I've seen SO MANY ppl use the shutdown as an opportunity to demonize people who receive SNAP benefits, WIC and any kind of government assistance.
Here's the thing:
I agree with those people.
We need to end the WHITE welfare state
BECAUSE welfare works.
A thread:
“Fire with fire leaves only ashes.” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver blasts Missouri Republicans for a Trump-backed map that could strip Black voters from his district.
He vows to fight in court. Read more #OnTheGrio
https://t.co/vXC0o0f70K
For with what art thou discontented? With the badness of men? ... Consider how many already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have been stretched dead, reduced to ashes; & be quiet at last. -Marcus Aurelius
@StoraxBobac “Blood on his hands; damn it, he hasn’t half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don’t go around bellyaching about it." He later called Oppenheimer a “cry-baby scientist” and said, “I don’t want to see that son of a b–– in this office ever again.”
Kamala Harris kicked off her campaign promising to lift children out of poverty and to fight for things like child care and paid family leave.
There are signs her message is making headway with low- income Americans.
From me, @mniquette and @JeffAGreen https://t.co/pGAijkIuwP
@TuffTiffResists That was the 2019 strategy - try to call her an immigrant. To both repel right-wingers and divide the Black community. The astroturfed ADOS reparations campaign was incredibly divisive. The people behind that lent their hand to J6 propaganda efforts too.
https://t.co/FkTxyP2Tv1
Fomenting racial tension is a go-to Russian strategy, anything from white supremacy to Black reparations, as long as it's divisive. 2019 saw an organized campaign against Kamala Harris. It didn't work then, it needn't work now - but preparation helps. 4/
https://t.co/rL6EAwcENH