An epic Twitter misfire from the office of Amy Klobuchar:
If my social media team did this to me, I’d throw a stapler at them. https://t.co/xyEZYkTNfy
— tedfrank (@tedfrank) June 12, 2025
Take her food away? Well, it’s a thought…
And are Congressional Republicans really trying to cut the SNAP (food stamp) program? I know there are efforts to take high-calorie sodas off the list of subsidized foods, which might benefit the woman in the tweet. But actual cuts? I hope so, but I’m not holding my breath.
A POSTSCRIPT: One of my best friends from high school became a doctor and spent most of his career as a pediatrician on Indian reservations in South Dakota. Quite a few years ago, he told me about an Indian chief who testified before a Congressional committee on some reservation aid topic. The chief weighed around 400 pounds. At the climax of his testimony, he said, “The people on my reservation are starving!” Everyone in the room had the same thought: No wonder–the chief is eating all the food. I was reminded of that story by the ill-fated Klobuchar tweet.
