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In reply to the discussion: I kind of think this actual threat to shut down Social Security [View all]GiqueCee
(3,486 posts)40. This is what Steve Bannon called...
... flooding the zone. It's also analogous to convicts killing a fellow inmate. They stab him so many times that it is impossible to treat all the wounds at once, any one of which is potentially fatal. That is the principle at work here.
And it is a mistake to focus attention on one wound to the Body Politic. Every miscreant responsible for this treachery has their own motives, but ALL of it, whether intentionally or not, is in service to Vladimir Putin's psychotic obsession with destroying America from within. So far, it's working, and Republicans are just fine with it.
Maybe when MAGAts find themselves in the crosshairs and make no mistake, they will they'll smarten the fuck up, but don't count on it.
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I kind of think this actual threat to shut down Social Security [View all]
senseandsensibility
Mar 2025
OP
For the heck of it I went to Fuxnews web site and could not find any mention at all about an hour ago.
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#5
They could have at least been warning their viewers how Biden was shutting down SSA to hurt the seniors voting for Trump
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#36
The "news" are not going to publish anything that will make trump look bad
Blue Full Moon
Mar 2025
#27
If there ever was a question of "Is Trump trying to destroy the U.S. and put us into a depression?"
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#7
Why in the world do you think this went unreported? The original reporting was from...
reACTIONary
Mar 2025
#68
I just checked all mainstream news sites except FOX (CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC & MSNBC)
Wiz Imp
Mar 2025
#21
But for what? Other than to force Powell to decrease rates, that's all I can think about why these guys are tryna ...
uponit7771
Mar 2025
#29
And didn't musk just say civil war is inevitable because his cars were burned
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2025
#52
The same 100 million who didn't bother to vote because they were busy on TikTok
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2025
#57