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allegorical oracle

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Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:30 AM Oct 31

Vance: The shutdown pain's gonna get a lot worse...(and says the quiet part out loud) [View all]

The more Vance speaks the more he convinces me that a ghostwriter wrote his bestselling book.

Vice President JD Vance was asked about the 42 million people who are expected to lose their SNAP benefits this weekend...

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“Well, here’s the problem,” Vance replied, explaining that in prior shutdowns, “sometimes the president has tried to make the shutdown as painful as possible on the American people.”

“I give the President of the United States great credit and the entire team for trying to make this as painless as possible,” he said, before blaming Democrats.

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“The American people are already suffering, and the suffering is gonna get a lot worse,” he declared. “Not because the President of the United States has failed to make the shutdown painless. He’s tried to do everything that he can to make it as un-painless as possible.”

https://www.alternet.org/trump-admin-pain/
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