Quit buying his shite , he's not the genius you think he is , he uses others ideas and expertise towards his own goals . Look at what happened to Twitter !
I design electric 2 passenger vehicles that are " Pedal Assist " that are allowed on bicycle paths , my 3 wheel , 1,000 watt per wheel prototype can attain 120 Kph for 6 hours . 100 volt thrill with suspension on all three wheels . 2 front , 1 rear , front tilt steering .
I design and build 3 wheel trikes , they are powered by push pedals and in hub electric motors . They are designed to use bike paths , 2 passenger with storage , 70 kph max and 5 hour driving range , off road suspension . F Elon and all of them , This is the start of the future .
🤣🤣🤣🤣 500 billion my ass. He doesn't have that much and those are all wrapped up in Russia. And he funnels his money through offshore accounts. He's a con he's not that rich. Especially considering that Russia has blown all of his money and they're b******* War and briberies.
I don't know Putin kind of likes musk's ass and I can't see Putin giving up all of it not even a cheek and he sure won't give up the brown hole. The Saudis might get like a pinky finger or a pinky toe.
Finally! Someone telling the truth. Thank you. The D's lost the working class when they switched from class warfare to culture wars in 1968. You cannot change culture through law making. Passing laws against racism does not make it go away. This election was proof of that.
The D's need to stay focused on protecting democracy, which I believe requires free education and health care, and on making billionaires extinct. Democracy depends on an educated electorate, and wealth inequality destabilizes democracy.
You mean like we should have kept slavery and jimcrow to keep white people to vote against their interests. How dares blacks drink in the same fountain!
Ok so instead of debating whether the 10 commandments need to be in classrooms (culture issue) - we need to be talking about making sure kids aren’t trying to learn while hungry (class issue).
Lincoln should have let the South go instead of sacrificing 750,000 people trying to exterminate Southerners. I don't support slavery, but I do support states rights to secede. That's the biggest turning point in the history of this country, when the North decided how the rest of the country should
live. The North destroyed more than slavery in the South. They literally wanted to kill every white person there and replace them with Northerners. That's why Sherman's March was allowed to go forward, burning and destroying everyone and thing in it's path. Lincoln have just signed a peace treaty
but nope, he had to engage in a "military action" like Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress. It was not a civil war, since the South merely wanted to leave. They didn't want to fight for the capital. They didn't tell Northerners how to live either. It was about far more than slavery.
How horrible of the north to not want black people to live as slaves. State rights to enslave people you mean? Makes sense that would be your view as a white man.
Abolition was just another "do gooder" religious belief from the Northern Puritans. The North is just as racist as the South. Slavery would have died out on its own because of mechanization. Letting the South go would have saved a quarter million lives, mostly men of working age. I don't support
Those people making $1700 on social security overwhelmingly voted on favor of Musk meeting with GOP senators to cut social benefits. It's democracy in action.
Hmmm
Lets see... will this go over well once they try?
Uh NO.
But, the Maga crowd will buy the lies they present, as in- we have a good plan *note few to no details*
And once they lose their SS and/or SSDI-Medicare and or Medicaid, they may begin to cry foul.
No tears to give for them.
I did not elect Elon Musk to any position in Congress and I don't want him doing the job of Congress. Let him run for office if he wants a say in how we are governed.
History is full of similar examples - rich entities in the industrial revolution, for example, has to be forced to give workers reasonable hours of work, to prevent child labour, to give benefits and "reasonable" pay, etc... Until then, the rich just became richer.
They can try. We are on the verge of the straw *GOP" breaking the Camel's (Democrats) back. With what's happening around the world regarding Syria, South Korea and Georgia is not going unnoticed. Civil Disobedience is a weapon they cannot stop.
They also faced a backlash from republican voters when the Tea Party took over and floated cutting social security. Republicans weren't in a cult at that time, but hopefully we have a bunch of trump voters who aren't cultists but were duped (and will see the light and freak out again).
Who paid in,no choice to opt out, for 40-50-60 yrs! NOT “entitlement” doled. A pension pool/safety net divided back to them-not robbed by Repubs and not siphoned into billionaires pockets. But that’s exactly what private equity does, leaving the corpses of businesses, hospitals, and lives behind.
Taking away the benefits is just step one. The long game is to start literally culling the elderly. You hit retirement, and they'll retire you from oxygen consumption. Anyone that receives entitlements or public benefits, including disability or TANF, will be seen as 'dead weight' and culled too.
This is not some wild conspiracy theory, this is fascist playbook. It would take years to implement, and gradually. It would start with ostensibly embracing 'death with dignity', then 'being compassionate' to the mentally ill and disabled. Then it becomes full on eugenics.
