All I know is what you posted. When it was pointed out that you voted for people who didn't have your best interest at heart, not in this election but back in 2016, you said it was solely about abortion. About SCOTUS appointments to overturn Roe Vs Wade. And if you're trying to claim that we would be where we are now, with a wannabe dictator in charge with your "both sides suck" claim, you truly aren't paying attention. I certainly wasn't happy with either candidate in the 2024 election either. I don't align with either party totally. They both have policies and promote things I disagree with. But just to use the excuse that "both sides suck" by so many people not to vote leaves us where we are now.
Now your only choice when it comes to saving your medicare benefits is to hope the power of prayer works for you. I don't see that working out so well.
And I have no idea who the hell Bennie "Sneak Eyes" Wilson is bro.
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Your memory must be going along with the eyesight old man lol
What I said, and you and a few others have scrambled around in your own minds was Neither side was worth voting for. I Didn't like Trump or Hillary and that I didn't trust either side. I said Trump was to stupid to lie and get away with it, and people would see through him, while Hillary could look you in the eye and lie to your face and get away with it. I made it clear I didn't want to vote for either side but at least with Trump there was a chance innocent babies could be allowed to live so yes I voted for Trump. You and some others make it sound like there was another choice. There was but IMO Hillary was still a worse choice. So to make it sound like there was a better choice in 2016 is something I can't agree with. I even said I didn't want to vote for either and it came down to choosing if I could live with having my social security cut vs living with myself for voting for somebody who was all for slaughtering innocent babies. So I will say this YET AGAIN
It was not the (as you keep parroting) the SOLE reason, It was the deciding one. As I pointed out back then. I can live with myself if my benefits get cut, but I can't live with myself for voting against my conscience.
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They both have policies and promote things I disagree with. But just to use the excuse that "both sides suck" by so many people not to vote leaves us where we are now.
We ain't gonna agree on that either
What leaves us were we are now is lining up and voting like sheep for EITHER SIDE. Not demanding both sides run better candidates if they want our vote at all. We the people are getting what we ask for as we are to lazy to demand they give us candidates worth voting for.
I won’t say anything much about this. You don’t see this in the media, yet at least.
Watch and take it for what you will…
All I see is a bunch of pigs squealing at a respected member of Congress.
Did I do that right, 'peen?
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
I made it clear I didn't want to vote for either side but at least with Trump there was a chance innocent babies could be allowed to live so yes I voted for Trump.
That's exactly what I said. You voted for trump on a single issue. Abortion. Thank you Bennie.
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Personal Finance Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,’ ex-agency head says Published Sat, Mar 1 20259:27 AM EST thumbnail Lorie Konish
The U.S. Social Security Administration has never missed a benefit payment. Now the continuity of monthly checks for millions of Americans could be at risk following changes under the Trump administration, former commissioner Martin O’Malley says. Former Social Security Commissioner Ma,rtin O'Malley testifies before the Senate Committee on the Budget Then Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley testifies before the Senate Committee on the Budget on Sept. 11, 2024. Anna Rose Layden | Getty Images News | Getty Images Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago.
But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley told CNBC.com.
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”
Ahead of any interruption in benefits, “people should start saving now,” O’Malley said.
The Social Security Administration uses multiple systems and technologies that Elon Musk has criticized for leading to errors. As commissioner, O’Malley told Congress the agency needed more funding for IT modernization.
O’Malley said DOGE leaders are now making changes at the agency, and significant staff cuts have already led to system outages. Those intermittent IT outages may happen more frequently and for more extended periods of time until there is a “system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” he said.
Neither the Social Security Administration nor the White House responded to requests for comment by press time.
Social Security Administration leadership upheaval The Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is not a federal department. And Musk, whom President Donald Trump brought on board to implement DOGE, is not an elected official.
Since its establishment, DOGE has looked to slash spending at federal government agencies.
Top Social Security official exits after refusing DOGE access to sensitive data The cuts have led to leadership upheaval, with the recent resignation of acting commissioner Michelle King following a reported disagreement over DOGE’s access to sensitive data. O’Malley resigned from the Social Security Administration in November to run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a race which he lost to Minnesota Democrat Ken Martin.
