Folded on a bluff. Christ

"Hitler is terrible"
"eh, the other option was no better"

^ probably a conversation that happened in 1930s Germany

if SNAP remained cut for long, the full reality of why this is happening - and how stupid it is to allow a critical system to fail because you don't like someone - would set in on a lot of MAGA very quickly, and Rs would pay the price

my bet? Rs know that & want Dems to cave b4 the deadline

ask a starving person if they give a shit who has to get healthcare to get their food benefits reinstated

ask the family of someone on SNAP if they give a shit whose healthcare their taxes go toward, as long as they don't have to foot the bill for grandma's food every month

to top it off they sent me 5 pages of legalspeak and i understand it to some degree (i'm assuming the lack of guidance as to what i actually need to submit is intentional lmao) but reading this much at once makes my skeleton want to leave my body 😃

i can't even have my doctor do it for me without also mailing them a written consent form that says my doctor can do it so i may as well do the whole thing my damn self anyway i guess 😑

i know that officially congress is supposed to approve the spending first but people do not *need* to be on the verge of starving bc congress is fighting. the money is already there

"we don't have the funds" lmao fuck off with that my taxes are taken out of my paycheck before i even see it

i loathe so much that this is a manufactured crisis but now is the time to start thinking about mutual aid systems that *don't* rely on having a steady government

i'm not talking about representatives, or your neighbor Joe who's a low-level manager at SSA

i'm talking about heads of agencies & appointees.
all of them are either Trump loyalists or doing a damn good enough job acting like it to avoid being tossed out

(*slight chance that someone's acting covertly and sabotaging things or otherwise leaking important info to people who know what to do with it)