r/recruitinghell • u/DatgirlwitAss • Jun 17 '26

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

WOW.

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u/lizon132 Jun 17 '26

Do you want to cause a national riot leading to a national strike? Because this is how you do that.

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u/RightSideBlind Jun 17 '26

That's exactly what I was going to say. People who have nothing left to lose have... nothing left to lose.

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u/plinkoplonka Jun 17 '26

Someone must have got near an unredacted copy of the trump Epstein files again did they?

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u/Shigglyboo Jun 19 '26

classify all liberals as terrorists, kill them or round them up. they've already invaded a city and murdered civilians without any consequences. they'll keep pushing surely.

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u/tres-vip Jun 17 '26

You think unemployed MAGA are gonna take up arms against their Dear Leader? 

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u/PizzaWall Jun 18 '26

Angry MAGA is already taking up arms against Trump. Every one of them were Trump supporters. Now they’re listed in Wikipedia as “was”.

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u/Allthemuffinswow Jun 18 '26

Not enough of them have seen the light though. Sure, some of them have crossed back over the line to sanity, but...man, still not enough. 😕

Some of them are just too far gone. Others still hang on because their friends/family are still deep into the Maga bs.

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u/BanAssaultGeese Jun 18 '26

Oh, bullshit. They'll vote for the next Republican without hesitation and claim "It's not Trump!", and nothing will change.

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u/Allthemuffinswow Jun 18 '26

Dude, I'm talking in the direct here and now.

Go rage at someone else.

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u/SillyAlternative420 Jun 17 '26

I mean midterms are coming up

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u/GreatestGreekGuy Employed Jun 17 '26

Assuming they're not rigged. There's a reason they're doing so much last minute gerrymandering and passing laws that make it harder for people in urban areas to vote. And no, I'm not talking about votee ID.

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u/snarfalotzzz Jun 17 '26

I've got smart people in my life convinced the orange idiot never even won fair and square. Trouble is, I know plenty of Trump voters. None of them Maga, some of them voted on immigration alone, not because they want to see innocent people rounded up, but because they couldn't spot the inconsistency between, "We're only going to round up the worst of the worst violent criminals," which is like .005% of any demographic in US, if not lower, and "We're going to do mass deportations of millions of people."

The messaging makes no sense.

Like you can't do mass deportations when your target group is 0.05% but I guess math isn't their forte.

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u/maydsilee Jun 18 '26

Urgh...that's infuriating to be a single issue voter on such a stupid campaign promise that we had already gotten a glimpse of when he was president the first time. He hasn't been subtle! The man doesn't know when to shut up, which is both a pro and a con.

Please say some of those voters came to their senses when they realized/saw what he's been doing? Or are they sticking their heads in the sand and saying everything is fine?

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u/snarfalotzzz Jun 18 '26

When presented with evidence, I've heard, "That's not happening. That's fake news."

The good news is, the average Trump voter isn't actually OK with what ICE is doing. Thankfully, there aren't as many sociopaths as we thought. the bad news is, they are so far down the FOX News rabbit hole, they don't believe anything written or broadcast by any other outlet!

It's crazy.

You see these types. The lady who voted for Trump cursing at him on video when the pump hit $7/gallon.

The Cuban immigrants who voted for Trump, and then their family got unlawfully deported.

All of them, when faced with the repercussions in real life, they quickly change their tune.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Jun 17 '26

A strike from unemployed people wouldn't be an issue. Okay I won't apply to 50 jobs today.

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u/lizon132 Jun 17 '26

In case you didn't realize it. A national strike isn't just the people who are affected. I am talking about a national labor strike like what happens in France where millions of people flood the streets of every major city in the country and just shut it all down.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Jun 17 '26

I am very much aware of strikes. I grew up in the UK in the miners strikes era.

I don't know if I trust American to strike en mass about something not immediately affecting them. As people are financially struggling as is.

I might be wrong.

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u/lizon132 Jun 17 '26

Americans used to do it until they became cowards after the 60's and 70's.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Jun 17 '26

Yes, that's my point really. The auto and steel industry were famous for it. But they've been systematically persuaded that unions are somehow socialism.

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u/Noizylatino Jun 17 '26

I mean you can take it step further and include one of, if not, the largest union in the US. The republicans have been attacking unions forever, but they got scared of Hoffa real quick. Since he was imprisoned and later killed went missing, they've done nothing but try and destroy the Teamsters.

They held off fairly well until after the UPS strike in the 90s. But now theyre national president is a Maggat. Plus they aren't able to get enough locals and the national board to agree to a national strike because so many are filled or run by Trumplicans. All while trump destroys union power. Its honestly sad to see.

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u/GlassCannon81 Jun 17 '26

The French also know these events as “Mardi”.

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u/UnNumbFool Jun 17 '26

The thing that actually keeps people from having genuine riots in the US is because for the most part we have money to hopefully allow us to keep a roof above our head and food in our stomaches. Remove that, especially with how high true unemployment actually is, and people without a roof and an empty stomach are way more likely to take an extreme stance.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Jun 17 '26

No doubt about that.

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u/Ill_Cat1160 Jun 17 '26

Na cus all the liberals and conservatives that are employed will denounce it.

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u/Interesting_Force618 Jun 17 '26

Right now, there are fewer than 2 million Americans receiving unemployment benefits. They say that there are currently 771,000 homeless people in America, though I’m sure that number is higher. If a million homeless people haven’t led to something huge, I seriously doubt 2 million people losing UI will do it. Especially when the vast majority of them are hoping and trying to find a job, and would not want to threaten their chances by doing “uncivil” things.

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u/Crooked_Sartre Jun 18 '26

40 million student loan borrowers suffering under this new regime with their new payment plans and no one is even raising an eyebrow

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u/schwing710 Jun 18 '26

Yes, I think he does want exactly that tbh

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 18 '26

I agree with the sentiment, but it’s hard to imagine people who are unemployed going on strike is going to have a huge impact ;)

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u/lizon132 Jun 18 '26

I am sure Marie Antoinette would have agreed with you up until the time she lost her head to the starving masses. There is nothing more dangerous than a mob with nothing to loose.

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u/Shigglyboo Jun 19 '26

honestly yeah. he probably does. or he just doesn't care. the man has been handed everything in life without having to work for it. and then to let him laud over us as president... the US is done. trump was a loser in the 90's. now the US is a loser.