@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-hunger-games-and-the-law-of-merited-impossibility
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p54#a251219p54
@joe@toot.worksSo, we can't have affordable health care, everything costs too much, and there's a felon running everything ... but I guess we have The Hunger Games, now?
“first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes — one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
#Trump #Politics #USPolitics #USPol
@servelan@newsie.social"(1) "This is a political decision — specifically, a Republican decision," (2) "The pain from lost food aid will, if anything, hurt Republican voters worse than Democrats," (3) "Despite what Republicans believe, SNAP recipients aren’t malingerers," and (4) "Food stamps are an investment in the future."
'Hunger games': Nobel economist details 4 ways Trump gutting food benefits will hurt GOP - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/krugman-snap-trump/
@schtobia@augsburg.socialFairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
— Neil Gaiman, after G. K. Chesterton
https://nitter.net/stealthygeek/status/966153208195362817