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Nation's Largest Federal Worker Union Calls for an End to the Shutdown;
The Alleged Friends of Union Voters Say "F*** You"

People have now missed a paycheck, and they will continue missing paychecks for as long as it takes to get Chuck Schumer over 45% approval.

The nation's largest union of federal workers is calling on Congress to pass a short-term funding bill and immediately end the government shutdown as it heads into a fifth workweek.

In a strong condemnation of both parties on Monday, the American Federation of Government Employees argued the shutdown is an "avoidable crisis" harming American families and workers across the nation.

"Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight," Everett Kelley, president of the AFGE, wrote. "It's time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship."

The AFGE represents more than 800,000 federal and Washington government workers and has filed several lawsuits against the Trump administration, including over mass layoffs.

Kelley on Monday emphasized that federal workers will be unpaid and face layoffs.

"When the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of this shutdown, they aren't looking for partisan spin," he said. "They're looking for the wages they earned. The fact that they're being cheated out of it is a national disgrace."

...

The Senate last week rejected a Republican-led effort to pay active-duty members of the military and essential federal workers who have remained on the job during the shutdown. Democrats have backed a proposal that would pay all federal workers and bar the Trump administration from further firings workers during the shutdown.


Democrats "scoffed" at the union's demand.


A call from the largest federal workers union in the country for Democrats to pass a GOP bill reopening the government on Monday was met with uncharacteristic yawns from Washington, D.C.-area Democrats.

Why it matters: Such a statement from a powerful union would, in normal times, have a profound impact on Democrats. These are not normal times.

Democrats are dug in, emboldened by rebounding support from their voters and determined to walk away from the shutdown with something to show for their intransigence.

Democratic lawmakers tell Axios they feel they have the upper hand and that Republicans are poised to come to the negotiating table -- though Republicans say essentially the exact opposite.

...

Kelley said the Democrats should do what they have sworn not to: Pass the GOP's "clean" stopgap government funding bill on the expectation of future negotiations on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.

What we're hearing: "I have a lot of AFGE members in my district and they are pissed ... at the statement," said one D.C.-area House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid open conflict with one of the largest unions in their district.

...

A second D.C.-area lawmaker said they are "not sure there is much of a difference" after the statement and that the potential cut off of nutrition assistance benefits is "is the bigger issue to watch."

Oh, right: Poor people's SNAP benefits are about to end and they're not taking it well.

Grok
@grok

Yes, it's real--the USDA has confirmed that due to the government shutdown, SNAP benefits (via EBT) won't be issued starting November 1, halting about $8 billion in monthly aid for over 40 million recipients. This stems from failed funding negotiations, impacting low-income families, including many non-citizens who qualify. Work requirements and eligibility tweaks under recent laws like the One Big Beautiful Bill will further limit access for able-bodied adults without dependents. Expect disruptions unless Congress acts fast.

There are a lot of TikToks by, let us say, Subsidized Citizens who are threatening violence if their EBT cards stop filling up with working people's money. One threatened "grocery-napping," which means carjacking you when you've filled the car with groceries.

Speaking as a lesbian immigrant: I approve.

grocerynapping.jpg

Posted by: Ace at 03:10 PM




Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

2 First?!?

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 28, 2025 03:13 PM (pgwxJ)

3 Missed it by that much...

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 28, 2025 03:13 PM (pgwxJ)

4 Wow, nailed it. I'll cull the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

5 Nation's Largest Federal Worker Union Calls for an End to the Shutdown

Uh-oh. If we don't end the shutdown, we might eliminate the nation's largest Federal worker's union! (there's more than one?!)

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2025 03:13 PM (ccl8b)

6 Hopefully a few of these parasites attempt to car-jack a well prepared citizen and end up finding out.

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 28, 2025 03:14 PM (pgwxJ)

7 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

8 Think of the Bad Boys … and Grrrrrls YouTube bonanza from the police cams …

Posted by: Adriane the Careful to be as Positive as Possible Critic. . . at October 28, 2025 03:14 PM (3ZUWJ)

9 including many non-citizens who qualify

Poor dears. If only they could go back to their own countries or something

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

10 In regards to $9 lady, what happened to bread, milk, eggs, and ground beef?

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2025 03:15 PM (G0vdT)

11 Wait! Wait!

I'm not done yet!

Posted by: Kamala Harris, now on her way to becoming a nobody at October 28, 2025 03:15 PM (vcOmj)

12 Otter status: Culled.

If they still show up, you got some 'splainin' to do.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 28, 2025 03:16 PM (/HDaX)

13 The Alleged Friends of Union Voters Say "F*** You"
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Best friends unions ever had.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:16 PM (krQz2)

14 Wait! Wait!

I'm not done yet!
Posted by: Kamala Harris, now on her way to becoming a nobody at October 28, 2025 03:15 PM (vcOmj)
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Then lock the stall door!

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:16 PM (krQz2)

15 "Whether or not you take it, they call that sh*t free will. I call that sh*t eminent domain. You know what I'm saying? One thing I learned from the white men, take it."

For this sentiment I blame the FNM.

Being a white man means working 40-50 years and then hoping the government didn't steal too much to enable you to retire before you die.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

16 Nothing. It's whats for dinner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 03:16 PM (BBIP1)

17 Infiltrate churches and get rent money? I have a small church. There would be no infiltration and we have no money.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2025 03:17 PM (8Xy/A)

18 Speaking as a lesbian immigrant: I approve.

Busty lesbian Ace. An underrepresented group if ever there was one.

Posted by: Kratwurst at October 28, 2025 03:17 PM (CV1nu)

19 Are Sears and the NJ pointing out that if they win the Dems will almost certainly re-open the government?

Because they would.

So if you want SNAP or your government paycheck the best choice you can make is vote R in those states right now...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

20 Speaking as a black lesbian immigrant, I personally find today's Amazon layoffs a huge relief. More evidence that the clusterfuckbubble of AI is going to make the Dot Com crash look like two fat chicks falling off a moped.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (9W2/8)

21 "This stems from failed funding negotiations."

Hah.. ha ha... hahahahahaha.

The negotiations failed in the same way that when a mugger tries to take my wallet, and I punch him in the face. The mugger is lying on the ground bleeding, but perhaps we may negotiate a bit more.

There wasn't any negotiations at all - the Dems demanded our wallet. We said no.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (gDhA9)

22 Hmm, I wonder how many people on SNAP benefits regularly vote for Republicans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK8)

23 Judging by the weight class of the average EBT recipient, I think a few missed meals might not be a catastrophe.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (MIvVV)

24 28 days. Record is 35 under Trump I. Mostly about the money for the border wall. And most of the government stayed open.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (Q4IgG)

25 Speaking as a black lesbian of color you know the gov employee union was never ever about helping gov employees, right?
Right???!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (kXUuT)

26 On November 1, Halloween candy will be marked down. So make sure to grocery-nap those shoppers who have purchased mass quantities of bagged candy.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (5yDGQ)

27 Hmm, I wonder how many people on SNAP benefits regularly vote for Republicans.

I'd guesstimate about half vote D, and the other half have people submit D ballots in their names.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

28 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak with French Champaigne.

People are going to starve, and I feel their pain as he finished his 5th Escargot on his plate sitting next to Jerry Nadler and Gov Pritzker.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (J9q9v)

29 So, they're filming themselves bragging about committing felonies. Ok. I'm sure that no unintended consequences will result from this.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (sAmhv)

30 That argument by Weiner where you wouldn't want to jail a 18-year-old for paying a 17-year-old for a blowjob seems to be an illustration of POEs law.

Like, things have decayed in his mind so much that actually sounds like a reasonable compromise to him!

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (krQz2)

31 This is a dumb question, but I don't know the answer. Why isn't the Congress having their pay withheld?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (7RYym)

32 Democrats "scoffed" at the union's demand.



That's gonna bite the Dems in the ass. Bigly.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (PO1Da)

33
Someone here said yesterday the problem will be the scum robbing you of your groceries in the parking lots of stores.

I can see that happening.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (3ek7K)

34 I typically do my grocery shopping at Walmart at 6 am on Saturday.

This upcoming Saturday may be an experience, though I don't know how many of these EBT layabouts get up that early to do their shopping...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (IBQGV)

35 That argument by Weiner where you wouldn't want to jail a 18-year-old for paying a 17-year-old for a blowjob seems to be an illustration of POEs law.


I suspect as a former young man that offering my then female classmates a twenty for a little funtime would not have gone over well.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

36 Schumer, Captain of F Troop, has led the Dems up a box canyon, and now they're all looking at the dead end and dancing while they sing "Nothing bad can happen to me, nothing bad can happen to me!"

Meanwhile the Apache's are checking their rifles and laughing at the spectacle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (uWKK8)

37 Maybe we eat AOC and then Chuck the Cruel will relent and come to the table?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (jFCkp)

38 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (IXZGh)

39 It's a Republican shutdown, you sillies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (IXZGh)

40 28 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak with French Champaigne.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:19 PM (J9q9v)
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Dinner with Hakeem? What a snoozer.

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (G0vdT)

41 Someone here said yesterday the problem will be the scum robbing you of your groceries in the parking lots of stores.

I...doubt that.

The FSA crowd isn't going to rob you for your wonder bread, skippy, and stove top stuffing.

Now coming out of the liquor store? Different story

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

42
Hmm, I wonder how many people on SNAP benefits regularly vote for Republicans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK

I'd reckon most of them in my AO. It's very, very red here. If they vote at all, it's probably for Republicans.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

43 Grocery shopping in the weewee hours of the morning. This is the way.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 03:21 PM (BBIP1)

44 28 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak with French Champaigne."

I'll bet Jeffries has a lot of experience eating black angus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (uWKK8)

45 34 I typically do my grocery shopping at Walmart at 6 am on Saturday.
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It is the best time to move around. Especially in vibrant cities.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (jFCkp)

46 25 Speaking as a black lesbian of color you know the gov employee union was never ever about helping gov employees, right?
Right???!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

When govt union employees demand concessions, who are they getting these concessions from? When they go on strike, who are they striking against?

You.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (Dv3i1)

47
Saw a twitter video of a guy spilling the beans on why so many people are pissed about missing SNAP benefits.

They get $4000 in food benefits, and sell them for $1000-$2000 in cash.

There it is in a nutshell.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (IifOV)

48 8 billion a month for 40 million people.
Pay the Military, Veterans, ATC's and the essential workers.
The rest can go fuck themselves.

A government worker misses one paycheck and is hitting up a food bank?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (QGLzn)

49 I have a small church.

>>>>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2025 03:17 PM (8Xy/A)

You own it? Rent it from God? Do you charge by the visit?

Posted by: Same Old Same Old at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (B9BeB)

50 This is a dumb question, but I don't know the answer. Why isn't the Congress having their pay withheld?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Because they voted to continue to pay themselves during shutdowns about 40 years ago.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (PO1Da)

51 I have not been affected by this wonderful shut down as all. Keep it going. Let these fed 'workers' suffer. Except the military of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (abIsI)

52 People (grifters and Losers) in Democrat States must suffer so Chuck Schumer can save his D0-Nothing Job !!!!

Don't you Nazi's and Islam-phobic Haters understand ?????

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (J9q9v)

53 So, they're filming themselves bragging about committing felonies. Ok. I'm sure that no unintended consequences will result from this.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I don't think stealing something worth $9 can be considered a felony, especially wherever that woman happens to be.

Still not good, and really stupid, but not a felony. But I'm sure we'll get to those at some point.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

54 I'll bet Jeffries has a lot of experience eating black angus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (uWKK
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Just without the 'g'.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (krQz2)

55 Kelley said the Democrats should do what they have sworn not to: Pass the GOP's "clean" stopgap government funding bill on the expectation of future negotiations on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.


