They took away Roe without many consequences.

Somehow they will believe that Trump did a good thing by cutting their benefits.

Remember that the evil old bastard raygun delayed the start of raising the retirement age for 25 years after he signed it into law.

Voters in this country, I dunno. Actually, I do--too many enable these predators by being stupid and uninformed.

I hope voters revolt over matters like this in mid-terms, but not sure it will happen.

an incredibly stupid MFer!! For those that don't remember, Shrub tried hard to push this as the opening salvo to his 2nd term. He did all kinds of town halls, and the public told him go pound sand in droves! It really was the start of the downward spiral of his Presidency, culminating with the financial crisis in 2008.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas.4 Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Edgar Newton Eisenhower (1954)

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-edgar-newton-eisenhower/


The current crop are likewise negligible in number, and likewise stupd, but thanks to their accumulated billions and their insidious manipulation of social media (with Russian help), they are having an impact that John Birchers like Hunt could only have dreamed about. We need to rein in PACs and SuperPACs NOW. We need campaign finance reform NOW -- although ten years ago would have been SO much better.

Anything except Department. Only Congress can create a department. Accepting the name gives it a legitimacy it does not have in law.

George Lakoff and the folks at the Frame Lab discussed it in a recent video.

Challenge the casual use of the term by journalists, the media, everyone.

Timothy Snyder points out the Orwellian use of language always occurs with the rise of fascism. Denying that is part of resisting.

Assad's were to Syria. Except there are 3 generations of Sunun's. And the two families share the same views on the obligations to the people. We all paid all of our lives into trust funds so the money would be available for our retirement. Now these jerks want to steal it to line their own pockets. Surely Sununu realizes that the retirement age has over the last 15 years gone from 65 to 67 and any retirement before that age has a penalty assessed that decreases the benefit so it pays for itself. The only issue that needs to be addressed is the cap, which does not get adjusted for inflation. Raising or removing the cap would more than shore up the program. Like Trump, Sununu employs the big lie.

the reason for a potential shortfall in the future is because income increases have gone disproportionately to the wealthy in recent decades, thence underfunding Social Security relative to the revenue that would have gone into the program if income gains were distributed as in the past.

Maybe they think they know something we don't about 2026?

Anyway I think those are Putin's Orders... Gut America from the Inside.

They will cut off their noses to spite their faces.
All the GOP has to do is give them some other BS to focus on.
More caravans? Caravans of trans folks? Caravans of Antifa Trans Folks ?]