I interrupt the bike love to bring you the latest from the Musk and Trump Circus Act:
They are coming for Social Security, SSDI (Disability) and SSI (Supplemental Income).
The Democrats are rolling over and playing dead. (Want proof? Schumer just urged them to join him in approving the GOP’s bill to stave off a government shutdown, kicking the can down the road for another six months.)
Millions of Americans PAID INTO the Social Security system over the course of their working years, supporting those who were retiring at the time — and ensuring that when they needed help in the later years, the money would be there for them.
Elon Musk isn’t satisfied. He wants everyone who can work for crap wages to do so until they drop, and he wants anyone who can no longer work to simply die.
So he’s going after Social Security, by making up complete lies about the “millions” who are defrauding the system (when in fact, the incidence of purposeful fraud is quite low) and saying that by “tightening up” the rules for who qualifies for Social Security he can save the federal government untold billions of dollars.
Elon Musk doesn’t want anyone to benefit from Social Security, calling it an “entitlement.”
Musk is riding Donald Trump’s increasingly senile coattails in order to remake the country into an oligarchy, and to pave the way for a nation ruled by White Christian Nationalists, for White Christian Nationalists.
GOP congressmen and senators do not dare oppose this plan, under threats that include political and even real death.
Democrats are rolling over and playing dead, hoping no one will notice. (Chuck Schumer chose to go along with the GOP’s plan, going along to get along, and delivered enough votes to help the GOP’s budget plan to succeed. Obviously, a rock and a hard place; opposing the agony would simply give DOGE more leeway to gut federal spending another way. But still, he should’ve fought out loud.)
Social Security is not an entitlement! We paid money into it every week from our paychecks for years.
I am now on Social Security Disability. I was disabled by multiple medical conditions that were exacerbated by Long Covid, and can no longer work.
Just so there’s no confusion, let me be clear:
IF THE FEDS SHUT DOWN MY SOCIAL SECURITY, I WILL DO WHATEVER I MUST IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. AND I WILL NOT FEEL A SHRED OF GUILT. Because if our leaders can ignore the rule of law, then I have no choice but to do the same in order to survive.
I refuse to lay down on the train tracks.
I’m a woman, a Jew, a retiree, a dyke and an American citizen.
Let the White Nationalists come and get me. I will show more backbone than the Democrats in Congress have.
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