r/UnderReportedNews Jun 08 '26

Video Mike Johnson says Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year

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u/ElBorracho2000 Jun 08 '26

I better get a refund check with everything that was taken out of my paychecks that went towards social security then

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u/OdosSolidAdventures Jun 08 '26

Yeah you'll get that right next to that DOGE refund

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u/tedthewalrus Jun 08 '26

so in two weeks then

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u/Steammail Jun 08 '26

These two weeks have been the longest two years of my life. And don’t get me started on the two weeks that have gone on for ten so far

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/antithero Jun 08 '26

Still waiting for that check from Mexico for that wall.

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u/Super-Statement2875 Jun 09 '26

But what about the healthcare plan ?

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u/vonshiza Jun 09 '26

There are concepts of a plan, so we're good.

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u/Suspicious-Yak5670 Jun 09 '26

Lol, some people are waiting for their income checks for this year they said they may get them maybe by the end of this month, can you believe that? This is the first time anything like this has happened.

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u/ardentiarte Jun 09 '26

The farmers who voted for Trump lucked out and declared bankruptcy to sell their property to China for pennies on the dollar. Yay maga winning

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u/Snowflake7958 Jun 08 '26

10 years this asshole has been a part of our lives.

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u/Gregwah666 Jun 09 '26

was thinking that today. A fucking decade of this shit.

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u/gavstar69 Jun 09 '26

So unfair to have this orange asshole in my life every day

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u/Confident-Break-5117 Jun 10 '26

Should’ve voted for the black lady

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u/zimbabweinflation Jun 13 '26

But her laugh!

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u/Sayon7 Jun 10 '26

The people who voted in that sadistic fascist rascist have been part of our lives a lot longer than then 10 years. Trump just let them show their hatred in public

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u/Fue_la_luna Jun 09 '26

There's a part of A Tale of Two Cities that describes the centuries of class abuse that went on before the French revolution. It can get much worse and people will go along with it.

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u/TrentKillkenny Jun 10 '26

"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy." Lewis

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u/hxdcm Jun 09 '26

Crossroads deals end, just saying.

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u/foughk Jun 09 '26

Its like Money Pit (the tom hanks movie)

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u/ThortheAssGuardian Jun 08 '26

well ain't this day a chronological oddity -- two weeks from everything!

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u/jamham2011 Jun 10 '26

I don’t want no FOP dammit! I’m a Dapper Dan man!

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u/Cosmomango1 Jun 09 '26

Just like we still waiting for trump to release his taxes after 9 years plus

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u/SnooCalculations2573 Jun 09 '26

Check is in the mail

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u/ObstreperousOverture Jun 09 '26

Incidentally, we are now de-funding the United States Postal Service into a non-functional state; and it is illegal for UPS to transport these federal checks. Sorry.

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u/GlassCap123 Jun 09 '26

Lol, DOGE. People believed/still believe in it. Such utter bags of 💩 hahahah

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u/joihelper Jun 09 '26

Imagine 1 stair represented personal wealth of $100k. Fifty percent of Americans are on that stair or lower.

Ten stairs up we reach the second floor of this hypothetical building at a worth of $1m. Something like 98% of Americans have been passed by now.

Keep walking those stairs until you get to the top of Mt. Everest. You have reached $1.45B. So you need to repeat that walk another 492 times to get to Elon Musk’s current wealth of $716B.

Not only did he pay $0 in federal taxes last year, the government gave him billions in taxpayer funds to subsidize his businesses for him. Because for some reason it would be unreasonable to expect the world’s richest man to fund his own ventures.

But he will still go on the news and explain that giving Medicare and Social Security to the Americans sitting on that first step is the real problem with our country.

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u/GlassCap123 Jun 09 '26

🫪😔such utter bs and insanity how little others care and how stupid we've become.

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 Jun 09 '26

And the tariff refund.

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u/ThelIIusion0fSeIf Jun 09 '26

There is a tariff refund...for corporations...paid by our tax dollars after consumers already paid the markup to corporations covering the tariffs they're getting reimbursed for.

