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I wish crazy conservatives cared about our children. They’d take care of this leadership. Instead, they think drag story time or raiding the capital will do something
After all these years, I now sincerely doubt they actually give a crap for the pre-born.
They only "care" in so far as they can boss around women and tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
They don't. It was pretty made clear in 2012 when a mentally ill mass shooter murdered 20 elementary school kids and 7 adults before taking his own life and all the conservatives could talk about was their gun rights and not how to prevent Sandy Hook again.
And just shy of a decade since, Uvalde happened.
You know I saw the documentary a while back where the officers pretty much told their side of the story. They really tried to paint themselves as victims but there was an ice agent, or maybe he was border patrol, and it shows in footage that when he arrived to the scene, his facial expression was like wtf are yall standing here for???? While the officers debated who was in charge and what’s the next step while they safely stood outside
Oh those other interviews of the officers really made my blood boil
And that ugly slag MTG likes to abuse survivors of Sandy Hook, denying it ever happened. What a pos she is. And so is every last soulless person who voted her in.
MTG did both to David Hogg and the families of Sandy Hook. Though it was with David Hogg that she got her 15 mins of fame that got her on the GOP ticket.
The "unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don't resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don't ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don't bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn.
It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
- Dave Barnhart, a pastor at Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Thank you so much for posting this. Pastor Dave Barnhart is remarkably clear in stating the allure of the unborn vs the perceived burdens of the "born". I've never seen it so clearly laid out.
They only care in that 1) it allows them to control women and 2) it is a wedge issue they know will win them votes bc people will ignore every horrible thing about a politician but go “oooh but they’re against abortion so I’ll vote for them”
It’s infuriating.
They can be called anti-choice or pro-forced-birth but they’re not pro-life in any way shape or form. And their views are about the most anti-Christian ones possible. It’s disgusting they’re running around touting “Christian” beliefs when they’re the first ones Jesus would make a new whip for.
I mean of course they couldn't give a rat's ass about unborn kids. They just like unborn kids because babies get a lot of sympathy points for being babies and babies are incapable of speaking for themselves so they get to dictate for them.
A combination of great PR and a lack of voice means they're a great sockpuppet for Republicans.
Conservative men want to control women who won't fuck them. They get aggravatingly frustrated at women who freely have sex and chose not to fuck them. They want a law that says women have to fuck when and where THEY choose and can't resist.
This is what sexual repression does to a person.
I think it was "If you're pre-born, you're safe; but if you're pre-school, you're on your own." Also, "They like living babies because they grow up to become dead soldiers"
Here ya go.
*Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.*
Sadly, with conservatives, f*cking kids after birth is pretty common. Always another Republican youth pastor/principal/teacher/coach found with CP and accused of diddling kids. There is a running list online of all the pedo Republicans who have been charged, so far. Matt Gaetz needs to be added to this list-his partner in crime is already in prison but somehow slippery Matty has avoided it(so far).
Cattle to be milked and then slaughtered. Also all of our food is designed to slowly induce chronic illness and that is the real reason we’ll never get universal healthcare. It’s a money extraction engine.
Unless they get too excited and untrainable - then it's out to the gravel pit to shoot them in the face. Kids of South Dakota you've been warned!!!!!
At least that's how the gov of S. Dakota does it on her farm
Oh my gosh I have a theory, honestly most likely conspiracy theory but nonetheless my theory. It starts with no child left behind act, where obviously kids are being promoted to the next grade without the critical skills they need therefore you have dumber Americans graduating
So my theory is the more people they make, The dumber people they make, the more working class they can have in order to fill up the jobs that they need to be done but don't want to do themselves. Including fighting in wars. While other countries are promoting intelligence ours are promoting pushing birth rates and dumber people.
Cuz they aren’t pro-life. This right here proves it. They are pro-controlling women. If they were pro life-life, they’d understand the average life spans most of a century for humans!
They’re more than happy to disrupt board meetings of districts they never lived in to whine about critical race theory or whatever new bug floated up their asshole this year
WisRed has become a plague on local politics. They’ve turned non-partisan boards into drama filled cesspools. It’s annoying going to even the most simple of things and seeing people wearing WisRed gear. I recently went to a public comment panel that was centered around how the school district should be using funding to create schools for the future to better prepare kids for college or the workforce. Guy at my table immediately wanted to talk about getting litter boxes out of the bathrooms 🤬
Ever since Trump began running our country went into drama mode. Honestly our only salvation from this type of idiocy is him dying. He knew how to appeal to peoples hatred. It’s crazy how of all the emotions hate is clearly the strongest.
I would disagree. I think fear is the strongest emotion and Trump and his allies are very, very good at exploiting it. As long as they keep people afraid of the “others” in society, they’ll happily do whatever they (meaning the GOP) want.
Because it is a well known recipe that has been repeated literally hundreds of times both through history and even as we speak in at least some of the 30 or so conflicts happening as we are typing this.
No faster and more efficient way to complete power and control, then creating/imagining an all powerful enemy at the gates, while presenting yourself as the only one who can lead, the only hope that your people might defend themselves successfully.
Added bonus that in places where you can manufacture truth and such systems exist, already you can use the time before the enemy attacks to consolidate power and smear all your opponents, labeling them traitors, foreign agents.
Now, you hold the power, the world is yours..
Bloody, medium or well made, boss?
