Let's talk about Elon Musk

[wetwillie]

Net interest is shredding crap in the back office right now scared for their life

[chum1]

Clearer than ever to me now that Trump and Republicans are letting Musk be the bad guy so that they can do their favorite thing in the world and deliver more tax cuts for rich people.

[Pete]

https://youtube.com/shorts/IzvHnRVcwY0?si=F5GUnP1DfHdQkbZB

[Pete]

Clearer than ever to me now that Trump and Republicans are letting Musk be the bad guy so that they can do their favorite thing in the world and deliver more tax cuts for rich people.

I agree.

I want desperately to believe that we really will cut $1 trillion and then being in a position to smartly reinvest in federal spending in a way that makes sense in this day and age given the challenges that are of the highest priority to our population and be freed from the burden of the legacy of the massive bureaucracy That has grown over the decades and decade.

But unfortunately, Republicans are going to Republican .

[Pete]

Social security in the sights

It’s difficult to envision a scenario where they do not have to start rolling back benefits. They’re going to need to make it a very clear cut calculation based upon what you paid in, and set the minimums at an ever reducing rate until basically our kids get nothing.

I do not like any of this.

[Justwin]

Social security in the sights

It’s difficult to envision a scenario where they do not have to start rolling back benefits. They’re going to need to make it a very clear cut calculation based upon what you paid in, and set the minimums at an ever reducing rate until basically our kids get nothing.

I do not like any of this.

They need to give people an option to opt out at a certain age, say 40 years old. If you opt out, you don't ever get anything from Social Security, but you get to keep your future contributions (yours and your employers). Social Security gets to keep your previous contributions. You can make there be a minimum net worth requirement, say $1,000,000 if you want to prevent idiots from having nothing when they retire.

[Rage Against the McKee]

If they are going to do anything to social security, just pull the plug. Stop all payments and stop the FICA tax.

[Justwin]

If they are going to do anything to social security, just pull the plug. Stop all payments and stop the FICA tax.

Common ground!

[Rage Against the McKee]

If they are going to do anything to social security, just pull the plug. Stop all payments and stop the FICA tax.

Common ground!

 

Anything else is completely immoral.

[Pete]

Social security in the sights

It’s difficult to envision a scenario where they do not have to start rolling back benefits. They’re going to need to make it a very clear cut calculation based upon what you paid in, and set the minimums at an ever reducing rate until basically our kids get nothing.

I do not like any of this.

They need to give people an option to opt out at a certain age, say 40 years old. If you opt out, you don't ever get anything from Social Security, but you get to keep your future contributions (yours and your employers). Social Security gets to keep your previous contributions. You can make there be a minimum net worth requirement, say $1,000,000 if you want to prevent idiots from having nothing when they retire.

I think we have threads colliding with similar ideas, but this one is very interesting to me

[star seed 7]

Let's just let people opt out of any tax they don't like.

[Justwin]

Let's just let people opt out of any tax they don't like.

You would have to pay the tax until you are 40 and then would also receive no benefits from those taxes.

Do you not think this would be a good deal for Social Security?

[Pete]

If we assume for the purposes of this argument that Social Security increases it solvency from that sort of thing then I don’t see any problem with that

[star seed 7]

Let's just let people opt out of any tax they don't like.

You would have to pay the tax until you are 40 and then would also receive no benefits from those taxes.

Do you not think this would be a good deal for Social Security?

JW, I have no idea, I probably shouldn't have chimed in at all.

[Kat Kid]

Clearer than ever to me now that Trump and Republicans are letting Musk be the bad guy so that they can do their favorite thing in the world and deliver more tax cuts for rich people.

I agree.

I want desperately to believe that we really will cut $1 trillion and then being in a position to smartly reinvest in federal spending in a way that makes sense in this day and age given the challenges that are of the highest priority to our population and be freed from the burden of the legacy of the massive bureaucracy That has grown over the decades and decade.

But unfortunately, Republicans are going to Republican .

Saying you would like to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget but you aren’t going to touch the pentagon is insane.

[Cire]

The American oligarchs want i us working until we can’t.

And they don’t want to compensate us. 

Gilded age. Everyone thought MAGA meant 1955 but really it’s 1895


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[wetwillie]

Clearer than ever to me now that Trump and Republicans are letting Musk be the bad guy so that they can do their favorite thing in the world and deliver more tax cuts for rich people.

I agree.

I want desperately to believe that we really will cut $1 trillion and then being in a position to smartly reinvest in federal spending in a way that makes sense in this day and age given the challenges that are of the highest priority to our population and be freed from the burden of the legacy of the massive bureaucracy That has grown over the decades and decade.

But unfortunately, Republicans are going to Republican .

Saying you would like to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget but you aren’t going to touch the pentagon is insane.

Touching the pentagons budget is hazardous for presidents health

[sonofdaxjones]

Just give us the waste - fraud - abuse (#blueanon/#blueanongE)

Note to viewers (again) GAO said $236 billion went to suspicious recipients in FFY ‘23

Pentagon - 7 straight failed audits

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1888314848477376744?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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[sonofdaxjones]

More of this!! #blueanon/#blueanongE

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1887218902381289510?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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[Dugout DickStone]

It’s amuse! 

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Looks credible

[Dugout DickStone]

Given remote access eh?

[sonofdaxjones]

BAC is going to lead Derpistan aka #blueanongE in being Big Mad all the time.

I can only assume at this point that #blueanongE imbibes at a prolific rate both drugs and booze drinks and really doesn't know what's going on in the world outside the #blueaon talking point bubble.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/investing/china-hackers-treasury-workstations/index.html

Viewers of this blog will note that #blueanon works diligently to downplay all embarrassing data breaches.  Servers tagged up to the Internet with no firewall are no big deal. Hiring Pakistani's to work on Dem congressional work stations . . . no big deal.  DNC gets hacked . . . Russians.

So when they tell you it really wasn't that bad . . . know that it was indeed very very bad.

[sonofdaxjones]

It's absolutely prolific . . .

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1888080368441704598

[Stevesie60]

Just give us the waste - fraud - abuse (#blueanon/#blueanongE)

Note to viewers (again) GAO said $236 billion went to suspicious recipients in FFY ‘23

Pentagon - 7 straight failed audits

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1888314848477376744?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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dax, if President Elon makes cuts to the military budget, I can't wait to post about it in the Common Ground thread with you. Until then, stopping AIDS treatment to 2 million people, which includes 500,000 kids, doesn't seem like a priority to me. But Trump and Elon are ssssssooooo brilliant, so maybe I'm wrong.

It's absolutely WILD to me that the pro-life party that elected these doofuses have said eff all about children not getting AIDS treatment. Nay, they've cheered it. But maybe I've misunderstood, it's not like the church to be hypocritical.