Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States’ third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.

I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.

Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!

I don’t see it. Yes I am legally blind in one eye but my good eye sees pretty damn well and it just looks like a blurry mess

Don’t forget the “parasites” too, which I guess would be considered part of the “undesirables” 🤷🏻‍♂️

The easiest solution would be to do a UBI tied to a COLA of some sort to fend off inflation and then ditch all the other entitlement programs to simplify things. Anyone making more than UBI would have to pay a tax. I don’t even want to go down that rabbit hole of what can fix our busted tax system. Let anyone who has paid into Social Security still be entitled to their benefits and UBI would be added if there is a negative difference with Social Security.

I dunno, these are just ideas I think of when I’m trying to sleep at night, I have no clue if they’re even remotely feasible to do in this country with prices and incomes varying so widely in every part of the country.

All I know is what I had to go through to get SSDI and I discovered the social safety net is really just you free-falling through hoops on fire hoping you land on the tiny speck of an inflatable bouncy house on the ground that also has a slow leak in it and may or may not stay inflated to brace your fall. And you have to repeat that for each program you need to apply to for benefits. Oh and you get to free fall every year to 5 years depending on the benefit, but instead you’re free falling from half the distance with less hoops on fire but the inflatable bouncy house still has a leak. Oh and if you happen to make it through and be protected by the bouncy house, don’t even think about saving money for a parachute next time because you could lose some benefits or have them cut.

Anything is better than the broken system we have now.

This definitely is not just for immigration purposes

Great! Show me a country that will willingly take in someone who’s disabled, financially support them, and house them and I’ll fly there tomorrow – oh and they’ll need to cover the cost of the plane ticket too. I’m terrified of what’s coming for me as a “parasite” being on disability, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing but I don’t have the finances to move elsewhere.

Yes, he is a symptom, but he’s also morphing the disease at breakneck speed to encompass anyone who isn’t an able-bodied white male. I’m not fluent in diseases, so I don’t know what I’m talking about but it sure as hell seems more than just a symptom.

Contrary to what the media tells us, those of us solely relying on SS retirement or SSDI/SSI are at or below poverty level. I’m on SSDI and am not making much more

Exactly my thought too

Aren’t 99% of local and state law enforcement Trump supporters?

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, but officials refused to let him visit an erroneously deported Maryland man who the Supreme Court has ordered returned to the United States.

Because he’s dead

Ramirez, in a letter to House Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) first obtained by Axios, requested he authorize an official CODEL to El Salvador.

Given that the Administration’s use of CECOT for illegal and unconstitutional deportations is rife with ‘administrative errors’ … I urgently request a CODEL to conduct oversight," she wrote.

The song Hotel California comes to mind here.

Reps. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) both shared photos of themselves at the notorious maximum security prison on Wednesday in posts on X praising the administration’s deportation policies.

I can’t even…WTF

Ouch. And here I thought I was terrified because I’m on SSDI. I hope you get to escape from this idiocy.

As for me, I’m trying to enjoy my life to the fullest that I can in my current situation and biding my time until I get disappeared. I don’t have the financial means to even attempt to get to another country, and none of them would want a “parasite” like me anyways.

Man I miss old Looney Tunes.

I went and saw the new movie with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie and it was pretty darn good.

And listen, I know now isn’t really a good time to watch a movie and get distracted, but it did a pretty good job of distracting me and made my mental health a tiny bit better not having to think about what we’re going through and will be going through.

I don’t even think we have that long.

Well, I’ll rephrase that: I don’t think I have that long being on SSDI, Medicaid, and in HUD housing. I have no doubt I’ll be disappeared as a “parasite” long before the collapse. I do have a cane and I’m not afraid to use it for what it wasn’t intended for so I won’t go down without a fight.

But given the fact that nearly half of Project 2025 has been implanted in a little less than 4 months it might happen at the end of summer – especially if the debt ceiling doesn’t get raised.

Trump said. “I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country. But you’ll have to be looking at the laws.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line?

This is true for those who have support locally. I don’t have anyone I can rely on locally right now if this starts happening to the DML. There is no other safety net for me. The safety net I do have was already riddled with holes and partially on fire BEFORE Jan 20th.

Also, this hasn’t even started happening and already people are struggling paycheck to paycheck and won’t risk it by protesting – at least not to the point where we can get sustainable numbers over weeks in all 50 states.

And there it is. Combine this “accident” with the Death Master List and you have a recipe for “accidentally” ruining people’s lives who are retired or disabled. We know how this administration handles mistakes now as well.

What does a person who is declared dead but indeed still alive do when this happens and they lose income, housing, and medical insurance? Asking for a very terrified friend…

Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it’s “illegals” now, the rest of us “parasites” next?

Trump: We are not touching Medicaid or Social Security

Goes on to destroy whole sections of said agencies rendering them mostly useless for those of us that need them (like me).

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Transgender people have that exact problem right now, even with passports. They effectively cannot prove they are a citizen even with a birth certificate because of Trump’s executive orders.

I only have an enhanced NY state driver’s license. I don’t have Real ID or even a passport. While I’m male and identify as male, I don’t have my birth certificate. If they require something like Real ID, passport, or birth certificate the likelihood of me voting pretty much becomes nil. I don’t drive, rely on public transportation, and would have to go to a county office and hope I can give them the right information to get a copy of my birth certificate.