Veteran removed from Town Hall over free speech Social Security taken away by DOGE

Mar 14, 2025 9:35 PM

AnonymousMockingjay

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Chuck Edwards - North Carolina Town Hall - Republican
https://edwards.house.gov/contact

"You're taking away my Social Security."
"I will not sit down, I will stand up it's my right."
"He's a veteran."
"You're pulling out a veteran."
"He's earned the right to speak."
"What happened to free speech?"
"What happened to free speech?"

"Let him speak."

Yeah, they do get to do this to you. Elections matter.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is why the GOP has told all Republican Congressmen to immediately stop doing any town halls for their constituents. While they don't give a shit about these people either way and will just have their toadies assault and violate their rights, this kind of video is bad for PR. They know that if this gets out of hand they might have a blue wave for the midterms, assuming there is ever a real election again.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

So my takeaway is you need a distraction to get all the cops to gang up in one place then lock the doors behind them and you get some quality time with the politician... check.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

I said it, you said it, we said it... they even effing said it...

Now we sleep in it.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Watching America's dumbest quartile put Trump back in the White House felt exactly like somebody else shitting my pants while I was wearing them.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cops are busy with the vet, time for flying chairs.

1 year ago | Likes 117 Dislikes 0

👃 🪑💨

Geraldo style!

1 year ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Fuck that! We goin' Waffle House up in this muthafucka!

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Right? Everyone else in the room should have stood up with him instead of cheering and watching him get removed.

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Right? Surround the cops, get in the reps face while they cops are busy.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The revolution may not be televised, but it sure as hell will be on the internet.

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

"You're pulling out a veteran! He's earned the right!"
No.
We all have the right to speak regardless if there was military service or not. If you live in this country and pay taxes, you "earned" the right to tell your representatives to fuck off and you're unhappy.

1 year ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

You make a great point, and I completely agree with you. However, I understand where the person who yelled that was coming from. The idea of stripping the right of free speech from a person who volunteered to defend that very right feels especially egregious.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Vets voted for those. Hard. Not all, bit enough who thought they were patriots. FAFO

1 year ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 3

The vote split from veterans was about 65% vs 34%. It’s significant, don’t get me wrong. But keep in mind, he got like 82% of white evangelicals, and 69% of white men without a college degree.

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

two thirds of people voted for the guy whose least offensive thing was calling them suckers.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Social Security is paid for by workers, it's NOT paid from taxes. Taking it away is literally stealing from workers, not "cutting unnecessary spending"...

1 year ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

In the USA Ragan changed it into a tax... The government is by law allowed to take from it, so every bit they pay out is money they can't take. That's how they see it.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Angry old vets gonna run this one like it's their last tour and they don't care if they come back from it. Admin better chill on it if they think vets aren't willing to die for their country

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

hmmmm how many of these "angry" ppl voted for them and trump...

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

When they find out Free Speech is all about the GOP speech and no one elses

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

"I deeply value the contributions my donors make to my election campaign. All the rest of you peons can go fuck yourselves."

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I’m really glad these people are taking out their rage in the correct forum but…

1 year ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 3

If only there was some way to know that this was going to happen before the elections, I guess it will continue to be a mystery!

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Yeehaw! home boy said FUCK THE POLICE

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Cops gonna oink for the powers that be

1 year ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 2

Take away their pentions

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

They voted for it! Lol.

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So true but it's still sad because people they know and love will probably be affected by these crazy stunts the powerful people pull and yet they still side with them if I was there most I would've done was stopped anyone from physically attacking someone even if they deserved it but I'd let the people say whatever they had to and not just escort them out

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Always have. Modern police came from slavecatchers and murderous union-busters. They always serve the powerful against the poor. Even when they 'help us', they're just keeping the illusion that we have protectors, so we aren't up in arms rioting against the rich.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

People slowly learning that politicians do not give a fuck about people only about power.

