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This can't be repeated enough:
Social Security does NOT add to the deficit or debt. Not one cent.
Anyone saying that Social Security needs to be cut to fix the budget is lying to you to take from you.
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
I just got back from 36 hours in Ukraine with my brother Scott. Wanted to share a story from while we were there. At a hospital, we talked with a wounded Ukrainian soldier.
I asked him what he thought about the change in US policy. His response in English was, “What the fuck.”
Just left Ukraine. What I saw proved to me we can’t give up on the Ukrainian people. Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine’s security and can’t be a giveaway to Putin. Let me tell you about my trip and why it’s important we stand with Ukraine.🧵
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
I don’t want to hear any Republicans talk about “freedom” unless they have the guts to call out Trump for the lies that he is telling about Putin and Ukraine.
It was Russia that started the war, not Ukraine.
Putin is the dictator, not Zelensky.
In RFK Jr.’s first statement since becoming HHS Secretary, he applauded Trump dismantling USAID, calling it “a sinister propagator of totalitarianism and war across the globe.”
His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, created USAID 64 years ago.
What a disgrace to his family.
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.
I don’t judge Mitch McConnell for his choice of political party.
I judge him for his greed, racism, and hunger for power.
I judge him for causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.
So will others. So will history.
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
RETWEET if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
BREAKING: CNN just aired this devastating montage of all the times Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham said that USAID was vital to America’s national security interests. Just another example showing how spineless Rubio and Graham really are