You know, Elon Musk is a person with a neck.
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This is a great point.
A neck that's awfully long. Maybe we could help him out and shorten it a bit.
I know some folks that can fashion a guillotine!
Many people are saying...
And he thinks empathy is a flaw in humans, so....
Reminder: you paid taxes in order to receive social security when you need it. If they negate on that deal, ask for your taxes back.
Money back plus interest. Decades and decades of interest.
Don't ask, take!
So storm the federal reserve like area 51?
Just tack on a huge refund the next time you file your income taxes. With the cuts to the IRS they’ll likely never contest it…
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Touch that shit, I fucken dare you.
If it gets out of hand Elmo will be left holding the bag and likely forced out. The Trump admin will continue on like nothing happened, they won't lose an ounce of support, and DOGE will just be a short footnote on our decline to fascism.
I like your optimism
That's not optimism, it's the very real conclusion that Elon is the (miraculously unwitting) fall guy for all the bad shit they need done early on to facilitate everything else. They'll get to do the whole "we got rid of the bad eggs, we've tuned over a new leaf" thing that conservative politicians love to do when they kick out a fall guy.
This time next year he's going to be shouting on some fuckhead podcast about how he was used. I practically guarantee it.
Well that or Elon successfully manages to do what he thinks will happen and manages to take full control
Counterpoint: There's a significant chance that Musk has dirt on Trump. He literally has access to Trump's old DM's from Twitter. There's a good chance that when he was forced to buy Twitter he needed to find something he could leverage out of the forced buy. Trump's DMs are easy pickings at that point, they were never encrypted. That's why they're called "Direct Messages" and not "Private Messages."
Further, there's rampant speculation that Musk helped him steal the election, but that's a lot more loose and may not be a real thing. Musk having access to Trump's past DMs on Twitter is basically a fact.
Very good point about the DMs. Surprised this issue isn't being raised more often
Yeah but even if he had DM that said he raped and ate women and children none of his supporters would care
Having dirt on him does nothing when his supporters eat dirt.
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In the grand scheme of things Leon is just one of many douchebags. One that has been publicly grating to deal with for the rest of the gang. They've probably been planning an ouster against him for a minute, it's just a matter of squeezing what use they can out of him in the meantime.
I 100% expect him to throw Elmo under the bus like he has with every other person that’s been on his side. He won’t really even need to try, his supporters will do it for him because they can’t handle a reality where they were wrong about the Orange One
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars
A process that worked for Russia!
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I don't.
Elon helped rig it. Elon is fucked if either of them reneg on it but it's less likely.
They’ll just cut it for anybody under 60 or whatever, and their base will cheer them on.
They’ll just cut it for anybody under 60 or whatever, and their base will cheer them on.
Not if they have been paying into it. At least not unless they get a refund for what they paid into it.
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Screw just being paid back. I want decades of interest on that loan I gave the government. If I don't get at least 10% on my investment I'll fucking riot.
Exactly, if they can’t hold up their end, it’s time for some old fashioned leg breaking.
No you won't.
🤣 you don't know anything about me. If I have no retirement to look forward to I have nothing to lose. I know I'm not alone in that sentiment too.
Just because you're a pussy doesn't mean everyone else is.
Idk I might 🤷♂️
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Yessss, anger the old people. Do it. They are the most reliable voting group.
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No way, a horrible person admits they probably might do something horrible after establishing a strong track record of doing horrible things?! I am SHOCKED. Who could have seen this horrible administration known for doing horrible things doing something horrible like this?
This is going to disproportionately affect MAGA voters.
My mom when the CoL bump to her SSDI survivors benefit bumped her over the poverty line and out of Medicaid eligibility:
"Because I got an extra $50 a month, I now have to pay $100 a month for insurance, plus copays! This is ridiculous!"
My mom when I pointed out that those thresholds haven't been touched in decades because that would be helping people and helping people is bad:
"Well, I guess I can't really complain, I've been treated well."
Do not underestimate the vast amounts of copium reserves harbored by the brainwashed.
It’s best to just never, ever give magats the benefit of the doubt and just assume they’re trash people who deserve to be treated like the trash that they are
Yep.
So, do I get back everything I paid into it for the past 40 years? Is that part of the plan? If not, who gets that money, let me guess.
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Elon Musk suggested cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in a Fox News interview
February 11, 4 weeks ago:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-collapse-james-carville-2035164
Trump Administration Will 'Collapse' in 30 Days, Says James Carville
Carville advised Democrats to "play opossum" for now.
"This whole thing is collapsing. It doesn't need Elizabeth Warren in somebody screaming to pacify some progressive advocacy groups in Washington," the former top adviser to President Bill Clinton said. "Hold your fire. It's going to be easy pickings here in six weeks, just lay back."
I would have said that Carville was wrong, but if they do start taking big whacks at entitlement programs, this might actually manage it.
Then no social security tax? Oh I still have to pay that. Great.
Let's pretend he actually does do something to Social Security. There's enough people around him all day that will entirely outraged by this to be safe at any time. Go ahead and try, motherfucker.
White House says Trump won’t cut Social Security, Medicare after Musk remarks
The White House on Tuesday asserted President Trump would not cut Social Security or Medicare after tech billionaire Elon Musk’s comments about the need to examine entitlement spending gained traction.
Musk, a top Trump adviser leading the effort to overhaul the federal workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency, appeared on Fox Business Network on Monday for a rare television interview, where he noted that most government spending is on entitlements.
“So, the waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which is all of the — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. So, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate,” Musk told former Trump official Larry Kudlow, suggesting it could amount to more than $500 billion in annual savings.
Sounds like some legislators got upset calls.
It'll bite him in the arse, when he's old and unemployed and with no bladder because of the ket
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