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u/Guy0911 Jun 09 '26

That’s going to be paid in newly minted Trump Bitcoin. Hold on to it and watch your savings soar!

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u/BossWilling Jun 09 '26

Don't forget the tariffs refund, too.

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u/lostredditers Jun 09 '26

And your tariff tefund

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u/Hopsblues Jun 08 '26

Exactly, I could have invested that or just put it in saving if I knew it would be stolen from me later. I'm literally planning on my Social security during my retirement. I've been planning on it for close to 40 years.

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u/code-coffee Jun 08 '26

I hope you didn't vote Republican

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u/Guy0911 Jun 09 '26

I hope everyone who can’t afford to miss a paycheck, votes these Republican gangsters out of office and into the penitentiary.

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u/WilderMindz0102 Jun 09 '26

I genuinely hope you get a chance to use it while you retire. Im 32 and fully believe that "retirement" will be a thing in 40 years from now and that there wont be any safety nets or benefits left.

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u/lastronaut_beepboop Jun 10 '26

If whatever the GOPs plan is, fails, the real solution to keeping SS solvent and funded well into the future is raising the income cap so the wealthy have to pair their fair share.

Doesn't help all the money they've already stolen out of those accounts to begin with though smh

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u/bikedork5000 Jun 08 '26

Counterpoint: I don't think of my FICA tax as being a deposit into my own retirement fund. I think of it as the cost of ensuring that elderly relatives don't call me asking to move into my spare bedroom.

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u/Hopsblues Jun 09 '26

Sure, but that's an agreement we signed up for that would insure our well being as well. R's are about to just pull that rug out and steal all that money I invested into the system. They bankrupt the system and want to steal from me to take care of their fuck up....sorry but, no!

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Jun 08 '26

Nah, they're making these cuts so they can increase military spending.

Which you can't opt out of paying for, as a taxpayer. Fucking infuriating.

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u/commenter_on_reddit Jun 09 '26

We spent $961.6 billion in 2025 on the military, plus about $120 billion for the intelligence agencies, ICE, and border patrol. The most of any country in the world by so much that you'd have to add together the next 6 highest spending militaries to equal what the USA spends.

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u/Fit-Bus2025 Jun 09 '26

They can't wait to have enough agents and military crew to round up certain people door to door. Just evil.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Jun 09 '26

Military spending that goes to his defense contractor buddies that goes to his pocket.

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u/Agile_Monk_115 Jun 11 '26

Yeah, including his sons who are “advisors” on contractors’ contracts

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u/mortgagepants Jun 09 '26

that's what they want you to say. "sure, you can steal my money by lying to me, telling me we have this benefit, and then keeping my money for years. as long as you pay it back."

mike johnson is some kind of sick pervert with weird sex stuff with his kids and very probably gay. a real piece of shit like this shouldn't be able to destroy things i voted for because they're corrupt pieces of shit.

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u/Visual_Exam7903 Jun 09 '26

Its not a benefit. It was paid insurance. Now the insurance company is changing the rules after decades of collections.

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u/mortgagepants Jun 09 '26

no- now we're letting the insurance company change the rules after decades of collections.

there is no take bakes- this is the program we paid for as americans, and that is how it should be despite what a twerp like mike johnson thinks.

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u/Jdholzen Jun 08 '26

With interest

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u/Responsible_Dot_8233 Jun 09 '26

Fuckers needs a reminder that those aren't their damn money.

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u/Lowskillbookreviews Jun 08 '26

Sure bud. You’ll get that as soon as the tariff refund check comes in.

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u/nevertolatePOMO Jun 08 '26

Tariff checks are coming in. Just not to us. Businesses paid those then charged us by raising costs, and they likely are not lowering their prices either.

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u/Teledildonic Jun 08 '26

Aren't you still living large off those Covid checks?

/s

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u/Squanchedschwiftly Jun 08 '26

Native americans and black people still havent had reparations. I dont see how they would even begin to do something like this. I want it all so bad bc of how corrupt they are but I dont know anything about this sort of thing. I just know theyre able to steal it so easily so why is it so hard to give it to those that need it most? They managed a few checks during covid, maybe do that as ubi to start and add more to those impacted by systemic issues somehow. Im a dreamer dont judge

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u/0202_tihssitidder Jun 09 '26

You won't.

