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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Embracing Trumpism/White Supremacy

Board anti-semitism concern trolls, this is evidently one of the rising stars of the Republican Party dogwhistling pre-WW2 Nazis rhetoric:

 
Board anti-semitism concern trolls, this is evidently one of the rising stars of the Republican Party dogwhistling pre-WW2 Nazis rhetoric:


I suppose we just need to remove the Statue of Liberty and stop calling ourselves a melting pot, then. It's really amazing and pathetic at how terrified so many whites are at the demographic changes in this country over the last 30 to 40 years. They're perfectly happy with these immigrants working as low-wage hired help for them mowing their lawns and cleaning their houses, but they need to know their (inferior) place and stay there, dammit!
 
If this is the best the Republican Party has to offer, then NED and warak and them need to start a new right-centrist party or something because the RNC is gonna be a sieg heil-fest even after Trump leaves office
 
 

Look closely and you'll notice that the magazine cover was from 2017. The Germans spotted it early on.
 

One of the most laughable appeals to authority I have ever heard
 
It was spotted here all the way back to his birtherism days. He has nearly half a century of documented racism.
 
Donald could call the cages concentration camps and himself a Nazi and his Tintin-esque defenders would say "well he doesn't really mean that literally - you can't take his hyperbole seriously"
 
National Conservative American Patriot’s Party
 
People forget that the Nazis were a political party.

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That's how they win elections. Pure white rage.
 
The question is will the Dems have the cajones to make this election about Trump's racism and going to court to take away their health insurance. If they drive home these two issues, millions who stayed home will be energized. If they don't it will be on the DNC and their PACs for helping to re-elect Trump.
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...million-people-from-food-stamps-idUSKCN1UI0AH

Trump administration pursues rule that would remove 3.1 million people from food stamps

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday will propose a rule to tighten food stamp restrictions that would cut about 3.1 million people from the program, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials said.

Currently, 43 U.S. states allow residents to automatically become eligible for food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, if they receive benefits from another federal program known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, according to the USDA.

But the agency wants to require people who receive TANF benefits to pass a review of their income and assets to determine whether they are eligible for free food from SNAP, officials said.

If enacted, the rule would save the federal government about $2.5 billion a year by removing people from SNAP, according to the USDA.

U.S. President Donald Trump has argued that many Americans now using SNAP do not need it given the strong economy and low unemployment, and should be removed as a way to save taxpayers as much as $15 billion.

“Some states are taking advantage of loopholes that allow people to receive the SNAP benefits who would otherwise not qualify and for which they are not entitled,” USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

SNAP provides free food to some 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the total U.S. population.

A Trump-backed effort to pass new restrictions through the Farm Bill was blocked by Congress last year, following a months-long, partisan debate.

The USDA does not need congressional approval, however, to stop states from automatically allowing recipients of TANF benefits to become eligible for SNAP, said Brandon Lipps, a USDA acting deputy undersecretary.

Current rules allow people to access SNAP benefits worth thousands of dollars for two years without going through robust eligibility reviews, he told reporters on the call.

“Unfortunately, automatic eligibility has expanded to allow even millionaires and others who simply receive a TANF-funded brochure to become eligible for SNAP when they clearly don’t need it,” Lipps said.

The USDA will accept public comment on the proposed rule change.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in December estimated the rule could save the federal government $8.1 billion from 2019 to 2028, lower than the USDA’s estimate.

In 2016, the CBO said arguments against the change included concerns that it would eliminate benefits for households in difficult financial situations and increase the complexity and time involved in verifying information on SNAP applications.
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...million-people-from-food-stamps-idUSKCN1UI0AH

Trump administration pursues rule that would remove 3.1 million people from food stamps

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday will propose a rule to tighten food stamp restrictions that would cut about 3.1 million people from the program, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials said.

Currently, 43 U.S. states allow residents to automatically become eligible for food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, if they receive benefits from another federal program known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, according to the USDA.

But the agency wants to require people who receive TANF benefits to pass a review of their income and assets to determine whether they are eligible for free food from SNAP, officials said.

If enacted, the rule would save the federal government about $2.5 billion a year by removing people from SNAP, according to the USDA.

U.S. President Donald Trump has argued that many Americans now using SNAP do not need it given the strong economy and low unemployment, and should be removed as a way to save taxpayers as much as $15 billion.

“Some states are taking advantage of loopholes that allow people to receive the SNAP benefits who would otherwise not qualify and for which they are not entitled,” USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

SNAP provides free food to some 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the total U.S. population.

A Trump-backed effort to pass new restrictions through the Farm Bill was blocked by Congress last year, following a months-long, partisan debate.

The USDA does not need congressional approval, however, to stop states from automatically allowing recipients of TANF benefits to become eligible for SNAP, said Brandon Lipps, a USDA acting deputy undersecretary.

Current rules allow people to access SNAP benefits worth thousands of dollars for two years without going through robust eligibility reviews, he told reporters on the call.

“Unfortunately, automatic eligibility has expanded to allow even millionaires and others who simply receive a TANF-funded brochure to become eligible for SNAP when they clearly don’t need it,” Lipps said.

The USDA will accept public comment on the proposed rule change.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in December estimated the rule could save the federal government $8.1 billion from 2019 to 2028, lower than the USDA’s estimate.

In 2016, the CBO said arguments against the change included concerns that it would eliminate benefits for households in difficult financial situations and increase the complexity and time involved in verifying information on SNAP applications.

Good twitter thread on this. Infuriating.

 

If an immune system cannot detect a cold, it cannot stop pneumonia. And if the guardrails that surround movement conservatism can’t keep out racism thinly disguised as concerns about “cultural differences” or “demographic change” (particularly when those “cultural differences” are between Americans), it cannot stop the abject racism of telling nonwhite American citizens to “go back” where they came from (though it apparently can certainly deny that such statements are racist). And it cannot beat back the seductive idea that racism is good politics, and even that perhaps racism is “real conservatism” at work.
 
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