Frost: You expect me to believe that someone like Elon Musk who is worth over $340 billion, is going to be in charge of helping us decide what my mom's social security check is going to be?
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exactly correct sir, the real "fat" in the federal expenditures is in private contracts (gee i wonder who has those) ..... and, if this admin would stop letting the wealthiest of americans not pay their taxes and social security payments we would be fine ......
Not about what they decide to give her...it will be about how much they can keep from her current or future entitlements for their own ambitions & gains. The "you" in America has been swapped out for the "me, me, me" of corporations, millionaires & billionaires.
Not only would Elon Musk gut Social Security just for the joyous fun of it, Elon Musk would kill anyone’s grandmother to get 1 extra “like” on his latest tweet.
And yeah, it’s a tweet. It will always be a tweet. He doesn’t deserve to make a single gov’t decision solely because he renamed Twitter X.
He said something about if you're on Social Security and your check is over 1,700 a month.......and I never heard the rest of it, but that's already at the poverty level. They're trying to ki11 everyone that doesn't qualify financially and/or skin color or is LGBTQ for oligarchy.
I've got a slogan for the GOPRussia, bear with me, kids, kinda catchy:
Whip Inflation Now!
WIN!
Get it? Pretty good, hunh?
Bet no one's thought of that before!
I expect 435 House of Representatives and 100 senators to request all Govt subsidies, grants and loans cease for Musks businesses.
The Govt doesn’t need to give $22 Billonba year for each of companies when he is the wealthiest guy on the planet.
He should be wanting to pay his own way.
He doesn’t have any desire to do good. He’s a selfish Grinch-like person who would ACTUALLY ruin Christmas for everyone if he could. He’s a self important, pompous prick.
The 2025 increase in Social Security has been completely wiped out (and more) by the increase in the charge for Medicare A&B on my wife’s monthly SS check. In other words, the management of SS is bad now! I can imagine that the Medicare premiums eventually gobble up her entire check.
How about lets stop this show from getting on the road. Because they committed fraud in this election and they really don't plan on letting us have a fair election for you to be able to take back anything. Fight now so we can have a later.
They are only half of the equation. We need everyone involved. We are out worked by the repubs every single day. So just voting and bitching online will usher in our downfall. That’s not enough and it not what they do. They bust their asses. We sit on ours.
We need a media infrastructure that can rival the repubs, not just like a fox channel, but radio and online. We have the message and the policies it needs to be disseminated everywhere. Most folks don’t know even know Biden’s accomplishments.
I do , bluesky is my first social media app ever. I avoided online discourse before the elections by choice, now I believe even a small account like mine has part to play. I donate and vote even in local stuff.
Exactly. I'm so fkng tired of the old, scared democrats who "play nice" & play by the rules. The worthless repukes have always played dirty & bucked the law. It's worked well for them so far- they're never held accountable because dems refuse to hold them accountable.
My 83 yr old mom was led to believe through her life that the social security that she has diligently and patriotically invested her hard earned $ into her entire working life would be an investment that the government appreciated
was being relied upon by the hard working people of our nation :(((.
Like I have said multiple times, if Musk cuts me a check for all the monies I have contributed during my working career………PLUS interest, he can take my name off the SS rolls.
This is why we need young people in Congress.
They are not weak, nor willing to bend a knee.
The old guard needs to step back. The play by rules that no longer exist.
Absolutely! And the biggest problems the world is facing today won't affect older people, so they don't GAF. Problems like climate change, abortion rights, economic, they have no reason to care about any of it. They're just there to line their pockets. It's the young ones time now.
Me, being an old person, do care. Very much. I want my grandchildren to not have to worry about climate change, abortion rights, trans rights, the economy, immigration, their entire future. I care. We can't give up. Stand up to Trump. Laugh at him. Take his power away. Take back the house in 2 years
Absolutely! 💙 please excuse me, I didn't mean all older people, just the greedy ones in congress (not Bernie Sanders, he is an absolute treasure!). I worked in aged care for 12 years & know most older people want the best for their children/grandchildren. I hope I caused no offence. 🥰
Yes, as I responded to someone else I meant the selfish old people in congress, not the average older person. I'm sorry my message wasn't clear on this and if I caused any offence, none was intended. 💙
Not Elected
Immigrants that worked here illegally for years, is going to dictate to my parents Social Security that they paid into their entire life.
Oligarchy is the waste in government.
Elon pay to play with US Citizens ability to retire.
Can any of these dopes in Congress point out that Elon’s sole political aim was to get back at Biden and end EV tax credits for all competitors? It’s very simple and transparent play on his end, call him for what he is: a grifting billionaire who aligns themselves with the party in power
Musk could feed and save a lot of kids and people if he donated to certain charities or community organizations. He could build housing for homeless. Purchase books for school libraries. Free lunches in schools. But no, now he just wants to take it away. To what purpose?
