but he has become a huge disappointment as a human being. Talk about being in a wealth bubble. And a humongous butt kisser to trump. Unbelievable.

n/t

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millions like me) who rely on the payment EVERY month. Effing scumbag.

then, let them eat cake.”


A depiction of Louis XVI’s execution by the guillotine.

Roll tumbrels.

“If they don’t have bread then fuck them. They are useless and aren’t making me any richer. And if they complain they are clearly traitors who deserve to die.”

It doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily - but I think it is more accurate.

Let me guess. It's not.

He claims his 94 year old mother-in-law would not complain if she did not get her check and those that would complain must be fraudsters? His MIL must not need the funds or depend on her check to pay bills or food apparently.
He is the fraudster - shilling for Tesla and threatening to hold up people’s EARNED monthly checks unless they are given access to unwarranted personal information is no better than a ransomware hacker.

At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain.”

“She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said.

“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”


In a lot of cases you might not get complaints because a delay of month means the recipient would be dead of starvation unless he/she had a support network in place. Things that would happen:

1. In states with poor renter protections it could lead to eviction (potentially eviction from the nursing home).
2. Life sustaining medicines couldn't be purchased (yes Medicare doesn't pay everything).
3. Overdraft fees for bounced checks which could be into the hundreds of dollars (four checks could be $200).
4. Credit ratings could be damaged over missed payments.
5. If you are on the edge of foreclosure, a missed check could send you over the edge even if the funds later show up.
6. No fuel or ability to get car maintenance/repair done so chance of losing a job (yes many SS recipients also work) or not get to doctor's appointments.

Also a fraudster would have more incentive to keep quiet at the risk of being caught (I am calling for my mother whose corpse I have been storing for ten years). Also SS is an entitlement program in which most Americans have sent a noticeable amount of their income to over the years (note how the truly wealthy don't do much to support the program).

screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said.

Now doesn't that just describe Trump to perfection.


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And I'm filing a complaint against YOU!!

Right NOW!!

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Once they drain their savings. Many don’t have more than three months.

So, are corporations going to hire 75 year olds and provide FULL health insurance coverage?
Seniors will need more absences from work for medical appointments; there’s need for accommodation for canes, walkers, orthopedic support chairs, etc.

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Because it should be the opening story that the corporate billionaire wants int he orange hitler administration wants to take away the social security you contributed to all your working days.

This is so BULLSHIT! Come on Media report it!

They don't cover the hard issues. Sane-Washing is the norm now.

other persons of means have no clue....

i will complain.

These people sound like they are on drugs.

I think that is how I would suggest today's Democrats begin their town hall, with this plastered all over the city/town where you are holding the gatherings.


Incredible.

Shut off the spigot.

Lutnick (or whatever he's called) seems like a nutjob. Sometimes the MAGA politicians say absurd things to hurt people, or for some strategic purpose, or to ingratiate themselves to their Master Dictator. But the things coming out of the Commerce Secretary's mouth are going to be insulting even to (maybe especially to) MAGA's core base, and they are so erroneous, and he has to know that.

This is the same guy who brought us all to tears in the days after 9/11 recounting how Cantor Fitzgerald's workforce had been wiped out. It's so hard to believe this dangerous and moronic clown is that same guy that we all opened our hearts to in a moment of sorrow. I'm sure, looking back, he totally used us all then too. I wonder if the money he raised even got to the families of the firm's people who were killed. He strikes me as the kind of guy who'd blow all that money on liquor or junk bonds.

but I hope he gets the Russian treatment: defenestration.

I will care. And tell me to my face I’m a fraudster. Please.

Though, whether Lutnick will be able to speak afterwards is another matter.

"He's about to find out."

at the end of the month. Some were worse than others. I have always paid my bills first, then figured out how I would or could afford extras.

I find it hard to think of that possibility.

for the 99% to do something so that Trump can enact the Insurrection Act, ignore the Posse Comatatus Act, and turn the entire Military into his personal brown shirts, Gestapo, SS.......

JFC, this guy is the absolute worst.
Without the Social Security checks my wife and I get, we couldn't make ends meet. As with the 70 million other Americans who get SS benefits, it's essential to us.
This shit-for-brains super rich guy has no idea how normal people live, and yet he makes idiotic judgements on who and what we are.

WE NEED THAT MONEY!
That money is OURS!

temporal power, they are barely recognizable as human.

I wouldn't want any of them in my house because I'd be afraid they would steal something.

just a thought.................

These scumbags will learn