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Mike Feder's avatar

Theft is a fucking understatement!

Why not just drive up to the HQs of Social Security with shotguns and automatic weapons, get into the computer system and transfer the money straight into their hedge and private investment funds.

IT'S clear what Lutnick, Trump and all these other money-sucking vampires are doing; it’s exactly what they've done their whole crooked, soul-less lives to other organizations and companies— Cease regular payments, stop honoring signed agreements with subcontractors, close offices, shut down Customer Service and lay off half the employees. THEN- issue a press release: "This place( fill in the blank/Social Security, USAID, Veteran’s Administration...) is obviously falling apart! You better let our Hedge Fund and Investment Partners take over… Don’t worry, though; after subtracting 20 percent of your monthly check for management fees, your taxable checks will probably go out on time (just as soon as we finally finish privatizing the US Postal Service).

The behavior—the very existence—of men like Lutnick and his billionaire accomplices is a stain on humanity. For various reasons, people like this have a psychopathic need to take what rightfully belongs to everybody else. They have contempt for common people; in their twisted minds there are only winners and losers. Guess which one you are?

Back a ways, I knew a guy who spent most of his life as a high-level fence (receiver and seller of stolen property). He routinely referred to regular citizens as “victims.” That’s how Trump and Lutnick and all their thieving kind (the men now running/ruining our government) see the rest of us—nothing but a bunch of helpless victims.

Imagine a huge country that’s run by one man and several of his rich friends. He commutes between several palaces (with gold bathroom fixtures) and has set about banishing anyone who even hints that he might be wrong about anything. Despite all this, it’s increasingly clear to everyone that he’s becoming increasingly disturbed; he thinks of himself as an absolute monarch and appoints members of his chosen “nobility”—despite their obvious lack of even minimal competence or base-line morality—to positions of power and authority.

The law is whatever this man and his courtiers say it is.

He doesn’t believe—doesn’t even seem to understand—that anyone aside from him and his chosen circle should have any rights at all. The concept of fair courts and judges who are ultimately responsible to the people is beyond his comprehension. He routinely resorts to blunt threats and force whenever anyone opposes him or shows him even the slightest sign of disrespect.

This is what our country had to contend with in 1776, and, after 250 years of history, we seem to have arrived back at the same place. The question is: What happens next?

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Mary Kay Elloian, MBA, JD, Esq's avatar

It's all part of Trump, Musk & Project 2025 their evil plan. Create attrition by reducing access so claims are reduced, and when less people are employed at Social Security - and virtually no one is looking, they can easily raid social security trust fund for themselves!

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