'Don't you all have jobs?' JD Vance mocks Americans protesting Social Security cuts
Source: Raw Story
March 14, 2025 9:00PM ET
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 signs bearing messages like "protect Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security" and "fascists not welcome in Michigan" and suggested that they were only protesting him because they didn't have anything better to do. Some of the protesters' signs were also focused on South African centibillionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has repeatedly called for cutting Social Security by hundreds of billions of dollars, and recently railed against the New Deal program as a scheme by Democrats to entice undocumented immigrants to get free money and vote for them in elections (undocumented immigrants don't qualify for Social Security benefits and are not able to vote).
"I'm sure all of us saw there were a few protesters outside," Vance said. "And I can't be the only person wondering, you know, it's a cool afternoon, on a Friday, and don't you all have jobs?"
"Oh, I was livid," wrote one Bluesky user who was escorted out of the event. "Like 2nd [shift]? 3rd? Splits? Part-time? Retired? Hypocrite, what about his invite-only crowd?"
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2671332815/

NOTE: "FactPost News" is the Democratic Party "rapid response" social media account name (as I just discovered, although I kind of recall the DNC saying they would tap people from the KamalaHQ group for responses)
From the article (Xitter version) -
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JD Vance attacks elderly retired Americans at his event who are asking him to stop trying to cut Social Security: Dont you all have jobs?
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Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)elocs
(24,119 posts)Fortunately, at age 72 I am still in good physical shape with no aches and pains.
But are there jobs to be had?
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)Just a cut in medicare would be a hardship.
Managed care will take over with huge deductibles and co-pays.
I have been wondering if the GOP plan is for the older folks to take the jobs of the immigrants
who are being booted out of the country. The menial labor.
But older folks cannot do the hard labor, perhaps the GOP does not care.
kacekwl
(8,228 posts)what my job will be. Elimination of those responsible. Good Day.
Service connected disabilities will not let me work.
But I will damn sure join your business.
I earned my income. Take it, I will take from them. Fucking sick of this shit.
turbinetree
(26,034 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)rambler_american
(896 posts)and walkers with affixed bayonets. That is our fucking money.
henbuck
(52 posts)Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)It is not just cruelty, it is the fact that the rich think all money in the world belongs to them.
And they do to want that money going to the old, young, infirm. These are useless eaters in the mind of the rich.
So the rich would like to see old people pay their own way.
Does't matter the pensions, IRAs, etc are money we earned.
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)It is a true addiction.
They have more money than they can ever spend in one lifetime.
It is still not enough.
They will destroy everyone around them getting their money fix.
The money was not enough, they had to go for power, buy the entire US government.
There is no amount of money that can fill up the holes in their souls.
Americans appear to love these addicts.
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)Nothing is ever enough.
I read a study once where wealthy men were interviewed and asked if they were happy.
Every single one of them said no, they were not happy. All of these men were very rich,
houses, yachts, cars. Every luxury.
But they all said they had to have more money, and could identify exactly how much money they
needed to be finally happy. But the richer men with that amount of money were not happy,
saying they needed more.
It was an eye opener and we can see the additive quality to chasing dollars.
Yes obviously WB is not an addict.
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)and held as a lofty aspiration requiring the basics of capitalism; fucking over others for fun and profit and taking advantage of other's misfortunes.
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)The planet and the people on it are the two most valuable resources we have.
And the money addicts will destroy it all.
They know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Yes I never felt the way they do about money either.
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(122,072 posts)Maybe a greeter at Walmart.
elocs
(24,119 posts)Besides, I'm looking for a physical job since I'm in better shape than I was decades ago.
rurallib
(63,653 posts)have seniors staying in positions of power until death thus blocking the way for young people to advance.
Neither is a good situation
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)They are too expensive after a long career, and it's cheaper to hire inexperienced kids.
I think the plan is to make seniors take over the menial jobs the immigrants did.
keep_left
(2,850 posts)...patients with ADD, mood disorders, etc. will be compelled (probably by force) to grow and pick the crops that the now-deported immigrant farm workers did.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220043350
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220043350#post17
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)But a white, rich, entitled, nepo baby.
