I’m old enough to remember when I respected adults and men and women of authority: doctors, lawyers, judges, business leaders, politicians, college professors, etc.
Sadly, now my initial thought if I hear someone is in one of these educated elite positions is that they are a communist turd. Willfully, blind, morally, corrupt, a coward, and likely demonically possessed.
You should see the female bent-lipped, black-robbed, psychopaths here in the Pacific Northwest.
Their souls are as black as their robes, and they’re as ugly as sin, obviously because they’re from the pit of hell.
When did it all begin to change? I think it might’ve been the Clinton administration. Then bury Obama took it to 11.
My trust and respect is now reserved for first responders, military, and tradesmen. Everyone else I look at with deep suspicion.
Same. But after my first job,at about 15 years old, I learnt what a politician was, and once that light went on,it only burned brighter. At 70, I’m on fire!
The decision of where to flee TO is becoming increasingly fraught! VA is ready to start swirling down the bowl with a slate of horrific DEMS about to take over our state on Tuesday and we are running out of viable alternatives!
Oh, for certain this is true......It is mind-boggling to consider where a person might flee for safety and serenity and peace. Ever-changing weirdness creeping and invading everywhere..... eggshell paths exist everywhere. But, chin up!
Thanks Jewel. This is an article by el gato malo that mirrors E Nickson's great article you posted. He doesn't mention satanism, but it is commentary on how shitty music has become.
I encourage you to watch the 3 videos as well. It made me so grateful to know the words to all of those songs...to have great memories of slow dances to Foreigner songs--and gato malo, in his usual panache, makes a great editorial point.
I don't remember /respecting/ adult authorities as a kid, but I hadn't collected enough data yet to realize I should DISrespect most of them.
by late high school I was pretty thoroughly disillusioned of the idea that government and the Expert Class had half a brain between them. as I aged for decades after that, my disillusionment only increased
You were ahead of me. I was disillusioned as a kid, mostly with the schools as that was my primary influence. Was such BS. But, after enlisting in the Army and 'playing by the rules' my life began to get traction. I went to school at night, in 8 years completed undergrad and grad school, was promoted, saw the world--things began to work and it seems (now in reflection) that I then began to accept the narrative.
I continued in my naiveté until ISIS. Then I began to question our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. COVID and the subsequent INSANE events after that completely destroyed any sense of trust, confidence, and faith/belief in the 'narrative'.
These are individuals asserting power to benefit themselves and their people. There is no overarching system they're trying to implement other than they get a bigger slice of the pie.
The only communists are those idiots LARPing outside ICE facilities, and that's because they can't compete in any merit-based system.
I was inclined to have some pity on people who were so destitute that they needed food stamps.
Then videos started popping up online of enormously arrogant SNAP recipients saying that they were *owed* food by the rest of us; complaining about the 15-hour-a-week work requirement (one woman informed viewers that people on food stamps don't have that kind of time because they have a life); and that we taxpayers, via the government, are required to help "raise my children". Even worse are the videos of people announcing they were going to start shoplifting food on November 1, and threatening to beat up anyone who tries to stop them on the way out of the store. Not a single word of gratitude, not a moment of humility.
We've been working our butts off our whole adult lives to provide for these ingrates?
Get rid of the EBT cards and give these folks a box of healthy food each month. Some of them may actually have to learn to cook, but that's not such a bad thing.
I was kicked out of the house when I was 16. Had a step dad who remains an asshole. I did not eat for three days and did not die. I had just been hired at Taco Bell and picked up my uniforms before the punting...anyway, I went to talk with the Asst Manager, Lori, and begged, "Lori, Im freaking starving. I'll work for a Burrito Supreme. Seriously is there any room on the schedule?"
"Sorry Brian, nothing for two weeks."
I did not die. In fact, my stomach shrank (which totally surprised me when I began eating again).
I did a 10 day fast in June. Fun meter pegged for sure, but I did it. It was hard. Really hard. But I did it. With a house full of food.
Let the program die, should NEVER have been a federal program. Should be administered by cities, counties at the furthest from recipient government. Then, means test everyone. If someone has a $400 weave, manicure, iPhone 14 or newer, go away and fuck off. Come back in a year. CPS will take your children as well.
Oh, and require they be married!!! How about that?!?!?
Thanks Glitter...but it's an illusion. The 10 day fast was a full-length, high-fidelity reflection at the good, bad, and ugly in my own nature. How, exactly, I lie to myself. I manipulative I can be to get what I want...
