Mary Jane Clement

Master Gardener, Monarch Watcher, foster Mom for the Animal Shelter. Proud Grandma of 4. David Cook fan.

[Mary Jane Clement @Mjaneclem]

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[Mary Jane Clement @Mjaneclem]

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[Still-AOK @Still_AOK]

@realTuckFrumper Social Security and Medicare are the only two, true, entitlements.

Any restrictions or reductions will be a DEATH SENTENCE for whatever political party allows them.

[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.

Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?

Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.

[Mary Jane Clement @Mjaneclem]

@Suzierizzo1 3.89 in KS

[Grace Hall @Randaroo1212]

Donald Trump hates this photo of himself. We definitely shouldn’t make this go viral.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

And another thing....
To my co-citizens complaining about the smoke and mocking Canada while their forests burn. Remember that a Canadian firefighter lost his life in Colorado helping fight OUR fires. His name was Nicholas Dale. Show some respect.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

If you agree with Jon give a 👍

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YEAH! The New York Times hits back HARD against Trump by filing to quash the "abusive and improper subpoenas" that he's crookedly using to target their journalists.

This is how you defend the First Amendment...

“They violate the constitutional rights of The Times and its journalists,” stated The Times’s top newsroom attorney David McCraw. “We are going to court to defend our journalists’ rights to report freely on the administration and to provide the public with stories that matter.”

He described the subpoenas — which were delivered by federal goons who showed up at the reporters' homes — as “brought in bad faith to punish the Times for its coverage” and said that they “violate the constitutional rights” of the outlet.

The subpoenas aim to compel the journalists to testify before a grand jury about confidential sources and were delivered in the wake of their reporting on the likely security-compromised jet that Trump accepted from Qatar to use as Air Force One. The Times reports that Trump was "enraged" by their coverage.

In addition to quashing the subpoenas, McCraw is working to get them unsealed because The Times "believes that the public has a right to information about this case and is also seeking to have the papers unsealed.” The fact that they're sealed at all demonstrates that the Trump administration realizes they're on shaky legal and moral ground here and would rather conduct this business in the dark.

The Times's Executive Editor Joe Kahn described the subpoenas as "a naked attempt to intimidate The New York Times and to keep us from reporting on matters that we think are essential to national security," adding that he has "seen the way an authoritarian government can keep journalists from reporting on a huge amount of news and information that’s very clearly in the public interest.”

“It’s really essential to American democracy that that kind of erosion of press freedoms not happen here,” he added.

Simply put, Donald Trump is the most anti-free speech President in history. He doesn't believe in the First Amendment as a sacrosanct right and would prefer an America in which he could jail his political opponents for daring to utter even the tamest of criticisms of his failed administration.

Thankfully, The New York Times is fighting back!

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with The New York Times!

[Tom Williams @tommyboy0690]

The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.

[Rich From CA @therichfromca]

This is what MAGA and The Trump Administration don't want you to see anymore, they are trying to rewrite history and make you believe this was peaceful.

They are evil, violent, and dangerous!

They all need to go NOW!

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The Patriots of Mount Rushmore have a singing message for All Americans (no room there for tRump!)... Credit to Michael_Kryton0609

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Trump interrupts his own teleprompter to contradict and refute his own statement that the United States has equal justice under the law.

He has a point. If we did have equal justice his ass would be in prison.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

I don't believe people outside of the military understand how significant this is. He is willing to lose his entire future over this. That's bravery like we haven't seen in a long time.
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[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Wayne Waldrop @WayneWaldropW]

It sure would be a shame if we all reminded everyone that Howard Lutnick lied about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by spreading this picture around again.