hope hopes hoping on X - "this whole experience has been surreal . i fed this squirrel like four walnuts a month ago and he continues to spend hours menacing me & destroying my screen door. THIS CAN’T BE NORMAL"
Devon Eriksen on X - "There's a broadly applicable lesson here, but most Americans aren't ready for that conversation."
"Just let people eat, you monsters!"
Meme - "2025 Shutdown
Democrats: It's not our shutdown!
Democrats: Why did we cave and stop our shutdown!"
Diane Yap on X - "The point of EBT is to ensure people don’t starve to death. That’s it. Even if we agree that’s a worthwhile goal, it can be achieved with Nutraloaf. Nutraloaf provides the correct incentives: you won’t starve and you’ll be motivated to earn enough money to eat real food again."
Influencer sparks backlash after suggesting SNAP recipients be given ‘prison loaf’ instead of food benefits - "Nutraloaf was designed for prisons, a meal compact enough to deliver full nutrition but simple enough to serve without utensils — useful when dealing with inmates who had misused or weaponised cutlery. It resembles meatloaf but is typically blander, made from mashed vegetables, grains, and proteins. Once a routine disciplinary tool in correctional facilities across the United States and formerly in Canada, its use has long been controversial... “Being poor is not a sin that must be ‘atoned’ for by suffering, you soulless ghoul,” added a third.Yap responded: “They can opt out at any time by simply paying for their own food.” Still, some defended her argument. “At any other time in history, and in much of the world today, Diane’s proposal of free nutritionally complete food would be considered extremely generous, but it’s not hot Cheeto-flavored so apparently it’s immensely cruel.” one commenter wrote. Another added: “This is extreme but yes EBT should be strictly limited to rice, chicken, beans, veggie, lower carb pasta, pork to ensure people get the best value for the taxpayer buck.”"
We see the usual left wing bait and switch. If you're against SNAP, you're a bad person because you want people to starve. But if you want to feed them something they don't like, you're a bad person still.
Lazer on X - My mom is disabled. 78 years old. She'd die without food benefits. Food shelter food is so high in salt. She makes everything from scratch and still runs out of funds. Many do abuse it though. Many people can't do without"
Matt Walsh on X - "But wouldn’t you step up to help your own mother? Why would the responsibility to feed your mom fall to the taxpayer before it falls to you?"
Gnomeo on X - "I love how that guy just admitted that if all of us didn’t pay for his mom’s food, he’d let her die. Amazing tell. Very cool."
Meme - CNN: "Democrats want to offer health care to undocumented immigrants. Here's what that means"
CNN: "Fact check: Trump falsely claims Democrats want to give free health care to 'illegal aliens' in government shutdown battle"
‘Schumer is no longer effective’: Dems outraged over shutdown deal : r/politics
Naturally, left wingers were very upset, despite blaming Republicans for the shutdown. It's their usual bait and switch tactics. It's like claiming they want more women in power, then later saying that non-left wing women don't count. The best bit is they genuinely don't see the dishonesty
Threads - "snap is a handout to corporations that allows companies like Walmart and McDonalds to pay their workers well below a living wage, and have the tax payers provide for their workers instead. The answer is livable wages for all workers and robust assistance for people who can’t work for whatever reason."
Weird how left wingers don't realise that if you abolish SNAP for working people, "greedy companies" like Walmart and McDonald's will then no longer be able to "exploit" workers and have to pay them "living wages"
Meme - Purple haired flurk with purple cravat and purple spray paint: "Where is your empathy?"
"R.I.P. Charlie Kirk LOL :)" sign, Graffiti: "KILL FASCISTS (THIS MEANS YOU)", "8647"*
*Burning ICE building*
*Normal person with red hat and TV with "Breaking: Food stamps cut"*
Left wing "empathy" is highly selective and weaponised, and those who promote it have no empathy
Meme - Democratic Socialism Now: "It's not complicated"
annazarves: "HOLY FUCKING SHIT. JUST LET PEOPLE EAT. YOU FUCKING GHOULS"
Ken Travis: "Was there a law passed that people can't eat lol....."
Left wing logic - if you don't give people free food unconditionally, you're not letting people eat. So if you don't give people free guns and ammo you're violating their Second Amendment rights, right?
Meme - bumbadum @bumbadum14: "Crazy she did the thing again"
"Percent of Black population in the USA by county"
notsoErudite @notsoErudite: "People who receive SNAP on average are Republican-leaning, though most simply do not vote. These people didn’t care about Kirk or the election, they’re just trying to get by."
The ecological fallacy as a way to bash red states / the Bible Belt / Republicans / Republican states strikes again
Meme - Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD: "No one will ever be able to figure out this mystery of why insurance companies loved the idea of the ACA"
"UnitedHealth Group Inc *flat stock price until 2000, and surging from 2010 onwards*"
Legal Phil @Legal_Fil: ""If Obamacare was such bad legislation, why did all the insurance companies end up supporting it?" Yes, why indeed."
