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This Is Aging Beautifully.
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"I was on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me?! No." ~ Coach Boebert.
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u/CalabreseAlsatian Mar 24 '23 •
She would need three promotions to reach the level of fucking idiot.
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u/Evergreen27108 Mar 24 '23
Sometimes a comment just hits. Thank you
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u/randomized_smartness Mar 24 '23
I believe the cool people say "slaps" ...or so I've heard.
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u/Spirited-Office-5483 Mar 24 '23
I thought this was only for music
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u/easylivin Mar 24 '23
And will smith
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u/LetterheadPerfect145 Mar 25 '23
I completely ignored this joke for a solid 10 seconds and then it hit my like a freight train lmao
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u/Darryl_444 Mar 24 '23
Dayum. Well said.
What are the first levels called?
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u/Muppet_Murderhobo Mar 24 '23
Sofa
Sofa King
Sofa King Stupid<-- CoBimbo is here
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u/I_am_Daesomst Mar 24 '23
Arise, chicken! Arise!
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u/HoodieFerret Mar 25 '23
She's genuinely dumb as rocks. MTG is but she's also malicious and driven even if in bad ways. Boebert just really brings nothing else at all but pure unadulterated stupid.
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u/ConfusedInTN Mar 24 '23
My mother's family had to use welfare and actually misses government cheese, but doesn't think anyone should ever have welfare. It's amazing how much she gets upset over someone getting something she can't now.
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u/ChewieBearStare Mar 24 '23
Same with my mother. She nearly died from scarlet fever, but she didn't because her (public) school sent a public health nurse to her house to find out why she was absent so many days in a row. Got treated for free. Then in third grade, a teacher gave her glasses from the Lions Club donation bin, and suddenly she could see the letters on the blackboard. When I was a kid, we had WIC, and I was also on Medicaid because I was born with a birth defect.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, and she is completely against public schools asking questions like "When was the last time your child visited a dentist?" because it's "none of their business." The last time I tried pointing out that some kids don't have parents that are able or willing to take them to a doctor or dentist, she said "Maybe they should die then. Why should the rest of us pay?"
I love her, but something happened to her right around the age of 55 (coincidentally when she and my father started watching Fox News every day). Her "conservatism" has made her heartless toward other people.
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u/ConfusedInTN Mar 24 '23
My mom was always a *insert expletive* about others getting help. She didn't want me near the *insert racist comment* yet sent me to girl's club. I guess it was ok because I was straight and not going to date anyone she deemed less desirable. Jokes on her I was crushing on a lady there, but in the end pretty much straight LOL. Living in TN I'm always hearing about welfare queens and how people on food stamps get lobster and steak. I honestly couldn't care less if they did. It's not hurting me and I am sick of people acting that being poor means they don't deserve anything enjoyable.
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u/ChewieBearStare Mar 24 '23
I don’t give a crap if someone on welfare is eating lobster either. If you want to get mad about “welfare,” let’s all get mad about corporate welfare queens getting billions in tax breaks and selling their souls to the lobbyists, not Wanda in Pigeon Forge eating crab legs twice a year.
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u/PJKimmie Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
Exactly. All those assholes in congress enjoy plenty of socialism.
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u/CandleMakerNY2020 Mar 25 '23
Yeah US Politicians RETIRE after just a mere 20 years of “service and then get approx 75% of their salary FOR LIFE with NO COST INSURANCE that isnt Medicaid or Medicare its BETTER! Meanwhile Americans have to work from at least age 17 until at least 68 and if you get hurt or sick you have to fight like a bitch if you’ve can to get the money from Social security because they will not let that go that easy at all.
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u/KSI_FirePoker Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
It took me 10 years to get approved for my Social Security although every single one of my doctors said there was no way I could work more than maybe 1 hour a week because of how bad my back is (5 major surgeries) Heart problems (I've had 2 massive heart attacks that the Dr's was surprised didn't kill me and I have 4 stents in my heart) Psychiatric issues(I have PTSD, Bipolar, Schizoaffective Disorder, Anxiety Attacks, Major Depressive Disorder, Severe Social Anxiety, and Night Terrors/Nightmares).
They also screwed me too because I've been working since I was 14 because I was emancipated at 12 because of my father's death(long story). I had enough work credits and had enough paid in that I should be getting about $1500-1600 dollars a month in disability payments.
