Shutdown effects bear down on millions more people after crucial deadline passes. Despite a judge's ruling ordering the administration to fund SNAP benefits, President Donald Trump said that November's payments were likely to be delayed. (NBC News)
But the East Wing continues to be demolished. But the Trump/Epstein Ballroom continues to go forward. The $40 billion bailout was to buy the presidency in Argentina. The Congress, even when not in session, continues to get paid. Trump’s golf trips and overseas trips continue to get reimbursed. Oh yeah, and ICE agents, Trump’s newly minted Secret Police, continue to get paid.
Another program that will be forced to shutter in states across the country is Head Start, which provides free learning programs, health screenings and meals to young children from low-income families. (NBC News)
Trump must prefer hurting people, so he can remain in place, shooting fishing vessels, invading blue cities, and having Pam Bondi weaponize the Justice Department. Trump must prefer homelessness, unemployment, extravagant health insurance, and starvation just to keep the Epstein Files from being released.
And all of his Christian Nationalists remain silent, pretending to be Pro-Life by eliminating abortion rights, attacking Trans People, and profiling people of color.
Trump and fellow Fascists had no intention of making America great again; their only sociopathic intentions were to increase the divide between the wealthy and the poor, to increase racism, and to eliminate any hope for anyone who is not them.
