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I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

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Trump should be leading, not lying.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

So many bastards, so little time.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

In my day, never was longer.

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A Very GOP Xmas: Taking Food Benefits From the Desperate

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    Regarding the NFL bit, I hope the Player’s Union comes down on it like 12 metric tons of bricks.

  2. 2.

    Derelict

    Away in a manger, no crib for his bed
    The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.
    So Trump called Him lazy and illegal scum,
    And had Him deported alone, just for fun.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Holy cow, that CRA workaround is deliciously cynical, so I assume it’s completely true.

    SOB–Save Our Billionaires!

  4. 4.

    Ohio Mom

    You left out the coming attack on Social Security for disabled people (SSI and SSDI).

    I hate every single last Republican in my life. I mean, I hate all Republicans but the ones I can picture because I know them (starting with the next door neighbors on the east side of the house), that just makes the banality of their evil more real to me.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    @West of the Rockies:

    Are they wired for civic engagement and social justice? I truly don’t know and think of NBA players as probably the most involved of the major sports, but then am blindsided by Lebron and the Hong Kong thing, which has me reappraising it all.

  6. 6.

    scav

    I can smell the incense of Evangelical All-American Blue-Eyed Jesus-Juiced CHRISTianity from here.  Second Coming!

  7. 7.

    Kelly

    I have a niece that as a pedestrian was hit by an uninsured  driver when she was 14. Brain injury from the impact left her disabled for the rest of her life. She’s now in her 30’s. Social security disability, food stamps and family is all she has and all she ever will have. No idea if her food stamps will be cut by this.

  8. 8.

    Mike in NC

    Let’s all wish a Merry Impeachment to the Fat Orange Grinch, with several more articles coming in 2020.

  9. 9.

    debbie

    Not sure how nationwide this story was, but the LSU QB who won the Heisman Trophy and is from Appalachia got a lot of attention with his acceptance speech. He spoke of the considerable poverty in his area, and this generated donations totaling about $1,000,000 to his county’s food bank. The director of the food bank has been musing aloud on the local news as she tries to figure out how to spend it; I’d like to suggest she share with the neighboring food banks who are struggling just as much as ever.

  12. 12.

    joel hanes

    The cruelty is the point.

    Worse than Scrooge.

    From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.

    “Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!” exclaimed the Ghost.

    They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

    Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

    “Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.

    “They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

  13. 13.

    TomatoQueen

    @Kelly: From experience and the sound of things, the savagery being inflicted on the SNAP program has to do with the eligibility of recipients considered “able-bodied”, that is to say recipients not receiving an SSA or other disability benefit, who may or may not be working. This category of recipient always gets the extra vetting, the produce-more-paper-or-lose-the-benefits harassment, which tends to wax and wane depending on who is in office. Your niece is very unlikely to be in the target category, but whoever is in charge of getting her mail needs to be hypervigilant, watch for new notices, because this is policy where the states have a lot of leeway as to how they go about enforcement, and they could easily start bombarding all recipients with new requirements, new paper, new verifications. This happens about twice as often as actual direct reductions in benefit amounts. The proposed beat-down on SSI/SSDI as it is now in the comment period (so hurry up and comment on ssa.gov) will be done similarly: continuing disability reviews done more often than the standard 3 year intervals, which will be hardship for a lot of people as they are stringent as to what documentation/sources are allowed and require all new medical info–this is not at all something a disabled person can expect to get through on his/her own. Just more evil.

  15. 15.

    artem1s

    but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

    even Scrooge was embarrassed by his actions when exposed to light – saintly compared to the current crop of austerians.

  17. 17.

    hells littlest angel

    Republicanism always puts me in mind of this observation of Curzio Malaparte: “Capitalist society is founded on the conviction that in the absence of beings who suffer a man cannot enjoy to the full his possessions and his happiness.”

  18. 18.

    Juju

    My comments lead to bad gateways. I give up. Feel pity for these empty people, not hate. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    Trump’s move here is extra cruel for all kinds of reasons.  Among them is that it also affects the working poor, who may not always have enough hours of work during a given period of time.

    This stupid move also affects some supermarkets, which may in fact be employing people most likely to be affected by this tightening of eligibility requirements.  So, businesses and people are both hurt.

    Related to this, the Democrats tried to include some expansions to the Earned Income Credit in the massive budget bill just passed.  The GOP rebuffed these efforts.  Trump and his GOP buddies believe in giving the maximum amount of tax cuts and benefits to the wealthy.  The poor, in particular, get a few scraps of cuts and benefits, and are expected to be grateful for what little attention is focused on them.

     

    I would like to see the Earned Income Tax Credit expanded to give more to single people, to married people without children, and to seniors who continue to work after they have reached retirement age. Yeah, this comes close to universal basic income.  Baby steps.

  21. 21.

    James E Powell

    He’ll blame Democrats and his voters will believe him.

    When their benefits are cut, his supporters will convince themselves that African Americans and immigrants are still receiving benefits. They will tell tales of young bucks and cholos buying steaks and lobster. Someone will mention Obama-phones.

  23. 23.

    Mart

    I get the disgusted look when I tell Republicans my 63 yo wife and I are on Obamacare, or back ten years ago when I got a couple weeks of unemployment checks. I imagine work requirements will be coming soon to our red state so no more ACA for us, unless the Supremes toss it right after the election. A lot of young men I speak to got Ayn Randed in their youth so plenty of mean I got mine fuck you all Republicans in the pipeline.

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