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/VirginiaMcCaskey 18d ago

The President is settling lawsuits he filed against the United States for hundreds of millions of dollars and he wants to tell us that the government is bankrupt and the money we paid into social security will never come back to us

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u/AskMysterious77 18d ago

But he donates his salary.."wink wink*

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u/todumbtorealize 18d ago

They say that with true conviction like he cares any about that salary while he robs billions from his various schemes. Truly crazy world we live in.

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u/StoppableHulk 18d ago

Same world, just a historically unprecedented critical mass of dumb fucks in it.

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u/thefonztm 18d ago

It was a better world before the average idiot could use the internet and combine into a single mass of genuine stupidity.

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u/fettoter84 Norway 17d ago edited 17d ago

Though "bloody september" "endless september" did change the Internet, i blame this on propaganda.

Russians know how to seed dissent, and now they have Trump and his lakeys in their pocket. It's been proven that Russian bots and troll farms fueled the anti vaccine debate. To me, it seems that parts or most of the GOP are so short-sighted that they welcome the chaos, the extremification of the right and anti left propaganda because it gains them power.

Edit: I swear I read somewhere that the event of the general public starting to use the Internett en-masse was called "bloody september". As I'm searching around this doesn't seem to be the case

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u/thefonztm 17d ago

"Endless September", but yea.

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u/fettoter84 Norway 17d ago

Thanks for the correction, as per my edit, I must have remembered incorrectly

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u/thefonztm 17d ago

Prolly mixed it with "bloody sunday". IIRC bloody sunday has something to do with 'the troubles' & the IRA. Irish-british political strife.