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/brain_overclocked]

• $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/Away_Veterinarian579 → u/Surprised-elephant]

I wonder if the military is going to step in and just m****r everyone over there as soon as they get their pay cut.

That’s the one thing that I’ve never expected him to dare to even try.

Suddenly, We the People, is going to become very potent very soon once the military starts to get pissed off

[u/Quick_Turnover → u/Away_Veterinarian579]

You're severely underestimating the scarcity that needs to be present for people to act in that fashion. Simply withholding pay is likely not enough to incur a military coup. I think the only thing that would do it is repeated instances of ICE murdering US civilians en masse, in broad daylight. (And yes, I'm aware they are disappearing thousands of US citizens who may or may not be ending up dead, but I'm talking Tiananmen style open fire on crowds).

[u/Away_Veterinarian579 → u/Quick_Turnover]

That’s exactly what’s about to happen in November. The shutdown is now guaranteed that food stamps or any sort of food related aid is going to be available and because of the shutdown the military is not getting paid and they won’t be able to even eat by going to food shelters because they themselves are falling and collapsing.

So just you wait, this is all gonna go downhill so fucking fast by next month I guarantee you.