Host 2 (4:19)

I the Republican Party has been doing this for as much as long as I can remember all of my adult life. They have demeaned people on SNAP benefits. They have criticized their food choices even though the worst food imaginable are the only things that the SNAP benefits can provide. They have done a very effective diabolical job demonizing people that work for minimum wage and make minimum wage as somehow welfare queens when the real welfare queens are the corporations that exploit their labor. And so this doesn't surprise me much at all. This is modern day, an extension of modern day Republicanism. He's just a little bit more cruel. But Ronald Reagan was this way, George W. Bush was this way, Mitch McConnell's this way. This is a Republican Party policy. Demean the poor, demean the hungry, demean the sick. Make fun of hard working people that do manual physical labor and tell them they're not working hard enough and they're not worthy of anything while subsidize these corporations that refuse to pay you a livable wage.

Host 1 (5:27)

Well, it's, I mean it's coming and I hope that the Supreme Court doesn't back down on this because I do not believe that this falls within the executive order to defy a court order. Not that there's anybody that can hold Trump in contempt because we know Pam Bondi has her lips plastered to his ass. And then here's what's so funny, Caroline. KKK Levitt is on TV giving a press conference at the same time Trump is holding SNAP benefits hostage and she just lies for him. Here she goes. Thanks so much, Caroline. Can you help Clear up some confusion about SNAP benefits.

Host 2 (6:02)

Sure.

Host 1 (6:02)

The President just posted that they will only be given out when the radical left Democrats open the government and not before. But just yesterday, the administration said it would comply with a court order to expend the full amount of SNAP contingency funds by end of business day yesterday. So did the administration distribute that money or defy that court order? No, the administration is fully complying with the court order. I just spoke to the President about it. The recipients of these staff benefits need to understand it's going to take some time to receive this money because the Democrats have forced the administration into a very untenable position. We are. Okay, stop. She's a fuck twat, if I may use the word that we've coined. First of all, she knows that Trump is withholding the money. She knows there's a court order, so she's trying to pussy foot around it. But she gets up there and they say to her face what Trump said. And she completely goes against him and says, oh well, people need to be patient because it's the radical left Democrats. It's like, bitch, we are not as dumb as the mag voters that elected you complete morons. It's just she infuriates me every day.

Host 2 (7:13)

Yeah. And this is just what they're going to continue to do. This is what they do every single day. To have an expectation that we're going to get any truth or anything but gaslighting spin from this administration would be a fool's errand on our part. But the good news right now, you guys, is their bullshit isn't working. And we have data to back that up. We can see that people are now clear eyed that they were lied to, that he said he was going to fix inflation on day one, that he was going to fix all of these things. And they don't. Inflation is worse. The economy is worse because Kinks and the people surrounding him, the only economy they look at is the stock market. Right. Which is to tell you how detached they are. So Carolyn Levitt will go down as one of the dingiest propagandists in world history, in my opinion. And these videos will be played for years and years to come in history classes. And I can only imagine that people will marvel at the stupidity of a portion of the American electorate that believes this bullshit. I completely agree.

Host 1 (8:29)

And then skipping ahead, we have Representative James McGovern and he describes Trump and it is so perfect. I don't think he goes far enough. But I think it's worth hearing Republicans.

James McGovern (8:41)

Are choosing to Go after nutrition assistance. Trump is doing this because he is a bad person. He's a lousy president and an even worse human being. He's weaponizing hunger and trying to rip food away from more than 40 million Americans, including 16 million children, for sadistic political leverage. How dare he. How dare he exploit the pain of hungry Americans. How dare he make. How dare he make working folks choose between health care and food. How dare he starve poor children who go to bed hungry? These people are sick in the head.

Host 1 (9:17)

Okay, that's good. Sick in the head. Here's the thing he forgot. He's a criminal, he's a narcissist, he has dementia. Sadistic, yes. But the overriding thing about Trump is he doesn't give a. I mean, if we didn't know it before, it is obvious during this shutdown, he does not care about anybody but himself and money and taking more and taking more from the American people. So I don't think he went far enough, but I liked it.

Host 2 (9:52)

I think the connection to sadism is really appropriate, especially when you look at the White House social media feeds and how sadistic they are and they flaunt the cruelty that our government is imposing upon immigrants and that we have a Supreme Court that said, yes, you can racially profile. You absolutely can racially profile. And this election cycle that we just had and these victories, it's going to be interesting to see what happens in the House. They're just one vote away from releasing the Epstein files and pumps. I think if those files are released, the dam is going to break. Kanks is dementia. He's a lame duck. He's quacking like a crazy ass duck on lsd. All right? That's what it looks like as he's running around. And people in the MAGA movement have identified his mortality because it is on full display. He's a senior citizen. His cankles just, I mean, you can just tell, like curtains are closing here and people are seeing that. And so I hope that the Democrats keep the pressure on and I hope public opinion pushes some cowardice Republicans to look at their constituents and say, okay, this is. I'm going to get leveled in the next campaign if I don't start stepping up to some resistance. So some of his colleagues might be, have, might have had fun the last six months, but they're going to have to reassess these sadistic policies because that's what they are. And the last elections are a total rebuke on that.

Host 1 (11:43)

I completely agree. And I, I hope that they'll reconsider. But you know, I don't know. Please like this video. Subscribe to our channel. Buy our book Life is a Lazy Susan of Sandwiches. It's linked in the show notes and you can also get it in audio books. And we will be back with more news.