r/politics • u/mvanigan • Jul 15 '25
Paywall Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Meant for Children
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u/GrilledCassadilla Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth."
"There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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u/ProfessorVolga Jul 15 '25
I wish Steinbeck wasn't literally just as relevant almost 100 years later, but here we are, I guess
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u/mabhatter Jul 15 '25
People can't seem to effectively learn from the past.... the sting of pain only lasts 50-80 years before new people come along and discover the same errors that caused suffering in the past. Worse, they delight in the suffering.
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u/Nephroidofdoom Jul 15 '25
You know how they say Octopuses have near human intelligence but won’t evolve because they 1) don’t care for their young and 2) only live a year.
I think we just found the equivalent limit on human advancement.
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u/HedonisticFrog California Jul 15 '25
The scary part is that we keep repeating the same terrible behaviors but with ruthless efficiency thanks to modern technology.
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u/Buddha-Embryo Jul 15 '25
Our days are most certainly numbered. The rapacity of the few will inevitably be the destruction of ALL. No one will be spared. Bunkers or even distant planets won’t save them.
Unless and until human beings can devise a way to keep the worst among us from taking power—in governance, technology, and industry—our species has no hope.
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u/Long-Rooster-9641 Jul 15 '25
May people wake up and realize who outnumbers who exactly.
2000 billionaires 8,000,000,000 of us
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u/Buddha-Embryo Jul 15 '25
Yes indeed…which is why it is imperative for the billionaire class to sow division among the masses. The arising of class consciousness is their ultimate existential fear. To be sure, it is not hard to get people fighting one another, but we need to unite on class and not let anything else disturb that solidarity. We will go a long way in addressing all other injustices just by addressing wealth inequality. Focus on class, first and foremost and unite.
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u/foxyfoo Jul 15 '25
Tariffs happen every hundred years because all the people who lived through the previous fiasco are dead.
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u/DreamingAboutSpace Jul 15 '25
When you look back on the end of WW2, you could sort of see this behavior growing. The world had just ended multiple atrocities by allying together to fight genocidal evils. What did America do right after? Excused some of the Nazis and Japanese despite the revolting and heinous experiments done on people because they wanted the research. This isn't like the stories you hear about how some vaccines and cures came about, this was research done through inhumane, appalling torture. America was gung-ho about doing the right thing to protect America after Pearl Harbor and the world, but there were Americans who suffered from the torture of Unit 731.
They didn't excuse one war crime, but several. To keep the public from eating them alive, they kept it a secret and covered it up. The cover-ups and lies became the norm. All they had to do was trade their humanity and dignity. It's what we see now. We never learned from history, so now it's repeating itself.
Germany thankfully has and takes it seriously. They don't let the youth believe the Holocaust was fiction. American youth don't understand the gravity of the Holocaust and far too many think it a myth. Republican-led states encourage this false belief and the ignorant cult members of MAGA allowed themselves to believe it too despite knowing better. The most confusing part is the elderly cult members spreading this hateful lie. They would be the ones to know that the Holocaust actually happened. That is the legacy they chose for their loved ones.
Until we learn from our past and our present, we can't get off of this carousel that's taking all of us for a ride.
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u/gears50 Jul 15 '25
The most confusing part is the elderly cult members spreading this hateful lie.
What is confusing about hate and prejudice? It is the bedrock of this malignant country.
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u/NuclearThane Jul 15 '25
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck
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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jul 15 '25
Hey now, upton Sinclair is making his comeback tour too
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u/honkoku Jul 15 '25
"Thus, in California we find a curious attitude toward a group that makes our agriculture successful. The migrants are needed, and they are hated. Arriving in a district they find the dislike always meted out by the resident to the foreigner, the outlander. This hatred of the stranger occurs in the whole range of human history, from the most primitive village form to our own highly organized industrial farming. The migrants are hated for the following reasons, that they are ignorant and dirty people, that they are carriers of disease, that they increase the necessity for police and the tax bill for schooling in a community, and that if they are allowed to organize they can, simply by refusing to work, wipe out the seasons crops. They are never received into a community nor into the life of a community. Wanderers in fact, they are never allowed to feel at home in the communities that demand their services"
- John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies (1936)
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u/WitchyTwitchyItchy Jul 15 '25
It is wild to live in the town where he is from, the space he wrote about , and see how much is the same. Except now there is a multi million dollar Steinbeck Center for people to visit, with steps leading up to the doors where you see the unhoused sleeping, next to murals celebrating his writing.
