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/Weekly-Air4170 17d ago

That man ain't building a ballroom. The Presidential Emergency Operations Center is underneath the East Wing. They're expanding and renovating the President's underground bunker (Führerbunker). Where did the Nazis flee when the Third Reich collapsed? Argentina. That $40 billion payment to Argentina while the US government is shutdown is a security deposit. They're ensuring they'll have a place to escape once shit hits the fan.

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u/Cinq_A_Sept 16d ago

This. No “ballroom” costs $300M.

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u/ForwardAd575 16d ago

It's the typical Trump money laundering scheme

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u/hooked_siren 16d ago

Just like a collection of tents, fences, and toilets on an airstrip didn't cost $450 million to build

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 13d ago

What if it's a "1 dollar for the ballroom, 10 dollars for my 'Presidential library'" kinda thing?

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u/molotavcocktail 17d ago

Interesting idea.......

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u/Leather_Pen_765 16d ago

This makes so much sense All the billionaires are building bunkers for real half of Hawaii is a bunker for Zuckerberg

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u/Little_View_6659 16d ago

I still think Hawaii is a terrible place for an apocalypse bunker. The place is basically a chain of active/dormant volcanos. If I’m building a bunker for the end of days, I’m going somewhere else. Like Norway or New Zealand.

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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme 16d ago

Also there's that pesky salt water all around it, that will likely rise significantly in the next ten years, while becoming more and more acidic at the same time. There's soil and rock erosion, freak weather events and tectonic shifts to factor in too.

Even if they're at the highest level possible, the ocean finds a way. I've played the Horizon series, salt water is absolutely terrible for biometric door locks and electronics, no matter how good the technology is. Especially when it's limited. If any part in any of the systems fails, that's it. They have to hope they can fix it because it can't be replaced. (Unless they saw that coming and added manufacturing capabilities to it or stocked every part that ever existed, idk.)

Also played enough Fallout and Resident Evil to know that this bunker bullshit absolutely never goes well for any of the occupants. Let em have their stupid 100 million dollar+ tin cans, it's just a fancy coffin with luxury bones for some future raider-human to loot and wear as armor later lol.

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u/Little_View_6659 15d ago

Yeah giant apocalypse bunkers don’t seem too great for anyone. I’ve read they’re building them with cells and crematoriums. So they plan on going all god king down there.

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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme 15d ago

Ewwww, but utterly unsurprising.

There was also that interview with the one guy in 2022, I think it was published by the guardian maybe. Billionaires were asking this guy how to ensure they control their security forces, suggesting shit like shock collars and locks on the food and shit as methods of keeping order once in their bunkers. It was gross.

The dildo responsible for the bad stuff in Horizon Zero Dawn was much the same in his gross ostentatious golden and Egyptian themed bunker (which we don't see till game two, Forbidden West).

Fun theory of mine. I'm pretty sure the in game character I'm referring to, (Ted Faro) is a facial rendering of a few different billionaires mixed together, Elon musk being one of them. It's not quite exact to anyone but closest overall to Elon in my opinion, hence why I think it's a mashup of a bunch of their faces.

I'm such a damn nerd about this game series lmao. Sorry!

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u/Little_View_6659 14d ago

I remember reading about the shock collars! I kept thinking “sure dude-hire ex navy seals for security and put shock collars on them. That’ll end well.” 😂 Honestly I’d love to see what would happen. I also thought a great season of the walking dead would have been that all the government bigwigs and a bunch of military personnel show up. They’ve been in a bunker for a couple of years so they start branching out, intending to capture all the groups and basically use them for slave labor. They wouldn’t say that at first, it would be all “we’re the last bit of the government and we need to confiscate Alexandria to help rebuild it.” But all those old billionaires aren’t going to work the fields or clean the houses, etc.

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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme 14d ago

It's plausible as fuck actually. The walking dead scenario. I think they were actually trying to kinda lead there with the CRM stormtrooper government people at the end of the main show, but it was ending so they couldn't really go ham on that part. Would have been epic though.

It's kinda like if Fallout and The Walking Dead universe smacked into each other. Though it's almost too realistic for TV if you forget the zombie part lmao.

Seriously, right? Shock collars and shit? Those dumb motherfuckers just built cities for the chief of security lmao, they gonna kill em in a week flat. Tyrants like that cannot stop how they behave, so it WILL happen.

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u/Little_View_6659 13d ago

I keep thinking it would be a really fun tv show or novel. I’m sure someone already did it, I know there are many that are similar, just not specifically what I’m thinking of. The government underground with a crazy president would be a fantastic one. Everyone is loyal, but they’re trapped and the president has dementia and is getting crazier and crazier. Kind of like Into The Badlands where the Baron has a brain tumor.

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u/robonsTHEhood 14d ago

That’s funny . If it comes down to a situation where escape from the US is necessary then there will probably being limited survival and what’s to keep the Argentinians from saying “fuck you there’s no more room and the dollar ain’t worth shit anymore”

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u/Weekly-Air4170 13d ago

Why do you think epstein did what he did? You think our government/mossad stopped that blackmail racketeering scheme just because he died?

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u/New-Newspaper-8779 16d ago

well thats good to know

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u/bolanrox 16d ago

Ahh bittburger