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Judges Order Trump to Pay for SNAP, Killing His Shutdown Strategy
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Doesn't matter how it looks. Cult members won't care, trump will ignore the order, people will starve.
The cruelty is literally the whole point. This administration is evil.
I don't think they're even going to bother to appeal as much as they're just going to ignore a court order... again.
The cult is basically irrelevant. Their loyalty is guaranteed, like you said.
I'm more interested in what the other 2/3rds of the country will do.
Nothing. They might throw some more peaceful protests. Woo.
I think actual hunger could be a big motivator. Might not happen at first, but the longer that parents have to go hungry so their kids can eat, the more motivated people will get.
It's not like USAmericans are just inherently meek and peaceful. I don't think the protests stay peaceful if there's no food at home.
$5 says those that get violent will get violent at the wrong targets.
A police station was burned down in 2020. Several CEOs have been shot since 2024.
I expect violence will happen to a lot of different targets, some undeserving, some deserving.
Oh, nice!
I bet some will care. And some is all you need. A few here and there from the things this administration does will make all the difference
This is an excellent point. Trump brought out 77.3 million votes for his coalition. Meanwhile, 75.0m voted Harris, and 3.0 million voted third party (mix of ideologies, not all would-be Harris votes). Add to that 90+ million non-voters, which probably has some fraction of the 6 or so million voters who voted for Biden in 2020 who didn't turn out for Harris. Convince 29k people in Wisconsin, 80k in Michigan, 120k in Pennsylvania, and like 45k in Nevada to turn out for Harris, and we're not having this conversation right now. We don't need all the cult to switch votes. Frankly, 1% swapping or 2% actually turning out is all we need. And people dooming about how set the Trumpers are seem to be working more to depress enthusiasm amongst Blue Team players than actually save democracy.
Okay so we get another squeaker election where the Democrats win. The Republicans will say that it was faked and wrong, spend the rest of the time complaining, and those 45k in Nevada and 120k in PA will flip back and we'll be right back to where we are, or probably worse.
Why? Because that's what's happened every election of my goddamned life and it's never going to change, no matter how many people die of starvation because a wire transfer wasn't made.
Apathetic bloody planet. I've no sympathy at all.
Partly correct, but he doesn't have control because of his cult. A lot of people supported him who aren't part of it. A lot of those people are poor, and will be directly harmed from this. Before he argued (using government websites illegally sometimes) that Democrats caused this. You can't really do that when you appeal a court order that says it must be funded. It puts it squarely on Trump. The word just needs to get to these people that this is what's happening.
But the word won't get to those people. They'll only listen to FOX News or OAN.