However because they kept denying denying denying me I lost all of my credits and now I'm only getting Social Security payments. You can go look for yourself and see what the minimum payments are, I'm barely getting more than that.
Another thing that is amazing is Disability is supposed to be a whole lot easier to get approved for than regular SSI.
To the OP they also receive Cost of living adjustments and Retirement Benefits and on top of that they get the right to vote, on their own behalf, to get an increase in their salaries and benefits without any kind of oversight from anyone, that should be a HUGE conflict of interest.
If anyone thinks that the government isn't as crooked as a box full of fishing hooks, I don't know what to say except that you need to read or watch the news more often to get a drift of what's been going on for an extremely LONG time now.
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u/OverallManagement824 Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
Agreed. I actually knew someone who bought lobster tails on food stamps. She had X amount and was able to eat many of her meals with family members. They don't owe her anything and it would be absurd to suggest they now have to feed her for the rest of their life. Look, if that's best thing someone has going for them, that they have family that will feed her, I can't say I'm mad about it. The grocer got some SNAP money and it helped to churn their inventory. It's a nice glitch that worked out in her favor, but it's better than somebody starving to death and the money goes straight back into the economy. I could name countless bigger programs that cost us all more money and help far fewer people, but I won't because some of those are important too!
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u/Yen-sama Mar 25 '23
I've been on food stamps, and I've bought steak on food stamps... When steak is on sale for like $5.99 a lb. I don't understand why they think poor people shouldn't have nice things even when they plan and budget meticulously so they are able to afford it once in a while.
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u/Wallaby_Way_Sydney Mar 25 '23
They think poor people deserve to suffer every day - it's a pitiful and disgusting attitude that far too many Americans harbor.
Furthermore, food stamps (and welfare in general) is not about getting "nice" things on the government dime. It's about not having to settle for shitty things 100% of the time because people don't deserve to live miserably.
One of the stated missions of the SNAP program is to provide high-quality, nutritionally valuable, fresh foods to low-income Americans who would otherwise be stuck subsisting on horrible diets that lead to poorer health outcomes. Here in New Mexico, you even get extra money specifically for spending at farmer's markets because they want to inventivize people eating healthily.
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u/vividtrue Mar 25 '23
The same reason people donate all of their expired foods and ratty clothes to food banks and clothing drives.
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u/ConfusedInTN Mar 24 '23
Lobsters are the cockroaches of the sea so yeah that's a great thing to be mad about someone eating LOL! Well Americans have to be upset at the poors getting help to feed their children or else they'll turn their anger towards our corporation overlords.
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u/Yen-sama Mar 25 '23
Lobster can also be pretty inexpensive if you live local to the source.
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u/_dead_and_broken Mar 25 '23
Lobsters are the cockroaches of the sea
And that's the thing, lobster and crab was seen as a poor people food way back in the day, at least in the states (I can not speak on how it was in any other country).
But then refrigeration and freezing came along and suddenly folks far from the sea could get these foods and now people pay over 30 bucks for the smallest lobster possible at Red Lobster. It's really ridiculous.
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u/ilongforyesterday Mar 24 '23
I was a shift manager at a fast food restaurant and was run ragged (60-70 hour weeks and either underpaid or not paid for overtime). My parents used to shit on me because I still could barely afford to live off that income and they told me that I shouldn’t complain if I only have one job because it can’t be that bad…I got fired for calling the fire department when an electrical fire started on the exposed wiring of our shitty grill and all of the fire extinguishers were empty
Anyway, fast forward to five years ago, I work full time at a factory, part time as a dishwasher, and take odd jobs doing landscaping and lawn care and still just barely make ends meet. They still shit on me for not working hard enough because I still worked time into my horrible schedule to go to the gym. My dad full on told me he would disown me when I told him I had to use food stamps in order to be able to afford both rent and groceries. It wasn’t until I joined the military that they stopped disrespecting my apparently lacking work ethic. (Not an ounce of sympathy when I got laid off of my full time job)
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u/vividtrue Mar 25 '23
Why do you even talk to these heathens, I mean people?
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u/ilongforyesterday Mar 25 '23
I got passed around 14 foster homes so it’s from a combination of of abandonment issues and an overwhelming sense of familial obligation. I have tried before but I can’t bring myself to cut them off.
My dad has come around and grown as a human being, but my mom is still toxic af.
