There's a Washington Post article today about a massive, anonymous lottery winner in a small, impoverished town where everyone's wondering who won it that's now hit with beggers literally calling random business owners to ask for money. There's a small paragraph at the end that highlights exactly why everyone was worried it was a cheap political move:
President Trump did fuck all during the pandemic, aside from ignoring and undermining his own healthcare experts, and making rambling remarks about injecting disinfectants. The food support program was in place and was run long before he was president, and indeed Republicans have actively tried to hamstring and destroy existing social support programs like food supplements. However, his political team forces a letter into each food box that clearly was not written by Trump, and of course you get people exclaiming how Trump wrote them personally, how wonderful Trump is to send them food, etc. Do these people have no idea how these food programs work? How much Trump is basically relying on them to behave like gullible rubes?Still, sure as she is that they’re the winners, Cooper says the new millionaires shouldn’t feel any obligation to support the rest of Lonaconing. As a steady stream of cars arrive to pick up boxes of sweet potatoes, onions, apples, squash and cucumbers, people talk more about being grateful for what they have than about wanting or deserving anything from the Power Pack.
“We love the Lord,” Cooper said, “and He sends us what we need. And President Trump sent us cheese and milk and hot dogs — the Democrat just sends us vegetables. President Trump put a letter in each one of these boxes saying he’s thinking of us. People kept those notes from President Trump, put them up on their walls. That’s who people depend on, not the Powerball winner.”
Also, what the fuck is wrong with getting fresh vegetables?
The Republican party basically exists today in its current state by keeping its voters perpetually impoverished, afraid, uneducated, and in an endless state of frenzy, zealous worship of the GOP. They are taught that only the Republican party can possibly fix any of these issues it creates exactly in order to maintain its power.