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[uhhello]

SNAP benefits won't go out at end of the month.  That'll be interesting 🙂

[ClearedHot]

6 minutes ago, uhhello said:

SNAP benefits won't go out at end of the month.  That'll be interesting 🙂

 

[disgruntledemployee]

Snap won't move anything.  Solid voting Ds will stay Ds.  Solid voting Rs will stay Rs.  Reps that feel heat on their reelection will the ones that fold.  Question remains, what side tips first?

Edited Thursday at 10:51 PM by disgruntledemployee
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[Lawman]

Data doesn’t support this - republicans still firmly more to blame as of now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/government-shutdown-blame-poll/
6 points say it’s the republicans fault
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3938
6 points say republicans to blame
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-edges-up-despite-americans-blaming-republicans-shutdown-2025-10-21/
7 point disadvantage for republicans 
 https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/poll-government-shutdown-blame/2025/10/15/id/1230523/
Even newsmax confirms it a 6 point disparity.

So what you’re saying is this has nothing to do with any actual responsibility and is entirely producing campaign fodder for a mid term electing cycle… noted.


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[Banzai]

Is that what I said? Huh… noted.

Virtually no one here, to include you, has addressed the reasons this shutdown exists with the exception of many that feel sMaRT because they can regurgitate standard issue, entirely baseless, propaganda about desires to fund illegal immigrant healthcare.

Edited Friday at 10:10 AM by Banzai

[brickhistory]

Please feel free to enlighten us all with the reasons for the shutdown.

[brabus]

@Banzai Let us know when a dem introduces the legally required resolution for her to be sworn in by a judge, another not-the-speaker congressman, etc. Has it happened and I missed it? It is that easy, so why isn’t a dem doing it? Did I miss that happening and the GOP shut it down?

[Banzai]

2 hours ago, brickhistory said:

Please feel free to enlighten us all with the reasons for the shutdown.

I’d rather not, why don’t you just go ahead and google that yourself. Or do you have to be told what to think?

31 minutes ago, brabus said:

@Banzai Let us know when a dem introduces the legally required resolution for her to be sworn in by a judge, another not-the-speaker congressman, etc. Has it happened and I missed it? It is that easy, so why isn’t a dem doing it? Did I miss that happening and the GOP shut it down?

How can someone introduce a resolution is the house is literally never opened? That’s the problem, buckeroo, probably something you aren’t aware of.

Now if you’d like to walk the dog down your “logical” path and explain how it is justified that the house isn’t open during a government shutdown that is dependent on congress as a whole passing legislation to fund the government, would love for you to try to stumble your way through that mental exercise. I predict you probably aren’t interested.

Edited Friday at 02:57 PM by Banzai

[uhhello]

21 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

 

There are LOADS of them out there.  

[brickhistory]

5 hours ago, Banzai said:

I’d rather not, why don’t you just go ahead and google that yourself. Or do you have to be told what to think?

Indeed, it's a little more difficult to maintain that air of superiority when challenged to express your opinion and the reasoning for it rather than just take supercilious pot shots at those who have the cojones to do so.

Fraud.

[Biff_T]

2 hours ago, uhhello said:

There are LOADS of them out there.  

Heavy ones at that.  

[disgruntledemployee]

3 hours ago, uhhello said:

There are LOADS of them out there.  

IMO, not real players.  Acted drama, aka, click bait.  A quick Google says EBT can't be used for that stuff. Now if some place is misrepresenting their biz to accept EBT, I don't think it ends well.

Now if you're saying there are plenty of EBT cheaters, I agree.  As a kid, saw it at our local convenience store; trading food stamps for cash.

TX has placed a new upcoming restriction on junk food.  I wonder if the soda/chip lobby made a stink.  But leave it to some shifty store owner to create fake price tags or just use old fashioned cash registers.

[skybert]

3 hours ago, Biff_T said:

Heavy ones at that.  

Dib or no dib.

 

 

. I’m a “no” for the record

[Biff_T]

10 hours ago, skybert said:

Dib or no dib.

 

 

. I’m a “no” for the record

No Dibs on the SNAP queens.  

[Day Man]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/trump-canada-doug-ford-reagan-trade-tariffs.html

where's that 'hurt feelings report' form when you need it?

[Banzai]

On 10/24/2025 at 4:32 PM, brickhistory said:

Indeed, it's a little more difficult to maintain that air of superiority when challenged to express your opinion and the reasoning for it rather than just take supercilious pot shots at those who have the cojones to do so.

Fraud.

No buddy, you’re implying that you can’t have any idea why this shutdown is occurring without me stating it. You’re not asking for my opinion, you’re asking for the opinion of the dems who are in the senate. It is very much publicized why the two sides are at a gridlock. You definitely have been exposed to this information - or you easily could be via simple searches. It’s a fallacious argument technique that you have probably become blind to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

The way this forum works is you - or someone likes you - acts as if an obvious public opinion isn’t common knowledge or explanatory, and then you nitpick whatever you’re told. It is not worth the time to explain basic public knowledge opinions that you act like they don’t exist when they very clearly do and are easily found. If you want to stop being obstinate and debate things that are well within the public sphere, I’m happy to argue nuance with you.

For example, I know that a significant part of the republican justification for this bill is increase support for immigration enforcement and a significant slashing of government entitlement benefits in the name of fiscal responsibility.

Edited 3 hours ago by Banzai