Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #8C5F
Their strategy is to discourage people from voting. If you give up, that means it’s working. Are you going to give them the satisfaction?

@Ereiam
The only satisfaction I’d give them is fucking them over.

@Background Pony #8C5F
Only plan now is the second ammendment I’m afraid, they’re already entrenched.

Of course the “second ammendment people” won’t actually do shit.

@Background Pony #10F6
So the whole world is fucked. Just great.

Senator Rand Paul tried introducing a bill to raise the retirement age to 70. It got shot down 3-93.

@Dustcan
I imagine it’ll have a better chance once the Turd administration takes over. Because hey, the longer you wait, the less they have to pay out. Or just maybe you’ll die before reaching 70 and they get to keep it all.

@lonewolf
When Social Security was first enacted, the age needed to start cashing checks was on year higher than the average life expectancy in America. Meaning that when it was first released, it was expected that most people would not cash a single check. And that those that did would probably not be doing it for very long either.

Seeing as the life expectancy is currently 77 years on average, if this bill had passed, things would still not be as they were when Social Security was first introduced.

Social Security is basically insolvent (or soon will be.) That’s why they keep doing shit like raising the retirement age and going after women’s reproductive rights (so that new workers can pay for their grandparents’ retirements.)

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Sooner or later, something will have to be done in creating a new type of Social Security program that is different from the current one.

I think private investments, like 401 K’s really are the solution. Unfortunately, the government takes a percentage of my paycheck every week that goes into Social Security instead of this. F.

Yes, because the 401(k) replacing employer pensions was such an improvement. Oh wait, no it wasn’t.

Was originally pitched as a way to set aside a little extra money on top of your pension back in the 80’s. Now? They’ve used it as a pretense to do away with pensions entirely. Doing the same with Social Security is just gonna make it even harder on the elderly than it already is. And I say this as someone paying into a 401(k) myself.

Just lift the cap on wages subject to the payroll tax from the first $250k so that rich people pay into it. A lot of the shortfall would be righted doing that.

Anyways, what I came here to post.

Patrick Egan of Grand Junction, CO was arrested after allegedly tackling and throttling a journalist outside the KKCO and KJCT news station. The journalist alleged that Egan began harassing them from his car at a stoplight, saying “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine, and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

The journalist drove to the station at their employer’s advice, and Egan followed, getting out of his car and demanding to see the journalist’s ID as proof of citizenship. When they tried to run into the building, Egan attacked.

Oh man… This is going to get a whole lot worse.

@BlitztheDragon
That’d only keep Social Security going a little bit longer. The real, fundamental problem is the fact that as people live longer and longer, there’s more people taking from Social Security than are paying into it. Raising the cap on income, raising payroll taxes in general, and other such solutions will only set the problem back further. I don’t like this any more than you do, but it’s the reality of the situation.

I don’t see the Israel-Palestine conflict ending anytime soon, do you?

Do you mean the broader thing or the current flare-up?

Both.

I think the only way it’s going to end in less than 1 googolplex years is total annihilation of one side.

I really, REALLY hope it doesn’t come to that.

@Background Pony #8C5F
I hope it doesn’t, but I honestly don’t see a peaceful solution.

I’ve said it before: the only way you’re going to end the Israel-Palestine mess peacefully is for someone to park a good-sized military force between them for however long it takes both sides to simmer down.

You’re not going to get two groups that hate each other this much to negotiate in good faith.

I think that is what Trump is going to try and do which would ultimately not work.

@Background Pony #8F4B
Pretty sure Trump has said he wants to help Israel wipe out the Palestine.

Yeah. Which is why when he won, Netanyahu was absolutely thrilled about it. He knows that he is going to help him obliterate Palestine.

I feel as though you are right.

Also Ukraine needs to rely on Europe for the war and not on the United States because Trump is not going to help them.