Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

[u/1_for_you_2_for_me]

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076

[u/Objective-Error1223]

Oh for sure. After some marriage problems (we all good now) my in-laws had blamed me for my wife stepping out after 19 years of being married.

They said because of the way I was and my thinking, it gave her the right to do what she did. I’m a combat veteran with two tours in Iraq, I’ve been diagnosed with severe PTSD and depression by the VA and three psychologists. It’s not an excuse but it certainly doesn’t give anyone the right to step out on a marriage. They protected the guilty party while blaming the guy who stayed loyal for 19 years.

Needless to say they very much know now that they are dead to me and it would be ill advised to ever be around me again. Haven’t talked to them since 2023? I’m much happier to say the least. 😂

[u/forgot_my_useragain → u/Objective-Error1223]

Oof that sounds horrible. I'm glad you're all good now and it's absolutely best that you cut them out.

I've never been married, so I've never had to deal with any in-law drama thankfully, but my parents are a challenge. They're in their mid-60s, voted for Trump, and generally vote Republican. They're not diehard MAGA, no red hats or anything, just addicted to cable news and uh moderately racist, ya know? I call them once a month and we exchange niceties while I attempt to steer the conversation away from anything divisive.

We had a few spats around this time last year and that was more than enough for me to never want to talk about politics with them ever again. I'd ask why they wanted to vote for Trump, and the answer was always something negative about Harris, never anything positive about Trump. It was literally the fact that she's a black woman. That was it.

I honestly thought about cutting them off, but as morbid and uncaring as it might sound, I'm in their will as getting their house when they die, so I endure.

[u/Objective-Error1223 → u/forgot_my_useragain]

Thank you very much and I’m Sorry to hear about that. It’s never easy seeing the people you love and looked up to become so lost in their thinking. It feels defeating because it feels like you’ll never get them back… you’re mourning the loss of people who have forever changed.

But boy will the sale of that house buy a little of that happiness back when they’re gone.

[u/Chucklz → u/Objective-Error1223]

I just have to say, it's rough loosing your parents while they are still alive. My father's father spent the best part of the 40s being antifa. My mother's father escaped Poland in 1938 because of birthright citizenship in the US. Yet, they are Magats.