If the 'affordable care act' made healthcare so affordable, why do all it's members need subsidies?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (IXZGh)

56 This is a dumb question, but I don't know the answer. Why isn't the Congress having their pay withheld?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Because their entire existence is to enrich themselves and their lobbyist friends?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (abIsI)

57 >>>Speaking as a lesbian immigrant: I approve.

; )

Posted by: m at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

58 Saw a twitter video of a guy spilling the beans on why so many people are pissed about missing SNAP benefits.

They get $4000 in food benefits, and sell them for $1000-$2000 in cash.

There it is in a nutshell.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (IifOV)
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That can't be right. $4000 a month for food assistance?

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (G0vdT)

59 Saw a twitter video of a guy spilling the beans on why so many people are pissed about missing SNAP benefits.

They get $4000 in food benefits, and sell them for $1000-$2000 in cash.

There it is in a nutshell.
Posted by: Frank Barone


And someone here jumped me yesterday saying most only hot $200 a month.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (PO1Da)

60 Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (PO1Da

Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (7RYym)

61
If the 'affordable care act' made healthcare so affordable, why do all it's members need subsidies?


Then: Obamacare will cut your monthly premiums by 3000%

Now: Of course Obamacare raised your month premiums by 300%. Otherwise it would have been more

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (sKqQm)

62 The "smart" welfare queens cut off their extended families from using their WIC, SNAP whatever weeks ago and still have a couple hundred on the card.

Both of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (Q4IgG)

63 Dinner with Hakeem? What a snoozer.
Posted by: WisRich

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Not if it's at Taco Cabana.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (5yDGQ)

64 Of you aren't paying anyway why not Ribeyes?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (BBIP1)

65 54 I'll bet Jeffries has a lot of experience eating black angus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (uWKK
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Just without the 'g'.
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g is for gristle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (jFCkp)

66 Someone here said yesterday the problem will be the scum robbing you of your groceries in the parking lots of stores.

I can see that happening.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (3ek7K)


If you go to Portland and some Salem stores on certain days like when EBT cards (Called the Oregon Trail* card here) you can see stumblers and related going in and coming out with loaded grocery baskets, which they line up to the curb where a number of SUVs are parked, and some sort of transaction occurs, and the purchase walks away with something, and the groceries are stowed in the back of the SUV.
No idea if it is traded for drugs or money, and no idea if this is a novel way to stock a smaller store, or feed Antifa troops, but there you are.

This business model may go away for a bit.

[*We begged people to rename it the Donner Party Card, but no one is listening]

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (rbvCR)

67 That can't be right. $4000 a month for food assistance?

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM



https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1983039779320279427

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (IifOV)

68
Just to remind us, the American Federation of Government Employees is hardly "turning on the Democrat party," as in looking to realign with the Republicans. This is just a moment of checking to see who's got their hand on the spigot and pressuring them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (5e+/e)

69 Then: Obamacare will cut your monthly premiums by 3000%

Now: Of course Obamacare raised your month premiums by 300%. Otherwise it would have been more
____

Obama and the Democrats are liars? No...way.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (Dv3i1)

70 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak with French Champaigne.


Most politicians, but the Democrats are TRULY the "let 'em eat cake" party.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (IXZGh)

71 "Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight," Everett Kelley, president of the AFGE, wrote. "It's time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship."
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Right. Can't cave into Republicans, and promote what Republicans have wanted all along, without a "both sides" message to let the Dems off the hook maybe a little bit.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:25 PM (krQz2)

72 >>> Hmm, I wonder how many people on SNAP benefits regularly vote for Republicans.

My husband! When he was a single dad who had gone back to school, with kids to feed as the parent with sole custody.

But he had served in the navy, and paid taxes dutifully before then as a hardworking American. And now he has a good job again. It was a crucial safety net for a temporary need, not a comfy hammock to lay in forever.

He had about $1200 left on his SNAP card at the end, and decided he didn't want any to use it. He could have, but felt it wasn't necessary. He might be the only magical unicorn I know of who didn't use every penny of his SNAP.

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (gWBY1)

73 Why isn't the Congress having their pay withheld?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Speaking as a black lesbian of color because they passed a law getting themselves prior approval of their unending perks. No one stops the flow of spice!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (kXUuT)

74 The Mangled Corpse (Like J. Biden) of Obamacare rises from its Crypt in DC to cause havoc on the hard-working people in Flyover Country.


Another Gift from our President of Color and Sen. John McCain..

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (J9q9v)

75 Someone here said yesterday the problem will be the scum robbing you of your groceries in the parking lots of stores.

I can see that happening.

Posted by: fourseasons


That's when the Ventilation Games start.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (PO1Da)

76 6 Hopefully a few of these parasites attempt to car-jack a well prepared citizen and end up finding out.
Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 28, 2025 03:14 PM (pgwxJ)


Unfortunately, a well-prepared citizen may end up being punished. Hope the justice system is being restored back to actual justice.

Posted by: Emmie at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (FMtrg)

77 Or possibly "The Donner's Party Club Card" might be more clever

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (rbvCR)

78 Here have a canoli.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 03:27 PM (BBIP1)

79 Please watch that vide in full.

The Dems (filthy commies) have been telling people for years that "whitey" stole everything and that is the only reason the West is wealthy. They have been spreading that poison here, and around the world.

They muzzies go West and think the benefits and welfare are booty because the West is conquered because it is immoral and allah (piss on him) is making them pay.

The South Americans think the USA has been screwing up their commie dreams by running revolutions for decades, so taking advantage of el norte is only fair.

The other minorities in the USA think whitey stole everything and they built the country.

They are all victims and slaves to the collectivists BS the Dems (filthy commies) and muzzies have been spreading.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:27 PM (yXalN)

80 If the 'affordable care act' made healthcare so affordable, why do all it's members need subsidies?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Careful ! Only sexist, white, cis-Nazi use logic and ask rhetorical questions …

Posted by: Adriane the Careful to be as Positive as Possible Critic. . . at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (3ZUWJ)

81 73 Why isn't the Congress having their pay withheld?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Speaking as a black lesbian of color because they passed a law getting themselves prior approval of their unending perks. No one stops the flow of spice!

They also EXEMPTED THEMSELVES FROM OBAMACARE!!!
It's for the children...........

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (J9q9v)

82 No idea if it is traded for drugs or money, and no idea if this is a novel way to stock a smaller store, or feed Antifa troops, but there you are.


A couple of years ago a truck turned over on the highway in the next state over. Cops got called out and found thousands of EBT cards in the truck.

No follow up on how that happened of course.

And, honestly, it isn't unusual in my AO to see someone try one EBT card, find out, unexpectectly, it is empty and then pull out another one.

Now, I guess this could be possible legally if you had two unmarried people getting SNAP living together and sharing food but...all the time?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (sKqQm)

83 If the 'affordable care act' made healthcare so affordable, why do all it's members need subsidies?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:23 PM (IXZGh)
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Obama thought we could get to single payer through this.

The need of ideologues to double down is historic.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (krQz2)

84 He had about $1200 left on his SNAP card at the end, and decided he didn't want any to use it. He could have, but felt it wasn't necessary. He might be the only magical unicorn I know of who didn't use every penny of his SNAP.
Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (gWBY1)


One welfare agency worker told me it was nearly impossible to return the money, and the few times people tried he suggested they just buy long storage supplies like beans and rice to bridge any shortfalls that come up in the next 6 months, just in case.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (rbvCR)

85 Afternoon.

It's be crazy if the shutdown went on so long that Federal employees all had to leave and get jobs in the private sector.

Eh, who am I kidding? Private sector expects results.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (N0R2b)

86
He had about $1200 left on his SNAP card at the end, and decided he didn't want any to use it. He could have, but felt it wasn't necessary. He might be the only magical unicorn I know of who didn't use every penny of his SNAP.
Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:26 PM (gWBY1)



My mom had an EBT card. She would only get so much a month, but feared if she didn't spend it every month, she would get a reduction. She was old and couldn't work anymore, but hated the fact she was on government assistance.

She would have us pick things out we wanted when taking her shopping. We usually got steaks and other meats.

The government sucks at just about everything it does.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:29 PM (IXZGh)

87 I share this yesterday, but I know a single woman on SNAP that apologized to her family that she can't use her SNAP for the family thanksgiving dinner.

Why are you using SNAP FOR OTHERS? it's. It meant to be a remittance!

I hewed 1 in 8 Americans are in SNAP, that can't possibly be true, right?

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:29 PM (gWBY1)

88 59 Saw a twitter video of a guy spilling the beans on why so many people are pissed about missing SNAP benefits.
They get $4000 in food benefits, and sell them for $1000-$2000 in cash.
There it is in a nutshell.
Posted by: Frank Barone


And someone here jumped me yesterday saying most only hot $200 a month.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:24 PM (PO1Da)

How on earth do they get 4000 bucks a month for food? The USDA Food Budget says a family of 4 on a "liberal" or high cost food budget would be around 1650 per month. I cannot imagine eating 1000 dollar worth of food per week!

Posted by: moki at October 28, 2025 03:29 PM (wLjpr)

89 44 28 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak with French Champaigne."

I'll bet Jeffries has a lot of experience eating black angus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:22 PM (uWKK

Doubtful.

If he wanted to become a National Politician, it's because he wanted to get away from the Black Dick and start sucking White Dick.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (6Uni8)

90 It's for the children...........

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:28 PM (J9q9v)
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As is Figueroa Street.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (krQz2)

91 85 Afternoon.

It's be crazy if the shutdown went on so long that Federal employees all had to leave and get jobs in the private sector.

LEARN TO CODE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (J9q9v)

92 I assume most government employees might miss a check but will get paid for their little mini 'vacation ' if not working, and if working will get back pay.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (+qU29)

93 > That can't be right. $4000 a month for food assistance?
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The illegals were getting debit cards, aka "food stamps" with thousands of dollars on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (Q4IgG)

94 I hewed 1 in 8 Americans
Posted by: LizLem

What did you axe them?

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

95 Bidenflation did double my food budget (still getting the same things) but...$4000/month should feed more then a dozen people.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

96 People have now missed a paycheck, and they will continue missing paychecks for as long as it takes to get Chuck Schumer over 45% approval.


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OTOH, Chuck U Schumer has 99% approval where it really counts most -- in Beijing, Venezuela, & Gaza, so he's got that going for him ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (W+tQj)

97 This is just a moment of checking to see who's got their hand on the spigot and pressuring them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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I wonder if it is a ploy, and they have any fear that they will not get back pay for their vacation?

Or maybe there is some pressure and they are just going through motions because of heat from people with no savings?

