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questionseverything

(12,106 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 01:39 PM 2 hrs ago

Please don't forget thousands and thousands of your neighbors have lost their food stamps and are quietly starving

It seems like a huge percentage of du participants are well off, I am not saying rich but yall talk about investing and vacationing a lot so there’s no reason it would be on your mind all the time, that people are starving because of republicans controlling all 3 branches.

But that’s what is happening

Don’t let the imperfections of our very human candidates stop the blue wave we should be able to expect….

For a lot of us which party is in power is an inconvenience, for poor people it’s a matter of life or death

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Please don't forget thousands and thousands of your neighbors have lost their food stamps and are quietly starving (Original Post) questionseverything 2 hrs ago OP
I won't. Harker 1 hr ago #1
I take the casting of my vote dlilafae 1 hr ago #2
This breaks my heart Grim Chieftain 1 hr ago #3
Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food. Beacool 1 hr ago #4
Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food. Beacool 1 hr ago #5
DURec leftstreet 1 hr ago #6
Find the food bank closest to you BonnieJW 50 min ago #7
Ty, that's what I was trying to say in my clumsy way questionseverything 39 min ago #9
Please give us some places to donate. Thank you. No antiwomen groups (Baptists, Catholics, etc.) efhmc 47 min ago #8
It's true most food banks are run by religious groups questionseverything 34 min ago #11
Thank you. efhmc 31 min ago #13
Google your local area. Some might take a bit of a drive... MerryBlooms 17 min ago #18
Everything got cut for folks that got that laughable COLA MerryBlooms 36 min ago #10
I'm So fn sick of people telling others go to food banks! MerryBlooms 31 min ago #14
I agree completely, I am do sorry if you are going through all of this questionseverything 24 min ago #15
Thank you! Small feminine products, baby wipes! MerryBlooms 11 min ago #20
Hard working folks, but because don't have first, last, deposit, MerryBlooms 6 min ago #21
Ty for reminding us about baby wipes and feminine hygiene needs questionseverything 2 min ago #22
Vote for food 2026! Ponietz 33 min ago #12
Do you realize how difficult it is to be unhoused? MerryBlooms 23 min ago #16
Housing subsidies are also unavailble. milestogo 18 min ago #17
Yes the repubs have taken everything good questionseverything 11 min ago #19
Almost non existent here in Oregon, now, and idiotic republicans MerryBlooms 20 sec ago #23

Grim Chieftain

(2,186 posts)
3. This breaks my heart
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:02 PM
1 hr ago

Dear God, I cannot believe what this country has become. But hey! The orange felon is well fed, and we are picking up the tab.

Beacool

(30,533 posts)
4. Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:02 PM
1 hr ago

I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.

Beacool

(30,533 posts)
5. Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:03 PM
1 hr ago

I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.

efhmc

(17,112 posts)
8. Please give us some places to donate. Thank you. No antiwomen groups (Baptists, Catholics, etc.)
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:25 PM
47 min ago

questionseverything

(12,106 posts)
11. It's true most food banks are run by religious groups
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:39 PM
34 min ago

If you don’t want to donate through them you could take bags of non perishables to the welfare office, every one leaving needs food or knows someone who does

The plasma center is another place you will find hungry people, so desperate they are selling their fluids…

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
18. Google your local area. Some might take a bit of a drive...
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:56 PM
17 min ago

Sometimes, because folks are proud by nature, rural might be a table of canned food at the end of your driveway 🥰

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
10. Everything got cut for folks that got that laughable COLA
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:37 PM
36 min ago

Every person I know on assistance, had their food assistance cut, heating/ac cut, rents all raised. Some meds denied under medicaid or supplimental... Every soul I know, is now lost money because of SS increase. Everything else was cut, plus, trump and his minions cutting "fraud".
Poor people are struggling mightily, yet all anyone talks about is middle class?!? Um, go stand in a food bank that you had to walk to in rain, snow, 100's... stand for 2 hrs, then walk back to your camp. You know cops gonna run you out, next day, 3 day limit... That whole "Livibility", part of our local cops. Fire season already. You can't cook in camp with a flame. No lunch meat at the food bank 🤷‍♀️

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
14. I'm So fn sick of people telling others go to food banks!
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:42 PM
31 min ago

A lot of food banks don't exist anymore. Donations are way down. Churches used to, but neighbors complain
Ugh, just stop
People are getting desperate
People that were surviving, aren't. More homeless coming. They Are Not Invisible People! They Are Us!!

questionseverything

(12,106 posts)
15. I agree completely, I am do sorry if you are going through all of this
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:48 PM
24 min ago

I try and donate vienna sausages ( tasty protein with a pull ring top) , fruit cups (same pull ring), spam… stuff a person can travel with

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
20. Thank you! Small feminine products, baby wipes!
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:02 PM
11 min ago

It's all so needed. Many times it's a 2 person camp, cant leave the camp alone, because it will be robbed. We gave a propane heater. They both left only short time, propane and heater stolen.🤨😭

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
21. Hard working folks, but because don't have first, last, deposit,
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:06 PM
6 min ago

Animal deposit, etc... plus, been arrested for illegal camping, etc... i mean, our gal was so excited when she grew a watermelon! 🥰 then, cops showed up, ran them out, but she was able to get back and harvested.
So ridiculous.

questionseverything

(12,106 posts)
22. Ty for reminding us about baby wipes and feminine hygiene needs
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:11 PM
2 min ago

Most of us get to take wiping ourselves off before bed for granted

Ponietz

(4,511 posts)
12. Vote for food 2026!
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:39 PM
33 min ago

I’m still upset with poor non voters. Generally, there was no legitimate excuse for sitting out the 2024 election. That’s harsh but still I am sorry so many face food insecurity.

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
16. Do you realize how difficult it is to be unhoused?
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:50 PM
23 min ago

We help a gal who bathes in a filthy creek. Her phone is dead most of the time. Our mobile home park, replaced Our fence, and now we have no gate. We use to help way more people.
People are trying to survive. Our little gal just wants to have a little garden on the side of a filthy creek.
Ugh.
Picture please, for one moment, having a menstrual cycle, unhoused. So, yes. At this time, I can help her, but I am fully aware there are hundreds just like her, getting Zero help.

questionseverything

(12,106 posts)
19. Yes the repubs have taken everything good
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:02 PM
11 min ago

But we have to fight back by trying to care for each other

MerryBlooms

(12,464 posts)
23. Almost non existent here in Oregon, now, and idiotic republicans
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:13 PM
20 sec ago

Hate our Dem govs! Our Dem governors have been the only thing that's saved Oregon!
So fed up with most my own family, who, btw, don't have a pt to puss in, but all voted trump and still hate all democrats. They tolerate me, but I'm the caretaker of the matriarch of the family. Which, she helped raied, none have come to see, except 1, but my ass would hang if anything happened. 🤣🥰🤔🫣

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