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Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up already.
You really think suddenly taking millions of people off unemployment is just a distraction from something else?
This is life-ruining shit on a national scale.
Not everything is a "distraction" from the thing EVERYONE ALREADY FUCKING KNOWS ABOUT
But by now, everyone either knows or refuses to acknowledge that the President is a notorious pedophile.
A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.
This just feels like the Iran "Today's bombing a girl's school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997" Epstein War bullshit.
president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
Projection much, huh?
Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it's not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it's fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.
What he wants:
- desperate people who work for scraps
- riots, so he can call in the military and call off the election
What he (hopefully) gets:
- a revolution
Seriously, why aren't billionaire villas burning? Why is Mar-a-Lagos still standing? I'm surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.
Oh, just book a trip to Florida and burn down Mar-a-Lago. Why hadn't I thought of that before?
Armed revolution results in U.S. military drone strikes on blue states. I am not joking. This is Pete Hegseth's handpicked military; they're waiting for a revolution to crush.
I'm not necessarily saying a revolution should or shouldn't happen, but you should absolutely be aware of the circumstances on topics like these. Plus, people have tried to attack the president. So many times that it's seemed for a while that these are selected shooters. They've all failed thus far.
I mean, Trump's war of choice in Iran was an unmitigated disaster. I can't imagine how poorly they would respond to domestic guerrilla warfare
I’m surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.
At this point I'm convinced we're the weakest generation of Americans in American history. And the fact that our history really isn't very long doesn't help make that feel any better.
"Lets do something fast and stupid so they stop talking about me starting and losing a war."
If they remember that, they remember I started the war to distract from my child prostitution ring.
He's gotta do something to pay Iran 300b.
If I were real honest, I'd say that I'm not sure this guy is good with money.
pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket
That's the idea. Make it so the poor have no choice but commit crimes and then lock them up for it
And then, per the 13th, legal slavery!
the "fraud" starts and ends at the oval office. investigate that s.o.b. first.
Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too...
Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they'll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[
California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.
Then, magically unemployment will go down and they'll call it a success. Even though all that's happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.
It says they will take funding from states that don't comply with their bullshit so I'm sure the red states will be fine
If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.
Vote for him, places you in financial stress, he pisses the money away, takes more of your money for undefined reasons.
Jokes on them, it's basically impossible to get unemployment here to start with.
An actual traitor president and it looks like we're just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.
Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.
He’s such a dick.
I dunno if you've noticed, but he can do anything he wants because there's no opposition.
Wait, do we actually have unemployment assistance in the US? I thought it was just a slush fund for boondoggles I was forced to pay into. Every time I've tried to apply for it over the last 20 years I was rejected.
Maybe it depends on what state you’re in, but I have used it between jobs after being laid off. I was actually very surprised how well it worked. This was durning Biden’s term.
Beating the wife and the kids at home when he got his ass kicked at the pub.
And still the population will sit behind their screens with their keyboards and sgare a few memes and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal and they population will sit behind their screens and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal of the week...
Does that equal an amount intended for ballrooms or Iran?