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Yep. Make better choices at the ballot box. Unimpressed with your options in the ballot box? Make better choices in the primaries.
And most of all: go and fucking vote. Every time. In every ballot.
We really need multiple systems built out to inform people of when votes are happening that way there are no excuses and to make sure people get them
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Maybe if they WANTED to Eat they Shouldn't have Voted for the Party who Promised to Take Away Their Food so they can Protect Pedophiles INSTEAD!
-Republicans who will Continue to Vote Republican!
‘ years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.’
Lindy Li was a part of Harris’s campaign. Within the time period of them losing the election -> the inauguration she was already a part of Trumps team.
She has zero credibility and is just a token former Democrat for the GOP to parade around. Disgusting.
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GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’
Like voting.
Yeah, but you often find the people who need the help are least inclined to vote for it.
I remember a story from a few years ago, some article about poverty. A disabled guy from Liverpool, unable to work, his 12 year old daughter was having to collect from the food bank for him, no heating. "I voted for the Conservatives, I just think they're best for the country", he said, presumably while applying his clown make-up.
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They can make a better choice this Tuesday (and, more importantly, in the mid-terms next year)
I was just arguing with my mom about this and she said it's good people are losing the benefits because she knows people don't need SNAP, despite needing them herself.
She then went on to name a few people who receive $800 for their 5 kids and simply sell the card to someone else to get cash for drugs and ask me how to solve that problem.
Reporting the abuse it wasn't an option.
perhaps worth pointing out too… focusing on the minimal abuse as a reason the whole program should be cut is very american. i think the rest of the world the attitude is much more that a thing is necessary and abuse is a cost of doing business (like shoplifting: just because there’s some shoplifting doesn’t mean you close the whole store)… it’s very much nobody “undeserving” should get rewarded before people need help
PPP got abused too but for some reason they never bitch about that
had to search for that :p yeah aye - we had the same in aus (called jobkeeper)… our conservatives introduced it, and it was hugely successful at keeping people employed but also massively abused by big companies
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/09/03/jobkeeper-rorts
i think this quote pretty accurately describes it
JobKeeper is both the largest rort in Australian history and the most successful job saver
overall there were some reports written about it after the fact: lessons learned etc, but i think people don’t really blame the conservatives for the abuse… it was a programme that was quickly conceived of, and implemented very fast and it achieved a very important purpose. was it wasteful? sure… was it or something like it necessary? also very much yes
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Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I'd expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.
They'd just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today's cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!
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Have you tried not being poor?
Sorry, too busy trying to not be disabled
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Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. She lost her Congressional bid, and years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.
This person sounds like a grifter and has now found a more receptive audience.
That or some unfortunate mental health issues.
Oh everything I believed? Totally the opposite now. Hashtag stable genius.
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Bad choices of those on SNAP…
- Joined military to serve my country and this is how they treat me!
- Worked for government, got DOGE’d, and no one is hiring!
- Picked the wrong birth parents and at 6 no one will hire me!
- Lost job over 50 and those kids won’t hire me!
- Lost job to AI and I went to Standford!
- Pro-life and kept my baby! 7)…fill in the blank
Here is a better choices:
- don't vote for these Nazi fucks
That's the better choice.
This was my TED talk
Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. She lost her Congressional bid, and years later, shifted to the Republican Party and to becoming a strong supporter of Trump.
Does anyone know of any examples of politicians swinging hard in the opposite direction? I’m not talking about things like the Lincoln project or changes made up to age 25 or so, but actual significant leftward movement from adult politicians.
You can never trust her again. She doesn't believe in ideology, she just wants power and is willing to go to any side and any length to get what she feels entitled to.
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Elizabeth Warren was a Republican who thought people used bankruptcy as a means of escaping personal liability.
Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working the system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as "worse than disillusionment" and "like being shocked at a deep-down level".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
It was after that Elizabeth Warren moved to become more progressive about how bankruptcy laws and financial regulations.
Widely regarded as a progressive, she was previously a registered Republican, changing her registration to Democrat in 1996. According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee—Gerald Ford in 1976. Her conservatism at the time was not rooted in social issues like abortion or gay rights, but rather on economic policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Elizabeth_Warren
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If she won the congressional bid, she'd been sold out quicker than Fetterman.
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"He's starving the handouts for millions of illegal aliens; why are we putting them first when we have so many Americans – millions of Americans – suffering on the streets? Why are we prioritizing illegals? That is a question that Democrats need to answer.”
Erm....you aren't helping the Americans either lady
This tracks because the GOP is the party of unqualified illtempered pedo loving dipshits.. They target the vulnerable because they cherish them as delicacies. Then they blame the victim to assuage their atrophying pangs of guilt about how selfish and selfserving they've become in life and everything.
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woman of color serving as strategist for the racist party... seems like she could make better choices.
“Just get richer parents if you wanna eat, kiddo. What’s wrong with you?”
“I have a very hard time believing that the 42 million people who are on SNAP all qualify,” Li said, speaking on Newsmax. “Someone on Newsmax said last night [that] maybe people should start making better choices so they don't have to rely on the government day in and day out. What happened to personal responsibility? It used to be an American ideal!”
“We have to be very clear what's happening here: they built a dependency empire, and it is crumbling right now! And President Trump isn't starving kids – he's starving socialist beasts,” Li said.
“He's starving the handouts for millions of illegal aliens; why are we putting them first when we have so many Americans – millions of Americans – suffering on the streets? Why are we prioritizing illegals? That is a question that Democrats need to answer.”
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Why is she blinking in a repeating pattern? 😐😐😐 😑😑😑 😐😐😐
Yeah so Vance's wife did that in a video too. She sending out morse code or is it a tactic to try to look serious. Idk. It's weird.
Someone should starve this gop strategist and see how loyal they stay.
Billionaires always out there telling people to have more kids. Billionaires out there always trying to defund and destroy everything that helps kids. Billionaires are always out there grifting all the tax money and getting the politicians they own to destroy social safety nets. Billionaires always out there raping kids. Billionaires always out there jacking up the prices on food, water, utilities, healthcare and housing. Billionaires always out there refusing to pay a wage that allows people to survive in their rigged system. Maybe the better choice we should make is not having billionaires.
Don't forget the connection between Billionaries and child sex traffic (ie. Epstein Files).
Maybe that's the reason they want more impoverished childs around.
Easier targets.
Is the choice to not vote Republican again? Because yes, I agree with the better choices argument there.
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Your president is the king of avoiding personal responsibility, Lindy. Shut the fuck up.
Let's stop pretending like MAGA republicans are upset about the state of SNAP. They get to destroy a program that they already wanted to destroy and get to try and pin the blame on Democrats in the process. It's a win win for them.
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I saw her in many debates. She is very dumb
Yzma: "It is none of MY concern whether your family has...what was it again?" Peasant: "Uhh, food?" Yzma: "HAH! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!"
Hopefully all the people that voted Republican make a better choice next time and vote all the Confederates out.
Wow. She probably never had to work in her lifetime...
Lindy Li, huh?
I'm gonna remember that name when I have nothing else to lose.
She has been added to the Menu.
Another clueless twat who thinks those decisions can be anything other than starvation.
I see lots of people on Lemmy without much compassion for the people on the other team. I don't see how both teams lacking compassion will fix this shit stain of a situation.
they reap what they sow. Why should I feel bad for them getting what they asked for?
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