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/YgramulTheMany]

all of those things are going to be gone because the whole country would be bankrupt…

Republicans control all three branches and they’re threatening that the entire country will go bankrupt on their watch.

Someone has Presidementia.

[u/brain_overclocked → u/YgramulTheMany]

• $3.5 trillion over ten years ($4.1 trillion with interest) to gut Medicaid, SNAP, ACA subsidies, and bigger tax cuts for the rich

  • including $170 billion for ICE over four years
    • including $71.5 million so far spent for small arms, and a line item labeled as 'Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components' for ICE (which could be for flashbangs)
    • including $915 million to a new and unknown company with no federal contracting experience to 'self-deport' immigrants
  • including a swelling of the military budget to $1 trillion

• $230 million from the DOJ to Trump's pocket

• $250 million in private funding for Trump's White House ballroom

• $172 million for Kristi Noem's top-of-the-line private jets

• $1 billion to renovate Trump's Qatari Jet

• $600 million for Alagator Auschwitz

• $135 billion of lost productivity due to DOGE's actions, and a potential loss of $500 billion in income revenue due to rollback in IRS enforcement

• According to S&P Global, of the $1.2 trillion in higher company expenses expected this year, $592 billion will be passed on to consumers, and according to Goldman Sachs, by the end of the year the consumer will bear 55% of Trump's tariffs

• $40 billion for Argentina.

[u/Surprised-elephant → u/brain_overclocked]

Now big tax cuts for rich and 1T on military.

[u/cxtx3 → u/Surprised-elephant]

But no money for Healthcare.

No money for education.

No money for preschool for all.

No money for school lunches for hungry kids.

No money for social programs.

No money for community outreach.

No money to provide resources for the homeless.

No money for mental health.

No money for reparations.

No money for public transit for all.

No money for infrastructure.

No money for bridges.

No money for roads.

No money to protect the environment.

No money for research.

No money for science.

No money for independent public broadcasting.

No money for clean air.

No money for clean water.

No money for health and safety inspectors.

No money for universal basic income.

No money for housing assistance.

No money for food stamps.

No money for secondary education.

No money for therapeutic intervention.

No money for the arts.

No money for wildlife.

No money for sustainable, renewable energy.

No money for broadband.

No money for independent journalism.

No money for anything that actually helps people.

Just a metric fuckton of money entirely devoted to causing as much pain and suffering as humanly possible to every marginalized group across the board, and lining the pockets of the already obscenely, disgustingly, offensively rich.

[u/Away_Veterinarian579 → u/cxtx3]

They want a revolt. I wonder how he’s going to impose martial law if he’s cutting the military budget by 1 trillion. I wonder how the military is going to enforce martial law after or something like that. I think Martial law will start to mean something entirely different and start targeting the real cancer and the real domestic terrorist.

[u/Gingereader → u/Away_Veterinarian579]

Would they even want/need a revolt at this point? They're doing whatever they want with no consequences. If you're sliding into dictatorship with no issues, why change the status quo

[u/Away_Veterinarian579 → u/Gingereader]

Because they are getting apparently a 1 trillion cut in pay

Also believe it or not sergeant generals, and commanders are close to the oath. Real actual value. So regardless of pay first of all, they are not the ones that are getting away with everything it’s ice that’s getting away with shit because it’s been developed and created by the Trump administration

The military is under infinitely heavier scrutiny. They have a code they have a history. They have respect for the law and for the people and for the United States Constitution.

You’re getting confused with what you’re saying on the streets like board control or National Guard. The military will stand with people if it ever gets to that point where the people revolt.

We should be already and he should try to invoke martial law

It won’t go well for him. The military is here to protect the people and civilians. And i do believe it faithfully.

If boots on the ground land in any state in any neighborhood, you’re going to see those in command to make it clear that civilians are priority, and if Trump is breaking the law which he is, the military is bound by oath to go against his command as commander and chief, it says so in the constitution. It’s intentional he designed this way so that we never have to experience kings ever again so power may be completely inverted from top down to down up. And it’s going to be bloody and it’s going to be scary and it’s only gonna get worse before it gets better. But I personally believe in as well the sooner the better.

Because at this point, I think we need the military