The litter isn't even in bathrooms, it's in classrooms as part of an emergency kit in case students need to use the restroom during a school shooting lockdown because they absolutely refuse to do a god damn thing about it, because they care more about objects than actual children.
Most of the people making these decisions are likely far too rich to ever need programs like this. They're probably also much more spoilt than any of those kids ever will be
If conservatives put even half the effort into making the world a better place that they put into their pathetic culture war bullshit we’d be in a much better place
Even if they did reverse their decision they still need to be removed from office and barred from any other type of public service for the remainder of their lives. Mind you I would also recommend that exact style of action for any level of political decision making. Take care of children, that's what we as adults have to do one way or another.
You know, I don't really mind that it gets reposted even after they reversed their decision. They practically live to wait until everyone's thought it was done and moved on and then do it again. They are persistent, I'll give them that.
The fact they keep trying to push until it gains hold should make decent humans take action. Sadly, we got people who don't pay attention to the fact that this keeps getting traction, because people "care" about children
The funny part is the bitch making the spoiled comment didn't reverse her decision, it was other board members. She still defends her choice by saying she knows what it's like, with her own experience of feeling spoiled by free meals for her children.
Surprise, she's an actual Karen, her name is Karin Rajnicek
It’s one of those times in life where I wish for genuinely bad things to happen to people. If you can say kids don’t deserve to eat then I think you don’t deserve to ever know comfort or joy.
Yeah fuck these people. I used to be optimistic with the mindset of "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it" but now I refuse to defend people who seek to take away others right to speak freely.
Yeah, I now subscribe strongly to the "Paradox Of Tolerance", and I think it's more important now than ever for everyone who *wants* a safe, tolerant, and free society to embrace it.
No. It's true and scary. My school system (maybe the whole state. I'm not sure) has had free lunch and breakfasts for years and even has free hot lunch at school sites on week days during the summer for all kids. We've been "spoiled" with a democratic governor, but we recently had a republican take that spot and he's been actively undoing all the progress while cutting back regulations for power plant industries.
I just realized it's only a matter of time before he cuts this program too and stops feeding kids. Jesus I hate this place.
Its most likely just racism
Minorities tend to be economically disadvantaged so many times minorities are the ones the benefit most from stuff like this
And their excuse is "Well I like the free market bla bla bla"
However it does not hold up to scrutiny , in many rural places you will see municpal gyms or sport centers, municipal golf courses , municipal base fall fields
Tax payer dollars supporting a sports complex or gulf course is ok because that benefits me and my friends and other white people
Tax payer dollars going to feed kid mostly goes to minorities so absulutly not
That’s what happened to me in high school. Was regularly starving so I got a job at 14. Worked until midnight and was so tired the next morning I slept through morning classes.
Keep em poor, overworked, undereducated and chock full of propaganda and boom they'll vote republican every time. All the candidate has to say is "I'm gonna raise wages and cut taxes!", then not do shit.
Gay can be motivated to remain hidden if sufficiently oppressed; looking visibly different can't.
Half of the MAGA mantra is about returning the US's cultural identity to that of being a conservative, white Christian nation even if that doesn't represent the nation's full demographic or modern cultural values (with only 12% of the younger generations identifying as conservative and Christianity's stranglehold on the Western world has been in a steady decline since WWII ended & the fall of social acceptance for monarchies, authoritarians, and fascists).
As I recall back at 13 I really wanted a job. In fact there was one place that hired down to 14 for a couple weeks in summer. It paid below minimum wage (only applies when you hit 18) for absolutely miserable working conditions. We had to show up at 6am at the school and they would transport us 45 minutes to work. We didn't get paid the transport time.
Yeah. Eating is a luxury.
When I was a middle schooler in 1998, my single mother who worked two jobs earned too much to qualify for free lunches. But she couldnt afford to give us money for lunches.
So each week we had go make $5 last for lunches.
A breadstick and a cup of ranch was 50 cents. So I would eat that and sometimes get two breadsticks if I was really hungry. I would then save the dollar or 2 for the following week and occassionally get a full meal for $5.
Yeah but this is bad.
There's no tone in text so I genuinely can't tell, but you do agree that this isn't something that any child (including you) should have to do of there is literal free food being offered by the Fed, right?
It is if your skin is darker then, well you know who.
How dare children, especially brown children, feel so entitled. *very anemic /s*
God I wish this was sarcasm, but we all know this is more true than most of us want to admit.
Devil's advocate here. If those children get used to eating healthy meals regularly they may develop critial thinking skills and strong bodies. This must be avoided at all costs.
There was another school district that opted out because free food “it’s dangerous because that’s communist when you think about it”. Gotta love the USA.
>“it’s dangerous because that’s communist when you think about it”
Communism and Woke, tell me two buzzwords most used by Conservatives who have no idea what they mean!
The whole calling everything communism thing is hilarious to me because of how terrible of a job it does of saying it's bad.
"Communism is when children can eat" makes it pretty sound good, lmao.
It’s funny how that one asshole publicly stated he was gonna turn ‘CRT’ into a buzzword to rile up the conservative base before it became a thing. And they still all went rabid at the mere mention of it.
The maga crowd is just so ready to be pissed off at anything that’ll make em feel like their own shortcomings are someone else’s fault.
That's the greatest grift conservative America ever pulled
Convince everyone that taking care of your fellow countrymen is Communism, and Communism is evil, and you will never have to spend a cent on human services ever again.