Trump has nominated Frank Bisignano, CEO of financial-technology company Fiserv , to serve as the new commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Bisignano has yet to sit for Senate confirmation hearings.
In the interim, Lee Dudek, who first joined the agency in 2009, has been appointed acting commissioner.
Earlier this month, Dudek posted on LinkedIn that he had been placed on administrative leave from the agency for helping DOGE representatives, The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 20.
“Our continuing priority is paying beneficiaries the right amount at the right time, and providing other critical services people rely on from us,” Dudek said in a Feb. 19 statement about his appointment.
Whose benefits may be most at risk Yet experts say the benefits Americans rely on could be at risk based on the Trump administration’s overhaul of the agency.
“The American public needs to understand that one of their major social safety nets is in dire jeopardy,” said Jill Hornick, a union official at the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1395, which primarily represents Social Security offices in Illinois.
“It’ll take a while for the effects to be felt, but they’re coming,” Hornick said, predicting what will happen to Social Security is going to be “far worse” than the planned cuts to Medicaid.
For people who are already receiving Social Security benefits, most of that is automated and may not be affected, she said. However, processing new claims — whether it be for retirement or disability benefits — may take longer since those cannot be processed without Social Security employees, she said.
On Thursday, the Social Security Administration sent a notice to employees that gives them until March 14 to decide whether to take an early buyout. Unlike a previous January offer, this now includes service employees, and staffing reductions in that area may impact how quickly the agency processes benefit claims and provides other services, Hornick said.
For example, if a woman files for a survivor benefit after her husband passes away, she needs to provide a copy of her marriage license. A Social Security employee then needs to code the system to verify they have seen that document and the applicant is eligible for benefits, Hornick said.
“Not everybody can do things electronically,” particularly the older adults and disabled individuals who the Social Security Administration serves, said Maria Freese, senior legislative representative at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
“If you don’t have people to run an agency that requires hands-on customer service, then of course there’s a risk that you could end up with benefits being either denied or interrupted,” Freese said.
Office closures may reduce access to services The DOGE savings web page has a list of about 45 Social Security locations where leases will be terminated, according to Rich Couture, spokesperson for AFGE SSA General Committee, a union that represents 42,000 Social Security employees nationally.
The list provides little information on the uses for the locations that are being closed. Based on the square footage listed, they may be sites used to conduct in-person hearings for disability benefits, Couture said. In one case, the location seems to be a busy New York state field office that provides general services, he said.
“If they’re going to close these offices that are busy in highly populated areas, it would suggest to me that there’s no office in this country that would be safe from having a lease terminated, especially in rural areas,” Couture said.
In a recent statement, Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., said the moves are a “backdoor benefit cut.”
“Let me be clear — laying off half of the workforce at the Social Security Administration and shuttering field offices will mean the delay, disruption and denial of benefits,” Larson said.
In a statement to CNBC.com earlier this week, the Social Security Administration said it has not set any reduction targets, in response to reports it plans to cut 50% of its employees.
As a union, AFGE has been issuing bargaining demands in response to the agency’s recent decisions and plans to enforce employee rights through other methods as necessary, spokesperson Couture said.
While many lawsuits have been filed, it will take time to work through them, especially as the courts are now being flooded with cases tied to the Trump administration’s actions, said Nancy Altman, president of advocacy organization Social Security Works.
The biggest results may come from the pressure American voters could put on elected officials, former SSA commissioner O’Malley said.
“I think many people throughout the country are going to start bringing a lot of heat to members of Congress who have been facilitating, supporting, aiding and abetting the breaking of their Social Security and the interruption of benefits that they work their whole lives to earn,” he said. “These are earned benefits.”
Gill just raised ass kissing to a whole new level. Just about the time people were beginning to think that would be impossible. For some reason I'm thinking the next crazy thing one or more of them will be proposing is that trump gets added to Mount Rushmore.
Oh dear Lord. The more you read the more you know......
Lawmaker proposes bill to carve Trump on Mount Rushmore
I originally made the Mount Rushmore comment in jest. But then I thought it wouldn't surprise if one of these right wing nut jobs hadn't actually proposed it.
And sure enough......
Then there is the 250 dollar bill.....
