US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Members of the Trump Administration
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[30+GameOvers]

A bundle of green onion costs, like, a dollar. A single bell pepper? The same. Saute them over some butter and garlic. Toss in some flour (like two bucks for store-brand), and stir. Add some spices here if you want. Throw in some random veggies you can get for cheap; mushrooms, celery, carrots, whatever really. Cut up some chicken, beef, whatever meat you want and throw it in (last night I decided to throw in an 80 cent can of sardines to try knockoff bisque). Add a couple cups cream and/or milk, however heavy you're wanting it.

It costs about ten to fifteen bucks to make this soup. Most of these ingredients you can use multiple times across meals (flour, spices, milk, cream). If you're saying that you can't afford a decent meal on public assistance then you're either a disingenuous nigger, or a lazy and uneducated one. There is nothing 'luxury' about it, just simple things you can pick up for cheap.

Grow up and learn to cook.

Wrong, if they're low on food and need to save money they will just buy junk food and ramen. If they're on food stamps to begin with, they're largely low IQ and bad with money, they're not going to start making good life decisions and be smart with their money all of a sudden.

 

[Delany's Donkey]

Housing costs are high because the country is filled with all the illegals trump didn't deport in his first term (and won't deport in his second, either)

illegals and a lot of the houses are being bought up by giant multinational corporations that are able to out compete the individual buyer in the housing market by paying with cash up front without a loan.

the founders wanted people to own property so they'd feel loyal and connected to the country, the fact we allow places like BlackRock to buy up all this residential property is retarded.

 

[PFM]

Not to take away from your point but I wouldn't presume on the cleanliness of food items you didn't grow yourself these days. There was a thing earlier this year where they had a sudden ban on a popular spray used for green veggies (Broccoli,Asparagus ect.) that's been used for years and years and thats just one of many examples of poison in the food supply.

But the argument that it's too expensive/time consuming to eat healthy (as healthy as you can in this country without growing your own shit) is complete nonsense. If you had that little time you wouldn't be poor.

 

[grocerygoblin]

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I don't like that the President of the United States is shilling a shitcoin.

You didn't hear how they intend to bring back the usd gold standard, but back it with $TRUMP instead of gold?

 

[DickMain]

Wrong, if they're low on food and need to save money they will just buy junk food and ramen. If they're on food stamps to begin with, they're largely low IQ and bad with money, they're not going to start making good life decisions and be smart with their money all of a sudden.

Take it all away and let them starve then. If you spent your teens railing lines instead of learning any basic life skills then you deserve to fall off the wagon when the government stops handing you my money to poison yourself with.

 

[Charnel Ground]

ABC: "Is there anything that you think Trump has done right?"

Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Yeah. I think cracking down on fentanyl, making sure our borders are stronger. Look, nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate."

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I went to Bluesky looking for salt and found something kinda interesting:

Video: Ezra Klein pushing open immigration, and Bernie Sanders pushing back, in 2015

Video title is Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal"

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[Drip Torch]

Artifical sweeteners are for delusional fat fucks.

 

[LongDayAgain]

I'll be honest, if you're disabled and therefore can't work I think you should be allowed to buy Coke and stuff with that money. But if you're just on the dole because you're lazy or a fat cunt, fuck off. Basically, junk food and soda on the government dime should be means-tested lmao

 

[Pimp C]

That's kinda what my line of thinking is. Are these people trying to make a slippery slope argument? Like OH NO GUBMENT SAY NO SODA FOR SNAP NOW THEY'LL COME FOR US!? Or am I being too charitable.
Because if you're gunna ask me for $20 the first thing I'm gunna ask is what you need it for, so 1) I know I'll get it back, and 2) You're not spending my money on something retarded. I don't see why the Government shouldn't be allowed to do the same thing.

