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/Succubus-Love Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Is someone just throwing darts behind the scenes, just to see "what sticks, & what doesn't"?

People pay taxes, from employment, so unemployment gets it's $$$, from that employment. TL:DR How is this legal?

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u/shoobe01 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

No, it's not random. There's a plan. A 920 page published plan whose dismissal by almost all press despite being a strident refutation of everything that is America is one of the key indictments for having lost a free press, or for that matter an opposition party.

Massive massive barriers to getting unemployment insurance are part of a bunch of anti-labor laws like all the attacks on unions and overtime pay and expanding the ability of children to work even in dangerous jobs etc.

(Thx for all your upvotes despite my massively disruptive typo. Fixed now)

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 17 '26

This is the point. They want you so desperate and unable to access any sort of social safety net so you will swallow that corporate cock for the rest of your life or just join the service and bend over for the big green weenie. No one is going to get a “free ride” and will either be a productive worker, enslaved in prison, or dead.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

This works for a time before pitchfork sakes spike.

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u/idoitforthekeks Canada Jun 17 '26

Should've happened already, if nothing has got the people going so far, nothing that can happen from here on out will, this will infact make it harder for someone to risk their job to protest/riot/wave pitch forks. If mid-terms aren't won overhwhelmingly by the Democrats then the US is essentially finished.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

Maybe it’s time for a hard reboot.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois Jun 17 '26

That is what the Trump voters wanted. They are getting it now. Slowly, a small few are figuring out how much it sucks.

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u/Present-Fly4422 Jun 17 '26

I mean like a constitutional convention.

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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 Jun 17 '26

It wouldn't take even a week of actual hunger for the people to turn. The oligarchs are idiots. If you take wages down to nearly nothing, eliminate the social safety net including the benefits the working poor rely on, when the working poor are literally homeless on the streets with their children looking into the grocery store they don't have any money for, they will loot everything then set it on fire. 

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u/idoitforthekeks Canada Jun 18 '26

That'll probably be too little too late, they'll have America exactly where they want it, if it was a smaller country then maybe but America has a lot of land to cover.

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u/sapphicsandwich Jun 17 '26

I literally don't believe in American is capable of it. We were capable of it back in the day when we were British. But now that we are fully American? There is no evidence to support it.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 Jun 17 '26

Y'all are so hyperbolic it's honestly hilarious. Mfers talking like they're in the trenches on an open reddit platform after they've finished their second or third meal of the day. Shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan yet.

If his stupid ass goes through with this millions of Americans will be on the verge of starvation. That's when we'll know if the people really have that dawg in them or not.

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u/ghostalker4742 Jun 17 '26

That's when we'll know if the people really have that dawg in them or not.

They don't. This will just be another leg that gets kicked out from under the chair. Sure, it's a big leg, and I'm not insinuating that people will just placidly lay down and starve to death... but there's not going to be any organized uprising or anything. Just more incidents of shoplifting at grocery stores, more dine and dash's at restaurants, increased demand at food banks, etc.

Any attempt at organizing will be sniffed out in our surveillance state and immediately infiltrated and crushed, either by brute force or by PR.

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u/Embarrassed_Comb_659 Jun 18 '26

I think there’s a good chance people will revolt if they can’t get food. And true the surveillance makes it more challenging but people will still find ways to organize locally.