> Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump opened the door Monday to “cutting” retirement spending programs like Social Security
So now SS – which I’ve paid into for years – is a spending program.
This orange douche can go fuck himself.
All his old white supporters will scream it’s Bidens fault while he cuts it
This will certainly ~~sure~~ shore up the 65+ vote for Biden. Thanks, Trump!
Edit: type-o
Republicans sure know how to spend other people’s money. And Trump is legendary for that.
That fuckhead attacked DeSantis over the same thing.
And republicans booed when Biden called them on this position at the state of the union. How anyone votes for this is just never gonna make sense to me
How does this asshole get an interview with any reasonable journalist and not get confronted with the treason and dumbfuckery he has foisted on the USA and world? A business program? Fine, ask him about the economic impact his pandemic denial had and continues to have on our economy.
We are going to normalize ourselves into fascism.
Republicans think it is cool to make the younger people work longer before they can collect their Social Security. Because Republicans think “those young people don’t vote, screw them”. I hope they are wrong.
MAGA Boomers won’t care as long as it punishes their grandkids and not them.
While Trump is pointing out a very real issue with Social Security, there is risk of the program becoming insolvent because of a lack of incoming revenue.
**BUT** cutting the social security spending after a few years of increased inflation is insane, when there is a better solution that Congress can enact; which is removing the [Social Security Wage Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Wage_Base), which is an upper threshold on which a wage earner’s Social Security tax may be imposed. For 2024 that upper limit is $168,600; anything earned over that is not collected.
I’ve spoken to retirement age republican voters about comments like this from Republicans, and so far as they get to keep their benefits they don’t care what everybody else loses. They will get behind this if they get grandfathered in.
Hell, they will call people who think that that’s unfair entitled
The more I see of this election, the better I feel about our chances. Biden is on top of his game while Trump is slurring and rambling and threatening to open concentration camps and shit, all while bankrupting the RNC. Perhaps reports of the death of democracy in the United States are greatly exaggerated.
How will Trump’s supporters support him if he takes away their retirement? What a shortsighted man he is.
I mean according to Whoopi young people only work like 4 hours a day anyways so it’s not like they deserve social security. /s
Cut all benefits to that trash:pension, staff, office expenses, medical care, health insurance, and Secret Service protection. Filthy traitors who want to destroy the counyry deserve to be living under a bridge or a maximum security prison.
Hold on a minute. Are you telling me the giant orange doofus actually made a comment that resembled a policy statement? I’ve never heard anything from him other than nasty sound-bite attacks. He really is losing it!
Just lift the damn cap!!!!
This is weird because AFAIK Trump never mentioned cutting Social Security before. And not during the 2016 campaign. His saying that he would do it actually helps Dems who always run on never cutting entitlements. Let’s hope this motivates everyone over 62 to vote for Biden!
The thing that bothers me the most is that it’s always an immediate “crisis” but the cuts won’t happen until the future.
They know how toxic this is but they won’t risk their base of elderly voters.
Instead they want to rely on their decades of messaging and expect an apathetic response from younger generations who have been conditioned to accept the demise of social security as inevitable.
I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death – and they will love him for it.
GOP is careful to say it won’t affect the current baby boomers, knowing these people tend to vote their way! If they want to cut benefits, they need to look at rich people who receive them while having plenty retirement money! Multiple homes, vehicles…..
Can we start by cutting all government benefits he gets?
I paid for my social security. Every two weeks. In cash. You can just go fuck yourself if you think you can just take that from me.
At last year’s SOTU, when Biden mentioned that some Republicans want to cut SS, the Republicans in attendance booed him and shouted liar. Meanwhile, some of these same assholes are literally on audio/video/ or in writing stating exactly that.
“Trump didn’t get specific about what he would do.” – that’s because he has no idea. He couldn’t tell you what Social Security is, how it works, or anything about it. Because he doesn’t care. At all.
If he gets back in SS will be his next bank for him and his family!
This fucking idiot is going to unforced error his way into losing again, isn’t he?
So does this mean, they are going to pay me back every cent I paid into SS + interest?
Or they are just going to suck up the money, give it to their friends under some made argument?
Keep in mind that Scott what’s his name from Florida has been trying to go after SS for years, he’s one of the nominees to lead the GOP in senate…..
Gonna be funny to see rural poor republicans agree that it’s a good idea to fuck themselves.
Seems like we should just raise the taxable income maximum.
It’s always been the plan by Republicans for young people to foot the bill for boomers retirement and then rug pull it from us.
I remember well all the talks about “sunsetting” social security in favor of privatization when Bush was president. They want Social Security to fail. They’ve been trying to do so since it was implemented. They want you working with the bare minimum to sustain life until the day you die. And then they want your children in the meat packing plants the day they can walk.
Oh. You mean my own money? That I’ve been paying into the system since 1985?
Remember when we were told “if you work 40 hours a week until you’re 65 years old, you’ll have a safety net.”
Now they’re like “SIKE! WORK UNTIL YOU DIE BEE-A-TCH!”
Lift the cap. Done, fixed.
When someone shows you who the are , believe them.
