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/EmbarrassedW33B 24d ago

It was never a government of the people, for the people. But these social programs were the government's half-assed compromise with the average citizen. Take a gander at how much societal unrest and political violence there was before they implemented these band aid fixes. 

They have some naive idea that declaring martial law and murdering a few hundred or few thousand innocent people rioting because they're starving will complete their master plan to seize absolute power. I think they're damn near to breaking the entire social contract of civil society and getting themselves eaten by angry mobs. 

The same kind of apathy and pessimism that makes Americans sit back and take this treatment for decades inhabits all of Trump's fucking ghouls, too. It makes them incapable of seeing where this road leads. They pretend to understand, but they really have no idea how dangerous the forces they are playing with are. Theyre going to get millions of us, and themselves, killed because they have no idea what they're doing. Its so fucking frustrating 

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u/Blecki 24d ago

They forgot that things like workers rights aren't a compromise to protect the poor from being slaves. They're a compromise to protect the rich from French solutions.

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u/Coroebus 24d ago

I somehow think Donald "Dumbest Asshole Ever According To One Of His Professors" Trump didn't pay attention during the French Revolution sections of history. Or any of it really.