So he is exempt from the gulag.
Thank you for reminding me of this statement.
Yes it sounds like they have plans for older and younger impaired Americans.
Beartracks
(13,861 posts)blue_jay
(46 posts)He ended up getting another job but doing that is total crap. He's a vet, now with health issue from agent orange compounded by covid and can't care for himself anymore much less work or attempt to gamble/rely on the unreliable stock market (401K) instead of SS in his elder years. Cheating people of what they've worked for isn't a new story as you all well know. Still pi$$es me off. Have other people who have lost jobs to this decades ago. What Doge is doing is just another form of vulture capitalism imo, kind of like what they are doing to the entirety of the govt.
I'm very protective of my elders. Am a child of older parents and even older grandparents. Have never understood not valuing each individual for whatever experience they have and can share and frankly the wisdom often gained from years of living. Sadly took me a while to figure out that a certain percentage of any population (regardless of age) are just plainly non-caring selfish people who won't ever learn but I still try to be open and find value in whatever knowledge or insight they may have as a human. I like to think that most people have at least one thing that can be construed as valuable (ala Sherrod Brown) and perhaps respecting and talking with them will plant a seed to help them see the light. Know this is a ramble, my brain's tired today and not coming up with quite the right words. I am a blue dot in a red sea. Please don't hold it against me. Thanks.
Evolve Dammit
(20,540 posts)
blue_jay
(46 posts)I appreciate the support.
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)Perfectly coherent and not rambling.
Yes Musk is vulture capitalism in action.
Yes we have seen versions of this for decades.
But now it is being applied to the entire US government and all American citizens.
Battle between good vs evil.
blue_jay
(46 posts)



Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)We are losing our democracy and freedom.
And entering a dark dystopia.
And most Americans ignore it or don't care.
It is like a Twilight Zone episode.
Yes we shall see how this unfolds.
Will the American people wake up or not?
calimary
(85,981 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 15, 2025, 08:45 PM - Edit history (1)
I suspect if all the blue dots grouped together, we could surround the red sea and start building a wall around it.
blue_jay
(46 posts)It gets lonely out here at times.
HappyLarge
(52 posts)Children whose parents cant support them will be apprenticed to some job creators.
Irish_Dem
(68,769 posts)Take away SS and medicare, people will die.
Children going into a 21st century work house?
Blues Heron
(6,819 posts)synni
(304 posts)paleotn
(20,301 posts)vs. being a societal parasite like Vance, the fake hillbilly.
DEI doesn't apply only to brown people. It also applies to white hicks from Ohio who got into Yale.
Blues Heron
(6,819 posts)Bengus81
(8,716 posts)Trueblue1968
(18,482 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,175 posts)His parents and grandparents ought to kick his ass for being so vile.
Wish I could rec that one ten times
Walleye
(39,803 posts)And someone, please ask JD if he has a job or not
Do you know what FDR's two term vice president John Nance Garner said about his job? He esteemed the office of Vice President so highly he called it "Not worth a bucket of warm piss".
Walleye
(39,803 posts)El Mimbreno
(798 posts)COL Mustard
(7,350 posts)But I think Trump has elbowed him out of that job, since President Musk is really running things.
Walleye
(39,803 posts)ever had a job in his life as an adult or only been a politician.
Walleye
(39,803 posts)Into a supermarket. Or bought a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon. much less struggled to pay a medical or dental bill
KarenS
(4,920 posts)Baitball Blogger
(49,870 posts)that was an 11.
FalloutShelter
(13,283 posts)blubunyip
(116 posts)The outrage of the day. I hope it will be quoted widely. A lot of older people are looking after kids, grandkids, and others in the community. Or doing volunteer work and various societal contributions and public service, unpaid.
BeyondGeography
(40,430 posts)She might have some standards. Thats good but, sorry maam, youre married to that asshole and all he represents.
HereForTheParty
(854 posts)This is not the JD Vance she married. A Never-Trumper who sold his soul to MAGA.
Dulcinea
(8,275 posts)CTyankee
(66,041 posts)
Dem4life1234
(2,531 posts)She didn't sign up for this shit.