Vote Republicans out and never elect one again even for dog catcher.

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

With interest. The interest alone would not be trivial for most people.

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u/K_Linkmaster Jun 09 '26

What are you going to do when the government steals your retirement?

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u/byteminer Jun 09 '26

The government isn't going to steal it. They will give it to their biggest donors to "invest" so those people can steal it. "The government" will do it for a minor campaign contribution or a nice motorcoach.

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u/Visual_Blackberry_24 Jun 09 '26

Stop paying federal taxes NOW!!!

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u/Academic_Check_7684 Jun 09 '26

Yeah, I'll just tell my job to knock that off...

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u/Visual_Blackberry_24 Jun 09 '26

You can. Its really easy. Just ask for a new w4 form and mark it exempt. They will file it and done. Take the savings, put it in a high yield savings account and don't touch it. Easy!

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u/nevertolatePOMO Jun 08 '26

That part! When can we legally unsubscribe to all that?

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u/dakotanorth8 Jun 09 '26

There ARE limits to Americans just sitting back and letting crooks steal our lifetime monies.

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u/squirtloaf Jun 08 '26

PLUS INTEREST.

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u/Red10GTI Jun 09 '26

For real. Been paying into that shit for a quarter of a century, if it gets cut then what happened to all my money that’s been taken out of every damn paycheck?

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u/Tooter_Snooter Jun 09 '26

Sorry that’s going to Trump 

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u/banksarebad2 Jun 09 '26

Nope, straight to Israel.

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u/Lord_Dingus83 Jun 08 '26

Hopefully people realized the mistake they made not voting Democrat.

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u/IllustriousTip6904 Jun 08 '26

The largest spending item on autopilot is military spending.

Wtf was the Big Beautiful Bill if not just a complete gutting of every other form of spending?

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u/239tree Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

We all know it's better to invest in drones, anti- ballistic missile tech and diplomacy instead of "battleships," "tanks," hate, and division. We could cut our military budget in half with strong leadership and auditing. But no...

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u/PearNo2152 Jun 08 '26

Hey they said we could make those drones for $180k apiece while Serbia is making them for under $500

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

They gutted tons of programs and still managed to spike debt. GQP has been massively fiscally irresponsible since Reagan.

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u/mjkjr84 Jun 09 '26

Reagan searched hard and found one person grifting the system to label a "welfare queen" and a large number of stupid poor people have been tripping over themselves to vote against their own interests ever since. Fucking idiots.

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u/kazetoame Jun 09 '26

Did this queen even exist?

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u/After_Preference_885 Jun 09 '26

She did not, it was entirely fabricated

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u/jubilant-barter Jun 11 '26

Linda Taylor was a real woman with a history of criminal misconduct. So, there was one. She was arrested and convicted of Welfare Fraud.

But one person does not make a pattern. Reagan's crusade against welfare recipients was wrongheaded.

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u/After_Preference_885 Jun 11 '26

I stand corrected and learned something new, ty

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u/-rwsr-xr-x Jun 09 '26

The largest spending item on autopilot is military spending.

It's a good thing (/s) they're trying to silently push a bill to combine the Israeli military with the U.S. military, so that $954 billion annually can be shared with Israel, instead of having those funding bills questioned and denied time and time again.

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u/mooncrane606 Jun 09 '26

This is why the media covers stories like Trump going to NBA games instead of giving us real information

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u/TechnicalScheme385 Jun 08 '26

So unless I'm missing something here. Shit is on fire somewhere, and somehow as a world, unrealizing that shit is about to "get worse". Nations bumping up their militaries, not only for self defense, but the actual possibility that the world will be at war.

So... anyone under 43 get bent cause you're on the draft list (america) and as for everyone else. May the odds so ever be in your favor!

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u/IllustriousTip6904 Jun 08 '26

I'll go to jail before I die for a pedophile

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u/fritz236 Jun 08 '26

Oooh, first thing I've heard in a while as a geriatric millennial to look forward to, although my son will soon be of age to serve. At least we get a couple years.

