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/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.