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u/borg23 Hawaii Jul 15 '25
And don't forget, these migrant workers weren't Mexicans, they were Okies
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u/honkoku Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
He actually goes on to write:
Let us see what kind of people they are, where they come from, and the routes of their wanderings. In the past they have been of several races, encouraged to come and often imported as cheap labor; Chinese in the early period, then Filipinos, Japanese and Mexicans. These were foreigners, and as such they were ostracized and segregated and herded about.
If they attempted to organize they were deported or arrested, and having no advocates they were never able to get a hearing for their problems. But in recent years the foreign migrants have begun to organize, and at this danger signal they have been deported in great numbers, for there was a new reservoir from which a great quantity of cheap labor could be obtained.
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u/frolickingdepression Jul 15 '25
Oh I hated that book when I read it in high school, but it has always stuck with me and I find myself thinking of it so often now, over 30 years later.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Jul 15 '25
I think that's the reason it's been largely removed from curriculum in American schools...
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u/Halo_cT Jul 15 '25
And The Jungle, and Silent Spring and...
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u/Liljoker30 Jul 15 '25
The jungle is pure depression
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u/Chemical-Elk-1299 Jul 15 '25
I also find it darkly funny that Upton Sinclair meant for the “gross meatpacking” section of the book to be the least egregious thing in it
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u/Responsible_Pizza945 Jul 15 '25
That's the only thing I even know about The Jungle...
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u/Chemical-Elk-1299 Jul 15 '25
It’s only supposed to be a setup for how the immigrant main character gets fucked over by literally everyone he meets in America
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u/Moos_Mumsy Jul 15 '25
I was walking my dog the other night, listening to complete silence around me, and I realized that I was living Silent Spring. No crickets, no frogs, no night birds, nothing. Just silence. It made me sad. And glad that both my children have chosen to be childless because it would break my heart to think that I had grandchildren who had to face what is to come.
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u/jrob321 Jul 15 '25
It's soooooooooo much better later on in life.
We should encourage people to read from the time they are able, but too often, when reading is a drudgery, we kill that "lifelong learner" desire in some students.
Reading should be a celebration, and at the very least - if this literature needs to be part of a curriculum - it should be taught in a much more engaging manner than the way it is often approached in high school classrooms.
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u/ericmm76 Maryland Jul 15 '25
This. Why on earth do you try to force 7th graders to read David Copperfield or Antigone Rex when they'd be better served by reading something at bit closer to home. Even Catch 22 would be a lot better.
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u/SerLarrold Jul 15 '25
I picked up Grapes of Wrath for the first time a couple years ago after hearing a lot of great things about it. Truly stunning prose and the story and themes are just as relevant as ever. I hate that we still are facing the same obvious issues Steinbeck was pointing out 100 years ago
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u/RinaRoft Jul 15 '25
I read the grapes of wrath 50 years ago, and I didn’t remember this passage. Thank you for posting it here. My heart breaks now upon reading that. I must try and read it again.
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u/Dracula_Bit_My_Balls Jul 15 '25
I just reread his novel "In Dubious Battle" and it's never felt more relevant.
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u/bramley36 Jul 15 '25
and a lot of the reforms to improving the safety of the food system are being eliminated
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Jul 15 '25
Some MBA read this post and realized they wasted 80k of their dad's money.
Just kidding, if an MBA could think critically they would not have become an MBA.
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u/blues111 Michigan Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
Brilliant, couldnt even be bothered to repurpose it for our own citizens, let alone other children in need via USAID
Such a cruel waste
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u/versusgorilla New York Jul 15 '25
There's no money for children's school lunches but they can destroy tons of food we already bought. Cool.
