• khepri@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, good luck with that. People were sent their full SNAP in my state because a judge ordered those benefits to be paid. I get a case for stopping further States’ distributions given the more recent judgement, but the idea that they’ll be able to claw back money from the States that have already distributed the full amount seems insane. People got sent what they were entitled to, in the amount they were entitled to, after a judge’s order saying to do that and before another judge’s order saying not to do that. So I just don’t conceive of an argument that a court would accept that would retroactively claw that money back from people.

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    LOL Democrat states need to announce they are in the planning stage of building the Super Max Prisons that will be needed to house all the convicts once Trump is toppled. ALL ICE and any local and State police that helped will need to have swift trials and LIFE sentences to dissuade this from ever happening again. We were too nice to the Nazis last time. We won’t make that same mistake.

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      Never happen. Politicians have a direct interest in keeping the violent gang members cultivated to protect their interests out of jail. If the enforcers go to jail, how long do you think it’ll take the capos to join them?

      See, we never actually “punished” the nazis. We gave them jobs and government positions. We gave them benefits and Healthcare and pensions. We couldn’t possibly get rid of nazis without getting rid of our neighbors and politicians, so we never did.

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      It’s because they’re dirty liberals! And the nice thing about using “liberal” as an insult is that you can claim to be on either end of the political spectrum when you do it, depending on what’s convenient at the time.

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        I’ve also seen both sides of the political spectrum using the term “liberal” to describe themselves positively.

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    The dems should follow up and request blocking the funds Trump is not freezing.

    If there is no money for Snap there is no money for Venezuela

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    A better source.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/trump-administration-tells-states-to-undo-full-snap-benefits-00643887

    USDA’s latest memo, sent Saturday to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instructed states to deliver just 65 percent of benefits during the government shutdown and required those who already sent full payments to claw back that money.

    There really is no bottom to this administrations evil.

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      The only saving grace is that most of the people who I know that are on SNAP fucking love Trump and will probably keep loving him even after this. Maybe it’s where I live but it’s getting harder and harder to feel bad for these people getting hurt by Trump’s policies because most of them still fucking love him.

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    As someone from poor rural Midwest, I can tell you from first hand experience, that people have usually ran out of food stamps about 3 weeks into the month.
    Meaning, most people on snap are waiting for the first to get groceries because they don’t have anything.

    And now we are going on week 2 of the month.

    So for many. It’s now getting close to 3 weeks without food money.

    And with the rising food costs, I wouldn’t be surprised if people are running out of snap money closer to the midpoint of the month.

    So for them. It’s been 4 weeks