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Should be a wild four years.

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Because there were like 20 states when the term first started. Missouri used to be the Western united states.
They were originally called the Northwestern Territory, originally part of the British Colonial Province of Quebec and given to the US after the end of the Revolutionary War, and was a highly disputed region since the British were reluctant to give it up and often supported native resistance to the US' western expansion, on top of the fact that a lot of the original 13 states tried to claim parts of it in dispute of others. After the Louisiana purchase and the Mexican-American War it was no long the Northwest, so the name changed to Midwest. I always found the claimed borders funny so I'm going to add a map. Imagine the border gore of they actually kept these lines.
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Why can't food stamps simply be restricted to stuff like flour, pasta, tomatoes, raw cuts of meats, potatoes, etc.?
Because white Americans are the majority of SNAP recipients at 62% and historically, only a handful of White Americans actually can make something tasty out of those ingredients. The rest will make inedible slop unfitting for animals. If snap was only Black Americans, some asshat would push their hardest to make sure it was only (seasonings will not be allowed) ,Meat, Potatoes and maybe an Orange once a month.
Edit: Why do you think they changed the name from Food Stamps to SNAP? Because White Americans were asshurt about being on Food Stamps.
 
The Tea Party. It was so dangerous that the Obama administration (via Lois Lerner) administratively nagged it to death.

I should say that I understand your point and it's not entirely wrong, but I have much more hope for the future now that USAID and its bullshit NGO money is gone.
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I forgot about the Tea Party. I remember as a young lad (20s) being excited by it. When I realized that the Tea Party was a bunch of boomers pooping their diapers to protect their precious Medicare, who all subsequently fucked off the nano second they were sure Obama Care wasn't coming for them I was acutely awakened to just how awful my parents generation truly is.

Tea Party had potential imo. But those of us who it would've benefitted didn't have the voting power of the olds.
 
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
This actually gets me seething mad. Legitimately. IRL and online. The amount of times I've been working at a grocery store and watched as a family with 5 kids and no father bought bags upon bags of potato chips, multiple boxes of various sodas, a few giant sheet cakes, and all manner of microwavable slop when the healthier options (that will also leave them feeling more full, to boot) are right there is something I've never truly reconciled with.
The fact that America's poor population is fatter than the middle and upper class, on average, based entirely on my own subjective observations, is astounding to me. Sugary sodas (and sugar substitute versions, like zero, max, and diet varieties) should never be allowed to be purchased with government given funds, especially with the price of a 12 pack nowadays.
 
Ohio and Kentucky really shouldn't be considered part of the Midwest, but it probably goes back to a time when it was considered the west. In the early 1800s, Cincinnati was the gateway city to the West, until St. Louis grew up into a real city, and it's really just a designator for states that are between the Rockies and Appalachians, but aren't Southern or Texas.
It has to do with the position of rivers and mountains. Also has to deal with the fact that both of them were historically part of the original north west territories even then then Mississippi divides the east midwest states and the west midwest states are which are slightly culturally different.
 
I’m trying to understand if you don’t understand the distribution of wealth in America, you don’t understand math, or if I’m 4 orders of magnitude off on Bernie’s wealth.
His $5-$7 million net worth puts him in the top 2% at least and it's likely he has more unless you think the "anti-rich people guy" wouldn't try to conceal his wealth. It only takes $12 million to join the 1% crew. Where are your 4 orders of magnitude?
 
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>Vance has thousands of pictures turning him into a fucked up homunculus, laughs about it
>Trump gets one bad painting and screeches about it

Can we just skip to 2028 already so we can elect the true king to the White House?
It's extremely dystopian if memes posted online are held to the same standards as oil painting portraiture. Meme lords keep on winning.
 
Why can't food stamps simply be restricted to stuff like flour, pasta, tomatoes, raw cuts of meats, potatoes, etc.?
Because white Americans are the majority of SNAP recipients at 62% and historically, only a handful of White Americans actually can make something tasty out of those ingredients. The rest will make inedible slop unfitting for animals. If snap was only Black Americans, some asshat would push their hardest to make sure it was only (seasonings will not be allowed) ,Meat, Potatoes and maybe an Orange once a month.
Edit: Why do you think they changed the name from Food Stamps to SNAP? Because White Americans were asshurt about being on Food Stamps.
That explains a lot. Hell, most Americans are just on a fast food diet. Potato chips here, go to McDonalds for fries and burgers there, then go to some Asian joint serving something with fish and vegetables if the former gets stale. They've been so used to letting other people cook for them, if you force them into a situation where they have to cook, they'll be lost.
 
