You know, I tough it might be good to fact-check this screenshot. It might be missrepresenting something. So I did a little digging and it turns out that this is based on a document provided by the Republican Study Committee (about three quateres of house rebuplicans are members).
I read the
Dokumentdocument (you can find it here) and HOLY HELL THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE READ IN A LONG WHILE.It’s so full of lies, half-truths and so, so, so much finger pointing to the “woke socialist Biden Administration” (yes, that is a quote), so removed from reality… It was painfull to read. There is so much utter nonsense in that one document.
Anyhow. The headline is dead on. And it’s far far from the worst thing that they are proposing.
I need to bang my head against a wall now untill i have erased the memory of reading this bullshit.
It’s all about elimination of all federal regulations:
Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) Article I Restoration Act, which would sunset all regulations after 3 years.
Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]
Fucking dinosaurs don’t realize that they haven’t even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.
Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don’t even know what a “yellow pages” is.
the republican party head quarters are on yellowpages.com - i think they should lead by example
what?
I’m agreeing with you - they must be drunk.
Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]
That is the dumbest idea I’ve heard today
Of course, they’re all for federal regulations when it comes to limiting transgender people getting medical care.
that’s the phone book right? or is it different
Yes, specifically the business phone book. The residential one was the “white pages” -a weird book that was mysteriously left on your porch every few years where everyone’s home phone (those strange bulky ones that were attached to the wall) and home address was listed. That’s what people mean in old movies when they say “I’m in the book!” It means “You know my name, you can find my phone number if you want to call me.”
white pages would be straight up dangerous in the Internet age
You could get your number “unlisted” for an additional fee. It was still dangerous in the pre-internet age, just not to the extent that it is today.
I think we got one every year actually at my old rental house. We would get a white and yellow pages. Strangely, yellow pages would shrink every year until around 2012 it was about 30 pages long.
You had to pay to be in the yellow pages, so as googling stuff became the main way to find anything, businesses that weren’t mainly patronized by old people started opting out.
Play them at their own game by listing a child starving service in the Yellow Pages.
BRB, going to start my own CIA and undercut the original by outsourcing the majority of the work to Bangalore for cheap labour.
Because of the similarities between Republicans and the UK Conservative party, I am 100% convinced this is a collaborated narrative. They have collectively decided on which levers to pull and push because of data they have at hand. Some people have no moral compass at all when it comes to making money. And let’s face it, this is purely about backhanders and donation funding.
Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun in the UK, and Fox News in the US. That’s probably your common denominator.
https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023/about/ is the main link imo. Phil Moorhouse said in one of his videos that this is heavily funded by the Republican party. I cannot find that video though. I also cannot find a link with these and Murdoch. It very much looks like the UK Tories are copying the Republicans. The way they have abused the UK is no where near as bad as the stunts of the Republicans over there.
Brexit is by far one of the worst political stunts inflicted upon the UK I could possibly imagine. Losing the right to live and work in an entire continent worth of cultures and economies – sure, here in the US has a problem with guns, women as equals, “God and Country” white nationalism in every mega church across the nation, and American Exceptionalism, etc., but Brexit is a whole other level of stupidity.
Yeah, Britain had a lot of exceptions as founder country and they decided to loose them.
It’s impossible to overestimate the evil of the Republican party.
Go play some tetris. Supposedly helps.
But that is exactly what they are counting on. We need more angry informed people instead of the angry idiots that lap this up because “woke is bad” but can’t explain what woke is. Woke = anything you disagree with.
Hmm. They want to protect social security for seniors… Isn’t that just like socialism but with extra steps?
I understand discouraging it, as the free school lunches were shit and are shit that is barely edible, but banning it seems wrong. There are some places where there are kids who will eat the disgusting whatever it is they pulled from the dumpster behind the school, but I don’t think most people would want to. But also from the quotes you provided, I doubt it’s about that…
I was one of the kids that received free lunch at school growing up. No, it wasn’t my favorite food but it was a meal that I would not have had otherwise. It was free lunch or no lunch due to no fault of my own. I preferred to eat something rather than starve.
