Social Security. That's when the dam breaks. The right-wing in America is so extreme, so zealous, so morally bankrupt and greedy that they'll gut SS and Medicaid even though they know it'll destroy their base. People won't truly wake up until those checks don't come. A lot of pain, sadly.
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Especially veterans.
And if it happens fast enough, QANON/QMAGA deep base have been 🩸 thirsty for a while, now.
If they feel betrayed?
They do our work, for us.
Sadly, like you say, it’s kind of our only hope, now.
And good people will stop SS being cancelled, so those blindly supporting Trump will never feel the pain they need to change.
Mark my words...they will use the "carrot" of resuming SSA payments as a loyalty test.
The Libertarians are very much every man for himself and have very complex ideas around creating, funding and using regular infrastructure
There will be a tipping point soon.
Felon47 will do something most can’t ignore.
Resist and organize! https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
I’m suggesting an emergency Universal Basic Income. Once you prove your ID, you start getting money monthly.
We shouldn’t have had to compile large piles of info on ourselves just to prove we deserved to eat.
So what’s the rest of the story?
Then what?
Notice there’s never anything else said. THEY get massive tax breaks are they Getting richer bc they took over & now own the privatized US Gov agencies?
Great for who. Not US
They've fired the people that know how the systems work, which means that maintenance routines are not being run to keep the systems working. Reports are that these systems are crashing on a daily basis.
May those who execute this atrocity pay dearly for abandoning human life.
Think this and no social security checks could send those red states into revolt...
As well as blue, but red get lots of benefits!
It’s ridiculous, as that is how I will keep myself and my child safe and sheltered.
Maybe milder GOP non-MAGAs are storming town halls, and they should, but on balance I see no evidence that anything will 'wake up' MAGA. I suspect many even desire to suffer for Trump.
oh...and how many of them voted for this...3 times
We recycle our self-made catastrophes because we don't want to do the right things as prevention & in advance.
See our slavery, women on juries + access to suffrage, the murder of Sacco + Vanzetti, two Great Depressions, our persistent Klan + Aryans, on & on.
(Kept wanting to read Dying Of Whiteness but finally figured why bother, it’s playing out around me daily)
My post from Nov 7, 2024…
The fear people are living with wondering is their job/department next to go?
Are their benefits arriving?
Will the programs still exist for them when it's time to opt-in?
The stress is unimaginable & the press is ignoring that.
One reason proving bare minimum is not good enough. people are never stronger than their weakest link. The poor, disabled and minorities are the weakest link.
This whole system sucks. We “the people” need to change it. No savior. No Jesus. No politics. A collective shift in consciousness….
They won’t, either, until they personally start to feel the burn. Then #felon had better hope that he can spin things and make President Biden the bad guy, because if the maga base turns on rump, they’ll be packin’
One can dream…
They've already traded out the soul of the country to a carnival barker.
Trump.
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
It will likely become very bad very quickly!
Civilization is only a few missed meals deep!
This is murder-suicide mentality; they would rather die with their privilege of cruelty, than live without it. We have to understand that, and deal with them accordingly.
They're a simplistic lot.
They'll laugh at all the pain and misery right up until their momma doesn't get that check, then they'll take a gun and go to the local Social Security office.
Not organized. Just in it for themselves, but that's when they'll freak out and Martial law is enacted.
But I think you misunderstand the contract of privilege of cruelty; inherent in being granted the right to be cruel to others, you agree to accept cruelty from your grantor.
Also: they will lash out at those they are taught to hate: gays, women, & POC.
Protest if you are able.
I’d also ask @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov
There is no election planned for 2028 or maybe even 2026
That would be the only scenario where how people 'feel about the Admin' means nothing.
in WWII Germany stopped only when the whole country was shot to pieces.
Note that with the end of democracy in the US nobody will have any say anymore.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/social-security-trump-doge
Maybe They Will Wake Up!
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/more-than-70-million-americans-are-on-medicaid-this-is-where-they-live/
In this one Trump has a mandate of sorts.
Reducing state sponsored medical aid has been part of the GOP platform for years.
It’s also why I was amazed people voted for them.
So it’s terrible… and what MAGA (not Dem’s) voted for.
I had no idea until I was preparing evidence for a rebuttal on Red being hurt more than Blue by lost ACA.
Blue states = generally have around 4-6% of pop on ACA.
Red states = 11-18% of pop on ACA.
Red gets deeply hurt by its own vote every single time.
The movie begins. WHITE WELFARE QUEENS ROAR.
This movie will be nominated for an Academy Award.
It has my vote.