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I would be curious to see what research and evidence Musk has to back up his “…100% certain…”
With hot sauce. Spicy!
Maybe he found it in Joe McCarthy’s coat pocket.
And a dollop of Penzy’s pepper!
Trump hasn’t figured out what lie he should tell to explain the previous lie he told.
Is the Trump Gang going to go after children’s hospitals next, like Shriners and St. Jude’s? How about the American Red Cross, are they also in the gunsights? I wouldn’t put anything past those fascist bastards.
I may be mistaken, but I believe that most, if not all, of those two hospitals’ operating budgets come from private funding; St. Jude’s, at least, does receive some funding from research grants, but those appear to be a small fraction of their total budget.
He doesn’t have to. They lie with reckless abandon and it doesn’t matter. They are using 1984 as an operating manual and it is working swimmingly.
Do you think that matters? The fed contribution to the Kennedy center is about 17% and he is going in with a sledgehammer. If you have any amount of fed backing, prepare to get fucked.
I call it the “coffee budget” gambit.
Ask someone if it’s OK (or even positively appropriate) for the government to spend a pittance per day providing civil servants with coffee and they will say “sure”. But present someone with the total government coffee budget (a figure in the millions) and they will gasp at the “profligacy”.
Scaring people who can’t math and have no sense of proportion works every time.
Because they are two completely different benefits, with two completely different functions. SSDI, as you will know, is intended to provide a living to people who can no longer work due to their disability, with payments based not on the severity of disability (because according to SSA, you’re either disabled, or you’re not: it’s binary) but on how much they (or their spouse/parent under certain circumstances) paid in to SSA when they were working.
By contrast, VA disability is set on a spectrum and is, at least in theory, intended to compensate veterans for the deficit in income they have suffered as a result of their service-connected disabilities. Unlike SSDI, it’s not so much like insurance as it is like restitution. The country giving back what was given up (or in some cases just outright taken). And, to your point, part of what may have been given up (or taken) alongside the ability to engage in more strenuous and (potentially) higher paying work is the increased SSDI entitlement that may come later if the veteran does then go on to meet the SSA’s definition of disabled (inability to engage in substantial gainful activity due to disability).
For example, although my service-connected disability has not prevented me from becoming, like you, a mere attorney, it absolutely has prevented me from being able to earn the six figure salary that a law degree (cum laude) from a T14 law school might normally command—if only I could stand to engage in that up-or-out, burning the candle at both ends sort of work anymore.
But, hey, @Mush on Xitter and maybe he’ll hear you. Those god damn freeloading disabled veterans have had it too good for too long, am I right?
Inflation is up. Get used to this, along with Trump’s immediate response on his shitty social media site:
“BIDEN INFLATION UP!”
So much for “everything cheaper on day one of my presidency”.
Ironically, I’ve read that most government offices don’t pay for coffee specifically because of this kind of ill-informed public outcry, and employees are expected to join “coffee clubs” instead and pitch in dues to a fund that provides the sacred hot bean juice for its members.
Personally, I’ve never cared for coffee and these days a can of cola an hour or two after getting out of bed is all the caffeine I require.
And none of the media have the balls to point it out.
“You said ‘Day 1’ several times. Was that a lie?”
Because this is what they wanted and it’s been obvious ever since they started harping on about “Joe Biden is old and looks old and sounds old and is old OLD OLD OLD” bandwagon over a year ago.
Coffee is not provided to civil servants in my state for this reason. It used to be but politicians got sick of the blowback. So now many civil servants waste time getting coffee from cafes. At a cost in lost time orders of magnitude higher than just giving them some damn coffee.
Yes, this. The media has been blatantly slanted in Trump’s favor for a long time now, and they are hardly going to stop now that they’ve gotten him into power.
Of course he does. Trump does and the magaflatearthers lap it up.
DAMN RIGHT!
Like Hell. You don’t think his stupidity in relation to Israel isn’t going to have negative impacts on the country? Let’s be clear. Every single word out of that moron’s mouth about Israel is for the sole purpose of getting his rightwingnut followers in the United States to ooh and aah more about him, not Israel. He doesn’t have the mental acuity to do more than that, and he certainly doesn’t understand even one issue in the Mid-East (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Right. And let’s not forget Trump’s stance on the Disabled, especially those who ask him uncomfortable questions.
You forgot one very important purpose - lining the pockets of himself and his family with a property development. The chances of that development happening (or being successful) are near non-existent. It will nonetheless be a key purpose behind his recent pronouncements.
Let me tell you something: nobody in Israel has any idea what the hell’s going to happen now. Truths and assumptions we’ve counted on for decades have shattered since Trump turned his eye in our direction. The tiger has grabbed us by the teeth and thrown us on his back, and we have no idea where he’s taking us and what he’s going to do when we get there.