A 42 second video that left me stunned. How can this be the same Nation I grew up in?

[Saboburns]

White house Budget Director tells press corp that free school lunches dont improve student performance. Its not just Meals on Wheels being shit canned. FREE school lunches are too.

Link to tweet

[PsychoBabble]

1. Add heartless loser Mulvaney to the pile of Truly Deplorables.

These people are nuts, and dangerous to democracy.

[monmouth4]

4. Democracy is long gone from this place..n/t

[wishstar]

2. I remember back during Reagan, school nutrition took $1billion cut-his USDA said ketchup was veggie

During Reagan's first term, schools had to figure out how to meet nutritional standards under the $billion budget cut, and it was revealed that some USDA advisors suggested ketchup be considered a vegetable to make the scaled down lunches considered more nutritious.

[spike jones]

8. of course,

that was just before Reagan started calling books, “trees.”

[Jarqui]

3. I help this charity in Thailand

www.childrenoftheforest.org

It's a wonderful charity. Really nice, dedicated people.

There are stateless children along the Burma-Thailand border who are targets for armed pickup trucks trying to scoop them up to be slave workers or sex slaves. It's not always easy to draw these kids out of hiding in the jungle.

So this charity has huts spread around in the jungle for schools and they offer a lunch. And the lunch is what draws the kids to come to school for the day because they would otherwise might not eat - it's often their only meal.

I find Mulvaney's words so repugnant.

I do not care for the word "hate". I'm not a hater. I try to find out why I don't like something. Hate is a last resort that I try to avoid.

I listen to this administration and find myself increasingly fighting off hatred. I never liked them before the election. But now, we're starting to see their true colors of racism, no compassion, greed, etc. They're going to kill more Americans than any administration in my lifetime. And it's increasingly hard to see how they can be stopped.

[Saboburns]

5. I am a teacher

I teach.

I teach in the poorest part of West Virginia. 18 years Ive taught here. A lot like a 3rd World Country around here.

My first year of teaching I taught in the poorest school, in the poorest County. This is not an exaggeration, this is not an indictment, this is what has stayed with me for the past 18 years. Elementary school K-5, there were 98 total students in that school. And 92 of them got (qualified for) free school lunches. 92 out of 98. Those numbers have stayed with me for 18 years, and will stay with me forever. 92 out of 98.

A good portion of those 92 didnt get any other food on a regular basis. Its a long time from Friday noon to Monday morning breakfast. Especially when your 6 years old.

So its hard for me to watch that. I get emotional. I get mad as Hell.

How can this be the country I grew up in? Who are these Republican shit Heads. How can all those Republicans be this cruel?

[panader0]

12. Thanks for what you are doing.

You are shaping young minds.

[Jarqui]

13. My daughter is just about a teacher.

She's really good at special ed - with troubled kids. She gets emotionally involved too. She just loves helping these kids. I'm as proud of her as anyone could be of somebody.

So thank you for what you do.

I do not understand it either. Most Republicans were not like this when I was growing up in the 50s-60s. They were conservative but not heartless.

I don't understand how one justifies spending so much on killing people with defense and weapons - way more than anyone else on the planet - and they're going to increase that - while tens of millions will be without healthcare, welfare, food stamps, kids lunches, meals on wheels, Planned Partenthood helping millions of women, etc. I read that list and get tears in my eyes imagining the suffering it is going to cause.

The healthcare cuts alone will kill 186,000 Americans by 2026 - that was the biggest reason I fought against Trump - so that wouldn't happen.

It's just brutal.

[Saboburns]

18. Sometimes I feel we arn't just losing. We've lost.

But that thought does not cause me to flag. It makes my voice louder, it makes me more talkative, it makes me stand and deliver. I live in the Trumpiest part of the United States. These people need to know. I feel that for most of the people I corner, I am the only time they hear good sense.

Republicans dont get their info from anywhere but Republican sources. Its my opinion that until we get our message to them, things will continue to deteriorate.

So thats what I do. (Not at school, of course) I wont abide Proseltyzing at school from anybody. Or any side.

[Jarqui]

27. I supported Bernie.

I fought hard. Lost. Was ticked off. Crawled away to lick my wounds. Didn't know what I was going to do. I didn't like Hillary and I still don't.

Trump was supposed to lose the primary. It was just a passing thing. Folks would catch on to him and he'd flame out. etc. Remember?

When that didn't happen, I dusted myself off and crawled back to try to make sure he didn't win.

Boom. That didn't work out well at all. I crawled away to lick deeper wounds. I didn't post here for 15 weeks or so. Speechless. Couldn't believe it. Felt like it was stolen by the DNC and the Russians. I didn't seem to fit in anywhere.

As I reflected recently, I recalled how I felt when the Kennedys and MLK got shot. It was different but very low. Losing them felt like they were snatched away and we were cheated. And then Nixon got in. I couldn't believe such a liar could be elected president - kind of like I feel now.

My first gay rights fight was 1973-74. No matter what these pricks try to do, they're never going to take back all the ground gained. In the 60s, I never dreamed we could have a black president. And the reality of that man was better than any dream. Him holding that office and doing it the way he did is a product of those protests of the 60s.

There is a good thing about this. America is finally going to see these heartless assholes for what they really are. All the ICE in the world isn't going to change the inevitable of the shift in demographics. When Texas flips due to the Latinos down there, this garbage is over forever.

We have made some real progress. And in the long haul, we're going to win. They cannot stop us. What we're seeing is the last desperate but hopeless grasps clinging to power. And that is kind of a positive with all of this. Trump is bringing out the worst in the GOP and he's dooming them to the darker pages of our history. Unfortunately, he's going to kill a lot of innocent people before we get there and that's the hardest part for me.

[Saboburns]

36. Thank you for that

I sooooo needed it.

