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Every person in this comment thread fails to understand that they are all politicians and they all lie. Every single one of them doesn’t matter the party. It’s always red vs blue, left vs right, conservative vs liberal. Every politician is a liar a thief and a conman. People fail to understand that history repeats its self. It’s not about being liberal and only voting liberal or being conservative and only voting conservative, the shit storm hole that western society is in will never get fixed. In Canada or the states. People fail to understand that there are things that happen behind the closed doors, money being pocketed, insider deals being made. People fail to understand that politicians do not actually run the world or the country’s they govern. Money does. That’s what life is all about now, money and power. If everyone could just think for themselves and take an unbiased look at what’s happening in the world today then we’d all be better off and problems would start getting fixed. Liberals believe everything the government says and think they’re smarter than every conservative, conservatives want to stay traditional and believe were all smarter than the liberals. But in reality we’re all fucked. We all need to be in the middle. We all need to stand together, side by side, left with the right, liberal with the conservative, if we really to fix the problems that western society are facing. There’s no such thing as sitting down and discussing our differences anymore, there’s no such things as debates in politics anymore. It’s all accusations and questions that get dodged. There’s no more accountability. There’s no balance anymore, we’re all pitted against each other, fighting amongst ourselves. There’s no logic or morals in society anymore, I think that’s the biggest problem. Everyone believes that they are entitled to something, when in reality no one is entitled to literally anything! I don’t even know where I’m going with this anymore. I’m a moderate, one thing I NEVER see is either side admitting that they COULD be wrong. People need to be more accountable for their actions and what they say. Idk I guess the best way to predict what may happen is read history books and just look for patterns. Don’t read only the headlines. Do some research about the person you’re about to vote for. And don’t be so one sided, that’s what got us here in the first place.
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." >

I like that. 
Good opening gambit. >

Why the fuck do we call these paid into social programs “entitlements”. Stop accepting Republican framing. >

And MSNBC still uses the GOP framing term "entitlements."
Pensions are not entitlements. They are things you already paid for that are owed to you. They are government obligations. >

How many things have been called "political death for the GOP" and yet they still keep persisting?
Being a Republican is a sincerely held belief for them. They won't have an "are we the baddies?" moment.
And the GOP is fully committed to an autocratic permanent minority rule as evidenced by MOORE v HARPER.
As soon as that is decided 6-3 for Moore, all of the Republican majority legislature states are going to give themselves the power to vacate election results with just the allegation of irregularities. There about 30 of these states, enough to just give their candidate the presidency. >

Let’s start by not calling them ‘entitlements’ .. this is a system we pay into. >

Social security is NOT an entitlement. Workers pay into it and they are able to benefit from their deposits. >

It is literally an entitlement.  Workers pay into it, and they are entitled to the benefit when they hit the right age.
Entitlement shouldn't be a bad word in politics. >

The connotation is that an entitlement is not something you earned but bequeathed by someone’s benevolence. 
It may be a benefit but I don’t consider an entitlement. >

That just shows how RW propaganda works, over the decades they have literally changed the meaning of the word "entitlement" into something different and negative. >

I hope. >

We can only hope >

how will this work?
If for some reason, the democrats agree and allow the legislation to pass, and all those cuts get enacted, how will the 'red' maga americans react when they see their precious benny's dry up?  I honestly want to know what they think of this - are they as a political faction, prepared for the misery which will ensue?  Are they not aware of that?  Or are they really ok with it as long as the minorities have it worse?  Is this really what's going on? >

The gop will yell look what Biden and the democrats did to you! And they’ll fall for it like they always do. >

Or the fix is in and they just don't give a shit what anyone thinks of them anymore. >

💯 Which really needs to be talked about more as they don’t seem to even be trying to win over voters anymore for some reason… >

They can take my benefits from my cold dead hands. >

That's the whole idea. >

The US absolutely has no regard for the disabled. They fucking hate us. >

Bold to assume their voters are paying attention. As long as GOP says “woke” and “groomers” enough they could shit in their voter’s mouths and they’d gobble up and call it freedom brownies. >