Wall Street Apes on X - "Hawaii resident reporting their EBT cards have been reloaded and everyone is back shopping with taxpayer money. Just look at these carts, they’re the most full grocery carts you’ll ever see. Working people cant afford get to shop like this. The receipt confirms it’s EBT. You paid"
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 on X - "Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) admits the new Democrat proposal to reopen government would give Obamacare subsidies to millionaires. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) calls Schumer out for this which makes Schumer storm out of the room like a child. Humiliating."
The Democrats don't have a written proposal that people can look at. Just like how they pushed through Obamacare in the first place
Desiree on X - "Some states, like California started releasing some EBT funds. And right on cue, we get the videos that says look at me. Pantries packed. Arms tatted. Nails done. The pantry’s full. That’s good, for the kids. But when moms working 80+ hours a week with 3 kids are staring at empty cabinets… Something’s broken. It’s not hate. It’s frustration. And it’s growing."
Left wing logic: this proves that SNAP eligibility needs to be expanded. But at the same time they claim so many people being on SNAP shows that capitalism has failed
Defiant L’s on X - "CNN's Ashley Allison says SNAP is having a "massive impact" after she went to her eyebrow technician who told her they had to fire people because clients don't have money to do their brows. The horror."
Josh Rincon | Facebook - "If you spend $100 on nails, $300 on lashes & $200 on extensions, then you shouldn’t be on food stamps."
We're told that poor people deserve to enjoy life too, so why not have government pay for their nails, lashes and extensions too?
Hannah Cox on X - "My favorite trend on TikTok right now is where all of the hardworking Americans who are poor but not on welfare are teaching people about to lose their benefits how to shop, plan, and cook on a budget."
Meme - "FOOD STAMPS BY ETHNICITY
Percentage of U.S. households receiving SNAP benefits
Afghan 45.6%
Somali 42.4%
Iragi 34.8%
Dominican 34.4%
Caribbean 28.2%
Native 27.6%
Puerto Rican 27.2%
Cuban 25.2%
Black 24.9%
Arab 24.1%
Cambodian 23.6%
Haitian 23.3%
Pacific Islander 21.0%
Honduran 19.1%
Armenian 18.7%
Bangladeshi 18.6%
Moroccan 18.6%
Mexican 17.9%
Guatemalan 16.9%
Nicaraguan 16.7%
Ethiopian 16.6%
Jamaican 16.3%
Palestinian 15.9%
Salvadoran 15.9%
Vietnamese 15.0%
Ecuadorian 14.9%
Pakistani 13.0%
Peruvian 12.4%
Colombian 11.3%
Israeli 11.1%
Nigerian 11.1%
Filipino 9.8%
Chinese 9.6%
White 8.6%
Italian 7.6%
Indian 4.4%
2025 The Personal Finance Wizards, LLC"
MAZE on X - "2013. Obama talks about how incredibly irresponsible it would be for Congress to shut down the government in order to blackmail a President into making concessions. Be sure to pass this along to Democrats."
It's (D)ifferent
(Jason) American Patriot™ on X - "🔸️President Barack Obama was adamant that shutting down the Government was a disaster for America. Yet now he is ok with the Democrats doing this because they are not getting their way.
🔹️Obama in 2013: “This Republican shutdown is disastrous… Pass a clean CR. Re-open the government. End this now.” Obama in 2025 (Day 31 of shutdown): Dems have blocked a clean CR 13 times in the Senate.
The GOP passed it 14 times.
If Obama meant what he said… Why isn’t he telling Schumer to END THIS NOW?"
Tom Elliott on X - "In Oct. 2013, Republicans controlled the House & passed a budget that didn’t fund ObamaCare. Obama, pissed, refused to sign & shut down the govt. He said he can’t negotiate w/ “extremists” who are “holding a gun against the heads of the American people.” Today Democrats are not in the majority, but Schumer & Jeffries are nonetheless threatening to shutdown the govt unless “extremist” Republicans fund health benefits for illegal aliens. First it was the nationalization of health care. Now it’s universalization of health care. And Republicans are always the “extremists” for getting in the way."
Democratic senators fear getting ‘hammered’ after ‘No Kings’ for ending shutdown : r/TheBusinessMix - "Any Democrat who even considers ending the shutdown must be considered a traitor, unless the Republicans make major concessions."
Clear proof that Republicans are to blame for the shutdown
Meme - "TODAY'S DEMOCRAT LIES:
Republicans can't get 51 Senate votes to extend the budget, this is their fault. (They need 60 votes, Democrats are blocking)
Republicans threw us out of the chambers while we were working on bipartisan solution. (Bipartisan meant caving to all their demands
Republicans are responsible for high HC costs. (Obama and Obamacare are responsible, we are simply back to Democrat pre-covid costs)
100,000 Employees are resigning to protest Trump. They are leaving due to a buy out trom months age with this as their last date that they agreed on."
Outraged liberals warn Democratic leaders not to cave on shutdown
Time to blame Republicans for the shutdown again
Meme - "The "I Will Starve Without EBT!" Starter Pack"
*lip and nose piercings* *garishly decorated nails* *Carnival cruise* *hairpieces*
Breaking911 on X - ""When I heard, 'Zero dollars,' my chest went into my throat." New Mexico woman on food stamps for 30 years says SNAP freeze is "detrimental to my life.""