Remember when the UN suggested he donate money to end world hunger and he said he would if they came up with a spending plan and they came up with a plan and he called them pedophiles?
I looked it up again. Evidently, he donated that $6B to his own Foundation. Of course for tax purposes. What an ass. And he's going to tell us where to cut spending.
It’s time the Democrat foot soldiers take us from “elitist” to elite. That starts with bringing in Ben Wexler as DNC Chairman. What he has done in WI is what the party needs nationally. Secondly, we need to find viable candidates early who’ll fight for us and not donors, and fiercely support them.
They don’t. Every pick coming out of Mar a Lago is specifically designed to signal that your mom’s social security check is unsafe. The message is that only Trump and his MAGA followers offer security and the rest of us must pay the vig
And his people believe it! My RWNJ family are convinced he will do everything he can to save it but if he can't it's because the damage was too severe because of the Dems. They will follow him off a figurative cliff praising him as they fall.
Exactly. Trump’s on record saying he loves (loves!) recessions because he can buy cheap.
He’s running the economy, and purposely about to put everything on deep discount for him and his billionaire buddies 🏠
Indeed.
I truly believe Leon should go into the mountains in South America and take Ayahuasca and learn to look at life differently and develop SOME EMPATHY. Old school.
Fuck Elonia and Shitler
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
Let your neighbors know just how much you appreciate this.
Coworkers all voted for Trump. One is on FS and has 8 kids. One has a mom living off SS, barely gets by bc of Dr bills. One lives with their mom, gmother, and gfather who are on FS as well as getting SS.
I can’t believe that so many people believed him. He lied and lied and they just kept sucking it up. Stupid stupid stupid. Now we’re all going to suffer.
They believe what they want. They were influenced by a convicted felon and Fox (entertainment) News. They think tariffs are going to help them bring down the cost of their food.
Seriously. Seems like this should be common knowledge. Putting people who are and stand for the opposite of what each department oversees is probably the first hint that none of it will be for the good of the department or people.
CNBC this morning placed Musk’s personal wealth at $447 billion after the latest run higher in Tesla’s share price. He’s gonna win the trillionaire sweepstakes, and it won’t even be close. #ElonMusk
I hope you have room for your mom. Pretty soon it will be too expensive to even breathe for some of us.
BTW, most people on SSDI receive less than $1500 a month. I know. I’m one of them.
Hey, but the price of eggs was so important. I look forward to these people who voted for this on SS affording anything if this and other shit goes through. For those who didn't vote for it, I'm sorry.
Keep in mind Regan added the tax on social security in part to fund massive tax cuts for the wealthy (the trickle down piss) and then Bush raided it to fund wars in the middle east.
Also look at the effect of the minimum compound interest based on prime interest rates on your SS account.
Please stop these assholes. They are drunk with power and want to wield it like Assad and Putin. They must be stopped. All of them supporting money over country.
He certainly doesn’t need $8 Billion from the Govt to help create Tesla charging stations and certainly doesn’t need $22 Billion for SpaceX or Starlink to stay operational.
What is the point of the wealthiest man on the planet needing Govt assistance?
If Musk would take a fraction of that and help people we would be better off. Instead he spends it on blowing up rockets and building unsafe crap cars. Has he ever done anything for the public and helped society.
I’m so proud and excited about these young Democrats.. they are truly fired up, qualified and ready to go! Do your thing and we old heads will get your back! 💪🏾💪🏻💪💪🏿
He probably will be in charge of it. Unfortunately he appears to not give a crap about the common person. He cares only for himself (priority 1) and other rich people and people with power that he wants. So wrong in all of the ways.
Why would it go up when those currently in government or who are incoming are persistently talking about cutting it and are also suggesting that retirement age should be increased to 70 (which would rob retired Americans of four years of Social Security checks)?
Because now that we have got some intelligent /capable people looking into government inefficiencies, the vast amount of wasted funds could potentially (and I repeat “potentially”) go towards increased Social Security benefits.
Earlier this year there was a push to increase retirement age to 70. House representative Alford is still supporting that idea and stated that GOP members had sat down with DOGE to present their ideas for cutting Social Security costs.
Cassidy and King (GOP and Dem) have also supported the idea.
The 1/6/21 defenders, plotters, schemers, and participants, who now normalize fraud, felonies, sexual assault & adultery, won’t let us continue the progress of the last 47 months as his first reign of terror is still having ramifications.
Here’s some perspective on how much money that is: if a dollar equals one second, $340 billion equals 10,781 years. $1 million equals a bit over 11 days.
The irony of someone so grossly overpaid reviewing the payment to any person left to the mercies of Social Security never occurs to the massively out-of-touch egomaniacs who believe they have a right to every dollar on the board.
THANK YOU! Say it a little louder for your colleagues who are making a fool of themselves by praising Musk. Musk told us before the election that Americans would suffer financially under Trump. Musk won't though and that's all he cares about.