Anyway, ignore what they say publicly, it is all an act.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (yXalN)

98 EBT chick in the thievery video said she was stealing because "I'm making stuffed salmon today."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (XvL8K)

99 95 Bidenflation did double my food budget (still getting the same things) but...$4000/month should feed more then a dozen people.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

That's more than most working-class people even MAKE.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (6Uni8)

100 It's NOT meant to be a remittance... sorry autocorrect is being viciously dumb today.

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (gWBY1)

101 That's gotta be $4000/year, not per month.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (vbXSk)

102 They get $4000 in food benefits, and sell them for $1000-$2000 in cash.

I don't know how this is possible. When benefits were actually paper coupons this was easily accomplished, the person who had the food stamps would just stand outside the store and ppl would buy his stamps for half price.

but now it is a card. I guess they are allowing access to their card to purchase food online.

but even then if you have too many food purchases out of state your card gets flagged

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (dCxaZ)

103 Quick plug for TJM's movie review channel on the Tubes.

https://youtu.be/IU8oiOgsK9s

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (N0R2b)

104 Food aid should be....

Some raw chicken and pork
Lunchmat
Beans
Rice
Bread
Milk
Fruit
Veggies

all in a basket you have to come get weekly.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

105 Funny how the response to free money for food being cut off is to just steal, not earn money to buy one's own food.

Giving people something for nothing always breeds resentment.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (0U5gm)

106 I, for one, look forward to the EBT Wars.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (OuEQR)

107 Democrats "scoffed" at the union's demand.



That's gonna bite the Dems in the ass. Bigly.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (PO1Da)


Nah. It's a good bet that the Dems feel the same way about their voters that the GOPe does.
You think those Union households are gonna vote R next time? They got nowhere else to go, and the D's know it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (Hx0tZ)

108 My daughter has shown me a lot of Tik Toks of women bragging that if their SNAP bennies get cut off they are going on a stealing rampage in groups. Who knows what is really going to happen and how much is just theater. None of it is good.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (oiNtH)

109 98 EBT chick in the thievery video said she was stealing because "I'm making stuffed salmon today."
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How do you stuff a salmon?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (jFCkp)

110 > I assume most government employees might miss a check but will get paid for their little mini 'vacation ' if not working, and if working will get back pay.
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IIRC at 30 days +1 those employees furloughed, not RIF'd (temporarily out of work) join the ranks of the RIF'd. So there will be a lot of Feds without paychecks at that point.

But, yea, they can be rehired if the shutdown is resolved before it reaches 60 days +1. After that, the shit gets real.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (Q4IgG)

111 My brother is disabled and gets about $260.00/month is EBT for food.

I had advised him not to use the whole balance to plan for an emergency. I guess the emergency is now upon him.

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (dCxaZ)

112 I hewed 1 in 8 Americans are in SNAP, that can't possibly be true, right?
Posted by: LizLem


40 million.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (PO1Da)

113 Obamacare was designed to fail so Obama's Dream of Government controlled Healthcare (Like The UK) could become an American Reality..


Since Obama reared its Homo Head from the Bowels of Shit-Cago this country has had major problems...

Nothing like electing a Black Homo Commie to stick to us Racist White Crackers that built and defend this great nation.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (J9q9v)

114 x.com/ebtoftiktok exists.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 28, 2025 03:34 PM (gKWVE)

115 Did that cretin showing off her stolen goods have a single thing that wasn't a luxury? Stuffed salmon? RYFKM?

Throw them in jail NOW!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2025 03:34 PM (Riz8t)

116 >>> 94 I hewed 1 in 8 Americans
Posted by: LizLem
What did you axe them?
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

Autocorrect, you must die! I'm contemplating setting my phone on fire.

I HEARD one in 8 Americans, I meant. Which is a crazy statistic.

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:34 PM (gWBY1)

117 Another thing in all this - the government has been shut down for a month and the only think people have noticed is food aid ending.

So outside of the $100B or so it spends on that what is it doing with the other $6/7T?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

118 None of it is good.
Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (oiNtH)


get to the supermarket as early as possible

they are not going to be ready for "work" before 10 a.m.

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2025 03:34 PM (dCxaZ)

119 It's be crazy if the shutdown went on so long that Federal employees all had to leave and get jobs in the private sector.

LEARN TO CODE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:30 PM (J9q9v)



"Not so fast....."

- - - - - - AI, Doing All the Coding

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:35 PM (IXZGh)

120 How do you stuff a salmon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (jFCkp)

Scott Weiner to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:35 PM (N0R2b)

121 104 Food aid should be....

Some raw chicken and pork
Lunchmat
Beans
Rice
Bread
Milk
Fruit
Veggies

all in a basket you have to come get weekly.


And make the baskets optic yellow.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Riz8t)

122 - - - - - - AI, Doing All the Coding/i]

Spamazon announced massive layoffs.

So...learn to weld?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

123 >>How do you stuff a salmon?


Nose first.

Posted by: Led Zeppelin Groupie at October 28, 2025 03:35 PM (OuEQR)

124 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, it's almost as if the Nation is divided between Makers and Takers.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (PiwSw)

125 If you take a paycheck courtesy of the taxpayer, you have no business belonging to a union.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (sVOFR)

126 mud shark

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

127 That's gonna bite the Dems in the ass. Bigly.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:20 PM (PO1Da)

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I don't know. The leadership of the party IS the Democratic party.

Right now, they are just flexing for their members.

The leadership does have to worry about getting too far from their members, though.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (krQz2)

128
ignore what they say publicly, it is all an act.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

==============

Yes. It's strategy, threats, faux outrage. That union needs to be declared unconstitutional and shut down anyway. I hope it's on Trump's agenda.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (5e+/e)

129 108 My daughter has shown me a lot of Tik Toks of women bragging that if their SNAP bennies get cut off they are going on a stealing rampage in groups. Who knows what is really going to happen and how much is just theater. None of it is good.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2025 03:33 PM (oiNtH)

There's one of some She-boon flat out saying she's going to break into people's houses and take the food right out of their refigerators, and then says nobody's going to do a thing about it.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (6Uni8)

130 How on earth do they get 4000 bucks a month for food? The USDA Food Budget says a family of 4 on a "liberal" or high cost food budget would be around 1650 per month. I cannot imagine eating 1000 dollar worth of food per week!
Posted by: moki


WHat I read is that a family of 4 can get about $1000 a month. slightly more in some places, but not much.

Illegals were getting $10,000 lump sum in some cities just for gracing us with their crimes. There are other scams, like housing, etc. but I think for most $1k is tops for EBT.

They do sell this stuff off, but really, they don't have to. The restrictions are limited and a lot of city stores will substitue for you, allowing you to buy booze but they charge it as meat, etc. They get a cut, but not 50%

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (yXalN)

131 Oh, right: Poor people's SNAP benefits are about to end and they're not taking it well.
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That is a major understatement.

The number of videos on X, Tik Tok, and Instagram, not to mention utoob is mind-boggling.

I told the ladies at church Sunday to keep their heads on a swivel and if possible, not to shop alone.

I'm at the point of carrying a pew-pew, even in a small town.

St Louis and East St Louis isn't that far from my AO.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (+F/VA)

132 I don't know what they are worried about, under Our Democracy, a judge in California has appointed herself President and ordered the fake President Trump to not fire any federal workers.

If you don't understand why that's Constitutional, it's because you didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (6EDhb)

133 125 If you take a paycheck courtesy of the taxpayer, you have no business belonging to a union.
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But then the Union bosses would have to get a job!

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (jFCkp)

134 First: My daughter has shown me a lot of Tik Toks of women bragging that if their SNAP bennies get cut off they are going on a stealing rampage in groups. Who knows what is really going to happen and how much is just theater. None of it is good.

Then: The only reason there aren't grocery stores in the inner city is racism

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

135 Speaking as a black LGBT woman, it's almost as if the Nation is divided between Makers and Takers.

And the takers are PROUD of being such.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

136 Entitled womman with missing lime green fake nails is, I hope not typical. Maybe for her ghetto.

I know now I need granny crocheted steering wheel and seat belt covers. I am pretty sure my husband is not going for this. This is my take on the video.

WHY does the GOP not shout in CAPS all over X and networks that part of the shut down bill includes free healthcare and benefits for ILLEGALS? WHY????Can any of you with power give them a nudge for me?

I think this might clue the ignorant into the reason the meanies have shut the government down. But I could be wrong as it is cold and I don't want to do work in the yard, being not entitled, nor having fake nails.

Wherever this beetch is, there are apparently no cameras on the short ribs for her to be ripping off the labels. I hope the dates expired and she gets a mighty dose of food poisoning, explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting until her hair extensions fly off.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (j5WMt)

137
If any of you missed it, do watch some of the footage of Trump in Japan with the new PM. He charmed her pants off, and vice versa, I think. She gave him Abe's putter as a gift. He had her on the George Washington, and she was jumping up and down at the podium. And they watched a baseball game together.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

138 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (yXalN)

the 4k/month may be for cash and food benefits combined

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (dCxaZ)

139 Autocorrect, you must die! I'm contemplating setting my phone on fire.

Posted by: LizLem


*snort.

And 40 x 8 =320.

So yeah. 1/8 of 320 million is 40 million.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (PO1Da)

140 There's one of some She-boon flat out saying she's going to break into people's houses and take the food right out of their refigerators, and then says nobody's going to do a thing about it.
___

*glances at shotgun next to door*

She and her ilk can try.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (+F/VA)

141 Why are any non-citizens (now there’s a term) getting any SNAP at all from the federal government?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (sVOFR)

142 St Louis and East St Louis isn't that far from my AO.
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East St. Louis is special.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (jFCkp)

143 A couple of heifers fighting over who gets to steal the last steak will make for great videos. No doubt this will get ugly. The blue states / cities are going to be nuts. I live in one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (8RjCi)

144 the 4k/month may be for cash and food benefits combined
Posted by: kallisto


Why the fuck are they getting free cash?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (PO1Da)

145 mud shark

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (rbvCR)



HEY!!!!

How'd you know what Chasten calls my penis?!!?

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (IXZGh)

146 141 Why are any non-citizens (now there’s a term) getting any SNAP at all from the federal government?
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Same reason they get free health care at the Emergency Room. Cuz they can.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (jFCkp)

147 Illegals were getting $10,000 lump sum in some cities just for gracing us with their crimes. There are other scams, like housing, etc. but I think for most $1k is tops for EBT.

I can't even imagine how often that got abused.

Hey aren't you the Juan Valdez that came by last week and got a $10K card then?

No senior

Well, ok, here you go, but remember you only get one

Si se puede

Huh?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

148 The better trick than SNAP is to get a "Disability" label. Then they give you even more money every month, for life. There are many real cases, but also a lot of frauds that just want the free ride ... for life.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (vbXSk)

149 And they watched a baseball game together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

There we go. Bring down the new PM of Japan by showing her a dead sport.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (sVOFR)

150 Why the fuck are they getting free cash?
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (PO1Da)


I don't know, I don't make the rules

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (dCxaZ)

151 East St. Louis is special.
Posted by: Pudinhead
__

*snort*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (+F/VA)

152 The average EBT for a family of four in this country is more grocery budget than mine, and I am paying for both.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (0U5gm)

153 450 lb SNAP Grifter Mama in DC with 5 kids and no known fathers is going to starve without buying Pork Rinds, Ice Cream, Donuts, Cookies, Potato Chips, Burger King Super Meals, Cake, Extra Sugar Coca Cola, Pies, Buckets of KFC Fried Chicken and High Calorie Bread.

Don't you people feel their pain ??????????????

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (J9q9v)

154 He charmed her pants off, and vice versa, I think. She gave him Abe's putter as a gift. He had her on the George Washington, and she was jumping up and down at the podium. And they watched a baseball game together.

Is this an elaborate set of euphemisms?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (Riz8t)

155 Of course Miss Chubby Thang has gold ju-ray and her nails did. And a car. And cosmetics. But she has to steal just to survive.

Posted by: A regular Jean Valjean at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (TbWk/)

156 I ran across this, it is nothing unsuspected, but Gabbard came out and said it, about Hillz and her issues.

RealRobert
@Real_RobN
18h
Here it is:

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard:

Not just the Russians — also Barack Obama. In his original ICA report, the intelligence community confirmed that Hillary Clinton was suffering from “intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger and aggression,” and was placed on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers.”

In other words, not only did Barack Obama withhold a “national security threat” from the American people, but he also orchestrated a treasonous conspiracy to overthrow the United States government — for the very “national security threat” that both Russia and Obama had concealed from the public.

