"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."
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It’s by design. They’re trying to thin out the herd of unwanted Americans so they can turn the county into one giant Disneyland for the wealthiest citizens and foreigners. They think of the poor, the elderly and the infirm as a financial drain on our society.
It is a horrific thought crossing my mind that my mother won't have to be around to suffer the indignity of the loss of financial independence in her final days, let alone the financial burden this would have placed on my sister and me. 😒
It’s all horrible isnt it?! I hope she’s watching over me because I’m scared as hell. I’m protesting and involved but still scared. I’m feeling like I’ll be sent to a Wellness Farm. They hate people with chronic disability
I’m a disabled American who relies on Social Security and Medicare to survive. Disabled Americans have always been implicitly told by this country that we are expendable. It looks like they are finally following through with that promise.
I work with disabled adults. Decent care isn’t cheap. I’m pretty sure we’re headed for packed institutions saved a lot of money! And next to no one will even care
I’m so sorry that you are a climate scientist. I’m only an enthusiast of bio-diversity and I am honestly grateful to have one foot in the grave. It’s truly the greatest tragedy of my life to watch as species disappear. 😩
20 years ago I had a dream that I was standing in a skyscraper on a high floor and looking out a big window and seeing a giant tsunami approaching, and there was absolutely no way to avoid it or survive. I have been thinking about that dream constantly lately.
Pickup a weapon and learn how to us it, the idea that this will blow over is a fool’s errand. Tired of people being scapegoated & be prepared mass deportations will be on steroids come spring time. Wake up
This includes the elderly relatives of those who *do* work, but cannot afford to pay for long term care without Medicaid. Our elder care was *already* abysmal and it’s about to get WAY WORSE.
Good! I hope it hurts real bad. Americans have been complacent about government for years. The wake-up call is here. Qualifications matter? Fascism is a good thing? Billionaires have our best interest in mind? He did great on his reality TV show, so that must be reality? Let it burn... adds gasoline
And don’t get me started on Hospice. If you are actively dying, they will make you suffer even more by not have the dr/nurse , support staff, pain meds ect.
Tuesday Dudeck promised 3 million beneficiaries that their retroactive payments relative to the SSFA would be received in March. An attempt to make it seem he had fixed the former projection of 1 year via "automation." SSA posted on X a whopping 1700 were processed today. Hmm. At this rate....
In the same way that you would rather have your arm broken quickly—and not over months or years—so that you can start healing, I'm glad that all of this is happening fast. The sooner MAGA people are hurt, economically devastated, and feel betrayed and furious, the sooner this country can rebuild.
Unfortunately, the MAGAts still don't get it.
It has to reach the boiling point.
Soc Sec applications delayed.
Medicaid denied
Farms go bankrupt
Banks with failed loans in the midwest fold.
Inflation soars due to tariffs
DOJ weaponizes at it gets ugly
Uglier ICE raids
Trump is no different than serial killers. He may not be doing the actual killing himself, but he will kill millions of us. He's a political serial killer who gets great satisfaction from inflicting pain and suffering. We saw that on J6 when he watched it on TV and did nothing. He's psychotic.
We need to brace ourselves, emotionally, mentally, & in a lot of cases physically, bc just like a devastating tsunami, this is happening, it is coming. The abysmal reality is, that until it fully uniformly hits, like the full spray of feces in the fan, too many will remain ambivalent & indignant.
And I know none of this will hit equally but I am a Floridian & I know full-well a helluva LARGE number of middle/upper-middle-class white seniors are Trumpsters here & they will be affected by at least some of this eventually.
New rule- if you’re on Medicare, homebound, and have mental health issues- you can’t utilize Telehealth to reach out to a therapist starting April 1. This is isolating and cruel beyond belief- validating that we are just disposable pawns. I refuse to accept this.
No you can still use telehealth for mental health care, including substance use disorders. Unless you have a Medicare like Wellcare who doesn't allow it now
As someone who depends on Social Security, a day doesn't go by that I don't think about this. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that if checks stop coming it could be a death sentence for seniors.
It’s supremacy at work. These techno-fascists subscribe to the idea of 2-4 billion pop as the carrying capacity of the planet, so that means culling the majority!
Everything they are doing is aimed at the entire non-wealthy segment of the population. All everyday people are under direct assault. The uber wealthy class has clearly decided they don't need many of us around.
Let’s get rid of all these “useless eaters” (I am one, apparently). One of his lackeys suggested the other day that they undertake forced sterilization of “low IQ trash.” Darren Beattie, State Department official. The parallels are no longer subtle.
They never believed that they would do that. I tried explaining to my mom's friend during Trump's 1st term that payroll taxes pay for Social Security, and that if he made that pause permanent, SS would go.
She insisted he wouldn't do that! Cutting taxes is good!
I guess they figured they were wealthy enough to support themselves and their immediate family and would never need it anyway!! So SCREW EVERYONE ELSE!!
Society has never grown when extreme wealth inequality exists. The good news is the ultra wealthy think this can last. It won’t, history shows us this time and time again.
Everyone understands that by drastically cutting Medicaid, this Congress is going to destroy hospitals, clinics, & nursing homes, right? All the staff will be out of work. It’s going to reverberate through the economy. The loss of a $trillion won’t be felt just by Medicaid users but by everyone.
