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Remember
that
thing
where
Red
state
residents
were
lambasting
Obamacare
because
it
was
a
clear
example
of
government
overreach,
coddling,
and
poor
spending,
only
to
then
complain
that
their
Affordable
Care
Act
money
ran
dry?
Welp,
time
is
a
flat
circle.
Despite
the
data
that
shows
that
the
largest
demographic
benefiting
from
food
stamps
are
White
folks
and
Walmart,
so
much
of
the
anti-food
stamp
discourse
has
centered
on
blaming
the
poor
instead
of
addressing
the
root
cause
of
their
shortcomings.
“Go
get
a
job!”
holds
a
lot
of
sway
when
you
ignore
that
most
food
stamp
recipients
have
jobs.
AI-supercharged
welfare
queen
deepfakes
may
have
been
a
pleasure
to
watch
and
chew
toast
at,
but
the
reality
is
that
a
lot
of
us
are
much
closer
to
needing
social
safety
nets
than
we
realize.
That’s
why
several
of
the
Red
states
that
threw
their
arms
up
in
celebration
that
the
swamp
was
getting
drained
via
the
Big
Beautiful
Bill
are
now
suing
the
government
to
get
food
stamps
reinstated.
Raw
Story
has
coverage:
There
are
now
25
states
that
are
parties
to
a
lawsuit
against
the
federal
government
seeking
to
block
the
elimination
of
the
Supplemental
Nutrition
Assistance
Program
(SNAP)
on
Nov.
1.
…
The
attorneys
general
of
Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Hawaii,
Illinois,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Nevada,
New
Jersey,
New
Mexico,
North
Carolina,
Oregon,
Rhode
Island,
Vermont,
Washington,
Wisconsin,
and
the
District
of
Columbia,
as
well
as
the
governors
of
Kansas,
Kentucky,
and
Pennsylvania,
joined
in
the
national
lawsuit[.]
But
hey,
no
need
to
listen
to
your
rumbling
stomachs
or
look
out
for
lawsuits
when
you
could
just
trust
the
truth
of
whatever
the
president
says!
As
far
as
the
actual
numbers
go,
it’s
a
mixed
bag
but
it
isn’t
nearly
as
prosperous
as
he’s
suggesting.
.
His
bold
claims
are
about
as
true
as
you’d
expect
from
someone
who
thinks
his
doctors
are
repeatedly
giving
him
IQ
tests.
(Even
if
you
believe
that
IQ
is
a
legitimate
way
to
measure
intelligence
1)
there’s
no
need
for
that
many
in
such
a
short
time
frame
(IQ
is
supposed
to
be
a
stable
measurement,
right?)
and
2)
doctors
don’t
give
IQ
tests
as
part
of
some
general
checkup.
They
do,
however,
screen
for
dementia.)
Does
anyone
else
find
it
strange
that
all
of
these
Make
America
Great
Again
policies
just
look
like
subsidies
for
indentured
servitude
and
the
prison
industrial
complex?
Seriously
—
what
else
would
you
call
bringing
back
debt
peonage
and
deputizing
plantation
overseers?
What’s
a
better
way
to
encourage
crime
and
recidivism
than
gutting
both
public
and
higher
education,
make
environmental
regulations
so
lax
that
you’re
just
begging
companies
to
go
back
to
dumping
lead
in
the
water,
curbing
mental
health
and
addiction
services?
I
wonder
if
that
has
anything
to
do
with
Palantir
being
one
of
the
funders
of
Trump’s
ballroom
renovations.
Meh,
it’s
probably
nothing.
It’s
a
strange
calculus
that
allows
for
a
country
with
widespread
preventable
hunger
to
be
considered
great.
If
there’s
any
hope
of
America
being
great
again,
the
states
returning
victorious
with
loaves
to
feed
their
constituents
is
a
likely
part
of
it.
Red
States
Join
In
Lawsuit
Against
Trump
Government
For
Killing
SNAP
Funds
[Raw
Story]
Related:
Trump
Has
Just
Condemned
More
Americans
to
Hunger
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.