'Don’t you all have jobs?' JD Vance mocks Americans protesting Social Security cuts

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Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Bay City, Michigan to speak at a manufacturing plant to tout President Donald Trump's economic agenda, and was welcomed by a crowd of protesters.But once he was inside the event at Vantage Plastics, Vance ridiculed the protesters — many of whom carried si...

Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Bay City, Michigan to speak at a manufacturing plant to tout President Donald Trump's economic agenda, and was welcomed by a crowd of protesters.

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Vance's sneering arrogance is just as obnoxious as Trump's, though more weaselly in tone than simply crass.

No disrespect or judgement here. But honestly, I can’t believe Americans hadn’t completely lost their shit decades ago over the lack of healthcare in their country.
- It's connected to employment most of the time. Can't take off work to protest or fight, can't risk losing that job and the healthcare it "provides". We've been pressured to have kids, so now you're doing it all to support them, much higher liability than just a single man or woman. It's all a ruse to control people.

This is slowly becoming everything i hoped for with trump becoming president.
The out of touch stupidity he's brought is making for great entertainment.
Unfortunately he's hurting not only the Americans who voted him in but those who didn't along with dragging the rest of us outside down too

Not a job, a duty:
"... against all enemies, foreign and domestic"
Americans need to do their civic duty.
- Military personnel take that oath. But what are they doing to make it anything but empty words?

The economy is collapsing, so no a lot of us don't have jobs.

I so have a job. And I pay a huge chunk of my check into social security, as I have been for over 20 years. And if the system collapses I'm not going to get a damn thing for all that money I paid in. So either stop fucking with social security or give my money back.
- Same being paying in since I was 17, now 45. Where my fucking money? We paid in so goddamm right we have jobs and are pissed.
  
  Especially funny that a guy who's going to receive a pension we paid for is saying this
- Yep, if they cut SS and I don’t get a damn thing… not even a refund of the past 20 years… that’s enough for me to go to war over. That’s enough for me to make some poor choices… so I would imagine, I wouldn’t be alone there.
- That's a very hopeful "if".

"You were supposed to be too shackled by the minimum wage jobs we allow you to have two of and kept fearful of loosing your worthless health insurance to run around and protest when we abuse you some more, damnit! Who allowed you out?"
- On god, US is such a dystopia I always remain flabbergasted when people talk about the american dream. My third world country (Romania) is a shithole but at least I can hope to pay for serious medical illnesses if I go jobless.
  
  "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin
  
  Next you'll say poor people get to live indoors there
  
  if I go jobless.
  LMAO I'm from the American Midwest and I HAVE a job and can't afford a serious medical illness.
  I broke a tooth in November and I still can't afford to get it fixed.
  
  You can probably afford a home too.
  
  You also set an inspiring example with how you dealt with Ceausescu.
  
  Honestly, most foreigners would probably prefer to live in Romania than the USA right now. The US is the shithole country.
  
  While we're on that subject, how are things going in Romania at the moment what with the election annulment and all?

That's some "let them eat cake" level of out of touch.
- Or the more recent - Don't you guys have phones

"it's a cool afternoon, on a Friday, and don't you all have jobs?"
We're here because we heard some asshole was cutting our benefits.

They do have jobs, and they probably add more value at theirs than you do at yours. You could be asking yourself why they'd take time away from those jobs to be there giving you the middle finger instead, if you could pull yourself away from your couch or... whatever it is you do all day.

Their tariffs are actually killing jobs and preventing companies from investing in domestic manufacturing. Who's going to dump millions into a plant when it's obvious a recession (at least for average people) is in process.

Don’t you all have torches and pitchforks???

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