1 year ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

One of the greatest ironies in recorded history, harping on about clearing Washington of corrupt politicians meanwhile your supporting a felon propped up by a load of billionaires that share none of your interests. What drones. We really gonna need that department of education back

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I find it incredible how insanely stupid a person has to be to elect someone with hundreds of millions of dollars who lies about everything. Let alone all his other faults. Its the single biggest disappointment in society i have experienced in 60 years besides war. 🙃

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 285 Dislikes 10

Who the fuck are you talking about? Less than 23% of Americans voted for this. Bigots like you sound exactly like MAGA, just with an extra dash of self-righteousness.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

I did not. I did NOT vote for this shit. I know plenty of people who did NOT vote for it. Stop spreading that shit, because the real reason it happened is most people decided to be fucking silent.

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

Being Silent = Accepting and Agreeing with the wining vote.

There is only 2 outcomes for this statement. Either YOU DID vote for him, or YOU DID NOT vote for him. Not voting at all, Donkey Voting, Voting for him because you didn't think he'd win, it's all a choice.

He won the Electoral and the Popular vote (49.8% of votes), meaning he had the highest percentage of voters, which means The Majority Of Votes Were For Him rather than Any Single Other Person.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I did NOT vote for him. I voted Harris. It's not my fault the rest of the fucking country failed.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anything other than a vote for Harris was, in fact, a vote for Fat Nixon. Anyone who voted third-party, or did not vote, voted for him.

The overwhelming majority of Americans chose this outcome, through their action or inaction.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. - Rush

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is why the world doeant care if the USA all die from measles. The countries stupidity is entertainment.

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

As a European: it's not entertainment for me. A scary preview. But if they do all die from preventable diseases, maybe the sane and smart people can move in.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who the fuck are you talking about? Less than 23% of Americans voted for this. Bigots like you sound exactly like MAGA, just with an extra dash of self-righteousness.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Yup, everyone who points out that America voted Fat Nixon into office is a bigot.

What an incredibly stupid thing to say, bud.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Didn't read what I said. Swept over 300 million people under the bus for your own gratification. Very compelling argument to provide you're not at all like a bigot!

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Another case of Default American. Americans unaware that people exist outside of their own country.
Im Aussie. Trump sucks. America sucks for allowing it to happen.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I guess shitting on this guy is a path that can be taken, as this comment section has taken, but encouraging people to call out being lied to by their reps would be more constructive for all.

1 year ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

sure, and I applaud him for that, just...he voted for this shit, so fuck him too.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

You have no idea what that man did or didn't vote for. You're making a blanket assumption with no evidence to back it up. Sit down and be quiet.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Did he? Do you have a citation for that? if not, shut the fuck up.

1 year ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but Repubs told you drag queens were after your kids, so some of him ignored what they were saying about their plans for Social Security.

And you thought Project 25 was just some bs lies Dems were pushing.

But if not Project 25? Why Project 25 shaped?

1 year ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 2

I look forward to us beating those lying scum in the streets while their mansions burn to the ground

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

This meeting of Faces Eaten By Leopards Anonymous will now come to order

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 5

drained the wrong swamp

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Fuck you cops" lol yeah bitches but when black people say that they're thugs and when brown people say that they're rapists and when white kids say that they're extremists. Fuck the face, I hope the jaguars take the whole fucking head off.

1 year ago | Likes 189 Dislikes 16

I feel your rage, brother. Wish I could say something to quell the anger, but it'd be like a march tryna extinguish a fire.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Sorry, my mind wandered. All I got from this was “fuck the face”.

1 year ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

North Carolina voted for Trump https://www.270towin.com/states/north-carolina

1 year ago | Likes 94 Dislikes 2

So now you like the electoral college? Almost every state is extremely purple. Less than 23% of Americans voted for this.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It doesn’t mean all of them did.

1 year ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It means most of them did.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I sure as shit didn't.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thank the GOP state legislature for purging about 750k voter registrations. Trump won by about 150k from what I remember.

1 year ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 2

246,000 hadn't voted in the last 2 elections which isn't completely unreasonable to require them to confirm and update their registrations. The remaining 500,000 had moved, died, been convicted of a felony, or duplicate profiles found.

