If this admin can wreck govt funded services and replace them with billionaire owned private businesses they will. The entire goal of their govt slashing approach is to privatize as many necessary public services as possible so they can be captured for maximum profit instead of run as low cost, necessary, public services. Expect basic research to be privatized, mail and package service, the majority of hospital services, etc. If a billionaire wants a long term income stream from a necessary public service this admin will attempt to hand it to them.

But one of the greatest triumphs of his presidency has gotten far too little attention, including from journalists like myself. That triumph is the reevaluation of the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP).

The phrase “reevaluation of the Thrifty Food Plan” feels like it was concocted by an AI instructed to design the most boring string of words in the English language, but bear with me. This action, taken by Biden’s Department of Agriculture in 2021, resulted in a 21 percent increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamps” colloquially) benefits. The safety net program that is most precisely targeted at America’s poorest and most vulnerable people got a substantial, ongoing increase.

This is the same guy that’s using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That’s the part I’m not okay with.

Fun fact, basically all of the US Russian Blue stock was cross bred with Siamese lines during WW2 to prevent inbreeding. Almost all of them carry recessive color point genes so you’ll see lavender point kittens out of purebred RB breeding occasionally.

None of them. You don’t have Russian blues in this image, hands down they’re some of the best cats.

I’ll believe it when I see it

I mean, I’m fine with them pushing this misinformation. That’s just fewer of their audience who survive cancer and go vote.

Fucking finally

I mean, the US can’t exactly be relied upon to fill that role over the next however many years of temper tantrums, graft and whatever else (nuking hurricanes?)

The housecats of politics. They desperately want out of the house and don’t understand that they’re just an appetizer for the wealthy without regulation to protect them.

Ah, gotcha. It’s just difficult to figure out what this does if you’re not already neck deep in configuring status bar JSON

Murderbot is a really fun read, I picked the series up a year or two ago and thoroughly enjoyed it

Screenshots showing what this does in action would help a lot

Well, duh. Money spent at local businesses is recirculated in those communities via employee wages, reinvestment into the business (paying contractors and others during remodeling or expansion) and the owner’s own spending. Money spent at an extractive national chain heads straight for Wall St and/or an overseas tax haven, only a fraction of it remains locally to pay employees.

Walmart is even more fun though, they don’t pay their workers enough to survive and often give them just enough hours so that the employees qualify for government subsidies like food stamps, poverty level govt health insurance and/or welfare aid.

But wait, it gets even better: when Walmart moves into a new community they slash prices for a couple of years to draw as much business away from local competitors as possible. Once those companies are driven out of business then Walmart can ratchet up pricing to profitable levels, and because the competition is gone they can charge whatever they like. Prices often end up higher than they were in the first place.

Start leaving information about trains out for them and see if they bite

“It was clearly their time, they’re in a better place now 🙏”

🤮

How dare you make people’s lives better? Brown and poor people might benefit too!

Oh hey, look, yet again we see how workers are treated when there are no regulations to protect them and an employer can risk their health for profit.