War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

It definitely sounded better in the original Russian.

Oh for fuck's sake, by all means let's put the guy who wants to make polio great again in charge of HHS.

I've been told that's definitely true for pregnancies, too.

But, we've always been at war with Eastasia, right?

She got the Mar-a-Lago early bird special. It comes with the all-you-can-inject salad bar and the plastic surgery buffet.

Please tell me it's just for the IP address(es) for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Srsly though, what about the non-US Google sites? Literally the rest of the world calls it the Gulf of Mexico. This is like changing the Donbas map to make it Russia. The rest of the world disagrees.

Came here to post this, relieved someone beat me to it. /s

Not just the visuals.

He stole the "founder" designation at Tesla, too, after he pushed out the original founders.

He founded X Payments in December 1999, a year after PayPal was founded.

The 2 later merged, but he wasn't a PayPal founder, despite claims to the contrary.

100% copycat.

If ever. They'll just be spoonfed another scapegoat. Lather, rinse, repeat.

And the world should be disgusted.

They're about to be on the business end of this HL Mencken classic:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Unfortunately, those of us who unambiguously did not want this are along for the ride.

Not unlike several HS classmates who joyously celebrated "liberation day" on Jan 20.

Of course, the federal employee purges haven't been for them, nor the first wave of deportations, so their illusion won't be shattered for years.

Yes.

"For patriots who never back down"?

No wonder they have so many SA allegations, complaints and convictions.

#nomeansno

Historically true. I fully expect DOGE to recommend slashing entitlements, and for them to blame Dems for overspending and overcommitting as they do it. And for 80mm voters to blame who they're told to blame.

Don't disagree in the least, but the point remains that SCOTUS is unlikely to be of any help in protecting SS benefits when DOGE comes to the inevitable conclusion that the only way to materially reduce federal spending is to slash entitlements, which make up almost 60% of spending.

Sure, but by law, they can also cut benefits and terminate the program with a single bill passed by the house and senate and signed by the president.

SCOTUS ruled in Flemming v Nestor in 1960 that you don't own your SS and fedgov can cancel the program at any time and owes you nothing.

Now, if we somehow caused the govt to distribute those IOUs to SS beneficiaries, we would have valid govt bonds in the hands of 3d parties, & enforceable debt claims that the fedgov would, in theory, need to honor as they come due.

Except they can't, because they already spent the money.

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