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CousinIT

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1. Damn right. My dumb MAGA relatives: "they'll never get rid of social security, they can't do that!"
Mon May 6, 2024, 08:59 AM
May 2024
Oh REALLY?

The fuck they can't. If they overturned Roe they can get rid of or cut, gut, and privatize social security & Medicare and they WILL when they no longer need our votes. This will be about 100 days or so into a 2nd Trump admin, when any semblance of a Democratic Republic will be gone and our "elections" will be like Russia's - if we have them at all. Our votes won't be worth shit and they can do whatever they want.

It's a VERY DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION that "they won't", or "they can't" get rid of social security.

THEY CAN AND THEY WILL.

Now, of course, MAGAt family isn't going to listen to ME on that. If I mention it it, I get: "Oh they're just trying to scare people!" (Yeah, people OUGHT to be scared right now if they have any common sense at all).

They never listen to me, yet more often than not it turns out I'm right about such things -- NOT that they would ever admit that to themselves or me.

They're hurting themselves. I'm fine with that if they want to be stupid. BUT THEY'RE ALSO HURTING ME and everyone else with their dangerous assumptions and willful ignorance.

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