Bonchie on X - "“I have depended on those benefits since the 1990s, and it’s detrimental if I don’t get them.” Look, I feel sympathy for people like this on a human level. But she hasn’t been able to get a job in three decades? This smells of manufactured dependency, not unavoidable hardship."
Bennett's Phylactery on X - "Only 28% of SNAP households had any earned income at all in 2023 Only 34% of SNAP households had children They aren't working, they aren't "struggling to feed their families" - they're just an urban vote bank"
Secretary Brooke Rollins on X - "On my first day @USDA, we told every state to send us their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families. 29 states stepped up. 21 blue states refused — and two SUED US FOR ASKING! 🤦🏻♀️ And guess what? In just the states that cooperated, we’ve already uncovered massive fraud. The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census. There’s a new sheriff in town. @POTUS will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry."
Mike Nellis on X - "CNN breaking it down: if Republicans let ACA subsidies expire, your health care premiums will skyrocket. One example—$7,225 a year now (8.5% of income) would jump to $25,000 (nearly 30%). That’s the reality for millions, especially in CA, TX, FL, GA, and NC."
David Harsanyi on X - "Dems sold this as a temporary subsidy to get people through the COVID economy. It didn't exist five years ago, but now the entire health care system will collapse without it. Every new subsidy is a baseline. Until the next time. This was the entire point of Obamacare."
Mike Lee on X - "You forced Obamacare through 16 years ago while Republicans warned it would make premiums skyrocket?
“Yes Dave.”
And then premiums skyrocketed?
“Yes Dave.”
Then under Biden you passed additional subsidies to pay for these high premiums?
“Yes Dave.”
And now these subsidies are largely corporate welfare driven by fraud?
“Yes Dave.”
And now you’re shutting down the government to continue these subsidies?
“That’s correct Dave.”"
Of course, when their lies about Republicans refusing to reopen the government are exposed, left wingers still find a way to spin this as Republicans' fault
Senator Amy Klobuchar on X - "Early retirees like Bill & Shelly will see their health insurance premiums increase nearly 300%—from $442 to $1,700 per month if Congressional Republicans refuse to extend the enhanced tax credits. That's an extra $15K a year families can't afford."
Charles C. W. Cooke on X - "This is an amazing tweet. This couple chose to retire early, in their early 50s, on a $127,000/year government pension. They already get $5,500/year in subsidies for health insurance, and they want $15,000/year instead. And this is supposed to thrill me?"
Tiana Lowe Doescher on X - "Why the f*ck were we giving $1.3k a month to a couple that decided to retire at 50 & 58 years old? We’ll have to bankroll them for another 20-25 years while they contribute literally nothing to the economy, and you’re mad we aren’t giving them more money???"
Kirsten Gillibrand on X - "Without key Affordable Care Act tax credits, a person making $65,000/year in Tompkins County, NY would pay close to $10,000/year for health insurance. And that's the cheapest plan available. If Senate Republicans let the tax credits expire, people won't be able to afford health insurance. Period."
Nicole Saphier, MD on X - "So what she is saying as, as a stand alone, the affordable care act is not affordable, and requires continuously expanding tax payer subsidies to fund it. Ten years ago when I said the ACA was a backdoor attempt at socialized medicine, you can see why I said that."
Opinion | Government shutdown over ACA subsidies demands more fiscal seriousness - The Washington Post - "President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance... The U.S. national debt stands at $37.9 trillion, a figure that dwarfs the annual gross domestic product of every other country. It has grown dramatically since the pandemic. In the 2019 fiscal year, the federal government spent $5.47 trillion but took in only $4.26 trillion. Five years later, spending clocked in at $6.75 trillion as revenue failed to keep up with this dramatic expansion of government. Gushers of borrowed money flowed toward expanding food stamps, Medicaid eligibility, veterans benefits and student debt forgiveness. Rising interest rates compound the costs. Ultimately the United States will need to grow its way out of this debt, but fiscal irresponsibility makes that harder. Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025. The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama’s signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected. To salvage the program, Democrats expanded subsidies to entice more people to buy plans. Many poor families wound up getting insurance for free, and the rolls grew: 24 million people now have coverage through the ACA exchanges. People earning more than 400 percent of the poverty line — about $129,000 for a family of four — would see their subsidies go away. Democrats picked this fight because they see health care as a winning issue. A Post poll, conducted on the first day of the shutdown, found that 71 percent of Americans say federal insurance subsidies should be extended while 29 percent say they should end as scheduled. Just as significantly, the question divides Republicans: 38 percent support extending the subsidies, and 62 percent want them to end. This is how entitlement programs work. Once you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow dependent on it. And it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible, to fully claw it back. Conservatives fought so hard to stop Obamacare 15 years ago because they anticipated fights like this one... In a CBS-YouGov poll released Sunday, only 9 percent identified government spending as the most important issue facing the country. Why would anyone be worried, given that both parties have effectively disassociated spending from revenue? The likeliest outcome of the shutdown is that both sides agree to spend more money without paying for it, let alone being honest with voters about the tradeoffs too many have ignored for too long."
