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Amy K.'s avatar

I'm 69. My husband and I learned during the early days of covid that generally people don't care about seniors and kids. The rejection of vaccines and masks because they couldn't be bothered to care about vulnerable people. I'm seeing this casual disregard resurface now.

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M Lomma's avatar

That's why we need to cancel all his contracts when all the Democrats get in office because he's such a liar. He just wants to trash everything because it's his billions and trillions of dollars that he doesn't want taxed. He's an a******.

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Elizabeth Marion Allen's avatar

Pants on fire

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Kathy Shelton's avatar

I just read a post on a social media app quoting Bukele as if he were a great philosopher. They also were celebrating the contention that the Supreme Court voted 9-0 to keep Mr. Garcia in El Salvador.

This claim was challenged by another poster asserting, in fact, the opposite was true.

The OP wisely replied that the challenger should stop listening to fake news and do their own research.

After much back and forth, the OP posted a screenshot from Homeland Security. It corroborated that the Supreme Court had indeed ruled in favor of the government 9-0.

My question is: How do you contend with that? We’ve spent years begging people to get information from someplace other than Q or Fox. This person has gone straight to the government for verification. What can we say? Ugh!

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Hana's avatar

"The entire charade is meant to divide us. They want us to question objective reality. They want us to say “yes, I’ve paid into social security my entire working life but I’m being ripped off but THOSE people!”

That is a very astute observation!

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Sue Gregor's avatar

Dad died from leukemia, 2 kids 3 1/2, 1 1/2 in the 60s. 3 of us survived on soc sec survivor benefits, not a lot but grateful. Moved into grandpa’s house to help make ends meet.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

The little Muskrats in Muskmelonheads BAD DOG E are known hackers that would NEVER pass a security clearance examination. Big Balls the one who dresses like the lead singer of ACDC was fired from his last position for leaking company information to competitors and putting it on the Dark Web. There's a reason why people who do government work have to pass background checks and the word of a ketamine addicted chainsaw wielder is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

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Bonnie's avatar

This is horrifying. My grandparents left Eastern Europe to get away from Nazis and fascism and here we are smack dab in the start of it all in America. God help us!

These people in the administration now don't give a damn about anyone who isn't a millionaire or billionaire.

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Audrey Woods's avatar

How many lies will those believing in DOGE have to hear to realize they are going to cut their social security?

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Peter Gunn's avatar

OMG. This reminds me of that movie Space Cowboys! They needed someone who knew the source code and the older generation astronauts were the only ones who knew the old code and so figure it out. The oldsters had to go into Outer Space! Talk about corporate amnesia! This is societal amnesia writ large as tech morphs so quickly.

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David A Pitock's avatar

What about Hegseth texts? Never forget. This is being perpetrated by the most un-American Republican party of all time and yet we need them to rid this country of the tRump plague.

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Deborah solleveld's avatar

For some reason I’m on a list that gets every SSA notice to the public. I get between 3 and 10 notices daily for offices being closed. Ironically my local one has never been on one but red states are, almost daily.

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Renee J's avatar

They want to make us believe that SS is brt so they can dissolve it and privatize it and get their claws on the 2.7 trillion dollar trust fund of SS. Don't let them!!!! That is OUR money that we paid in to the system our entire working lives!!!

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Renee J's avatar

Thank you so much Fred!!! You're the best!!

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Um…just a suggestion that if you think that piling on even more shit on all the horrors thus far, you’d better go in a different direction because we can’t listen to this shit anymore….and I am not shitting you.

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Kevin R. McNamara's avatar

Been a while since I saw a paper check, but I remember seeing the gross, deductions and net as a youngster and wondering what OASDI was -- the three categories of beneficiary, though we don't say Old Age anymore.

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Teresa G's avatar

Luigi

HELP

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