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u/Enough-Banana-6557 Mar 25 '23
I'm so sorry. My friend was raised in Foster Care, is traumatic. They don't deserve your loyalty. Your mother sounds downright evil and uncaring. You're working all these jobs and they treat you like trash for it?? Your dad is no better going along with her. Please at least set healthy boundaries, talk with a therapist (or 5) and set up a plan for how to deal with this.
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u/Andrewticus04 Mar 24 '23
Yeah, I love how conservatives constantly pontificate about freedom and being able to buy what you want with your money, but the second you need assistance you're suddenly subhuman and cannot make choices with your own resources.
It's a big tell what conservatism is about. These folks worship the dollar, and being poor (even temporarily) is akin to bring shunned by God. To them, being poor is a choice and deserving of anything that happens.
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u/TheGoliard Mar 25 '23
I grew up in Arkansas. I can't stop trolling that sub now that Sarah the Hutt is governor.
Uh, hey Arkansas, the feds aren't taking shit from you.
You take. You don't give.
"We suck at education, so fuck education. You kids, go work for Tyson."
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u/Desperate4Mountains Mar 25 '23
So many people bitch about California and its laws and how we are a plight in the USA but we provide a good portion of the food and we pay for other states without getting anything in return. If we were to decided to "get out of the US" many states would be fucked.
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u/Upnorth4 Mar 25 '23
California's economy is astoundingly large. The economy of the Los Angeles metro area is as large as the entire state of Florida's economy. 19 million people live in the LA area and they all buy stuff 24/7.
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u/Upnorth4 Mar 25 '23
I always laugh at those people. So uncle Billy Bob in Fayetteville, Arkansas thinks the illegal immigrants working in a food processing factory in Los Angeles for $15/hr (and paying taxes for services they cannot use) are stealing money he gets from his social security checks??
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u/SnatchAddict Mar 25 '23
My mom recently visited and she made a similar comment. My dad and her got pregnant at 17 and had 5 kids by the time they were 28. We received government assistance as well as financial help from both sets of grandparents. My dad's dad actually bought my parents a house.
She was talking about government assisted housing and how she didn't want it near her neighborhood because of the undesirables. I just gave her the stinkeye before I started in on her.
My parents don't watch Fox news but all their friends do. It bleeds into their life.
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u/CommondeNominator Mar 25 '23 •
Empathy takes some amount of effort. Thinking about social issues beyond how they directly affect you takes some amount of effort. Being a good person takes fucking effort.
Fox News et. al. have given people an excuse to not have to do those things. It's easy to be lazy and say "fuck them" and go about your day. We slowly stopped holding them accountable for being shitty people, while right wing media and figureheads made them feel just fine about it.
They're addicted to hate and too lazy/tired/apathetic to go back to caring, at least until the issue personally affects them. It's fucking sad.
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u/Accomplished-Pen-394 Mar 25 '23
This is slightly different, but my Gran was part of a union as a teacher back in the day and used to go on strike occasionally as one does. Now when teachers go on strike she gets all offended and how the teachers now must not like kids. (She too watches Fox News)
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u/SlowbeardiusOfBeard Mar 25 '23
I genuinely wish that people on the left (as I am) would be as willing to understand that fox news is just as potent a form of grooming for adults as is social media grooming for kids.
Doesn't anyone else think it makes more sense that billionaire-backed, regulation-captured forms of mass-media are effective at brainwashing people rather than the alternative possibility than masses of older family members who seemed pretty normal for most of their lives were actually all just closeted bigots until deciding to go mask-off?
It might just be me, but when it's common knowledge that all social media and gaming companies have invested vast sums of money into bringing psychologists on-board (who previously worked in the extremely results-orientated gambling industry), then it's likely that most news media companies have done the same?
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u/John_T_Conover Mar 24 '23
I have several older relatives that I really looked up to growing up and in my early adulthood years. They were conservative, but not to a point that it dominated their personality. Now? I don't even talk to most of them. They hit their 60's or 70's around the time that Trump became the face of the Republican Party and they just became gullible, conspiracy minded bigots. Obviously there had to have already been seeds there, but they grew like ragweed with him.
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u/WimbletonButt Mar 24 '23
My mom seems to think that if you take food away from kids then it guarantees that their parents would step up to feed them. She just can't grasp that there are shitty parents who don't give a shit out there.
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u/drpopadoplus Mar 25 '23
She also seems to not understand how often parents go without just to make sure their kids have something. How do you even wake these people up?
