Today is yet another milestone in Heartless Motherfuckerism.

[Stinky The Clown]

SNAP is reduced for millions. Nutrition in America falls a bit further behind.

Thank you, GOP.

[2naSalit]

1. It's getting to be

an everyday event lately.

[warrant46]

22. And certain elected officials take a bow at the country club tonite

The rich Repukes are dancing at their cocktail parties.

As in, "hey Greg pass the Grey Goose"

[lsewpershad]

65. Wonder where

these clowns would be when the revolt of the masses they have created starts.

[geek tragedy]

2. And lots of forced births in Texas due to the anti-abortion bill being upheld nt

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Also worrisome...

will be the increased deaths from women trying to abort without medical assistance.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. that is the reason women have fought for so long

For safe, accessible abortion.

Legally, it came under Privacy but it is actually a matter of life or death for women.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Yeah, I know...

this "war against everyone who isn't a white republican christian male" is sickening.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. big time!

Yecch!

[JDPriestly]

30. . . . and their children.

[calimary]

37. No kidding. :(

[Heather MC]

28. I guess everything they tried to get through during the Shutdown

they will now pass with lightening speed before the next shutdown, so they they won't have any reason to reopen the Government next time

[etherealtruth]

3. Aristotle has often been quoted as saying

"you can judge a nation by the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens."

We shall be judged harshly ... we deserve to be

[Rosa Luxemburg]

33. This country has a reputation around the world

just exactly for that

[etherealtruth]

43. Unfortunately, well deserved

[PDJane]

4. It's a fine way to lower the IQ of children that depend on SNAP.

I find this infuriating.

[calimary]

38. Maybe they think that's the way to grow new teabaggers?

According to all the polls and demographic studies, they're already losing the young people. Millennials do NOT speak teabag and the vast majority of them don't even want to.

[russspeakeasy]

5. As much as I would like to put all the blame on the repukes, the dems have to take some of the hit.

[indepat]

7. Fuc*ing with the health, wellness, and well-being of 47 million Americans: tantamount to

a right-wing kinder and gentler road to facilitating a kind and gentle pogrom imo.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. You're not thinking clearly.

This is directly attacking the obesity crisis in america.

Republicans are just saying no for us, or well anyway for working american families just barely surviving, to that next snack, that next meal. If we starve enough people, our per capita obesity statistics will get better. This is the Republican alternative to OHMYGODMYCRAPPYINSURANCEISGOINGAWAY-BECAUSE-OBAMACARE.

If enough people starve over the winter the employment statistics might improve too.

Please think of the children.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. and they're kindly concerned about overpopulation.

That's why they love things that kill people.

We should be grateful.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Can somebody please explain this food stamp cut to me?

Is this happening because of the sequester? Why is it happening now?

[Warren Stupidity]

11. The 2009 Recovery Act.

The 2009 Recovery Act’s temporary boost in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ends on November 1, 2013.

Republicans are holding out for even steeper cuts.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Thanks. n/t

[NightWatcher]

10. Those who don't work shouldn't eat

Isn't that what the "christian" repukes love to say?

Yet the Repuke controlled House of Reps announced that they will only work 114 days next year. At $175,000 a year that's about $1,535.00 a day. Last year they passed one of the fewest number of bills.

So Congress does nothing and gets $1,535 a day, but hungry women, infants, and children are the ones who suffer hunger.

[BlueJazz]

14. Yes..and the Christian Republicans seem to forget about all the people who have inherited wealth...

...and have not worked a day in their lives.

I actually know 3 of them...not friends..just "Know"

[NightWatcher]

23. members of the Lucky Sperm Club (as Thom Hartmann put it)

[calimary]

39. And throughout my 14 years of Catholic school, I never once saw a New Testament passage

that quoted Jesus as saying that. Not one. He always talked about feeding the hungry, helping the poor, providing for the needy, abandoning your riches and following Him, and caring for those He described as "the least of My brethren." I think that "if you don't work you don't eat" crap came from some epistle by Paul-the-Hardass. Maybe the teabaggers like St. Paul because, before he was converted, he was a persecutor and tormentor. Teabaggers seem to get off on that shit.

[Aerows]

59. Not to mention

that Paul was a raging misogynist.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Auto rec for "Heartless Motherfuckerism"...

They will go after school lunches next.

[prairierose]

18. and another rec for "Heartless Motherfuckerism"....

I think this is the phrase I have been looking for to describe the RWNJs.


Thank you Stinky

[Cryptoad]

24. And you don't have to travel far from this thread

to see these "Heartless Motherfuckerism" being defended ! It s shame,,,,,,

[prairierose]

48. Cryptoad, I agree with you...n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

44. and another rec for "Heartless Motherfuckerism"....

[arely staircase]

19. teach those kids rugged individualism nt

[WinkyDink]

20. Can the takers just please DIE already?? I want ALL my tax $ to go for Homeland Security!

[Cryptoad]

21. CBS had 5 mins on The ACA website glitchs

and 3 seconds on the Food Stamp cuts. And none of the MSM ever mention that 90% of the people receiving Food Stamps have full time jobs yet dont make enough to feed their families!

[blkmusclmachine]

25. Republicans DEMAND. Democrats CAPITULATE.

[Orsino]

51. 217-210. No Democrats "capitulated." 15 Republicans voted with the Dems. n/t

[JEFF9K]

26. It's temporariness was based on the belief that the ...

... Second Great Republican Depression was only temporary.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Oh come on. The Republicans are doing those people a FAVOR by teaching them the value of "work"....

Not that ANY of the people who talk that way would actually HIRE someone "like that".


