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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • For everybody new to a Lemmyleftist calling liberals bad: yeah its a thing. We’ve talked about it a lot. And they still refuse to understand why we’re pissed about it.

    Pro Tip: odds are in the high 80-90% they’re not American.

    Also we’re the bourgeoise who refuse to see capitalism’s chains or that the solution is to seize the means of production from the oppressor class. For more information, say you think liberals are good and wait for the dateline to swing by again.





  • This fight wasn’t about SNAP, it was about the fucking healthcare.

    Yes

    The fascists are going to show their asses on health care which - yeah no shit will fuck a bunch of people up, most of them in red states - and then in January they’ll shut it down again and no one will lose food benefits again.

    There was literally a court battle in progress that would have forced Trump to pay the SNAP benefits regardless of the shutdown, and they couldn’t even wait for the outcome.

    The outcome is that it would go to SCROTUS who would let him do what he wants again. What, you doubt?

    Now, there are no extensions for ACA credits, and the Democrats have lost their single biggest point of leverage to force any other legislation.

    1. there were not going to be any credits either way. 2) the leverage returns in Jan when the temp funding runs out. Except the Democrats have removed trump’s option to fire people, refuse to pay back wages, and starve people.

    To repeat that, in essence, the Democrats just traded slightly sooner SNAP payments that would have already been required to happen in exchange for nothing. That is why people are so angry about this. Hope this helps.

    If you think it would be settled in two weeks, you’re wrong. If you think thousands of federal workers would get their jobs back or get paid before the holidays, you’re wrong. If you think some of those workers aren’t ripe targets for espionage, you’re wrong. If you think ACA isn’t going to be a huge and damaging issue for the republiQans you’re wrong.

    For bonus fun, all your MAGA relatives get to fight over Epstein during Thanksgiving which wasn’t going to happen.

    This article specifically and intentionally downplays or ignores all of that so that it can cast the Democratic party in the worst light possible, which is ‘red meat’ to the leftists who weren’t going to support them in the first place and THAT is why people are so angry about this. It’s easier to presume the Dems have no clue or plan than to allow that they might. HTH.