Hey MAGA voters, Elon and Vivek are coming for your Social Security

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2024/12/06/elon-and-vivek-are-coming-for-your-social-security/76813978007/

36 comments

  1. Genuinely, what motivates people who already have more money than most people could ever acquire in dozens of lifetimes to do this? Why?

  3. I am not from USA but recently watched how private equity takes over companies, abuses the rules to convert old company into a new one just so they can ditch obligations to employees that receive pensions and the goverment needs to pick up the tab and now comes another rich dude that wants to take even that away? It looks like being poor will soon be illegal in USA and all prisoners will have to do forced labor to pick up the slack the deported illegals will leave.

  4. My retired MAGA parents just don’t believe it. They won’t even talk about it. If it happens there will be so many life lessons to be learned, if they live long enough.

  5. They aren’t going to f with anyone who is in it now. But anyone under 50 is f’d

  6. Maga people won’t care. They’ll see it as their “patriotic duty” to give up whatever Elon and Trump say. Why else do you think poor people donate like crazy to this guy?

  7. Yep, but they’ll protect our shitters in those places that we don’t go to.

  8. They dont care, itll be ~~Hillary’s~~ Hunter Biden’s fault somehow. 2746d chess. Look it up sweaty!

  10. They’ll find a way to twist it like it’s what they wanted all along. Just like how they are happy about tarriffs after complaining about how things are too expensive. Such an exhausting bunch.

  11. No matter how bad things get they will always put the blame on Liberals or wokeness but never on themselves and the criminals they vote for.

  12. Imagine being so rich you could solve hunger and homelessness on your own but you’d rather take things away from people instead.

  14. No shit <— I’ll just keep a notepad of this saved so I can click, copy and paste for the next four years

    I also need to order my “I told you so” t-shirts and hoodies

  15. They won’t come after MAGA Social Security, it’s the frealodin’ librals Social Security. Pretty sure they keep it in separate bank accounts. Daddy Donny loves us and will always do what’s best for us. /s.

  16. About 4 months ago we were driving through rural towns on our way back home. We stopped at a diner where in an adjacent table there was an older couple eating and both were wearing red hats.

    My wife and I were wondering if they knew they were potentially voting against their own interests, assuming they were gettin Social Security and using Medicare?

    Guess they will find out sometime! I am worried as I am within striking distance of retirement too so I am worried about future medical costs… I always assumed that the Social Security disbursements would not be available by the time I retire so we did not take those into consideration in our plans… but medical costs are one that can kill life savings very fast in the US.

  17. It’s fun to watch others get kicked in the nuts, until they kick you in the nuts.

  18. They are coming for all of us non MAGA voters. The MAGA voters are just collateral damage.

  19. You must know they can’t hear you. They aren’t reading this. If you want change, you’re going to need to get off Reddit and do something in the real world.

  20. Most Americans don’t know that there is a max of how much a person contributes annually. The wealthy act like they are contributing too much and that it’s unfair.

    The max is like 10k.

    The wealthy hit it in their first month of the year. Even upper middle class people might take a couple months.

    The only reason is that they want to kill it is to make money off you or slaves out of you.

  21. I don’t get the never ending Republican obsession with killing social security, Medicare and ACA?
    They can’t wait to make an America a third world country.

  22. They WILL cut or kill the programs, but they’re not going to cut or kill the taxes. They will funnel those into their own pockets. Guaranteed.

  23. Let ‘em! I’m sick of trying to protect clueless voters from shooting themselves in the foot. Tariffs? Sure! Gutting social security? Why not! Going back to “pre-existing conditions” style private healthcare? Let’s do it! The only way forward now, if we want to see a sincere end to MAGA anti-liberalism, is to witness the fruits of that ideology. Give it enough time and Republicans will start running from any association with MAGA.

  25. By the time they realize it, it will be too late. The biggest suckers might be trumps fans because they legitimately are too stupid to realize they are being played. Trump will use them and discard them like a napkin and they think they are “winning”

  26. We’ve been trying to warn them for months. Don’t bother.

  27. Oh those folks will willingly give the money away if it means not admitting they’re wrong.

  28. It’s a strange world where educated left wing citizens are trying their hardest to protect the rights of the poor and lowest iq citizens which are largely in red states but because they think the left is the enemy they will vote against their own interests

  29. ” And now, they’re coming for your Social Security money.
    They want your fucking retirement money.
    They want it back,
    so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something, they’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later,
    because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin

  30. I hope this gets upvoted. People fear that Republicans will just cancel Social Security and Medicare.

    They will not do that. Put on your political hat for a minute. They will *not* cancel these programs. Read it again. They *will not* cancel these programs.

    That is not the worst possible outcome. This is the worst outcome and this is what they will do: Increase contributions by ~5% across the board and change retirement age to overlap with life expectancy, while adding loopholes to allow congress to re-allocate these funds to “other projects” (their lobbyist pals).

    They will not remove this program. They will continue to collect your money for these programs at an increased amount while simultaneously making it unattainable. You will pay into a program your entire life with no chance to ever use it and your money will be funded into billionaire pockets, per usual.

    Social security is about to become another federal flat tax that does not benefit you. They will not cancel it. They will increase the price tag and use it somewhere else.

  31. “No it’s them librulz” 

    Done. Entire argument. Doesn’t matter how much of their literal own words you throw at them. 

    A majority of the electorate has been lobotomized by Opioids, Light Beer, and Football.

    We’re an entire country of blissful morons who will wait until they’re getting rounded up to look up from their precious shortform videos.

  32. It is amazing people still don’t understand that by getting rid of social security these billionaires can reduce their payroll taxes and pocket the difference. They don’t care about you any more than United Health does. You are tools to be used and exploited for their gain and the amount of money they have is irrelevant. They don’t see people as employees or customers. Just people they can exploit. Until people wake up this will never change.

  33. Impossible! I have a chronically unemployed relative who relies on Social Security and is a big Trump supporter who spends his whole day watching Fox News. They’d never screw him over, right? RIGHT?

  34. Sure! Let’s meet! Mid-town Manhattan? Say… near the Hilton?

  35. “They’ll get it all from you sooner or later ‘cause they own this f**kin’ place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on.” – George Carlin

  36. Don’t care. They will have to suffer before being able to realize what they voted for. Besides they knew but decided racism was more important

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