Many Indian American families are not down with this garbage and I can imagine she is not, too.
paleotn
(20,301 posts)Is this guy stupid or what.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,091 posts)And most would rather be doing their jobs instead of being herded into a group to listen to Vance.
"And if you like your job, you'll clap when I clap, got it?"
GiqueCee
(2,155 posts)... of egregious failures chalked up to M$M is their refusal to correct fascists trying to justify Musk's mendacious attack on Social Security by pointing out that Social Security is essentially a closed system, and it doesn't contribute one penny to the deficit, nor will its dissolution reduce the deficit by one penny. The vast majority of the Social Security Trust Fund is deferred wages held in trust. In other words, it's YOUR money, NOT the government's.
But then, Republicans have to lie, because only lies can support and defend their diseased belief system. They are liars and thieves who just want to rob Social Security to line their own pockets, and they get off on hurting people.
To boil it down to it's essence, Liberals get up in the morning and ask, who can I help today? Conservatives get up and ask, who can I punish?
BumRushDaShow
(151,323 posts)I know I have been posting that a lot - particularly when it comes to how we spend our money.
The GOP will spend gobs of money buying and staffing loon media outlets that will spew hate and vitriol - which is their "messaging".
Meanwhile Democrats will spend gobs of money on food and land banks (the latter for housing), conservation programs, healthcare initiatives in underserved areas, as well as medical debt reduction efforts, education and job training, etc.
Yet Democrats will quickly revert to the hand-wringing circular firing squad bemoaning "what did we do wrong?" and "where is our messaging?"

FakeNoose
(37,225 posts)Now he's an anti-Democrat.
Bengus81
(8,716 posts)When asked by Letterman if he'd run as a Dem or Republican he flatly stated it would be Republican because you can make them believe anything.
ReRe
(11,569 posts)He doesn't know the difference between Social Security and Unemployment!
Seriously, he doesn't know what Social Security is.
He thinks all the hecklers are on Soc. Sec.!
Hey, J.D., you will be heckled for the rest of your life.
And you deserve it.
Get used to it.
AllaN01Bear
(24,857 posts)


durablend
(8,357 posts)elocs
(24,119 posts)for 40 years.
Will Republicans be anxious to run for reelection if they are blamed for stealing the retirement money from millions of their constituents and possibly making them homeless? People who perhaps voted for them and now won't again along with millions of their family members who are unhappy about what has been done to Grandpa and Grandma.
Have these Republicans really thought all of this through completely?
slightlv
(5,407 posts)Makes one think theyve got the election processes all thought out and locked down in favor for all repugs. We'll be lucky if any Democrat anywhere wins an office ever again.
SWBTATTReg
(25,198 posts)every cent they have and use that money to pay for the ongoing support of SS. It would send a massive signal to these thugs who are obviously chomping at the bit to get their hands onto our SS. I wonder just how successful we would be if we did this, a massive class action lawsuit by every senior in this Country who has earned their SS benefits, against these thugs who are daily threating our SS.
2naSalit
(96,534 posts)Don;t you have a grave to fill somewhere?
Joinfortmill
(17,879 posts)BoRaGard
(5,133 posts)The repubes don't need Putin to show them how to be Bungholes.
Blue Full Moon
(2,072 posts)How dare someone not be at work. We are all supposed to be working 24/7.
elocs
(24,119 posts)if he wanted Vance to be his successor he answered "no".
Perhaps it was a slip of the tongue that he doesn't intend to need to be succeeded because he doesn't intend to leave, but usually a sitting VP expects the president to say he wants his VP to succeed him.
dlk
(12,615 posts)Would love for him to share a list.
Apparently, Republicans are against senior Americans living indoors.
Hotler
(13,021 posts)
SSJVegeta
(429 posts)Naio
(186 posts)Uma was not looking down because she is ashamed of what her husband said . She was just laughing on her mind . She is proud of her husband and or the power they have.
Diamond_Dog
(36,728 posts)He is too stupid to realize SS recipients are RETIRED.
