Do you use a credit card? Rent or own a home? Use utilities like water and electricity? Send your kids to school? Have a job? Eat? Drink? Deposit money in a bank, or withdraw it? The government provides services and safeguards that enable us to do ALL of this safely. Now Musk is taking it all away. - ThreadSky

mjsdc.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Do you use a credit card? Rent or own a home? Use utilities like water and electricity? Send your kids to school? Have a job? Eat? Drink? Deposit money in a bank, or withdraw it? The government provides services and safeguards that enable us to do ALL of this safely. Now Musk is taking it all away.

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westernlens.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Fraud, identity theft, cyber crime will flourish in this environment. Get ready to be screwed over by businesses left and right with no recourse.

tessadk.bsky.social•1 day ago

stepsinpairs.bsky.social•23 hours ago

When's opening day for the civil war?

godsown.bsky.social•22 hours ago

femmebot.bsky.social•1 day ago

And who hasn’t checked the weather forecast?

pgill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or for those of us who live on the Gulf Coast as we are just a few months away from hurricane season...

kjephd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nobody knows where it comes from! Unfortunately, they may learn now the hard way

leibovitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want to privatize the NWS

freedom2b.bsky.social•1 day ago

The segregationist mob is taking it all away.

bobbieleecunha.bsky.social•23 hours ago

School? Here in Idaho, we were already 50th in the nation in education. Yesterday our little twat of a governor (Governor Little, I kid you not), pulled the plug on public education as he signed the voucher bill into law against the will of the people.

crackermack.bsky.social•1 day ago

bUt MaYbE. He’S a JeEnYuS…

oilcanls.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Well, Elon was elected to do just that, after all. Oh, wait….

theultrasecret.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bureaucratic terrorism, plain and simple.

proggrrl.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

jongar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention that the end result of their supposed savings is tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. Trump and Musk are basically giving our tax dollars to their friends.

hiphination.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Everybody says this but the tax cuts were going to be implemented regardless of whether there was a single cent in savings. The savings is a propaganda talking point, it was never about savings.

aprimo224.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And they're also decimating the IRS which hampers the ability to collect taxes from the little people. Will they just start stealing directly from our bank accounts?

snogg3.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I talked to my financial advisor this morning about ways to safeguard what money we have.

(Seems that freezing your credit rating was not a myth.)

bluechous.bsky.social•9 hours ago

What else did you learn?

snogg3.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Moving some investments around to less volatile places like CDs or money markets, and adding some (free) security measures that my advisor's company has in place that I hadn't used.

But he also just gave me assurances.

paulaptb.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I'm starting to think tax cuts was a talking point and the plan is to destroy the country and rule over the ashes.

If they destroy the economy, scuttle public health and dismantle national defense, this isn't going to be great for the rich either.

popcornpalace.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It will be a country of corruption and mafia like Russia, where you have to pay someone off to get anything done

paulaptb.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Russia didn't dismantle its national defense and public health systems. Putin offered Covid vaccines. It requires childhood vaccines. Think the US will do that?

Russia has a working apparatus for collecting taxes.

The whole picture of what Trump/Musk are doing requires a bigger imagination.

paulaptb.bsky.social•59 minutes ago

Things are not great in Russia, but they also are invested in global health (seeking allies, and perhaps understanding the effects of global pandemics more than Trump.) https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/new-era-russian-foreign-policy-global-health

deborahcompass.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The whole point!

sadandbereft.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Where are the generals? And enlisted people? Please protect us.

godsown.bsky.social•22 hours ago

EVERYONE , has an obligation to fight for your right to exist . In the establishment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Don't forget pooping

blckbrd1.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Thank you. Tons of behind the scenes jobs we take for granted until something happens. Everyone at my job is required to have direct deposit. Everyone will be up in arms when that deposit doesn't happen.