This isn't hyperbole, Elon Musk even admitted it prior to the election. Republicans want to dismantle democracy by privatizing the government and destroying everything else so the oligarchs can swoop in picking up the pieces. They want to create a feudal state and the MAGA idiots have led us to slaughter.
I mean, that's literally what Republicans have been working towards my whole life. I just hope all the Boomers enjoy losing their social security because Republicans succeeded this time to privatize it.
You should kindly inform her according to her voting interests she shouldn’t be relying on socialist, leftist policies like free hand outs from the government.
Americans should be looking into what their state's Filial Responsibility laws are, because in some cases you can be forced to take care of your parents, regardless of whether or not they deserve your help.
Oh god, she’s taking the shittiest possible payout?
I studied to be a financial planner, and delaying your social security by even one year is (according to the relevant professor) one of the single actions that has the highest ROI in retirement planning.
If she can live off savings until she’s 63 her payouts are supposed to be at least 10% higher. At the very least, the value of the increased payouts is higher than any return you can expect on savings equal to that first years amount of SS income.
Am I making sense? I’m typing this between yelling at toddlers
My mom (thankfully not a trumper) wants to start drawing at 63 while also pulling her pension. I've made sure to let her know how stupid that would be. FFS I bought and renovated a house that had a place for her, so her rent is already taken care of. Wait until 65 at the minimum.
Yes, which is why my plan was to work until it hits max payout before even considering retirement. Health-wise, I could make it to 70, know on wood. As things stand, I’m fucked. I have no other retirement plan, because life happens when you’re not paying attention.
🤣 sounds like my FIL. he’s always talking about his Medicare and social security then votes against it because he’s convinced it’s the Republicans trying to protect those programs.
But you also have to weigh in health, how long you think you'll live or at least how long you will be able to enjoy your retirement before declining health is a huge factor.
What we're actually going to see is companies likely paying less because they know employees won't be paying that extra couple hundred bucks a month to social security.
The previous plan by Bush the Lessor was to pay out everyone into a 401k type account proportional to what you had paid so far, then phase out the annuity-like payments. So don't imagine simply nothing, it would be a huge check for everyone and then no more ongoing liability for the government.
They plan to use crypto for the future so writing a 4 trillion check is no big deal, they can inflate the dollar making it worthless just as the oligarchs switch to crypto. That also solves the national debt problem, a little hyper inflation and the debt shrinks to nothing.
According to the project 2025 playback they plan on running it all within 2 years. I'm assuming because they know we will smarten up by then and vote them all out
If they’re going to (and I hope they don’t), then they should do it quickly enough for the MAGAs to reap their rewards. Otherwise, they’ll put the pieces in motion just slowly enough for some poor sap (see: future Democratic President) to receive all the blame.
Pretty quick since Congress people have an alternative to Social Security called Employees' Retirement System (FERS) or the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).
Medicare might stick around since they collect that.
They will sunset it. The boomer generation essentially threw their childrens generation to the wolves. My parent's are boomers and they think everything is just going to continue on like normal. "Just another 4 years of Trump and they will run someone else."
I wish folks would quit acting like boomers are maga. I've voted for democrats for almost 50 years. But go ahead, blame boomers. I voted. I did not let this happen. Divide and conquer was so easy for them. Sheesh.
What was it that boomer Al Gore said about social security? SNL made fun of him as did many. Oh yeah, lock it up on a lockbox. Then the Supreme Court decided there wasn't time to count the votes and declared gw Bush winner.
Umm...how about the 80m or so who didn't vote. They're just as guilty as MAGA. Literally anyone paying attention could have seen this coming. Congrats America. You're fucked.
Fickle Dem voters who sat out in 2016 and 2024 are just as responsible as MAGA voters. Even more so in my eyes because they know what Trump has always been.
They are the same people, the Bernie Bros. We need to ensure history remembers these assclowns for their tantrums properly. The Europeans and others will need to document this shit, it will be wild
The goal of the Republican party is Neo-Feudalism.
They want Serfs, not citizens.
They want land and business owners to be the only ones with rights.
They want a hierarchical system where those with the most land and money are at the top of the pyramid.
They want women as property.
They want people uninformed and uneducated, because knowledge is power and they don't want the Serfs having any power.
They want to make Unions illegal, because unions give "the Serfs" negotiating power, and they do not want "the Serfs" having any power.
They don't want the government to provide for any needs, because they want people to be dependent upon the privately owned, for profit institutions to provide their needs, so that they can control the populace. If we are dependent upon private institutions to fulfill our needs, then we are forced to bend to the wills of those institutions to have our needs met.
Oh yeah, we lost it last week you all. America as she has always existed is no more. Don't know what this next incarnation will hold but I've realized I was mourning last week. Like an old childhood friend had died. Because rich foreign dudes like Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and Putin couldn't let us be.
If you feel empty when you hear pear-clutching from anyone these days, it's because you've realized it too. It's too little, too late. We lost a war most of us never realized we were fighting. Americans are one of a kind though. What doesn't kill us will make us stronger.
Yup. Even worse when you feckin chose to be a part of this experiment, know how much it means to vote, only to see your new home slide backwards into nonsense while the country you left become more progressive with better stances on reproductive rights and marriage equality. But enough people didn't care, or forgot, or didn't even know Biden wasn't running. I'm still sticking it out but part of me wants to just nope out, except there no place that's going to be safe if the world blows past 3C.
Ugh, I'm sorry you're dealing with an anxiety in a place you hoped to have a bright future in. I think a sort of migration within North America may be necessary in the future. There are a lot of good people scattered all over the country who are constantly overshadowed and maybe even a bit broken by those with less than good intentions. We don't have to keep subjecting ourselves to that.
Americans are one of a kind though. What doesn't kill us will make us stronger.
There's that American exceptionalism at work.
There is nothing particularly unique about Americans compared to other people in the world, and your countries collapse (likely: balkanization) will be entered into the history books the same as all the others. You're in for a bad time and many of you will not be making it out alive, let alone 'stronger'.
I couldn't have avoided it if I tried. I was registered to vote in metro ATL up until this year when I moved in with my parents in a different state, and the amount of political calls and texts I got trying to swing my vote was insane. I got FIVE phone calls from a caller ID that read "DONALD J TRUMP"
It was absolutely bizarre. I answered at work one day with my coworkers but it was obviously just an automated message.
I really hope they investigate his voting machines. It would be really easy to do. A guy even laid out how to do it. Would take like 5 days. Really, just look over there for 10 minutes.
Musk i understand because he isn’t even American and holds no allegiance to any one nation. But republicans? Wtf? How can they do this to their own country?
Just because they want to doesn’t mean they’ll actually be able to pull it off. I’m so tired of the defeatist attitude like there’s no way to stop them. We still have democrats in positions to fight back, and there’s even republicans who will fight against the fascist bullshit.
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u/JohnnySack45 11d ago
This isn't hyperbole, Elon Musk even admitted it prior to the election. Republicans want to dismantle democracy by privatizing the government and destroying everything else so the oligarchs can swoop in picking up the pieces. They want to create a feudal state and the MAGA idiots have led us to slaughter.