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I always treated Social Security as a tax I paid so I didn't have to walk over the corpses of old people as I walked to work.
Can't wait to hear how the GOP trying their hardest to fuck over the working class, seniors and the sick is all Democrats fault by the next jackass running to be president. >

It'll be like when McConnell tried to pass a bill to allow US Citizens to sue other countries and Obama said it was a bad idea. They passed the bill and Obama vetoed it saying it was a bad idea. They held a vote to override the veto and Obama said again that it was a bad idea. It passed and then they realized that it was a bad idea. So McConnell blamed Obama, saying that he obviously should have warned them more. >

Still not as good as that time McConnell filibustered his own bill because Democrats agreed with it. >

My favorite is still the international lawsuit one but man, this is a super close, nearly a tie kind of second.
What an absolute shitshow to live through, and even worse have to argue with people about.
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY DEFEND THIS SHIT? >


HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY DEFEND THIS SHIT?

My family doesn't. They just deflect with whataboutism (half the time being just conspiracy theories) or worst. So you wind up arguing all these irrelevant things and can't get back to the main point. >

Never engage with that stuff. 
A simple phrase, "that's not what's being discussed here", repeated as needed. Do not honor any rhetorical tricks. 
The only reason rhetorical tricks work, ever, is because the other participant in the conversation treats them as serious points. 
In my experience rhetorical tricks are often knowingly used to deflect, and half the time they're only used out of imitation. Half the time people are arguing that way only because they've seen someone else do it. >

Great Advice I am going to use it next time when I argue with right-wing relatives and hate mongering friends >

The method is effective, I will warn you though, it will infuriate them. They will often feel cornered and wronged and may lash out with personal or even physical attacks. >

Which will again be ad hominem. 
Honestly, just stop arguing with people like that. You can't convince them anyway, their goal is never to understand your point or even learn something, but to convert you. There is no reason to entertain these fools. >

The other day my MAGA brother sent me a “gotcha” YouTube about Biden that was a lie.
So I pointed out the lie. Maybe 4 sentences.
He lost it. Started going off how I’m an over explainer and over explainers ruin things etc. started laughing at me. I try not to lose respect for him but it’s getting hard. >

If they won’t tax billionaires, they have to make up for it somewhere >

Looking at the big juicy sacred cow called runaway military spending. Gov should tax billionaires and cut defense to strengthen social funding. >

The problem with cutting military spending is that the cuts never go where they should. They won't stop ordering tanks or jets that aren't needed so instead the budget cuts go to child care facilities, tuition assistance programs, and dependent/retiree benefits. 
And then they wonder why they can't meet recruiting targets... >

That’s never occurred to me. That’s nauseating. They really hit them coming and going. >

When I advocate for free higher education I often get told, "just join the military." I have a heart murmur, they wouldn't even take me if I tried. Nothing but carrots and sticks and we've been pretty light on the carrots for a while >

My favorite is putting Scott Perry on the J6 “investigation” while his phone is still confiscated for…suspicion of being involved in J6 >

Yeah, he's basically using his committee and the powers it gives them to interfere with the investigation against him.
That's what it says in the article if you read between the lines of his statements. >

My hardcore MAGA relatives are relying on social security to survive. If it ever runs out I bet they'll blame democrats somehow >

Reminds me of some of my family claiming them dems are socialists while ironically collecting Social Security and Medicare. >

I remember people saying they loved the ACA but hated "Obamacare". >

I hate how ignorant voters are. They shit on military veterans and the elderly and yet get a sizeable portion of their vote. They've owned Texas since the mid 90s and don't have anything to show for it other than a failing electrical grid, poor education, massive gun deaths, and corruption. >

This part killed me:

“I’m all for a balanced budget, but we’re not going to do it on the backs of our troops and our military,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a former Army Green Beret, said Monday during an interview on Fox Business. “If we really want to talk about the debt and spending, it’s the entitlements programs.”

Ignoring that literally half the budget goes to military spending and many "troops" don't make nearly enough or even as much as they used to, this dumb grunt fuck is essentially shitting on veterans.
There's roughly 16.5 million veterans in America, and 8 million of them (so nearly half!) collect Social Security, and 1 out of every 7 Social Security recipients is a veteran. On average, veterans also receive higher monthly benefit amounts, and I'd bet dollars to dipshits that it's one of the few things keeping the veteran recipient's poverty levels lower.
Same shit goes for Medicare, as roughly half of all veterans receive coverage through Medicare; of course, you can't blame them when it gives the tiniest bit more freedom in healthcare choices when compared to the VA.
Our military budget is already disgusting compared to the rest of the world, but when compared to how most these "MILITARY AND OUR TROOPS! OO-RAH!" assclowns don't recognize what junior enlisted, veterans, the elderly/disabled, low-income civilians, and even kids going with lunch at school live with daily, it's fucking abhorrent to defend military spending over social "entitlements" programs. >

Republicans don't give a single fuck about veterans. Most of them were against helping out burn pit victims just like they were against helping out 9/11 first responders. Thankfully we have the democrats and people like Jon Stewart. Whenever the Republicans talk about the troops it makes me sick because I know they are 100% full of shit like usual. >

Social Security and Medicare aren't freebes from the Government.  People have been paying into these programs their entire working lives.  These programs need better funding, not cuts!  F*ck the GQP for wanting to gut these!