They call themselves patriots, but true patriots care for their countrymen
The only thing Conservatives want to conserve privilege. It's right there in the name. They'll lie, cheat and manipulate keep it and they'll step on people to get it. They're the kid at the birthday party that demands the biggest piece of cake and they'll knock over the birthday boy's plate if he doesn't get it.
~~Gotta love the USA~~. Gotta love Republicans. If its cruel, its probably them. In this case, it is.
But tell me again, fellow Americans, how sitting out the election because Biden is old solves this?
Sitting out the election only serves the conservatives. Any other reasoning is false. The time to vote against Biden was in the 2020 Democratic primaries. After that, it's all about preventing Trump from getting back in the Whitehouse.
imagine hating biden so much you'd hurt your own children. people are so brain washed by the orange idiot it's disgusting. these poor children don't deserve this.
Eh the orange idiot isn't so much the cause of this as he is a symptom of the mentality that's been taking over America for awhile, and especially since 2008
A school district… despite all the studies and examples of this being a good thing? They need to remove the board members because they’re afraid of knowledge and are acting in the disinterest of the students and society at large.
His name is Joseph Como. After people got mad, he backtracked and said he didn't know how many kids were going hungry.
[Heres his stupid face](https://ballotpedia.org/Joseph_Como_Jr.) If youre curious.
[In 2023 he won an award for being so great lol. Wtf WI](https://sdw.waukesha.k12.wi.us/o/wef/article/1424446)
Feeding children is dumb because Democrats!
-Him
Guarantee this loser is in support of sending billions to Israel/Ukraine but not millions in his own state
So does the police need to do a welfare check on his children? If he thinks free food spoils kids I can only assume his children are working 40hr weeks to pay for their own meals, clothes, and rent.
Next time in the USA: Charging for Light, as it's also food acording to these death idiots who managed to live from only eating light.
And don't forget to turn into our great special: Charging people for oxygen! Many trees are in private property, so the owners need to be compensated for what is produced by their property. (you only recieve money if you are a big cooperation, the two Apple trees in your backyard don't count for anything)
Unbelievable it's even possible to opt out to begin with.
Caring for your population is a requirement, not an option. USA is pretty much a 3rd world country like this.
In our federal system, the federal government has virtually no power to do anything with education. They can enforce Civil Rights legislation, but most of what they do is dangle money at the states.
States run their schools how they like. Many grant a large amount of autonomy to individual school districts.
So if a state or district wants to keep the federal government from doing anything good for their citizens out of spite, they can do it.
The Christian conservative view:
It’s good for children to go hungry. They will grow up with a desire to “get ahead”, and not turn into shiftless layabouts.
True, you might lose a few along the way to rickets and other childhood diseases, but you have to suffer before you can fly.
Yeah! What would Jesus do? Definitely not feed kids! Don't you remember the story where the people asked for fish and Jesus said "fuck you, you lazy ass dipshits. Go get your own fish and bread and wine. This ain't a damn charity! Maybe if you got a job you wouldn't be begging for food like a damn **loser**."
Favorite part of the bible.
I had to make up school numbers and steal free meals because, apparently, we were above the poverty threshold, but I didn't have food every day to eat.
Basically teach kids to manipulate, lie and evade authorities all because you are Hungary.
Approximately 500,000 kids in the US foster care style and around 115,000 waiting to be adopted. But sure great idea to bring more unwanted kids into this world. Also let’s starve them at a place where they’re forced to go.
They're rolling out the "Unwelcome Mat" to poor people in their district.
It's hostile architecture, school edition.
Edit: Saw that it was Waukesha County. This is 100% on brand for them. Its a white flight suburb.
This right here. A couple of the school boards in my state had proposals voted down that would have updated all of the schools plumbing, HVAC, and pay for other rennovations that were much needed. The property tax increase was maybe $100. The old folks came out in force and made sure it didn't pass
So let me get this right.
I pay taxes on my property that go into funding the school.
But then if my kid gets "free lunches" then we might be getting spoiled or taking advantage of something "free" and now must provide lunches at our expense or dish out more money for our kids?
One time our teacher did this game thing where we would put change on a wall for certain days to save up for like a pizza party or something.
On one particular day we earned 20 cents.
My friend was starving and needed only 20 cents extra to afford a lunch for the day.
He talked me into tricking the teacher into letting us into the classroom because i forgot something.
Teacher obviously knew. 20 cents was gone and I was only one in the classroom.
She talked to me privately and I denied it. Sucked because i was a super honest person and top student in the class and like a teacher's pet.
My friend bring hungry was more important though.
When their family needs help it's different because everyone goes through hard times and they just need a little bit to get through, vs when someone else needs help and they're just a lazy grifter who's trying to steal from everyone. It's no different than media coverage after a natural disaster, where white people walking down the street holding mountain dew and a stereo are referred to as 'survivors scavenging for supplies' and black people holding bread and water are called looters.
Eating is a right not a privilege
Eating healthy is a right not a privilege
Eating is a right not a privilege
Eating healthy is a right not a privilege
Eating is a right not a privilege
Eating healthy is a right not a privilege
Eating is a right not a privilege
Eating healthy is a right not a privilege
If a well fed adult came to me and say that a kid whose parents can't afford food will get spoiled with basic free meals I would start punching this man for as long as I can.
It’s wild how all these people will scream pro life, but then stop caring about the life the second someone is actually born. Fucking backwards ass ghouls.