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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot Jul 15 '25
The only thing that would make this more enjoyable for them is if they could force the children to watch that food get incinerated.
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u/anuncommontruth Pennsylvania Jul 15 '25
I remember back in like, 03 or 04, one of those cheesy guy magazines like Maxim had an interview with Mr. Burns.
Mr. Burns at one point says one of his favorite pastimes is burning loads of cash in front of the homeless, but not too close, so they can't use the fire to warm themselves.
I think about that quote a lot with this administration.
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u/Azmoten Missouri Jul 15 '25
Mr. Burns like, the Simpsons character? Or is this a real dude?
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u/anuncommontruth Pennsylvania Jul 15 '25
The Simpson character. It was just kind of a joke segment. I don't even think they were speaking with the writers when they wrote it.
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u/MillionMilesPerHour Jul 15 '25
Don’t give them any ideas.
They will do it and then claim the food didn’t get to them because of Biden. So Trump is incinerating it to protect the children from the “bad food”.
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u/VanceKelley Washington Jul 15 '25
Here is the real reason they cut food aid as stated by a Republican some years ago:
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '25
Lordy, folks always want cheap labor but never want to have to feed it enough to thrive on! No wonder they had to add that bit to the bible about not binding the mouth of the ox pulling your plow, apparently enough folks are stupid and greedy enough to begrudge the beast doing the work for them a few mouthfuls of fuel for its body now and again.
I remember fondly how, back in my childhood, it was possible for poor folks to eat themselves plump at free kitchens and food banks. It was tradition for restaurants to double bag leftovers at closing and set them on top of the trashcans for whoever got there first. We've got Good Samaritan laws and everything.
Worries the hell out of me, how thin folks are these days. The poor are stickfigures and few have kids tagging along. My cousins tell me the school buses are half empty.
Even at a totally amoral level, it's logical to make sure everybody gets fed, even if ya don't think they're smart enough to "deserve" so much as a sandwich. Because we're meant to function as a community, like when something mysterious and maybe bad happens way over there ya don't want the smartest person in the tribe to go check it out, just in case it's dangerous. Ya send some loyal idiot who loves everyone because they make sure he's fed and sheltered and clothed, who is brave enough to go alone to investigate the unknown partially because he's just not smart enough to know any better.
We've all got value to the tribe. No point being cruel to lower ranked folks, never know when ya might get whanged in the head and become one. "There but for the grace of god go I" and all.
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u/relevantelephant00 Jul 15 '25
I've watching politics since the mid 90s in high school. It's actually rather astounding to me still how cruel, greedy and just generally awful human beings Republicans are and now it's just all out in the open without the quasi-filter they used to have pre-Trump.
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u/versusgorilla New York Jul 15 '25
Yeah, and the worst part is that they'll just muffle this information from reaching their brains and making any changes, then go back to praising Trump for rooting out all the pedophiles in government and protecting the kids while non-ironically muffling the information this week about how Trump is still covering for an infamously prolific pedophile.
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Gross Old Pedos - they don't want to be bothered about feeding kids
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES Missouri Jul 15 '25
Hurting kids is their jam
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u/fermat9990 Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
Kids, poor people, brown people, trans people, gay people, women, . . .
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u/LuvKrahft America Jul 15 '25
Play from the Israeli playbook?
This is why CRT needs to be taught in schools here. This shit is from OUR playbook. This is why you don’t want to put a redlining Birther in charge. It’s why people keep saying white men are voting against their own interests because of some made up identity replacement theory shit that’s been around since the 1800’s.
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u/fermat9990 Jul 15 '25
Play from the Israeli playbook?
This seemed gratuitous when I first read it. Thanks a lot!!
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u/One-Agent-872 Jul 15 '25
The kids are easier to traffic and rape if they’re malnourished.
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u/HoppyMcScragg Jul 15 '25
Cheap Labor Republicans. Keep people broke and hungry so they’re desperate to work in poor conditions for low wages.
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u/Vapur9 Jul 15 '25
When Haitians were desperate, they started eating clay. This famine practice is likely going to spread.