Musk tweeted his priorities are with his shareholders. He claims he must maintain the wealth of shareholders and it it's Mid-Mgmt & lower who are the greedy ones. He can't even see the contradiction in his own statement.
Exactly. Proving he knows nothing about business. Every good business owner values their employees. They know who the actual "bread and butter" is in the business.
It's not true though. It was never on his twitter feed. I went and checked myself the day these screenshots were released, as did many people. It wasn't there. Like I said, I know it seems likely because he's such a dickhead, but it has been confirmed this is fake.
Musk is a man who didn't want to spend money on a concrete launch pad, watched a rocket blow up as a result and then admitted the concrete pad was a mistake; he cut cost too far. It is not an approach that can be applied with government because it is people's lives and not stuff that gets destroyed.
Healthcare; Humanity doesn't have a clue; but, believe me the top 1% and their conglomerates Ponzi scheme and the GOP's will squander the money 🤑 💰 they say they're trying to save you.
Exactly! He has no clue, but for that matter, most of the twats the head twat weasel is trying to appoint has no clue. It's gonna get bad folks, really bad!
The United States is an enormously wealthy nation, but we are wasting that wealth on rapacious billionaires instead of making life here survivable for everyone. This will get only worse under Putin's saboteur and his kakistocracy of oligarchs. We must stop them.
Let's see if Chuck can stiffen some spines in his caucus. It's the Republicans, after all, who will be tarred with supporting subpar nominees. Let's start by making Hesgeth the second coming of John Tower.
Stoking discomfort and fear through intimidation works. Even, apparently, on a U.S. senator you’d think would know better. Blumenthal’s ass-kissery was even worse than Ro Khanna’s.
I could never feel bad for anyone that voted for a guy willing to do bad to other people. Because anyone that voted for that, wanted that too. You wish harm on your neighbours, you're lower than dirt.
That is the real question, "What about my parents?" They paid into Social Security their whole lives. Nobody should come in and cut their earned Social Security checks now that they are elderly and retired, least of all some lunatic billionaire who donated 250 million dollars to get that power.
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And yeah, it’s a tweet. It will always be a tweet. He doesn’t deserve to make a single gov’t decision solely because he renamed Twitter X.
[ps. Bsky etiquette? Should I be scrolling and reacting as I have been? Not my intention to pester or spam.]
Whip Inflation Now!
WIN!
Get it? Pretty good, hunh?
Bet no one's thought of that before!
The Govt doesn’t need to give $22 Billonba year for each of companies when he is the wealthiest guy on the planet.
He should be wanting to pay his own way.
#Fact
O.utrage
X.enophobia
A wonderful group to get behind. Strong.
was being relied upon by the hard working people of our nation :(((.
They are not weak, nor willing to bend a knee.
The old guard needs to step back. The play by rules that no longer exist.
#FuckElonMusk
He doesn't care about people 🤑💰💰
And there sure are a lot of them
Immigrants that worked here illegally for years, is going to dictate to my parents Social Security that they paid into their entire life.
Oligarchy is the waste in government.
Elon pay to play with US Citizens ability to retire.
Beatles
I’m afraid for America under trump. It’s like they’re culling Americans on purpose
#traitortrump4Prison Musk, and ALL their cabinet nominees, need to v e INVESTIGATED AND CHARGED FOR TREASON where warranted.
They buy up the spoils (like houses repossessed by banks due to homeowners not being able to pay the mortgage any more) at firesale prices.
He’s running the economy, and purposely about to put everything on deep discount for him and his billionaire buddies 🏠
I truly believe Leon should go into the mountains in South America and take Ayahuasca and learn to look at life differently and develop SOME EMPATHY. Old school.
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
all they understand is violence
we should conduct ourselves accordingly
Coworkers all voted for Trump. One is on FS and has 8 kids. One has a mom living off SS, barely gets by bc of Dr bills. One lives with their mom, gmother, and gfather who are on FS as well as getting SS.
I'm waiting for the 1st complaint
for elon, they'll suffer. he needs their money and their loyalty because he cares about them so much
He'll delegate it to AI.
BTW, most people on SSDI receive less than $1500 a month. I know. I’m one of them.
As coach Walz said, he's a dipshit.
Also look at the effect of the minimum compound interest based on prime interest rates on your SS account.
On W2: You pay 7.65% & emp pays 7.65%
On 1099: you pay full 15.3% as "self emp tax"
Dep on inc most pay bet $12K - $18K/yr,
$480K - $720K over 40yrs.
Using a simple 3% avg cmpd int your acct is bet $0.943M - $1.413M
Providing $6K -$8.5K/mo for next 20yrs
What is the point of the wealthiest man on the planet needing Govt assistance?
Social Security is a trust fund.
Cassidy and King (GOP and Dem) have also supported the idea.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00
This is what leadership looks like. Legacy Dems need to go.
Almost as dumb as having Cheney’s daughter as a DNC booster. Wtf
There's no united wall to protect us from trump's awful nominees
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