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Zero sympathy for the only state that went 100% to Trump. You literally asked for this, pray to your fucking orange god to save you
OK had 66.2% vote for Trump. Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming were all higher than that.
So what do you mean by “only state” and “100%”? I’m confused by your comment.
I'm guessing they mean 100% of counties in Oklahoma went to Trump.
Ah, ok. Looks like West Virginia also had 100% of counties go for Trump, so “only” is still not right, but at least that makes more sense.
The republicans carried every county
Here comes the leopards for those tasty faces.
Bullshit me and wife voted for Harris. Not all of Oklahomans are dumbfucks. I hope they all lose their social security starting with trump lover neighbor across the street.
Why are they Stressing? They LITERALLY Voted for this! President Musk LITERALLY told them he would do this! Which means this is FAKE NEWS!
Simply put you get what you vote for
Which if I’m reading this correct
For project 2025 For hate For racism For fascism For literally anything and everything bad. No clue why people voted for this guy.
He said he wouldn't do Project 2025 and so people trusted the word of a guy convicted of 34 counts of fraud because he said that he was being treated unfairly by the justice system.
I dunno... people are dumb.
MAGA supporter: Donald doesn’t know what Project 2025 is. He’s for us!
Sure, Jan.
The guy that picked, as his VP, the guy who wrote the forward for a book from the architect of Project 2025.
But before the election, you'd try to tell some people about Project 2025, and they would take a "but isn't that conspiracy theory" type of approach. And that's people that were not necessarily hardcore magoffs. The magoffs were entirely unreachable on the subject...
One of the few campaign promises he actually kept. But yes, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that this administration would gut social security. So you get what you deserve.
The people I feel bad for are the minority of voters who actually saw this coming and didn't vote for him. They are stuck in this horrible situation because of all the stupid dipshits who are getting their faces eaten by leopards right now.
he said this many times: i doncare about you, just your votes, and you only need to vote once.
Republicans back in the day: Social Security is going to collapse! We need to fix it. Not enough money for Americans when they retire.
Republicans now: Fuck Social Security! The Billionaires told us to collapse it. They informed us we don’t need it.
I’m less worried about the closure of offices than Musk thinking he can modernize the SSA administration’s computer systems in 3 months. None of his lackeys have ever worked on anything of this scale/complexity and I’m pretty sure none of them know COBOL since they’re apparently mostly around 25. (And retired COBOL experts likely don’t know more modern languages well enough to translate.)
Don’t get me wrong, the public and private sectors should modernize aging, critical systems that use code written in languages almost no one under 60 has learned, much less mastered. But 3 months probably isn’t even enough time to get through the planning and hiring stage of a project like this. If it were cheap and easy to update those systems, it’d have been done already.
The goal is to break it
It’s a planned disabling of ss.
The trepidation of news sources, or even most social media, to call it deliberate sabotage, gives them cover.
The majority of the American public does not deal at all with this level of tech. And the small percentage of people who understand can not influence anything.
Even if you had the very best experts that knew COBOL and some "modern" language, along with all the right competent supporting staff (documentation, analysts, qa, ops) AND they had skilled, experienced and competent management overseeing it, doing something like that in months is just probably very, very difficult, if not impossible.
If you look back over the respected literature (which means sidestep the hot-take Youtube techfluencers going gaga over rather pedestrian things in languages and tools and frameworks and so on - these dingalings are typically so far up their own rear-ends and likely to just make the same old mistakes already documented in books like Mythical Man-Month and many probably won't read it because they think it's about older systems, therefore irrelevant.) I doubt you'd find much support for a claim that it could be done.
How hard can it be? Import user list from DB, implement the calculate_pension method, integrate with paypall to send the money and you're done. 1 month of work, 1 month for testing and 1 month to celebrate success.
Also, I think we are about to watch fElon and his child prodigies Whiz on the Electric Chesterton Fence to mix up two metaphors....
and one of them is a son/daughter of a KGB agent too.
Article is like, didn't make enough to save for retirement? How about you start saving now?
Retirement in America is going to involve cat food for many.
No need to be alarmist about it. They can just apply for SNAP benef- oh wait nevermind. But there's still plenty of support for food banks which will- oh, right. But... uh, I'm sure they'll be fine if they have 401k or something, stocks are up and food prices are down again.... right?
[*whispering with unseen person*]
Really? Oh! Well shit.
Have you seen how expensive cat food is now?
They better get good at dumpster diving.
Dumpsters are full of the leftovers from a well functioning supply chain…
Yeah, lots of folks don’t realize that cat and dog food are required to be fit for human consumption… Not because of accidental “toddler found the bag of dog food” scenarios, but because of the “destitute people on social security can’t afford anything better” scenarios.
I don't understand the cat food thing. A can of cat food is usually the same cost or higher as a can of cheap tuna or other canned meat. You're eating cat food for no reason!
Delays could be disastrous for many Americans. In one study, 42% of Americans aged 65-plus said they wouldn’t be able to afford basic necessities like food without their monthly check.
There are approximately 60 million Americans aged 65 and over.
42% of that is about 25 million people.
... And thats not counting those on Disability, SSDI, like myself.
Thats another roughly 11 million people, under 65, disabled and unable to work due to serious, debilitating injuries or medical conditions.
If these idiots actually do this, and fuck it up as much as they are likely to, we're looking at something approximating 5% to 10% of the country becoming homeless within months ... and then likely starve to death or die of exposure, we're talking about the eldery and disabled here.
... This would effectively be somewhere between, or comparable to, the varying estimates of avoidable deaths of Holodomor or the famine during the Great Leap Forward.
The suffering is the point.
Those seniors can enjoy wandering the streets knowing that the wrong people are also being hurt with them. I hope they're happy.
Yeah, my parents are hardcore preppers, for all the wrong reasons. For the longest time, it was the “Biden is going to roll tanks down the streets” type of prepping. But now I’m seeing the prepping in a new light, because it could 100% turn into a full blown “nobody can afford soup, and the government is actively dismantling the soup kitchens while forcing people onto the streets” economy.
Alright I'm just gonna say it. Yes I know a lot of people who voted for Kamala will be hurt to. It will hurt my parents, my grandparents, etc.
But it is a goddamn lie if I say I'm not excited about these people having their faces eaten. This is what stupidity gets you. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Fuck around and find out.
You fuckers all thought you were better than LGBTQ+, Black people, immigrants, union members, etc. Now you learn that nope, all of your teeth are just a cheap source of aquarium gravel.
I realize you're worked up, and I hope those who voted for the 🐆 🐆 🐆 suffer the most (very possible given that food bank users are mostly white etc) and actually turn their politics to the left (sadly much less likely, as they are idiots).
But it's Kamala not Kalama, and that sentence ends with too, not to.
Sorry not sorry, you wanted this, you got it. You voted wrong over FUCKING EGGS!
If it makes you feel any better, it was mostly about hating people who were different ✨
Hey, it's the thing we said was going to happen!!?! Who would have thought we were right!!!
It’ll end up somehow being blamed on Dems. Remembering the time Congress overrode Obama’s JASTA veto, then the GOP immediately blamed Obama for not warning them harder.
Oh no!! Anyways…
You won, get over it.