Think about it — a psychopath in the White House on heavy tranquilizers. Tell me, exactly how the f**k would that have turned out? Blackmail? Sabotage? Espionage? World War III?
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:11 AM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (rbvCR)

157 Oh... one thing that annoyed me about the SNAP program is that my husband couldn't buy a cooked rotisserie chicken at the grocery store. Which if you do it right, can make a few meals, and then you use the bones for broth.

But soda and candy were ok. Really, government?

My husband refused to use his SNAP on soda and candy. He only saved it for "real groceries." Again, he was a special unicorn for not trying to milk the system for every dime.

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (gWBY1)

158

Why the fuck are they getting free cash?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:38 PM (PO1Da)



Lazy people love free shit......It's all about the votes. Democrats are using tax dollars to buy votes.

FDR is still laughing.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (IXZGh)

159
Speaking as a black LGBT woman--

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I'm loving that meme and I hope it spreads everywhere. I read that New Yorker interview with Latrine John-Pissoir and it's hilarious. A liberal journalist comes face to face with St. Karine of the Podium and nearly loses his mind with frustration at her circular logic, deflection, denial -- all the things real journalists had to suffer with during her four years in the White House. And virtually every response she gave included her creds as an LGBTQ Black woman. I'm glad, and a *bit* surprised, that the New Yorker published it. Even New Yorker readers will roll their eyes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (5e+/e)

160 Damn......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (IXZGh)

161 147 Illegals were getting $10,000 lump sum in some cities just for gracing us with their crimes. There are other scams, like housing, etc. but I think for most $1k is tops for EBT.

Like the crime of crossing the border without reporting to a CBP official with a valid passport at a port of entry.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (sVOFR)

162 all in a basket you have to come get weekly.
Posted by: 18-1


f thast shit.

Rice, beans, lard. One month supply in a sack.

This is actually what 3rd world countries do. (well, almost.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (yXalN)

163 Cause I'm E.B.T., I'm dynamite
EBT., and I'll win the fight
EBT., I'm a power load
EBT., watch me explode

Posted by: OB/CD at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (HcoTw)

164 149 There we go. Bring down the new PM of Japan by showing her a dead sport.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (sVOFR)

======

Baseball's been popular in Japan since about 1880.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

165
Cow Demon,

I have never understood why we give money to non citizens.

If you can't support your family, GET THE FUCK out of our country.


Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (3ek7K)

166 Cabernet or a Syrah with a steak or roast

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (+qU29)

167 The average EBT for a family of four in this country is more grocery budget than mine, and I am paying for both.

I remember noticing plenty of people picking up steaks and looking at the prices and putting them back after Bidenflation started. But I live in a middle class area so not many upper class leftists or FSA types...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

168
I'm at the point of carrying a pew-pew, even in a small town.

St Louis and East St Louis isn't that far from my AO.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:36 PM (+F/VA)


Please be careful, SMH. and if the ladies could shop together, that might be safer. Don't go alone and don't go at night.

I fear for for a grocery store/instacart delivery driver. Those folks may not be able to care personal protection, and there are probably already gangs who are stationed at grocery stores watching cars leaving with a delivery. The driver and the family ordering are vulnerable. Please stay safe!!!

Posted by: moki at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (wLjpr)

169 Cinderella Man, the true movie about Heavyweight Champion James Braddock, highlights a scene where Braddock went back to the welfare office after he won a fight to payback the money he got to help feed his kids during the depression when he couldn't find a job.

I doubt there are many like him today.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)

170 Why the fuck are they getting free cash?
Posted by: rickb223
___

Good question.

Posted by: Veterans fighting for years for an extra $300 bucks a month at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (+F/VA)

171 The Democrats are betting Trump will suffer from the The Riot of EBTisha and her Gang of 13%ers.

Trump knows the Democrats can't afford the visuals of all the able-bodied adults demanding money.

PS:
None, not one, of the TicTok goblins are responding to November 1 with, "I better get a job if I want food."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (6EDhb)

172
Baseball is big in Japan. It goes back to the late 1800s, farther than I thought. Baseball is not dead in Japan by a long shot. In fact, base-uh-bol has been berry berry good to Japan.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

173 Yes, it's real--the USDA has confirmed that due to the government shutdown, SNAP benefits (via EBT) won't be issued starting November 1,

______________________________

I just love the Holiday season. Great food, fun get togethers, brisk shopping trips, all the decorations...

...and packing heat to deal with those rambunctious teens looking to commit a felony against me in the grocery store parking lot.

Fa la la la laaa la la la laaaaa...

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

174 You probably can't imagine the billions of tax dollars going to Leftists for free cash

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 03:41 PM (+qU29)

175 But soda and candy were ok. Really, government?

I vaguely recall RFK talking about removing this from SNAP eligible food items.

Apparently its rayciss because why shouldn't people on the dole people able to get hohos and fritos?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

176 > Why are any non-citizens (now there’s a term) getting any SNAP at all from the federal government?
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They shouldn't. But I've no idea if the administration even thought about revoking all those bank issued debit cards the *biden junta handed out.

It was (is) billions. Hundreds of billions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (Q4IgG)

177 There we go. Bring down the new PM of Japan by showing her a dead sport.
Posted by: Cow Demon


Japanese baseball.

Japanese baseball is cool. Tons of honor in the sport. Fans are cray cray.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (PO1Da)

178 104 Food aid should be....

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, it should - return us to the 50s and 60s. Churches give out baskets weekly to the poor. No reason government warehouses couldn't do the same. And no lunchmeat or anything not shelf stable.

You come get a basket of food.

Basket should be:
Canned chicken and tuna
Dried or Canned Beans of multiple types
Rice
Peanut Butter
Cheerios
Canned Veg
Bag of Apples, Oranges, Onions, and Potatoes (which are all shelf-stable a LONG time)

Govt center could have a fridge to give out gallons of milk to those with kids under 18 along with the box if you wanted to give dairy. And a loaf of bread per box if desired.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (tOcjL)

179 The "mostly peaceful" food riots are going to be epic.

"Burn Down Every Food Store! If We Don't Eat, Nobody Eat!"

The only good thing about 2020 was that now many of us are quite well-"prepped" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (W+tQj)

180 Ahg. I should have said that the leadership of the union *is* the Democratic party.

Heck it's true of most unions. And definitely true of public unions.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

181 Please be careful, SMH. and if the ladies could shop together, that might be safer. Don't go alone and don't go at night.

I fear for for a grocery store/instacart delivery driver. Those folks may not be able to care personal protection, and there are probably already gangs who are stationed at grocery stores watching cars leaving with a delivery. The driver and the family ordering are vulnerable. Please stay safe!!!
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I'm not worried about myself. Some of the ladies in my bible study group are so sweet, and so naive.

One of them is leaving on a road trip...on November 1st.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (+F/VA)

182 Think about it — a psychopath in the White House on heavy tranquilizers. Tell me, exactly how the f**k would that have turned out? Blackmail? Sabotage? Espionage? World War III?
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:11 AM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (rbvCR)

Crazy bitch on tranqs what hit the sauce a bit too much.

Sounds about right.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (N0R2b)

183 Was watching a YouTube today about stealing commercial copper wiring by breaking manhole covers is a thing in LA.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (wBaIH)

184
Back in the 90's I remember going to the local corner store and seeing the bums go in and buy $25 in soda/water with their welfare cards, walk outside and open them all up. Pour them out. Then turn around walk back in and return the empties for the .5 cent deposits. Then buy a tall malt liquor or wine with it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (IifOV)

185 Japanese baseball is cool. Tons of honor in the sport. Fans are cray cray.


Japanese porn. Just weird

Posted by: OB/CD at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (HcoTw)

186 Why are any non-citizens (now there’s a term) getting any SNAP at all from the federal government?

Posted by: Cow Demon


Are you kidding? They were getting free flights from Central and South America to any city they wanted in the US (while bypassing security), free housing, free medical care, plus EBT and additional walking around money in cash. Most of that is still going on, minus the flights.

The whole point is to replace you with a more compliant population, have you pay for it, and to rub your nose in it until you die.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (0U5gm)

187 That's more than most working-class people even MAKE.
Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (6Uni

Working class, because as we all know, hyper evil rich people never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever work.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (sVOFR)

188 I just love the Holiday season. Great food, fun get togethers, brisk shopping trips, all the decorations...

...and packing heat to deal with those rambunctious teens looking to commit a felony against me in the grocery store parking lot.

Fa la la la laaa la la la laaaaa...
Posted by: Orson
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This made me laugh way more than I should.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (+F/VA)

189 "Subsidized Citizens."

Posted by: LOL at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (TOlbv)

190 I plan on going grocery shopping next week. Should I wear level III or IV armor?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (abIsI)

191 Japanese baseball is cool. Tons of honor in the sport. Fans are cray cray.

The odder thing with Asian baseball is the cheerleaders. But...easy on the eyes so no complaints.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

192 The whole point is to replace you with a more compliant population, have you pay for it, and to rub your nose in it until you die.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (0U5gm)

Dissolve the people and elect another

Posted by: Bertolt Brecht at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (sVOFR)

193
I sort of thought in the back of my head baseball must've gotten big in Japan after the war during the occupation. But, no indeed, it goes back well before that.

There is a photo of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig over there touring next to the "father of Japanese baseball" in 1927.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (w6EFb)

194 Not too sure about the disability thing and SNAP. My cousin, on dialysis and getting section 8 housing, got $18 a month in food stamps. He did get free prepared meals delivered. The last time I knew anyone on SNAP it was $200 a month for a single person. That was before Biden got in.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (96wnD)

195 Not just the Russians — also Barack Obama. In his original ICA report, the intelligence community confirmed that Hillary Clinton was suffering from “intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger and aggression,” and was placed on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers.”

In other words, not only did Barack Obama withhold a “national security threat” from the American people, but he also orchestrated a treasonous conspiracy to overthrow the United States government — for the very “national security threat” that both Russia and Obama had concealed from the public.

Think about it — a psychopath in the White House on heavy tranquilizers. Tell me, exactly how the f**k would that have turned out? Blackmail? Sabotage? Espionage? World War III?


Obama just figured she'd give him his 3rd term.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

196 After bragging about all the things she just stole from the store because her food stamps got cut off, woman tells her followers to "infiltrate" churches and get rent money.

"So this is what I stole, okay? They wanted $9 for this. I said, Oh, I don't got $9."

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*** noticing tats ****

Uh huh.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

197 >>> There's one of some She-boon flat out saying she's going to break into people's houses and take the food right out of their refigerators, and then says nobody's going to do a thing about it.

To be fair, if she's in a blue city she's not wrong. If the police dare arrest her, a judge will set her free.

Live in a red state with guns, though, and just try ransacking someone's pantry.

Posted by: LizLem at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (gWBY1)

198 > Yes, it's real--the USDA has confirmed that due to the government shutdown, SNAP benefits (via EBT) won't be issued starting November 1
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But... if you still have a balance on your EBT / SNAP debit card, you're good to go until it runs out.

It would be interesting to have the EBT / SNAP debit cards refilled quarterly instead of every month.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)

199 Halloween the day before EBT is cutoff? Gonna be nuts.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (XvL8K)

200 I plan on going grocery shopping next week. Should I wear level III or IV armor?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Depends on population density.

And what said population is made of.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (+F/VA)

201 152 The average EBT for a family of four in this country is more grocery budget than mine, and I am paying for both.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

^^^^^^^
This right here is the most important comment on this thread.

Most people don't realize this reality, and now Miss "I ain't got no $9.00" and her friends are broadcasting it to the world.

