Social Security is often referred to as "THE 3rd RAIL" of politics, but it looks like the same can also be said of JFK.

Republicans have LONG LUSTED FOR destroying Social Security, masturbating to their "make Americans set up personal investment accounts" nonsense, KNOWING...and also NOT CARING...that Social Security is an EARNED benefit, that NO ONE's getting a "handout," that Saint Ronnie the Gipper, their beloved Zombie Reagan, may have RAILED against "welfare queens," while ALSO KNOWING that NO ONE received Social Security benefits if they DID NOT PAY INTO THE SYSTEM during their working life. They know all of this. They don't care.

The LITERAL third rail, on a railroad track, carries 600-750 volts of electricity and can kill you in an instant. That's the metaphor for Republicans who cannot get over their obsession with ending EVERYTHING in the "Social Safety Net," including Medicare.

They WENT ON "HOLIDAY BREAK," knowing the ACA credits would expire, knowing this will send tens of millions ofg Americans into a state of financial crisis where MANY of them will be forced to GIVE UP healthcare, and that's OK, because the "savings" helped finance new shiny tax cuts for Musk, Bezos, Thiel, and Zuckerberg.

YOU'D THINK AMERICA would be out in the streets in RECORD NUMBERS once this knowledge became public. I'm not saying "there are no protests." I am saying America seems willing to let this Republican streamroller crush them.

I don't think the same thing would happen if they began taking "serious steps" to end Social Security.

Which brings us to JFK.

Many of you were too young to know much about him beyond what you were taught in school, what your parents told you, what you've seen on the Internet and archived media.

Many of you were also there, and have your own opinions of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy (SENIOR)...not even gonna bring RFK Jr into this conversation. I'm talking about the sixties, "Camelot," THOSE Kennedys.

And JFK is a part of the third rail of American politics. If you disgrace him, directly or indirectly, intentionally or not, you're inviting the mass scorn of AMERICA.

Trump either knows he's dying...physically AND politically...or he's just obsessed with having a "legacy" that does not include 2 impeachments, 34 felonies, being an adjudicated rapist, a fraud, a snake oil salesman, a serial adulterer...he's no icon, no hero. He's a viper, who is convinced that most of America's problems are the result of not appreciating him enough.

The reaction to the "Donald J Trump John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" has been swift, and almost exclusively negative.

Trump "claimed" he knew nothing about it, just as he "claimed" during the 2024 election that he knew nothing about Project 2025 and Russell Vought, and almost immediately after Trump's inauguration, Vought was a busy little bee, implementing Project 2025's wish list line item by line item. The Kennedy Center board had all of the materials ready to slap up on that building, and it happened IMMEDIATELY after their vote to do so, but Trump was "surprised."

Various Kennedys have spoken out about this, as have artists who perform at the Kennedy Center.

JFK's niece has vowed to "grab a pickaxe" on January 20, 2029, and rip those letters from the building's facade.

Trump MAY literally decide that he needs to shoot a man on Fifth Avenue, just to prove his prediction during the 2016 election was accurate.

But by disrespecting JFK's legacy, he touched that third rail. It may make no lasting, significant difference...although it may...and only time will tell.