The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.
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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
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Uh ha got it
Thinking of someone that fits that description………..
Many voters who sat out the election, however, would choose to get themselves to the polls and vote against Trump, if they knew then what we all know now.
I suspect that would be less likely to occur now.
He’d still win because the results are fake.
If it had been a fair election we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
But fortunately, >60% of independent voters are extremely concerned.
That is our getable pool.
We need to keep pounding away on trump slump and Musk doge.
He also reveals that it's INCONCEIVABLE to him that a senior might need their Social Security payment in order to get through the month. In his world, everyone has tons of cash in the bank.
Isn't that nice?
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Who is conducting the interview, his staff?
someone got busted for stealing tiny bits monthly from many retirees ($1 here, $2 there…)
paraphrasing how they got caught:
“no one monitors their pennies like retirees w/ lots of time on their hands”
i think that was their generation’s favorite thing.
monitoring gas use. starting in the 70s.
“My parents have a book they keep in their car where they log how many miles they drove, how much gas they put in the car, and how much they’ve paid. They’ve been doing this for YEARS”
Really is this guy serious that will be riots in the streets if you take away people Social Security
These people are absolute scum.
Their method of fraud is being extraordinarily loud and defensive so it’s actually a mask off moment.
Yup. That one feels good to say.
I'm borrowing that one.
and that my failure to put meat in it disrespects the dish.
Fraud lasagna indeed!
Because I'm not sure I do.
/I’m not a Vietnam war veteran, just did a MIA recovery mission
P2O 25
The 1%techbrosProject25 do not care about the 99% and no longer hide it. They’re racing towards anarchy between the 99% while they move to topic sanctuary cities (or Greenland).
That is the end game
Secretary Howard Lutnick
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20230
Can you imagine if dozens of delivery trucks showed up at Lutnick's office?
a) they so thoroughly control the media spac that the public won't know enough to vote against them
or
b) elections won't matter in the future.
I am guessing b.
I can't emphasize this enough: we must loudly declare elections WILL happen and if they even breathe a word to the contrary, their political careers are forfeit.
I encourage you to read this article from The New York Times about the food banks. Here's a gift link you can read it for free https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/food-banks-usda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.T0Nw.7d245v8WemlC&smid=url-share
Or donate non-perishable food to your local food pantry.
Right now, it is very urgent. We need to donate money to our local food pantries so they can buy food like cheese & meat, for which they were counting on the USDA.
I encourage everyone to donate money to their local food pantry, so the pantries can purchase the food they need right now.
Food banks buy in bulk; we regular folk don’t.
This is an emergency. Food pantries can't cover this monetary shortfall caused by the USDA suspending shipments of produce, meat, & cheese.
I encourage everyone to donate money to their local food pantry, so the pantries can purchase the food they need right now.
I don't know how they'll pay Trump his tithes, seeing as how their money is getting cut off..
I encourage everyone to donate money to their local food pantries so the pantries can purchase the food they need right now.
This is the USDA suspending shipments of cheese, meat, etc. to the food banks!!!
It's YOUR fkn money! You paid it in so that you'd have access to it now! That's how SS works!
Like these people?
But go ahead, don’t send the checks and watch what happens…
Half.
I fantasize about hackers draining all of those assholes' bank accounts and leaving them with zero. Zilch. Nothing. Let them see what that feels like.
If the SS payment isn't paid. . .the Medicare payments aren't paid?
Those people will be in the streets on walkers if necessary.
God damn, I'm so sick of this and we're less than 3 months in.
*lol, no.
They are mostly MAGA and they can’t miss a single social security check.
And yet.
They just refuse to fight.
I don't get why even Marjorie Taylor Greene is competent enough to recognize something and rapid-react to it, and the Dems are so sclerotic and silent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/
I understand the frustration, but I don't think it'll take too much longer until Trump breaks something that really infuriates people who don't pay attention to this stuff like those of us on here.
Fox News needs a foil.
Bringing up Bernie Sanders and AOC in a defense of the Democratic Party generally is obviously absurd.
If I can't trust what he said here, how can I be sure of...
...wait...
This is literally the opposite of how people screen for cheaters. If you cut off the paycheck the person who doesn't complain is the one who's making money in the side of under the table
Here Musk & Co are going after everyone. And they'll notice. Even the hardcore Trumpers will notice.
Like if African-Americans were 20% of the population, but make up 40% of welfare claims...
IDK why MAGA want to do this. Don't they have parents?
Who does that sound like? Trump and his oligarchs.
My own tinfoil hat theory is that because the major fraud states are FL, TX and AZ a chunk of the money ends up in Republican coffers as donations from "small business owners".
And if the Doge-Boys have your not so secure Social Security information, identity theft to steal those cheques is real. Not by the boys, but by the hackers that WILL steal the info.
Bastille day happened for a reason