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So President Joe was right all along.
> Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump opened the door Monday to “cutting” retirement spending programs like Social Security
So now SS – which I’ve paid into for years – is a spending program.
This orange douche can go fuck himself.
All his old white supporters will scream it’s Bidens fault while he cuts it
This will certainly ~~sure~~ shore up the 65+ vote for Biden. Thanks, Trump!
Edit: type-o
Republicans sure know how to spend other people’s money. And Trump is legendary for that.
That fuckhead attacked DeSantis over the same thing.
And republicans booed when Biden called them on this position at the state of the union. How anyone votes for this is just never gonna make sense to me
How does this asshole get an interview with any reasonable journalist and not get confronted with the treason and dumbfuckery he has foisted on the USA and world? A business program? Fine, ask him about the economic impact his pandemic denial had and continues to have on our economy.
We are going to normalize ourselves into fascism.
Republicans think it is cool to make the younger people work longer before they can collect their Social Security. Because Republicans think “those young people don’t vote, screw them”. I hope they are wrong.
MAGA Boomers won’t care as long as it punishes their grandkids and not them.
While Trump is pointing out a very real issue with Social Security, there is risk of the program becoming insolvent because of a lack of incoming revenue.
**BUT** cutting the social security spending after a few years of increased inflation is insane, when there is a better solution that Congress can enact; which is removing the [Social Security Wage Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Wage_Base), which is an upper threshold on which a wage earner’s Social Security tax may be imposed. For 2024 that upper limit is $168,600; anything earned over that is not collected.
I’ve spoken to retirement age republican voters about comments like this from Republicans, and so far as they get to keep their benefits they don’t care what everybody else loses. They will get behind this if they get grandfathered in.
Hell, they will call people who think that that’s unfair entitled
The more I see of this election, the better I feel about our chances. Biden is on top of his game while Trump is slurring and rambling and threatening to open concentration camps and shit, all while bankrupting the RNC. Perhaps reports of the death of democracy in the United States are greatly exaggerated.
How will Trump’s supporters support him if he takes away their retirement? What a shortsighted man he is.
I mean according to Whoopi young people only work like 4 hours a day anyways so it’s not like they deserve social security. /s
Cut all benefits to that trash:pension, staff, office expenses, medical care, health insurance, and Secret Service protection. Filthy traitors who want to destroy the counyry deserve to be living under a bridge or a maximum security prison.
Hold on a minute. Are you telling me the giant orange doofus actually made a comment that resembled a policy statement? I’ve never heard anything from him other than nasty sound-bite attacks. He really is losing it!
Just lift the damn cap!!!!
This is weird because AFAIK Trump never mentioned cutting Social Security before. And not during the 2016 campaign. His saying that he would do it actually helps Dems who always run on never cutting entitlements. Let’s hope this motivates everyone over 62 to vote for Biden!
The thing that bothers me the most is that it’s always an immediate “crisis” but the cuts won’t happen until the future.
They know how toxic this is but they won’t risk their base of elderly voters.
Instead they want to rely on their decades of messaging and expect an apathetic response from younger generations who have been conditioned to accept the demise of social security as inevitable.
I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death – and they will love him for it.
GOP is careful to say it won’t affect the current baby boomers, knowing these people tend to vote their way! If they want to cut benefits, they need to look at rich people who receive them while having plenty retirement money! Multiple homes, vehicles…..
Can we start by cutting all government benefits he gets?
I paid for my social security. Every two weeks. In cash. You can just go fuck yourself if you think you can just take that from me.
At last year’s SOTU, when Biden mentioned that some Republicans want to cut SS, the Republicans in attendance booed him and shouted liar. Meanwhile, some of these same assholes are literally on audio/video/ or in writing stating exactly that.
“Trump didn’t get specific about what he would do.” – that’s because he has no idea. He couldn’t tell you what Social Security is, how it works, or anything about it. Because he doesn’t care. At all.
If he gets back in SS will be his next bank for him and his family!
This fucking idiot is going to unforced error his way into losing again, isn’t he?
So does this mean, they are going to pay me back every cent I paid into SS + interest?
Or they are just going to suck up the money, give it to their friends under some made argument?
Keep in mind that Scott what’s his name from Florida has been trying to go after SS for years, he’s one of the nominees to lead the GOP in senate…..
Gonna be funny to see rural poor republicans agree that it’s a good idea to fuck themselves.
Seems like we should just raise the taxable income maximum.
It’s always been the plan by Republicans for young people to foot the bill for boomers retirement and then rug pull it from us.
I remember well all the talks about “sunsetting” social security in favor of privatization when Bush was president. They want Social Security to fail. They’ve been trying to do so since it was implemented. They want you working with the bare minimum to sustain life until the day you die. And then they want your children in the meat packing plants the day they can walk.
Oh. You mean my own money? That I’ve been paying into the system since 1985?
Remember when we were told “if you work 40 hours a week until you’re 65 years old, you’ll have a safety net.”
Now they’re like “SIKE! WORK UNTIL YOU DIE BEE-A-TCH!”
Lift the cap. Done, fixed.
When someone shows you who the are , believe them.