Fuck off, Hillbilly
MLWR
(291 posts)You miserable, good fucking christians have no right to steal it. It has nothing to do with the debt. It is my sincerest wish that Judgment Day is not kind to you. What you are doing will result in many, many deaths, making YOUR actions MURDER. I hope your eternity in hell is worth it to you. GREED is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
ancianita
(40,353 posts)orangecrush
(24,325 posts)Turbineguy
(38,975 posts)The more people hear, the better.
travelingthrulife
(2,130 posts)Keep it up little boy.
LoisB
(10,199 posts)Marthe48
(20,515 posts)has put in more hours than that slimy little fake.
LoisB
(10,199 posts)bromeando
(105 posts)I didn't work for 40 years paying into retirement insurance (SS) just to have some fascist stealing it.
sakabatou
(44,638 posts)City Lights
(25,577 posts)A nasty piece of garbage. Someone his kids should strive to become the opposite of. He is a horrible "Christian."
Wicked Blue
(7,894 posts)Kaleva
(39,257 posts)Just too hard to make it on SS alone
LittleGirl
(8,664 posts)right before he spoke, she was smiling and then he said the most awful thing..."don't you have jobs?" and she stopped smiling.
She knows.
She's embarrassed. I'm sure.
travelingthrulife
(2,130 posts)Maybe attending these events with this monster keeps him from using their kids as human shields like Elon does.
Martin68
(25,563 posts)at birth. He apparently is confusing social Security with unemployment benefits. He doesn't realize that it is for people who have retired. Retired, like, "no longer working because of retirement." Like so many MAGAts, he doesn't know that workers paid for their SS during their lifetime of work. If only stupidity like this was a quick-acting fatal disease.
Deminpenn
(16,745 posts)Goes well with his boss, larda--.
You might say they are MAGA--es.
ProudMNDemocrat
(19,598 posts)Many of us Seniors have worked all of our lives, are too tired, or physically challenged to work beyond a certain age. We have invested, earned pensions, and PAID into Social Security and Medicare all of our working lives.
What a IGNORANT prick!
Bluejeans
(103 posts)I wanted to puke when I read Vance asking if people had jobs.
I worked full time for 46 years (20 years active duty military, 12 years private sector, 14 1/2 years Federal civil service) and part-time during three years of high school.
I'm retired now and the last thing I need is JD questioning why I'm not working on a Friday afternoon, even if I wasn't at a protest!
Hekate
(97,361 posts)Did he practice that line while putting on his eyeliner? Did it make Thiel chuckle?
Grins
(8,283 posts)Whatadick.
BoRaGard
(5,133 posts)But then, republicon billionaires are not like you and me. They are special.
dawgdan
(19 posts)Probably never held down a real job in his life.
Paladin
(30,269 posts)The Musk/trump/Vance regime drives the national economy into the toilet in record time, and then Vance sees fit to trash newly out-of-work Americans. Makes me want to puke.
blubunyip
(116 posts)clap clap. Let's see more of this. Vance doing his job here --playing to the base and insulting everybody else. Beware the revenge of the base.
Paladin
(30,269 posts)Career in the toilet, a la Rudy Giuliani. Can't happen soon enough to suit me.
orangecrush
(24,325 posts)Fascist pig.
Bluethroughu
(7,191 posts)He is such a garbage human.
CousinIT
(11,262 posts)Norrrm
(1,297 posts)Blue falcon Vance with Cadet Bone Spurs
VanceFan
(43 posts)Vance is scum, and Usha is a whore. They are both disgusting.
Aristus
(69,759 posts)The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Lifeafter70
(491 posts)That exact comment popped up a few times yesterday on his feed.
His answer was " dude, these are retired and disabled vets, who are losing benifits they worked for. Some giving arms and legs, with the promise we would take care of them."
Grokenstein
(5,966 posts)What's the worst that could happen?
Dem4life1234
(2,531 posts)Very unlikable and arrogant person who doesn't know shit.
We have all known coworkers like him. Think they know it all but don't know a damn thing.
Still stuck in his hillbilly trash mentality.
kimbutgar
(24,927 posts)Sometimes I go into stores and see these elderly people who are working to supplement their social security. You can see they are in pain and are not efficient. I feel so sorry for them and Mr couch fer has no idea how people are suffering in this country. I hope everyday for a karmic payback to him, the parasite musk and the orange Hitler !