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u/Edogawa1983 Jul 15 '25
With all the labor gone we might have food issues soon
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u/creepingphantom Jul 15 '25
They want us to have more kids but not feed them. Easier to catch a kid that can't run I guess?
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u/donnerpartytaconight Jul 15 '25
Taxpayer waste.
I thought a certain political group was super really for reals against taxpayer waste. For reals.
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u/fathertitojones Jul 15 '25
Even Reagan’s administration managed to distribute massive amounts of emergency cheese to poorer populations of the US instead of Reagan’s idea of, hold on let me take a look here, uh. Throwing it into the ocean.
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Jul 15 '25
Only under capitalism do we dump food for the benefit of the market
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u/cinciTOSU Jul 15 '25
I see no benefit to anyone at all , food has been paid for already.
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Jul 15 '25
But not available, and thus hungry people must purchase from private food capitalist with wages they got from selling their time to a different capitalist… or not eat
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u/Cancel_Electrical Jul 15 '25
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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u/frosty_lizard Jul 15 '25
"Cruelty is the point"
It would've benefitted non-white kids so of course they had to incinerate the food. 'Party of family values' would be hilarious if it weren't for kids now starving since this administration is hellbent on making evil decisions
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u/WeirdSysAdmin Jul 15 '25
An absolute ghoul. A normal empathetic person deserving a that position would have at least been like okay let’s get a plan together to get this food to people before we cut these programs. That’s only enough food for like 250k people but could have helped food banks take care of more people. Some of these small food pantries only have 5 figure budgets including their donations.
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u/deviantscale Jul 15 '25
5 figure budgets including their donations.
I live downtown in a metro area. I can tell you right now, nearly every single food bank and soup kitchen would fist fight their family for a 5 figure budget in those sweltering kitchens. You should see what we feed our homeless and starving.
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u/JstytheMonk Jul 15 '25
Or compost the damn food. Literally, burns the world down to spite the libs.
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u/m0ezart Jul 15 '25
Can’t you think of the execs of these food suppliers ? They promised the shareholders a certain level of profits, it’s their tax-free bonuses that are on the line, sir.
Executives are humans too, they have kids as well. What about that family vacation they had planned for Christmas, on a private yacht in the Greek islands, can’t you think about these kids ?
We can’t let that happen just because you feel entitled to give HANDOUTS to FREELOADERS !
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u/Rombledore America Jul 15 '25
if you just give it away, they'll never learn the value of working for it!
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u/oddmanout Jul 15 '25
Brilliant, couldnt even be bothered to repurpose it for our own citizens
The problem is that they fired all the logistics people. They couldn't repurpose it even if they wanted to because there's no one in the warehouses that can even get it to people. So they saved a couple hundred K to waste millions of dollars. We have a bunch of stable geniuses in charge.
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u/hillbillyspellingbee America Jul 15 '25
“Throw the Epstein files in there too while you’re at it.”
-Donald J Trump
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u/HandsLikePaper Jul 15 '25
"But keep the plane, we'd be idiots not to keep that."
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u/deviantscale Jul 15 '25
Oh, you mean the Lolita Express, Boeing 727, owned by convicted rapist Jeff Epstein, and borrowed frequently to ferry underage girls to a rape island by convicted rapist and 34 times convicted felon Don Trump? That old chestnut? We're still talking about that???
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u/jazzhandler Colorado Jul 15 '25
You mean the plane last seen being used as a loaner for Trump on the campaign trail last year?
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u/TintedApostle Jul 15 '25
and we as tax payer paid for that food. Its just being wasted.
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u/exophrine Texas Jul 15 '25
Waste and abuse by fraudsters.
The call came from inside the (White) House
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u/Nice-Lakes Jul 15 '25
Just thinking out loud here, Steven Miller?
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u/HeartandSeoulXVI Jul 15 '25
More likely an unintended side effect of the 'Doge' business. The way budgets for large aid organisations like this work is that they are commonly very 'front-loaded', with much of the 'resource purchasing' done early in the year (not all that different from any large org really).