The real issue is 18-24 (51%) and 25-40 (61%) year olds couldn't get off their asses to vote.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

The bluest part of the state was also decimated by Hurricane Helene. Multiple factors affected the vote turnout.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Helene dissipated by Sept 29. NC early voting started Oct 17. The election was Nov 5.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And hundreds of thousands of people experienced catastrophe that they're still trying to recover from. I can only hope I'd be ready to vote only a month out from being hit by such a storm, it'd feel like a god damn miracle.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Idk how any of that shit was allowed. Trump should not have won, but Dems just can't be fucking bothered to stand up.

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Not now they can't, GOPutin's already won the government. They're trying to speedrun taking over the whole country before the populace realizes WE need to get our hands bloody to fix this. Once they're done consolidating power, even force won't help us anymore.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't you have an amendment - like the 2nd or something for this?

1 year ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

They only use that as an excuse to kill kids.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But if the victim has the intelligence of a toddler?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The NRA somehow forgot to rise up against tyranny like they said they would. Whoopsie-poo.

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

The 1st Amendment certainly would seem to have been violated.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Silly goose! That is only for kids in the US!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No no no. Since 2008 (Heller) the 2nd Amendment has existed to allow the domestic arms business to thrive.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty jaded because of *gestures at everything* But even I'm starting to wonder if this will start to change things

1 year ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Nope.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

change comes swiftly once everybody begins to get hurt, once it can no longer be otherized. fucking with social security hurts everybody, doing so is a real bad strategic move

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Public outrage has a very short memory, unfortunately.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When politicians fear for their lives, they tend to do different. Just saying

1 year ago | Likes 426 Dislikes 5

And they are so afraid of your Imgur comments.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

Did you see what trump did? Did he do differently?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

But noticed how no one stood up to try and stop him from being pulled out? So they have nothing to fear. Till people realize they have to be willing to risk their wellbeing to teach these cops and facists a lesson they will carry on like normal.

1 year ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Thom Tillis has been explicitly been getting death threats. The recordings have been released. Just googling his name is enough to pull up the recordings.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The cops were even getting a bit nervous. Bc there was not enough cops there to handle a mob.

1 year ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

They're used to outnumbering the threats 5 to 1, they'd never go 1:1... So enough people angry up, and the cops will run from these.... Or pull out guns.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Cops are always nervous.

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Imagine if the entire crowd stood up

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

'Monopoly Money' by Moon Walker is a good song

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nuh uh! Prove it :)

1 year ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

*guillotine intensifies

1 year ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

How do we know the congressmen weren't threatened.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Late summer and fall is going to be fun when the farmers are in full revolt since he pretty much cut off all their funding. Hopefully climate change calms down this year and we don't have to deal with crop failures as well.

1 year ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 0

In the grocery stores here (my area of Canada) American produce is not selling. Was at Costco today and they had massive stacks of American produce that no one was touching. Doubt they will be ordering much more.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm in texas. Spring usually starts in april. It's almost mid march, and we already have flowers blooming, green grass, and warm weather. Climate change is not letting up.

1 year ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

Had a high of 95 in mid Texas today

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its accelerating at an alarming rate according to all climate scientists.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck that. Bring it. Let’s get this shit started

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Easier to find the billionaire fucks when they hide in their bunkers.

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

yes and no, I'm sure there's plenty of bunkers we don't know about.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Democrats just need to brand Elon as THE unelected bureaucrat destroying the country, empowered by Trump, and it should be enough to get the farmers to go the right way. They're already showing up to the town halls pissed off

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Good

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You voted for this... you did!!!!

1 year ago | Likes 883 Dislikes 18

My dad did the first time around. He's an old vet. Like, almost 40 years retired and disabled from service. I hope they learn to vote on real issues instead of empty scare tactics. He used to be really into the maniac, until the maniac endorsed the Russian maniac. If you run into any older vets in their 60s/70s, remind them of this. They may not know. Somehow.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not me, homie. Not that it matters, but I'm also a veteran

1 year ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Election was rigged.