CareyOn
(62 posts)Come on JD. Apply yourself. Let's see some serious tumbling. Throw yourself into entertaining the orange man with energetic flip flops and we will find out how long your knees and back hold up.
IronLionZion
(48,574 posts)Because Vance is creating so many jobs in factories?
There was a time when Social Security was the third rail that no politician dare mess with. Now the world's wealthiest person wants to cut funding, cut benefits, and tells us we are entitled to nothing.
no_hypocrisy
(51,298 posts)have jobs if we weren't fired for younger replacements! And we could successfully sue for age discrimination.
And hey JD! You seem to have forgotten your proud past of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps by way of help from the Government.
And I guess you skipped reading "A Christmas Carol". Especially this passage:
At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, said the [one of the gentlemen], taking up a pen, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.
Are there no prisons? asked Scrooge.
Plenty of prisons, said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
And the Union workhouses? demanded Scrooge. Are they still in operation?
They are. Still, returned the gentleman, I wish I could say they were not.
The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then? said Scrooge.
Both very busy, sir.
Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course, said Scrooge. Im very glad to hear it.
Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude, returned the gentleman, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?
Nothing! Scrooge replied.
You wish to be anonymous?
I wish to be left alone, said Scrooge. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I dont make merry myself at Christmas and I cant afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.
Many cant go there; and many would rather die.
If they would rather die, said Scrooge, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
D. Spaulding
(170 posts)to the foolish MAGA minions and groupies that followed Orange Julius to rallies around the country.
forgotmylogin
(7,818 posts)We have jobs that PAY INTO Social Security so we have it when we retire, so DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE imply we're lazy or unemployed after you've robbed us of retirement support so you can all have Teslas AND a second yacht you fucking son of a bitch.
W T F
(1,181 posts)Baron2024
(1,492 posts)JD Vance is a bitch faced coward and a fascist sycophant.
Karasu
(1,006 posts)is exactly what mindless conservative glorification and worship of American work culture has gotten us. This is cartoon fascism.
And it's especially ironic/hypocritical when this administration is so deeply in bed with the same fucking people pushing for AI, with no regulations whatsoever.
You don't get to play the old "Do you have jobs" card when you're firing tens of thousands of people every week to pinch pennies and literally trying to automate as much of the national workforce as possible, least of all in a country where most are living paycheck to paycheck. And in addition to all that, at the same time, they're also not in favor of a living UBI and actively want to kill off SS. Modern "conservatism" is a fucking ideological contradiction and nothing more than corporate bootlicking. Something has to fucking give.
red dog 1
(30,748 posts)He makes Dan Quayle look like FDR.
Norrrm
(1,297 posts)Not the most recent chart.
swampthingdc
(9 posts)Wasn't the guy openly atheist until around 2018 or so - gone catholic - " liked the money power" thing .. of Vatican ?
Vatican does not run the secular U.S. never will. No matter how bad the gerrymandering roosts as we see now..
Flux
(9 posts)The Democratic party members should run with this comment and yammer on and on about it like the other party does.
Godot51
(429 posts)... he claims to be a "self-made" man yet he demonstrates 100% cluelessness about growing up, working actual jobs, and retirement for ordinary people.
He is young, and it is to be supposed, healthy, yet he is 100% clueless about those born with defects and diseases, those defects and diseases created by life, work, and simple bad luck, and those defects and diseases of aging and old age.
It is to his great shame that he, his "boss", and so many of our oligarchic elites are without understanding, sympathy, or empathy for those who have less "luck" than they.
He is a "man" devoid of humanity.
Raven123
(6,616 posts)Emrys
(8,599 posts)This all smacks of performing for an audience of one - "Look, Trumpydaddy, I can be a mean asshole too!"
Skittles
(163,654 posts)and my jobs were way more important than playing Trump whore
Rebl2
(16,195 posts)to win friends and influence people. Great job jd Vance🙄
Hope22
(3,928 posts)These are the words hurled at people standing up against war. Get a job, why arent you at work, over and over again. Vance doesnt stretch far for a banana.