In reference to your SSA article, it's unconscionable to imagine that comunications between the SSA and private citizens would be put on a public platform like X/Twitter what with the highly personal data and information that they have on record that is routinely discussed with the agency. If they really screw around with this and mess it the hell up -- he will lose maga voters like raging water!!!!!!!!!
Regarding the story in “Wired” - Congress is in recess for two weeks. There are something like 545 people running the country who were elected and nowhere in the Constitution does it mention DOGE. Elon wasn’t elected nor approved and confirmed by Congress.
The government of Argentina must of pulled something similar with their pensioners and their people in general. As of 3 days ago the entire country was shut down because the People said “No” to the government. They refused to work for the chainsaw economy that Elon thought was so great.
So -if the Argentinians (who have been subjected to fascism in the past) will not cooperate with their government -why would 73 Million Americans agree to unelected Elon’s stealing Social Security, gutting the service and forcing the kind of people who use Social Security to go on “X”?
I live on my Social Security check. I have never used X or Twitter and don’t believe “social media” sites are how legitimate governments conduct business.
And I grew up in a time when many women stayed home with their children, BUT a WORKER wages were much better relatively.
The CEO of General Motors made 40x a working man’s wage not 400x or 500x.
The problem with young men is that old men are being ridiculously greedy. But Republicans instead of dealing with the actual problem are allowing Elon and his kind to PROJECT with problem on women and black and disabled. Because that’s what people with the Dark personality traits Do - they PROJECT to distract.
Real life is not a game. People really die and their relatives get really upset. Watch the police, jail and crime shows.
Those 545 Congress people need to remember who pays their bills - not Elon and not the billionaires - YET
The billionaires don’t want to pay any taxes!!!
Other countries are watching how this plays out.
They are watching how far the country with more guns than people, will allow this Administration to push their nonsense.
The money will leave the United States for more sensible countries. Money can go anywhere and is welcomed everywhere. It just picks the friendliest and safest place to set up shop. That was the United States before Trump 2. The brain power will leave the United States for countries who want our scientists, medical professionals, authors and artists. That exodus has already started.
Our dollar will lose its standing because the Congress didn’t do its damn job and control a demagogue and his unelected enabler to bust up our government without authorization.
This Administration is on a collision course with history and it will not end well for them.
BTW - those 12 questions - I ran them by someone. He scored between 7 and 5 on all of them - more towards 7.
Not sadistic but he’s not fighting. He has been incarcerated before. The major difference is that “D” factor. He doesn’t like men who hurt women, children, elderly or disabled people or animals. People who do those things trigger those darker personality traits.
He was one of those kids who were tracked into special Ed classes. He’s smart but very ADHD and likely other things but never diagnosed because his family was poor. Homeless at times or living in shelters.
How many of these people are in the United States? Try making life even harder for them. They will survive but other people, regular people, won’t like the results.
The social safety net was set up to protect “regular people” from people who have grown up or experienced such traumatic/abusive/violent circumstances (like war) that they a basis to survive or they will take what they need to survive.
This isn’t Russia. We never had “kings/tzars”. Americans won’t act like Russians submitting to an oligarch. They won’t accept slave wages and fear deportation because they will kill or corrupt those attempting to deport them.
The Insurrection Act?
Why would what was and can still be - the most powerful military in the world agree to protect an Administration that is cutting Veterans Benefits, Social Security and trying to “pick fights” with countries we are not at war with?
Remember Vietnam?? A lot of American Veterans do - and their loved ones.
This Administration can’t keep their mouths shut when discussing war plans - This Isn’t a Game - real people are going get killed.
And our actual opponents are stunned at security lapses by those in charge.
The Rule of Law - the adherence to the Constitution which those in Government were supposed to have sworn an oath to uphold - doesn’t allow what has been happening.
Get rid of the rule of law; the people’s faith that laws apply to everyone.
Then anyone with anything desirable or with power will need those security details.
There is always a new Champion in any sport. The King is dead long live the king.
