It’s the Lifeline Assistance Fund, which provides telephones (and now, as of last year, internet) to poor people, to facilitate job hunting and provide other important functions. It is funded by a tariff on the telecoms providers (who generally pass the cost onto paying customers).
The program began under Reagan and was expanded to cellphones under Bush, but because some excited woman was filmed saying that she was going to “get me one of those Obamaphones” when Obama was elected the right have come to believe that the program is an Obama-driven handout to the undeserving. It is yet another successful right-wing lie that has become embedded in the minds of the faithful.
ETA: Double-ninja’d!
I thought the Obamaphone was how we got a hold of the former president when the Obama Signal was down.
Because even though it’s called the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces party, everyone “knows” they only eat black people faces!
Receiving government help is only bad in the third person; is perfectly fine in the first person.
Ringringringringringringringring, Obamaphone!
Ringringringringringringringring, Obamaphoooone!
And Hispanic people’s faces, and Muslims’ faces, and coastal elites’ faces, and LGBTQ faces, and ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ faces, and the faces of people who say “happy holidays” at Christmas, and…
— What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Chicken. Chicken?
So Devos’s brother helped set up a backchannel between Putin and Trump.
My, my, my, my, my.
I was wondering what Ms. Devos’ qualifications for Secretary of Education were. I mean, last week, I was thinking “Wait a minute - how can she be appointed by Trump when she has no connection to Russian spies?”
I’m guessing Trump will try to connect Hillary to Blackwater.
At least she’ll have a matched set.
No, an Obamaphone is when two words that have opposite definitions mean the same thing. Like “atheist” and “muslim.”
Betsy DeVos is Eric Prince’s sister? I can’t think of a epithet strong enough to express my reaction to learning that.
…says the man with his own paramilitary with a record of murdering civilians.
But he bills for it! The terrorists do it without proper invoicing! What do you have against America!!?!?!
Ha! Exactly.