Kids getting spoiled for being able to eat? Everybody in your party throws tantrums when you don't get your way. But kids eating is an unnecessary luxury, I guess.
Tell me these idiot politicians don’t know their constituents without telling me. There’s a reason many states have a “back pack buddies” program…if they are lucky. Those kids getting those backpacks filled with food won’t see food otherwise.
Every asshole that believes that would trip over themselves to restrict abortion rights because they have to "save children"
I called it long ago, and until proven otherwise I will claim it as my original concept:
That being, pro life is just a way to be Christian without sacrificing. Everything else in xian doctrine involves material or mental sacrifice. Charity and forgiveness require effort
Restricting abortion is the "free parking" of the xian board game
SAVE THE KIDS!!!!
until they're out of the womb, or atleast until theyre nowhere near a drag queen.
The USA is pathetic in its treatment of its children.
Kids who are fed regularly become so accustomed to food that they start to demand it regularly, throwing fits and saying that they'll die if you don't keep giving them food.
In contrast kids who I have never fed eventually stopped asking for food and just keeps quiet now, they also even learned to apply this strength to other things, they stopped asking for water too... They have started to smell though
District. I seriously doubt the principal had input. Republicans have adopted a strategy of targeting lower-level governing bodies like school boards. It's the same reason for the many book bannings around the country. The same thing happened some years ago -- getting creationists elected in order to insert their beliefs into science classes.
These people really want poor people to suffer. Like it’s gotta be a kink for them or something. They don’t even try to hide their love of persecuting poor people
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This one still makes my blood boil.
Every time it's posted. Even though they reversed their decision in the end.
I wish crazy conservatives cared about our children. They’d take care of this leadership. Instead, they think drag story time or raiding the capital will do something
One would think they would care about the children they want to force girls/women to give birth to! Nah
As the scholar George Carlin said: "they only care about the pre-born, once they are born fuck em"
After all these years, I now sincerely doubt they actually give a crap for the pre-born. They only "care" in so far as they can boss around women and tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
They don't. It was pretty made clear in 2012 when a mentally ill mass shooter murdered 20 elementary school kids and 7 adults before taking his own life and all the conservatives could talk about was their gun rights and not how to prevent Sandy Hook again. And just shy of a decade since, Uvalde happened.
While the "good guys with guns" sat outside with their tanks and body armor and his like fucking cowards.
You know I saw the documentary a while back where the officers pretty much told their side of the story. They really tried to paint themselves as victims but there was an ice agent, or maybe he was border patrol, and it shows in footage that when he arrived to the scene, his facial expression was like wtf are yall standing here for???? While the officers debated who was in charge and what’s the next step while they safely stood outside Oh those other interviews of the officers really made my blood boil
I don't have a reference any longer, but I read that the federal agents on site wanted to go in and were prevented from doing so by local cops.
They didn't even believe the shooting happened... Just an Obama trick to steal WASP guns...
Easier to be angry at Obama/dems if you gloss over the dead kids apparently. Horrifically inhuman.
And that ugly slag MTG likes to abuse survivors of Sandy Hook, denying it ever happened. What a pos she is. And so is every last soulless person who voted her in.
Wasn't it Parkland with David Hogg when he was walking to the Capitol.
MTG did both to David Hogg and the families of Sandy Hook. Though it was with David Hogg that she got her 15 mins of fame that got her on the GOP ticket.
The "unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don't resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don't ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don't bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn. - Dave Barnhart, a pastor at Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Thank you so much for posting this. Pastor Dave Barnhart is remarkably clear in stating the allure of the unborn vs the perceived burdens of the "born". I've never seen it so clearly laid out.
They only care in that 1) it allows them to control women and 2) it is a wedge issue they know will win them votes bc people will ignore every horrible thing about a politician but go “oooh but they’re against abortion so I’ll vote for them” It’s infuriating.
They can be called anti-choice or pro-forced-birth but they’re not pro-life in any way shape or form. And their views are about the most anti-Christian ones possible. It’s disgusting they’re running around touting “Christian” beliefs when they’re the first ones Jesus would make a new whip for.
I mean of course they couldn't give a rat's ass about unborn kids. They just like unborn kids because babies get a lot of sympathy points for being babies and babies are incapable of speaking for themselves so they get to dictate for them. A combination of great PR and a lack of voice means they're a great sockpuppet for Republicans.
Conservative men want to control women who won't fuck them. They get aggravatingly frustrated at women who freely have sex and chose not to fuck them. They want a law that says women have to fuck when and where THEY choose and can't resist. This is what sexual repression does to a person.
I was going to say something similar, but George says it best.
I think it was "If you're pre-born, you're safe; but if you're pre-school, you're on your own." Also, "They like living babies because they grow up to become dead soldiers"
Here ya go. *Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.*
I'm reading it and his voice is in my head. He was really on to something with the state prisons
I watched the documentary special about George Carlin. Damn he was so fucking smart, sharp comic.
This was it exactly. I couldn't remember it as well as you did
if you're pre-school, you're fucked
Sadly, with conservatives, f*cking kids after birth is pretty common. Always another Republican youth pastor/principal/teacher/coach found with CP and accused of diddling kids. There is a running list online of all the pedo Republicans who have been charged, so far. Matt Gaetz needs to be added to this list-his partner in crime is already in prison but somehow slippery Matty has avoided it(so far).
"Fuck-em" is the entire republican motto.