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u/Alternative-Tax7318 Jun 08 '26

Sad that your son can’t even be eligible for social services or a drivers license in the states without willfully signing up to be conscripted if needed.

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u/Inevitable_Virus_765 Jun 08 '26

Weird that you choose to balloon spending in 25,26, then after the midterms spending is an issue that must be addressed. 

But by then you won't have to worry about losing elections anymore, so why the hell not?

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u/_tragicmike Jun 08 '26

The "conservative" playbook.

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u/fishmanfishmanfishma Jun 09 '26

It's like repeatedly hiring a mechanic who keeps damaging your car, but they blame minorities and the poor which tickles your pickle

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u/Toledo_9thGate Jun 08 '26

Entitled spending that people pay into while you play wars and ballrooms. Criminals.

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

Don't forget tariffs and crypto 

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

And $20 billion to bail out Bessent's husband.

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

And the reported $300 billion to reopen the strait.

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u/icleanjaxfl Jun 09 '26

and watches, phones and other grifts

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u/Vis-hoka Jun 08 '26

Medical care is entitlement hmm. Stupid poor people. Being poor.

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u/Aidrox Jun 08 '26

Stupid old people, getting older.

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u/snorbflock Jun 08 '26

"It is no concern of mine whether your family has... What was it again? Food? You should have thought of that before you became peasants!"

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u/DPadres69 Jun 08 '26

Entitlements as in entitled to them. Yet they somehow spin this as lazy old people?!

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u/Pavlovsdong89 Jun 09 '26

They purposely equate entitlements( something you are owed because you paid into the system) with having a "false sense of entitlement."

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Jun 09 '26

It's insurance which people have paid into their entire working lives!

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt Jun 09 '26

Not even poor people. People who aren't rich.

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u/Tooter_Snooter Jun 09 '26

It’s like Jesus said, “Fuck the poor” 

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u/blah_don_blah Jun 08 '26

I dont know why Dems dont campaign using these audios.

And add them the ones when the Republicans say it's okay to get involved in wars.

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u/round-earth-theory Jun 09 '26

Because no one believes them. Voters expect candidates to absolutely bullshit them for the memes now. Republican voters that supposedly support this don't actually believe in it. So if you try to use their words as a weapon, they'll just call you a liar and people will believe them.

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u/LanceColonel0341 Jun 08 '26

Because both sides are fucking guilty and evil, come on man.

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u/itsatoe Jun 08 '26

...after the midterm elections.

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u/BeezyBates Jun 09 '26

If I don’t get social security I’ll burn this mother fucker to the ground.

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u/Comfortable_Visual73 Jun 09 '26

This should be higher. 

ALL YA’LL MF BETTER VOTE!!

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u/yamers Jun 09 '26

isn't this already baked into the big beautiful bill?

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u/MsBenovanStanchiano Jun 08 '26

Republicans are fucking villains. Neglecting the needy and elderly in order to give more money to a man who r *pes and kills kids so he can have a fucking ballroom and let our “ally” kill even more kids.

If you vote for this shit, you need your head and soul examined.

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u/Long-Region5088 Jun 08 '26

They’re Mr burns trying to block out the sun. A cartoonish level of supervilliany

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u/Sure-Database-9952 Jun 08 '26

They need their head filled with lead, not examined.

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u/stonerPI Jun 09 '26

He rapes kids. Don’t censor it.

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u/MsBenovanStanchiano Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

I get shadow banned all the time, so I don’t remember which subs allow me to type what.

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u/qoloxolop Jun 09 '26

On reddit? For writing rape?

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u/MsBenovanStanchiano Jun 09 '26

Yes. And writing it next to the word kids. Apparently not in this sub, but yeah, it’s happened

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u/qoloxolop Jun 09 '26

That's so sad

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u/phallic-baldwin Jun 08 '26

They are NOT Entitlements since we fucking paid for them!

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u/Loko8765 Jun 09 '26

But that is the definition of entitlement. They are taking away something that you are entitled to, that you have the right to, something that is yours because you paid for it.

