Fine takes it farther: “To be clear, the Thump Thump Act will also allow you to run over BLM, Antifa, illegal immigrants, and anyone else who intentionally blocks roads! Thump thump!” he wrote in a separate post.
“Anyone I don’t like at the time I’m behind a wheel… That person crossing in the crosswalk legally, he’s making me wait!! Thump-Thump!”
“And of course, always remember: Thump-thump for me, not for thee!”
can you shoot the driver and say it was Stand Your Ground?
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Who had this on their bingo card?
Does she realize this puts her on the same side on this issue as Rashida Tlaib and AOC?
that teaser line really says it all. and the point is a good one
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I thought this idea died after Dubya’s presidency?
Bad ideas never die, they just hide for a while before being recycled.
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I always thought of SS as the 3rd rail of US Politics.
Touch it and die…
So we are hoping Trump touches it?
He would definitely lose a chunk of the grey vote. And that cohort is also in rural red states.
Would be a pretty big own goal…but who knows with Trump.
He doesn’t have to worry about re-election so he might just privatise it out of spite and to hell with the aftermath.
Only reason he’d privatize it is whatever $$ in crypto he’ll get from those who profit from it.
History has shown he cares about nothing else.
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They were hoping to do this backdoor privatization so they would have plausible deniability, but this guy just goes ahead and says the quiet part out loud. I guess they figure they can convince their base of pretty much anything. So in a few years when people wise up to it and complain they can just say it was Biden’s idea.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the children’s savings program included in President Donald Trump’s tax break-and-spending cut law “is a back door for privatizing Social Security,”
Sounds like they want to establish individual contributory savings (tax) accounts like they have in Singapore.
I remember this being floated ages ago in the US (late 90s)
Here is the link:
Yeah. His thought is that people will be so impressed with their gains that that they will be anxious do do more. “All of a sudden, these accounts grow and you have in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement.”
Not quite. $1,000 invested in the S&P 500 in June 1965 would be worth $37,000 in June 2025 (60 years later).
That’s after adjusting for CPI, with dividends reinvested, and no expenses. Not exactly hundreds of thousands.