Food that can be purchased in bulk and then shipped piecemeal as needed is cheaper and more efficient than keeping your budget intact and buying smaller amounts of food for more money in response to specific initiatives or disasters.
It all makes sense if you're not a fucking moron, but DOGE apparently doesn't have anyone with that particular skillset on hand...
So when USAID's budget got 'cancelled', they didn't bother to point out that much of it had already been spent, preferring to pretend they got the whole budget back for photo-op purposes...
Thing is, that stuff has been bought and paid for, and no matter what they want to do with it, they would need to spend money to do it.
Which they've just taken away.
It literally costs them more money to give the food away rather than burn it.
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u/smoochface Jul 15 '25
I was reading into some of these USAID programs... before this I hadn't ever really dived into this stuff.
The ones that jumped out at me were these school lunch programs for kids in areas all around the world currently experiencing instability due to war or climate. So these are kids in a famine-stricken or war-torn country trying to get an education, and WE, you and me are fucking tossing these kids a god damn 500 calorie lunch for... get this.. 50 fucking cents.
AT SCALE THESE GUYS CAN DELIVER 500 CALORIE LUNCHES FOR 50 CENTS. I mean, I generally am not the uber patriotic type, but holy shit is that awesome.
Fucking Elon and Dodge decide that $0.50 for a lunch for a kid in need is waste. Like what the absolute shit. And while backing out of that "waste" they are so god damn incompetent they literally waste 500 tons of food.
Unbelievable.
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u/Nodaker1 Jul 15 '25
I hope hell exists so Trump and all his supporters can burn for eternity for their crimes against humanity.
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u/Foffern Jul 15 '25
I only really hate one human being on the planet. Hate is not a word I use for people generelly. I dislike people. I don't feel a connection with certain people. But hate. I only hate Donald Trump. I hate him with every fiber of my body. I really don't see him as human anymore. He's just this evil entity.
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u/Tompthwy America Jul 15 '25
Trump deserves your hate but you should also hate all the people who lifted him up. From his enablers in congress all the way down to the 30-40% of your neighbors who put him there.
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u/Chief_Mischief Jul 15 '25
Extend that to the people who manipulate the fool into doing their bidding. Miller deserves all the misery and suffering possible and arguably doesn't lift Trump up - Trump lifts his Nazi ass up. So does Paul Dans, one of the architects of Project 2025. So does Putin and Netanyahu.
Trump is a grotesque repulsive human being, but he is also a moronic spineless puppet, and people shouldn't lose sight of the puppet masters behind the scenes.
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u/kingtz America Jul 15 '25
Exactly. Trump in a vacuum would just be an angry senile old man yelling at the passing cars.
The blame rests on our family members and neighbors who gleefully voted for all of this. Don’t buy any excuses about not knowing it would be like this. No, Trump told them exactly what he would do and they cheered and jeered at his rallies and cast their votes. They flew Trump banners and flags and wore his merchandise. They celebrated when he won.
They are to blame. I can’t even pretend to be civil to these people anymore.
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u/donkeyrocket Jul 15 '25
Also all that he’s surrounded by. Trump’s name is stamped on all of this but these absolutely are decisions made by that whole inner circle or cretins. This isn’t to absolve Trump of being a dried skid mark just that there’s a lot of evil up top at the moment.
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u/LordSiravant Jul 15 '25
There's a lot of people equally worthy of your hate. Trump is not an anomaly.
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 Jul 15 '25
Mitch McTurtle and all these MAGA freak legislators deserve no less. Too bad the only people who believe in those fairytales are the same people who voted the freaks into office. These lawmaker are all monsters who deserve hefty sentences for their inhumanity.
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u/Sniperoso Alabama Jul 15 '25
Call me worldly, but sometimes I wish horrible people would get punished in this life rather than only the next. C'est la vie...
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u/craniumcanyon Jul 15 '25
Despite repeated assurances from the administration not to eliminate food aid, U.S. warehouses around the world currently house 60,000 tons of food, including peas and cereal originally bound for famine-stricken Sudan, which the administration is now unable to deliver even if it wanted to after gutting USAID and firing logistical experts. According to The Atlantic, the amount of food set to be incinerated tomorrow would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza.