Listened to a podcast with GEN MacChrystal in 2015/2016ish. He is known for only eating one meal a day. People always talk about how disciplined he was...he responded, "Heck, the reason I only ate one meal a day is because I AM NOT DISCIPLINED. It is infinitely easier to only eat one healthy meal a day than to measure, time, and be disciplined about what I eat numerous times a day.
I have adopted fasting since about 2014 as a tool to 'remind myself I can do hard things', and agree with McChrystal. Much easier to focus on one thing that numerous.
The way I think of it is that we make close to 300 food choices a day (vast majority are now subconscious), but like how much cream in coffee, how big of a bite, how large a portion...
If I were shooting 300 layups, there is a high probability that I'd lose focus at least once and miss a shot.
However, if my only choice is "NO, nothing," that is cognitively much easier to handle.
All that said--that was very kind to say, thank you.
You pick a somewhat dubious character to model your actions after. McChrystal traveled with his press secretary…. You know, a man of the people. Four star fraud
During the war years, especially the years in which I participated and/or trained to fight and trained others to fight in those wars, I thought very highly of both McChrystal and Patraeus. I thought McChyrstal might have been the best among the Flag Officers—he was SOF and hard—and he was infamous for going out of the absolute tip of the spear to be with his men.
Numerous stories of him ‘jumping in foxholes’ to talk with young troops to get their feedback/opinions.
Turns out they both have feet of clay. Betrayus committed the same GO1 (General Order 1) infraction that I’m sure he punished 100s of people for in his commands. McChrystal is just another sell-out.
I think Hegseth should have fired 80-90% of the flag officers he brought together, and deleted all 80% of those billets from the DOW permanently.
All that said, he was correct (at least for me and my own struggles) about discipline. I must set the conditions, have rules of behavior, bright lines, instead of trusting my judgment/choices ‘in the heat of the moment’. I agree with his strategies to accomplish his goals.
I just wish he and the other senior officers had the courage to live up to the values they purported to live…
Thank you for your comments. You speak respectfully of all, while being direct. I appreciate men with definable character, such as yourself. Ok if I follow your postings?
Probably TMI, but my point is people are resilient. Yeah, not everyone grows up in an ideal situation. My hunch is probably 70% of the people who enlist in the military come from traumatic/dysfunctional backgrounds.
it’s where many of us first see what adults of character look like.
I'm now an old fart at a tech college. Spent a year doing construction, now I'm learning auto tech. Having an absolute blast! But the young men and women I see--they do not have NCOs in their lives. So many of them are the young kids I grew up with in the Army--but we had an ethic, NCOs (essentially big brothers who looked out for us), and values instilled into us.
I try to be 'uncle Brian' to these guys, I learn everyone's name immediately, talk to all of them--see them, let them be heard. It is amazing how they respond. I know that many, many of them are in rough spots--now the only thing I can do it be kind, model behavior, and ensure they know that I know who they are, and that I am paying attention--that they matter to me.
It does make me long for a conscripted service obligation for our nation.
Brian, I have HUGE respect for you for what you are doing with the young folks. Many of them desperately need someone like you to be a role model and source of true information. I can't imagine being young these days - there's so much turmoil and many if not most of our "leaders" (such as politicians) are not good examples. So glad you are there for them. I agree with you about conscripted service - military is excellent training for developing good strong character. I come from a family of many military personnel. My dad was born in 1920, came from absolutely nothing, never had a dad and was literally starving to death by age 12 in the Depression, until CCC camps came along where children were sent so they could eat. When he grew up he knew he never wanted to be poor again. He worked hard, joined the Navy the day Pearl Harbor was bombed and stayed in the Navy for 39 yrs. He was in reserves after the war. He eventually became a Rear Admiral and my brother and I grew up with military values. My dad ran a tight ship! He started his own business, where I went to work in his office when I was 12 yrs old - because I wanted to not because he made me. I learned good values, how to work hard and why we were so blessed to grow up in America. My dad became very successful, eventually ended up as one of Pres. Reagan's top advisors. And that's what the military does for a person.
I understand. I used to feel the same way, until I met recipients of said welfare and food stamps. Sleezier, lazier, more entitled, (white, I'm not raciss.) people could not exist. They lived in a way nicer place than I could ever afford, and, of course, I worked and had no illegitimate kids.
I have been very poor. And I am pretty lucky financially now. I have been both - pretty rich and very poor. Almost every poor person I know that lived on the dole cheated. They all played the system. The odd one wouldn’t but he or she would need only a few months of help. Those on it for long periods all cheated.
yes, I am with you 100%. a sane Mainer here, who has watched my state go down the shithole........... what has become of our citizenry???????????????????????????? God help us all.