Who paid in for 50 years! Also Their employer matched every penny they sent in for 50 years! 7.65% each now up to 173k! So they want to steal the $ to give it to billionaires for tax breaks! The Stupid level at 60% 132 million? The Oligarchs feel emboldened by Trump! Just lie to them and they loveit
1200 to 1400 is like the max where I live amongst those I know collecting. I have been told by *some* people that its really like 2500 a month because you can get food stamps and healthcare! Oo
Billionaire Musk tells Trump to cut the VA budget by $119B. cutting short the health & lives of veterans. Say no!
Amp it up to 11, issue an all hands rapid response action, fund raiser and media blitz. Don't list cut services, have vets show & tell the impact on them and their families!
Nothing like screwing over the people who PROTECT our Country and the ones who want to do it, have NEVER SERVED in the Military! WE tried to INFORM all the IDIOTS who voted for Trump exactly WHAT was going to happen yet they CHOSE the LIAR instead! Sadly they'll learn the hard way!😞😠
I’ll call my senators & rep when the magats try to gut ss & medicare & when they try to destroy the ACA, & although I’m eternally grateful for everyone who has ever served in the U.S. military, I’m gonna let all the vets who voted for trump do the heavy lifting on this one because it’s their fault.
That part... it's like people that paid into their pensions and the businesses declare bankruptcy so they don't have't pay out. But, this "is" America.
I am one of those with a Social Security payment of just over $1000/month. I EARN about $1000/month. At my age it's hard to get more work even with a shit ton of experience. I live in a mobile home (own it), lot rent takes most of my SS $. My savings are nearly gone.
This doesn't include the millions they get from corporate contributors to protect their interests. The system no longer works for the people. It works for the corporations.
High amount 1,700. For those of us who cared for a spouse not yet into their 60s, I live off his benefits. 60 years of our incomes. Depleted savings w/Cobra till disability kicked in. I was 6 years older than him, worked as long as I could. An extra 200! My rent has doubled in last few years
One quibble - unless it was changed after Obama left office, Congress has to buy insurance from the Exchange, like everyone else. It has free access to a sort of "school nurse" type care when working but I don't think they have full-ride medical care. BUT the rest is right.
I’m going to stop calling them “crooks” and start calling them “predators.” Maybe people have enough primal fear visualizing teeth and claws to stop the men in suits.
Do you suppose even ONE of those Senators told old Elroy the Weirdo that he wasn’t elected to ANYTHING, not even as trump’s ass wiper, so he should keep his greedy, soft, pasty-white hands OFF OF SOC. SEC., and just STFU and STHD!!
But if they don't cut social security how will they give tax cuts to the ultra wealthy? And if they don't give tax cuts to the wealthy, how will the wealth "trickle down" to the common folk?
These people are deplorable. They are going to overreach and their little power hungry feast is gonna fall to pieces. Let them mess with Social Security and we will see what happens in 2026.
I’m so sorry. That’s hardly enough for anything.
I received just a bit more than you. I worked for 20 years in a physically demanding job, was denied disability and took early retirement.
It’s crazy. I made good money too. When they told me how much I was getting all I could do was laugh. And it to so long to get approved that I depleted all of my savings. The government doesn’t care about us.
If I lose my social security disability and Medicare, my choices are to end my life or do something to go to prison. So, rioting sounds pretty damn good.
That's our thought process as well. If we're going to die anyways, there's no reason to not either steal from the people who voted to kill us. Or at least take those in power with us.
We all know which houses had Trump signs, and voter registrations are public.
Time for a revolution. The armed forces need to switch sides, support the majority poor and take back their country otherwise it will just become much, much worse.
A lying, rapist, criminal felon has selected a team with dubious backgrounds & no real talent. America is facing a major crisis.
Gross. Can't we deport him to South Africa because he lied about his visa status in California? He had a student visa, which restricted him to only student activities yet he worked for companies. I think it's time to give Leon, the South African racist, the boot.
I read this, sitting in the UK. I can't help you but I want you to know that you are the people that I feel sorriest for in the USA. How you can manage? I just hope you get plenty of joy, maybe from family, grandchildren and the rest. I will support any move to universal healthcare in the USA.
We warned everyone. But we live in a society that is more sexist than it is racist. The democrats should have replaced Biden with a 40-50 year old white man - just to beat Diaper Donnie
This is out there, but I have a feeling that there’s something he lost in South Africa (or he feels he lost) that he’s trying to reclaim in America. What that is, I don’t know lol
Let’s do this: Tax ALL the money made by earners, currently limited at $143,000. Means testing for wealthy Americans, that is, don’t pay benefits for people who don’t actually need the money. 😊
Who defines needy, though? And I think corporations will fight increases on all earnings since employer must match. In order to get buy in, possible exempt corporations from the match for over a set threshold while taxing all employee earning.
We paid into the system all these years. That’s OUR money. If they’re going to eliminate Social Security, first they need to reimburse every American the full amount that we paid into the system. How come none of the talking heads is raising that point?!?!?