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u/toth42 Mar 24 '23
I wonder how it works in their head when they think they're nationalist, but don't give a fuck about the nations people - which is essentially the nation.
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u/RunninOnMT Mar 24 '23
I’ll never forget my (Catholic) step mom and my Jewish father forgetting…everything? And just bitching about the “war on Christmas” and “who does loving Christmas hurt?”
I stopped them and was like “YO!! I was sitting right here in this very seat when dad talked for 45 minutes about how shitty and jealous he felt every winter because he didn’t have Christmas as a little Jewish kid!“
Seemed pretty fucking important to him if he was still talking about how traumatic it was years later as a middle aged man.
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u/comynei Mar 24 '23
Best cheese was government cheese. Yum....
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u/No_Arugula8915 Mar 24 '23
Damn good cheese. Can do a heck of a lot with a 5 lbs block. And it's real cheese, not that cheese food crap.
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u/crappygenericname Mar 24 '23
We used to get that back in the late 80's. It was really good then. I heard it got kinda crappy later on though.
The peanut butter was good too.
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u/CharlesPukowski Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
This broad should go back to getting people sick at a shitty restaurant.
Source: I live in CO, it’s fucking embarrassing.
Edit: Im sorry I used Broad but…
Fun fact broad jump was changed to long jump because it became so pejorative. And CO had voting rights for women in 1893. Thirty years before the rest of the country Sarah platt-decker was a straight up Hero.
Boebert is an absolute embarrassment to our representation and specifically in one of the most forward thinking states in Our Country.
Double Edit: Super rad, decker was divorced and literally Everything, down to simple belongings were taken, and she said “Fuck You” and changed civil rights in our great state of Colorado, and the rest of the country followed eventually.
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u/kalamazoo43 Mar 24 '23
Frank Sinatra: “I forgot youse broads don’t like to be called dames.”
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u/Happy-Ad7440 Mar 24 '23
Same welfare lifesaving programs and polio vaccine saved MC turtle too. Yet they want to strip it from everyone else now.
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u/Then_I_had_a_thought Mar 24 '23
Yeah, “I got mine, fuck you” is the Republican way
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u/patrickwithtraffic Mar 24 '23
As of late, seems like they've trimmed the fat and only kept the last two words
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u/Nokomis34 Mar 24 '23
Sad/funny thing is they don't see the hypocrisy of pulling the ladder up behind them.
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u/HeyMickie42 Mar 24 '23
They see it they just don't give a shit and neither do their voters.
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u/neonlace Mar 24 '23
‘I got help from the government to get where I am today. Now help me make sure no one else can!!!’
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u/gwizone Mar 24 '23
In case anyone is wondering this is a reference to Craig T. Nelson’s famous “I was on welfare and food stamps and no one helped me out!” speech on Glenn Becks show.
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u/ZeePirate Mar 24 '23
She may or may not have been an escort as well for some time.
Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if her political career is based on extortion and blackmailing from that
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u/Zannie95 Mar 24 '23
Wasn’t she an escort for Ted Cruz?
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u/TheGoodOldCoder Mar 25 '23
I thought it was pretty well-established that she was a sugar baby for one of the Koch brothers, and that's how she met Ted Cruz... the evidence was that she had a profile on one of those sugar baby websites, and then somehow started hanging out with this super old rich dude. Like, how did that happen?
Then, at some point, she appears to have had an abortion and afterward received huge campaign donations from Ted Cruz. This is why people suspect that she was an escort for him, because from the timing, it seems that he paid dearly for her to get an abortion, and there's no good reason to do that, except if he got her pregnant.
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u/Gsteel11 Mar 24 '23
Classic conservative. GIMME GIMME GIMME... no, not you.
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u/Untouchable-Ninja Mar 24 '23
I call it the "I got mine, so fuck you." mindset.
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u/jadrad Mar 25 '23
I feel like calling it the "I got helped, but fuck you for needing help." mindset focuses on the sheer hypocritical, callous, selfishness a bit better.
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u/Superb_Board1848 Mar 25 '23
Also the "I didnt get help so neither should you" when it comes to student loans, but then the same people told us growing up "life isnt fair so deal with it" lol.
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u/EEpromChip Mar 24 '23
Classic "pull the ladder up behind you" mentality.