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson announces plan to propose $250 bill featuring Trump
Texas doctor warns against ‘measles parties’ as effective way to fight the virus
Dr. Ron Cook, chief health officer at Texas Tech University Health Center Sciences said in a virtual press conference Friday measles parties as of late have “mostly been social media talk.” They are inspired by the concept of pox parties from the 1960s, where parents intentionally exposed their children to chickenpox to ensure they contracted it early and “got it over with.”
But health officials have warned against this for years. In fact, Dr. Cook highly discouraged the practice and emphasized vaccination as the most effective option.
“Let me discourage you from doing that,” Dr. Cook said. “Will it afford you immunity if you live through the measles? Most people will but… we don’t get to pick and choose who’s gonna do well and not do well when you become severely ill.”
Dr. Cook warned against the risk.
“Please don’t do that. That’s just foolishness. It’s playing roulette.”
As of Monday, there were 158 measles cases recorded by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
Can you imagine being a medical expert and feel you have the need to tell people this? And before anyone tries to question who this message is targeted towards only five confirmed cases in this measles outbreak were vaccinated.
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They just want the trans women to identify, so MAGAs stop dating them… it won’t work. We all know MAGAts will do anything to get their man in position to screw them.
Since posting crazy things randos do and say seems popular. Vven though this clown isn't quite so "rando".
Ex-husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes to Muslim women
Perry Greene, ex-husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, publicly apologized Friday after being identified as the man seen harassing Muslim women in a viral video filmed in Alpharetta.
The incident, captured Sunday, shows Greene shouting offensive remarks at a group of women wearing hijabs from a Tesla Cybertruck, sparking widespread outrage.
CAIR-Georgia, which hosted the press conference, emphasized the need for community education and action to combat Islamophobia and protect visibly Muslim individuals.
Tennessee far-right pastor fears 'gay beam' airport scanner will make him queer
A Christian nationalist pastor in Tennessee revealed that he refuses to pass through "gay beam" airport scanners because he fears they will make him gay.
Pastor Andrew Isker, who appears not to realize his bear status within the LGBTQ+ community, made the claim on a recent episode of the Contra Mundum podcast he cohosts with fellow Christian nationalist C. Jay Engel. A clip of the podcast was posted to social media by investigative journalist Phil Williams.
“Where was the Constitution when the Patriot Act was passed?" Isker says in the podcast. “Right? Give me a break. Like, I had to be molested at the airport to go to Florida, right, just to get on an airplane, just because I’m not going to go through the ‘gay beam’ machine. I didn't let C. Jay do it. I wouldn't let him do it. I said, 'You're getting patted down, too, buddy. I don't want them turning you gay.'
But Isker was not finished.
“It appears having a guy touch you all over the place, is on its face, seems worse, but you don't really know what’s going, what those things are doing to you," Isker continues after he was momentarily rendered speechless by his own words.
“Or where the imaging goes or what they’re, what they’re doing in the back room,” Engels adds.
“Yeah, they can just take a picture of me naked?” Isker concludes. “Like, no.”
“A virtual adrenochrome system back there?” Engels asks, referring to a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims leftist celebrities and politicians torture children to produce a chemical compound that is subsequently taken from the murdered children to prolong their own lives.
“Yeah, maybe,” Isker agrees.
Isker, the author of The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation, is part of an effort to create a Christian nationalist community in eastern Tennessee. The proposed community and the views they hold were too much for the Appalachian area. Citizens strongly expressed their opposition to the plans at a town hall meeting last November, local CBS affiliate WTVF reports.
“They’re a wolf in sheep's clothing,” an unidentified woman called out during the meeting.
“This town is not for them,” Barry Naff, a local business owner, agreed.
I’m currently in Kaua’i. On the way out here, I had to go through one of those scanners at the airport. I do notice that now I do have a sudden affinity for Cher and white Zinfandel.
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Tennessee far-right pastor fears 'gay beam' airport scanner will make him queer
A Christian nationalist pastor in Tennessee revealed that he refuses to pass through "gay beam" airport scanners because he fears they will make him gay.
Pastor Andrew Isker, who appears not to realize his bear status within the LGBTQ+ community, made the claim on a recent episode of the Contra Mundum podcast he cohosts with fellow Christian nationalist C. Jay Engel. A clip of the podcast was posted to social media by investigative journalist Phil Williams.