They twist words to make it seem like taking it away is a good thing, but they are liars.

Another example is with abortion, equating abortion to “terminating a fully viable baby just because I’m irresponsible“. With entitlement, they are playing on “false sense of entitlement”… which is something negative because it’s false.

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u/EetsGeets Jun 09 '26

What? Yes they are. We pay into it, so we're entitled to draw from it.

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u/_bufflehead Jun 08 '26

This administration is behind the "screw the boomer" movement, and if they talk it up enough - and tik-tok it up enough - they'll have the votes of everyone under 50.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Jun 08 '26 edited 28d ago

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u/xNOTHINGBURGERx Jun 09 '26

It's more like they're on the screw everyone who isn't rich movement.

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u/jdevoz1 Jun 08 '26

Tax the wealthy, thats why we can’t have nice things

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u/OkLab6701 Jun 08 '26

They are fine with the billions Trump spends on vanity.. I would say they can pound sand

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u/tracyveronika Jun 08 '26

*trillions

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u/BackItUpWithLinks Jun 08 '26

They won’t have enough republicans to pass that after the midterms this November

🤣

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u/JellyTwank Jun 08 '26

We can hope

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u/Fifth-Dimension-Chz Jun 09 '26

Dont worry in years everyone will forget and do it all again

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u/LDawnBurges Jun 08 '26

So we have to cut spending for SS and such, but we have billions to spend on War, ICE, etc????

Guess that’s going to hit his base pretty hard.

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u/Potusmicropenis Jun 08 '26

Going to basketball games. Playing golf every fucking day that he isn’t napping at pressers. Fighting with reporters. Oh. And lying. Monumental colossal lying.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 Jun 08 '26

It will but they’ll just continue to blame democrats even when their states have only voted republican for decades.

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u/monos_muertos Jun 08 '26

These are people living off tax dollars and bribes telling you you're the parasite.

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u/cantevendoitbruh Jun 09 '26

No they cant survive on their salaries without trading stocks!!!

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u/RadarPainter Jun 09 '26

Social Security IS an entitlement. You are entitled to the benefits youve spent your entire life paying into. Dont let "entitlement" become some boogeyman scare word. They f*cking owe you. You are entitled to what youve paid in. Period.

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u/mosttriumphanthero Jun 09 '26

Yes, it's the very definition of an entitlement program; the government must fund it. There is nothing bad about that word no matter what a certain party would have us believe. Otherwise, it's discretionary spending and that can be changed on a whim.

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u/ProfessorDerp22 Jun 08 '26

With compounding interest that tracks the S&P 500.

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u/Rare-Maintenance4820 Jun 08 '26

Dems have to take at least one House in the midterms

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u/Potusmicropenis Jun 08 '26

One? If we don’t take the senate by more than a whisker, we’re screwed. We need to have a clear majority. Don’t forget that there are democratic senators who are DINO’s. We need to insulate ourselves from the fucking kooks.

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u/lol_my_princey_pole Jun 08 '26

Let’s start with congressional benefits

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u/pb_syr Jun 08 '26

That would be the tipping point.

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u/Dense_Delay_2605 Jun 09 '26

lol no such thing.

NO.SUCH.THING

You'll suffer much less when you come to accept it.

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u/MaverisStranger Jun 08 '26

So, Republicans want to make people homeless and kill them en masse, is what this is implying.

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u/PlentifulBox Jun 08 '26

Assholes stealing our money. Nice that I’ll be retiring in 10 years, everyone is going to be homeless and starving. May they rot in hell.

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u/Jamizon1 Jun 08 '26

The answer is simple. Tax the mega ultra rich & corporations at a rate that is acceptable. Return the tax rates to what they were in the late fifties and early sixties. Cutting “entitlement” programs is only going to further piss people off… especially the ones who have paid in their entire life, and are close to retirement (raises hand). We paid in, and you clowns used the funds like a piggy bank for your reckless spending, and shitty fiscal agendas.

The wealth gap is the CLEAR indicator that these clowns have no fucking idea what they’re doing, or how to balance a budget without screwing those at the middle and bottom.