[CrispyQ]

40. "When Texas flips due to the Latinos down there, this garbage is over forever."

There is a good thing about this. America is finally going to see these heartless assholes for what they really are. All the ICE in the world isn't going to change the inevitable of the shift in demographics. When Texas flips due to the Latinos down there, this garbage is over forever.

Responding so when I'm feeling hopeless I can come back & read this.

On edit: Here's my fave graphic I like to share with people who make me feel hopeful.



My friend says that it's missing the narcissist, the person so full of their self it's actually empty. We decided an empty shot glass with an orange bouffant would be appropriate.

[world wide wally]

6. Pure, evil ignorance

They ain't got no soul at all

[Kablooie]

7. He also said cutting these programs was "as compassionate as you can get" ...

because you're cutting the amount that taxpayers have to pay.

It's compassionate to the tax payers.
Uh ... yeah.

Republican logic at it's purest.

[smirkymonkey]

21. Bullshit! The only taxpayers that are getting a break are the very, very rich.

OUR money is going to pay for the stupid-ass wall and to give our already bloated military a massive boost. God, I fucking hate them so much!

[Cha]

35. It's straight out of Orwell and they know it..

Are the trump recipient voters dumb enough to buy that shit he's pushing?

[Skittles]

9. this is the same party that started a war based on lies

HOW MUCH HAS THAT COST US AND WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE IT WAS WORTH THE MONEY?

[Saboburns]

11. Indeed

Oh yes I watched that episode in amazement. Was the genesis of my 'awakening'.

Once I walked through that door of awakening, I could never go back.

[GeoWilliam750]

10. It will play well with many Trump supporters

...because many have been taught to believe that it is the undeserving (mostly non-white) children who are getting this support.

As Lyndon Johnson said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

The dog whistle may well be the point of this measure.

[bronxiteforever]

14. Smiling fascist. Mulvaney is a turd in a suit.

[3catwoman3]

15. What went wrong in the social development...

...of these miscreants?

Having spent a 40+ year career in pediatrics, where we help people all day long, I simply cannot understand such mean-spiritedness, especially when it comes to something as basic as feeding hungry children.

These bastards would probably charge them for breathing if they could figure out how.

[warmfeet]

16. This is beyond sick.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. New definition of "Great" - evil.

You know how suicide bombers declare just before the act "God is great"?

Well...

[Equinox Moon]

19. This is what happens when billionaires run the country.

If this budget goes through, or even some it, America will have a lot ill citizens.

[uponit7771]

20. at what point can this be called evil? Evil would ... TRY ... to normalize open in-compassion

[Efilroft Sul]

22. My response to whether performance is improved or not: WHO CARES?!

Seriously, how much of a dick do you have to be to steal food from the mouths of babes in the name of saving money? It doesn't matter if every kid got A's or every kid got F's resulting from these after-school programs, but for crying out loud, these kids aren't guaranteed to get decent meals at home! At some point, who cares about performance or the goddamn profit motive?!

[Initech]

23. If we endorsed breathing air, they'd endorse carbon monoxide.

If we endorse drinking water, they would endorse water pollution.

If we endorse the earth, they endorse fracking.

If we endorse free lunches, they endorse paying for them.

If we endorse workers rights, they endorse bringing back slavery.

Welcome to republican bizarro world.

[LakeArenal]

24. I wonder where our huddled masses yearning to be free should go.

[delisen]

25. Who are the beneficiaries of food programs? The food and agriculture industries

Children and low income families are the recipients .

Wh are the paid providers? They are the beneficiaries.

When Newt Gingrich tried to end food stamps in the 1990s the agricultural industry rose up in fury. What is their stand today?

[CountAllVotes]

26. Food stamps

Don't you just know that they will be next?

They've already tried their best to be rid of them making benefits so paltry in some cases that they are not even worth bothering with. I good friend of mine qualifies to receive $7/month and that is it and soon, they'll try to snap that away.

These are truly evil evil people at the helm!

[VOX]

28. I'm ready for mass insurrection against this death-cult...

The burner under the pot of frogs is being tuned up by degrees. These are just the warmup moves for these destructive assholes.

[tclambert]

29. Hey, at least if children starve, it will help get billionaires another 0.3% in their tax refund.

So you see, starving children is for a good cause.

[AgadorSparticus]

30. WOW!!! That is totally heartless. What vile human beings to say something like that

And to take away food from hungry children. They sicken me to no end....

[Doreen]

31. JFC!!! You would think the heartless bastards would

want the children to live and not starve of malnutrition because where else are they going to get their slaves? Dictator keeps talking about making America great again but America was not around in the medieval times and that is what he is taking us back to.

[MFM008]

32. My son got free lunches

otherwise he wouldn't have eaten at all, plus he had enough trouble with learning disabilities.
This will be a fucking disaster.

[Doodley]

33. When your daddy is a billionaire who literally owns tens of thousands of homes in NYC

and you are a spoiled little brat who hits the teacher, you are totally out f touch with reality.

[spanone]

34. i watched it live....stunned. he said the same thing about 'meals on wheels'

these are heartless bastards

[colsohlibgal]

37. Regret Has To Be Surging Among Many

Lower middle class and below folks who voted for Chitolini, more each day, have to be realizing they were lied to. You can see that in some Faux News polls I saw on MSNBC yesterday.That they bought into that crass grifter's lies is an indictment of them and the right wing propoganda machine that they somehow believe.

Hopefully people will start turning up for every election every year, not just 2020.

[Mc Mike]

38. Saint Raygun pulled the same repug shit. rec, nt.

[CrispyQ]

39. What a heartless fuck. I can't tell you the things I'm wishing on him right now.

[alarimer]

41. Those people have always existed

Historically and here in the US.