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I mean Asheville probably didn't, largely

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Many people treat politics like you do sports. You pick somebody because you "like" them. You vote for them. You cheer them on. You trash-talk the "other team." Many of those types are having their wake-up call. We can only hope that it also plants a spark of empathy in them for all Americans.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There’s a commercial here in California where a dude who says he’s a nursing home worker is begging that we don’t cut Medicaid. “Look, I even voted for Trump” (wearing the red hat), but…dude if you’re for real, welcome to the consequences of your own lack of thought.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Something something leopards...

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

They rarely change their shorts?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, I'd tell that angry bitch that he literally wanted this.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep got that right... You can tell the neo-Republicans when they say.. "WE voted for this."

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I am a vet and can proudly say I voted for Kamala, Biden and even Hillary. A monkey would be better than trump. All of my vet friends voted Kamala too. Generalizing is only going to divide us further. I'm already being attacked by Republicans I don't need it from y'all too

1 year ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Pay no attention to these bigots. They're no better than MAGA. We all have to unite against the oligarchs. Full stop. I'm grateful to you and proud of you!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They did. But do you want to leverage this to give them class consciousness for the first time in 40 fucking years, and maybe have them target oligarchs/fascists/republicans instead of minorities? Or do you wanna be smug?

1 year ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

It's not about being smug, it's about realistic expectations. I welcome people waking the fuck up, but how much waking up can you really expect from a cult? From decades of propaganda and indoctrination? Consequences do not deprogram.

Rationalization is easier than epiphany. "There must be a good reason." "If Trump knew this was happening he would stop it." "What was I supposed to do, vote Democrat?" That's all it takes. Consequences do not deprogram.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They want to be smug. People like them are no better than MAGA bigots, too busy patting themselves on the back to join together to fight the oligarchs. They want to laugh at others failing to escape prison, instead of help bring it down.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

No better? Not at all? Not even a little? Hmmm?

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Indeed. They are only gleeful to watch their enemies be destroyed, rather than heal or improve anything. Sounds exactly like MAGA to me.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

And the fact that their enemies are fascists, and not historically oppressed groups has no bearing on that evaluation?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

They'll just dismiss you as a communist and continue to vote Republican. They're a lost cause not even worth the effort.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's crazy that you'd say that, because Bernie Sanders is visiting towns like this one, directing anger towards billionaires, and is doing numbers.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Serious questions from abroad:
Do you guys expect the dismantlement of your country and its democracy will stop with the next elections?
Do you expect there will be enough democracy left for elections to actually happen at regular next terms?
If you answered the questions with yes, what is the plan then, continue to swing between dems and reps every few years, but now watching dems trying to rebuild what has been lost, and then watching reps destroying the country again?

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

...what? The forces of evil will never go away. If that's what you want, go live in lala land and let the adults work on solutions to keep the good from getting squashed. Less than 23% of Americans voted for the current executive. Congress is more important anyway. Until lobbyism is ended and probably corporate law overhauled, change politics significantly at the federal level will only happen with populist movements (as with Zelensky).

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I'll put it like this... I think in the next couple hundred days, we're going to know if this is going to go on for a couple hundred days or if it's going to go on for 4000 days. If social security really does collapse it may be much sooner than a couple hundred days, too.

One way or another I don't see how we get through another 47 months of this as-is.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not all Vets, man. Most Vets aren't fuckin idiots. My family is full of vets and every last one of them voted against this shit. I get the urge to blanket leopard ate my face everything, But making Vets the enemy is horseshit.

1 year ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 4

The vast majority of anyone on the internet is only into what they're into for the schadenfreude.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure that Veterans voted for Trump at 65%. If 65% of them had voted for Harris then that would have probably been enough to flip almost everything blue.

Veterans was very crucial in how this election ended and they picked Trump. This is also following decades of Veterans voting against their own best interests.

I get trying to stand up for Veterans but they got what they voted for and they are definitely part of the problem.

