trump's SSA head threatens to shutter agency

Post Reply New Topic

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-21-trumps-attack-on-social-security-backfires/
dear leader is having yet another mad cow and threatening via his stooge Social Security Administration commissioner Dudek to shutter the social security administration. this is after he repeatedly promised to not touch social security.

I do think that it's worth noting that Florida has a couple of house seats up for grabs next month and I think the same is the case for one of their Senate seats. It's hard to say what the result will be, but threatening social security is unlikely to help him out at all with those special elections and would put the Democrats in the position where they could block legislation.

Whether he's serious or not, I have no idea. it's really hard to know what he's serious about other than trying to own the libs and retribution. And whatever it is that Elon thinks he wants that week. Neither of them are particularly stable and having an entire party that seems willing to go along with the madness is deeply disturbing, especially without an opposition party that's going to actually oppose any of it.

The system has been broken for a long time. Long before Trump or Biden. Now they are gutting everything because economics and disinformation are so bad. My hope is that a new era of technological leadership will emerge to radically change the entire government system for the better. My God, it can’t be worse. It really can’t.

All of this reminds me of a Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares show except it’s world governments that need to be overhauled to run more efficiently, not restaurants. And this isn’t a game or a competition. It’s reality. With real people who need help.

we have met the enemy, and he is US. Americans have not progressed one iota since h.l. mencken's acid assessment a hundred years ago, "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."