The solution is to this issue is more money from school free lunch. Starve the beast is a well known political tactic.
I thought that something like 40% of kids are in low income families who can’t afford lunch. Is that still the case?
In case you are unaware, you weaken anything you want to say by purposely changing the spelling of words. It panders to those who are like minded, while pushing away those people on the fence you want to convince.
Four words into your second paragraph is where a lot of people will stop reading.
Something to keep in mind if you want to make an impact.
I am German. Auto correct changing “document” to “Dokument” (the German Word) happens easily on a phone set to German and honestly just didn’t jump at me as wrong. After all it’s how I am used to read the word.
But I am honestly curious. How does a misspelled word pander to those that are like minded? Does “Dokument” have any meaning in English that I as a not nativ speaker am not aware of?
Some people might assume that writing a word in a German style means you’re comparing the subject matter to Nazis in some way, I guess? That’s the best I’ve got
Yea that’s what I thought at first
deleted by creator
In case you are unaware, no. Lol
You do also know that in addition to German words being similar, other languages have similar words, right? And maybe they use the spelling they are familiar or maybe their auto correct choose the spelling in their native language. This comment is ridiculous and assumes that first off, everyone speaks English, and second, everyone speaks it perfectly.
How the hell do they want to convince people this is a good thing?
Make em think their tax money is paying for “Ni–er food” and they’ll burn down the entire education system.
Hell, replace Nword with F-word or Kword honestly doesn’t matter.
Source: What happened to all the public swimming pools after Desegregation? And That one time a Republican signed a strict anti gun law the second the Black community exercised their Second.
This town had a lovely swimming pool which was suddenly closed and filled in during the 1960s. I can’t imagine why.
What is the Fword or the Kword?
Gays and jews, I assume.
Holy shit. I couldn’t figure out the K word, despite the fact that I literally wrote a joke that requires it.
…k word?
I believe they referring to “kike”, a slur for jewish people.
With the degree of self censoring and the love acronyms and shortening words, it’s becoming a challenge to follow written text.
Is the fword “faggot”?
the fword is “floating point”, there are a lot of leftist programmers.
I’m a lefty programmer and I do indeed hate floating points. I’ve had it bite me far too many times.
What is the connection between those two?
It’s a slur used for leftist programmers.
the connection between “floating point” and programming? gee no clue
Thank you, I was also confused by what the fuck the “K-word” could be. I think we could asterisk out a letter, so meaning is still conveyed, and the impact of the word might still be felt and understood.
I understand your reasoning but I can’t subacribe it.
A word is a word. A word becomes an insult if it is used against someone, with that specific intent.
I specifically used the quotation marks because I wanted to convey the understanding that I was putting the words out with no connection to anything.
Writing on a social media outlet feels more and more like walking through a trap field. Cryptic acronyms, forbidden and self censored words and redacted sentences.
This is the worst kind of censorship I can think of. It blocks the person and others from fully expressing ideas and thoughts and preassigns a default judgement towards who is trying to convey an argument.
The best way to void a word - especially if an insult - is to ignore it. Don’t use it, ignore it in others speech, attack the use of it as an insult.
Self censoring is not a good thing.
Honestly I wanted to be edgy but been trained that I’ll get auto moderated if I just type it out.
Also people really do be thinking you are racist if you type out a word (or recite a song lyric) from a different point of view.
In other words, it’s a no win scenario.
It is
“Free meals is communist!!”
Which… If you think like they do, then socialism==communism==unamerican.
Public schools are already under that banner. This shouldn’t even be a question.
And they want to do away with public schools…I’d say that tracks for them.
conservative americans LOVE making communism sound idyllic
People who want others to suffer will support this. This will almost only impact low income (mostly minority) populations, the kind that republic voter love to hurt
You can’t punish bad parents by punishing their children. Even if their viewpoint was right this would make no sense.
