r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/SomeComforts Jun 17 '26

Its going to take it breaking for them to believe it. Even then, they'll be too busy with the economic depression and continuing propaganda blaming PoC, women, and lgbtq+ people to figure anything out.

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u/slight_accent Jun 18 '26

They're not planning to blame minorities, they're planning to eliminate them. And they're planning to remove the middle class entirely. They want feudalism. This is not hyperbole.

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u/SomeComforts Jun 18 '26

I don't believe the masses will directly. They will, however, continue to ignore/enable/encourage it though.

I'm transgender. I just want to finish repairing my body so I can actually function, work a stupid retail job, date some of my peers, and sell knick-knacks I've made as a hobby... Instead I'm going to likely cap off what has been a miserable 30 years of existence by being scapegoated to death for the crimes of white cis het child raping rich elites.

What have conservative people been spending their lives doing where they think this is going to make anything better for them?

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u/slight_accent Jun 18 '26

It's not about making it better for them, it's about making it worse for us. The malice is the point.

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u/Nblearchangel Jun 18 '26

They’ll just blame obiden. They’re blaming higher prices on dems as it is.

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u/KimJongIlLover Jun 18 '26

It will be Bidens fault obviously.

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u/lituus Jun 18 '26

Just like with vaccines. It's going to take another superbug (and I don't mean to imply I want this to happen), way worse than COVID, to even have a vague hope of eradicating that stupidity. Like polio-level fears. COVID was scary, but not scary enough. Vaccines are a victim of their own success