"We are not cutting Social Security" is hard to square with DOGE laying of thousand of Social Security employees, closing Social Security offices, and limiting phone services.
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The Tennessee Holler
WYOMING: Rep. Hageman (who took Cheney’s seat) is the latest Republican to get the town hall BOO BIRD treatment 👇🏽👀— as she tries to gaslight voters into believing social security isn’t under attack
They were not buying it
They were not buying it
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Is this how you Americans think freedom is fought for? You are just happy to support your new dictator-king and vaguely try to conceal it with token phony outrage.
Until you do some actual protest we will not listen to you.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-threatens-stop-social-041848651.html
@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
His minions: How about no phones?
EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people https://popular.info/p/exclusive-secret-policy-shift-could?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
- payments small already, somebody else will fill in (kids/fam)
- blame it on The Gubmint Bad, somebody else's fault anyway
- "decrease the surplus population," necropolitics in Dickensian terms
- at least the leopards are also eating the illegals' faces, too
But...
They don't care. This isn't a government, it's a fire sale. They're going to take what they want for as long as they can because nobody is going to stop them.
But I hope you’re right. You usually are.
And I think there’s something to be said for Rs that blame Elmo and not Trump. If T ever cuts his losses and Dems twiddle thumbs, I can see both chambers staying Red
He will write them blank checks
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
"My mother-in-law is 94. She wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t.”
This is a 10 on the Reasonable Outrage Scale
https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-trump-official-says-missing-195830199.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
"We're not cutting Social Security…but when we do, who you gonna call? Bwah hah hah!"
Unbelievable.
Wait, I had better future-proof it: Not using an actual knife YET.
[hand to earpiece]
I'm being told that Wyoming only has three street corners and 150,000 seniors