- Force women to give birth against their will
- Deny them any public support
Seems like they’re intentionally maximizing the suffering of women and children.
Yes, that’s been their platform for decades. The cruelty is the point
They don’t actually give a fuck about cruelty imo because they don’t see worker drones as people. Ensuring the working class is on the edge of crisis is the point. They want people to be hardly making it, but enough to keep going, so they’ll work endlessly and accept crappy conditions. They want people to be deluded by propaganda and not have the energy or time to seek political change. Making money and retaining power is the point.
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere of the states denying food aid for children and states rolling back child labor protections. From the linked article “State child labor law changes are part of a broader, troubling agenda to boost corporate profits and increase economic desperation of low-income families and children” and “While FGA lobbies for the erosion of child labor protections in states like Arkansas, Iowa, and Missouri, they are simultaneously working to limit access to anti-poverty programs like SNAP and Medicaid, block expansion of Medicaid eligibility, and promote the defunding of public education through expansion of school vouchers in the same states. Taken together, FGA’s priorities represent a radical, multilayered assault on the same low-income families whose economically desperate children are most vulnerable to recruitment by unscrupulous employers for jobs involving long hours, low wages, and hazardous conditions that harm their education, health, and well-being.”
So literally the plan is: Make em super hungry, exploit them for cheap labor while they’re young, tell em anyone who’s still hungry is a lazy leach who deserves to starve.
Good! I ONLY want my taxpayer money to be used in Courtrooms striking down Unconstitutional Laws and to pay Rich People MORE money! Fuck Starving Children!
“We anticipate that our state’s full approach to serving children will continue to be successful this year without any additional federal programs that inherently always come with some federal strings attached.”
Like what?
Like feeding kids, duh.
Maybe they are required to follow educational guidelines that might hamper their book, CRT, black history, LGBTQ+, etc., banning efforts.
Like when they put interstates through the Southern United States, then had to actually force Florida to enforce drunk driving rules, threatening to take away highway funding iirc. Just one of the million examples I can remember being controversial briefly. I wanna say there was a similar debacle surrounding seat belts. Basically any time the Fed gives you money, it comes with some (albeit basic, somewhat common sense) rules and stipulations.
I haven’t heard of that before. Was that part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 or some other bill?
The federal government routinely ties highway funds to conditions like that - they did it with drinking age, as well as BAC percentage for drunk driving laws.
One example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was [… ] signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984. The act would punish any state that allowed persons under 21 years to purchase alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by 10 percent.
“You must turn off the orphan crushing machine to receive food aid for children.”
GOP, “No, we like our orphan crushing machine.”
the party that wants to put god back in schools also wants them to starve while they worship
If God wanted those kids fed, he’d have rained mana from the heavens, or multiplied bread and fish for them. If they are hungry, they clearly deserve it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than eight million children in 15 states, all led by Republican governors, will be shut out of a new federal food assistance program intended to help needy families during the summer months.
Set to begin this summer, the new program will provide low-income families with $120 for each eligible child, which can be used to purchase food at grocery stores, farmers’ markets or other approved retailers when such assistance is not available in schools.
Asked why Florida did not apply for the summer food program, the state’s Department of Children and Families wrote in an email to The Orlando Sentinel last month: “We anticipate that our state’s full approach to serving children will continue to be successful this year without any additional federal programs that inherently always come with some federal strings attached.”
But he said he was heartened by the willingness of the state’s tribal nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Osage — to offer the program to eligible Native and non-Native children on their reservations.
Missouri, for instance, wrote in a letter to the Agriculture Department in December that a “lack of final guidance” and the uncertainty of securing state funding posed “potential unforeseen challenges.”
Still, Caitlin Whaley, communications director for the Missouri Department of Social Services, explained: “Philosophically, we support the premise that kids should be fed in the summer, and this is an additional resource to that end.
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Capitalism Jesus is proud. Fuck those lazy kids wanting handouts! Are there no workhouses?
The 15 states that did not apply are Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming.
Fuck paywalls.
Also, fuck those governors.
I live in South Dakota. Kristi Noem is an absolute ghoul.
My understanding is that she’s on the shortlist to be Trump’s running-mate.
Doesn’t surprise me.
She’s so awful that she’s literally blacklisted from setting foot on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Kristi Noem is an absolute ghoul.
Isn’t she the “good Christian wife” (of someone else) who spent years secretly knocking boots with that asshole from the Trump campaign, Corey Lewandowski (also married to someone else)?
She’s also apparently a mother of three, which is hilarious in its own way because Republican school book bans are such that her kids could know all about Mommy’s Special Friend from the news and possibly her own behavior, but they would be irreparably harmed by reading a library book about it and that must NEVER happen.
I live in Texas, where our governor recently pined for shooting migrants at the border. I feel you.
Yep. I actually have a discord buddy in Texas, and we talk about these things a lot. I empathize.
Unfortunately I’m in Texas too. Can’t wait to get the hell outta here, probably close to a year and a half and we can leave, wife wants to wait til youngest is 18 and on his own.
Hope we live that long. Stay warm.
We should be sending more kids into dirty chimneys.
“Think of the children…when it’s time for ‘cost savings’.” – G.O.P.
“The children matter! Let’s change that”
-GOP
“Imagine a world of endless pregnancies and births, but no surviving children!” -GOP
Hol’up a minnit…maybe the GOP are a hide-in-plain-sight coven of vampires that need us to increase production.