What is happening is that the dems are afraid that th 60% not on SNAP will realize this and be pissed.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (yXalN)

202 I'd better stock up on Doritos and grape Nehi this week.

Posted by: Sashiqua at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (TOlbv)

203 Japanese baseball.

Japanese baseball is cool. Tons of honor in the sport. Fans are cray cray.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (PO1Da)
__________________________

Definitely is. Not exactly the same game as in the US, but fun to watch, lots of marginal US players in the line-ups. Franchises in Japan are doing very well.

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (dIske)

204 because the so it begins guy isn't hear yet.

Posted by: That's how it starts at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (FhXTo)

205 179 There we go. Bring down the new PM of Japan by showing her a dead sport.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:39 PM (sVOFR)

It's not dead in Japan.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (6Uni8)

206 How many generations of welfare since LBJ started this mess? It was shown in magnification during Katrina in 2005, so I reckon six generations? I don't do math well.

The SNAP fraud involved is huge, like in Medicaid. Now their pants are pulled down and there are screaming throughout the land.

With SNAP benefits junk food is bought to add to obesity, as we all know. Unsure if you can buy booze as I am not on SNAP and have never had benefits except through marriage. Note: if my husband ever read I compared him to SNAP and welfare he'd take away my laptop.

Since illegals are now on the welfare train...illegally...legal people should be screaming. Vs "The Man" or "The White Man." Nay, gurl, it is the brown people crossing our borders illegally. The other strain of brown people who want to take away your short ribs and baconand put you in a burka. Those are the people you should be yelling about, beetch.

Maybe I need to start a youtube for these sistas and explain some things to them. But I am too tired to do anything currently much less start a youtube and talk to myself on film. *Everyone cheers*

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (j5WMt)

207 178 104 Food aid should be....

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, it should - return us to the 50s and 60s. Churches give out baskets weekly to the poor. No reason government warehouses couldn't do the same. And no lunchmeat or anything not shelf stable.

You come get a basket of food.

Basket should be:
Canned chicken and tuna
Dried or Canned Beans of multiple types
Rice
Peanut Butter
Cheerios
Canned Veg
Bag of Apples, Oranges, Onions, and Potatoes (which are all shelf-stable a LONG time)

Govt center could have a fridge to give out gallons of milk to those with kids under 18 along with the box if you wanted to give dairy. And a loaf of bread per box if desired.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 03:42 PM (tOcjL)

Churches should do this, and they would do it better via voulnteer work.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 03:46 PM (sVOFR)

208 It's be crazy if the shutdown went on so long that Federal employees all had to leave and get jobs in the private sector.

"Will impose onerous regulations on your company for food!"

Posted by: ex-Federal Worker at October 28, 2025 03:46 PM (ccl8b)

209 It would be interesting to have the EBT / SNAP debit cards refilled quarterly instead of every month.
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If by interesting you mean "terrible policy", you are correct. Have you considered running for public office?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2025 03:46 PM (TN0g+)

210 This is only partly about Schumer's polling. It's mostly about creating chaos and social breakdown. It's political vandalism, wrecking everything they can hoping the damage redounds to Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 28, 2025 03:46 PM (WHfpM)

211 Was watching a YouTube today about stealing commercial copper wiring by breaking manhole covers is a thing in LA.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (wBaIH)


Chance of finding an industrial sized bug buster when you cut into a live line for a max of $5.00 a pound.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:47 PM (rbvCR)

212 >>>Hmm, I wonder how many people on SNAP benefits regularly vote for Republicans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK

This is a good point.

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2025 03:47 PM (q177U)

213 My only wish here was that Mamdani could have setup his government run grocery stores right before EBT ran out.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

214 the twitter account EBTofTikTok is stunning

Posted by: m at October 28, 2025 03:47 PM (RuTUS)

215
I remember people lining up once per month at the local Legion Hall for the government food dispersments. Also If you were able bodied you joined "The gleaners" and picked fruit/veggies and got to keep it.

Government cheese. Powdered Milk. Powdered eggs. Canned meat.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (IifOV)

216 At an expensive Diner in DC today, Rep. Hakeem Jefferies said people are suffering because of Trump as he ate his $90 Black Angus Steak...
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I bet he had it cooked "well" and drowned it with Heinz 57.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (TN0g+)

217 171 The Democrats are betting Trump will suffer from the The Riot of EBTisha and her Gang of 13%ers.

Trump knows the Democrats can't afford the visuals of all the able-bodied adults demanding money.

PS:
None, not one, of the TicTok goblins are responding to November 1 with, "I better get a job if I want food."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 03:40 PM (6EDhb)

=====

Imagine if Schumer had just...gotten the clean CR passed 4 weeks ago.

They could talk about Epstein or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

218 Are you kidding? They were getting free flights from Central and South America to any city they wanted in the US (while bypassing security), free housing, free medical care, plus EBT and additional walking around money in cash. Most of that is still going on, minus the flights.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:43 PM (0U5gm)
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But you know what was "MESSING WITH PEOPLE'S LIVES!!"?

Asking them after they arrived if they wanted a bus ride to Martha's Vineyard or a Northern "sanctuary" state.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (krQz2)

219
In Star TrekS9, Sisko was a fan of baseball, which had died out. In a storyline about the history, they had Japan being the last bastion of baseball.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

220 194 Not too sure about the disability thing and SNAP. My cousin, on dialysis and getting section 8 housing, got $18 a month in food stamps. He did get free prepared meals delivered. The last time I knew anyone on SNAP it was $200 a month for a single person. That was before Biden got in.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (96wnD)

To be fair, free prepared meals for dialysis patients are EXPENSIVE. I looked into that for in laws...it's about $30+/day minimum, so while SNAP may have been $18, he was getting $900/month in other bennies...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (tOcjL)

221
So the witch is buying salmon.

We are retired and salmon is something we only buy a couple of times a year. We have to count our pennies.

WTH is wrong with a can of soup and grilled cheese or peanut butter sandwiches??

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (3ek7K)

222 The odder thing with Asian baseball is the cheerleaders. But...easy on the eyes so no complaints.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

I had to look this up.

Dude...

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (N0R2b)

223 I thought the Repubs were going to repeal B.O. Care.
Oh wait, where the fuck have I been? I guess they are waiting until McCain's funeral is over.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

224 206 Since illegals are now on the welfare train...illegally...legal people should be screaming. Vs "The Man" or "The White Man." Nay, gurl, it is the brown people crossing our borders illegally. The other strain of brown people who want to take away your short ribs and baconand put you in a burka. Those are the people you should be yelling about, beetch.

Maybe I need to start a youtube for these sistas and explain some things to them. But I am too tired to do anything currently much less start a youtube and talk to myself on film. *Everyone cheers*

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (j5WMt)

It won't work.

What they really want is 400 years of White Slavery.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (6Uni8)

225 As a crippled black lesbian from Narnia, I'm tired of paying extortion every first of the month so that primitive savages don't kill me or my loved ones.

Welfare has always been a protection racket to keep primitives from murdering the Morlocks from murdering the Eloi.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (Q2lQZ)

226 They should link SNAP to body weight -- go above healthy weight for your height, and they cut rations in half. Monthly weigh-ins.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (yXalN)

227 Commodities had canned beef and pork, butter and cheese, flour and powdered milk. Don't remember if they got shortening or lard. One of the issues with food banks is that you don't get the items you needfor the things you do get. Macaroni and cheese mix is common, but you need milk and butter (or margarine) to make it. It's not an issue if you can buy what you need, but if you are broke, it's hard.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (96wnD)

228 Yeah, they’re also admitting on social media that EBT cards a regularly sold for around $.50 on the dollar, fueling an underground economy. For example, cash for EBT used by bodegas to then have government subsidize their food inventory purchases.


Not that I want riots, but won’t it be interesting to see what EBT has actually been funding?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (Hkcdp)

229
I'm still sick from the content of the last thread, and I just wanted to contribute this one willowed thing:

The hero of Abigail Shrier's piece in City Journal was Officer Elizabeth Armendariz, whose pay, head shot, physical description, complete resume with the LAPD, and other info is made public by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, "a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles." Also from their website:

"Over a decade ago, Stop LAPD Spying developed a copwatch practice that we call Watch the Watchers. Copwatch refers to the practice of community members teaming up to observe and document police abuses, especially arrests and other violence."

So they're doing their best to undo the work of that SAINT (no sarcasm) who is trying to save young girls. She's all of 27 years old.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (5e+/e)

230 When someone does not pay you for your labor, and you STILL have to work by contract.... that sounds like Indentured servitude.

Which... is illegal.

DC wants to shut down the government without THEM feeling any pain... which is why this Kabuki theatre of paying some Gov workers is a non starter IMO...

Question, does Congressional STAFF get paid during a Shut down? I bet they do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (mP0Kj)

231 I don't typically buy a lot at one time at the grocery store. I am now re-thinking that strategy. Molon Labe.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 28, 2025 03:50 PM (MZ+PY)

232 The Pope has a ceiling worth a thousand dollars in paint alone. Infiltrate him.

Posted by: Archie Bunker-Art Critic at October 28, 2025 03:50 PM (oftw2)

233 They should link SNAP to body weight -- go above healthy weight for your height, and they cut rations in half. Monthly weigh-ins.

I remember reading about a monastery that had made the door to their dining area narrow - if you couldn't fit through the door you didn't eat.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

234 202 I'd better stock up on Doritos and grape Nehi this week.
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When Doritos first came out they were Corn Chips. Now, they all be Nacho Corn Chips. I just like Corn Chips. No need for the sprayed on Nacho.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (jFCkp)

235 [This morning -- ]

Me: "That Freddie Freeman has always been Diamondbacks-killer. Now he's a Blue Jays-killer."

The Wifey: "So you're saying he's a Wildlife killer?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (W+tQj)

236 TJM when is the next video?

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (+qU29)

237 My brother had an EBT/SNAP card. The regular benefit was something like $150. But there was a COVID boost of another $200 / month that went one for quite a while.

Posted by: no one at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (W7XSX)

238 Union Members = Useful Idiots.

Will they figure it out, ever??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 28, 2025 03:51 PM (wtvvX)

239 Who really controls these Democrats in Washington? Donors, of course. But …

Politically speaking, NO politician ever, wants to side with any of their pet “issues”. Kiddie fvckers, open borders, free sex changes for illegal aliens on death row, the list is endless, and yet every one has been rejected repeatedly by the American people over and over and over.

Yet they won’t quit, they won’t shut the fuck up and they won’t change the subject. It’s insane. Notice old hands like Carville are vacillating heavily, calling Democrats insane in one breath and calling for collaborationists to be hanged in the next. It’s interesting to watch.

From far, far away

Posted by: Common Tater at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (p9bn0)

240 When I got blindsided by a divorce, I did everything I could to pay my bills and keep the lights on. I worked two jobs. I didn't qualify for shit. But I kept the lights on, the bills paid, the dogs fed and I ate one can of pinto beans a day. For over nine months until I could get my head above water.

Towards the end when my wife could no longer work and was home bound and on hospice, again, my cracker ass didn't qualify for shit.

So, if I seen a little jaded and non-empathetic, it's because I am.

Sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (PO1Da)

241 Not that I want riots, but won’t it be interesting to see what EBT has actually been funding?

It will be like USAID being defunded and seeing FNM orgs immediately start laying people off

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

242 That’s horrid, Blonde Morticia!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Hkcdp)

243 How much do teef grills cost? Can they be removed at night like retainers?

I know if I had lime green claw fake nails I'd at least have them on all 10 fingers. Plus the middle finger she's wagging around is different but I can't make out what's on that nail. Probably a drawing of something special.

She is a confusing shop lifting ghetto qween.

I need a grill now as well as an afghan granny crochet steering wheel cover. I think I will ask for these for Christmas to see what my husband and sons say.

