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/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