The Schumer shutdown continues, all with the added desperate Democrat spin that the Republicans are responsible for the skyrocketing cost of health insurance, and ZERO GOPers voted for the abomination that is the Affordable Care Act.
All that's happening while Democrats are trying to blame Republicans for people finding out that their SNAP cards don't have a balance. Oh, and of course that's also the fault of the billionaires and definitely not due to the fact that the Senate Dems are blocking the clean CR:
42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires. https://t.co/UrLltHb5pF
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) November 3, 2025
If the senator wants to know why some people can't buy food this month he only needs to go look in a mirror:
If 42 million people can't buy food this month, it's literally because Ron Wyden voted against funding the government and food assistance programs last Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/qG2vUmuwgo
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸🍌 (@fuzzychimpcom) November 3, 2025
The Democrats could reopen the government and fund SNAP whenever they want, but they refuse to give up that "leverage."
Over the weekend Brett wrote about an NBC News story profiling 18 SNAP recipients who are now contemplating "unthinkable tradeoffs." The first thing that caught my attention about that story was "if you're going to profile people who are supposedly going hungry at least make sure some of them aren't quite overweight." NBC also didn't really go out of their way to tell readers how hard some of the people were trying when it comes to making ends meet.
Up next is a video from a local New Mexico media outlet that's making the rounds in which the woman interviewed has been dependent on SNAP for... 30 years:
"When I heard, 'Zero dollars,' my chest went into my throat."
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2025
New Mexico woman on food stamps for 30 years says SNAP freeze is "detrimental to my life." pic.twitter.com/VFSn9LJcXM
Making people dependent on the government for a lifetime is actually a main goal of the Democrats, and it's most certainly not "compassionate" in the long run.
“I have depended on those benefits since the 1990s, and it’s detrimental if I don’t get them.”
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 3, 2025
Look, I feel sympathy for people like this on a human level. But she hasn’t been able to get a job in three decades?
This smells of manufactured dependency, not unavoidable hardship. https://t.co/zOmKgvdS4R
An able-bodied woman on SNAP since George H.W. Bush was president. She has done nothing to wean herself off the government teat in 30 years. https://t.co/TagFWI21jM
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) November 2, 2025
The quote "it's supposed to be a safety net, not a hammock" comes to mind, but I'm old fashioned like that. Media desperation to generate some sympathy and empathy with stories like this are at risk of having the opposite effect with a lot of people.