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I know 3 older vets. 2 are related, 1 is coworker. All voted for this.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I 100% agree with you about the blanket attack against Vets, for sure. WIth that said "12% of the voters in this presidential election had served in the U.S. military and 65% of them said they voted for Donald Trump, while 34% said they voted for Kamala Harris."

1 year ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

And I get that, but a third is alot of people.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

I'm a veteran and I'm not like this, but most of the guys I served with are outright fascist MAGA cultists, and the vast majority of veterans and service members in general are either Republicans or libertarian anarcho capitalists. I've had to cut most of them out of my life because theyve become just that toxic. I am happy to see that at least some are starting to wake up though.

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Many Americans did not vote for this.

1 year ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

Many vets did. A majority in fact.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Many Americans didn't vote period.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not enough

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But enough did vote for this.... and it's glorious to watch. America fucked us all when they collapsed the banking system (except Australia, fuck australia) now we get to watch your collapse on TV...... while we can still pay the electric bill buttfuggit it's worth it.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No no see they voted for OTHER people to get hurt, not them!

1 year ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 2

Who the fuck are you talking about? Less than 23% of Americans voted for this. Bigots like you sound exactly like MAGA, just with an extra dash of self-righteousness.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Not MY face, right? Right?

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Facts! They were okay with the "others" suffering! Foolish enough to vote for suffering of others because empathy is a sign of intelligence.

For example 1901 Roosevelt tried a health plan, other attempts 1914, 1915 AALL, FDR in 1930s Truman 1945 all plans blocked because of the "others" will get health care. Crony capitalist used fear of mexicans black and socialism to get ppl to vote against their own best interest.

Biased beliefs bolstered by propagandised media worked well then & now!

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

As ever it takes 100 people to be half as useful as one wise one.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There is a reason no one has ever touched social security before.

1 year ago | Likes 730 Dislikes 4

No circus is one thing, but no bread? No goddamn bread???

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reagan did. He went to the Supreme court and got them to say its just a tax like any other and the it can be spent however the government decides to spend it. And the democrats have spent 50 years getting their teeth kicked in trying to convince voters that if they got a large enough majority they'd protect it. The voters told them to fuck off and screamed at them why aren't you stopping the Republicans we gave power to.

1 year ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve stated, and maybe the overall tone of my response is because I’m just a little disillusioned with politics in general anymore, but with 20 of the 36 years between Reagan and now under democrat leadership with at least 6 years of majority in house and senate you’d think maybe some of that would have been reversed, regardless of the opposition they faced.. it appears this issue was only a real priority on the campaign trail.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

A majority isn't enough because of the rules system. A vote doesn't do it. Unless they burned it all down, as the GOP is doing now. And those "majorities" involved significant number of independents that along with Angus we're counting as Dems, along with so called blue dogs who as Manchin /Sinema are really corporatists bought and installed to be the fulcrum those who finance the GOP use to move the levers of power. Biden's legislation could be described as passed w -1 vote majority.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well, they did touch it, and that's what started this problem - one that would have been easily solved by Bernie's policies if the Democrats hadn't stabbed him in the back!

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

YEP!!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

same reason they never touched roeVwade...

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

So that both sides could use the issue to whip up their base?

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Where’s the gif of Leonidas where he says “Pray they’re that stupid.”

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in doing so they are going to piss off ALOT of people who have combat experience and how to property shoot targets... this is gonna be fun.... pass the popcorn

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wel- it’s one thing that will unite us. That is our shared pocketbook. Don’t be playing around and find out.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah but .... they got away with similar after the abortion thing and there was hella backlash there. Hopefully this goes better oh wait it will it effects men directly it will definitely go better.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

George Bush took 1.3 trillion

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's what I keep telling people! They're getting very close to a few lines. They ignore the courts and don't respect the system. Policy could slow them down but it was never going to stop them. The bill today gave him more power technically but he was just gonna do it anyways. They're speed running it too fast and have the resolve of a sobbing Elon because his magic number went down. It's like dictatorship for dipshits.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's cracks showing because a number went down and some people are yelling at them. They plan to stand up to the generals? They think they've seen backlash. I don't think they have the balls to weather the real extra judicial backlash. This is the easy part.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Except… haven’t they? Like several times? I understood that to be most of the reason it’s expected to run out for most people.

