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

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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?"

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"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?"

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)

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