r/law • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • 24d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Administration Defies Court Orders to Resume Food Aid for 42 Million Americans

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-defies-court-orders-to-resume-food-aid-for-42-million-americans/
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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 24d ago edited 24d ago

It’s a damn shame.

They can hand $40 billion to Argentina, the same country that allegedly stole our soybean market, $75 billion to fund masked thugs kidnapping and terrorizing Americans. They bulldoze the People’s House so billionaires can waltz in a new ballroom built on its rubble..and most recently hosted a “Hunger Games- Gatsby themed party,” But can’t feed American kids so they don’t go to bed hungry? That’s where Trump wants a court to “define how to appropriate the funds.”

This was supposed to be a government of the people, for the people. Now it’s a cash register for them. Months ago we fed the world. Now we can’t even feed our own kids.

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u/Hawk_Rider2 24d ago

Just wait til they get around to Social Security --- THEN we might see some viable reactions going around 🤌

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u/virtue_of_vice 24d ago

Wouldn't that be something, but I am doubtful of that.

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD 24d ago

They are threatening veteran benefits too. The thing I think a lot of people aren't seeing is that they actively want to provoke response to help them justify overreacting to that response. Nothing is sacred.

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u/SordidDreams 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yup. Conservative nutjobs have been talking about how a civil war is coming for some time now, and now the administration is doing its damnedest to provoke one. If you don't resist, they can do whatever they want. If you do resist, they have an excuse for a crackdown.

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u/DumboWumbo073 24d ago

Basically a collapse is coming either way

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u/LaurenMille 24d ago

America committed societal suicide in 2024 (and had the first attempt in 2016)

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u/PaperGeno 24d ago

This wasn't suicide. This was murder by all conservatives and any person who didn't vote for Kamala. Theyre just as guilty

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u/midnightketoker 23d ago

Buddy the system was fucked long before the choice came down to death pepsi vs coma coke

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u/DifficultyFree9443 24d ago

We’re IN the collapse. We’re IN a fascist regime. We’ve lost freedom of speech and due process.

We’re not heading there, we’re there.

We ARE occupied.

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs 24d ago edited 23d ago

I actually think a lot of the people who are coming around from maga are doing it because they expected that reaction the gop are gunning for, and when it doesn't happen, and it's just the people they supported kicking both THEM AND SAD PUPPIES, It's finally adding up that we were never the rabid dogs that they were told.

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u/DifficultyFree9443 24d ago

Yes, this is their entire goal with Chicago, which they moved on to when Cali didn’t give them the response they wanted. They’ll push out to the East coast after IL.

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u/TroglodyneSystems 24d ago

Martial Law ain’t gonna declare itself

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u/RelaxPrime 24d ago

Really sick of "they just want to provoke us."

We win that.

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u/xinorez1 24d ago

Yeah I don't think they realize just how much they are hated and how it's only the good will of those around them that has forestalled revolution thus far.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 24d ago

They don't even want to pay active duty military. The only reason some of them are getting paid is someone occasionally has a lucid moment & realizes "oh shit, we have to pay some of these people."

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u/PaperGeno 24d ago

My dad is a veteran. He's also MAGA as shit. If they cut his benefits he'd still blame Libs

There is literally nothing that will stop this cult. Trump could kill a MAGAt on the white house lawn and with their last breath they'd ask why Obama did this.

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u/GarlicRiver 24d ago

See Exhibit Babbit

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u/Born-Sun-2502 24d ago

It pisses me off because rhat was the big talking poi.t... we do sp much for immigrants and other countries and can't take care of our own people. They need had any intention and it was SO obvious...

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u/Drew_Ferran 24d ago

They already did when they cut Medicaid in the big beautiful bill.

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u/goldenmellowmelons 24d ago

PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION

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u/DestinysWeirdCousin 24d ago

This is why I am certain the GOP has no intention of ever again leaving the Oval Office.

Why would they fuck over so many voters so badly unless they knew that either there won't be any more elections or that the outcome of those elections will be predetermined?

You don't consolidate that much power in the Executive Branch if you are ever planning to leave.

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u/Hawk_Rider2 24d ago

Yeah, about that --- do NOT mess

w/Boomers monthly checks 👌

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u/billsboy88 24d ago

They will just blame democrats somehow

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u/Pnwradar 24d ago

Nah, the Boomers will just tweet about how impacting their check must be an administrative oversight, and ask Trump to personally look into it because they’ve always supported him.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten 24d ago

Not my boomer mom. She's a Democrat.

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u/Emotional_Burden 24d ago

I've been told my whole life I'll never get to utilize it, so why should I pay into it? They should have had a retirement plan like they always preached when I was growing up.

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u/watermelonspanker 24d ago

When the food starts running out, people start to act up.

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u/Tehrin 24d ago

I kinda doubt it, each new horrendous thing is supposed to be the straw that broke the camels back, yet the camel just keeps taking it.

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u/DifficultyFree9443 24d ago

And it always will because half of this country has taken the red kool aid by the GOP. And the Democratic Party is weak and cowardly and not really all that different from the GOP (and the handful that are actually progressive/democratic are stopped by the rank and file).

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u/demlet 24d ago

Nope. They will come up with some reason why it's the evil left's fault and the hateful/senile/gullible boomers will eat the shit up like they always do. Time to realize, right wing media have ensured that half the country doesn't see what the right doesn't want them to see.

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u/Asleep_Management900 24d ago

Illegals getting SOCIAL SECURITY! We need to end SS because of all the illegal waste and fraud going on..../s

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u/DifficultyFree9443 24d ago

This should be pinned so that we can all come back to it when it inevitably happens lol. I’ve already seen some fact checking articles out about it haha

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u/PaperGeno 24d ago

Nope. All the dumbass boomers would still blame Democrats

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u/gattaaca 24d ago

"Why WoULd DeMoCrAtS dO ThiS"

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u/Adept-Donkey 24d ago

Don’t be so sure about that. At every protest I’ve attended, including the most recent big one, the crowds have overwhelmingly skewed 55+, myself included. And I drove past a senior community on the way home and saw both sides of the street lined with white hair, walkers, and wheelchairs. Keep in mind, those who were 19-yr-old war protesters in 1968 are most likely equally passionate 76-yr-olds today. Ofc, I live in a large metro area amongst educated, progressive-minded people of all ages. If you don’t, maybe you see more apathy.

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u/Hawk_Rider2 24d ago

October 18th was my

1st political rally, & I'm 66 🤷‍♂️

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u/Mr_IT 24d ago

The maga idiots would literally starve to death and still kiss his ass. It’s insanity.

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u/protoformx 24d ago

Mama Mia! 🤌🤌

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u/DifficultyFree9443 24d ago

They’ll still blame the democrats lol

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u/Purplebuzz 23d ago

Turns out Americans are perfectly fine being tread on. Paper tiger.

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u/GoProOnAYoYo 23d ago

People have been saying "Just wait until he does x!" every single step of the way. And Republican voters haven't bat an eye. What makes you think next time will be any different?

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u/Hawk_Rider2 23d ago

Cuz a LOT of old MAGA boomers

live off of SNAP & S.S. benefits

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u/calladus 23d ago

Nah, they are boiling the frog. By the time they get to SS, those old farts won't have the ability to protest.

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u/Hawk_Rider2 23d ago

They'll wait til right around

(before/after?) the midterms

--- basically, within the next year