Except, Republicans love to punish the children of poor parents for the crime of being poor.
You don’t have to be a bad parent to be poor, you just have to be poor.
The assumption I mentioned was that in their worldview being poor is also being bad parents. Regardless, punishing children accomplishes nothing.
Kids that grow up hungry are more likely to enter the workforce early, doing the low-wage “essential role” jobs that the capital class desperately needs bodies for. Breaking the cycle of poverty is a big no-no for the 1%.
It hurts people. That’s the goal.
You’re trying to use logic against the illogical.
Like throwing paper at a brick wall trying to knock it down
Yeah it does. The cruelty is the point. They’re trying to punish children and their parents for being (mostly non-White) poor.
At the same time, they’re trying to turbocharge the school to prison pipeline so their owner donors from the prison industrial complex can profit off poverty and perpetuate more themselves, leading to an infinite loop of poverty, misery and demonization for anyone who’s not already a rich cishet white man.
These are the same people who think you can beat the gay out of a child. They think being cruel helps people.
They don’t see a difference between bad and poor. The only exception is the perfect poor republicans - but they’re only temporarily poor, they’re going to be rich one day so all this poor bashing isn’t counter productive to them!
They don’t care if the parents are bad or not, but hey just want to hurt poor people and minorities, to lost republicans those words are the same thing.
They just want people they dislike to suffer.
Going usual playbook, they’d prolly declare it “woke” and mumble the boilerplate shit about taxes, bootstraps, and communism.
The USA is a deeply racist settler colony founded on doing violence to those without the privilege to escape it. The idea that someone “undeserving” might get a benefit from one’s tax payment enrages the Republican voting base which is mostly white men who make over $50k a year.
mostly white men who make over $50k a year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/
About 60% of American households cross that threshold. It kinda comes off like you’re saying people who make that much are overprivileged.
I suspect his information is out of date, $50k isn’t a lot of money but 10 or 20 years ago it was.
Was it? I made that out of college almost 20 years ago. It wasn’t what I would call rich
This chart bothers me because the y-axis is all over the place in terms of range. Sometimes it’s $15k range, sometimes it’s $30k, sometimes it’s $50k. Really skews the data.
I suppose taxes.
I’m a republican and I fully support free school meals. We are already taxed for books, building, teachers, etc.
I’d fully support basic supplies and meals as well. It just makes sense to make sure all students have the basic needs met since we are paying for it.
Instead of defining yourself by party membership in a group that doesn’t represent you, maybe you should think about not being a member of that party?
I’m a registered Democrat, but that doesn’t stop me disagreeing with the Democratic party on plenty of issues. The vast majority of people don’t adhere 100% to their party’s politics, especially with the big-tent two-party system in the US. I can’t speak for the person to whom you’re responding, but you can’t extrapolate from their disagreement on one issue to disagreement on others.
Yes, but this particular idea is intentionally letting children starve. Would you really want to associate yourself with a group that wanted to do that if you were against it?
It’s like saying, “I’m on their side, but I don’t agree with their ‘kill the asylum seekers’ policy.” (I assume that will be a policy of theirs eventually.) How morally repugnant does a group have to get before you disassociate yourself with them?
It already is policy for some of them, see Abbott’s death trap along the Rio Grande or DeSantis wanting to station his state guard on major crossings to shoot undocumented migrants.
I was thinking more hunt them down across America, but you’re not wrong.
Getting people to think about identifying based on party membership is important to get people to actually think about whether they should be a member of that party. Sure, they might be all in on racist wall building, insurrection, and blowing Trump.
But maybe a nudge can help them be a little introspective and think more broadly about whether they picked the right team if their team wants children to go hungry. Just trying to get them to think about things, not saying every party member needs to agree with everything about their party.
If you only identify yourself as being Republican because you consider yourself to be a conservative then I’ve got good news for you, no need to associate with the wackos, the US Democrats are the conservatives of the countries where there actually exists a political spectrum that extends further left than right of center 👍
Based, lobby your representatives and let’s try and get the basics down in a bipartisanly
Right now my largest complaint with the republicans is they just want to stop the democrats from doing anything.