These “costs cutting” measures are easy for these clowns to talk about when they get a pension, and free healthcare while in office.

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u/okhi2u Jun 08 '26

'Cost cutting' is merely the excuse to shit on non-rich people and make their lives worse, while making it seem like they had no other choices when they know they do.

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u/mickeltee Jun 08 '26

The fact that they call social security an entitlement kills me every time. I’ve been paying into it my whole life. It’s my money, and you’ve been taking it from me for my entire life on the understanding that I will get it back when I retire. It isn’t an entitlement, it is mine.

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u/jasandliz Jun 08 '26

Tax the rich 

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u/Potusmicropenis Jun 08 '26

And then eat them.

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u/Jamsedreng22 Jun 08 '26

That Americans aren't taking to the streets over this is insane.

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u/nalninek Jun 08 '26

Medicare/Medicaid is a gift to private insurance so they don’t have to cover those that need the most medical care. Cutting Medicaid and Medicare would destroy the American healthcare system.

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u/angrymoppet Jun 09 '26

Your mistake here is you seem to be under the impression that seniors would be able to get private insurance when the plan is to just let them die destitute.

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u/jackrabbit323 Jun 08 '26

At this point just let my state manage its own Social Security money and Medicare/Medicaid money.

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u/Kirra_the_Cleric Jun 09 '26

Let my state stop sending money to the feds, period. Maybe a reasonable budget for certain things but let the states stand on their own feet. Fuck sending money to welfare states. Let them use their bootstraps.

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u/agonizedink16 Jun 08 '26

It’s annoying, you pay into something for year and then it’s gone. This was a promise to our people but now it’s taken away?!? I have not had any benefit from those programs but I know the value. It’s about helping our community who payed and earned it. Just depressing how selfish our county is rather than helping everyone. Government should be for everyone and not half of us.

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u/Odd_Equipment2867 Jun 08 '26

SSN is not entitlement.

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u/Berfman Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

It completely is. Americans are entitled to financial security based on the money they paid in their whole working lives.

The problem is these fuckwads made the word “entitlement” synonymous with “feeling entitled” and now it has a negative connotation.

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u/TheRealBittoman Jun 08 '26

Probably wasting my time here but here goes... If you actually believe that then you have no idea how SS is run or why it even exists in the first place. This is not tax money that is set aside by the government for freeloaders, in spite of what Republicans have been screaming for 85 years about it. It is a literal account set up for you that logs your working months (represented as credits) and if you work enough consecutive months you are entitled to the funds you put in. The purpose was to help ensure that those who have become disabled enough they are unable to be a wage earner or you are too old to work can remain solvent. Everything else you hear about how SS is collected or doled out is propaganda from bullshit rich people who want you to think it's some kind of free money. Why would they do this? They want that money too but it's them that are not entitled to it. Fight for your money, don't fight for jerks in expensive suits who burn $250 bills to light their $500 cigars on private jet flights to go have lunch in another country. Don't buy their crap, don't listen to what they say, it's only intended to create confusion and arguments at our level to make it easier for them to steal even more from you. There is a reason why Musk and his merry bad of fraudsters walked out with all of the SS data on a physical drive and it's definitely not to protect you or I.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Jun 08 '26 edited 28d ago

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u/Odd_Equipment2867 Jun 10 '26

The way entitlement is used and thrown around in media implies opposite. English is not my primary language.

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u/Parahelix Jun 11 '26

Yeah, the word "entitled" is often used pejoratively to describe someone who expects unearned special treatment. That's why the GOP likes the term. The actual original meaning of entitlement is simply something that you have a legitimate right to.

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u/familiarshadowkatt Jun 08 '26

It is, it's just that conservatives have intentionally twisted the word entitlement from meaning "something that is rightly and legitimately owed" to "something you are demanding without deserving it." They've essentially made "entitlement" (a legal term) and "sense of entitlement" (a colloquial phrase about a psychological state of mind) seem to mean the same thing, even though they do not.

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u/sparr0w91 Jun 08 '26

It certainly is. The trick is that entitlement is not a bad word no matter how much the pissant GOP cry about it. We pay into it, we are entitled to that money. Same goes for literally everything our taxes pay for. It is our money, we are entitled to benefit from it.