You are 1 TRILLION PERCENT right not only every penny of collected funds but government must return with compounding interest @12% per annum on it so people can enjoy their own hard earned funds. After this reimbursement we dont need SS from govt.
Don't forget that your employer matched every dollar you paid into the Social Security system, so double what you paid in! Properly managed and invested, by the time an individual works from age 16 to 65 or older, most people should have at least 2 million dollars in retirement!
Plus the money our employers paid in for us. That money was always counted towards our benefit package. Otherwise we would have received more salary. They do the same with what employers pay into your health insurance
…and none of the people you listed ever mentions that the budget they claim they need to fix and the Social Security trust fund are two entirely separate entities…in fact those people talk as if cutting Social Security would do something to help the budget. Raising the cap would solve the SS problem
Me too rose I worked 38 yrs then had a head injury and rheumatoid arthritis that’s killing my joints lungs..I need this money I put in I’m kinda scared..
I used to think the same “it will never happen” but Roe showed that anything can happen. The GQP has been plotting to do away with Roe and SS forever. We already know MAGA will cut off their own noses to “own the libs”
So I am worried.
He bought the Presidency!! He is the real President and Trump is just a tool for him! I can’t believe some didn’t see this coming! It’s all about control and power with these nut jobs. It’s never been about the American people…NEVER…quite disgusting! People are going to die under their regime
Elmo's paying them all off, while Trump threatens them. What a team. If you're wondering why Joni Ernst changed her mind about Hegseth, now you know. Every one of them will fall in line on the rest of this clown cabinet.
Aren't advisors and cabinet members generally appointed rather than elected in the US though? I'm more familiar with systems where elected party members are given cabinet roles in government but that's not the norm in the US AFAIK.
Musk is not in a cabinet position, he is an advisory role, and yes, advisors (and cabinet members) are appointed, but they are suppose to ADVISE THE PRESIDENT, not make policy and my concern is that he is inserting himself into policy making by meeting with senators and no one elected him to do that
Ty Seth and phuk u Musk! Fyi genius, S S pension funds come from FICA tax that the proletariat pays into, those who make less than about 180,000 a year at 6 1/2%.It's our money & Keep your fucking hands off of it! we won't let you steal it you asshole! Get lost! 🖕u Musk!
My husband is disabled and gets $955 a month. I have a decent paying job but will put off retirement for at least 15 years (I am 58). Concerned about ss and my 401k. I am so pissed that a bunch of racist assholes voted for this!!!!
Absolutely. DJT told his own brother that it was cheaper to off his son than to support his needs. He does not care about anyone he can't make money off of.
Herbert Spencer said the poor were the wart on the nose of society that needed to be cut off. He coined the term survival of the fittest. Let the rich stay rich and let the poor die off. My interpretation of course.
Americans worship the rich & assign to them superior intellect & moral/ethical character when it’s more likely they’re amoral & willing to get rich no matter what bounds they have to break. Like telling the world you’re a genius rather than crediting the actual engineers who built what you sell.
Gotta saves Social Security some way, right? Why not just get rid of all the surplus and obsolete people while replenishing the tax base by forced birth outlawing abortion on demand. In this way legacy costs are nearly eliminated while investment in the future is minimized and revenue black.
Did I mention I was 71 and one of the useless, obsolete surplus people. My only contribution has been living in the dream by unintentionally helping make what has become this fascist nightmare out of the Roosevelt socialism we call Social Security in the United States.
Maybe we first address the Biden crime family for stealing from our country and making a mockery of our country for the last 4 years? Let that sink in.
It’s been happening in the United States since before we were the United States. 400 years. Although they weren’t billionaires back then. it started w getting poor white ppl to think they’re better than poor Black ppl so they could keep Black ppl suppressed, enslaved, poor.
Getting poor people to fight poor people has always been a good way for the bad rich.
This time feels like the end part tipping the scales on changes they’ve made over decades. Incremental pushes to change where the “middle” is. And a shitty for-profit education system sold to the govt 25 yrs ago.
Probably for a while. They control the inform pipeline of their voters. Now they’ll do it straight from the government. Use real or fake bs as distractions, and act faster than the court system.
And long-term they’ll just need to economically appease their base, or blame someone else effectively.
The problem in America is the oligarchy. They are amoral. Their only creed is greed. If you want to promote fairness and a good life for all then they need to be tackled first. Tax wealth not income. Is a good starter. Two term limits for all politicians. Both parties jailed for graft. Fight now.
We need hope though. There needs to be a solution for all of us, out there. If the status quo continues then in time it will explode and if we can avoid that, then all the better. Vote in better people. We need a party for the people, by the people with the people. Greed is not good for any of us.
Well, we *do* have a constitutional right to overthrow a tyrannical government. Wouldn't be very smart, considering how much money we put into our military, but it's a right we have.