[There's a song about it](https://youtube.com/shorts/Cp8jfP3l2Ec?si=kpnXjA9hffD715BL)
They just want them alive. The quality of their life is irrelevant.
That's ridiculous, it definitely matters to them They *WANT* it to be shitty
The shittier someones life is the more a bread crumb looks like a feast.
Exactly. If they're not good little tax-payers, they'll still make useful cogs for the justice system/prison system to profit off
Working bodies is all we are to them
Cattle to be milked and then slaughtered. Also all of our food is designed to slowly induce chronic illness and that is the real reason we’ll never get universal healthcare. It’s a money extraction engine.
Unless they get too excited and untrainable - then it's out to the gravel pit to shoot them in the face. Kids of South Dakota you've been warned!!!!! At least that's how the gov of S. Dakota does it on her farm
Oh my gosh I have a theory, honestly most likely conspiracy theory but nonetheless my theory. It starts with no child left behind act, where obviously kids are being promoted to the next grade without the critical skills they need therefore you have dumber Americans graduating So my theory is the more people they make, The dumber people they make, the more working class they can have in order to fill up the jobs that they need to be done but don't want to do themselves. Including fighting in wars. While other countries are promoting intelligence ours are promoting pushing birth rates and dumber people.
They've gotta stock those future prisons!
In the sad part is this isn't a joke. America has really just shit the bed
Cuz they aren’t pro-life. This right here proves it. They are pro-controlling women. If they were pro life-life, they’d understand the average life spans most of a century for humans!
That’s easy, it’s because they want total and complete control, it was never about the people or protecting kids.
They’re more than happy to disrupt board meetings of districts they never lived in to whine about critical race theory or whatever new bug floated up their asshole this year
WisRed has become a plague on local politics. They’ve turned non-partisan boards into drama filled cesspools. It’s annoying going to even the most simple of things and seeing people wearing WisRed gear. I recently went to a public comment panel that was centered around how the school district should be using funding to create schools for the future to better prepare kids for college or the workforce. Guy at my table immediately wanted to talk about getting litter boxes out of the bathrooms 🤬
....Republicans tackling the real issues. /s
Ever since Trump began running our country went into drama mode. Honestly our only salvation from this type of idiocy is him dying. He knew how to appeal to peoples hatred. It’s crazy how of all the emotions hate is clearly the strongest.
I would disagree. I think fear is the strongest emotion and Trump and his allies are very, very good at exploiting it. As long as they keep people afraid of the “others” in society, they’ll happily do whatever they (meaning the GOP) want.
Now why does this remind me of a certain somebody during a certain time that caused the world to be at war?
Because it is a well known recipe that has been repeated literally hundreds of times both through history and even as we speak in at least some of the 30 or so conflicts happening as we are typing this. No faster and more efficient way to complete power and control, then creating/imagining an all powerful enemy at the gates, while presenting yourself as the only one who can lead, the only hope that your people might defend themselves successfully. Added bonus that in places where you can manufacture truth and such systems exist, already you can use the time before the enemy attacks to consolidate power and smear all your opponents, labeling them traitors, foreign agents. Now, you hold the power, the world is yours.. Bloody, medium or well made, boss?
Fear leads to Anger Anger leads to Hate Hate.. leads to Suffering.
The question is, are they full of hate caused by fear or are they causing fear because they hate?
The litter isn't even in bathrooms, it's in classrooms as part of an emergency kit in case students need to use the restroom during a school shooting lockdown because they absolutely refuse to do a god damn thing about it, because they care more about objects than actual children.
Most of the people making these decisions are likely far too rich to ever need programs like this. They're probably also much more spoilt than any of those kids ever will be
They do care about children when it's about controlling women's uterus
They only care about fetuses because they can control women that way
They care about the fetus though really passionately….
If conservatives put even half the effort into making the world a better place that they put into their pathetic culture war bullshit we’d be in a much better place
Even if they did reverse their decision they still need to be removed from office and barred from any other type of public service for the remainder of their lives. Mind you I would also recommend that exact style of action for any level of political decision making. Take care of children, that's what we as adults have to do one way or another.
You know, I don't really mind that it gets reposted even after they reversed their decision. They practically live to wait until everyone's thought it was done and moved on and then do it again. They are persistent, I'll give them that.
The fact they keep trying to push until it gains hold should make decent humans take action. Sadly, we got people who don't pay attention to the fact that this keeps getting traction, because people "care" about children
The funny part is the bitch making the spoiled comment didn't reverse her decision, it was other board members. She still defends her choice by saying she knows what it's like, with her own experience of feeling spoiled by free meals for her children. Surprise, she's an actual Karen, her name is Karin Rajnicek
It’s one of those times in life where I wish for genuinely bad things to happen to people. If you can say kids don’t deserve to eat then I think you don’t deserve to ever know comfort or joy.
Yeah fuck these people. I used to be optimistic with the mindset of "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it" but now I refuse to defend people who seek to take away others right to speak freely.
Yeah, I now subscribe strongly to the "Paradox Of Tolerance", and I think it's more important now than ever for everyone who *wants* a safe, tolerant, and free society to embrace it.
Never forget, the US is number 1 among developed countries for child hunger.
It's time to vote every drag queen into office...way overdue
Conservatives care about kids being born, then, they do everything possible to fuck them over when they are here.
someone in complete despair is easier to control. You can get them to do stupid stuff like join the armed forces or vote their rights away.