Add to that the fact that 70% of those on food stamps are illegals and NOT American citizens. As well, many of them get 3,000 to 4,000 dollars per month and sell those stamps to make money off of them. And YES, we need to get rid of EBT cards!
If we could get rid of the EBT cards and therefore the selling of such cards, recipients would have to sell or swap the zucchini from their relief boxes. Good luck with that in August. ;)
As an avid gardener and homesteader myself - your last sentence had me laughing until I almost hurt myself! Great idea, get rid of the cards - although I prefer getting rid of the entire program. People who are disabled and can't work can get money from Disability so they should be OK for food.
"Numerator notes that households receiving SNAP benefits “are skewing higher income,” with 23% of SNAP households bringing in $80,000 or more per year."
"Numerator also claims that 65% of SNAP households don’t have children, up 5 points from 2020."
"About 48% of illegal immigrant households use food-related welfare, as compared to 25% of native households."
1/ “23% of SNAP households bringing in $80,000 or more per year” — demonstratively false
The official USDA data shows that 73% of SNAP households have gross monthly income at or below the poverty level, and 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households with gross monthly income at or below the poverty level. The income eligibility for SNAP is capped at 130% of the federal poverty line—about $34,656 annually for a three-person family. It would be essentially impossible for households making $80,000+ to qualify for SNAP under current rules.
The Numerator data referenced appears to have been misinterpreted or distorted. Recent reporting indicates that households leaving the SNAP program as of 2025 have incomes above $80,000—meaning they’re no longer eligible and are exiting the program, not currently receiving benefits.
2/ “Corporations are cashing in big” on SNAP, with Walmart capturing nearly a quarter of spending — this is misleading framing
Walmart does capture approximately 24-26% of SNAP grocery spending, with Kroger accounting for about 8.4% and Costco about 6%. However, the article frames this as corporate “looting” when it’s actually the result of Walmart having 96.9% of SNAP shoppers purchasing groceries there due to its nationwide presence and competitive pricing. SNAP recipients shop where they can stretch their limited benefits furthest. Walmart has also integrated EBT systems into online shopping platforms, making it easier for SNAP recipients to use their benefits.
The reality is that low-income shoppers have limited options and choose the most affordable retailers. This isn’t corporations “cashing in”—it’s people on tight budgets making rational economic decisions.
3/ “A sizable percentage of Walmart’s own employees are on food stamps” — context distorted
A 2020 GAO study found that Walmart employed approximately 14,500 workers receiving SNAP benefits across nine states, and about 70% of SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries studied were full-time workers. This is a legitimate criticism of low wages at major corporations—not of SNAP recipients. The article uses this fact to attack the program itself rather than address wage inadequacy at profitable corporations.
4/ Characterizing SNAP as “looting” and recipients as “freeloaders foreign and domestic” — inflammatory distortion
The data shows that 86% of SNAP benefits go to households that include children, elderly persons, or people with disabilities. In 2020, 82.3% of adult SNAP recipients and 97.1% of child recipients were born in the United States. SNAP prevented approximately 3.2 million people from falling into poverty in 2018. SNAP shoppers spend an average of $832 monthly on groceries, shopping at an average of 6.6 retailers per month—demonstrating they’re supplementing benefits with other income and budgeting carefully.
SNAP recipients make heavy use of local food banks.
Every charity food bank where I’ve helped and/or donated - and that would be in several different states - it’s been exactly the same: I’ll suggest to administrators that it might be beneficial to both the food banks’ ability to provide more food, and the recipients’ ability to get more food, if we gave them quality ingredients rather than much more expensive packaged stuff, which is often of lesser quality. They’d be eating healthier as well; maybe they’d feel better too.
At one time or other, the food banks have tried this by offering free cooking classes, led by a local chef in one instance and a retired home economics teacher in at least one other. These were not exotic recipes, just basic cooking. You can make a big pot of mac and cheese from scratch, for example, in very little time and for less money than boxed stuff, and it tastes better. With an inexpensive slow cooker (our local charity has several available right now for cheap) you don’t even need to stand at the stove.
The clients made it loudly and abundantly clear that what they want is not quality ingredients, they do not want to learn how to cook (not a single person ever signed up for cooking classes); they said that what they want is pre-packaged foods that require minimal or no preparation. That’s what they demanded from us, and that’s what they were buying with their food stamps.
