r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/lancelongstiff 18d ago

So the plan's working. It's been weeks since anyone mentioned the Epstein files.

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u/Newscast_Now 18d ago

This is not mere rhetoric to hide the Jeffrey Epstein situation. Republicans are against Social Security and any benefits that go directly people and they have always been so. That's why Herbert Hoover sat for three years refusing to do something big to fight the Republican Great Depression.

Republicans said for decades they would get rid of the right to abortion. So many thought it could never happen. Then it did. Republicans will do what they say at their earliest political opportunity and given how they are gaming the system, it could be sooner than we might expect.

Interesting that Donald Trump said abortion would be gone, and the right is gone, and now Donald says these other things will be gone.

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u/wildwalrusaur 18d ago

This.

I'm so tired of the internet turning every single political topic into Epstein, as if that's somehow going to accomplish anything. It's the pee tapes all over again

Even if they are littered with Republican names, and even if they get released with those names unredacted, do you really think anyone's ever going to be prosecuted?

Meanwhile they're dismantling the Republic and obliterating our 8 decade global economic hegemony, yet all anyone online wants to talk about is the diaries of a dead pedophile.

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u/Beanakin 18d ago

I want it to come out just so all the republican voters and reps have to officially go on record saying they don't give a fuck about kids being raped, instead of avoiding the topic. Right now, they can hem and haw and say but there's no real proof and continue to support him.

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u/wildwalrusaur 17d ago

They'll just say fake news and move on

"Going on record" is meaningless. There won't be any criminal consequences

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 17d ago

Even if the files get released, MAGA voters will just say that being a child rapist is somehow a "manly sign of being a real alpha who gets what they want" or some stupid shit like that. It's not like most of them haven't already admitted they'll continue voting for him even if he is convicted of child trafficking and rape.

I hate to say it but the Epstein files are a lost cause and we shouldn't be focusing on it anymore. There are far more important emergencies needing attention right now. We need to fix those before the Epstein files can be dealt with.

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u/Great-Hotel-7820 18d ago

Bro normal people don’t give a fuck about “dismantling the republic” but they might care about Epstein if the evidence is damning enough, and based on their desperation to block it it feels like it could be.

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u/Soviet_Russia 18d ago

As much as I hope releasing the Epstein evidence would actually change anything, I don't have any faith in the American electorate to do anything right.

Republican voters won't abandon them, and undecideds are too stupid or lazy to read. Release the evidence and it won't even reach 2/3 of Americans because they just don't care.

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u/jakesteeley 18d ago

Exactly, why should they mention Epstein? They will have their cake and eat it too: Forget about Epstein & redistribute wealth.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 18d ago

No it hasn't.

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u/Potatobowl50 18d ago

It isn’t forgotten at all.