Summary
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed that most seniors would not complain if Social Security checks were missed, suggesting that only “fraudsters” would object.
His remarks sparked backlash as Social Security is a critical income source for millions, including 15% of women and 12% of men over 65 who rely on it for 90% of their income.
Amid rising concerns, Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander criticized acting SSA head Lee Dudek for threatening to cut IT access, escalating fears of disruptions.
They won’t be able to complain because you’ve turned off all the phones and shut down most of the SSA branches.
Yeah right.
There are a lot of armed seniors out there. Give them nothing to lose. Go on.
Reminds me somewhat of when Paul Bremer, Bush Jr’s “vice-roy” in Iraq, decided to disband the Iraqi Army overnight, leaving tens of thousands of heavily armed Iraqis stranded without a job or source of income. IIRC, that’s how the Iraqi insurgency started.
IIRC, that’s how the Iraqi insurgency started.
Yep.
CPA orders didn’t just disband the Iraqi army but also fired everyone in the top three management layers of hospitals, state-owned industries, universities, and government ministries.
It also didn’t help that it was standard procedure for US forces to conduct door-to-door raids and throw so-called “military-aged males” (which often included young teens and children) without any due process into military prisons including a torture camp with a US official admitting that 99% of them were guilty of nothing. This understandably, got the population of Iraq pissed.
Who are you suggesting that they shoot? The mailman or bank clerk that has nothing to do with it? Who do you imagine these people have access to?
You would be amazed where a senior citizen can get. Old people can be invisible.
So, who’s gonna tell Lutnick that voter turnout for those age 65 and above is 75%+?
And it’s not like old folks like to complain about things just for the fuck of it, right?
Lutnick and Trump are going to discover why they call Social Security the third rail of American politics.
No theyre not, these people will probably still vote for them
You massively underestimate the old people in this country.
You massively underestimate the brainwashing that’s been done.
This is one thing you don’t fuck with. Every time it has been tried, senior citizens say “fuck it, if I’m dying I’m bringing the bastards down with me.”
Boomers don’t need us for this fight. If the government skips out on social security, the absolute worst people to piss off, get pissed off.
You know what Boomers have? Free time. You know what Boomers are acutely aware of? They’re running out of time.
Medicaid? Honestly, they can cut that with minimal fear. Medicare? Same thing.
Social Security? That’s pulling the pin on a grenade and playing hot potato with it.
I think they are counting on 2024 being our last elections.
They haven’t hid that giving Trump a third term is their intent.
This is how you know they have reached escape velocity and know they will never face another election.
But they might face people’s justice instead.
Yes because that’s what boomers are known for. Not complaining.
Man, they even complain about it when it isn’t even relevant.
The number of times I’ve heard “blah blah blah, my social security is my investment, blah blah blah, take it over our dead bodies, and we’ll leave no inheritance behind” is too damn high
Hahahahahaha that is probably the Number One Thing they would complain about you dummy
Seniors could be dying of hunger on state capitol steps and they would be saying “it’s just a few bodies, they were old anyway”
I wish we could say that about Donald and the rest of the old fucks in Congress
indeed. republicans do not care.
Texas’ lieutenant governor suggests grandparents are willing to die for US economy
See also: COVID-19 response under Trump
Donald: some of you may die. But that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Yeah people love it when you fuck with their money
When he gets taxed 99.99% to cover the new social security he better not cry or complain because I know my grandmother wouldn’t.
Oh, he’s STUPID stupid, got it.
No, he’s malicious.
Not saying he isn’t that too, just that his take is bafflingly stupid.
never attribute to stupidity, that which can be attributed to malice.
It’s obvious from this if it weren’t already that Lutnick has never worked in a customer-facing position.
Seems pretty unusual for politicians to be openly fucking seniors.
Yeah, usually they’re openly fucking children.
Well maybe trump can make america great again and we can all go back to just bravely letting the awful people molest and mass-shoot the children, and leave the elderly boomers alone.
/s
CORRECTION: You won’t HEAR them complain.