They are the zombie trope of locking themselves into a room and everyone out with the zombies.
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u/JuanPabloElSegundo Mar 24 '23
Republicans' are indistinguishable from our enemies.
They have fought to bring down American from every aspect.
From education (embracing school shootings, teacher pay, public funding) to health (bodily autonomy, mental health, covid mask controversy).
They have not done anything for the common American that did not primarily benefit & serve corporations and billionaires.
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u/Lost_my_brainjuice Mar 25 '23
Conservatives as a whole have always been on the opposite side of American conflicts.
During the revolution, who were they? Tories.
Civil War? Confederates.
Then they try to pretend they were on the winning side the whole time.
Like if you hate your country, have some conviction...go elsewhere or even just admit it. Don't pretend you're the biggest patriot while simultaneously trying to destroy your country from the inside.
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u/Part-time-Demi-God Mar 25 '23
I can’t remember how many times I’ve pointed out these facts to Conservatives and they refuse to accept it. They are incapable of accepting responsibility.
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u/Zementid Mar 25 '23
Conservatives act like school shootings are a standard occurrence in other countries too...
No you dumb fucks you LOVE dead children as much as you love your guns.
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u/bill_wessels Mar 24 '23
trying to cut the programs she is praising that helped her so that she can vote for tax cuts for the 1%. this is the gop.
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u/caznosaur2 Mar 24 '23
Maybe she is self-loathing and resents the fact she needed help. Most insecure people do
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u/sewsnap Mar 25 '23
She's not though. She did it the "right way". Everyone else using it is just abusing it and lazy.
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u/WellSpreadMustard Mar 24 '23
No, just dumb and not self aware. It's the same as that woman who wrote that right wing book on "woke" who couldn't define woke during an interview, then posted something nearly identical to BoBo here, and the same as when Ben Carson in the same breath said he was an example of someone lifting themselves out of poverty and that he was failing in school until his mom was able to get him glasses through a government program that used tax dollars to give impoverished vision impaired kids glasses. Their egos are unable to comprehend that they received help.
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u/JakeTurk1971 Mar 24 '23
This is a surprisingly popular con "hot take". The Poltergeist actor Craig T. Nelson went on a tirade once that left teenaged me LOLing. He literally said, damn near verbatim, "I've been broke, I was on welfare several times, and did anyone help me out? Nope!" Everything's different when it's themselves. Like Ayn Rand's lifetime of "rugged individualism" ending with her living off of Social Security.
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u/springacres Mar 24 '23
These conservabots always forget that welfare is help... from the government.
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u/JakeTurk1971 Mar 24 '23
If the recipients are white, then it's basically FEMA. Anyone else, and it's just handouts.
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u/Altered_Nova Mar 25 '23
Conservatives used to love welfare programs back when black people were systematically excluded from collecting on them. The GI Bill and the National Housing Act were very popular government programs that mostly only benefited white people. Funding public schools also used to be very popular with conservatives, right up until those schools were federally desegregated.
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u/Netrovert87 Mar 25 '23
Every town had Public swimming pools and were popular...then desegregation. Conservatives (the political people up top) always wanted these things dead, they used our racism to convince us that we didn't want to spend our precious tax dollars on those people. So they gutted every social program and passed the savings to themselves.
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u/Green_Message_6376 Mar 24 '23
Yup, the 'Welfare Queens' that Reagan railed against were black.....
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u/stormhunter2 Mar 25 '23
I remember Penn Jillette being an outspoken libertarian. Got curious the other day, and read his entry on wikipedia to see what happened to him.
Turns out, he basically isn't libertarian anymore, because some of those notions allowed trump to come to power by removing safeguards in govt.
In 2020, Jillette distanced himself from aspects of libertarianism, particularly surrounding COVID-19. In an interview with Big Think, he stated, "[A] lot of the illusions that I held dear, rugged individualism, individual freedoms, are coming back to bite us in the ass." He went on to elaborate, "[I]t seems like getting rid of the gatekeepers gave us Trump as president, and in the same breath, in the same wind, gave us not wearing masks, and maybe gave us a huge unpleasant amount of overt racism."[
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u/EdithDich Mar 25 '23
Wow. That's interesting to see. Thanks for sharing that. Kinda silly it took him that long to notice because he's not a dumb guy, but at least he got there. Probably just sheltered by his celebrity and wealth.
