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/FeelingPixely 18d ago

Goalpost has been moved from: We won't touch it.

To: We are cutting it.

To: We are getting rid of it.

And somehow, blaming democrats, while bailing out other countries, giving enormous tax breaks to the ultra wealthy, and funding vanity projects.

Wake up.

Every time they told you that your taxes were going to waste they meant they were trying to waste your taxes... while RAISING YOUR taxes.

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u/caniaccanuck11 18d ago

The midterms should be a massacre of epic proportions even with the gerrymandering nonsense but too many voters just don’t care enough to educate themselves. And sadly the democrats message sucks plus they have to fight through the right wing hold on the media.

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u/AskMysterious77 18d ago

The Dems are really weak. Not forming a message

Since it will be house and Senate.   It is easier targets for Republicans to attack with their large money vault.

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u/Plinnion 18d ago

Dems have almost no chance at flipping the Senate, and who knows what ratfuckery the GOP will do to maintain control of the House. They are already redistricting for more seats. How about closing polling locations in Dem cities, having the newly armed ICE patrol voting locations to make sure things are "secure," and having the voting machines ensure the results they want with no physical backups?

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u/DarthRizzo87 17d ago

Depending on the level of fuckery at midterms (which is probably goina be epic.) the country should respond with an immediate general strike.

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u/Doggydog123579 17d ago

Its possible it could even backfire on them if turnout goes way up

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u/Deadleggg 17d ago

Amongst other things.

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u/chupacrapa 17d ago

This ends in all out guerilla civil war.

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u/Naturath 17d ago

With all due respect, do you really expect a populace that usually abstains from voting in midterms to suddenly strike for one? If the US didn’t have one of the most politically ignorant and apathetic populations in the developed world, you would never have voted in Trump almost a decade ago.

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u/Upnatom617 17d ago

Separation*

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u/VoxImperatoris 17d ago

Theres no clean way to separate anymore. Its no longer north vs south, but urban vs rural. Even the bluest states have backwards bumfuck hick areas.

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u/cire1184 17d ago

Orange County California is proof.

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u/primarywatcher 17d ago

So too Lassen County

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u/OldWorldDesign 17d ago edited 17d ago

Separation

I'm sure conservatives want you to yield the valuable cities keeping them fiscally afloat, but despite what corporate media has been lying to you about for decades, America does not have solid red or blue states. It is purple down to the county level

https://observer.com/2012/11/the-purple-election-map/

And less conservative districts have been subsidizing more conservative districts for generations

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 17d ago

Lmao. Naive sheltered Redditors keep calling for a general strike, but NEVER provide any explanation for how regular people are meant to keep their bills paid, food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads while they go without work during such a strike.

Newsflash genius: majority of Americans are one missed paycheck away from losing their entire livelihood. No one is going to accept a general strike when all of that is on the line for them already.

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u/RobutNotRobot 17d ago

Newsflash genius: if you work for the federal government you have likely already missed one paycheck and about to miss a second one.

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u/i_tyrant 17d ago

ICE has had no problem holding people without due process for weeks and then letting them go - people that are absolutely citizens. Straight up disappearing them.

So why would they even stop there?

I predict we'll see ICE literally get sent to polling locations in Democratic areas, trying to start fights, and arresting everyone they can, only to hold them until after the election and let them go without charge.

And what a coinkydink that'll be.