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u/BurnedWitch88 Jul 15 '25
Are we great now? Is this what being the "hottest" country feels like?
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u/a_wild_dingo Jul 15 '25
This makes me fucking sick with anger. I'm tired of feeling so fucking helpless while this piece of shit and his followers are actively ruining people's lives and preventing aid to those who need it. I've never hated like this before.
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u/craniumcanyon Jul 15 '25
I'm upset that it can all be done with a president change. Decades of progress undone with the stroke of a pen, all because they want tax cuts.
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u/Polantaris Jul 15 '25
It's not being done with just a President change. The Senate and House have abdicated their duty to hold him accountable and stop him, and instead bend over backwards to make sure they give him everything he wants. The SCOTUS has abdicated their duty to represent the written rule of law and instead bend into a pretzel (to the point of quoting rules about the Monarchy from 1600's England because nothing in this country's law exists to base on) to facilitate his bullshit.
This is a team effort. Literal axis of evil.
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u/_CallMeB_ Illinois Jul 15 '25
This is fucking sick. And I don’t know what to do with all of the anger I have behind these insanely cruel actions. Cruel for sport. There are no words.
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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania Jul 15 '25
According to The Atlantic, the amount of food set to be incinerated tomorrow would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza
How about the ones starving in the US? US won't even give it up to it's own citizens despite us all paying for it with our tax dollars.
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u/craniumcanyon Jul 15 '25
Because that's socialism, we can't have that in MAGA-land, here we feed ourself with freedom and Jesus.
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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania Jul 15 '25
The irony of MAGA hating socialism, but the first week after the Trump election the news had to already quell rumors of more stimulus checks, when those vanished they then got hooked onto the idea of DOGE checks.
They are pro-socialism at the end of the day, very pro-socialist as a matter of fact. It's just they have been sold on the lie that all their lives the reason they don't have things like UBC or socialism that benefits them, is that all the immigrants and non-whites are the biggest receivers of government benefits, so that means to them that either
A. The socialism they are getting could be more if the government was not paying for the ones they don't like
B. They think the reason they don't get a check is due to all the ones they think should not get it.
These are literal statements I have heard from people over my years being alive and living in poor areas. For current reference SSI disability in 2025 is $948 a month. There is a common misconception from many the reason the pay is shit is that the government has to split all those payments across the nation. So they think less people on it, the more money the government has they can give out.
Some of them cheer on the mass deportation, because they really think that the Trump admin will take care of them once they deported all the ones they don't like. Never mind the fact that everything else they are shutting down proves they are not working for the common man and are ensuring it's even harder to get government assistance.
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u/jcpopm Jul 15 '25
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate — died of malnutrition — because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”
-The Grapes of Wrath
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u/Pm_me_some_dessert Jul 15 '25
The fact that multiple lengthy quotes from that book can apply here…I hate it. Thank you.
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u/Mtn-Dooku Jul 15 '25
How could any human being look at Trump and think that he's a good person? This is comic book villain level bad. And the article says "well, they couldn't deliver the food even if they wanted to". Yes. Yes they could. There are dozens of charities that would happily move this food to people in need. All they would have to do is look.
I'm sure this story won't even be posted on the Conservative sub. Anything that makes Daddy Trump look bad is ignored and they STILL have a fixation on Biden and Obama over there.
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u/Awwfull Jul 15 '25
The answer is, on any day, when you read something about this administration that makes you angry, go try to find that story on the Fox News website. You simply won’t. It’s nothing but glazing his admin and culture war bullshit. Half this country doesn’t get real news.
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u/tamanato Jul 15 '25
You must understand his supporters hate these starving children. They label them as terrorists and believe they need to die. This is a massive win in their books. Cruelty is the point.
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u/SillyGoatGruff Jul 15 '25
It's not even particularly perishable food...
There is no conceivable reason to do this other than as a fuck you to everyone with a conscience
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Causing pollution - disastrous Wasting money - awful Making children needlessly suffer - priceless
this is all so on brand for this awful creature.