Whatever the reason for this, it isn’t consistent with careful budgeting or stretching limited funds.
And everybody shops at multiple grocery stores to get the best prices. It’s not some special trick that only SNAP recipients know.
When did federal district court judges decide that they run the executive branch of government? They are all way out over their skis with these rulings that infringe on agency operations.
The hubris of federal district court judges is off the charts. I think Congress should defund them immediately for 12 months. Better to draft citizens without JDs to actually judge things than to live with these appointed partisan gnats.
The Gen Zs are the ones finally coming around... the ones who pay attention will vote. A lot of them are becoming Christian. I know a lot of conservative young people. I think we need them. I grew up with the crazy Berkley hippies in the 60s-70s... when I turned 18, I voted conservative.
I was born in 1946. Young people were essentially split 50/50 in the 60s. Half of them turn left, and the other half supported the war in Vietnam. The Boomers were never the monolith that ignorant descendants think they were.
How far we have fallen re: brain development. I bought this toy sewing machine from the 50's off an auction. Made for 6 years and up, the manual not only tells said 6 year old how to operate it, but how to maintain it AND how to troubleshoot it! Absolutely mind blowing. ( Took me an hour to fix it using the manual lol)
Greaat idea! I was thinking that maybe there could be like 5-7 possible qualifications and a person would have to be able to meet 3-4 of them to be eligible to vote. For instance (aside from age) you could have some of these or other quals: own property, be married, military veteran, not receiving entitlements, etc. Skin in the game. It is really not fair that people get to vote to take my money from me and launder it to themselves via the government. Its insane actually.
Perhaps this actually IS some long game plan they are playing. When at some point the Marxist oligarch swamp cutters get back in control of the White House, precedence with a capital P will have been set through our courts, to broaden Executive power and they will gladly proclaim their King over America.
I don't believe that judge--any judge--has the authority to direct spending of funding not appropriated by Congress. This includes funding that has been authorized for other purposes. Violation of separation of power and the Antideficiency Act, at least.
Hell, everybody knows there's a money tree growing in the Rose Garden. All Trump has to do is to send someone out there to harvest a few bushels of cash. SNAP problem solved!
Last week: NO KINGS!
This week: The King must supply us with food and shelter!
Not just food, but DORITOS food!
Barbecue chips, too!
Apocalyptic brainless zombies. It is Halloween after all!
... Is the only type of costume allowed, but you have to wear it all year round!
Absolutely !
Oh heck, I didn't see your comment before I posted.
This.
I’m old enough to remember when I respected adults and men and women of authority: doctors, lawyers, judges, business leaders, politicians, college professors, etc.
Sadly, now my initial thought if I hear someone is in one of these educated elite positions is that they are a communist turd. Willfully, blind, morally, corrupt, a coward, and likely demonically possessed.
You should see the female bent-lipped, black-robbed, psychopaths here in the Pacific Northwest.
Their souls are as black as their robes, and they’re as ugly as sin, obviously because they’re from the pit of hell.
When did it all begin to change? I think it might’ve been the Clinton administration. Then bury Obama took it to 11.
My trust and respect is now reserved for first responders, military, and tradesmen. Everyone else I look at with deep suspicion.
bsn
Same. But after my first job,at about 15 years old, I learnt what a politician was, and once that light went on,it only burned brighter. At 70, I’m on fire!
It reminded me of a huge sign painted in the late ‘60s visible while driving on the FDR (East River) drive: “every politician is a whore”.
What's the difference between a politician and a paedophile?
A paedophile only expects your children to bend over...
Had to FLEE the PNW, to AZ four years ago.....just in time for the Wicked Katie Hobbs to be installed!
The decision of where to flee TO is becoming increasingly fraught! VA is ready to start swirling down the bowl with a slate of horrific DEMS about to take over our state on Tuesday and we are running out of viable alternatives!
Oh, for certain this is true......It is mind-boggling to consider where a person might flee for safety and serenity and peace. Ever-changing weirdness creeping and invading everywhere..... eggshell paths exist everywhere. But, chin up!
"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles"
Niccolò Machiavelli
To your list of those who you trust and respect, I would add also add independent journalists who dare to tell the truth.
100%. Chris Bray. Matt Taibbi. All the cool kids are on SubStack.
bsn
Years of the left slowly deteriorating all of our societal rules, established in part by judaeo Christian values.
Established solely on Judeo-Christian values.
