Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps | Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202496/mike-johnson-fund-food-stamps-shutdown
Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps | Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202496/mike-johnson-fund-food-stamps-shutdown
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>House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.
>CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November. The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.
>“Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people’s paychecks, their livelihoods,” Johnson said. “And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.”
>It seems clear that Democrats aren’t the ones playing games with people’s livelihoods, but instead it is Republicans who are holding SNAP benefits hostage from 42 million Americans in order to make the opposition bend. And SNAP is a hostage Republicans are more than willing to kill—they’ve already voted to gut nearly $300 billion from the program through 2034.
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WWJD do you fake Christian pos.
And his voters blink like nobody is home. Let them eat cake.
Pointing out the obvious: Kids use those benefits. He is willing to harm children.
he is so disgusting.
Did he say that the rich elite like to keep poor people poor to further their own capitalistic gains, by giving us peasant just enough in slave labor wages to almost be able to feed themselves without government assistance but not quite enough so not only are we working 50+ hours a week making them richer we also are still dependent on the government
We don’t give Nazis what they want and would rather suffer on our own terms.
The most direct translation of what Johnson said:
“We’re keeping the government closed and increasing harm until the democrats give us what we want.”
Donate to your local food banks, folks. Republicans have the ability to fund SNAP, but are more than willing to let your fellow countryman starve so they can gut our safety nets. Things are going to get ugly now that Democrats are taking the GOP’s mask off.
You can’t declare martial law until the starving people are rioting.
Because how can we claim democrats are starving children if we let them feed children?
In case anybody’s still too stupid to realize that the Republicans control the Senate and will not let anyone back in until they capitulate. I bet one of those stipulations involve the Epstein files
Johnson , trump and the GOP are the ones playing games with peoples lives just to control the entire government and screw the people that they are elected to represent. Mikey go back to watching porn with your stepson monitoring you, you sick perverted pedophile scumbag
Mike Johnson is keeping Congress on a taxpayer funded paid leave until republicans get what they want, and what they want is not for the good of the people they were elected to represent.
That’s the only sentence any media outlet needs to report, day in and day out. Stop printing lies and innuendo and outright propaganda. I’m so sick of it.
Additionally, I think he may believe Trump is the literal Anti-Christ and is boosting him to bring about the “End of Times” and return of The Christ. It is the reason the evangelicals support Israel.
In other words… Americans will have to go hungry because Democrats won’t let us take their healthcare away.
*“Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people’s paychecks, their livelihoods,” Johnson said. “And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.”*
So, Democrats are “playing games with people’s paychecks”? But Republicans somehow aren’t “playing games” with Healthcare?
Well, if there’s one consistent trait, embarrassment is only an option if you’re capable of shame. Hypocrisy weaponized.
Paraphraseing, “If you just feed poor people, it will take the pressure off of democrats.”
This is the Republican’s America.
They have the house, senate, and presidency.
They withhold food from desperate Americans until they get to take away healthcare for the poorest Americans.
Per Politico’s article from Oct 28th a quote from House Speaker Mike Johnson during a private call with House Republicans:
“…”*Things are getting real*” this week, Johnson said as he braced his members for some of the worst real-world fallout of the shutdown so far. He urged Republicans to stay in lockstep as “*pressure mounts on Democrats*” — including key deadlines that will impact millions of low-income Americans. Four people with direct knowledge of the call were granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation. “*The pain register is about to hit level 10*,” Johnson said, adding that “*sadly*” 42 million Americans will be hit this weekend when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits run out of money. “*We deeply regret it on our side,”* he added, lambasting Democrats for their tactics…”
They’re hoping that by hurting 42 million Americans they’ll be able to force the centrist Democrats to end the shutdown. Starve the children, elderly, veterans and active duty military families just to make orange man feel good.
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
They call themselves Christians but Jesus was pretty clear about his stance on stuff like this.
The merchants also rely on EBT funds. I cant believe Wal-Mart hasn’t gone nuclear over the shutdown at this point.
Dems, don’t give in. There’s absolutely ZERO respect to be gained by caving.
Republicans have cut SNAP benefits before and will do it again if they remain unchecked.
“We won’t provide the American people with food because then the democrats might believe we wish to negotiate!”
Now, I’m an atheist through and through so maybe I’m just uneducated. But didn’t the sky wizard’s brown skinned son feed the hungry without wondering how it would affect his political aspirations?
Something something loaves and fishes something something?
