When they get the power to do it, Nazis don’t hesitate to terrorize and torture. It is essential to their power to keep people frightened and enraged. Their followers get a thrill out of watching weak people squirm and beg. Here in America, if there’s a law saying you can’t do some callous, evil thing, just point to Trump v. United States, which says, 6-3, if it’s a crime, but the president does it — relax! Alternatively, you can say what the notices firing federal workers, including top DOJ attorneys said in their entirety, “Article II”. This means, “suck it, I have the power, you don’t.”

Dan Rather reports on Project 2025’s plan to torture 45 million people with forced hunger (while killing hundreds of thousands in poor countries, so far, by defunding USAID) so that powerful pedophiles can remain protected and billionaires and their corporate alter-egos can attain permanent, unlimited power in our experiment in democracy:

Nearly 42 million Americans receive food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Originally called food stamps, it’s a program that’s been around for decades. I was covering the White House in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the measure into law as part of the War on Poverty.

Last week, the Department of Agriculture said it will withhold money earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during the shutdown, the first time emergency funds have not been released in such a case.

Even though the USDA is legally required to fund the program, the president is holding the money hostage. You are reading that correctly. He is withholding food assistance from some of the most vulnerable Americans, more than 16 million of whom are children, in a political ploy to push the Democrats to fold.

One of those Democrats, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, called him out. “This is perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars out the door to Argentina and into his ballroom,” she said.

Democratic Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow did not hold back when encouraging her fellow senators to vote to temporarily fund SNAP. “The Trump administration and the Republicans supporting him are using food as a political weapon. This is a choice… They are choosing to let children go hungry. We will not stand for that choice,” she said. . .

. . . What should not get lost in all the scare tactics and the political paralysis in Washington is that tens of millions of people go hungry every day in America, the richest country in the world. And that is before the shutdown and callous political maneuvering. The small help some of them get, an average of $190 a month, is being weaponized by a billionaire.

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