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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-s...or here if it is paywalled
https://archive.is/LUlJE
Federal funding for SNAP, the nutritional aid program still often referred to as food stamps, ends tonight. This will have catastrophic impacts on 42 million Americans, the great majority of them children, elderly or disabled.
Millions more Americans are about to discover that health insurance has become vastly more expensive, in many cases unaffordable.
Why are these terrible things happening? At a basic level they’re happening because Republicans want them to happen. Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025, which is indeed the Trump administration’s policy platform, and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer.
But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren’t supposed to be this obvious, this early. The harshest provisions of the OBBBA were backloaded, set to kick in after the midterm elections. For example, draconian work requirements for Medicaid — which would effectively throw millions off the program, largely by imposing paperwork burdens low-wage workers can’t overcome — weren’t scheduled to take effect until the end of 2026.
Why the backloading? Presumably Republicans believed that by the time Americans woke up to what was happening, the G.O.P. would have effectively consolidated one-party rule, making future elections irrelevant.
Instead, however, the mask is being ripped off right now, well ahead of schedule.
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In reality, these "terrible things" as Krugman puts it, are happening literally because the Democrats want it. They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."
ACA expenses were very backloaded too and those chickens are coming home to roost. Krugman doesn't seem to care about that? Huh.
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In reality, these "terrible things" as Krugman puts it, are happening literally because the Democrats want it. They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."
Horseshit.
No. of Recommendations: 16
marco100: They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."
Umm, you're mistaken.
In a CNN interview, Speaker Mike Johnson said that passing standalone funding bills for specific government functions, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats to agree to a complete government funding package.
Without one party or the other having a supermajority in the Senate, functional government requires compromise. Republicans demanding that democrats "take it or leave it" with respect to the budget and refusing to negotiate at all is their choice and has brought us to this stalemate.
Republicans promised the American people that they could govern but have proven they cannot govern.
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I'm having a pasta casserole for dinner myself.
You do you, enjoy.
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I'm having a pasta casserole for dinner myself.
You do you, enjoy.
Homemade enchiladas verdes for me. Pasta casserole sounds good as well.
And both sound like they beat the horseshit you attempted to serve up in your post
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I hope you don't kiss your Mom with that mouth.
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I hope you don't kiss your Mom with that mouth.
Her dying words were “Kiss me and promise me you won’t let those Republicans get away with lying about who is responsible for the government shutdown.”
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And yet, that’s what the democrats themselves have said. Your Tourette’s is acting up again, More Horseshit.
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And yet, that’s what the democrats themselves have said.
Horseshit.
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Why do you keep repeating your name? Oh, right. You need to remind yourself after so many years with another identity.
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Why do you keep repeating your name? Oh, right. You need to remind yourself after so many years with another identity.
My last name is “Detector”.
Horseshit Detector. That’s me.
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Nah, I'm sure her dying words were more like "mmph...slobber...gag...you're choking me!!! Accckkkk!!!!" [flatline]
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Nah, I'm sure her dying words were more like "mmph...slobber...gag...you're choking me!!! Accckkkk!!!!" [flatline]
Please admonish or ban this fellow for posting this.
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They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."
Cite or it didn't happen.
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>>They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."<<
Cite or it didn't happen. - Lapsody----------------------
Here Ya go. You would know these things if you watched more Fox News
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/29/democrats-quiet-pa...Democrats say the quiet part out loud: Shutdown is leverage But now we don’t have to. We have House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who apparently slipped up by saying the Democrats’ quiet strategy out loud.
“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,” she said in a mid-October interview with Chad Pergram of Fox News.
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Democrats say the quiet part out loud: Shutdown is leverage
But now we don’t have to. We have House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who apparently slipped up by saying the Democrats’ quiet strategy out loud.
“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,” she said in a mid-October interview with Chad Pergram of Fox News.
Thanks. DID YOU NOTICE THAT MARC100 LIED? And so did you. You both inserted THAT DEMS **WANT** THAT
So while she is lamenting that some people may suffer on one of the onliest leverage points Dems have, you have lied that she says they ""WANT** it.
That's not a quiet part. It's openly known people may SUFFER, we've talked about it here, we say it. What isn't new is y'all lying about what we say.
Enjoy your SNAP fallout!
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If Donald Trump isn't allowed to cut off food stamps and starve children does that mean America too woke?
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Here Ya go. You would know these things if you watched more Fox News
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/29/democrats-quiet-pa.……Even FOX doesn’t manage to contort Schumer’s words enough to say what Little Marco says.
Your lords and masters screwed the pooch and most Americans are not impressed by Republican efforts to shift the blame.
It’s like the kid who farts in class and then points at someone else.
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And another thread has been captured and polluted with "what-aboutisms" by RWNJ troll vomit. Don't bother to reply. Ignoring this thread.
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Wow I'm going to have to conclude some Progressives are suffering from a severe case of arrested development--obsessed with "horsesh*t"; "farts"; "having sex with their dog"; "vomit"; etc.
Maybe some of you guys need to get non-leaking adult diapers?
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Wow I'm going to have to conclude some Progressives are suffering from a severe case of arrested development--obsessed with "horsesh*t"; "farts"; "having sex with their dog"; "vomit"; etc.
The analogies fit. Live with it.
At least I haven’t accused you of choking your mother to death.
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Maybe some of you guys need to get non-leaking adult diapers? ~Lil' Marco
Yes, and Trumps word slurring, droopy face and bruised hands are raising new questions about Joe Biden's fitness for office.
No. of Recommendations: 2
wzamboni,
You posted a completely fictional/imaginary/delusional conversation with your fictional Mom for reasons known only to yourself, in response to a political discussion.
Now you're pretending to be offended by a fictional response to your fictional Mom/delusion/fantasy.
Please come back to reality?
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Banksy,
There isn't any question about Biden's fitness for office, he was completely unfit, even progressive Icons like Kamala Harris, Jake Tapper, Katrine Jean Pierre, etc. are actually making bank now off his unfitness for office.
Again, why are progressives so insistent on living in a completely delusional reality?
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Now you're pretending to be offended by a fictional response to your fictional Mom/delusion/fantasy
Calm down little marco.. you gave me the ammunition and I used it.
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wzambon: At least I haven’t accused you of choking your mother to death.
Anyone have any ideas on the identity of this poster, who's been here all of a few days and has done nothing more than shitpost? Dopple or just a bored troll?
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Maybe some of you guys
Ploimk
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Anyone have any ideas on the identity of this poster, who's been here all of a few days and has done nothing more than shitpost? Dopple or just a bored troll?
I lean toward HCLasVegas. It's the kind of character he's suited for, he makes just about as much sense, an he gets to be foul too.
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Lapsody,
You're spinning now aren't you.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Anyone have any ideas on the identity of this poster, who's been here all of a few days and has done nothing more than shitpost? Dopple or just a bored troll?
I have the sense m100 is indeed a doppel. Occasionally logging in and logging out quickly to appear different from another. Just a hunch.
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Lapsody,
You're spinning now aren't you.
Whatever you say HC. :)