Good ideas should be pushed by both parties. The republicans are rarely pushing their own ideas. They’re just blocking other ideas.
The basic should be supplied. When I show up to work, I dont have to buy my own paper and pencil. It’s supplied.
Education is an investment in the next generation. I strongly support it.
Doesn’t sound like you fit in with the Republicans at all
By convincing them that their taxes shouldn’t come back to them in any way and should instead be used for a higher purpose. Corporation, that’s the higher purpose.
It… helps the people they hate.
Ban abortions, then starve the children. If wasn’t already apparent that the Republican Party is evil, this should make things much clearer.
deleted by creator
“No abortions! Those kids need to be born to starve!”
The late great George Carlin has a bit on advocating for the unborn I can’t be fucked to find atm.
If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re preschool you’re fucked!
The supreme Court in its June 24th ruling last year overturning Roe versus Wade argued that there weren’t enough infants available for adoption:
"“[N]early 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002 (i.e., they were in demand for a child), whereas the do- mestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent”);
(Pg. 35)
I saw that, and I COULDNT BELIEVE they put it to print. Babies as a commodity for white Christian women.
Note to myself if I ever get reincarnated: I’m staying in that womb no matter what 😎
Although “pro-lifers” don’t care about providing even for fetuses. They’re not investing in healthcare, they’re shutting down everything they can that is associated with abortion, which is mainly the people who actually care and the field of medicine that deals with pregnancy.
Also applies to the churches!
Most important quote from it:
“But as soon as you’re born, you’re on your own”
I mean, if you put enough effort into disincentivizeing kids from attending to school, maybe they’ll go back to work in meat packing plants and coal mines like god intended!!
Removed by mod
A lot of students don’t want to go to school but have no choice, both because of societal and legal pressures.
A lot of kids also don’t want to brush their teeth, go to bed at reasonable hours, or clean their rooms.
Kids don’t really get to just do whatever they want it turns out because they aren’t the best at taking care of themselves and making good decisions.
For a lot of situations kids will do what you want them to do if you actually explain why you want them to do it. Furthermore, public schooling is not one of those things, because 13 years of it is clearly not best for some students.
Yes, this is good. In order for society to run and all people to vote and participate in our country, we need a minimum education.
If it were about minimum knowledge than you would be able to test out of it, and those not meeting minimum requirements wouldn’t be able to graduate. But as it stands the top 10% of 8th graders know more than the bottom 30% of highschool graduates.
You can test out of it and get a G.E.D. Many people do.
I got at GED. I also got a perfect score. Not because I’m some sort of genius, because there was not one single thing on it I hadn’t learned by the end of middle school.
What age did you get it at?
In my state and in many states you had to be at least 18 to be out of education. In many others its 16. Do you know of any examples lower than that?
No. When you go under 16 you are talking about a child that is too young to make executive decisions in the outside world that would be expected of an someone with a GED. High school and GED are culturally signs of being ready for adulthood. Under 16 is too young.
No, being 18 is the sign of that. There are 40 year olds without highschool degrees or GEDs, they’re still adults.
At the end of the day, it shouldn’t be about knowledge anyway, it should be about the ability to think and exercise sound judgment.
Agreed, but I’m not convinced school teaches someone that anymore than daily life does.
Where do people learn critical thinking skills? I was taught about propaganda and rhetoric in public elementary school (though, sadly, schooling in such matters was only in the “gifted” program). Though to be fair, I learned about pyramid marketing and the attraction of woo from my mother, queen of the pyramids, and experienced the targeted devaluing of education from my youth group pastor who was trying (with limited success) to keep from losing college kids “to the world.” The cognitive dissonance when I started college was extreme, to say the least.
In life, from family, from teachers(I’m not asking to defund public schools…), from the internet, self-taught, from books, etc. Many ways- clearly public schools aren’t effective for all students, so why are they condemned to it?
