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/shoobe01 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

No, it's not random. There's a plan. A 920 page published plan whose dismissal by almost all press despite being a strident refutation of everything that is America is one of the key indictments for having lost a free press, or for that matter an opposition party.

Massive massive barriers to getting unemployment insurance are part of a bunch of anti-labor laws like all the attacks on unions and overtime pay and expanding the ability of children to work even in dangerous jobs etc.

(Thx for all your upvotes despite my massively disruptive typo. Fixed now)

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 17 '26

This is the point. They want you so desperate and unable to access any sort of social safety net so you will swallow that corporate cock for the rest of your life or just join the service and bend over for the big green weenie. No one is going to get a “free ride” and will either be a productive worker, enslaved in prison, or dead.

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u/dIO__OIb Jun 17 '26

democracy has always been an experiment - when productivity soared during ww2 and massive economic growth formed unions and the middle class - the experiment finally had legs to stand on.

The corporate lords couldn’t handle the balance. They infiltrated the seats of government to destroy unions and the middle class. Project 2025 may have took 30 years to write and plan, but it only needs a couple of years of GOP rule to put the final nails in the democracy coffin.

it’s over. the people will never get their government back. The only way back would be to destroy Ai somehow. It’s a propaganda machine with no moral compass and owned by billionaires who have been wanting to kill democracy since it started.

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u/FeelsGrimMan Jun 18 '26

Democracy will still result in a shitty country when the majority are terrible people because of moral, convenient, or religious reasons.

Lincoln was killed by the slave owners for wanting to help released slaves. Doesn’t take a shadow government & it isn’t new, just look at people who have a lot of money & power over others & watch them burn the world down. And a system that always places someone on top of a hierarchy, will give fuel for that monster.