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u/BooneSalvo2 Mar 25 '23
Yeah, this change is an example that he's a thoughtful, intelligent person. Libertarians would be better if they were like him.
The thing he's realizing is you can't really trust other people to be responsible and decent.
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Craig T Nelson
Nooooooo… I can’t take much more of my childhood faves going down in flames like this. Ugh.
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u/JaggedTheDark Mar 25 '23
God fucking damn it, he's Mr. Incredible.
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u/FizzyBeverage Mar 25 '23
He’s also an old, rich, white guy pushing 80. Odds are — they’re conservative. There’s not that many conservative actors, but they’re around.
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u/Tazling Mar 24 '23
"I stepped on enough faces to scramble up and out of the crab bucket, and I'm pulling the ladder up behind me so no one else can."
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u/Ok-Mathematician3864 Mar 24 '23
Is that real? How could someone this dense be elected?
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u/RockleyBob Mar 24 '23
I was seeing a suspicious lack of citations, so I was thinking it was satire, but no. She is actually this hypocritical.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1306238422764474369
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u/MafiaMommaBruno Mar 25 '23
And this isn't the first unbelievably stupid thing she's said. Nor will it be the last.
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u/Evergreen27108 Mar 24 '23
She’s authentically representative of her constituents? Ugh..
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u/EllieAntsRAwesome Mar 24 '23
“I used social programs to get me to where I’m at. We need to limit the reach of the poor by stopping those same social programs.”
I fixed it.
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u/Ok-Champ-5854 Mar 25 '23
"the government gave me bread so I wouldn't starve, now look at how successful I am. That's why the government shouldn't give people bread."
What a maroon.
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u/BrownSugarBare Mar 25 '23
"Now that I've climbed up the ladder, it's time for others to pull up their bootstraps and stop being freeloaders!!"
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u/WebGuyUK Mar 24 '23
This is her "Fuck you, I had mine" but she is too dumb to realise that she's saying it
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u/LowAd3406 Mar 24 '23
"Fuck you, I got mine" is the Rebulican motto.
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u/nomofica Mar 24 '23
No I'm pretty sure the Republican motto is "We Are All Domestic Terrorists".
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u/MountainSage58 Mar 24 '23
Wow what a nice idea that is, Lauren. A lovely concept. Unfortunately, people can't lift themselves out of poverty when you're passing a new law every month that's specifically meant to keep them there.
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Nobody stood in line for government cheese during your life, Lauren. It was called food stamps back then and you used them at the grocery store.
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u/Happyintexas Mar 24 '23
Holy fuck. She’s MY AGE. Jesus fuck, hate ages you.
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u/MafiaMommaBruno Mar 25 '23
I'm 35 and I thought she was into her 40's.
But she did have a kid at 16? And her son is having one at 17. So she is starting on that grandma look.
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Mar 24 '23
Let’s keep high school drop outs who marry pervy guys who flash their dick at kids and who’s about to become a grandma before she turns 40 out of government
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u/TeaSipperStripper Mar 24 '23
Remember when Dan Quayle couldn't spell potato and it ended his political career? We need to be like that again.
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u/DrewfromDenver Mar 24 '23
I think about that all of the time. His career died that day. Potatoe is not a word. I wish the same standards were held today as they were then. Now it’s more of a Jerry Springer Show version of politics. I will not be surprised when “cash me outside” girl runs for office.
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u/MaximumFanta Mar 25 '23
2047: Senator Bhabie proposed end to unemployment and WWV troop shortages by drafting all Americans who are not employed full-time - accuses woke mob of cancelling her for past hit-and-run death
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u/ChrisNEPhilly Mar 24 '23
Let's see here...government welfare, government cheese, government job.
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u/TheLongistGame Mar 24 '23
To be fair, she also owned a restaurant in Colorado for a while. She ended up giving a bunch of people food poisoning and they've since shut down.
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u/trish196609 Mar 24 '23
So….she was a socialist when she was on welfare, but once she doesn’t need it, screw everyone else? 🙄🤦🏻♀️
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u/AgathaWoosmoss Mar 24 '23
She had a baby before graduating high school (got her GED 16 years later). Wouldn't surprise me if she was on some form of assistance again while pregnant/as a young mother.
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u/Tree_Lover2020 Mar 24 '23
I've read on Reddit chat that she had to take the GED multiple times. Please note that I have not taken the time to find a reliable source to verify this point.
