The Trump administration’s freeze on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds during the government shutdown is forcing many struggling Americans to make hard decisions about feeding themselves and their families. Now the administration is even restricting how much grocery stories can help.
After several food delivery apps and grocery store chains sought to offer discounts to those whose SNAP benefits were interrupted or delayed, the Department of Agriculture sent an email to stores across the country warning them that they weren’t allowed to offer discounts to people hurt by the cuts to the food stamp program.
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“Hey! It’s the policy of this administration for these people to go without food and you better not help them out!”
What’s next? Outlawing food banks?
Probably.
Krugman, as usual, hits the nail on the head in his Substack today:
The picture of the woman in the martini glass is from trump’s Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party. Full-size pic at the link.
Whole article is short and the topic is thoroughly nauseating.
There’s been plenty of scathing commentary about the lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party Donald Trump threw at Mar a Lago — a party complete with sequined, feathered dancers and, yes, a scantily-clad woman in a giant martini glass. The party, held just hours before 42 million Americans were about to lose federal food assistance, as 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay, was grotesque. It was also, like everything Trump, unspeakably vulgar.
But many commenters described the festivities as “tone deaf,” as if Trump didn’t realize how it would look to be holding such a party as tens of millions of Americans are facing severe hardship. C’mon. Of course he realized how it would look. He understood perfectly well that he was partying while ordinary Americans were suffering. And that understanding — combined with the belief that he can get away with it — was a big reason he enjoyed the event.
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No surprise. The corrupt S.C. has deemed that Trump is a King, above the law. They’ve clearly told him he does not have to follow any law, any court, any mere human.
And his handlers who are whispering in his ear like Grima Wormtongue are loving it.
Trump is sounding stupider and stupider all the time. His writing ability has devolved to the point where if he had anyone in his family that cared about him, they would take his phone away from him. We had to do that with my dad when he began writing like this on Facebook.
“If affordability is you issue, VOTE REPUBLICAN! Energy costs, as and example, are plummeting — getting close to 2 Dollar a gallon gasoline. When energy goes down, everything else follows, and it has!!! President DJT”
My god, what a lovely image! It is so easy to picture the White House as a real-world Meduseld, its windows darkened, and a miserly fire its only heat, while the vilest of the vile strive and plot and whisper words of corruption. I take my hat off to you, Euphonius.
However the metaphor resists being followed any further because it implies that Trump is a once-noble individual whose integrity and courage can still be redeemed. Alas, even Gandalf can’t make that out of grifter Donald J. Trump.
USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients amid the freeze, warning that doing so would violate the program’s “Equal Treatment Rule.” That rule requires stores to sell eligible food items to SNAP-EBT customers at the same prices and under the same conditions as other shoppers.
Crooked Biden. Sinking boats in Venezuela. Gigantic Rally Rooms in the White House.
I don’t give a shit what the Constitution says about secession. Nobody went to jail over that. Robert E. Lee had his land taken to make Arlington Cemetery.
Nations make military plans for everything. Fighting Canada has always been there. But stuff like bombing the Republic of Ireland has a file somewhere in the Pentagon.
I’m far enough outside to talk insurrection and I have no land. New York, PA, Ohio and New England really need to use Signal or something and talk about secession. As do some states on the West Coast.
There is no Constitutional remedy for Trump left. This is not America.
Well said, Jon! I don’t get the show but that is it exactly. Any clips on youtube (bleeps acceptable)?
This is absolutely insane. It’s madness and cruelty.
I hope some grocery stores can find a way around this. Perhaps discount basic food items for everyone. Or have some kind of rotating in store blue light specials.
The Gatsby party stuff starts at 5:11. But the entire thing is worth watching. Oh, and I misquoted what Jon said. It’s actually “Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about even looking like he gives a fuck.”
Last night, I watched the latest episode of Murdoch Mysteries, Season 19, Episode 5, titled The Borden Ultimatum). The ending of the show was quite the send up of our felon-in-chief. Here is the speech Murdoch gave at the end of the episode. Sorry, I could only find it on Instagram.
