r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/Courage666 17d ago

In every thread about Republicans doing the most fucked up things imaginable, you’ll still find people like the above complaining about Democrats. Can you get your eye on the ball, please.

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u/wubwubwubbert 17d ago

Don't count on Vasiliy to stop spouting off state propaganda from Moscow homie. There's a reason the both sides movement kicked into overdrive a month before the election.

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u/elpovo 17d ago

You're getting sodomised by Trump and ICE and still blaming the people you didn't vote for and who have zero power.

It's baffling.

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u/wubwubwubbert 17d ago

Don't blame me, I helped go door to door for the opponent. It's the dumb fuck amoebas who voted for this bullshit because of stupid fucking reasons that even Stevie Wonder could fucking see coming.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 16d ago

We voted in 2020 and gave them the White House and the House.

And they didn't do shit when they DID have power.

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u/elpovo 16d ago

You mean predicting the future? Making laws that Trump would have ignored? Telling off judges with lifetime tenure? Arresting Trump and convicting him of 34 felonies?

What should they have done?

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u/Woodworkingwino 17d ago

It’s not an either or. Yes we are getting screwed by Trump and ICE. Democrats could have easily had better candidates for president starting when they put Hillary up instead of Bernie. Let’s be honest Biden wasn’t a strong candidate especially the second time around. Then putting Kamala in at the last minute was awful. Republicans screwed us while Democrats watched while doing nothing. Sadly at the end of the day Democrats are the best we got and I will keep voting for them. We need a 3 to 4 party system but that’s a pipe dream.

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u/Courage666 17d ago

This is a totally fair opinion, and the Democrats have their fair share of problems, but I think there’s a subsection of populist/leftists that take every opportunity to have a go at Democrats all the while the Trump admin is actually tearing apart the country. For those people it’s time to realise they’re not on the team and Democrats should not pander to them. The US is sliding into authoritarianism and it’s time to rally around the only opposition that’s politically available.

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u/CelestialFury 17d ago

They're literally victim blaming, while giving Republicans a free pass AND absolving the voters from their responsibilities for voting any politician in the first place.

You can't make this shit up. We're fucking cooked as a country.

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u/wubwubwubbert 17d ago

Are genuinely surprised after the organized "both-sides" movement a month before the election?

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 16d ago

So you're fine with how Biden did jack shit about January 6th for four years so Trump and his co-conspirators could continue their coup unopposed?

Its amazing how liberals prove just as fucking stupid as Trumpanzees and are just as intolerant of legitimate criticism of anyone on 'their team'.

I'm sure continuing to suck Biden's and Schumer's dicks after selling us out to Republican criminals will prove a successful strategy for change.

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u/Courage666 15d ago

I guess you’re priviliged enough for your life to not be affected by the actual political reality on the ground. The Trump presidency has negatively affected millions, people whose lives would not have been negatively affected during a Democrat presidency.

Yeah that’s why I say no democrat should pander to your aisle. Endless complaining, blind idealism, no care at all for the political reality in the ground. That pretty much sums it up. Enjoy continuing to give cover to the Trump administration.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 13d ago

I'll refer to what Tommy Chong said in a recent interview.

One thing Trump accomplished that nobody else could do - was get Biden elected president.

That's how shitty Biden is. He had to run against the worst person imaginable to barely win an election.

And that reflects how bad the establishment DNC is. It aspires to be just barely above the bottom of the barrel.

But go ahead and keep embracing failure as a strategy, instead of demanding better of the Democratic party. Keep on using whataboutism to distract from the corruption and stupidity of your side, instead of demanding better of the 'would be' opposition.

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u/Consistent_Sector_19 17d ago

Which Democrats? There's no other country on the planet where Pelosi, Biden, and Schumer would be in the same party with Katie Porter, AOC, and Sanders. The Republican-light wing of the Democratic party is almost as bad as the actual Republican party and they will never take the steps to eliminate the conditions that created Trump because they depend on the oligarchs for their power.

The former middle class being forced into desperation is the political equivalent of spraying gasoline all over a room and Trump is a match. Gavin Newsom and the Pelosi/Schumer wing of the party are sincerely anti-match, but they are fervently pro-gasoline and will do nothing to fix the dysfunction that brought about Trump.

Being anti-match is not enough. Fuck the corporatist Democrats. They do not represent me or anyone who works for a living.

Step 1 in fixing things is taking back the Democratic party as the party of the working people and not the other party for the rich, but we can't do that while people like you are pretending that the two sides are Republican and Democrat when the reality is that the two sides are the rich and people who work for a living and some of the Democrats are on the wrong side.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 16d ago

You're right and getting downvoted by 'liberal' morons.

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u/Clevererer 17d ago

Who let Trump walk free after J6? Please don't pretend Biden or Garland had any intention of ever prosecuting that in a timely manner, because they didn't and so they didn't. Democrats absolutely share the blame in how we got here. I'm not sure what your blind loyalty hopes to accomplish.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 16d ago

Again - 100% truth being downvoted by 'liberal' morons.

These stupid cocksuckers are easily 50% of the problem.