The SNAP folks spend their money on other things because they get Free Food.

Once that Free Food stops, then they gotta actually, you know, spend their cash more wisely instead of nails and eyebrows and eyelashes and fake hair extensions and stuff.

But as long as they are getting SNAP benefits then they can spend it on cheap “beauty stuff”. Or beer and smokes and drugs and such.

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/11/08/cnn-commentator-says-the-shutdown-is-having-a-huge-impact-on-eyebrow-technicians-n2421427

Tax money spent so wisely, ya know?

When you gotta spend your own money then you get smarter about how you spend it…..

Remember, without SNAP benefits,  People. Will. Starve.

That a tiny portion of the populace (and a bunch of illegals) getting Health Care subsidies wasn’t playing well now that people are starting to feel the pain of the government shutdown. Apparently the DNC types are are seeing their support start to erode.

Rumor has it that a deal has been reached for a years worth of funding.

The Iron Ore Freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm on this day in 1975. 50 years ago,

Gone from the surface literally between sweeps of the radar of the ship ahead of it, (the Arthur Anderson). She sank with all hands. 29 men lost their lives in that storm.

A P-3 Orion from the US Navy found 2 magnetic signatures in about 500 feet of water on Nov. 14 1975, and and in May of 1976 unmanned submersibles found both halves of the ship. She hand broken nearly perfectly in half.

If you haven’t heard Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” then you must have been hiding under a rock. The story isn’t strong on details, but it is a hell of a ballad.

even if many won’t admit it.

As a general  rule (there may be exceptions) the people who use food banks for their food are seldom the people who work at (generally volunteers) the Food Banks?

Jaquansha and her girlfriend To-nesha in the cities (or Jolene and Tyrone in the ‘burbs, or Janette and Billy in the Appalachians ) or any of the others who show up for the Free Food in their car each holding a $12 Starbucks and wearing $2,000 worth of gold jewelry around their necks (and in their ears) with their brand new fake eyelashes and new fake fingernails…. are NOT the people who are volunteering at the understaffed food banks.

Strange, that, innit?

and decide to allocate monies that congress has not.

The Trump administration got a (partial) victory Friday as the Supreme Court upheld its emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP payments amid the government shutdown.

It ain’t up to the courts (nor is is up to The President) to decide what monies are spent. That is the purview of our elected congressmen. If the funds aren’t allocated by Congress, then they simply aren’t there.

About time someone, even the Supremes, put SOME limits on these liberal lower court judges.

Any judge who makes such a ruling like these lower courts should be impeached as they demonstrate that they do not understand the limits imparted to the branches of government by the Constitution, nor the limits that same document places upon them personally. .

But very, very true.

Those who applaud the ICE conduct take note:

Via Midwest Chick:

“By then, the writing was on the wall, but management was illiterate and couldn’t read it”

So the ATC system,  always understaffed (at last report about 3 months ago they were down about 3500 controllers from “ideal” staffing levels) is  suddenly “understaffed” (to the point that they have to reduce the numbers of flights into certain airports).

As far as I can tell, the controllers are required by law to show up for work no matter the fact that they are not being paid..  And, apparently (some of) these controllers are not showing up for work…..but no action is being taken against them….why not?.

Yet somehow, there is (suddenly) an issue with “understaffing” that wasn’t an issue 2 months ago.

I think this is political theater to force a resolution of the budget issues.

I could be wrong.