I must go be productive. Not that anyone will miss me as I sob my way putting away summer dresses to make room for sweaters. Cramming them into closets because I keep things and don't care! I still have suits from work and travel because I feel like it and might need them. Marie Kondo can go blow it out her ear! And, yes, I do give to charity. Bite me.

I HATE HOUSEWORK. I want to be entitled as well!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (j5WMt)

244
Not that I want riots, but won’t it be interesting to see what EBT has actually been funding?
Posted by: Lizzy

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I really hope this moment opens a few more eyes (the scale of the EBT program has certainly opened mine) to the point that someone at the federal level initiates reform. Is Brooke Rollins (Sec USDA) up to the task? Would she be... involved, in any way?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (5e+/e)

245 227 Commodities had canned beef and pork, butter and cheese, flour and powdered milk. Don't remember if they got shortening or lard. One of the issues with food banks is that you don't get the items you needfor the things you do get. Macaroni and cheese mix is common, but you need milk and butter (or margarine) to make it. It's not an issue if you can buy what you need, but if you are broke, it's hard.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (96wnD)

No, you don't actually NEED milk or butter to make the mac and cheese box...you can make it with water and it will be edible. You'd just like it more with more money.

And why give mac and cheese and not just plain pasta boxes and jarred generic tomato sauce? Dinner is then done with nothing extra.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (tOcjL)

246 Yeah, I never understood how he could have that much food and still bitch about SNAP. He's stopped speaking to me and I'm sure he's upset about how this is playing out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (96wnD)

247 I don't know how this is possible. When benefits were actually paper coupons this was easily accomplished, the person who had the food stamps would just stand outside the store and ppl would buy his stamps for half price.
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One of the most common is the corner store. You know the one that says in the window "EBT accepted here?"

Yeah, the case of soda might get sold 7-8 times.
EBT buys the soda. Or any other non-perishable.
Goes back to get a "refund" in cash.
Soda goes back on the shelf.

Or you know, just goes to the clerk and "buys" 7 cases and gets their cash right then.

Now you know why--besides their sugar addiction--they are so upset over RFK, Jr cutting off sodas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 03:52 PM (6EDhb)

248 Halloween the day before EBT is cutoff? Gonna be nuts.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 28, 2025 03:45 PM (XvL8K)

Replace the candy with the fruit, kids are gonna need it.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (N0R2b)

249 *bites thumbnail*

So- all these groups aligned with Democrats who are suckling off the American taxpayer won’t get their welfare.

Should I be concerned?

Posted by: That Guy at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (Z6UNg)

250
That’s horrid, Blonde Morticia!!!
Posted by: Lizzy

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Tears of anger.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (5e+/e)

251 When Doritos first came out they were Corn Chips. Now, they all be Nacho Corn Chips. I just like Corn Chips. No need for the sprayed on Nacho.

Doritos tried a version of their chips that had the same flavor but without the powder.

Apparently people liked them MUCH less.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

252
Question, does Congressional STAFF get paid during a Shut down? I bet they do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (mP0Kj)

No, they don't...that will be a thing Oct 30...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (tOcjL)

253 213 My only wish here was that Mamdani could have setup his government run grocery stores right before EBT ran out.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2025 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

The Mandamit thing is actually sort of amusing.

Don't people realize that the Mayor can suggest a budget, but the City Council has to pass it? He can't do shit on his own.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (mP0Kj)

254 That last story makes me want to burn all this filth down.

Let it all end in fire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2025 03:54 PM (PKI1F)

255 The $4,000 is BS. Grok says average recipient receives around $200/person.

However, it's not use it or lose it. Unused balances carries over to the next month.

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2025 03:54 PM (G0vdT)

256 So they're doing their best to undo the work of that SAINT (no sarcasm) who is trying to save young girls. She's all of 27 years old.
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Yeah. What needs to happen is some real punishment at the street level. Cops have been painted into a corner. Soon they will look away when the normies come to clean things up. This is the only way it will work.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:54 PM (jFCkp)

257 There were some canned goods left from the MoMe. Took them to the fire dept. I would not take them to the food bank because many there are double dipping

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 03:54 PM (QGLzn)

258 Exactly like USAID, 18-1!!

Will be interesting to identify who are buying these EBT cards, as well as what port purchases they funded thanks to the recipients not having to pay for their own food (e.g. nail salons hardest hit?).

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 03:54 PM (Hkcdp)

259 I just found out that Karine Jean-Pierre is a lesbian of color!

Why was this kept secret?

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 28, 2025 03:55 PM (s0JqF)

260 249 *bites thumbnail*

So- all these groups aligned with Democrats who are suckling off the American taxpayer won’t get their welfare.

Should I be concerned?
Posted by: That Guy at October 28, 2025 03:53 PM (Z6UNg)

I'm stocking up on groceries tomorrow... get at least a week of fresh plus more canned goods...

Just in case.

With Judges limiting the President on when he can deploy the National Guard? Things can get sporty.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2025 03:55 PM (mP0Kj)

261 Also, in case anyone forgot, 40% of Walmart's revenue comes from EBT.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

262 We were on food stamps for a period when I was growing up. The actual stamps. I don’t recall my mom and dad ever splurging on food.

I also had free school lunch which was embarrassing as hell because each week the homeroom teacher would call me up to his desk get the free lunch card.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 28, 2025 03:55 PM (s5CWE)

263 251 When Doritos first came out they were Corn Chips. Now, they all be Nacho Corn Chips. I just like Corn Chips. No need for the sprayed on Nacho.

Doritos tried a version of their chips that had the same flavor but without the powder.

Apparently people liked them MUCH less.
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My guess is they like having Nacho Fingers. That shit is nasty.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:56 PM (jFCkp)

264 It's be crazy if the shutdown went on so long that Federal employees all had to leave and get jobs in the private sector.
.....

But then they would actually have to perform. They wouldn't last a week.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2025 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

265 My guess is they like having Nacho Fingers. That shit is nasty.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 03:56 PM (jFCkp)


um, try eating them with chopsticks, then.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2025 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

266 The average EBT for a family of four in this country is more grocery budget than mine, and I am paying for both.
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That is why I am incandescent over this.

They have no idea how pissed taxpaying Americans will be to see who they are supporting while they try to figure out how to make $100 of groceries last two weeks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 03:57 PM (6EDhb)

267 103 Quick plug for TJM's movie review channel on the Tubes.

https://youtu.be/IU8oiOgsK9s
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 28, 2025 03:32 PM (N0R2b)

I subscribed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 28, 2025 03:57 PM (0CU3H)

268 The D's are banking on chaos to break loose and that the blame will start to shift to the Republicans. They want things as bad as possible for optics and for Trump to start getting the brunt of the criticism.

Posted by: Lady in Black, speaking as a black LGBT woman at October 28, 2025 03:57 PM (qBdHI)

269 Speaking as a transmuppet chocodyke, I am appalled at the lack of professionalism shown by the (D) grifters. A man has to know his limitations, and a ubiquitous one is that you don't even know your own blind spots. Just as it's common sense to hire investigators to do oppo research on yourself before running for Governor or President, if Senate Democrats took their own racket seriously, they ought to have purchased a report on the shutdown's unexpected impacts. Like, "What don't we know about our own programs, that will be exposed if the payments stop?" Because their lazy arrogance means they're about to find out the hard way.

I know I should be glad to have less competent enemies, but I find their carelessness fundamentally offensive. They can't even do evil right!

Posted by: SciVo at October 28, 2025 03:58 PM (VB5xp)

270
For several years I volunteered with a church where we provided a month of food and gifts for the month of December.

Some of the scum would call the church bitching about white people food. We don't want white people food.

Fuck you and starve.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:58 PM (3ek7K)

271 $4000 is feasible IF they are getting them in a bunch of different names. Years ago there was a Jamaican immigrant in a noteworthy car accident in Boston. After they caught her fleeing the scene, they found EBT cards in 26 different names in her possession. She even bragged about it to the cops - she was proud of how she’d taken advantage of this entitlement.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 03:58 PM (Hkcdp)

272 It won't work.

What they really want is 400 years of White Slavery.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 03:49 PM (6Uni

---------------

And even that -- and even if you threw it reparations fortunes -- still wouldn't be enough.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 28, 2025 03:59 PM (W+tQj)

273 A lot of the animosity between blacks and Hispanics was over the amount of money the illegals were getting compared to the blacks. Upon arrival the illegals were ushered to the front of the free shit line. And showered with clothes, food, phones, free housing, etc.

Pointing out how the illegals raided that cookie jar would be enlightening for the welfare rats pitching a fit today.

As well a pointing out which party was behind it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (Q4IgG)

274
What needs to happen is some real punishment at the street level. Cops have been painted into a corner. Soon they will look away when the normies come to clean things up. This is the only way it will work.
Posted by: Pudinhead

==============

That video on X that some moron linked upthread where the guy is talking about people selling their EBT bennies has illuminating comments. The corruption is so common and widespread that essentially, no one responds. There is NO RESPONSE to the abuse. That, too, should may be start happening at the street level, although of course high-level reform is sorely needed. It's the mom and pop corner stores that need to be surveilled.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (5e+/e)

275 Commies will never let go of the reparations.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (P7vXf)

276 They have no idea how pissed taxpaying Americans will be to see who they are supporting while they try to figure out how to make $100 of groceries last two weeks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice



All of the videos of recipients demanding that we "pay up what we owe them" are doing a virally wonderful job.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (0U5gm)

277 I just found out that Karine Jean-Pierre is a lesbian of color!

Why was this kept secret?
Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum)
......

Hmm. I swear I will not let this shocking news change my opinion of her!

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (UjdFS)

278 PS:
None, not one, of the TicTok goblins are responding to November 1 with, "I better get a job if I want food."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

A job and some condoms would be nice.

Posted by: Cheri at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (oiNtH)

279 White people food. Interesting statement. What is the difference?

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (PCK5/)

280
My God, talk about cray-cray. Meet Samantha Rae Booth:
https://is.gd/lTUDrT

She was a nanny for some couple, who ended up murdering the grandfather of the child with a screwdriver. She had stripped completely naked, running around covered in blood with the screwdriver.

And then, she refused to appear on that court TV fee for whatever magistrate hearing, lying in the floor of her cell naked.

She looks a big like Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (w6EFb)

281
tubal,

We never figured that out.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (3ek7K)

282 They should link SNAP to body weight -- go above healthy weight for your height, and they cut rations in half. Monthly weigh-ins.
———

The Army owns yer ass, because, they provide housing, food, clothing, and health care. This should be self-evident to anyone who “advocates” for the Poor.

The real crux of the issue is virtually unlimited amounts of phony baloney confetti-bucks fired from the federal currency cannon. There isn’t enough money in the world to pay for all this shit. But that will never become evident to the great masses until it is too late.

The Army would give a soldier an Article 15 for a sunburn when severe enough. Because, he is now non-deployable. He can’t wear his uniform, he can’t do his job. They don’t authorize “sick days” unless authorized by a doctor.

Piss tests were routine as well. (Even the Soviets didn’t pay people not to work. They weren’t that stupid).

Posted by: Common Tater at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (o0flu)

283
Once again, a Democratic constituency group finds out it has a sell-by date.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (tgvbd)

284 WTH is wrong with a can of soup and grilled cheese or peanut butter sandwiches??

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:48 PM (3ek7K)

Yeah, I saw that. What's wrong with tuna fish, too?

These jackasses! I was a po' white newlywed married to a college guy until he graduated. Yeah, I was making a whopping $11/hr at the time as a RN and the "breadwinner."

We had a '50's type fridge with no freezer except for metal ice trays you got your tongue stuck on. Shopped every week with a list and coupons. Yet we somehow survived our poor years. I wore sweaters from college pregnant with our first son two years later. We were poor for at least 5yrs, we were in love, we were happy. We are now not poor, still in love, and happy.