Our ancestors came here fought and won a revolution then wrote a Constitution to get RID of that crap!
"The people said NO and refused to work!" What a concept!! Why don't we do it here? I mean it. It's better than all the protests and town halls taking place across the country.
April 11-25- Well I for one are not going to let this insanity b.s of Musk , in regards to' All announcements of The Social Security Administration will be on ' X' twitter '- slide into place...hell no.
Wrote to Senator Padilla & Schiff and even the my maga House Rep Kevin Kiley- immediately. I left messages in their California offices by 4:30- 4:50 p.s.t.
Actually got a office aide from the San Francisco office of Senator Padilla: I referenced the on line article from the Hill ' Social Security Administration will be using ' X' to communicate going forward. And simply said , this move by the illegal DOGE & Musk is throughly & seriously unacceptable. It has to be stopped immediately.
I will hammer this over & over again starting Monday. It's bad enough for Musk with DOGE to be wrecking the Social Security Administration from within. Americans should not be forced to be a part of 'X' for any dam reason!
Call & email all your Congressional representatives- no matter Who!
They have pumped up that picture until it looks like someone punched him in the face and threw dirt all over his face ......we all know now that was other photos from the fake shot shoot.It was obvious at the time of the rally .....the supposedly live feed ...showed no flag in background ..but within literally one minute their was our flag photochopped and set in for the terrorist to look more righteous . Well there wasn't blood going to his ear either ,just coming out of his mouth and going backwards towards his ear . No blood coming forward with a pause of blood before the ear . Very obvious . He used a fake blood capsule but in it and then it went backwards . Also no blood on his wrists or arms below his elbow....course now that picture has blood all over his face .....what a disgrace but it shows there was a photo shoot for this picture before the event even happened. Use your critical thinking skills folks , because then their fake BS is easy to read .
A possible shooter had been seen before got there or was unloaded from his car. NO Secret Service or any security service worth a damn would have allowed their client to get out of the vehicle. Trump and his entourage would have been taken to a secure location away from the potential shooter.
A Republican relative (pre-Trump) once actually said to me in a political conversation: "I think if you don't work, you shouldn't eat." I'm still astonished: no babies, no children, no disabled, no sick, no elderly, no trust babies...
Well, here we are back to the future in Nazi Land except trust babies will still eat well.
If they declare martial law and barricades can't work, that leaves only the guillotine or the military to take the side of the populace.
Feel I am living in Lord of the Flies except the boys are stunted, adolescent men who have spent too much time on computers and think they are the new Gods who should rule the world and be free of all regulations (ie control). They're too smart and impatient, and no one else in the society helped them at all. They pulled themselves up by their own brain power, and that's all they value. They've lost their hearts and their sanity.
In the book, the boys are rescued and taken off the island; otherwise, they would have destroyed each other probably to the last boy. Now the adolescent men are building patchwork "islands" or communities beyond the reach of government/s all over the world.
I canceled my Twitter account when the name changed to 'X'. (Really? X???)
Bluesky has filled in nicely for what I used the other system for and if SS needs to contact me, they have my email and phone#. Heavens forbid that I should need to contact them as the payment continues to land in my account at the credit union.
So have our payments and as retired teachers, recent legislation eliminated the windfall penalty and we received our accumulated back payments. Thankfully, we are not dependent on SS for a living, but I have a 93 year old cousin who is. Hope to visit in a couple of weeks so I will find out if he is having any trouble (not to mention he is more than a bit of radical).
I remember watching RoboCop when it came out in the '80's and saying, "This is our future." Later the Philip K. Dick story that became "The Minority Report" with precogs predicting criminal behavior showed up in Little Marco's two-pager justifying Khalil's arrest and potential deportation. Free speech is now a national interest/security issue. We have landed in Philip K. Dick's dystopian imagination. He died in 1982.
In reference to your SSA article, it's unconscionable to imagine that comunications between the SSA and private citizens would be put on a public platform like X/Twitter what with the highly personal data and information that they have on record that is routinely discussed with the agency. If they really screw around with this and mess it the hell up -- he will lose maga voters like raging water!!!!!!!!!
