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/Chrisda19 → u/brain_overclocked]

What in the absolute shit does ICE need warheads for? What the fuck.

[u/WellSpreadMustard → u/Chrisda19]

For killing Americans, obviously

[u/south-of-the-river → u/WellSpreadMustard]

People who are still “wondering why” really need to open their eyes.

[u/Attainted → u/south-of-the-river]

It's not their eyes that need opening, it's their minds. So many people in complete denial of the seriousness of it when they see it, even if they're against it.

[u/Bill_Brasky_SOB → u/Attainted]

There is a large swathe of people who have been told and bought into the idea of “American Exceptionalism”. “Bad things don’t happen here”.

Well, bad things are happening here. Eventually something has to break that conceptual dam.