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u/SneakyRobo Jun 08 '26

"entitlement programs" fuuuuck you. If anybody gets entitlements it is congress, who is on vacation half the time.

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u/Excellent_Job8154 Jun 08 '26

Fuckers spending trillions on military

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u/kqih Jun 08 '26

The United States are about to make Dark Ages great again!

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u/Major__Factor Jun 08 '26

Sorry, American friends. You are fucked. I hope you pull through this somehow.

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u/Billy711711711 Jun 08 '26

WTF and give tax breaks to the rich.

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u/TLKimball Jun 08 '26

Too bad about that pesky election this year.

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u/LayneLowe Jun 08 '26

Republicans aren't going to do shit after January of next year. They're going to be in the minority.

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u/Responsible_Ladder25 Jun 09 '26

But DOGE saved so much money!!!!! 🤭

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u/WhyOhWhyOhWhy333 Jun 08 '26

Well do you think all the boomer MAGA and conservatives, are going to finally understand how fucking SCREWED they are?

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u/Alternative-Tax7318 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

So I’m getting (my) money that I already paid into social security back, right?

Or was it already being spent to cover its own expenses because the bipartisan legislators swore up and down it was sustainable?

I’ll opt for the latter because I’m not a fucking idiot. At least we get to keep the government issued bar code.

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u/Zippier92 Jun 08 '26

They would rather rule a shithole, than reside in paradise.

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u/Potusmicropenis Jun 08 '26

What do you think the bunker is for? It’s gonna be like Dr. Strangelove

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Jun 08 '26

I think you need do an investigation of the actuarial data to determine what age, benefit etc. required for social security. That being said I wouldn't trust any GQP to touch it. They gutted this country's services and gave that $ to billionaires while, as Mikey says, they've increased the debt by $ trillions. 

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u/kostac600 Jun 08 '26

it really looks like the billionaire class and their running dog lackeys are trying to kill the rest of us and replace us with AI

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u/ProdigyJon Jun 08 '26

They choose to spend at the top and cut at the bottom. Each one of them should be removed.

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u/Minute987 Jun 08 '26

It sucks but this will hit red states the hardest. I can at least watch the leopards eat faces.

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u/SarcasticLie Jun 09 '26

Social security isn't theirs to cut. It belongs to the working people who pay it out of every paycheck. They are robbing you in the literal sense of the word.

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u/Rogue_bae Jun 09 '26

This country is literally going to go bankrupt. And soon.

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u/LutherOfTheRogues Jun 09 '26

OR, hear me out, quit the endless wars and defense spending with Israel.

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u/Prize-Positive-1883 Jun 09 '26

God I’m so angry, this is such a fucking evil thing to do.

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u/GlitteringAd1736 Jun 09 '26

Oligarchy at work.

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u/PepiDoodleDay Jun 09 '26

Is that why we are in trouble? I thought it was because we are being run by the most corrupt this government has ever been in my entire lifetime.

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u/doublelist87 Jun 09 '26

This will cause Americans to revolt

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u/kvckeywest Jun 09 '26

"Let us be clear. Social Security has not contributed one nickel to our deficit or our national debt. Social Security is funded by the payroll tax, not the U.S. treasury."
-Sen. Bernie Sanders

https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/HowAreSocialSecurity.htm

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u/Visual_Exam7903 Jun 09 '26

Not without Congress they won't. VOTE guys and gals. You paid into the system your entire working life. Why should they cut it?

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u/boywonder5691 Jun 09 '26

And the morons this will impact the most will line right up and vote for them

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u/CptnDillweed Jun 08 '26

Poor people still love Trump

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u/TheShark94 Jun 08 '26

They're not going to do anything, after midterms they won't have the numbers to do squat.

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u/JibIette Jun 08 '26

They've been planning this ever since any minority received assistance. Disgusting selfish creatures. Imagine living your entire life wanting everything just to leave this earth with NONE OF IT. They will leave the most crusted skid mark on the planet and cry that poor people are too privileged.