#or cutting social security

[snnumntik]

anyone else really scared about the rush of media backlash against the public for supporting the United Healthcare CEO shooter (it's not Luigi Mangione until he's proven guilty) and what it could mean for the upcoming trump administration?

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Social Security and Medicare might not be important to you, but I guarantee it's important to someone you know, whether it's your parents, or grandparents, or friends... someone you know relies on that money. Plus, you're paying into those programs with every pay check. That's your money. You will never get that money back.

[rejectingrepublicans]

FAFO

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

6 minute YouTube video explaining how Ramaswamy and Musk’s DOGE budget cuts are completely unrealistic. The only way they can save the $2 trillion they proposed is by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Veterans benefits. They are also planning on cutting the National Institute of Health, and all funding for the arts and sciences among other things. Best of all they are going to further cut taxes for the top 1% while cutting all those services to the bottom 98% of the country.

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[socialjusticeinamerica]

[wyrmfedgrave]

Forbes: The Rich Stop Paying Social Security Tax Around January 1

What the Social Security tax is now, why it's running out of money & how to fix it rapidly!!

Sadly, tRump & his Republikkkans are trying to ruin it to get their rich friends' more tax cuts...

End?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Christopher Shields

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On Thursday, Lucy once again pulled the football away from Charlie Brown at the last moment--to no one’s surprise. Republicans dropped all pretense of helping the “little guy” whose support Trump courted during the election. Instead, Republicans made clear that the working class, unions, retirees, veterans, and disabled Americans will be roadkill in the headlong rush to extend Trump's 2017 tax cut for millionaires and big corporations.

Before looking at the details, I urge readers to maintain a clear distinction between two closely related sets of facts:

Despite the bravado and tough talk of Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Speaker-In-Name-Only Mike Johnson, it is highly unlikely that Republicans will succeed in cutting Social Security, Medicare, Veterans healthcare, and a variety of other safety net programs and federal agencies. See Business Insider, Trump's former chief of staff says Elon Musk will have an easier time getting to Mars than making proposed DOGE cuts.

Notwithstanding the remote prospects of implementing the cuts, Democrats must treat those efforts as a frontal assault on the working class, unions, veterans, retirees, and disabled Americans, converting the proposals into an albatross around the necks of House Republicans going into the 2026 midterms.

So, we must hold firm to two thoughts: (1) Do not panic over every pronouncement from court jesters Musk and Ramaswamy, but (2) raise the alarm about their reckless pronouncements at every opportunity.

The shocking proposed cuts to social programs discussed by Musk and Ramaswamy on Thursday must be treated as the opening salvo of the 2026 midterms.

What happened on Thursday?

Musk and Ramaswamy held a closed-door meeting with the GOP congressional caucus to discuss cutting $2 trillion from a $6.5 trillion annual budget. Other than “tough guy” talking points, Musk and Ramaswamy offered no concrete solutions. See The Independent, Elon Musk came to DC to lots of fanfare. But he said surprisingly little of substance.

After the meetings, Republican lawmakers avoided any discussion of cuts to specific programs—except to say that Musk and Ramaswamy want to “cut waste.” Well, there’s a shocker! Who doesn’t want to “eliminate waste”?

Although Trump has repeatedly promised that he will not cut Social Security, Musk has been amplifying calls on Twitter by Republican Senator Mike Lee to cut Social Security. It is always a bad idea to contradict a president-elect about proposed policies; doing so with Trump is usually the shortest path to a breakup. See MSNBC, Opinion by Ryan Teague Beckwith | Republicans are suddenly interested in cutting Social Security.

As of Thursday evening, Fox News is reporting that cuts to “Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are on the table.”

But the Musk-Ramaswamy proposals don’t stop there. Per Steve Ratner on BlueSky (@steverattner.bsky.social), the bulk of additional savings will come from proposed cuts to

· VA Healthcare - $516 billion (100% reduction) · National Institutes of Health - $47 billion (eliminate NIH) · Pell Grants - $22 billion (80% reduction) · Head Start - $12 billion (100% reduction) · FBI -$11 billion (out of $11.3 billion budget) · Federal Prisons -$8 billion (100% reduction) · SEC - $2 billion (out of $2.1 billion current budget)

A careful review of the above proposed cuts reveals that the Musk cuts will effectively eliminate the following agencies and programs: VA healthcare, NIH, Head Start, FBI, Federal Prisons, and the SEC.

The cuts are nonsensical—which is why you should not lie awake at night worrying about them. But because they are nonsensical, we must begin hammering on those proposals as our opening salvo in the 2026 midterms.

And I dearly hope that all the pundits who have been (wrongly) castigating Democrats for “ignoring” the working class will condemn Republicans with equal zeal for the cuts proposed by Musk and Ramaswamy.

The proposed cuts show that Trump was lying to the working class, using them as pawns to pay for the extension of the 2017 tax cuts for millionaires and corporations. Disgusting! That betrayal must be in the opening paragraph of every op-ed, mailer, TikTok, Substack, and speech given by Democrats between now and Election Day 2026.

[Robert B. Hubbell]

[omgcatboi]

I need everyone even if you are not in the state of Georgia to call this number and tell this man not to cut social security benefits and Medicaid benefits. Here is his contact information since he tries to lock it behind in a wall that only allows you said information if you put in a address in the state of Georgia which I found a way around because he's not very good at coding I guess LOL.

Contact information for Rich McCormick that he tries to lock behind a wall that only lets you in if you put in your personal address which I feel is an intimidation tactic. I feel if he's going to do this he should put his address as well. his personal address. But he does not provide it.

McCormick.house.gov website

202 225 4272 phone

If you prove that you called him and told him not to cut benefits for the disabled I will write your name on my belly and send you a pic of it uwu

[bitchy-peachy]

Some person in one of the chat groups I'm in is flipping out about losing VA benefits cos they voted for Trump.

As always. may you get everything you voted for.

[randyite]

[yemme]

Hallmark should've been sued for lack of representation long ago. I waited a long time to see a black co-star become a lead also plus size white women on my TV. Now we are in the era of ageism... and with a Network that doesn't realize it is the old and progressive that's watching. Holly is expensive because she knows her worth... she looks better than your younger crew. Lacey is aging... her body is bangin' better than your youth. Stop the madness. Netflix and Hallmark... take your hands out of the envelope before you get paper cuts by Snail Mail Queens. You've lost viewership over subtle gay background story lines. Whomever this woman is I'm sure she can see better with that one eye than someone with four. Can't believe you fired a NeverEnding Story Queen... SHAME. Add more independently produced movies and series... that is where you start.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[springacres]

Getting sick really sucks. I genuinely hope it's the flu and not Covid Round 2.

[intelligentchristianlady]

If you have time for one long read this holiday weekend, make it this one.

[socialjusticeinamerica]