Because white Americans are the majority of SNAP recipients at 62% and historically, only a handful of White Americans actually can make something tasty out of those ingredients. The rest will make inedible slop unfitting for animals. If snap was only Black Americans, some asshat would push their hardest to make sure it was only (seasonings will not be allowed) ,Meat, Potatoes and maybe an Orange once a month.
Edit: Why do you think they changed the name from Food Stamps to SNAP? Because White Americans were asshurt about being on Food Stamps.
Only 39.8% white nonhispanic. Ai yi yi! Cobes is proof that trve Whites can make godly toobz food
 
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I forgot about the Tea Party. I remember as a young lad (20s) being excited by it. When I realized that the Tea Party was a bunch of boomers pooping their diapers to protect their precious Medicare, who all subsequently fucked off the nano second they were sure Obama Care wasn't coming for them I was acutely awakened to just how awful my parents generation truly is.

Tea Party had potential imo. But those of us who it would've benefitted didn't have the voting power of the olds.
Your assessment of the Tea Party is wrong. The Tea Party was a reaction to the 2007-2009 period of economic horseshit and their analysis was that the government was responsible, and the government needed to change. They focused their efforts on grassroots political movements, winning local elected offices and working their way from the bottom up. It was about way more than healthcare and they were actually extremely successful because the elitist top-down political approach of Democrats couldn't do shit when the local city councils, school boards, mayors, sheriffs, and governors were all in lock-step. The old guard GOP didn't like them because the Tea Party was populist and poised to kick them out of office for doing fucking nothing.

The Tea Party didn't fuck off because of Obamacare. They were crushed by Lois Lerner and the IRS auditing their organizations to death. Then, when they got caught, the media ran defense for the Obama administration and everyone forgot about it.
 
In his first term, Drumpf also ended the tax deduction for paying alimony, (payee got a deduction, recipient had to declare the income) though divorces prior to some date in 2019 are grandfathered. But you'd think a guy with as many marriages as he has would be at least sympathetic to the largely male group paying alimony. Apparently not. 🤷‍♂️
Does the President set tax policy or does Congress?

So I tried to searching some notable primary challenges that actually seemed to result in any change or shake up. Based on the few links I clicked (top results on Google), primary challenges don't really ever seem to be anything but theater, for the right.
Only because of funding. If you check for primary challengers who were well-funded the results are a bit different.
 
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Here is some SNAP recipient data from just a few years ago.

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In New Mexico, 22.9% of the population receives SNAP benefits – the highest of any state, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of SNAP recipient figures and Census Bureau population estimates for July 2022, the most recent available. The District of Columbia is next-highest at 21.4%, followed by Oregon at 17.8% and West Virginia at 17.7%.

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Here is a slightly older map showing the top 100 counties by population on SNAP.

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I got my posting privileges back the same day this thread was featured. Maga defended RFK in the name of making America healthy despite the fact RFK is garbage. He is from both a leftist and rightist perspective only to sell it out for this.

He cheated on his pregnant wife all time and was a drug addict. He is a white guilt boomer and even supported reparations for blacks. He is a Zionist to the point of philiosemitism and before you say every politician is, true but e is especially bad he doesn't even support a Palestinian state in theory or Israel negotiating a ceasefire. He is a n environmentalist despite being anti nuclear.
RFK wants to bring back polio. Nothing says "make America healthy again" like bringing back polio

I know, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson say doctors and vaccines bad so MAGA wants to ban all vaccines now, but bringing polio back is not going to go well
 
Edit: Why do you think they changed the name from Food Stamps to SNAP?
Because they were tired of printing a secondary currency, and doing it via card let them restrict purchase anyway.
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I really don't understand the outrage around limiting what SNAP covers. I definitely understand being cautious so the poor aren't forced to become vegan soyslop consumers against their will, but limiting based off of strict conditions that can't easily be used to do ill if the power shifts is reasonable.
I think a general daily multivitamin included with any food assistance would probably be the biggest driver of lowered crime and mental disease in a century.
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