The whole thing is pretty transparent on its face. The democrats have one ask – keep the healthcare subsidies. Republicans decided that shutting down the government is better than agreeing to the subsidies. In others words, the Republicans dont care if health insurance costs go up! They have already admitted that they have no alternative for it, meaning they want to cut them for good, end of story. If they wanted them, it wouldn’t be a problem to put it in the bill. They are perfectly fine closing the government and sharing blame because what they really want is to eliminate ALL of these programs, but it would be extremely unpopular to admit it.
From the article:
“The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.
‘Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people’s paychecks, their livelihoods,” Johnson said. “And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.’
It seems clear that Democrats aren’t the ones playing games with people’s livelihoods, but instead it is Republicans who are holding SNAP benefits hostage from 42 million Americans in order to make the opposition bend.”
This is exactly what I’ve been saying.
They could change the senate rules and pass it. They did it before to get in one of the SCOTUS judges, I forget which one. They literally just want to inflict pain.
>”For I was hungry and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty and you didn’t give me a drink. Matthew 25:42
Mike must have skipped this verse in his Bible readings. Which may prove unfortunate for him because a few verses later
>“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:46
There is existing law that says that during a government shutdown snap is to continued to be funded by the emergency reserve that was established for it under law, and the agency (the executive branch) is ignoring that law. It is not up to Mike or the congress, it is up to the agency to follow the law and fund snap from the emergency fund and they are not.
You have to pay the military if you are going to use them to police your citizens. Feeding them? Thats on them. Trump nor his administration give a care about Americans, unless their wealth exceeds $999,000,000
Blaming Democrats for shutting down the government, meanwhile as a result of this “Democrat” shutdown the GOP just gets to run roughshod unopposed over every program Democrats support, (A GOP wet dream for decades) and yet somehow this is because Democrats are not doing their job, even though the Democrats are in Washington and the Republicans are on vacation and have been since the first day of the shutdown.
They count on the American people having the intelligence of a tube of toothpaste, and the attention span of a goldfish to believe this shit, and I don’t mean to insult toothpaste or goldfish.
Somehow the GOP gets everything it wants, and it’s the Democrats’ fault lol
The Speaker of the House is singlehandedly preventing speech and debate by keeping the House in recess. The government can not re-open until he ends the recess. Mike Johnson is the person preventing a resolution. Democrats have nothing to do with that whatsoever.
Mike Johnson is an anti-American tyrant-sycophant evil son of a bitch who is intentionally going to starve millions of Americans to try to force the opposing party to capitulate and let him and his American Fascist Party strip healthcare from millions of Americans instead, all while keeping the government shut down and refusing to seat a Democrat Representative so he can protect a pedophile convicted-felon President.
I mean, there are still a few ways left to be even *less* American and *more* evil… but he’s using them up.
Is it because he’s a dick?
That’s ok. All of the major media outlets have already edited the footage to leave that snippet out. Can’t have the common folk knowing the truth.
We the People = Pawns in their game.
The majority of white people who voted on November 5th, 2024: ‘We love Trump. He’s exactly the role model we voted for. Thanks for staying home and making excuses not to vote. The cruelty to LGBTQ and non-white people is exactly what motivated us, and its promises were kept! We’re ten months in, and there’s at least three plus more years of this.’
*Among those who voted, 60% of white men and 53% of white women supported a racist, fascist, sexist pedophile.*
SMH
Translation: “If we don’t hurt the hostages why would the Democrats pay the ransom?” If that is your strategy, maybe you’re the bad guys.
The main goal of Republicans is to attack those who are least able to defend themselves.
Reminds me one when Jesus was in front of a group of 5000. He had 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. He split it with the richest man and everyone else learned a valuable lesson about not expecting handouts and working two or three jobs to feed yourself.
This fucking piece of closeted shit calls himself a “Christian”??
I seem to remember Jesus spelling it out pretty clearly about *”do unto the least of these as you would do unto Me”*
Labeling Chuck Schumer as a ‘radical’ doesn’t really have the impact Mike thinks it does.
I don’t remember Jesus telling us to use starving children as pawns in a political game
First, they want to use people going hungry as leverage to get what they want from the Democrats. Second, they want food riots so Trump has an excuse to consolidate power, like an American Reichstag fire.
Translation: “Mike Johnson gives away that he’s shooting Americans in the gut with a Magnum to try and force Democrats to let him shoot Americans in the gut with a Glock.”
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