But, um, the first national free lunch programs were started in this country because when WWII started, the government found that the post-Great-Depression populace was so stunted from malnourishment that there was concern about recruiting enough eligible soldiers. So, does this mean Republicans no longer want a military? No more sending poor people to fight their wars?
I think it’s more of that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. AKA ignorance and lack of empathy.
Edit: “repeated” to “repeat it”.
Bone apple tea, or typo?
Voice to text run amok, actually.
Why would foreign agents want us to have a strong military?
If that is the case, this is a very pacifist move by the republicans. Kudos! Finally someone looking out for the peoples interests instead of corporate/military complex.
Instead of a military they’ll just have Russia annex us.
They’re trying to get rid of the they/them army and replace them with… uhhh… IDK that’s where my theory breaks down (probably because Republicans don’t normally make sense)
They’re fighting an obesity epidemic!
Yeah, the party with Donald Trump and Chris Christie in it are really trying hard to fight obesity.
Tough life you have there…
What does that even mean? When did I claim to have a tough life?
You have virtually no sense of humour. That’s sad.
Insulting me won’t explain what on Earth you meant.
deleted by creator
I’m an adult & food stamps have gotten me through many rough patches. studies show that investing in social services is better for the economy than letting people starve, who woulda thunk?
deleted by creator
Yeah, these “pro-life” monsters absolutely would have children starve to get closer to another 0 at the end of their bank accounts. Vote well, and influence your local community as much as you can!
Yeah, because the Dem leadership and the candidates they pick in the primaries have been doing doing a great job containing and restraining the worst elements of the far right 🙄
If you just vote for the same invertebrate corporate stooges again, they’ll be sure to do what they say THIS TIME!
We need a general strike and a viable and principled third party to the left of the Dem corporation.
I’m not happy with the Dems either, but I do believe they will fight against the elimination of free school lunches. I will vote for them even if this is all they did.
Counting the GOP as “Blatantly Evil” shouldn’t even be a lukewarm take at this point.
It’s just like Jesus said, someone who hurts a hair on a child’s head is guaranteed to get into heaven /s
And lo, Jesus did taketh the loaf and the fish, and did so declare unto to the crowd that they could go forth and multiply, for the bread and the fish did belong only to himself.
Selfishness 14:7-10
Image Transcription:
News article title reading “Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority” followed by the first sentence of the article reading “As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.”
Below the article screenshot is a picture of Henry J Waternoose III, the spider-like monster from Monsters Inc, saying “I’ll starve a thousand children before I let this company get taxed”
[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]
Good human
Thank you, fellow human 🤖
Imagine being a piece of shit as one of your party’s pillars
Actually skip the imagine part
Now imagine people voting for you despite it being against their interests.
Literal clown world.
Why are they still allowed to rule? They demonstrate clearly that they are not fit for the job.
Family values means forcing children in already marginalized and impoverished families to go hungry.
There family values mean “I value my family, not anyone else’s”, they’re a weird mob.
Do they really even care about their own family?
More like “I value myself and the outward appearance that I care about my own”
“I’m not loving anybody I’m not legally required to”
Red Forman
Makes it way easier to gain support for “letting the kids work.” Since they’re just kids, we can probably let employers pay them less than minimum wage…paying all those kids a full minimum wage would cost too many jobs…besides, its not like they need to “live” off that money…its just supplemental income for the family. Everyone wins! Employers get cheap labor, and the poor are less educated and more desperate and thus easier to exploit.
/s obviously
deleted by creator
Can I get a source on this? Because I know the GOP is Batshit, but this is cartoonishly evil, and I feel like a republican voter will immediately assume it’s fake.
Looks like it was cropped from this New Republic article from last June.
In short, the article says the Republican Study Committee’s proposed 2024 federal budget calls for removing the Community Eligibility Provision from the National School Lunch Program which provides funding to low income schools to have free meals for students
States rights. Amirite?
