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I like that. 
Good opening gambit.
They tell you that democrats are coming for your guns and while you are distracted they come for your healthcare, your pension. They tell you democrats are coming for your pancake mix and while you are distracted the come for your schools. They tell you democrats are committing voter fraud and while you are distracted they not only commit voter fraud but gut voting rights. They tell you democrats are coming for your stove and while you are ranting they close your libraries. They tell you hordes of immigrants are coming for your jobs and that is the democrats fault, then they refuse to raise the minimum wage and hire the immigrants to put you out of work.   
They distract you with outrage over the sexual orientation of cartoon M&Ms while ensuring you make less money, don’t have the protection of unions, have no health care , can no longer easily vote and are too uneducated to notice or do anything about it. >

All aided by the 24/7 GOP propaganda machines (Fox, Breitbart , DailyWire, Newsmax, AM Talk Radio, OAN, CatTurd, etc.) >

Don’t forget the algorithms & bots & extreme rabbit holes that come with them! >

Hol'up. Is Seth Rogen bad now? >

Pretty sure he meant Joe Rogan.  I think Seth is still a cool, space laser wielding, stoner dude. >

You are correct. It was Joe. >

The republicans don't care. You remember how the right spent decades slowly assembling the pieces to overturn Roe? Aided by murky organizations with seemingly unlimited funds? The gutting of the social safety net is exactly the same. Wealthy corporations and individuals do NOT want to keep paying for the poor and seniors.
They see what's coming and are determined to end the so called "entitlements". The republicans have concluded that if they can fullfil their master's wish of killing Medicare, Medicaid and greatly reducing Social Security they won't have to worry about elections anymore. They will just be the ruling party forever. And the Supreme Court will not only allow it but make it possible. >

The GOP is not going to end entitlements. It’s why you never see them pull this shit when they control both chambers of Congress and the White House (like they did from 2017-2019). They pull this shit now because it feeds red meat to a certain portion of their base, and all the while they know that the Dems will block it so that the GOP never has to deal with any of the fallout from this actually happening. >

I will just rebut your assertion by saying this. Look back at the two republican speakers of the last ten years. Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy have both led with "entitlement reform". Why? Because their donors have hammered them over and over again with cutting the safety net. The republicans are going to work very, very hard to make the federal budget look untenable. I'll show you how:
- Step 1: Fight the debt ceiling raise as if it is the death of the republic.
- Step 2: Bombard every right wing "news" outlet with disinformation stating that:
✓ The democrats have spent too much and we are in debt! (Nevermind that it's not true)
✓ We can't keep spending "your great-great-great grandchildten's future"!
✓ We are weaker because we spend "soooooo much on entitlements".
✓ Just like you've had to cut back due to "democratic inflation" it's time for the government to do the same! (Except for the DOD budget)
- Step 3: Activate Tea Party 2.0. Yeah, the idiots with teabags on their heads. They are not gone.
- Step 4: Wealthy corporations and individuals will bemoan the high taxes and say it's killing growth. (Nevermind their astronomical profit taking and paltry hiring)
- Step 5: Retake the Senate and Presidency in 2024 and restart the cycle all over again.
- Step 6: Gut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. >


We can't keep spending "your great-great-great grandchildten's future"!

It's a good thing that tax cuts for the wealthy will fix climate change, or I might have been worried about those kids and their future. >

Don't even get me started. They've planned for their children. Just not the rest of us. >

Nah.
The GOP finally realized that this is finally the right time to fatten up their fat cats.
The time of George Santosian voters are here!
Stupid shits do not realize their own self interests are at stakeband vote for GOP because they hate minorities, gays or Obama or Hillary Clinton or China flu or something.
Like this guy;
“Of course it bothers me,” Daniel Zimmerman, a 70-year-old registered Democrat, told POLITICO as he left a local pharmacy Thursday in Great Neck, a waterfront enclave in the heart of the district. But, he added, he’d vote for Santos again. “Right now I’m a Republican because Democrats, they’re destroying our country. I don’t like the president,”
"Keep gubment hands off my social security and medicare."
"Federal deficit will be eliminated if cut off all those free money to illegals"
"Get what you really deserve. No charges or little charges to you when you get Viagra, fuck the medicare" >

Here's the most delicious part of that for me. 
Subsidized erections but no subsidies for the babies were going to force women to have. 
The fuck goes through their heads? >

Social Security is not an entitlement.
Giving the Military Industrial Complex $826,000,000,000.00 every year is. >

And the reall bummer for me is that there isn’t meaningful differences between parties on military spending :( >

Apparently the GOP is now fine with cutting military spending on support to Ukraine. >

I betcha they’ll find another military contract to spend that 50 billion in though. >

Death of a Party?
Well a man can dream, can't he? >

It is a dream. MSNBC spends far too much time telling us that the Republican Party is dying. Nonsense. Voter turnout for Republicans in 2022 was a new record high--exactly the opposite thing as dying. We had better be prepared to get everyone we can to vote against Republicans in 2024--because voter turnout for Democrats plummeted by about nine million votes from 2018's record. >

Seriously.
AND both Ohio and Florida seem to be slipping away from the Democrats.  Only Sherrod Brown can win a big time race in either of them.
Both are "absolute must wins" for the GOP, but it's not a good sign for the left when they're barely competing at all. >

They're gone, and have been since 2000. Dems occasionally win there, but that's only when they're running up the score. For the foreseeable future, states like Colorado, Virginia, Arizona, and Georgia have replaced them. We'll probably be competitive in North Carolina before we're competitive in Florida or Ohio again. >

