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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A “hero of the far right” blames his problems on  heavyset women (because of course no men are 5’ 3” in the heroic sub-Richmond) on welfare and anyone is supposed to take this seriously? Really OP?

Angry white dude is misogynist, news at 11[/quote]

It's because those are mostly the women who want to go out with him.[/quote]

Where did he say anything about women in his song?  [/quote]

How many men are 5’3”?[/quote]

Enough.  About 10%.  [/quote]

Not in America. But sure let’s say it’s 10% You think he’s writing about men?[/quote]

He is writing about obese people using their food stamps to purchase junk food that makes them more obese.  Do you not get that?  Do you not understand that he is slamming government programs that actually encourages this by putting few restrictions on the kind of food they can purchase?  [/quote]

He says nothing about change to government programs. He talks about obese people on food stamps.

How many of his ardent fans absolutely hated Michelle Obama’s efforts to make school lunches healthier? Bloomberg’s suggestion to tax sodas?

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not sure his “ardent fans” would have been that focused on Bloomberg’s position on soft drinks.  That’d more of an inside DC obsession.[/quote]

New York.

But my broader point is, when there have been efforts to make taxpayer funding focus on healthy food, conservatives mocked it, resisted it, and hated it. Trump even rolled back the draconian provision that…required children be served fruits and vegetables.

So no, I don’t buy that now he’s just so upset about taxpayer dollars buying fudge rounds when he was telling to support taxpayer dollars buying pizza rolls.

When someone comes out with a song about worker and workplace protections, genuine tax relief for families, and sure even tackling making sure the poor have adequate access to healthy food, I hope there’s a thread about it— I can get behind it![/quote]

NYC but cheered on by DC policy people.  He doesn’t seem to see the world through a center-left policy prism that revolves around government. I know that’s hard to imagine … but maybe just try? [/quote]

Right— he seems to be mad at government for not mandating taxpayer dollars fund fruits and vegetables. Except
his supporters were also mad about…mandating taxpayer dollars fund fruits and vegetables.[/quote]

Nope.  Fruits and vegetables do not appear anywhere in his lyrics.[/quote]

He’s worked up about his tax dollars and fudge rolls. Either he doesn’t believe in poor people having food assistance (good conservative position) or he thinks government should only fund nutritious food, which is Michelle Obamas position from 2014 that all the republicans hated. Pick a lane.[/quote]

That’s your dichotomy, not his.  [/quote]

Just a basic familiarity with the political history beyond the Trump years show this as just the same old inconsistency.[/quote]

huh?[/quote]

If you remember or read about the Reagan years, you know there was “welfare queens” people were all worked up about— they did not exist.

Is you remember or read about the Obama years you know there was a concerted effort to target childhood obesity and make taxpayer dollars fund nutritious food for school children— two efforts which were vehemently opposed by republicans.

So some guy showing up and saying oh my god people are obese and tax dollars fund unhealthy food and pretending he’s original or that this isn’t something done deliberately by republicans is…either very misinformed, poorly read, or a hypocrite. [/quote]

You remember a president named William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton?  He signed a welfare reform bill supported by, among other groups, the DLC.  I’m still not sure what nutritious school lunches have to do with it.  If you read and/or listen to the lyrics, he’s pointing to a country that tolerates the unhoused not having anything to eat, while simultaneously paying for a food product called “fudge rounds” that is available for an allegedly obese individual.  But that individual is not a school child.[/quote]

Why write a song about homelessness when he clearly knows nothing about it? Has he researched the successful efforts Democrats have made to allow TANF funds to be used on fresh produce? Does he know what a food dessert is and whose policies create them?[/quote]

The policies that create food deserts are massive shoplifting and/or looting which make it impossible for a grocery to survive.[/quote]

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