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Cooking & Baking

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25. Why? Because of bad grammar?

Reply to cloudbase (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 11:27 AM

Oct 2025

Or because the headline is untrue? (It isn't untrue.)

So, shoot the messenger.

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Black woman in Michigan faces 10 years in prison for selling baked goods made with food stamps [View all] littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 OP

I can understand that would be against the rules Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #1

OK, explain it to me. ananda Oct 2025 #15

For pulling herself up by the bootstraps... Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #2

The person who wrote that headline cloudbase Oct 2025 #3

Yes absolutely. Srkdqltr Oct 2025 #8

Why? Because of bad grammar? Wednesdays Oct 2025 #25

Untrue, elleng Oct 2025 #26

Baked goods made with food stamps probably aren't very tasty, cloudbase Oct 2025 #28

That's idiotically disproportionate jfz9580m Oct 2025 #4

You're right! In our case the penalty is far in excess of the cost of doing it right dickthegrouch Oct 2025 #31

Well, the narcotics war jfz9580m Oct 29 #42

I think this attached to the wrong thread dickthegrouch Oct 29 #43

Prosecutors should have to PROVE where the butter and flour came from NewLarry Oct 2025 #5

How can they know? Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #18

And we have a convicted felon, pedophile, and rapists in the WH. Ferrets are Cool Oct 2025 #6

A a convicted felon, pedophile, and rapist who is OUT ON BAIL after being indicted for election interfereance in GA! Attilatheblond Oct 2025 #17

Ruin somebody's life, Turbineguy Oct 2025 #7

So, a black woman gets a little government money, adds labor & makes something... CaptainTruth Oct 2025 #9

No explanation as to how she was caught Layzeebeaver Oct 2025 #10

She was advertising on facebook questionseverything Oct 2025 #30

And who caught her? Layzeebeaver Oct 2025 #32

Advertising what exactly? Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #36

Snap, Medicaid and cash assistance have very strict rules questionseverything Oct 2025 #37

Was she advertising breaking the law???? Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #38

If she's on snap how do you think she can afford a good lawyer? questionseverything Oct 2025 #39

There is legal aid Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #41

Jury nullification. @Michigan peeps nilram Oct 2025 #11

Although it's not hard to see why she can't do that... JohnnyRingo Oct 2025 #12

Trump's free plane is not so free for us tax payers. Emile Oct 2025 #13

Can't say she was too lazy to work. She added value to the food through her labor doc03 Oct 2025 #14

SNAP as it currently exists isn't really meant to help people but to keep them dependent and unempowered. cstanleytech Oct 2025 #16

There are other programs that provide those other benefits Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #20

As someone who is on SNAP, I can explain synni Oct 2025 #29

I see how it can be difficult Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #33

They should be expanded and made common place, that would keep the top 1%ers from demonizing them questionseverything Oct 2025 #40

Does this"profit" include her labor idahoblue Oct 2025 #19

To the letter of this law I believe the goods would House of Roberts Oct 2025 #21

Exactly Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #34

Can the country get any lower? I fear it can, but JFC this is getting beyond absurd. Bev54 Oct 2025 #22

How many maga take funds and use them for something else? GreenWave Oct 2025 #23

No worries, dumpie loves to pardon innocent people for free. KS Toronado Oct 2025 #24

For once, it's not racial profiling...just a little-known law synni Oct 2025 #27

Unless she posted on line claiming she used food bought with SNAP benefits Farmer-Rick Oct 2025 #35