And then there’s the blue Texas that’s always just beyond the horizon, like cold fusion. >

Their followers embraced their own deaths during covid.  Republicans are past the point of of facing consequences. >

💯 They attempted a coup and then won back control of the house. >

Even after the Supreme Court overturned Roe - 
They want to give fetuses personhood. 
And they want to go after birth control next.
And people still voted Republican - >

Entitlements? You mean stuff I'd paid for my entire life, and now MAGA wants to steal it... >

Not steal it …steal more of it >

you spelled ALL of it wrong
what? you think they're going to look up what you paid in and cut you a check? >

I kinda' doubt it, honestly. Their base doesn't care how poorly the GOP governs, how much their terribly policies actually end up fucking them in the ass.  
As long as the GOP still hates black/gay/trans/atheist/woke/etc. people, the base will continue to vote for them. They'll be yelling "MAGA!" from the doors of their trailers until they die of diabetes. >

Not to mention every plan they float always has boomers being grandfathered in by saying like 54+ year olds will not be affected… but the rest of you who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into the system over the majority of your career can fuck off. >

It's about hurting people they don't like. >

Stop using their language.  These are EARNED BENEFITS not entitlements. >

No they aren't, their voters aren't aware or informed of what's happening and they don't want to be.
Things will get worse for them and they will double down R. >

Doubtful.  They will just blame it on liberals and there base will not question it. >

Anything to own the Libs and grift more cash. >

Nothing like unforced errors >

“Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake" - Napoleon >

“Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake" - George Santos
Fixed it for you >

That was how he took over that British airport during the Revolutionary War. >

Those same clowns want to abolish the irs. >

And osha >

And the EPA >

And Ukraine >

They haven’t called Social Security the “third rail” in politics for nothing. AARP with have a cow and the Democrats will agitate. Older Americans who PAID into the system tend to get riled up when you call it an entitlement. >

Not necessarily. They’ll make exceptions for older Americans and only have cuts apply to subsequent generations. And boomers will continue their fck you I’ve got mine mentality and vote for it. >

this person politics >

Please. There is absolutely nothing that Republicans could do that would mean political death for them. >

Ok then give every worker back every penny they paid into it with the interest that should have accrued had we been given the option of saving it in a savings account. In full. Immediately. And don’t take one more cent out of our paychecks. >

I love that the Republican base is shrinking, and they're doing everything to help it. >

They are deliberately targeting social security and Medicare but they will blame Biden and the Dems. >

Most of the Republican base doesn’t know what is happening. They know only what the party wants them to know such as various culture war spectacles. >

Cutting Social Security would be a huge mistake and would put a lot of seniors out on the street.  A little over 40% of retirees have no savings and only have Social Security to live on.  Also, if these "entitlements" are reduced, don't expect that the GQP will reduce what they take out of your paychecks.  They will just redirect that money to help the wealthy and large corporations.  VOTE THESE CLOWNS OUT OF OFFICE!  
EDIT: Words >

My parents who were democrats while I was growing up. Retired and now are republican and voting for people who literally want to take away benefits from them. Makes ZERO sense! They cannot live if social security is cut at all >

Stop calling this shit entitlements. It's our fucking money. >

They’re doing what they always fucking do. 
Over and over and over.
But motherfuckers still vote for them. >

Nothing will stop the rubes from voting Republican. These people are born marks. >

Stop calling them entitlements >

you want to end SS and medicare... you do it now. As in right now. As in push all those Boomers back to work. As in let them lose everything to medical debt. As in make them pay exorbitantly for health insurance.
But they won't.  They'll phase it out, and they'll fuck us, and the boomers will cheer.
I hate this corrupt shit-hole country >

It'd be a good way to solve the labor shortage too! Grandma can get off her lazy keister and go handle packages at Amazon! >

These GOPhers need to be careful what they wish for ;) >

If they even TRY to cut SS these cretins have no clue as to what kind of hell they’ll unleash upon themselves. >

They'll find a way to blame Dems and their base will eat it up.  It's what they do.  Wash, rinse, repeat. >

Their base won't care as long as they still hate trans/gay/women being people. >

Just as long as they hate >

Nah, they know the GOP base cares more about hurting minorities than supporting people. They don't care. It's about hurting people they don't like. >

The problem?
They'll target those who are due those entitlements in 10 - 15 years. The retirees who are already getting them won't be impacted, but those same retirees will happily vote for their own children to not get them, all in the name of being "fiscally conservative."
How do I know this?
My own goddamned mother and mother in law see no problem with any of it. Of course, they're enjoying those entitlements, but don't have any issue with fucking over my wife and I, or their own grandchildren. >

Entitlements! Your damn right we are entitled to it. We PAID for it. These programs are not free money. We the people have entered into an agreement with our government. To not honor it would be thievery, pure and simple. >

The media just can’t help but call Social Security an entitlement. It’s not. We’ve paid into it our entire fucking lives. 
Only the GOP slashes SSI. They did it under Bush and they’re preparing to try again. >

Social Security is not an entitlement! >

“I don’t know what’s in the Florida water, but some of the most outspoken House members calling for changes to these popular entitlement programs have come from the Sunshine State.”
Lead.  It’s lead, Ja’han. >

Dems need to respond with:  "Here, the entitlements are fine, but the Trump tax cuts are gone."
"This would not be a problem if you had not caused it on purpose."
or, in the immortal words of Liz Cheney,  "You f%\^in did this."