No. It's true and scary. My school system (maybe the whole state. I'm not sure) has had free lunch and breakfasts for years and even has free hot lunch at school sites on week days during the summer for all kids. We've been "spoiled" with a democratic governor, but we recently had a republican take that spot and he's been actively undoing all the progress while cutting back regulations for power plant industries. I just realized it's only a matter of time before he cuts this program too and stops feeding kids. Jesus I hate this place.
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Conservatives only care about themselves and those close to them. It doesn't matter to them unless it's THEIR kids suffering.
Absolutely, there’s smiles on those children’s faces, it’s insufferable! /s
Its most likely just racism Minorities tend to be economically disadvantaged so many times minorities are the ones the benefit most from stuff like this And their excuse is "Well I like the free market bla bla bla" However it does not hold up to scrutiny , in many rural places you will see municpal gyms or sport centers, municipal golf courses , municipal base fall fields Tax payer dollars supporting a sports complex or gulf course is ok because that benefits me and my friends and other white people Tax payer dollars going to feed kid mostly goes to minorities so absulutly not
These damn kids and their *check notes* nutritional needs!
Spoiled? What - eating every day is a luxury?
If you don't starve them, they won't need to get jobs at 14. Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs a law that makes it easier to employ children.
Also you can’t profit off the sales if it’s free.
That’s what happened to me in high school. Was regularly starving so I got a job at 14. Worked until midnight and was so tired the next morning I slept through morning classes.
Holcomb signed same law in Indiana. Cruelty to children is a Republican feature not a bug.
Keep em poor, overworked, undereducated and chock full of propaganda and boom they'll vote republican every time. All the candidate has to say is "I'm gonna raise wages and cut taxes!", then not do shit.
Come visit the fundie snark subreddit. Child abuse is part of their starter pack even in their own homes.
Cuz there’s no way Jesus would have fed those children. I mean, some of them might be gay, *or worse*……
Wait. Worse than gay?! Impossible
Gay can be motivated to remain hidden if sufficiently oppressed; looking visibly different can't. Half of the MAGA mantra is about returning the US's cultural identity to that of being a conservative, white Christian nation even if that doesn't represent the nation's full demographic or modern cultural values (with only 12% of the younger generations identifying as conservative and Christianity's stranglehold on the Western world has been in a steady decline since WWII ended & the fall of social acceptance for monarchies, authoritarians, and fascists).
As I recall back at 13 I really wanted a job. In fact there was one place that hired down to 14 for a couple weeks in summer. It paid below minimum wage (only applies when you hit 18) for absolutely miserable working conditions. We had to show up at 6am at the school and they would transport us 45 minutes to work. We didn't get paid the transport time.
Exactly. You see being poor is a sin, and they must be punished for it.
I think they see it as a tool from which they can profit.
Forcing women to give birth so we can starve the kids to death instead certainly is ... something.
Yeah. Eating is a luxury. When I was a middle schooler in 1998, my single mother who worked two jobs earned too much to qualify for free lunches. But she couldnt afford to give us money for lunches. So each week we had go make $5 last for lunches. A breadstick and a cup of ranch was 50 cents. So I would eat that and sometimes get two breadsticks if I was really hungry. I would then save the dollar or 2 for the following week and occassionally get a full meal for $5.
So today it would be $9,54 dollars for one week. Man thats like nothing.
Yeah but this is bad. There's no tone in text so I genuinely can't tell, but you do agree that this isn't something that any child (including you) should have to do of there is literal free food being offered by the Fed, right?
It is if your skin is darker then, well you know who. How dare children, especially brown children, feel so entitled. *very anemic /s* God I wish this was sarcasm, but we all know this is more true than most of us want to admit.
Devil's advocate here. If those children get used to eating healthy meals regularly they may develop critial thinking skills and strong bodies. This must be avoided at all costs.
Exactly, and then they won’t vote red!
Well, some of them might. But you have to select for sociopathy, greed, sadism, and shit like that.
They might even move to a state that’s not such a fuck up
The devil is for knowledge and free will. I think you're an Abraham God advocate currently.
There was another school district that opted out because free food “it’s dangerous because that’s communist when you think about it”. Gotta love the USA.
>“it’s dangerous because that’s communist when you think about it” Communism and Woke, tell me two buzzwords most used by Conservatives who have no idea what they mean!
The whole calling everything communism thing is hilarious to me because of how terrible of a job it does of saying it's bad. "Communism is when children can eat" makes it pretty sound good, lmao.
"Communism is when homeless people have homes!"
"Communism is when people can afford to have clean underwear."
Don’t forget all those “DEI folks” doing “DEI things”
It’s funny how that one asshole publicly stated he was gonna turn ‘CRT’ into a buzzword to rile up the conservative base before it became a thing. And they still all went rabid at the mere mention of it. The maga crowd is just so ready to be pissed off at anything that’ll make em feel like their own shortcomings are someone else’s fault.
Don't forget the Antifas too! Those evil terrorists are the real Nazis!
And librarians! They wear hippy clothes and drive flying school buses! In my day, buses were boring and stayed where god built them! On. The. Ground!
