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.
And he thinks empathy is a flaw in humans, so....
I know some folks that can fashion a guillotine!
Many people are saying...
We should use the chopping block on him, and repurpose his wealth to fund government programs. Especially for repaying federal employees for this shitshow.
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.
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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
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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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They’ll just cut it for anybody under 60 or whatever, and their base will cheer them on.
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I sincerely hope these cuts do not happen, but if they do, I hope we see a massive "grey wave" of large scale protests from older folks who rely on these programs. They worked and paid into Social Security their whole lives and deserve that money.
The thing is, the elders have all bought in to this idea that there's no money for social security and medicare not because it's been whittled away and underfunded and means tested to death for forty years, but rather there's just massive, massive fraud, and everybody's stealing from social security before it gets to them. So, they're probably all cheering this push to cut entitlements because they think that all these fraudsters will be kicked off, and surely they won't be kicked off, surely their social security benefits will actually be a good amount once all those mooches are kicked off. When it does happen to them, and it will, they won't realize that it was by design, they'll all be stunned that Trump and Musk made this "mistake" and swept them up in the cuts.
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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?
But but they said they would never do this. Stupid fools.
The people threatening the cuts, or the people who believed them when they said they wouldn’t do that?
Yes.
Where do I get a refund on my social security payments I've put in my entire adult life?
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While Trump has promised not to cut entitlement programs
And we all know how much Trump's word is worth.
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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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Musk's head is gonna be on the chopping block if he manages to make 20+ million Americans instantly homeless.
If he wants a wave of suicide bombers on mobility scooters, he's on the right track.
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Lets see how the Trumpists react when they notice that their social security checks no longer come and the medicaid no longer pays for their vital medications.
It'll still be the fault of Democrats and the Trans/DEI agenda for burning all the money.
If their supporters were capable of logical thought they wouldn't be their supporters (not saying they'd be Dems, but they definitely wouldn't be supporting these fucks).
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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
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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.
Isn't ~~the~~ a point of Musk/Doge so that Trump can say, I didn't cut them, Doge did.
Assuming he ever cares that much to deflect.
Finally admits what we knew all along. I'm shocked...absolutely shocked...wow...if I could get anymore shocked I'd be like 5 steps down from a single eyebrow lift.
linking [...] to immigration
Ah, so:
- Gotta cut SS because of immigrants
- Uh oh people really want SS
- Look I saved SS by deporting immigrants
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