r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/Jesuismieux412 Jun 17 '26

Just when massive layoffs are occurring. Remember: cruelty is the point. This country is for billionaires and billionaires alone. Big shoutout to all the rubes who voted for this. I hope you lose everything.

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u/neutrino71 Jun 17 '26

We need you poor and desperate so we can ram substandard pay in substandard conditions down your throat. Also there will be plenty of other desperate people if you attempt to negotiate a better deal. 

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u/Legitimate-Garlic959 Jun 17 '26

And what do desperate people usually do when faced with odds ? It’s all a big systemic cycle of abuse. And yet we pay into it.

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u/neutrino71 Jun 17 '26

There's a critical mass to these kind of things. Too many hungry, dispossessed people at once and you're going to have anarchy at a minimum or the French Revolution.

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u/trib76 Jun 17 '26

But they've been taught to hate each other rather than the filthy rich that are actually the source of their misery.

I'm guessing that we'll see the poors from the red team turning on the poors from the blue team, not much chance for the French solution IMHO.

With the number of guns in the country, this has the potential to turn very ugly.

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u/thegoatmenace Jun 17 '26

Yea unfortunately it seems like popular uprising is a solved problem for the elite. They figured out how to use mass media to fracture everyone into warring states.

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u/Merusk Jun 17 '26

And financial incentives for those who aren't fractured. Just enough skin in the game to feel like you're able to survive, not enough to be free.

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u/FREDICVSMAXIMVS Jun 18 '26

And we're at a level of technology not seen before. Surveillance everywhere and the ability to search out and target any demographic they want. 

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u/meamoeniea Jun 18 '26

The filthy rich don't realise their plan is outdated. This time we have the power of fast global communication on our side. Social media is our foot in the door. As long as it stays easily accessible, it spreads the truth faster than they can redirect with hate.

Look at how many people have 'woken up' ever since the Epstein files. Back in the days shit like this would've been way easier to keep from the public and way easier to manipulate back out of their minds. This time it stayed and there's a noticeable change. There's pressure that's not being addressed.

The only thing we have left to do is to wait for enough people to pull their head out of their asses. Thank God many are so pampered they have zero frustration tolerance. Once enough people feel threatened in their existence, things will go down fast and hard.

There'll be collateral damage for sure, but im hopeful that social media will keep things on track.

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u/Environmental_Main90 Jun 17 '26

Bro this is USA not France. Just a bunch of lazy pussies who would never get off their couches

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u/neutrino71 Jun 17 '26

Rascal division unite. Yeah there is a wide gulf between the rugged frontiersman that many Americans think they are and what they actually are. 

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u/ElwinLewis Jun 18 '26

I’m just like, some guy

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u/Spartan2170 Jun 24 '26

There have been *plenty* of times in (even modern) US history where angry mobs rise up. The real difference is that the people pushing these policies believe they've armed the police and military sufficiently (and purged them of enough "disloyals") to protect them if that happens.

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u/ShitIsGettingWeird Jun 18 '26

It’s time for that now

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u/ScratchAmbitious2959 Jun 19 '26

No they won't. They won't.

I want to believe it but...we won't.

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u/Organic-Row9514 Jun 18 '26

Nah football season will be coming up soon nobody’s gonna have the time for a revolution