“Where was the Constitution when the Patriot Act was passed?" Isker says in the podcast. “Right? Give me a break. Like, I had to be molested at the airport to go to Florida, right, just to get on an airplane, just because I’m not going to go through the ‘gay beam’ machine. I didn't let C. Jay do it. I wouldn't let him do it. I said, 'You're getting patted down, too, buddy. I don't want them turning you gay.'
But Isker was not finished.
“It appears having a guy touch you all over the place, is on its face, seems worse, but you don't really know what’s going, what those things are doing to you," Isker continues after he was momentarily rendered speechless by his own words.
“Or where the imaging goes or what they’re, what they’re doing in the back room,” Engels adds.
“Yeah, they can just take a picture of me naked?” Isker concludes. “Like, no.”
“A virtual adrenochrome system back there?” Engels asks, referring to a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims leftist celebrities and politicians torture children to produce a chemical compound that is subsequently taken from the murdered children to prolong their own lives.
“Yeah, maybe,” Isker agrees.
Isker, the author of The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation, is part of an effort to create a Christian nationalist community in eastern Tennessee. The proposed community and the views they hold were too much for the Appalachian area. Citizens strongly expressed their opposition to the plans at a town hall meeting last November, local CBS affiliate WTVF reports.
“They’re a wolf in sheep's clothing,” an unidentified woman called out during the meeting.
“This town is not for them,” Barry Naff, a local business owner, agreed.
RFK Jr and health agency falsely claim MMR vaccine includes ‘aborted fetus debris’
Experts are alarmed as department says it will alter vaccine testing methods and build new ‘surveillance systems’
Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and his department have made a series of misleading statements that alarmed vaccine experts and advocates in recent days – including that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine includes “aborted fetus debris”.
Health department officials released statements saying they could alter vaccine testing and build new “surveillance systems” on Wednesday, both of which have unnerved experts who view new placebo testing as potentially unethical.
“It’s his goal to even further lessen trust in vaccines and make it onerous enough for manufacturers that they will abandon it,” said Dr Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, about the statements and Kennedy. “It’s a fragile market.”
In this same week, Kennedy exhorted parents to “do their own research” in a talkshow interview – the phrase has become pop culture shorthand for a shallow internet search that casts people into the arms of the disinformation ecosystem.
“All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure – a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told the Washington Post in response to questions about general vaccine policy and the measles vaccine. The department did not clarify what it meant by “new vaccine”.
The department spokesperson also described new surveillance systems for vaccines, “that will accurately measure vaccine risks as well as benefits – because real science demands both transparency and accountability”, but did not elaborate on the design of those systems.
Prior to being confirmed to the role of health secretary, Kennedy was arguably the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine advocate and led a non-profit known for prolific misinformation. He also earned money by referring clients to law firms suing vaccine makers.
Among the claims Kennedy spread was that medications cause “autoimmune injuries and allergic injuries and neurodevelopmental injuries that have long diagnostic horizons or long incubation periods, so you can do the study and you will not see the injury for five years”, he said in an interview in 2021, according to reporting by the Post.
Kennedy also claimed this week that the MMR vaccine includes “aborted fetus debris”. The rubella vaccine, like many vaccines, is produced using decades-old sterile fetal cell lines derived from two elective terminations in the 1960s.
Vaccines against new pathogens, such as Covid-19, are placebo tested. However, experts consider new placebo-controlled trials for long-time vaccines, for instance measles, to be unethical because it would effectively deny a patient a known intervention while potentially exposing them to a dangerous disease.
“No institutional review board at any academic center would ever accept that – so he’s asking what personal injury lawyer invariably asks for, which is the impossible to be done,” said Offit.
Although Kennedy has made false and misleading statements about vaccines generally, the Covid-19 vaccine appears to be especially in the administration’s crosshairs.
In response to recent questions about Covid-19 strategy from the Guardian, the administration responded: “The Covid-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” person wearing yellow top and black pants walks past tan building
Health officials have reportedly required all research grant applications on messenger RNA technology, which powers most Covid-19 vaccines, be flagged to Kennedy’s office. They have also ended research that tested for the Covid-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy in special groups, such as pregnant women, as part of an $11bn clawback in grants from states.