1 year ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 2

No. They borrow money from the trust fund. SS takes in enough money to run itself but congress “borrows” it. The simplest solution is to end the cap on how much income can be eligible for SS withholding (andor tie it to COLA).

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's been regularly looted by politicians like Bush Jr to pay for things like his unfunded wars. Those funds have never been paid back. Meanwhile, our leaders haven't been paying attention to the trade deficit (remember Reagan "deficits don't matter"?), and they've been selling off public assets to wealthy corporate and international interests. As a result our assets have been depleted as our debts have grown. Now these billionaires are looting the last of our wealth, rather than investing in-

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

our growth. It's a common corporate game. Social Security would have been fine if it hadn't been looted, if they had continued growing the national public wealth by investing in infrastructure (including schools) and if they'd paid more attention to keeping the national debt far below our income. I have a longer rant about this but I think it's about time to move on to cat pics and videos.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yep. Some jackass in the 80s thought it would be a good idea to tax it.

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Didn’t they also “borrow” from it several times? With repayment in limbo, or so I heard.

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Raised age requirements too

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The tax actually replaces some funds, so it's not completely all bad as it still stays in the SS fund. However, yes, I agree taxing the impoverished who receives social security is immoral and should be reserved for those with higher incomes.

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It was a way to reduce payout without calling it a cut. They need to raise the income cap for taxation.

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Along with taxing government employees. Federal taxes taken out of federal wages.

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For the last 40 years it's been considered "the third rail of American politics", meaning you touch it and you die.

This is a good thing in the sense that it stopped it being privatised by Bush Snr, and it stopped borrowing against it like what happened under Reagan.

But it's a bad thing in that it's also prevented anyone from trying to fix it, because it is a broken system designed for a far smaller population who were living much shorter lives.

It's a bit like the NHS in Britain, if you 1/

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It was never meant to be the only retirement program for Americans. American companies used to have things called "pensions" that workers paid into. Also 401ks and Roth IRAS that companies contributed to along with whatever portion of income the employee diverted to those accounts, up to a legally allowable amount. Unions also had pension plans. With all those structures in place, people could lead pretty stable lives.

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Go near it without a wheelbarrow full of cash, people assume you are going to cut it, steal from it, reduce it, borrow against it, privatise it etc and then all hell breaks loose. 2

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Not so much a broken system because of people living longer lives (they aren't in the US) or numbers being to high. It was always based on constant population growth, which has slowed as the economy has changed over the past 40 years. The trust fund being rolled into the general fund was a different monster, but social security has always been funded.

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RoevWade was a 3rd rail too...

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Eh not really, there was always an element in the GOP who wanted to override it going back 30 years and would publicly campaign on doing so. Social security was that thing both sides barely acknowledged out of sheer terror. Hence the outrage now.

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They are doing this in hopes that Militia factions will pop up, then they whack them & bunch of you & then say *people are too dangerous to have guns* Then take guns away at a terrible cost of life on all sides, then that's it for the 2nd amendment. The rest is easy pickings once we are disarmed. So many fucking IDIOTS in here with no knowledge of what to stand for. They all will fall for anything. THE TIME IS NOW PEOPLE, ALL THE PEOPLE. Fight for your rights or lose them. All of you

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nope they go after that one they will have there civil war

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The problem with that is the pigs have family too, and a lot of their family or GOP fuckwits. They aren't gonna be willing to take away guns from their aunts, uncles, and cousins knowing that their families and communities will hate them afterward. The fact that it's WASP men who are upset about this means they actually kinda care a little bit for once.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A lot of their family *are* GOP fuckwits. Dammit imgur please let us edit typos on this site.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wee doo wee doo wee doo the grammar police are at it again. Wee doo wee doo

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That was me correcting my own typo, not policing someone else's grammar.

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