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applegrove

(132,818 posts) Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:37 PM Oct 2025

There is a contigency fund for SNAP that will last until mid November:

The Trump Administration is claiming they donâ€™t have SNAP funding for next month.

Thatâ€™s not true. SNAP has a contingency fund that could last well into November.

If Americans donâ€™t get their SNAP benefits, it will be because the Trump Administration decided to stop them.
— James E. Clyburn (@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T18:20:43.711Z

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There is a contigency fund for SNAP that will last until mid November: (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2025 OP

Yea, but the tacky ballroom is the most important issue on shithole's mind............... Lovie777 Oct 2025 #1

I stand corrected. applegrove Oct 2025 #2

The rule of thumb is dweller Oct 2025 #3

I wonder if this will trigger one of the administration's aims misanthrope Oct 2025 #4

Lovie777

(23,433 posts)

1. Yea, but the tacky ballroom is the most important issue on shithole's mind...............

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:53 PM

Oct 2025

applegrove

(132,818 posts)

2. I stand corrected.

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:57 PM

Oct 2025

dweller

(28,594 posts)

3. The rule of thumb is

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:20 PM

Oct 2025

The cruelty is the point

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misanthrope

(9,569 posts)

4. I wonder if this will trigger one of the administration's aims

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 07:15 PM

Oct 2025

Hunger and desperation creates crime. Crime can be used to inflate law enforcement budgets and more Draconian methods. The convicted criminals are sent to be inhabitants of the growing corporate incarceration complex, ballooning their funding as well. Then convict leasing supplies tantamount slavery to interested businesses.

Thus is reborn 18th century America.

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