Regarding the story in “Wired” - Congress is in recess for two weeks. There are something like 545 people running the country who were elected and nowhere in the Constitution does it mention DOGE. Elon wasn’t elected nor approved and confirmed by Congress.
The government of Argentina must of pulled something similar with their pensioners and their people in general. As of 3 days ago the entire country was shut down because the People said “No” to the government. They refused to work for the chainsaw economy that Elon thought was so great.
So -if the Argentinians (who have been subjected to fascism in the past) will not cooperate with their government -why would 73 Million Americans agree to unelected Elon’s stealing Social Security, gutting the service and forcing the kind of people who use Social Security to go on “X”?
I live on my Social Security check. I have never used X or Twitter and don’t believe “social media” sites are how legitimate governments conduct business.
And I grew up in a time when many women stayed home with their children, BUT a WORKER wages were much better relatively.
The CEO of General Motors made 40x a working man’s wage not 400x or 500x.
The problem with young men is that old men are being ridiculously greedy. But Republicans instead of dealing with the actual problem are allowing Elon and his kind to PROJECT with problem on women and black and disabled. Because that’s what people with the Dark personality traits Do - they PROJECT to distract.
Real life is not a game. People really die and their relatives get really upset. Watch the police, jail and crime shows.
Those 545 Congress people need to remember who pays their bills - not Elon and not the billionaires - YET
The billionaires don’t want to pay any taxes!!!
Other countries are watching how this plays out.
They are watching how far the country with more guns than people, will allow this Administration to push their nonsense.
The money will leave the United States for more sensible countries. Money can go anywhere and is welcomed everywhere. It just picks the friendliest and safest place to set up shop. That was the United States before Trump 2. The brain power will leave the United States for countries who want our scientists, medical professionals, authors and artists. That exodus has already started.
Our dollar will lose its standing because the Congress didn’t do its damn job and control a demagogue and his unelected enabler to bust up our government without authorization.
This Administration is on a collision course with history and it will not end well for them.
BTW - those 12 questions - I ran them by someone. He scored between 7 and 5 on all of them - more towards 7.
Not sadistic but he’s not fighting. He has been incarcerated before. The major difference is that “D” factor. He doesn’t like men who hurt women, children, elderly or disabled people or animals. People who do those things trigger those darker personality traits.
He was one of those kids who were tracked into special Ed classes. He’s smart but very ADHD and likely other things but never diagnosed because his family was poor. Homeless at times or living in shelters.
How many of these people are in the United States? Try making life even harder for them. They will survive but other people, regular people, won’t like the results.
The social safety net was set up to protect “regular people” from people who have grown up or experienced such traumatic/abusive/violent circumstances (like war) that they a basis to survive or they will take what they need to survive.
This isn’t Russia. We never had “kings/tzars”. Americans won’t act like Russians submitting to an oligarch. They won’t accept slave wages and fear deportation because they will kill or corrupt those attempting to deport them.
The Insurrection Act?
Why would what was and can still be - the most powerful military in the world agree to protect an Administration that is cutting Veterans Benefits, Social Security and trying to “pick fights” with countries we are not at war with?
Remember Vietnam?? A lot of American Veterans do - and their loved ones.
This Administration can’t keep their mouths shut when discussing war plans - This Isn’t a Game - real people are going get killed.
And our actual opponents are stunned at security lapses by those in charge.
The Rule of Law - the adherence to the Constitution which those in Government were supposed to have sworn an oath to uphold - doesn’t allow what has been happening.
Get rid of the rule of law; the people’s faith that laws apply to everyone.
Then anyone with anything desirable or with power will need those security details.
There is always a new Champion in any sport. The King is dead long live the king.
Our ancestors came here fought and won a revolution then wrote a Constitution to get RID of that crap!
"The people said NO and refused to work!" What a concept!! Why don't we do it here? I mean it. It's better than all the protests and town halls taking place across the country.