Baby showers bought the crib and changing table (my parents). Clothes for the baby. They did not starve and we did not even think of it, we had a budget for food for the babies. I doubt we'd have qualified for anything but never checked.

We came from upper middle class parents and never asked for a dime from them after marriage. I guess I should say "axed" for a dime.

So my heart does not bleed for these dikheads.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (j5WMt)

285 279 White people food. Interesting statement. What is the difference?
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WYPIPO food requires preparation and cooking.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 04:02 PM (jFCkp)

286 We're getting what we pay for in congress. After about a dozen decades of trying the current system, how about trying a change?

Let's get higher caliber people in congress and give them an incentive to do what is right. Pay $500,000 per year for a congressman and give them a $500,000 bonus if they complete their 13 appropriations bills on time and in budget. Pay senators $750,000 a year along with a $750,000 bonus for the same thing. Pay the VP $2 million and the president $4 million. Give each member between 20 and 100 hours per year of NetJets time. Add in a $5,000 per month housing subsidy for congress and $10,000 for the senate. Make it appealing and financially viable to become an elected official. Maybe, just maybe, you'll see a change.

Posted by: jwest at October 28, 2025 04:02 PM (lnMN4)

287 What they really want is 400 years of White Slavery.

Posted by: XTC


But they won't want to spend 360,000 black lives to end it.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:02 PM (PO1Da)

288 Is there any *good* news at all?

I'm even more eeyore than usual.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 28, 2025 04:02 PM (Rm4uP)

289 That can't be right. $4000 a month for food assistance?
Posted by: WisRich


I hear tell that people lie on applications to get more benefits or higher credit limits or mortgages.

I'd have thought that the people issuing those things would check the information on the applications to make sure they are correct, and refer people for fraud prosecutions if they aren't, but apparently they don't.

I think they may live in a different America than I do.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (a+4eV)

290 They should eat Wonder bread and bologna like I did as a poor child.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (UjdFS)

291 270
For several years I volunteered with a church where we provided a month of food and gifts for the month of December.

Some of the scum would call the church bitching about white people food. We don't want white people food.

Fuck you and starve.
Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 03:58 PM (3ek7K)

Hey for the Burning Times ---like the signs that say 'cashier does not have keys to the safe...' we can post signs on the windows of our humble hovels: ' only white people food inside'.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (GP/Q0)

292 At one point, my family was so poor the only food I got to eat was 2 eggs a day for months. I will never take one cent of government assistance. I was 7 so I couldn't get a job

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (QGLzn)

293 273 A lot of the animosity between blacks and Hispanics was over the amount of money the illegals were getting compared to the blacks. Upon arrival the illegals were ushered to the front of the free shit line. And showered with clothes, food, phones, free housing, etc.

Pointing out how the illegals raided that cookie jar would be enlightening for the welfare rats pitching a fit today.

As well a pointing out which party was behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2025 04:00 PM (Q4IgG)

THIS!!!!^^^^ Scream it loudly! Tell your stupid GOP people to wake the hell up! I'm too tired.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (j5WMt)

294 screw that #*&%$ with her "I'm making stuffed salmon so I stole two of these name brand herbed cheese, and I stole these short ribs mm mm mmm".

My rent went up this month, and my social security doesn't hit until the second week of the month, so I PLANNED on my fixed income.

I found a 10 lb ham for $10 last week, and bought a 5 lb bag of potatoes for under $5.

Last week I ate like a king with meat and potatoes, and over the weekend I cooked my ass off so I can eat like a lean queen this week on split pea soup from the hambone with cornbread on the side, and my rent check will easily clear before my SS rides in.

I would not be surprised or particularly sad if she gets arrested for her car drama film, and if she gets beat up or worse if she tries to physically rob someone, oh well...anyway...

Posted by: barbarausa at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (enw9G)

295 282 The Army owns yer ass, because, they provide housing, food, clothing, and health care. This should be self-evident to anyone who “advocates” for the Poor.

The real crux of the issue is virtually unlimited amounts of phony baloney confetti-bucks fired from the federal currency cannon. There isn’t enough money in the world to pay for all this shit. But that will never become evident to the great masses until it is too late.

The Army would give a soldier an Article 15 for a sunburn when severe enough. Because, he is now non-deployable. He can’t wear his uniform, he can’t do his job. They don’t authorize “sick days” unless authorized by a doctor.

Piss tests were routine as well. (Even the Soviets didn’t pay people not to work. They weren’t that stupid).

Posted by: Common Tater at October 28, 2025 04:01 PM (o0flu)

They'd be useless as anything but human shields to be put on the front lines to be shot at.

If they had any real skills, they'd have a f***ing job.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 04:04 PM (6Uni8)

296 I guess we've all figured out that the dems are not gonna vote for this till after the elections...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)

297 Because food banks give what is donated and people donate boxes of mac and cheese.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 04:04 PM (96wnD)

298 "Sell-out by date."

Posted by: no one at October 28, 2025 04:04 PM (W7XSX)

299
The D's are banking on chaos to break loose and that the blame will start to shift to the Republicans. They want things as bad as possible for optics and for Trump to start getting the brunt of the criticism.
Posted by: Lady in Black

================

The left likes to see Black people "reduced to" burning cities "as a last resort for the sake of their lives." People left with "no choice" but to steal food to "feed their starving children."

We shall see how it goes, assuming it happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (5e+/e)

300 I just watched that TikTok video of the black woman in the car bragging about her thefts.

Good Lord, that's a vile woman.

She's Evil with a capital "E."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (IBQGV)

301 290 They should eat Wonder bread and bologna like I did as a poor child.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (UjdFS)

Nah.

No Carbs.

You're trying to make them LOSE weight, right?

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (6Uni8)

302
ChristyBlinky,

Hubby and I were in the same boat early in our marriage. We were paying off law school loans and had little left over.

We made it through tough times and here we are almost 50 years later.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (3ek7K)

303 We all lesbian now ? I missed the memo. Okay I'm a lesbo too.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (+kIYw)

304 292 At one point, my family was so poor the only food I got to eat was 2 eggs a day for months. I will never take one cent of government assistance. I was 7 so I couldn't get a job
----------------
Egg farts are nasty. I learned this from Paco during my construction days. Don't be imprisoned on a scaffold with Paco when he gets gassy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (jFCkp)

305 One threatened "grocery-napping," which means carjacking you when you've filled the car with groceries.

If any one of these "starving" 400# mobility scooter riding miscreant SNAP recipients attempts to carjack me, they won't be needing SNAP anymore.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (c3sdc)

306 297 Because food banks give what is donated and people donate boxes of mac and cheese.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 04:04 PM (96wnD)

And now all know water will work, even if less well.

Really any fluid would - even beer or alcohol...it's just taking a powder and reconstituting it...

Will it be lumpier with no fat - yes. But one can always make the pasta without the cheese powder if that bothered someone...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

307 any *good* news at all?

Karma is still a bitch. Man murdered deputy sheriff, flees on sportbike. Detective in unmarked car shuts him down with lane change. Spectacular downfall.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (BXf0+)

308 Grok says average recipient receives around $200/person.

However, it's not use it or lose it. Unused balances carries over to the next month.
Posted by: WisRich


Grok is full of shit. No way you fill a grocery cart full of steak & lobster and bullshit on $200/month. Even per person. Unless you have 10 at home.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (PO1Da)

309 299 The left likes to see Black people "reduced to" burning cities "as a last resort for the sake of their lives." People left with "no choice" but to steal food to "feed their starving children."

We shall see how it goes, assuming it happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2025 04:05 PM (5e+/e)

The Left _NEEDS_ black people to live up to the "Low IQ Criminal Savages" stereotype.

They NEED them to go out and do Stupid Criminal Shit (TM) that will make White People want nothing to do with them.

It's how they keep them on the plantation.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2025 04:07 PM (6Uni8)

310 Make it appealing and financially viable to become an elected official. Maybe, just maybe, you'll see a change.

Posted by: jwest



Easier method: make accepting bribes a capital offense.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 04:07 PM (0U5gm)

311 The D's are banking on chaos to break loose and that the blame will start to shift to the Republicans. They want things as bad as possible for optics and for Trump to start getting the brunt of the criticism.
———
That isn’t going to happen. Ever. That’s why this is so entertaining. It’s gonna be great, in terms of optics.

Nobody gives a fuck any longer.

Ha ha ha

Posted by: Common Tater at October 28, 2025 04:07 PM (gkwl2)

312 The woman bragging about still the food looks like she could use some "fasting" days...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

313 As someone who knows what government cheese tastes like--that gawdawful brick of orange formerly known as dairy--yeah, I can't tell you how much I hate these videos of the entitled.

I know, deep down, with ten thousand memories to prove it, what real poor is.

And these land whales and lardasses are no where near real poor.

Give me the governmental immunity and I'll gleefully throw every single one of the fuckers out on the streets.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2025 04:08 PM (6EDhb)

314 Those stores with self-checkout scanners are gonna be lit.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

315
The kids may be starving but Mama has steak and lobster.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2025 04:08 PM (tgvbd)

316 312 The woman bragging about still the food looks like she could use some "fasting" days...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

LOL... Looks like I was typing drunk... stealing not still

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:09 PM (VE6XX)

317 292 At one point, my family was so poor the only food I got to eat was 2 eggs a day for months. I will never take one cent of government assistance. I was 7 so I couldn't get a job
Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 04:03 PM (QGLzn)

Ah, Ben. Sorry. That was hard. I never experienced poverty til I was a college girl then married to a college guy. I had to learn budgets then with him teaching me. I once blew through a $500 bank note that Delta did not cash when I returned from my summer in MS. Then Delta let me know that they did cash my airline ticket check and I was in some hot water. My bf/now husband worked something out and I paid it back.

I tried to find you yesterday on this maze to tell you that I misread your comment about nurse. I read it as "who started welfare" vs who raised two boys without a father. I apologized with an extra helping of apparent dyslexia.

One of our sons does not know how to budget and frustrates his father (and me). He is constantly in debt and living above his means.

We learned the hard way with our first house how to accrue debt and never did again. Lessons learned. One of our sons is a slow learner of debt.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 04:09 PM (j5WMt)

318 when he gets gassy.

y'know Who Else was "windy"?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 28, 2025 04:09 PM (BXf0+)

319 rickb223, GROK is flat out lying. I talk to the cashiers I know well at the grocery store.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 04:10 PM (QGLzn)

320 stealing not still
Posted by: It's me donna

still stealing

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

321 The Austrian Vegetarian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 28, 2025 04:10 PM (BBIP1)

322 My favorite video is the woman who took her son with her to steal his fall school wardrobe from Target. Fighting over the full shopping cart she was trying to get out the exit.

That's how you raise a child.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 04:10 PM (0U5gm)

323 The woman bragging about still the food looks like she could use some "fasting" days...
Posted by: It's me donna
......

It's the Schumer Diet.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (UjdFS)

324
Jaclyn Smith just turned 80. Damn, I'm getting old.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (w6EFb)

325 Marxists love a riot

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (+qU29)

326
I looked at today's date and realized our anniversary is tomorrow.

49 years!!

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (3ek7K)

327 That lady shoplifter up top is complaining about prices.

Well, huh, what is a reason a store is forced to raise prices? TO RECOUP THE LOST REVENUE FROM STOLEN INVENTORY!