Yes but a billionaire can spend $1,000,000 a day for only 1000 days! Then he will be poor and that’s only if he just had a billion dollars. You have to feel bad for them rich 🤑 folks. 🙄
This really makes me uncomfortable as a new retiree because I've seen younger people even on this platform saying that there are hard decisions we're going to have to make if we're going to win this battle. Somehow, I'm starting to feel stalked.
Hurray, I can’t wait for my ninety-six-year-old grandmother to get booted out of her nursing facility! No one in my family is able to provide her the care she needs, it’s going to be great!
I've seen people my age referred to on X and others as "useless eaters" in an effort to dehumanize us. In preparation for what? Every day this Reich steps closer and closer to endorsing geriatricide.
It is killing people. There are at least 2 suicides at HHS and 2 at SSA. More suicide will happen.
Not to mention all the health care and family support services that are disappearing, and in the midst of a measles outbreak. A next level of hell is opening.
They really don't believe it will happen to them. My maga friend who is on SSI believes RFKJ is going to make school lunches healthy. She's excited to see what he can do. I will feel bad if she loses her check but how else will she believe?
I am disgusted more every day by MAGA thralls that voted for this bastard and this regime. So many people that struggle are going to find themselves homeless and starving because of the greed of these oligarchs. How much money does one need when you have more than could spend in 10 lifetimes?
Meidas has a little more than 4M subs. If each subs can get in 3 more people, we have the numbers. We will have a chance if we organize and if the 4M is a real representation, no bots for example.
Today I read in local newspaper that a local laid off federal worker was told she couldn’t get unemployment due to email saying she was fired for poor work. She had to produce her work reviews to prove she was doing good work, delaying her benefits. This is infuriating!
The thing is most of those peasants are themselves.
There are four congressional districts in my state, three of them with GOP congressmen. They have way more people on Medicaid or CHIP and stand to lose way more money from these cuts than the one Dem district does.
I was just saying that cuts in programs with cuts in taxes, *generally speaking*, hurts red states more than blue. Wait until the pardoned Jan 6th gun nut finds FEMA won't cover his shack that a flash flood swept away, and who killed FEMA.
Yeah but they don't actually need folks to vote again to hold onto power so it doesn't matter if they all die now. Leaders are no longer beholden to their constituents, assuming they were before (which, for instance, in my profoundly gerrymandered state of NC, they absolutely are not).
I shit you not...Take away our own money and the means by which we eat, travel, house, medical care, etc., and we WILL Break Bad! Why *wouldn't* we? I'll not go out with a whimper...
The Republican blueprint is Russian oligarchy: In the 1990s, Russia’s most profitable organisations were dismantled and taken over by tycoons able to take advantage of an increasingly compromised privatisation process and seize control of hugely profitable state enterprises.
I keep thinking about what will happen to the low income old folks housing my dad lives in. None of them have other means. I could take my dad in but nobody wants that. Especially him! He’s a vet! He shouldn’t have to live in my basement.
I read "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair. Feels like we're headed back to that time, with no oversight or regulations. Working conditions will get more dangerous, food less safe, etc. I try not to be terrified but I am.
I broke down crying the other day because I realized it all felt like that scene in Deep Impact with the woman and her dad standing on the beach as the wave was about to hit. It's so close. How are people rejoicing at this?
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There is no reason whatsoever that an individual should be permitted to accumulate in excess of a billion dollars.
There is absolutely no utility to it whatsoever, and as the current budget demonstrates, it leads to death and suffering.
The cruelty is the point.
https://bsky.app/profile/criminalerin.bsky.social/post/3lizgrkf2is2s
This includes the elderly relatives of those who *do* work, but cannot afford to pay for long term care without Medicaid. Our elder care was *already* abysmal and it’s about to get WAY WORSE.
It has to reach the boiling point.
Soc Sec applications delayed.
Medicaid denied
Farms go bankrupt
Banks with failed loans in the midwest fold.
Inflation soars due to tariffs
DOJ weaponizes at it gets ugly
Uglier ICE raids
You guys have to rise up.
Sincere question.. no snark.
Next month it will be about families affected by cuts in Medicaid while MAGA Congress will claim “not us! we don’t operate Medicaid, states do!”
They cut SSA and all of these public-good initiatives so that they can pile on more private contracts (aka siphon public money into their accts)
This administration is setting out to kill us.
She insisted he wouldn't do that! Cutting taxes is good!
Can’t wait for our visit next month to see how much I’ve lost!
#3E
#Eugenics
#AutoGenocide
#♿️
You think will be just the poor?
Wait for the perfect storm that is forming on economy and we will see what happens to Middle class...
- Elon Musk, CPAC 2025
Not to mention all the health care and family support services that are disappearing, and in the midst of a measles outbreak. A next level of hell is opening.
And I should know. Its literally my only fucking friend!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Uniteagainsttheright/s/E4PGv7a3km
There are four congressional districts in my state, three of them with GOP congressmen. They have way more people on Medicaid or CHIP and stand to lose way more money from these cuts than the one Dem district does.
That’s the point.