Most controversially, the Food and Drug Administration has delayed expected approval of a new Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax, reportedly on the review of a political appointee known to be skeptical of vaccines.
Over the weekend, FDA commissioner Marty Makary addressed the delay by describing annual updates to the vaccine’s strains as a “new” product, creating confusion about whether vaccine makers have to conduct new safety and efficacy trials. Such trials would not be a normal part of routine updates.
On Monday, the company released a statement that said in part the FDA had demanded a clinical trial as part of post-approval surveillance, and that it would continue to work with the FDA.
Republican Congressman Has Full-Blown Meltdown Over Halal Restaurant
You will never guess what Mike Collins is comparing the opening of a new halal restaurant to.
Republican Representative Mike Collins is freaking out over a halal restaurant coming to the cafeteria in the House’s Rayburn building.
The skittish conservative complained on X Friday morning about CHA Street Food, a Pakistani restaurant, replacing Steak n Shake this summer, likening it to a religious war from thousands of years ago.
If Collins knew anything about cuisines, or even cultures, outside of America, he’d know that Pakistan is thousands of miles away from Jerusalem. His own X post includes a screenshot of an email pointing out that CHA Street Food is actually based out of northern Virginia. Not only that, his beloved Steak n Shake is owned by an Iranian American, Sardar Biglari.
If Collins thinks a new halal restaurant in a House cafeteria is like “the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem,” perhaps he should get to know his colleagues. There are currently four Muslims serving in the House: Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, André Carson of Indiana, and newly elected Lateefah Simon of California. There’s even a congresswoman in his own Republican Party of partial Pakistani descent, Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma.
But Collins is not known for his nuance or tolerance, cheering on racist protesters in Mississippi last year and blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion procedures for train derailments. Maybe the Georgia congressman ought to try out CHA Street Food and its menu of Pakistani street food, which includes burgers and fries. He might actually have his horizons broadened.
Does anyone remember that Disc Jockey from the fifties that they made a video of that declared that Rock n Roll was dead?
He was out of touch and out of date.. Just like Collins. We've always been a melting pot society. Always have been, hopefully will always be. it's what makes us strong.
Collins, much like Trump and many on the republican side of things have just forgot about it.
Not really CRA CRA, but news on the Republican front. I guess the one CRA CRA aspect is this might shove MTG to the top of the list for Senator. Crazy. I'd have thought Kemp would be a shoe-in.
Top Republican Waves the White Flag Amid Wipeout Fears William Vaillancourt Mon, May 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM EDT2 min read
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that he will not run for Senate next year, dealing a massive blow to Republicans who saw him as a strong contender against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The two-term governor, who cannot run for re-election in 2026, explained that being on that ballot “is not the right decision for me and my family.”
“I spoke with President Trump and Senate leadership earlier today and expressed my commitment to work alongside them to ensure we have a strong Republican nominee who can win next November, and ultimately be a conservative voice in the US Senate who will put hardworking Georgians first,” Kemp said in a statement Monday.
Kemp’s decision could allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene an easier path to a general election matchup against Ossoff.
Greene views her chances in the GOP primary more favorably without Kemp, the Daily Caller reported last month.
Yet the MAGA congresswoman—known for all sorts of conspiracies—could have a more difficult time winning over moderates.
“It‘s like wow, not necessarily the news we wanted to hear,” former Cobb County GOP chair Jason Shepherd told Politico.
Whereas Greene managed just 37 percent support against Ossoff’s 54 percent in a recent Atlanta Journal Constitution poll, Kemp edged out the Democrat, 49 percent to 46 percent.
Showings like those helped make Kemp the GOP’s “number one recruit” for Georgia, as National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott told Semafor in January.
Kemp’s electoral record was also encouraging for Republicans. He first won the governorship in the 2018 midterms and was reelected 2022—both good years for Democrats. In the latter campaign, Kemp was also primaried by former Sen. David Perdue, who had President Donald Trump‘s support.
Yet the GOP will now have to look elsewhere to defeat Ossoff—a prime target since his is one of two Democratic seats up for grabs in 2026 in a state Trump won.
The other seat, in Michigan, is held by Sen. Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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