BTW: Job listing these days might as well say, "Unemployed need not apply."

[jtuck004]

31. It's just the new beginning. 'pubs' are going to demand another 10-12 billion

cut soon. We'll get to see who their friends are this time.

And whether they get it or not, inflation will erode about 4-6 billion in purchasing power on today's purchases over the next 7 or so years. And when the fed starts its little tapering act, interest rates and costs will go up some more, and the housing market and assets we are supporting mostly for the wealthy and investors will start to decline. Want to guess how much motivation there will be to tell people they need to pay more out of pocket to feed hungry people?

I read the other day, about 25% of all hourly wage workers need public assistance to supplement their income. Ironically, 50% in the fast food industry.

Thank goodness we are in a recovery and driving down the national deficit. It would be bad otherwise.

[Isoldeblue]

32. This passing just makes me ill.

I can't, for the life of me, comprehend people who are capable of doing things like this. They are an abomination against humanity and morality.

One day, they will pay for this. I do believe in a judgement day or Karma or whatever..............

[mountain grammy]

34. Indeed.. just watched the "news." Guess they don't know yet...

[AsahinaKimi]

35. For Veterans as well...

Those on a fixed income because they are disabled now have to find it harder to deal with less in the way of food stamps.
This is how the Republicans "support the troops"

[Fumesucker]

36. K&R for Heartless Motherfuckers from sea to shining sea n/t

[japple]

40. Chip, chip, chip...they're going to keep at it until it has been whittled

down to the parts that only support agribusiness.

[99Forever]

41. But.. but ... but...

... I had some frakin' troll on another thread tellin' me how "life is getting better for most Americans." He wasn't fucking lying to me, was he?

[bhikkhu]

42. Republicans think that most people won't work unless they're hungry

and that they work harder if miserable poverty is right around the corner.

Sad, but that's really what it boils down to.

[Blue Owl]

45. Blood is boiling a few degrees hotter today

[laundry_queen]

46. Just sick.

Anyone who would do this is a sick fuck.

[ancianita]

47. And there's ALWAYS money for shutdowns. ALWAYS money for weapons and wars.

[Enthusiast]

49. K&R.............................nt

[ReRe]

50. Down and down we go...

Further and further down in their Heartless Mothereffer world. Just in time for the Holidays.

[IronLionZion]

52. Someone should tell their "job creators" to create more jobs

If they don't have a good excuse for hanging on to their record high cash balances instead of hiring more workers, its time for some progressive tax reform.

Also does team GOP really not know or care that many of their poor white conservative rural voters have been getting SNAP? So now those folks won't have food or health insurance thanks to their own party. My condolences to liberals and nonpolitical folks who are affected.

[valerief]

53. Well, as long as Exxon's getting their billions in subsidies (and all the other massive corporations

are, too), then the world is working as the puppetmasters have designed it.

Rule 1:
Rich people must get richer.
Rule 2:
Not rich people must be controlled to allow for Rule 1.

[Quayblue]

54. cynical lolz

Heartless Motherfuckerism is 1) a spot-on description and 2) keeping people hungry and struggling keeps their brains foggy. It's so obviously intentional.
I'm disgusted.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

55. "Let them eat cake!"

Yeah well, we saw how that eventually played out.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

56. My girlfriend's daughter was in hysterics yesterday when

she discovered her food assistance didn't appear on her Lone Star card as expected.

She had no idea the SNAP cuts were coming.

[wildeyed]

58. Because nothing says "Happy Holidays" like hungry children.

[maddiemom]

60. This nation, which used to be an innovator in the world, has fallen into

the grasp of right wing, reactionary pseudo (in the real sense) "Christians." Their influence far exceeds their numbers due to cowardly politicians. Arguably the most damaging statement ever by a POTUS was Reagan's "government IS the problem," and the canonization of this somewhat befuddled but amiable B list actor says all there is to say about the modern Republican party, They used him to mislead much of the public. My aging, but hard core Democrat and union organizer father-in-law just loved his folksiness and actually debated voting for him (he didn't). Now we are somewhat of a joke to the increasingly progressive countries in the world. A large portion of our happily ignorant voters want to turn us back to before the Scopes "monkey trial." How did we become such a reactionary nation, beholden to the most ignorant among us? Spineless politicians. Actively involved locally in getting out the college age voters, I know there is a huge wave of forward thinking potential voters out there, but turned off by politics. Amazingly, some remember their parents' turnoff after Bush vs Gore when they were young children.

[lupinella]

61. K&R n/t

[L0oniX]

62. The revolution will not be televised.

[workinclasszero]

63. The damn teabaggers keep screaming for an armed revolution/coup/whatever

When enough american citizens are starving and watching their kids go hungry, they just might get their wish.

But not in the way they were expecting!

Koch bros!

[Octafish]

64. That's why I vote for Democratic candidates for office.

My Party would never allow the greehead warmonger bankster toadies to roll back progress, yet...

[Leontius]

66. Does anybody know what the actual dollar amount of the cut is per family?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

67. I think it was like $173. Can't remember where I saw that. n/t

[hopemountain]

68. this is especially hurting the poor in urban & rural areas

where food costs are extremely high. at my one and only local market, a gallon of milk is nearly $5. veggies sell for more than $2.50 per pound, etc.

we have a local "food" bank that distributes twice a week. however, it is mostly rotted veggies (all of the left overs from the food bank in the nearest city) and outdated food items. every child in our middle and elementary schools qualifies for the lunch program.

those of us who are are slightly better off donate what we can but it seems no matter how much we and local churches do what we can to help - the bar for volunteer donations keeps getting raised.