That's the same thing we said about abortion >

They’ll never do it!   It’d be political suicide!  ( Narrator:  they done did it, and voters gave them the House) >

They probably figure this is their only shot at wrecking SS and Medicare. Which is why I think they will be more than willing to wreck the global economy. No folding this time.
And they'll totally ignore their corporate donors. 
There is an ever-so-slight chance some Rs will defect over...but man, am I not optimistic. 
It's just a never-ending shit show with these losers. How fucking exhausting. >

What an absurd statement. They’ve been doing this for how many years? They’re still around because their base would rather be upset about who can get married or use a bathroom. >

Doubtful. GOP members could literally burn down the Social Security Administration building in DC live on Fox News and the average GOP voter would be like "ITS BIDENS FAULT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T STOP THEM!" >

Stop calling them entitlements. These are programs we the citizens pay for!!!! >

Exactly. >

The base, many of them who are collecting social security and on Medicare, won't care if the GQP totally eliminates the programs if it means "owning the libs". >

Well, it would help if the media stopped using GOP speak. 
They are not “entitlements.” They are earned benefits that we fucking paid into. Some of us, since we were teenagers.  It’s our own money they want to steal from us. >

No they aren't.  All they have is call it something else, and their idiot voters will fall for it.   
Case in point: the woman who was railing against "Obamacare" to me while then telling me how great her ACA insurance was. 
As it was so eloquently put: You can't fix stupid. >

Social security is not an entitlement.  it's payback of monies paid by workers over many years. >

Some entitlements you get is social security.  So as a worker you and your business are paying into this fund that helps you when you’re 69/72ish.  You get to draw on it.  They want to end social security. Also clean water, air, food.  Those are also entitlements. Huge populations of Homelessness was created when banking system collapsed in 2008 creating many of the people we are living in tents in our woods these days.  After the mortgage and bank frauds of 2001-2008 this was a way to take your property. Remember who was president then.  A Republican. >

Political death? I guess the author hasn't met GOP voters. >

For fuck sake. They aren’t entitlements. We pay into them! >

It will destroy the Republican Party while having zero chance of becoming law. But, oh well. >

Zero chance? This is totally something I could see ending up as some sort of concession in some “must pass” bill that democrats will go on to tout as bipartisan victory.
Don’t forget what just happened with the rail-workers strike. There is no left-wing power in this country, only right and further right. There are no progressives. There is the conservative wing and the regressing wing. >

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Funny how Republicans claim to despise elites, except the elites on Wall Street who they think deserve access to Americans' Social Security and Medicare dollars.
On Wednesday's episode, Joy invited Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., to explain why Donalds' claim that Social Security is in danger of insolvency is nothing more than a tired GOP talking point.
Given Kevin McCarthy essentially relinquished his power to a faction of far-right lawmakers to win their support for the role of House speaker, it's entirely possible Republicans move forward with votes to slash Medicare and Social Security.


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hope this doesn’t mean Republicans will stop going after military spending >

When have they ever...
Oh you mean aide to Ukraine 🇺🇦 against a clear and present evil? 🇷🇺 >

They've been targeting entitlements for as long as I can remember? >

Inshallah >

If I was them, I'd roll back silly child labor laws, too. >

They already been working on it. >

Why would they ever start to face consequences for their actions now?? >


Political death

Nope, their supporters are always ready to gobble up whatever fox news spin doctors will pump out for them. >

Yeah, there's some die-hard seniors who live on Social Security who'd probably gladly die just as long as a minority doesn't get help.  And/or "to own the libs" >

Really? We’re still going with this?  
I have heard the ten count bell at least once a week for the last six years. What has happened in that time, that would lead anyone to believe that there are any consequences to their actions? 
Their base does not care about anything other than their own misguided faith and self assuring ignorance. 
They get away with it because it’s too late to turn back now. >

Really?
Paul Ryan pretty much laid the plan to kick grandma and grandpa to the private insurance market with a $500 tax rebate and a pack of gum and GOP candidates are still elected.
The normal cop out is that it is for those 55 and younger so it wouldn’t affect the typical “I got mine so screw you” Boomer voter. >

