Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.

Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”

“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”

  • tornavish@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Let’s coin a new word here: Doomnialism, like denialism, but specifically denying bad things are happening. Despite all the evidence saying the contrary, you refuse to believe something because it will give you bad feelings.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      21 hours ago

      “Judges don’t do chicken shit. Except all that shit they have done, but I’ve already moved the goal post, so who cares about all that? Not me, but I’m totally not trying to spread propaganda. You’re spreading it with all your facts that contradict my false narrative. Which I’m only spreading because…?”