to watch and chew toast at, but the reality is that a lot of us are much closer to needing social safety nets than we realize. That’s why several of the Red states that threw their arms up in celebration that the swamp was getting drained via the Big Beautiful Bill are now suing the government to get food stamps reinstated. Raw Story has coverage:
There are now 25 states that are parties to a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to block the elimination of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Nov. 1.
…
The attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, as well as the governors of Kansas, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, joined in the national lawsuit[.]
But hey, no need to listen to your rumbling stomachs or look out for lawsuits when you could just trust the truth of whatever the president says!
As far as the actual numbers go, it’s a mixed bag but it isn’t nearly as prosperous as he’s suggesting. . His bold claims are about as true as you’d expect from someone who thinks his doctors are repeatedly giving him IQ tests. (Even if you believe that IQ is a legitimate way to measure intelligence 1) there’s no need for that many in such a short time frame (IQ is supposed to be a stable measurement, right?) and 2) doctors don’t give IQ tests as part of some general checkup. They do, however, screen for dementia.)
Does anyone else find it strange that all of these Make America Great Again policies just look like subsidies for indentured servitude and the prison industrial complex? Seriously — what else would you call bringing back debt peonage and deputizing plantation overseers? What’s a better way to encourage crime and recidivism than gutting both public and higher education, make environmental regulations so lax that you’re just begging companies to go back to dumping lead in the water, curbing mental health and addiction services? I wonder if that has anything to do with Palantir being one of the funders of Trump’s ballroom renovations. Meh, it’s probably nothing.
It’s a strange calculus that allows for a country with widespread preventable hunger to be considered great. If there’s any hope of America being great again, the states returning victorious with loaves to feed their constituents is a likely part of it.
Red States Join In Lawsuit Against Trump Government For Killing SNAP Funds [Raw Story]
Related: Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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