And too tired trying to make it paycheck to paycheck to care for their family so they bury their head in the sand.

As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing…… I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.

All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.

This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.

As someone from the U.S., given the history we know about the Trail of Tears and trying to erase Native Americans from existence, this isn’t surprising in the least. Sad, yes, but not surprising.

Some hobbies don’t have enough “news” content. To make up for that you need more than a couple of active posters showing off what they’ve built or made.

Not to mention, every instance could theoretically have a community for a specific hobby and it splits up the activity even more. And if I sub to all those communities I generally tend to get the same post over and over again in my feed.

Then when it comes to things like news my experience has been it becomes like an echo chamber and any dissenting opinion is met with open hostility. Yes, it’s a two way street, but this post is a perfect example.

The more users you have, the less the hostility has a chance to gain hold on a post. I’ve had some really great interactions in my short time on Lemmy, but I’ve also had and seen more hostility when I tried to be civil.

Same here. I know my voice is loud. I have a paralyzed vocal cord and can’t talk quietly — only loud or louder. I also just generally hate talking on the phone 😆

Good grief I can’t do math apparently. Thank you for correcting me.

You know….

There are roughly 7 million people on SSDI. A good chunk of those who of us on SSDI are at poverty level or less.

There are roughly 18 million veterans. Many of them have been at poverty level or less.

You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars tax-free and no strings attached and you would improve their quality of life drastically.

But, no, the Orange King needs his ego soothed and inflated by having a fucking parade on his birthday. Absolutely disgusting and I really hope there will be a major protest at the same time. I might use the meager finances I have and take a trip to D.C. for that.

The irony? Some of those men and women from the military in that parade will be left to rot once their service is over.

This is a pet peeve of mine. If you aren’t disabled use the damn phone as a phone and use FaceTime in private.

I don’t want to hear about the latest drama your ex is involved in and who’s doing who to god knows what. I also don’t want to be in the background while you are standing in line FaceTiming someone and they comment on the person behind them on camera.

And then the people who actually use the phone as a phone but have the most obnoxiously loud one-sided conversation.

I may be slightly biased, I use public transportation and have to listen to this shit every day. I wear hearing aids so I hear everything at one which makes it even more fun.

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

• Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults.

I’m on Medicaid currently because I’m on SSDI. I have to recertify my eligibility every year. It takes the local office 4-5 months to make the determination. A LOT of people are going to get left behind if this happens. Local offices will never be able to keep up and people are going to lose coverage.

Those of us on the bottom of society that have to utilize the safety net already had to go through hell to get approved in the first place in most cases. These assholes lack empathy completely because they’ve never had to utilize the safety net and think we’re lying or something about needing it.

If you’re in the U.S. and have never needed any kind of government assistance, let me clarify the process a bit:

• Imagine you’re on a plane and you have to jump out with a parachute to get to safety. That’s scary.
• Just before you jump, you’re told you have to charge up the parachute release by free falling through rings in the sky. That are on fire.
• You make it through all the rings of fiery death and your parachute doesn’t open because it didn’t charge up the release for some reason (why would it, in what world does it make sense to have to do that?)
• As you’re falling you see what looks to be like a bouncy house on the ground. Lucky for you there’s a safety net halfway between you and the ground.
• The safety net has a tiny tear in it and as you fall into the net the tear becomes a split down the entire net and you continue falling.
• Bracing for impact into the bouncy house you can see it’s starting to sag a little. Is it leaking air? Will you make it in time before the air is completely out?
• The bouncy house had enough air to keep you safe thankfully and you never touch the ground until the air completely deflates from the bouncy house.
• Oh but wait…you’ve been on solid ground for a year? Nope, you’re going to repeat the process only this time instead of a bunch of rings of fire you only have to go through one. But there’s no safety net…and no parachute. Just the ring of fire and the slowly leaking bouncy house on the “ground”.

They’re not taking Medicaid away, they’re just purposefully making it harder to keep it. So technically they didn’t “cut” Medicaid. Because, after all, Trump didn’t lie when he said Medicaid and Social Security were off the table, right?

I learned my lesson about “lifetime” thanks to SiriusXM.

When Howard Stern got lured to SiriusXM they offered a deal where you buy the receiver and pay $500 for a lifetime subscription with unlimited transfers to different receivers. Fat forward to 2017ish when I bought my last car that had the receiver built into the radio and tried to transfer to the new one. I was told that was the last time I would be able to do that and in the future I’d be paying a $75 transfer fee and be forced into a monthly subscription.

Lifetime is a hoax.

Never been. But I went to enough bars in my 20’s that would make any alcoholic proud.

Oh yeah…. I’m an alcoholic. The last time I stepped foot in an actual bar not tied to a restaurant was 20ish years ago. Bars made sense back then until the state banned smoking in bars.

Clubs were never my thing, not my choice in music for the most part. But towards the end of my drinking career I would have gone anywhere if there was alcohol.

This makes me feel old, but not as much as realizing I’m less than 10 years from senior discounts

I’d like to say I don’t understand what you’re going through.

I’m a 3x attempt survivor, disabled, and terrified. I’m on SSDI, Medicare/Medicaid, and in HUD housing. My situation is not the same but I see you.

I wish there was more I could offer, but you are not alone.

As a nearly 50 year old dude, never heard of it either

Ok, so does this kick off WW3 or are other nations just going to roll over and allow this to happen?

How the hell is this even a plausible timeline we’re living in?

Oh hey! I narrowly avoided this one. No SNAP here (yet)! Only SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing 🤨

I’m sober for 9 months.

When I did drink it was to escape, which is the real reason most alcoholics become alcoholics

And Schumer will send another strongly worded letter.

Freaking ass had the chance to alter history potentially and he fucked it up.

Took me D_C’s comment to get it and even then it took me a minute to find the marshmallow and realize it wasn’t on the plate anymore 🤦🏻

I’m an alcoholic, definitely makes me more depressed.