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First Felon was handed the best economy in the world. An econony built by Democrats

MAGA will destroy it for parts and kickbacks. Republicans will give away the shop and never confront Trump about Putin.

Conservative cowardice is an infinity loop.

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What is the REAL reason they want to get rid of social security?

@joyannreid

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Martin O’Malley, the former commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), said Monday the recent cuts made by tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the agency could result in the "collapse" of the Social Security system "within the next 30 to 90 days."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5173332-social-security-cuts-risk-collapse

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First Felon has one mode: grift

Republicans are the party of Russian corruption.

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Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?

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Friends, Musk is trying to downplay the chaos he’s creating by saying it’s much the same as the cost-cutting efforts of the Clinton administration. “What DOGE is doing is similar to Clinton/Gore Dem policies of the 1990s,” he posted on his X platform. Rubbish. I cut costs in the Clinton administration. The contrast with what Musk is doing couldn’t be sharper. As secretary of labor, I took the Department of Labor down from 18,500 employees to 16,600 — but did it without any layoffs. No chainsaws. No meat-axes. And we were careful to improve the services we were providing the public. For example, when people lost jobs in an industry that was shrinking, we devised a way to get them job-training and job-search assistance in addition to unemployment insurance. This helped move them into new jobs faster — which also saved the government over $1 billion a year in unemployment payments. We plowed that $1 billion back into job-training and job-search assistance, making the whole economy work better. In Musk’s attack on the federal workforce, thousands of federal workers have been fired without warning. Or they’ve been offered fake “deferred resignation” buyouts that were never authorized by Congress and may not be legal. Entire agencies have been gutted without legislative authorization, forcing judges to intervene. Our “Reinventing Government” effort was authorized by bipartisan congressional legislation. We worked carefully over several years to identify areas where government could be more efficient, notifying Congress of what we were doing. But the Republicans who control Congress today have allowed Musk to race ahead without them, even though the Constitution states that the legislative branch approves spending and federal law prohibits the president from cutting programs Congress has authorized without its permission. Clinton sought that permission, and Congress accepted $3.6 billion in cuts he proposed. We also involved federal workers, because they knew better than anyone what could be improved and how best to do it. We introduced performance standards, we encouraged our workers to embrace the internet, and we gave out awards to employees who came up with ways to cut red tape and improve service. “There was a tremendous effort put into understanding what should happen and what should change,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, which seeks to improve the federal workforce. “What is happening now is actually taking us backwards.” We were deliberative and careful. Musk is the opposite. Musk sees government workers as the enemy — as costs to be cut. We saw government workers as assets to be developed, our partners in getting better services to the public more efficiently. Musk also calls people who benefit from government programs the “parasite class.” Presumably that’s why he’s eager to cut back Medicaid. But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children. Oh, but if we’re talking about people who depend on government, Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the richest person in the world. That he views public servants as his enemy and the people who benefit from public programs as “parasites” tells you all you need to know about Elon Musk. When you hear Musk say his effort is similar to what I and others did in the 1990s, know he’s lying. When you see him call people who benefit from public programs “parasites,” know he’s a hypocrite. Thoughts?

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Epstein is a mirror of paternal conservative sexual exploitation of children.

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The Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly looking to cancel a $2.4 billion contract recently awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control system. Who will replace Verizon? Elon Musk's Starlink of course. The grift that keeps on grifting.

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Look at this tool. What a pathetic edgelord.

They are called earned benefits. Cutting $500 billion from your money when you need it is asinine.

Would you accept cuts to your bank account? It's the same logic: it's your money.

At this stage, Musk could destroy all social security payments and end Medicare, and these mindless, unserious Republicans would let Musk steal all their money.

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So much winning.

I'm sure firing thousands of professionals, ransacking government agencies, heisting everyone's private data, and starving the working classes will help this.

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Why did Trump's tax return audit need over four years, and then it never happened? But these audits by hackers take five minutes?

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DOGE illegally firing employees and voiding contracts will end up costing billions.

If you don't stand with labor, kiss your future goodbye.