#social programs

A MAGA mom on SNAP is going viral after revealing her family refused to lend her just $50 for groceries and baby formula 😬📉

She explained online that she and her husband rely on food stamps, WIC, and veteran benefits while struggling to raise two young kids. But when they asked her mother-in-law for help, the response was brutally ironic: “We voted for this.” 🤷‍♂️🔥

And honestly… that one sentence perfectly sums up modern Republican politics. So many people voted for cuts, shutdowns, and attacks on social programs while depending on those exact same programs to survive.

The Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (CGEB) will replace the GST/HST credit beginning in July 2026. While the program will operate under a new name, eligibility rules, payment calculations and the overall structure will remain the same. The federal government says quarterly payment amounts will increase by 25 per cent for five years (2026 to 2031), providing additional support to Canadians with low and modest incomes. Before the new benefit begins, eligible Canadians will receive a one-time GST/HST credit top-up payment, starting June 5, 2026. The payment is intended to provide immediate financial support during the transition period.

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This ties in nicely with an old (ongoing) post/philosophy of mine that I have discussed here numerous times: “Means Testing is a conservative canard; a disingenuous red herring”:

Because you don't earn your money, some people look down on it. They say oh it's no wonder you're struggling, you bought that coffee, or you bought that plushie or that game. Oh you went on a vacation.

Worst of all, people assume all kinds of things. Like because you're trying to take care of yourself psychologically, you're using the system. Because again. You're getting what's known by some as a handout. Never mind that we're people with needs too. Never mind that. Because unless you use it for the basic stuff, then you're overspending or you're using the system.

Well I got something to say about it:

Fuck Off. Like, you've no idea what it's like to have to squander or save money because you can't work. You're not limited like I am. You don't understand the pain and suffering I go through on a daily basis. So fuck yeah, if I have extra money, I am going to spend it on things that I like so I can save myself from the insanity that is life and the suffering I am enduring.

We had applied for SNAP in the past and we were 'eligible' but for $0 🤪 yes it makes no sense.

I was never a CoD girlie; I played MW during COVID with my husband and a couple other friends but other than that I have zero idea what is going on with it. But black ops 7's review section on steam is mostly negative with comment after comment of the game being "generic AI slop with a $70 price tag" and I cannot help but laugh.

The more they try shoving AI into everything the more it backfires. Wall Street and all these fat cat rich companies have poured millions into AI projects and now there's talk of there being an AI bubble soon to burst and their investments may all go belly up because, surprise, the general public isn't as on board with it as they initially thought.

It's astounding how much of a different reality these companies live in, and when you realize the stock market is composed of the same like 15 companies just sucking one another off every day, like quite literally passing their stale seed-soaked saliva back and forth, it truly is an entirely different world they live in. One that no average person will ever touch, because they've made it that way.