E Nickson expands on this in today's sstack https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-old-bad-demon-inflected-culture?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=30495&post_id=177384233&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=plyto&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Thanks Jewel. This is an article by el gato malo that mirrors E Nickson's great article you posted. He doesn't mention satanism, but it is commentary on how shitty music has become.
I encourage you to watch the 3 videos as well. It made me so grateful to know the words to all of those songs...to have great memories of slow dances to Foreigner songs--and gato malo, in his usual panache, makes a great editorial point.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177100949
bsn
I don't remember /respecting/ adult authorities as a kid, but I hadn't collected enough data yet to realize I should DISrespect most of them.
by late high school I was pretty thoroughly disillusioned of the idea that government and the Expert Class had half a brain between them. as I aged for decades after that, my disillusionment only increased
You were ahead of me. I was disillusioned as a kid, mostly with the schools as that was my primary influence. Was such BS. But, after enlisting in the Army and 'playing by the rules' my life began to get traction. I went to school at night, in 8 years completed undergrad and grad school, was promoted, saw the world--things began to work and it seems (now in reflection) that I then began to accept the narrative.
I continued in my naiveté until ISIS. Then I began to question our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. COVID and the subsequent INSANE events after that completely destroyed any sense of trust, confidence, and faith/belief in the 'narrative'.
bsn
Still…..I thank you for your willingness to serve.
You’re welcome, but to be clear, I got and continue to receive an order of magnitude more than I gave.
I agree with you, Brian.
so true!
These are not communists. Not by a long shot.
These are individuals asserting power to benefit themselves and their people. There is no overarching system they're trying to implement other than they get a bigger slice of the pie.
The only communists are those idiots LARPing outside ICE facilities, and that's because they can't compete in any merit-based system.
Why do we always know what sort of people these judges are as soon as we see the headlines?
Isn’t the obvious solution for a judge to order 5 Senators to vote for a clean CR and open the government?
A dumbocrap isn't going to order another dumbocrap to do jack to help the Republicans/people of the country, overall.
Especially a wise Punjabi dumbocrap.
exactly!
Obviously.
bsn
I was inclined to have some pity on people who were so destitute that they needed food stamps.
Then videos started popping up online of enormously arrogant SNAP recipients saying that they were *owed* food by the rest of us; complaining about the 15-hour-a-week work requirement (one woman informed viewers that people on food stamps don't have that kind of time because they have a life); and that we taxpayers, via the government, are required to help "raise my children". Even worse are the videos of people announcing they were going to start shoplifting food on November 1, and threatening to beat up anyone who tries to stop them on the way out of the store. Not a single word of gratitude, not a moment of humility.
We've been working our butts off our whole adult lives to provide for these ingrates?
Get rid of the EBT cards and give these folks a box of healthy food each month. Some of them may actually have to learn to cook, but that's not such a bad thing.
I was kicked out of the house when I was 16. Had a step dad who remains an asshole. I did not eat for three days and did not die. I had just been hired at Taco Bell and picked up my uniforms before the punting...anyway, I went to talk with the Asst Manager, Lori, and begged, "Lori, Im freaking starving. I'll work for a Burrito Supreme. Seriously is there any room on the schedule?"
"Sorry Brian, nothing for two weeks."
I did not die. In fact, my stomach shrank (which totally surprised me when I began eating again).
I did a 10 day fast in June. Fun meter pegged for sure, but I did it. It was hard. Really hard. But I did it. With a house full of food.
Let the program die, should NEVER have been a federal program. Should be administered by cities, counties at the furthest from recipient government. Then, means test everyone. If someone has a $400 weave, manicure, iPhone 14 or newer, go away and fuck off. Come back in a year. CPS will take your children as well.
Oh, and require they be married!!! How about that?!?!?
bsn
Few people have the discipline you exhibit. I wish they did. We would be so much better off
Thanks Glitter...but it's an illusion. The 10 day fast was a full-length, high-fidelity reflection at the good, bad, and ugly in my own nature. How, exactly, I lie to myself. I manipulative I can be to get what I want...
Listened to a podcast with GEN MacChrystal in 2015/2016ish. He is known for only eating one meal a day. People always talk about how disciplined he was...he responded, "Heck, the reason I only ate one meal a day is because I AM NOT DISCIPLINED. It is infinitely easier to only eat one healthy meal a day than to measure, time, and be disciplined about what I eat numerous times a day.
I have adopted fasting since about 2014 as a tool to 'remind myself I can do hard things', and agree with McChrystal. Much easier to focus on one thing that numerous.
The way I think of it is that we make close to 300 food choices a day (vast majority are now subconscious), but like how much cream in coffee, how big of a bite, how large a portion...