They're coming after the idea that the government should, "...promote the general welfare..." and "...ensure domestic tranquility..." >

No they aren’t, their voters will just blame democrats when republicans cut their social security and Medicare >

They are not flirting with anything. The Republican ethos is "As long as the politicians are hurting the people I hate, those politicians can actively make my life worse, and I will still vote for them". They prefer hating the other to having their own lives improved. And the GOP have mastered fostering hate. >

ENTITLEMENTS?  That’s our money! >

Flirting w death of people who rely on SS for heat and food. Terrorism party. >

Their theory is hold up government funding until Biden is forced to sign it. Then they will say Biden cut social security. >

They could end medicare and social security and their constituents will blame Biden. >

Today's GQP electorate" "Here, hold my Metamucil" >

Don't worry, they'll be insulated by the adults in the Senate and white house. They know none of their efforts will pass so they're just virtue signaling that they're looking to cut spending. >

Not going to win them many votes >

If you vote Republican, you shouldn’t be able to claim Medicare or Social Security. Those are socialism, right? >

They won't be able to retire or get medical treatment but, hey, at least they'll have gas stoves! >

You’ll want that gas stove if all of that happens. After all, you can’t stick your head in an electric stove. At least not for long. >

A mailing list of registered Republicans can be purchased for not too much money. A mailing list of Medicare recipients can be purchased for not too much money. A cross-reference of those lists can be done in minutes. It costs about $0.50 per person to mass-print and bulk-mail a simple color postcard. There are approximately 64 million Medicare recipients, and probably about half are Republicans. That's about $16 million to do the entire country, but it could probably be targeted much finer and still be effective. >

Oh, I think they'll survive, sustained as they are by a sizeable crowd of hateful bigots and greedy corporate slavers.  Whether they'll be able to significantly influence America's political system for much longer is likely a "No."
In my opinion, the GOP is running headlong towards a potential violent revolt against them by threatening so many people's basic survival needs(food, water, shelter), all because of pathological greed, the true "entitlement" of the political right. >

en·ti·tle·ment
[inˈtīdlmənt, enˈtīdlmənt]
NOUN
the fact of having a right to something:
"full entitlement to fees and maintenance should be offered" · "you should be fully aware of your legal entitlements"
SIMILAR:
right
prerogative
claim
the amount to which a person has a right:
"annual leave entitlement"
SIMILAR:
allowance
allocation
the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment:
"no wonder your kids have a sense of entitlement" · "this entitlement mentality is completely out of control"
US
a government program that provides benefits to any individual meeting certain eligibility requirements:
"Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlements are going broke" · "entitlement programs" >

Don't worry, soon the supreme court will make sure elections don't matter so they'll be fine! >

No there not, they have convinced there base that they don't deserve anything, unless they make it themselves.  All the while they steal and cheat them.  Its sad. >

Yeah... you said that after Trump was elected, then you said that after 1/6, then you said that after Dobbs..... and yet here we are. >

They lost ground in the Senate and shit the bed in the House by only picking up a handful of seats (with help from the complacency of NY Dems). That's never really happened in a mid-term before. So, it may be a slow demise, but there's a good chance they are well down the path to irrelevance. >

I hope so, I really do.  I just don't think it's going to be as soon as some are suggesting.    Worst is they may not give up without taking it all down with them. >

Hence all the anti-voting bills, stacked supreme court dismantling rights, and blatant attempts to destroy large swaths of the government with any power they manage to get. They are no longer slow burning everything away. It's a full fledged attempt to disenfranchise as many dissenters as possible while simultaneously attempting to completely destroy the government and let the Democrats spend decades trying to repair it. >

No problem. I’ll definitely take a lump sum tax-feee pay back of the money I’ve been paying into the system for the last 35 years with 8% compounded interest. >

The article is about them privatizing social security and proposing cuts to services. They’re not saying they’ll stop taking any of your money for it or give anything back…