Hi Carylma. I completely agree with you. This is a problem for a generation. People need to be educated that there is a different way. Take the money out of politics. The government needs to fund politics and any outside money brings long prison sentences and hefty fines for grafter and graftee.
I've been saying this for years. Reagan allowed Dark $$ Scrotum Court approved it. They will never vote to allow only 2 terms in office. U know Power and greed go hand in hand. Rump will try to stay in office until he dies
Rump isn’t the problem. He doesn't have 4 more years in him. Vance is. He wrote the intro to P2025. He’s just sitting back, young, healthy, and ready to do what his far right masters unleash him to do.
Won't work because how language itself is in this psychotic class war.
Wage - money for prior labor which produced wealth with intent to sell.
Income - unearned; bank interest, windfall, inheritance, dividend stock, rent checks, etc.
i was thinking that earlier. We will never have a democracy as long as they exist. They have too much money and power. They have to be moved off of the map entirely.
When their businesses, homes, warehouses, cars start burning to the ground from being attacked by the people who are tired of starving to death, maybe then they'll realize their money can't rebuild anything they owned. Built it, they'll burn it down again and again across the nation. #Karma
I'm one of those seniors. I'm 68 1/2, working full time, getting Medicare. I was thinking of going part time next year. With tRump in office, not going to happen, and it sucks!
We need to cut senators' pay n benefits enough bs talk about waste and then the house.They work for us we need to remind them of that .They should be making fed min wage if it's enough for us to live on, pay into SS, no pension n no health benefits like the reg working american, this is just stupid
Just like they culled all those seniors during COVID now they have a more direct method of taking OUR hard earned money. Write and call your congressman!
If I met a foreigner who wanted to become an American, I'd do all I could to talk them out of it and would point them toward Canada, Mexico, the Scandinavian countries and many other, better countries than this one. It's the humane thing to do.
Yeah, I follow this really bright and clever British young woman on TikTok. She is incredibly well-educated and class conscious and suddenly she told us that she was moving to the US and now she lives there. I guess she went to study, but I could never. Unless it was New York, I love NYC 🍎
If I weren't already here, I wouldn't move here. Thankfully, I'm in a deep blue state with sane governance. I'm hoping we break off from the rest of this country (w some other blue states). Despite the obvious pitfalls with that, I don't see the US as staying united any longer. 😞
Allowing an apartheid-era billionaire South African son of a multi-millionaire businessman dictate how our government agencies are funded is terrifying! #shameful #amerikkka
Infuriatingly disgusting how the billionaires have taken over our government leaving those of us facing the possibility of having our SS and Medicare cut--or being made totally unviable. The writing was on the wall way before the election--but here we are.
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Elon isn't hanging around Trump for the scintillating conversation or to meet hot chicks.
Lets see... will this go over well once they try?
Uh NO.
But, the Maga crowd will buy the lies they present, as in- we have a good plan *note few to no details*
And once they lose their SS and/or SSDI-Medicare and or Medicaid, they may begin to cry foul.
No tears to give for them.
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I know they love the "burn it down" clown show that is forming around the next admin...
but wait until they see what will be burned down
Yeah some folks believe it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rif_7Urq4s
Amp it up to 11, issue an all hands rapid response action, fund raiser and media blitz. Don't list cut services, have vets show & tell the impact on them and their families!
FIFY
Oh. Never mind.
Whats really a hoot is Republicans deny SS or Medicare will be touched. I hope to god they are right.
I received just a bit more than you. I worked for 20 years in a physically demanding job, was denied disability and took early retirement.
I hope things change for you🙏🏻💙
I bought a tent just in case.
anyone’s benefits.
We all know which houses had Trump signs, and voter registrations are public.
But I need ALL of it.
I worked a long time.
A lying, rapist, criminal felon has selected a team with dubious backgrounds & no real talent. America is facing a major crisis.
(Nice to meet you💙.)
AND Medicaid.
And Maga fools are about to find out
The Tesla/SpaceX simps will eventually wake up after they've been screwed by him
les aristocrates à la lanterne!
So I am worried.
EAT THE RICH.
"Basement Dwellers".
The ice in Antartica is NOT coming back. They know it.
The "47%" were never useful - even less now.
Has this ever worked in history? What usually happens in these scenarios?
This time feels like the end part tipping the scales on changes they’ve made over decades. Incremental pushes to change where the “middle” is. And a shitty for-profit education system sold to the govt 25 yrs ago.
And long-term they’ll just need to economically appease their base, or blame someone else effectively.
https://youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8?si=pnJTNR48-ku1q-XL
Wage - money for prior labor which produced wealth with intent to sell.
Income - unearned; bank interest, windfall, inheritance, dividend stock, rent checks, etc.
Tax income and wealth, not wages.