If I were shooting 300 layups, there is a high probability that I'd lose focus at least once and miss a shot.
However, if my only choice is "NO, nothing," that is cognitively much easier to handle.
All that said--that was very kind to say, thank you.
bsn
You pick a somewhat dubious character to model your actions after. McChrystal traveled with his press secretary…. You know, a man of the people. Four star fraud
During the war years, especially the years in which I participated and/or trained to fight and trained others to fight in those wars, I thought very highly of both McChrystal and Patraeus. I thought McChyrstal might have been the best among the Flag Officers—he was SOF and hard—and he was infamous for going out of the absolute tip of the spear to be with his men.
Numerous stories of him ‘jumping in foxholes’ to talk with young troops to get their feedback/opinions.
Turns out they both have feet of clay. Betrayus committed the same GO1 (General Order 1) infraction that I’m sure he punished 100s of people for in his commands. McChrystal is just another sell-out.
I think Hegseth should have fired 80-90% of the flag officers he brought together, and deleted all 80% of those billets from the DOW permanently.
All that said, he was correct (at least for me and my own struggles) about discipline. I must set the conditions, have rules of behavior, bright lines, instead of trusting my judgment/choices ‘in the heat of the moment’. I agree with his strategies to accomplish his goals.
I just wish he and the other senior officers had the courage to live up to the values they purported to live…
bsn
Thank you for your comments. You speak respectfully of all, while being direct. I appreciate men with definable character, such as yourself. Ok if I follow your postings?
I'm so sorry, Brian. 😞😢
Probably TMI, but my point is people are resilient. Yeah, not everyone grows up in an ideal situation. My hunch is probably 70% of the people who enlist in the military come from traumatic/dysfunctional backgrounds.
it’s where many of us first see what adults of character look like.
bsn
Your last sentence is pure gold. Agreed!
I'm now an old fart at a tech college. Spent a year doing construction, now I'm learning auto tech. Having an absolute blast! But the young men and women I see--they do not have NCOs in their lives. So many of them are the young kids I grew up with in the Army--but we had an ethic, NCOs (essentially big brothers who looked out for us), and values instilled into us.
I try to be 'uncle Brian' to these guys, I learn everyone's name immediately, talk to all of them--see them, let them be heard. It is amazing how they respond. I know that many, many of them are in rough spots--now the only thing I can do it be kind, model behavior, and ensure they know that I know who they are, and that I am paying attention--that they matter to me.
It does make me long for a conscripted service obligation for our nation.
bsn
Brian, I have HUGE respect for you for what you are doing with the young folks. Many of them desperately need someone like you to be a role model and source of true information. I can't imagine being young these days - there's so much turmoil and many if not most of our "leaders" (such as politicians) are not good examples. So glad you are there for them. I agree with you about conscripted service - military is excellent training for developing good strong character. I come from a family of many military personnel. My dad was born in 1920, came from absolutely nothing, never had a dad and was literally starving to death by age 12 in the Depression, until CCC camps came along where children were sent so they could eat. When he grew up he knew he never wanted to be poor again. He worked hard, joined the Navy the day Pearl Harbor was bombed and stayed in the Navy for 39 yrs. He was in reserves after the war. He eventually became a Rear Admiral and my brother and I grew up with military values. My dad ran a tight ship! He started his own business, where I went to work in his office when I was 12 yrs old - because I wanted to not because he made me. I learned good values, how to work hard and why we were so blessed to grow up in America. My dad became very successful, eventually ended up as one of Pres. Reagan's top advisors. And that's what the military does for a person.
I understand. I used to feel the same way, until I met recipients of said welfare and food stamps. Sleezier, lazier, more entitled, (white, I'm not raciss.) people could not exist. They lived in a way nicer place than I could ever afford, and, of course, I worked and had no illegitimate kids.
I have been very poor. And I am pretty lucky financially now. I have been both - pretty rich and very poor. Almost every poor person I know that lived on the dole cheated. They all played the system. The odd one wouldn’t but he or she would need only a few months of help. Those on it for long periods all cheated.
Exactly.
Kinda makes you feel like a sucker for, you know, working.
I know. 😞
yes, I am with you 100%. a sane Mainer here, who has watched my state go down the shithole........... what has become of our citizenry???????????????????????????? God help us all.
Add to that the fact that 70% of those on food stamps are illegals and NOT American citizens. As well, many of them get 3,000 to 4,000 dollars per month and sell those stamps to make money off of them. And YES, we need to get rid of EBT cards!