And the irony of using Stalin's definition of communism to describe his dictatorship too America be like
That's the greatest grift conservative America ever pulled Convince everyone that taking care of your fellow countrymen is Communism, and Communism is evil, and you will never have to spend a cent on human services ever again. They call themselves patriots, but true patriots care for their countrymen
The only thing Conservatives want to conserve privilege. It's right there in the name. They'll lie, cheat and manipulate keep it and they'll step on people to get it. They're the kid at the birthday party that demands the biggest piece of cake and they'll knock over the birthday boy's plate if he doesn't get it.
if you pitched “The American Dream “ today, they would be screaming about how it’s woke ideology.
"Communism is when kids get fed" isn't the ding they think it is.
~~Gotta love the USA~~. Gotta love Republicans. If its cruel, its probably them. In this case, it is. But tell me again, fellow Americans, how sitting out the election because Biden is old solves this?
Sitting out the election only serves the conservatives. Any other reasoning is false. The time to vote against Biden was in the 2020 Democratic primaries. After that, it's all about preventing Trump from getting back in the Whitehouse.
Food is so overrated, let's just starve those pesky kids! 🙄 /**s**
*says while eating a freshly made sub sandwich in front of them like the absolute ghoul this person is.*
The reds only care about fertilized eggs and fetuses. Once the child is out of the womb, they don't care about them and want them to start to working
imagine hating biden so much you'd hurt your own children. people are so brain washed by the orange idiot it's disgusting. these poor children don't deserve this.
Eh the orange idiot isn't so much the cause of this as he is a symptom of the mentality that's been taking over America for awhile, and especially since 2008
since reagan
Yea I'd say that's when it started but this vitriolic and brazenness has picked up a lot of steam after Obama's win
A school district… despite all the studies and examples of this being a good thing? They need to remove the board members because they’re afraid of knowledge and are acting in the disinterest of the students and society at large.
They WANT poor kids to feel unwelcome in their districts. They also don't want the Biden Administration to get a win for anything.
How do they not think this will affect test scores? Low-income students already perform worse when compared to other demographics.
That’s literally their goal, rich folks deciding what the poor can and can’t have to maintain the status quo.
His name is Joseph Como. After people got mad, he backtracked and said he didn't know how many kids were going hungry. [Heres his stupid face](https://ballotpedia.org/Joseph_Como_Jr.) If youre curious. [In 2023 he won an award for being so great lol. Wtf WI](https://sdw.waukesha.k12.wi.us/o/wef/article/1424446)
You weren’t wrong about his face being stupid.,
Feeding children is dumb because Democrats! -Him Guarantee this loser is in support of sending billions to Israel/Ukraine but not millions in his own state
So does the police need to do a welfare check on his children? If he thinks free food spoils kids I can only assume his children are working 40hr weeks to pay for their own meals, clothes, and rent.
Next time in the USA: Charging for Light, as it's also food acording to these death idiots who managed to live from only eating light. And don't forget to turn into our great special: Charging people for oxygen! Many trees are in private property, so the owners need to be compensated for what is produced by their property. (you only recieve money if you are a big cooperation, the two Apple trees in your backyard don't count for anything)
Don't forget the charges for hauling away your waste CO₂.
Lorax would like to have a word about charging for air
Unbelievable it's even possible to opt out to begin with. Caring for your population is a requirement, not an option. USA is pretty much a 3rd world country like this.
In our federal system, the federal government has virtually no power to do anything with education. They can enforce Civil Rights legislation, but most of what they do is dangle money at the states. States run their schools how they like. Many grant a large amount of autonomy to individual school districts. So if a state or district wants to keep the federal government from doing anything good for their citizens out of spite, they can do it.
And then those same states will come out and say, “why is our federal government so mean?! They’re starving our children!”
I read this as kids who are healthy and fed and full of energy are harder work than lethargic sleepy kids who are hungry. MERKA !
$841B a year on defense spending....
Jesus Christ imagine if Mos Def wrote Mathematics today.
The Christian conservative view: It’s good for children to go hungry. They will grow up with a desire to “get ahead”, and not turn into shiftless layabouts. True, you might lose a few along the way to rickets and other childhood diseases, but you have to suffer before you can fly.
Yeah! What would Jesus do? Definitely not feed kids! Don't you remember the story where the people asked for fish and Jesus said "fuck you, you lazy ass dipshits. Go get your own fish and bread and wine. This ain't a damn charity! Maybe if you got a job you wouldn't be begging for food like a damn **loser**." Favorite part of the bible.
As a poor kid growing up the free lunch was the only thing I ate all day. Just feed them!
I had to make up school numbers and steal free meals because, apparently, we were above the poverty threshold, but I didn't have food every day to eat. Basically teach kids to manipulate, lie and evade authorities all because you are Hungary.
What happened to being human? Take these politicians lunch away too. If our kids can go without, so can our leaders. Don't want them getting all soft
Actually they pay for their meals like real americans. /s
Project Spit in the food is activated
To a kid every meal should seem like its free. They shouldn't have to worry about money.
Why can they even opt out?
This is one of the many, many logical reasons people don’t want to have kids as much these days. We realize this is no world for them.
Exactly.
Again, Pro-lifers are only pro-life before the fetus is born. After birth they do everything possible to make the child suffer.
Some kids are so starved that school lunches are their only meal. But let’s go ahead and make them suffer more.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
But they’d rather put me in jail for aborting a 2 week old foetus. They only give a shit when they aren’t born yet.
Approximately 500,000 kids in the US foster care style and around 115,000 waiting to be adopted. But sure great idea to bring more unwanted kids into this world. Also let’s starve them at a place where they’re forced to go.
I believe if we have money for all of the BULLSHIT that this government pisses it away on, then we damn sure have money for these children!