I can’t even with these idiot moochers.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (Hkcdp)

328 As a black LGBT woman, there is a nood.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (LxER7)

329 So a judge ruled today that Trump can't fire any Government employees...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (VE6XX)

330 Grok is full of shit. No way you fill a grocery cart full of steak & lobster and bullshit on $200/month. Even per person. Unless you have 10 at home.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:06 PM (PO1Da)


Ah!
The 'ol hamburger and fish sticks gambit.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (2WIwB)

331 I think Oil Field Rando said on X, he wants at least a month of no SNAP, to see what it does to the remittances numbers

83 percent of SNAP dollars go to non-citizens

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (emBoF)

332 Easier method: make accepting bribes a capital offense.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2025 04:07 PM (0U5gm)

I would rework the election rules to make it illegal for an elected official to accept any money from anyone.

Posted by: jwest at October 28, 2025 04:11 PM (lnMN4)

333 My favorite is the internet Stock Photo of a Snap grocery cart. A twee cart Full of “healthy choices”. Broccoli Florets and Brussel Sprouts.

Not the reality. A morbidly obese cow parked in the handicapped stall pushing an enormous industrial cart FULL of nothing but steaks, chops, pork, etc. more beef and meat than most people can afford in a year.

The hell with them

Posted by: Common Tater at October 28, 2025 04:12 PM (o/qTI)

334 I looked at today's date and realized our anniversary is tomorrow.

49 years!!

Posted by: fourseasons

Mazeltov! Happy Anniversary!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2025 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

335 And she paid for those nails.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 28, 2025 04:12 PM (Hkcdp)

336 Judging by the weight class of the average EBT recipient, I think a few missed meals might not be a catastrophe.

I expect our resident black LGBT+ female immigrant will be soon posting an EBT GAINZZZZ thread soon.

Something about fasting and autophagy and how it helps to heal metabolic dysfunction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 28, 2025 04:12 PM (c3sdc)

337 Fat cunt has enough money for her fake ass nails, ugly neck tat, shitty doo, and is obviously not starving. So my sympathy EBT account is empty. Fuck you cow.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 28, 2025 04:12 PM (ewjUl)

338 The union should publicly endorse Republicans if the Dems stop the next vote.

Make themselves useful....

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at October 28, 2025 04:13 PM (Sco7b)

339
As a kid in the '70s, I remember my father and the generation above him hanging around an old country store all trying to outdo each other on was the poorest during the Depression and had it the worst. It was 4 Yorkshiremen in real life.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2025 04:13 PM (w6EFb)

340 Not the reality. A morbidly obese cow parked in the handicapped stall pushing an enormous industrial cart FULL of nothing but steaks, chops, pork, etc. more beef and meat than most people can afford in a year.


The five or six feral dogs she keeps need to eat too

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 28, 2025 04:13 PM (c3sdc)

341 Amazon - 1 lb dried pinto beans - $.95 cents a bag.

Delivered to your door.

Wow. Over 10,000 bags bought in the last month.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:13 PM (PO1Da)

342 334 I looked at today's date and realized our anniversary is tomorrow.

49 years!!

Posted by: fourseasons


Congrats.. 53 years for Us In January...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (VE6XX)

343 Congress should have the requirement that all members must be able to walk 25 yards unassisted.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (UjdFS)

344 As a kid in the '70s, I remember my father and the generation above him hanging around an old country store all trying to outdo each other on was the poorest during the Depression and had it the worst. It was 4 Yorkshiremen in real life.
Posted by: publius


Ex-wife's grandmother put plastic bags & aluminum foil in the dishwasher.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (PO1Da)

345 Yeah well, the local food banks once gave me dry noodles and a few cans of tuna. I was happy to get it, but it is tough to work with. My husband and I started giving food or money to that food bank for Thanksgiving. There are a lot of things you can do to get by, but it is nice to have something resembling a real meal. Powdered milk should be a commodity given, since we've had overproduction of milk in this country.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (96wnD)

346 ChristyBlinky, thank you but it was the best learning experience could have ever had.
I saw your clarification and relied but I missed you.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (QGLzn)

347 Saw a lot of "heavy lifting" when I worked in a store. The most popular time for a grab and run were 7-9 am and 4-7 pm weekdays. For the weekends, just before and just after the big game(s). Long lines of law-abiding folks made it easy. All you could do was to write a quick note for the time-date and a brief description for the manager's video check.

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (rj6Yv)

348 I looked at today's date and realized our anniversary is tomorrow.

49 years!!

Posted by: fourseasons


Congrats.. 53 years for Us In January...
Posted by: It's me donna


Congrats to both of you!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:15 PM (PO1Da)

349 Grok is full of shit. No way you fill a grocery cart full of steak & lobster and bullshit on $200/month. Even per person.

One word: Shoplifting

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 28, 2025 04:15 PM (a6PrB)

350 I guess I'll stick to Costco for my shopping for a while

those oldsters manning the gates are pretty tough

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 28, 2025 04:15 PM (emBoF)

351 350 I guess I'll stick to Costco for my shopping for a while

those oldsters manning the gates are pretty tough
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 28, 2025 04:15 PM (emBoF)

True and it's harder to take cases of stuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2025 04:16 PM (VE6XX)

352 Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (rj6Yv)

348 I looked at today's date and realized our anniversary is tomorrow.

49 years!!

Posted by: fourseasons


Congrats.. 53 years for Us In January...
Posted by: It's me donna


Congrats to both of you!
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:15 PM (PO1Da)

Congratulations! 46 and holding here! Blows kisses!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 04:16 PM (j5WMt)

353
Thank you all.

Enjoy life, time passes quickly.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 28, 2025 04:16 PM (3ek7K)

354 Some of the scum would call the church bitching about white people food. We don't want white people food

"Hey, you know how hard it is to find watermelon this time of year? "

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 28, 2025 04:16 PM (lWPQK)

355 Ex-wife's grandmother put plastic bags & aluminum foil in the dishwasher.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 28, 2025 04:14 PM (PO1Da)

dishwasher....la de da fancy. lol

I had a dishwasher once. I called her Mom. Damn, I miss her.

Don't worry, I did my fair share and then some.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at October 28, 2025 04:17 PM (Sco7b)

356 279 White people food. Interesting statement. What is the difference?

---

No seasoning

Posted by: Ian Faith at October 28, 2025 04:17 PM (0bjKf)

357 Believe me it's worst when you realize yesterday was your anniversary

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2025 04:18 PM (+qU29)

358 $4000 is feasible IF they are getting them in a bunch of different names. Years ago there was a Jamaican immigrant in a noteworthy car accident in Boston. After they caught her fleeing the scene, they found EBT cards in 26 different names in her possession. She even bragged about it to the cops - she was proud of how she’d taken advantage of this entitlement.

--

The fraud in our "entitlement" programs (and that word grates me to the bone...you aren't entitled to anything somebody else has to pay for). I'm angered beyond words at what we've all seen for years, and the outright abuse of the taxpayers by the hands of lazy, good for nothing layabouts. I know there are cases where welfare is needed. For true (and limited) reasons, I have no problem with it. But it is a colossal monster of fraud.

Posted by: Lady in Black, speaking as a black LGBT woman at October 28, 2025 04:19 PM (qBdHI)

359 If they had any real skills, they'd have a f***ing job.

that says something when some illiterate mouth breather from India is imported and hired to drive semi-trucks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 28, 2025 04:20 PM (a6PrB)

360 I make a pretty good living. And even if I was open to a free tattoo, which I'm not, I'd definitely not spring hundreds of bucks for "personalization".

To see welfare recipients all tatted up is ridiculous!

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 04:22 PM (krQz2)

361 NOOD AUTOPEN

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 28, 2025 04:26 PM (lWPQK)

362 We moved to the boonies from the city as I was starting 5th grade. I'd never seen poverty before.

There was a white family who had 18 kids, one each year apparently for the poor mother. Two girls were in my class, as one kept back as not super bright but kind. They were barefoot, I do remember that.

At lunch I had my red plaid lunch box and matching thermos. I ate every day: tomato soup and cheese sandwich with an apple and cookie.

These girls had greasy paper bags with mayo sandwiches on white bread. They were almost drooling at my lunch and I'd give them a half sandwich and apple (I never remember sharing my soup or cookie). I felt really bad for them as much as a 9yr old girl can. Later, in looking at the yearbook, you saw one of their siblings in each class through 12th grade.

I am sure my seamstress grandmother saved my parents some $ as she sewed me seasonal wardrobes. I'd help her pick out the fabric and to this day remember how to judge if fabric is good or not. My cousins got my hand-me-downs. She learned to sew and cook at a French convent on the MS/LA border. Wonderful woman and grandmother. As she lay dying I told her though tears that I hoped I'd be just as good.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2025 04:26 PM (j5WMt)

363 More than half of food stamps go to foreign born 'immigrants', a good chunk of that is from muzzie middle east countries.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2025 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

364 The union should publicly endorse Republicans if the Dems stop the next vote.

Make themselves useful....

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at October 28, 2025 04:13 PM (Sco7b)
---
The DNC is their leadership. They have to throw head fakes to their members, now and again to keep that money rolling into DNC coffers.

It's why they have held off as long as they could.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

365 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

JUST IN: Purple-haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro is being brutally mocked for claiming President Trump "ILLEGALLY" is ending SNAP funds...

...when it's the Democrats who have voted 13 times to defund SNAP by shuttering the government.

"The White House MUST spend it! What they are doing, blocking these funds from going out, is ILLEGAL!"

https://tinyurl.com/asvvfbwh

Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2025 04:30 PM (NpAcC)

366 CNN Breaking News....

Recently discovered video released showing the incompetence of the Biden Adminstration.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2beJKmdbgs

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 04:40 PM (J9q9v)

367 363 More than half of food stamps go to foreign born 'immigrants', a good chunk of that is from muzzie middle east countries.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2025 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

I don’t care where they come from. It shouldn’t be happening at all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 28, 2025 04:49 PM (sVOFR)

368 Black lesbian disabled immigrant , you mean

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2025 04:56 PM (lCppi)

369 Today Joe Biden (PHD in Standup Philosophy) challenged Einstein theories on the Universa and his formula of E=MC2.

Joe said that according to Hunter (The smartest person he knows) while he was on Crack that the Universe was created when The Big Dipper/Big Bear Constellation Farted and it created all the matter in today's visible known Universe.

The formula should have been ASS = Crack/Booze x Hookers. Senator Schumer today agreed and said this change should be introduced in College Curriculum immediately next to Gay Pride Studies.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 05:03 PM (J9q9v)

370 JUST IN: Purple-haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro is being brutally mocked for claiming President Trump "ILLEGALLY" is ending SNAP funds...

She has too much Plutonium 239 in her diet because her hair glows in the dark...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2025 05:06 PM (J9q9v)

371 .
For safety, shop in "White Only" stores.

Posted by: Marooned at October 28, 2025 05:11 PM (kt8QE)

372 Weren't we all saying over the last 10 years or so, "Wait until the EBT stops. Then we'll see how the urban areas survive"?

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2025 05:22 PM (6Us78)

373 Every store in America needs to post that woman's picture and bar her from entry. EVERY ONE.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2025 05:24 PM (6Us78)

374 Screw you Union Brownshirts any person who wants a Job shouldn't be force to belong to some Corrupted Union like The Teamsters, and SEIU Etc.

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 28, 2025 05:42 PM (wGqjj)

375 *glances at shotgun next to door*

She and her ilk can try.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 28, 2025 03:37 PM (+F/VA)
I just told Mrs. E that I'd hate to be sitting in a courtroom listening to a 'lawfare' lawyer telling the jury 'THAT man shot this poor woman and all she wanted was to feed her children.'.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2025 06:45 PM (LHPAg)

376 Shoplifter video made me spill my uncooked velvet all over the kitchen floor.

No one else is home. Floor is (was) clean.

Can I get a ruling? If I sweep it up...

Posted by: Fen at October 28, 2025 07:18 PM (x+ykR)

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