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u/tracyinge Jul 15 '25
Looking for horrible things to do that will take the focus off the Epstein files.
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u/BriefCollar4 Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed
As if anyone needed a reminder or evidence that the Trump administration is evil.
Dollar store villains.
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u/History_buff60 Jul 15 '25
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath
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and who benefits?
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u/__-gloomy-__ America Jul 15 '25
Whoever provides the next emergency food reserves meant for children.
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u/RandalFlagg19 Jul 15 '25
Republicans would rather rape children than feed them.
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u/The_Beardly America Jul 15 '25
Something something… Christian values… something… Matthew 25:35, Luke 3:11
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u/HumanRuse Jul 15 '25
enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week
Republicans are worthless and stand for nothing.
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u/housecatapocalypse Jul 15 '25
This is exactly who republicans are. Ghoulish monsters, nothing less.
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u/DoctorFrosty6219 Jul 15 '25
I feel bad for upvoting this post, but this needs to be seen. The man is an abomination. His administration are followers of satan. We’re experiencing the end of the world people.
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u/BonyBobCliff Jul 15 '25
When I heard this on the Stephanie Miller Show, I literally said "What the fuck?" We're likely going to have a food shortage because of less people picking crops, and this admin goes and burns food? Could this timeline be any dumber and more cruel?
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u/80sLegoDystopia Jul 15 '25
This regime has got to go. We don’t have the luxury of waiting till the next election.
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u/un_gaucho_loco Jul 15 '25
Dude is going to run naked around Washington DC in order to keep people’s attention off Epstein
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u/Sdosullivan Jul 15 '25
This is a crime against humanity in today’s world of shrinking food resources.
Fuck him and those like him.
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u/PVPicker Jul 15 '25
Could at least offer it for free to nonprofits. Zero cost disposal that way. I'm sure plenty of foodbanks and churches would be willing to take it in.
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u/DontListenToMyself Jul 15 '25
I bet many would be willing to come get it for free for distribution.
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u/PVPicker Jul 15 '25
For sure. A lot of them have the logistics and capability to send boxtrucks and forklifts to come and pick it up for free. Literally just open the warehouse doors, let them come and take it. Whereas burning 500 tons of stuff is going to cost money.
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u/DontListenToMyself Jul 15 '25
The cruelty is the point. Party of family values my fucking ass. This could easily be sent to schools and homeless shelters.
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u/Purple-Slide-5559 Jul 15 '25
But then the poors wouldn't die of starvation, which is the whole point afterall.
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u/BurnedWitch88 Jul 15 '25
The flaw in your plan is that it would require this administration giving a shit about, well, anyone. Which they do not.
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u/tekani11 Minnesota Jul 15 '25
I think the real question here though is why haven't we released the original version of the Epstein files
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u/donttakerhisthewrong Jul 15 '25
Hungry children are easier to molest. That is why republicans like this
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u/Average_Random_Bitch Jul 15 '25
This actually made me tear up. I'm struggling to feed my two, literally sitting here after contacting food pantries all morning, just trying to taking a break from the stress of everything and maybe make this knot of anxiety that is eating my insides alive go away for 5 mins. And I read that.
God, the words aren't there to express my rage and frustration. And just how much I hate these motherfuckers.
Meanwhile, they're gold plating everything that doesn't move fast enough.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 Jul 15 '25
Bro don’t read the news right now. It is not good for your mental health considering your situation.
And even tho words are meaningless, I will still hope you get the help you need for your kiddies
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u/RudyTootyRaw Jul 15 '25
Making America Healthy Again....by forcing hungry and poor children to start dieting from a young age
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u/agloriousabomination Jul 15 '25
Trump Admin Demands Tripling of Number of Kittens Fed to Pneumatic Kitten-Smashing Machine
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u/KilroyLeges Jul 15 '25
This is pure evil. Anyone who accepts letting children starve is a monster. The government could make sure this food gets delivered to its originally intended destinations. It could divert it to Gaza. (The American security mercenaries and IDF would need to stop shooting people coming to get food aid, but still.) They could even - hear me out - go "America First" and bring it back to the US to distribute to food pantries, school meal programs, or the like.