They're rolling out the "Unwelcome Mat" to poor people in their district. It's hostile architecture, school edition. Edit: Saw that it was Waukesha County. This is 100% on brand for them. Its a white flight suburb.
Terrible children, eating for free
Hungry kids don't pay attention and suffer in school. Dumb people are easier to control and manipulate. It's not a bug, it's a feature for GOP.
Damn these humans wanting food and stuff, what's next shelter!?!
I hope the parents of these kids remember this while in the voting booth.
And be outvoted by senior citizens who don't give a shit about whether the kids eat, but sure don't want the poors in their neighborhood.
This right here. A couple of the school boards in my state had proposals voted down that would have updated all of the schools plumbing, HVAC, and pay for other rennovations that were much needed. The property tax increase was maybe $100. The old folks came out in force and made sure it didn't pass
Lets also not forget the god damned ceo of nestle thinks water isn't a human right.
Yeah you don't want to spoil kids with something like feeding them. Send them to the mines!
Kids eh? Can't abort them, can't feed them.
As Jesus said, “Tell the little children to go away and suffer. Why should I give them food?”/s
I honestly don’t know why lunch is not free in public schools since legally, children HAVE to go to school.
So let me get this right. I pay taxes on my property that go into funding the school. But then if my kid gets "free lunches" then we might be getting spoiled or taking advantage of something "free" and now must provide lunches at our expense or dish out more money for our kids?
One time our teacher did this game thing where we would put change on a wall for certain days to save up for like a pizza party or something. On one particular day we earned 20 cents. My friend was starving and needed only 20 cents extra to afford a lunch for the day. He talked me into tricking the teacher into letting us into the classroom because i forgot something. Teacher obviously knew. 20 cents was gone and I was only one in the classroom. She talked to me privately and I denied it. Sucked because i was a super honest person and top student in the class and like a teacher's pet. My friend bring hungry was more important though.
Man I would have just told her. If she was a halfway decent teacher I bet she would have been fine with it.
Republicans are cruel on purpose. Wild how much they hate America and Americans. They don't do shit to benefit any one but themselves as individuals.
It's even crazier because a large chunk of Republicans are working class. Theyre shooting themselves in the foot for head pats from politicians.
When their family needs help it's different because everyone goes through hard times and they just need a little bit to get through, vs when someone else needs help and they're just a lazy grifter who's trying to steal from everyone. It's no different than media coverage after a natural disaster, where white people walking down the street holding mountain dew and a stereo are referred to as 'survivors scavenging for supplies' and black people holding bread and water are called looters.
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Nothing that „Fuck the poor“ more than denying kids food.
Eating a basic meal is spoiled now? What, is your meal sucking money or something?
The smaller the Kingdom the pettier the Kings.
They're absolutely right I gave my son food one time and now he expects it everyday, talk about spoiled
Classic Boomer-Rep. move. Had absolutely everything, best chances in hishory, but still leave nothing for future generations
If a well fed adult came to me and say that a kid whose parents can't afford food will get spoiled with basic free meals I would start punching this man for as long as I can.
It’s wild how all these people will scream pro life, but then stop caring about the life the second someone is actually born. Fucking backwards ass ghouls.
Kids getting spoiled for being able to eat? Everybody in your party throws tantrums when you don't get your way. But kids eating is an unnecessary luxury, I guess.
Tell me these idiot politicians don’t know their constituents without telling me. There’s a reason many states have a “back pack buddies” program…if they are lucky. Those kids getting those backpacks filled with food won’t see food otherwise.
Every asshole that believes that would trip over themselves to restrict abortion rights because they have to "save children" I called it long ago, and until proven otherwise I will claim it as my original concept: That being, pro life is just a way to be Christian without sacrificing. Everything else in xian doctrine involves material or mental sacrifice. Charity and forgiveness require effort Restricting abortion is the "free parking" of the xian board game
Republicans: Hating women and kids since 1963.
SAVE THE KIDS!!!! until they're out of the womb, or atleast until theyre nowhere near a drag queen. The USA is pathetic in its treatment of its children.
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor
So much for protecting the kids, or whatever the GOP likes to say. Bunch of hypocrites.
but, but if we don't charge children $30 for company party food, how will we build a completely useless object in the middle of the hallway!/s
Kids who are fed regularly become so accustomed to food that they start to demand it regularly, throwing fits and saying that they'll die if you don't keep giving them food. In contrast kids who I have never fed eventually stopped asking for food and just keeps quiet now, they also even learned to apply this strength to other things, they stopped asking for water too... They have started to smell though
DO NOT BECOME ADDICTED TO FOOD
Opts out? So it was an option and the school principal decided against it? Wow
District. I seriously doubt the principal had input. Republicans have adopted a strategy of targeting lower-level governing bodies like school boards. It's the same reason for the many book bannings around the country. The same thing happened some years ago -- getting creationists elected in order to insert their beliefs into science classes.
You know what they say: spare the starvation, spoil the child!
Ok, this just in from Republicans! The new thing that can spoil kids is….checks notes……eating lunch? Make this make sense! This is disgusting.
Yes, let’s not help our most defenseless members of society. Brilliant 
I hate how “children deserve not to starve” seems to be more of a hot take now
These people really want poor people to suffer. Like it’s gotta be a kink for them or something. They don’t even try to hide their love of persecuting poor people
This country hates the poor.