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“You need to verify your SSN identity in person… At an SSN office which has been defunded and has no employees…”
Also, the nearest office is three states over.
So, some good news, when you are forced into an involuntary road trip to get your daughter or granddaughter an abortion you can use verifying your identity to social security as a cover to avoid being deported to El Salvador.
cross-post to c/LifeProTips, this is really good
“She’s just driving me, because of my cataracts, officer!”
Boomers waiting until something affects them directly before making the right decision? I’m sure no one saw that coming.
I appreciate that the whole generation isn’t that way, but at the same time, the number of Boomers I have personally interacted with who have absolutely no understanding that they are not the main character is way too damn high. A little empathy would go a long way, especially when many of them in the Boomer voting bloc are too old to ever see the effects of their vote.
It’s straight outta the conservative playbook. It’s how their entire rotten brains work.
Trump no longer needs any voter approval.
There will be no more elections, or the elections will be falsified Russia-style.
It’s game over in the US. The US is in the late stages of capitalism, falling like the Roman Empire.
All my life, I’ve watched the US slide. But it’s crazy it’s falling apart right now. Seems surreal for some reason.
I care about Americans and America. There are many good people, who care about me, and us. They deserve to thrive in a secure, prosperous country. I don’t want to discount a nation just because of the idiots.
Thank you. We’re all scared and angry here and it’s hard to know what to do that won’t get us deported to El Salvador supermax some day in the future thus letting our kids down
Thank you so much! Be sure to relay your concerns to your own government. If we ever dig our way out of this hellscape we will need our allies once more.
All roads lead to Rome.
There will be no more elections, or the elections will be falsified Russia-style.
We’re going to test this hypothesis soon enough. Two big gubernatorial races in Virginia and Pennsylvania this year. The “voting no longer matters” crowd is going to assert that these will be landslides for heavy MAGA conservatives, I’m presuming?
We’ve also got five out-of-cycle vacancy elections for House seats happening, two of which are scheduled for April 1st. FL-1 already had a primary for the GOP position, while the Dem candidate ran uncontested. FL-6 had primaries for both R and D candidates. Have these elections already been rigged? Is the outcome predetermined?
It’s game over in the US.
You wouldn’t be the first one to make this claim.
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But it’s not a game and it’s never over.
The “voting no longer matters” crowd is going to assert that these will be landslides for heavy MAGA conservatives, I’m presuming?
Or votes being thrown out due to “fraud” or the election being cancelled or certain voters being rounded up by cops so they can’t cast ballots or any other number of ways elections can be meddled with.
And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win, this isn’t really The Big One. The House and Senate races in 2026 will tell us what the future of elections will be.
Or votes being thrown out due to “fraud”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Eye_(United_States)
or the election being cancelled
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
or certain voters being rounded up by cops so they can’t cast ballots
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/politics/hervis-rogers-texas-voting-charge/index.html
or any other number of ways elections can be meddled with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_caging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#False_information
All common in US politics and heavily influential in shaping the outcomes of states like Ohio, Texas, and Florida. These are features baked into our election system and designed to shape the outcomes. They’ve been going on since the colonial era. This is not a bug of liberal democracy but a feature. To pretend Trump is changing the game, you need to ignore how its historically been played.
And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win
Of course not. What could that possibly prove, except Democrats aren’t nearly as far removed from the Project 2025 goon squad as they like to advertise.
To pretend Trump is changing the game, you need to ignore how its historically been played.
Right, he’s just reviving older parts of the playbook. Very few of the things he’s done are actually new, they’re just things the US isn’t used to anymore or things that haven’t been done on a massive scale.
But it wasn’t voting that made those older practices fall out of favor, it was more direct actions: labor militancy, mass protests, and radical organizing. What your examples demonstrate is that Trump is defeatable even if he revives every authoritarian trick in the US playbook, but none of that proves voting specifically still matters.
I’ll be watching the 2026 elections to see if we can still vote our way out of this, or if we simply need to do something else.
Trump may not care about approval ratings, but representatives and senators care about keeping their seats more than anything else.
If baby boomers reject republican candidates, they’ll turn against Trump.
You sweet summer child.
Trump openly stated that Elon knows how to use voting machines to their benefit.
Trump openly stated that we won’t need to have elections any longer.