April 11-25- Well I for one are not going to let this insanity b.s of Musk , in regards to' All announcements of The Social Security Administration will be on ' X' twitter '- slide into place...hell no.
Wrote to Senator Padilla & Schiff and even the my maga House Rep Kevin Kiley- immediately. I left messages in their California offices by 4:30- 4:50 p.s.t.
Actually got a office aide from the San Francisco office of Senator Padilla: I referenced the on line article from the Hill ' Social Security Administration will be using ' X' to communicate going forward. And simply said , this move by the illegal DOGE & Musk is throughly & seriously unacceptable. It has to be stopped immediately.
I will hammer this over & over again starting Monday. It's bad enough for Musk with DOGE to be wrecking the Social Security Administration from within. Americans should not be forced to be a part of 'X' for any dam reason!
Call & email all your Congressional representatives- no matter Who!
House.gov
senate.gov
They have pumped up that picture until it looks like someone punched him in the face and threw dirt all over his face ......we all know now that was other photos from the fake shot shoot.It was obvious at the time of the rally .....the supposedly live feed ...showed no flag in background ..but within literally one minute their was our flag photochopped and set in for the terrorist to look more righteous . Well there wasn't blood going to his ear either ,just coming out of his mouth and going backwards towards his ear . No blood coming forward with a pause of blood before the ear . Very obvious . He used a fake blood capsule but in it and then it went backwards . Also no blood on his wrists or arms below his elbow....course now that picture has blood all over his face .....what a disgrace but it shows there was a photo shoot for this picture before the event even happened. Use your critical thinking skills folks , because then their fake BS is easy to read .
A possible shooter had been seen before got there or was unloaded from his car. NO Secret Service or any security service worth a damn would have allowed their client to get out of the vehicle. Trump and his entourage would have been taken to a secure location away from the potential shooter.
So - none of it made “sense”
This is beyond disturbing, it’s becoming a horror movie.
A Republican relative (pre-Trump) once actually said to me in a political conversation: "I think if you don't work, you shouldn't eat." I'm still astonished: no babies, no children, no disabled, no sick, no elderly, no trust babies...
Well, here we are back to the future in Nazi Land except trust babies will still eat well.
If they declare martial law and barricades can't work, that leaves only the guillotine or the military to take the side of the populace.
Feel I am living in Lord of the Flies except the boys are stunted, adolescent men who have spent too much time on computers and think they are the new Gods who should rule the world and be free of all regulations (ie control). They're too smart and impatient, and no one else in the society helped them at all. They pulled themselves up by their own brain power, and that's all they value. They've lost their hearts and their sanity.
In the book, the boys are rescued and taken off the island; otherwise, they would have destroyed each other probably to the last boy. Now the adolescent men are building patchwork "islands" or communities beyond the reach of government/s all over the world.
How's it going to end now?
I canceled my Twitter account when the name changed to 'X'. (Really? X???)
Bluesky has filled in nicely for what I used the other system for and if SS needs to contact me, they have my email and phone#. Heavens forbid that I should need to contact them as the payment continues to land in my account at the credit union.
So have our payments and as retired teachers, recent legislation eliminated the windfall penalty and we received our accumulated back payments. Thankfully, we are not dependent on SS for a living, but I have a 93 year old cousin who is. Hope to visit in a couple of weeks so I will find out if he is having any trouble (not to mention he is more than a bit of radical).
I remember watching RoboCop when it came out in the '80's and saying, "This is our future." Later the Philip K. Dick story that became "The Minority Report" with precogs predicting criminal behavior showed up in Little Marco's two-pager justifying Khalil's arrest and potential deportation. Free speech is now a national interest/security issue. We have landed in Philip K. Dick's dystopian imagination. He died in 1982.
Philip K Dick was a natural Precog. I need to re-read The Man in the High Castle.
And Murica dies in’25
Those brought up in the culture of corporate America see this as just another day. Do the work or someone else will.