SNAP! And just like that, the Dictator-in-Waiting Takes Away Your Food
Betcha didn't see that coming, didja cultists?
A video on TikTok is going viral. A MAGA-mom cries hysterically and uses a lot of profanity. “How the f*** is this possible? I just found out my SNAP benefits are getting cut! Someone tell me this isn’t f****** going to happen? I don’t barely eat the last week of the month so my babies can eat as it is.” The woman went on to explain she can’t work, and so SNAP benefits are her only way to feed her family.
You, like me, and everyone else who commented on her video are thinking: Serves you goddamn right, dummy!
The terrible thing, though, is that her poor kids didn’t vote for Trump — even though they will probably grow up to be proud Trumpists anyway. and The ache of their empty bellies will create a narrative for their childhood. The lack of proper nutrition will stunt intellectual and physical growth leaving them ever further behindd in a society that seems content on harveting this type of desperate, bitter citizens.
The irony here is that the people responsible for the freeze on all government spending, Trump and his fascist cronies, don’t give a damn about the plights of these hungry children. I care, and I am sure most Democrats feel for them, even though the mom’s crocodile tears made me angry. It made me yell while I was sipping my morning coffee, “We told you so, you dope!”
Like I said, Trump doesn’t care. The crumbs from one lunch Musk eats in his office are more enrichhing and cost more than all the food this family consumes in a month. Musk doesn’t care.
The blanket freeze on all spending the Trumpists issued yesterday was temporarily halted by a sane, and humane judge. The purpose of the freeze was to conduct a review of all spending to cut out funding deemed “going to support a progressive agenda.” SNAP, by many of the vile cultists working in Trump’s administration is probably considered progressivis — one step away from socialism.
The Trump team, however, is not upset the spending freeze was halted. They knew it would happen, and they are glad. The goal is to eventually get the matter kicked up to the Supreme Court. There, that the power of the executive could potentially be expanded beyond the point of return. The Supreme Court for the last decade or more has been keen on expanding the reach of the executive branch while chippinig away at the powers granted in tbe Constitution to the legislative branch.
“This sort of came out of the blue,” said David Smith, a spokesperson for the Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas, one of countless districts that receive federal funding. Now they’re trying to figure out what it means “based on zero information.”
The attempt to implement a funding pause is the latest example of how Trump is harnessing his power over the federal system to advance his conservative goals. Unlike during his first term, when Trump and many members of his inner circle were unfamiliar with Washington, this time he’s reaching deep into the bureaucracy.
For example, federal employees are being asked to report their colleagues if they try to continue diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
“They are pushing the president’s agenda from the bottom up,” said Paul Light, an expert on the federal government and professor emeritus of public service at New York University (Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks).
In case anyone doubted what was going on right now, let me remind of the words, Project 25. Much of the project is already being rolled out behind the scenes, but until all of Trump’s nominees are in place, the fascists are limited in what they can get done. One very important power the fascists need to fully implement Project 25 is to is the power of the purse. With a compliant, even derelict, Congress, Trump knows that if he can get control over how and when federal money is spent, then he will be able to dole out funds as political favors and gratitude for “unwavering loyalty.”
There are a lot of very strategic thinkers in place during Trump 2.0, and they are people who understand how the government functions. They know where to apply pressure, and how most effectively to choke out the power of the non-political bureaucracy.
Each day, each hour results in more shit floating to the top, and sooner or later there will be simply too much to flush it away, and we will be inundated.