They're trying to appeal to dumb boomer nigger cattle that reflexively supports anything if you frame it as "more freedom." They use the same technique to promote faggotry and baby killing.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Apparently, a fatwa has been issued to MAGA shill accounts on behalf of BIG SODA to post in favor of keeping soda in food stamps—for seemingly no reason. Some pretty big accounts are involved (and also Ian Miles Cheong, too), and allegedly, they're paying up to $1,000 per shill
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Hope it passes and expanded to a lot of other bad food like Lunchables and Hungry Man.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Apparently, a fatwa has been issued to MAGA shill accounts on behalf of BIG SODA to post in favor of keeping soda in food stamps—for seemingly no reason. Some pretty big accounts are involved (and also Ian Miles Cheong, too), and allegedly, they're paying up to $1,000 per shill
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I fondly remember that one of the splinter forums from a few years back used a word filter that changed "Coke Zero" to "goat semen."

 

[DickMain]

I went to Bluesky looking for salt and found something kinda interesting:

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Video title is Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal"

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So would that have been before he was bought out then?

 

[Benjamin Matlock]

Here a link to the post being shown.

How the Redditors reacted to it:
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Just a reminder that the people who posts these things also get anxiety if they have talk to someone over the phone or, even worse, in person.

 

[Bob's Fuckass Head]

EBT/SNAP should allow you too purchase mostly fruits, vegetables, canned goods (vegetables/fruit, pickles, etc), dry goods (Rice, Flour, Beans), milk, and maybe ration out a four to five pound chicken every two weeks and a cut of beef every month (chuck roast and the like). Maybe alternate the chicken with ground beef every other month and the beef cut with turkey.

Again, pressure cookers and slow cookers would go a long way to getting these people to eat healthy, but only if we force them too.

There's certainly a spot between let them starve and buy them infinite soda.

My brother and I were talking about this a while back, and we basically came up with a system that involved mandatory enrollment in a State-funded Home Economics program. There's room for debate over whether it should be funded/operated at the Federal or State level, but we thought there were more benefits to letting each State individually run its own thing.

The idea in a nutshell is to make continued EBT/SNAP/etc enrollment be contingent on completion of continuing education in the fundamentals of Home Ec. Recipients would be required to demonstrate a level of proficiency with basic cooking techniques and kitchen tools, starting with the basics of nutrition and food safety. You could even add a meritocratic element, building in extra credit or incentives for the best-performing students. Incentives can't be monetary, though - extra coupons for X ingredient(s) to whomever demonstrates that they're best qualified to make good food with it.

Get it working in one or two States as a test case, and you can build it out from there. I want interstate cooking competitions and all that shit. Someone get Bobby Kennedy on this.

 

[SofondaCox]

Food stamps don't work in many homes. Mum just trades them for cash at 50c on the dollar. The food parcels that the government sends are far more effective.
I don't give a fuck about the broke bitch and her 'freedom of choice'. Kids need food, the government should provide the food. Not stamps in the hope that their
mother who is already proven to be improvident is suddenly going to make the right choice.

That silver tub of peanut butter has saved lives.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

You're right. If someone is unable to get a job that can push them above the poverty line, they should be tortured until they kill themselves.

On a totally unrelated note, did you know that more than 60% of employees at Walmart, the largest private employer on earth, are on food stamps?

What if instead of taking money from them to give to people who dont work at all we let them keep more of their paycheck...

 

[The Last Stand]

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TRUST THE PLAN, LIBTARD

 

[Disaffected Coyote]

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[Pimp C]

My brother and I were talking about this a while back, and we basically came up with a system that involved mandatory enrollment in a State-funded Home Economics program. There's room for debate over whether it should be funded/operated at the Federal or State level, but we thought there were more benefits to letting each State individually run its own thing.

The idea in a nutshell is to make continued EBT/SNAP/etc enrollment be contingent on completion of continuing education in the fundamentals of Home Ec. Recipients would be required to demonstrate a level of proficiency with basic cooking techniques and kitchen tools, starting with the basics of nutrition and food safety. You could even add a meritocratic element, building in extra credit or incentives for the best-performing students. Incentives can't be monetary, though - extra coupons for X ingredient(s) to whomever demonstrates that they're best qualified to make good food with it.

Get it working in one or two States as a test case, and you can build it out from there. I want interstate cooking competitions and all that shit. Someone get Bobby Kennedy on this.

It's not that niggers, beaners, and white trash don't know how to cook. They're just lazy, fat fucks.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

For some of us, soda is a necessity. I drink coke for my diabetes, which prevents me from doing any kind of physical labor. If I stop drinking cokes it'll clear right up, I can't have that.