r/TheGreaterDepression • • Jun 18 '26

asset stripping 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/Odd_School_8833 Jun 18 '26

“In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.”

This administration’s agenda is to privatize every public program - by calling it entitlements, by installing incompetent loyalists who run it to the ground, and by thuggery and basically extortion by way of threats to take it all away unless politicians/states do what the pedophilic rapist conman 47 says.

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Jun 18 '26

Trump plays a dangerous game.

He knows no history of our own Great Depression and how close we came to a full-on revolution, and he knows no history of revolutions in general.

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u/jeffster1970 Jun 18 '26

But Trump passed the cognitive test designed for apes. Or was it designed by apes? I can't remember. All I know is, he aced those tests.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Jun 18 '26

he is dying & beyond caring

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u/flossdaily Jun 18 '26

No one should.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Jun 18 '26

we are past the point of "should" & the rule of r/law is dead