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uponit7771

(93,398 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:25 AM Monday

Eating is more important than HCI payments?

Only silver lining I see, ghoulish ass take but true?

thx in advance

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fujiyamasan

(948 posts)
1. Ultimately republicans want people to die somehow
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:30 AM
Monday

Whether by starvation or some illness.

Democrats should have understood this from the start. Start from there before bothering to fight, because you’re likely to lose anyway. Just prepare your voters that you’re embarking on a futile effort.

RockRaven

(18,349 posts)
2. Optimistic to frame it as an "either or" rather than the "neither nor" it will be soon enough.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:39 AM
Monday

Repugs are just getting started.

markodochartaigh

(4,617 posts)
3. It seems to me that the health insurance payments
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:57 AM
Monday

will generally go up two or three times as much as the SNAP benefits were, but there are far more people on SNAP.

It is very difficult to deal with a hostage taker when they genuinely want to kill their hostage.

Bettie

(19,116 posts)
7. That assumes
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:44 AM
Monday

that SNAP payments will resume.

That's not guaranteed. Remember, we are in a post-rules and norms society.

Republicans don't actually adhere to either of those things.

Scrivener7

(57,772 posts)
6. Wealthiest country in the world. Both are equally important.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:36 AM
Monday

Choosing to kill the poor or the sick and elderly is not a choice we should be considering. And there's no real reason for us to have to consider either.

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