If we could get rid of the EBT cards and therefore the selling of such cards, recipients would have to sell or swap the zucchini from their relief boxes. Good luck with that in August. ;)
As an avid gardener and homesteader myself - your last sentence had me laughing until I almost hurt myself! Great idea, get rid of the cards - although I prefer getting rid of the entire program. People who are disabled and can't work can get money from Disability so they should be OK for food.
I’ve read that too — $3000 and $4000 a month! Unbelievable! The recipients must have ten kids!? Or is it all going to illegals? 🤨😞
"Numerator notes that households receiving SNAP benefits “are skewing higher income,” with 23% of SNAP households bringing in $80,000 or more per year."
"Numerator also claims that 65% of SNAP households don’t have children, up 5 points from 2020."
"About 48% of illegal immigrant households use food-related welfare, as compared to 25% of native households."
See this article: https://moonbattery.com/corporations-cash-in-big-on-ebt-looting-spree/
I'd like to make $80,000 or more a year. Just saying.
1/ “23% of SNAP households bringing in $80,000 or more per year” — demonstratively false
The official USDA data shows that 73% of SNAP households have gross monthly income at or below the poverty level, and 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households with gross monthly income at or below the poverty level. The income eligibility for SNAP is capped at 130% of the federal poverty line—about $34,656 annually for a three-person family. It would be essentially impossible for households making $80,000+ to qualify for SNAP under current rules.
The Numerator data referenced appears to have been misinterpreted or distorted. Recent reporting indicates that households leaving the SNAP program as of 2025 have incomes above $80,000—meaning they’re no longer eligible and are exiting the program, not currently receiving benefits.
2/ “Corporations are cashing in big” on SNAP, with Walmart capturing nearly a quarter of spending — this is misleading framing
Walmart does capture approximately 24-26% of SNAP grocery spending, with Kroger accounting for about 8.4% and Costco about 6%. However, the article frames this as corporate “looting” when it’s actually the result of Walmart having 96.9% of SNAP shoppers purchasing groceries there due to its nationwide presence and competitive pricing. SNAP recipients shop where they can stretch their limited benefits furthest. Walmart has also integrated EBT systems into online shopping platforms, making it easier for SNAP recipients to use their benefits.
The reality is that low-income shoppers have limited options and choose the most affordable retailers. This isn’t corporations “cashing in”—it’s people on tight budgets making rational economic decisions.
3/ “A sizable percentage of Walmart’s own employees are on food stamps” — context distorted
A 2020 GAO study found that Walmart employed approximately 14,500 workers receiving SNAP benefits across nine states, and about 70% of SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries studied were full-time workers. This is a legitimate criticism of low wages at major corporations—not of SNAP recipients. The article uses this fact to attack the program itself rather than address wage inadequacy at profitable corporations.
4/ Characterizing SNAP as “looting” and recipients as “freeloaders foreign and domestic” — inflammatory distortion
The data shows that 86% of SNAP benefits go to households that include children, elderly persons, or people with disabilities. In 2020, 82.3% of adult SNAP recipients and 97.1% of child recipients were born in the United States. SNAP prevented approximately 3.2 million people from falling into poverty in 2018. SNAP shoppers spend an average of $832 monthly on groceries, shopping at an average of 6.6 retailers per month—demonstrating they’re supplementing benefits with other income and budgeting carefully.
SNAP recipients make heavy use of local food banks.
Every charity food bank where I’ve helped and/or donated - and that would be in several different states - it’s been exactly the same: I’ll suggest to administrators that it might be beneficial to both the food banks’ ability to provide more food, and the recipients’ ability to get more food, if we gave them quality ingredients rather than much more expensive packaged stuff, which is often of lesser quality. They’d be eating healthier as well; maybe they’d feel better too.
At one time or other, the food banks have tried this by offering free cooking classes, led by a local chef in one instance and a retired home economics teacher in at least one other. These were not exotic recipes, just basic cooking. You can make a big pot of mac and cheese from scratch, for example, in very little time and for less money than boxed stuff, and it tastes better. With an inexpensive slow cooker (our local charity has several available right now for cheap) you don’t even need to stand at the stove.
The clients made it loudly and abundantly clear that what they want is not quality ingredients, they do not want to learn how to cook (not a single person ever signed up for cooking classes); they said that what they want is pre-packaged foods that require minimal or no preparation. That’s what they demanded from us, and that’s what they were buying with their food stamps.