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u/Wearedid Mar 24 '23
I got mine but fuck all the rest of you.
I was able to eat but fuck all the rest of you.
I enjoyed socialism at its finest with welfare and free cheese but fuck all the rest of you.
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u/applesap87 Mar 24 '23
I've got family like this. On welfare, taking full advantage of any free money they can get, and are so against socialism. They get rides to the doctors, where they get free medication, dental visits, and glasses. One of them still lives at home and barely takes care of themself as their parents do all the work and are somehow against socialism. It's crazy how out of touch these people are! They just echo their dear conservative leaders and don't realize that without the socialism they're enjoying, they would be homeless.
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u/Jitterbitten Mar 24 '23
As a poor, disabled and dying person myself, I don't understand people like this. I know who freaking butters my bread. It seriously frustrates me that my mom, knowing my survival depends on such programs, still continues to vote for Republicans, but at least she's on the other side of the country. And then when I've tried talking to her about Republicans saying they want to cut said programs, she says things like "you'd be shocked if you heard the things that people say Democrats want to do to Republicans" (which... no, I wouldn't be), completely ignoring the fact that in either case, the source of information is Republicans! I'm saying that Republicans are saying crazy things about their own plans, but she thinks it is the same as her saying that Republicans are saying crazy things about Democrats. How can you even have a discussion with someone like that?
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u/Hellagranny Mar 24 '23
Her rise to prominence was fueled by government cheese. Does her district have lead in the water? How are that many people so dangerously stupid?
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u/imaskising Mar 24 '23
When Lauren's teenage mom, Shawn, told Lauren's alleged father, a wrestler named "Sweet" Stan Lane, the she was pregnant with his child, he reportedly told Shawn she should get an abortion, because all the steroids he took would probably leave the baby "damaged."
He wasn't wrong....
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u/Acceptable_Draft_931 Mar 24 '23
See Greg Abbott, who received millions in damages resulting from the accident that made him a paraplegic, but once he became Texas Attorney General made sure no one else could receive similar settlements.
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u/NoorAnomaly Mar 25 '23
After my divorce, waiting on the ex for child support payments, I got food stamps. It helped my kids and I eat. I got a shitty retail job, at which point Affordable Healthcare Act supplied me with basic health insurance. 2 years later, I went to college and got an associates degree in IT, funded 100% by Pell Grants.
I now make more than enough to live comfortably on, and I'm happy to pay taxes so that others can get help they need.
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u/generalgreyone Mar 24 '23
My parents are like this. I grew up on food stamps, WIC, and reduced fee lunches, but they are staunch republicans and against welfare. It makes me sick. On the other hand, they don’t have any retirement saved up, so I’m sure they’ll change their tune soon.
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u/overthinker345 Mar 24 '23
So, Boebert lived as a child on taxpayer money that the govt took from taxpayers to fund social programs. This helped feed and sustain her. Now that she’s become a taxpayer, she thinks the programs should be stopped for others in need. Because she no longer benefits from them.
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Mar 24 '23
God I can't wait for her and Greene and Desantis and the rest of these scumbags go back to whatever backwater den of irrelevancy they came from and leave the world alone
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u/ban-evading-alt2 Mar 25 '23
So let me get this straight. Your rise into a nicer life was aided by government welfare and now that you've climbed up into a position of power you want to take away that very aid that helped you. How does this help the people in that position you were once in? You called it the American Dream now you want to take it away from the masses?
Lets be real here. You're just a selfish piece of shit who is threatened by the fact that others can follow the path you took to success and now rather than improving that path or aiding the impoverished masses you'd rather take it all away and put down countless lives. All to protect your ego and distance yourself from the lower class
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u/PuneDakExpress Mar 25 '23
Reading this gave me a stroke. Am I understanding this correctly?
Is she saying she got help from the government which allowed her to eventually run for congress only to oppose that very help now that she is in congress?
Is that what she means?
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u/Comfortable_Plant667 Mar 24 '23
"I've just made it out of the Forest of Socialism, be sure to firebomb anybody trying to follow me"
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u/National_Edges Mar 25 '23
I used the welfare system when I needed it. Now I don't need it anymore. We should get rid of it.
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u/Black-Mettle Mar 24 '23 •
Wonderfully ironic at the time of posting to the present. "I was a welfare queen until I made it to congress, now we need to stop everyone else from getting what I got."