r/politics • u/mvanigan • Jul 15 '25

Paywall Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Meant for Children

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/?via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb
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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/Ed_Trucks_Head Jul 16 '25

That will at least help inflation.

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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/a_weak_child Jul 15 '25

The worst part is the hypocrisy. 

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot Jul 15 '25

Pretty sure the worst part is the suffering and dying of children, but whatever.

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u/a_weak_child Jul 15 '25

You are absolutely correct. I was referencing an old Norm joke. 

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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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u/woogs Jul 16 '25

And who are we paying, and how much are we paying, to destroy and dispose of the food.

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u/versusgorilla New York Jul 16 '25

That was my point. They can find money to destroy food for children, but can't find any money to pay for food for children.