Whatever the reason for this, it isn’t consistent with careful budgeting or stretching limited funds.
And everybody shops at multiple grocery stores to get the best prices. It’s not some special trick that only SNAP recipients know.
Since 70% of SNAP is going to illegals, I imagine most of that 3,000 to 4,000 dollars is also going to them.
You Jess racisss
🙌 Amen!
When did federal district court judges decide that they run the executive branch of government? They are all way out over their skis with these rulings that infringe on agency operations.
The hubris of federal district court judges is off the charts. I think Congress should defund them immediately for 12 months. Better to draft citizens without JDs to actually judge things than to live with these appointed partisan gnats.
bsn
Supreme Court needs to rule these dark robes in. They do not run the government
More like partisan RATS.
Agreed.
bsn
4/19/1775 that's when it became real.
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The Obama admin took a bunch of HR ladies and transplanted them into the judiciary.
And make the legislative branch unnecessary. We found the NEW KINGS, not naked but wearing black robes!
So essentially ignore the law and the Constitution? This could be a lot of fun. How about arresting two judges for ignoring the Constitution
🙌 Amen!
Sounds like a SNAP decision!
I’ll see myself out.
B🎯🎯M❗️
Be dump dump
Where are the No Kings folks when you need them?
Entitlements need to be removed from federal administration. States should do all of it. Also, raise the voting age to 25.
Would love to see the federal government get out of the entitlement business.
Voting age to 30 imo
The Gen Zs are the ones finally coming around... the ones who pay attention will vote. A lot of them are becoming Christian. I know a lot of conservative young people. I think we need them. I grew up with the crazy Berkley hippies in the 60s-70s... when I turned 18, I voted conservative.
My first vote was for the libertarian candidate. My father was furious. That was nearly 50 years ago.
I didn’t really understand how libertarianism would come up more or less empty, but at least I was kinda on the right track.
I was born in 1946. Young people were essentially split 50/50 in the 60s. Half of them turn left, and the other half supported the war in Vietnam. The Boomers were never the monolith that ignorant descendants think they were.
well i believe you were the exception to the rule. especially in those times!!! good for u!!
but now it is researched that by 30 for men and 25 for women , more or less, is when the brain is mature. so... hence by opinion on age relevance.
How far we have fallen re: brain development. I bought this toy sewing machine from the 50's off an auction. Made for 6 years and up, the manual not only tells said 6 year old how to operate it, but how to maintain it AND how to troubleshoot it! Absolutely mind blowing. ( Took me an hour to fix it using the manual lol)
Except 20-30s are more right than Boomers. Big change over the last few years.
Id go back to voting only if owning residential property free and clear with no tax liens.
At worst youd see lots of those abandoned properties in Detroit get snapped up for 10k real quick. No skin in the game, no vote.
You can either freeload or you can vote, pick one.
Greaat idea! I was thinking that maybe there could be like 5-7 possible qualifications and a person would have to be able to meet 3-4 of them to be eligible to vote. For instance (aside from age) you could have some of these or other quals: own property, be married, military veteran, not receiving entitlements, etc. Skin in the game. It is really not fair that people get to vote to take my money from me and launder it to themselves via the government. Its insane actually.
Yep on the voting age……
No kings! unless Congress can't get it's shit together and then we need a king to feed the helpless. Another Obama genius.
Seems like one more step toward an imperial executive? How is this not transferring more legislative power to the executive?
Maybe I’m retarded, but that’s what comes to my mind.
Well, only when told to do so by a judge, apparently.
Perhaps this actually IS some long game plan they are playing. When at some point the Marxist oligarch swamp cutters get back in control of the White House, precedence with a capital P will have been set through our courts, to broaden Executive power and they will gladly proclaim their King over America.
Hmmmmm?🤔
I don't believe that judge--any judge--has the authority to direct spending of funding not appropriated by Congress. This includes funding that has been authorized for other purposes. Violation of separation of power and the Antideficiency Act, at least.
Same judge who found that Congress couldn't defund Planned Parenthood. It won't survive, but it's just fascinating to see the argument.
Think maybe we found where the kings are hiding...
Trump should just tweet that judges say to spend it all and pay everyone. Can you even imagine?
I can imagine, and I am imagining. It would be a new genre of late-decline dark comedy.
I'd stay up late to watch it.
Or, you know, just freaking ignore her.
How many divisions does she have?
Indeed.
Hell, everybody knows there's a money tree growing in the Rose Garden. All Trump has to do is to send someone out there to harvest a few bushels of cash. SNAP problem solved!