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u/runnerdan Jul 15 '25
Wow! That's enough food for a week for over a million kids. Doesn't seem very pro-life to me.
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u/DingerSinger2016 Jul 15 '25
There's a certain point when, if you ask your boss what to do with extra food meant for starving people and they utter the words "incinerate it," you have a moral obligation to quit.
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u/LordSiravant Jul 15 '25
Republicans hate the very idea of helping the poor and needy, because they believe the downtrodden deserve to be trodden upon. They're rich and you're not, therefore they're better than you and deserve everything while you deserve nothing. It's nothing but pure, selfish, narcissistic evil, the kind you would find in two-dimensional fictional villains like dark lords, evil kings, and other malevolent nobles and elites. "I have everything and you have nothing!" Peter Griffin laughs in a cutaway gag about gladiatorial mice, but that succinctly sums up their malevolent pride at being the haves lording over the have-nots with sadistic impunity.
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u/nurseferatou Jul 15 '25
From the generation that brought you “clean your plate, there’re starving children in Africa”
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u/throoawoot Jul 15 '25
All the noise about "fraud, waste, and abuse" was complete bullshit.
Like, why not just add this to FEMA's emergency stockpiles?
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u/Sideshow_Bob_Ross Jul 15 '25
"...but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency"
Holy evil oxymoron morons.
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u/Raiine42 Jul 15 '25
At a cost of $130M, in addition to the $800M already paid for the food.
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u/CardinalMcGee Jul 15 '25
There’s a special place in HELL for you lil ego. Karma’s a bitch
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u/Ok-Cold-3346 Jul 15 '25
So very Christian of him! All of the MAGAts who justified voting for “platform over person” are sick.
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u/SquidFistHK Jul 16 '25
The Trump administration has ordered 550 tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The “high-energy biscuits,” intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid.
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u/Eye_foran_Eye Jul 16 '25
He was never going to save us money but I had no idea at the shear stupid about of cash he’d burn. From this, gutting USAID (who bought tons of food from American Farmers), to billions not being paid by immigrants, millions not being pursued by IRS, tariffs, lost tourism bucks, the cost of DOGE from all the lawsuits, the cost of the lawsuits that will be filed from those wrongly incarcerate…. And that’s just off the top of my head.
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u/TheGrizzlyBen Jul 16 '25
Keep in mind, this is also food that has already been paid for with US tax dollars. Starve the children and burn the Americans money, then blame the previous administration. Logic? Or absolute madness.
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u/westgazer Maryland Jul 15 '25
Is this not the definition of waste
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u/TintedApostle Jul 15 '25
Well the tax payers already paid for it. He could provide meals to schools, unemployed, children needing it. The republicans are evil.
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u/westgazer Maryland Jul 15 '25
Right, exactly. So incinerating it it is a massive waste. From an admin that bitches and moans performatively about “waste.” Just shows it’s not really something they worry or care about.
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u/FlickleMuhPickle Jul 15 '25
Can't give the children too much food, lest they have the strength and energy to run away from Trump and his fellow pedophile rapists amongst the GOP and billionaire class.
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u/pentultimate Jul 15 '25
Sure, kidnap and send agricultural workers to concentration camps and then destroy perfectly good resources for those that need them the most. Trump is the real "Fraud, waste, and abuse".
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u/Ex-maven New York Jul 15 '25
The regime gutted the USAID staff and thus there's no one to distribute the food (so if someone claims the food was expired, that would not be true).
As an aside: I actually felt a bit of apprehension when I saw the word "incinerate" in the title and it was associated with the current regime
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u/WorkingRecording4863 Jul 15 '25
Trump is a transactional being. The only thing children provide to him is sexual pleasure, so he has little concern for doing anything else to help them if he's not inside them.
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u/pogishushu America Jul 15 '25
If you have never watched some of the horrid pictures/movies of world war II, then you should and see the children, (that would be you 18 to 40 year olds). Even Netflix has several series on it. Wake up young people. You are seeing Hitlerism advance all around you.
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