If there’s one word that sums up the modern Republican Party, it’s cruelty. Want to see that cruelty neatly encapsulated in less than 47 seconds? Minnesota state senator Steve Drazkowski has got a treat for you.
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It’s hard to decide which part of Drazkowski’s little speech is the most f–ked up. Obviously, the stand-out was the idea that, because he has never personally met someone in Minnesota who does not have enough food to eat, they must not exist. (Not surprisingly, he’s extremely wrong.) But perhaps equally disturbing was his attempt at a joke, in which he declared: “Hunger is a relative term…I had a cereal bar for breakfast, I guess I’m ‘hungry’ now.”
Luckily for kids in Minnesota, the bill, which provides free breakfast and lunch to all school children in the state, passed the state Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 38-26; it now goes back to the House and, should it pass, will head to Governor Tim Walz’s desk. But it’s important to remember that terrible people like Drazkowski wanted it to fail, and that lawmakers like him are a feature, not a bug, of the GOP.
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