Tweet of the Afternoon #2:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

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1. YES. That's what I'm talking about. Broadcast it everywhere.

[applegrove]

4. And that Rick Scott let it out of the bag Republicans want to sunset

programs like Social Security.

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5. If they try that, there will be riots in the street.

Social Security is even older than Roe.

[Traildogbob]

14. Too late

When they seize all voting, we can’t vote them out after they steal the trust funds, and their unregulated militias will have a roof top shooting gallery with street rioters. Rittenhouse will lead the way. When we were told they will overturn Roe V Wade and even force 10 year olds raped to carry that fetus to term, people said, “No Way”, there will be riots in the streets. Any sign of street riots and reversing the horror?
Rick Scott said it out loud, put it in writing. So did now silence Cawthorn. Lindsay Graham jus said SS needs to be cut drastically, every body needs to feel some pain. DO NOT underestimate these asshole thieves. They want that 2.5+ trillion (with a T) trust fund. After they take it, never coming back. And after SCROTUS hands state legislators complete control of election results, voting them out will not happen. They have no fear of 65+ plus years old rioters. SSDI recipient's scare them less. Next they go after VA disability funding and retirement. We are in a fast track to Hungary fascism. Why Tucker gets an erection for their leader.

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17. We'll see. The Nov. election is critical. If we lose...

both Congressional majorities, and with the SCOTUS Taliban 6 in place and feeling full of themselves, I reluctantly agree the skids to outright fascism will have been greased.

[not fooled]

16. Naw

they'll concoct some duplicitous, backdoor way to implement privatization while hiding the fact.

Just look at how they handled Medicare privatization, aka "Medicare Advantage"--got it called part of Medicare, made the Federal government pay for it while inducing seniors to sign up by subsidizing the premiums, provided the opportunity for AARP and shills like Joe Namath to cash in hawking this private insurance to seniors, and look where we are--I think 40% privatized already--as Thom Hartmann says, when they hit 50%, look out. Few seniors who are helping destroy Medicare by signing up for "Advantage" plans have any clue that they no longer have real Medicare.

pukes and their oligarch backers are drawing up just such a scheme for Social Security, or have already done so. The 'Murican people won't know what hit them, and the corporate media won't inform them.

[Traildogbob]

18. Yep

We may have woke way too late. Only course WAS voting in 2022. If SCROTUS give Legislators full power to overthrow vote outcome, that last chance for us will be gone.

[Walleye]

2. And conservatives are still working to destroy these advances

[FSogol]

3. K & R n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I love that quote from the West Wing

[Leith]

8. It was the best scene of the entire series

[aggiesal]

11. I like this speech from The American President ...

[Maraya1969]

7. And Obamacare. Which republicans tried to defund over 60 times in congress and trump brought

a lawsuit against it all the way to the Supreme court.

[IronLionZion]

9. Clarence and the handmaid won't hesitate to roll back voting rights too

for minorities and women.

[patphil]

10. When I was young, not old enough to vote, my father told me this.

He said, "The Republicans never did a thing for the common man".
He was born in Wisconsin in 1903, lived on a farm in his youth, and then went into a paper mill to actually make enough money to raise a family. He came out to upstate New York during the depression because the factory he worked in moved, and they told him he could keep his job if he moved with them...at his expense of course.
He then worked in a factory that made locomotives, and switched to tanks during WW2.
After the war, with the rise of automobile and bus transportation, he lost his job and went back into the paper mill.

So, my father had a lot of life experience to back up what he said about the Republicans. He was right then...1950's, and even more right now.

[aggiesal]

12. When I was around 10 years old ...

I asked my dad, what is the difference between Democrats and Republican?
I will never forget his answer.
He said "Republicans take care of the rich and corporations. Democrats take care of people."

[onecaliberal]

13. Absolutely and twice on Sunday.

[rickford66]

15. What about speeches by actual politicians?

Only a few firery speeches lately. Should flood the airwaves withthem.