Your vote no longer matters. Oversight about voting has been dismantled.
States run elections not federal government. They can’t do that.
They can fuck with the mail. They can have people outside polls intimidating people from even showing up. A state legislature controlled by the GOP will do whatever Trump tells them to.
States run elections, but there are a bunch of ways that conservatives already use to fuck with elections. They aren’t going to get any better now.
Trump also openly said that Elon has access to manipulating voting machines.
It’s not over until the fat lady sings. At the very least, tank Tesla’s stock via protest while you still can.
Seniors wield a lot of political influence in this country because they vote, and because they tend to skew Republican. Pissing off seniors is the last thing that politicians want to do if they want to stay in power.
But here’s the thing. That political influence is the only power they have. If you take away the political influence that seniors have, you’ve essentially relegated them to a bunch of old people sitting around yelling at clouds. Similarly, if the politicians in question feel that they no longer need the seniors’ votes, he takes away that political power, again relegating them to old people yelling at clouds.
At least with able-bodied people, there’s at least some threat of physical violence, even if it’s extremely unlikely. Seniors don’t have that. A 70 year old retired first grade teacher and her 94 year old mother aren’t going to be picking up arms and storming the capitol any time soon. If you’re willing to put up with an old person screaming and you don’t need said old person to vote for you, then there’s really little to nothing else they can do to you. You’ve successfully relegated them from a powerful voting bloc to a petty annoyance.
EDIT: For the record, I in no way want to imply that seniors are feeble or anything like that. But at the same time, please keep my comments in context. I am talking about a situation where politicians no longer need the votes of senior citizens and the only leverage that they have left is physical violence. Yes, that’s probably still a threat at your local VFW meeting, or even if the group skews younger. But your local politician isn’t concerned with your local bingo hall or evangelical group suddenly taking up arms or causing a riot. That’s what I’m talking about.
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Tell that to my friend’s grandma. Latest arrest record at 80, for whacking a cop with her handbag at a protest.
Your friend’s grandma is awesome
“senior” is a pretty wide range though. You can be old enough to get a senior’s discount and still able enough to do most things. Maybe you aren’t going to be doing 100 situps after jogging 10 miles, but march the streets and hold a rifle sure, and there’s probably a good mix of ex-military in there as well as people who know how to make stuff go kaboom in unique and interesting ways.
Taking away their reasons to sit contently and die quietly might not work out as well as some think, but this party in particular is pretty good at thinking everyone but themselves are inept.
Seniors don’t have that.
It seems you’re not a senior and don’t know many people who are. Not everyone that age is feeble and helpless.
Seniors don’t have [at least some threat of physical violence].
Share that sentiment at your local VFW or AMVETS, and you will learn that propensity is not a prerequisite for proficiency. In fact, those who are most familiar with and capable of violence are usually the same who are most reluctant to employ it.
It’s echo chamber headline bait. Any “people think such and such” headline is just there to tell you what you want to hear. There’s no action here. Nothing useful. Just bricks in the echo chamber wall.
Every time I see a headline saying trump’s approval rating has plummeted, I look and it’s always in the mid to upper 40’s. Every time. It never changes.
All these articles are pure hopeium. I check his approval rating daily hoping my country will gain some sense. His approval is higher than his first term. Half the population has has their brains turned to scrambled eggs by social media. And I get the irony of saying this on social media.
People are impressionable and the tech bros who control movement of information have fallen in line behind Trump. It’s going to be a bumpy ride y’all.
Rating dropped from +1 (49% approval, 48% disapproval) from 3/9 to 3/11, to -9 (45% approval, 54% disapproval) from 3/16 to 3/18. Sample sizes 400 and 384 respectively. “Boomer” = 65+
In related news, Trump’s approval ratings remain unchanged among Nazis.
The survey conducted between March 9 and March 11 found that 49 percent of people over 65 approved of Trump’s performance as president, while 48 percent disapproved, giving him a net approval rating of +1.
The same survey conducted between March 16 and March 18 found his net approval rating had dropped by 10 points to -9. In that survey, only 45 percent of people over 65 approved of the job Trump was doing, while 54 percent disapproved.
45% still approve. Isn’t that higher than his lowest point last time?
It doesn’t matter anyway, he does not need to be popular to do whatever he wants
Did they die?
