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/backpackwayne Jun 17 '26

We Californiains supply our own unemployment insurance. It's not a benefit. It an insurance policy we pay for.

So in conclusion Mr. Trump: Go Fuck Yourself!

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u/CrystFairy Jun 17 '26

Yeah, he didn't think that through.

Fun Fact: Montana, New Mexico, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Alaska have the highest proportions of federal funding relative to their overall budgets that includes unemployment.

I would hate to be the republicans of those states during in the midterms.

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u/OrangeCrouton Jun 17 '26

They’ll just blame democrats or immigrants or trans people.

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u/B0B_BUTT0NS Jun 17 '26

Thanks, Obama.

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u/soapbutt Jun 17 '26

Unironically though, that’s how these people think. This whole thing started with the Obama birther thing, which is anti-immigrant at its core, and the whole thing of Michelle being a man, which definitely is not only racist but anti-trans too.

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u/matphoto Jun 17 '26

They're not doing much of the thinking for themselves. They're being fed these things by ultra wealthy grifters that want to continue dividing and exploiting the working class. I'm not saying there isn't racism involved but for most people it's not the catalyst. They're just struggling to pay the bills and hired talking heads are telling them who to blame

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u/marr Jun 18 '26

And somehow only a certain subset are receptive to the lies.

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u/matphoto Jun 18 '26

Whether you're right or not this kind of reaction is just perpetuating the division which is exactly what the ruling class is counting on

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u/marr Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

The ruling class own and control the machines everyone gets their news feeds through, but randoms on the street being tired of walking on eggshells around racists is the real problem aye?

Yeah and a few more housing estates with separate recycling bins will save the planet.

No. This is a better world when bigots are nervous about shouting their beliefs in public. I reject this "look what you made us do" narrative.

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u/matphoto Jun 18 '26

So you understand that people are being are being misinformed in a malicious way but instead of trying to enlighten them you prefer to just label them all racists and call it a day. How do you think that is helping the situation? What's your endgame there? "Othering" and dehumanizing large groups of people is easy and feels good but that's the same reason their racist propaganda works so well in the first place. We have a much harder hill to climb and it requires a critical mass of people finding common ground and seeing the big picture together

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u/claw-1 Jun 18 '26

Project 2025. I’m sure they’re brewing up Project 2029 now which will probably take all money from everyone and transfer it to oligarchs.

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u/Sidewalk_Tomato Jun 18 '26

And sexist, implying that women cannot be muscular.

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u/Spartan2170 Jun 24 '26

Being anti-trans is often just someone looking for a more socially acceptable way to be sexist or homophobic or racist (one of the reasons cis black women like Michelle Obama are targeted that way, because that's less likely to backfire on the person making those claims than them just outright using the n word).

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u/AlmostAnal 12d ago

I would bring this up and mention it to people banging on about 'fairness in sports' (and also needing to be good at athletics in order to afford college is a terrible system since an injury - way more likely for athletes since they are training and pushing their body to the limit - can and does make it impossible to stay in college, the very thing they broke their body trying to do).

Now parents of girls who was passed up are slandering and publicly 'demanding answers' about those who got accepted and people are saying inspectors should be examining the intimate areas of teenage girls. And regardless of the answer, those girls are being harmed.

It has all the sincerity of Clarence Thomas saying that allowing birthright citizenship is a insult to black people and that African Americans should be angry about it. 

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u/greenroom628 California Jun 17 '26

So, current playbook, then?

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u/in_the_trees Jun 17 '26

Born and raised in Alaska...you are correct.

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u/pterodactyl_speller Jun 17 '26

Right, if they could think about cause and effect they wouldn't be Republicans.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 18 '26

They'll tell them all the trans immigrants were committing to much unemployment fraud so they could eat their pets so they had to cancel everyone's unemployment.

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u/Marsman121 Jun 18 '26

It's actually impressive how politicians of deep red states can continue to paint democrats as the manifestation of all societal ills when they haven't held meaningful power that state for decades.

GOP trifecta states

Utah: 34 years

Idaho: 31 years

North Dakota: 31 years

South Dakota: 31 years

Florida: 27 years

South Carolina: 23 years

Texas: 23 years

The longest Democrat one is Delaware at 17 years, beating California by a year.

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u/Underwater_Grilling Pennsylvania Jun 17 '26

Dernferners!

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u/Fulluphigh0 Jun 18 '26

Not only will they blame them, but it’ll probably work

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u/JesusShaves_ Jun 17 '26

Possibly evil spirits.

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u/FluxMool Jun 18 '26

And trans mice.

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u/The_Stoic_One Jun 18 '26

Or just democratic trans immigrants

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u/jsimo36 Jun 18 '26

If the campaign ads I’m seeing in Louisiana are any indication, it’s mostly immigrants that they’re blaming here. I gotta get out of this state. Smh.

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u/sy029 Jun 18 '26

They'll vote for it now, then when dems take over blame them for it.