Just like dismantling, the Department of Education will hurt rural schools the most, these Social Security requirements will hurt rural seniors the most. Why are they doing this? To empty out rural spaces and replace small towns with corporate farms and allow them pollute with impunity.
Damned right. As a retired SSA employee, I can say with authority that the number of phone calls SSA receives on any given day is at least double the in-office and online transactions combined.
Hey @gluesenkampperez.house.gov you should at least pretend to care about both these things, as our district is extremely rural.
Yep but we are going to stop them and hold them accountable
Just a question: Why have they voted so consistently and long for GOP policies that destroy them? I don’t think they are stupid at all, but what higher interest is making them vote against their own well being and that of their own children? City girl in (mostly) Blue State here. SMH.
It is appalling and criminal -- limiting access is the SAME THING as cutting Social Security -- EVERYONE reporting on these limits and cuts needs to call it like it is!
By design - cruelty is the point
Yes! trump wants small mom and pop farms to fail. He SAID that corporate farms were better for America.
The greatest wealth heist in US history is unfolding. Musk is set to become the first trillionaire. Bankrolled by taxpayers, mass layoffs, and gutted programs for the vulnerable. Meanwhile, they raise the debt ceiling and hand the rich massive tax breaks, leaving the public to pay for their empire
Who is impacted? Our most vulnerable! 85+ million Americans 1 in 5 Americans 60% of U.S. nursing home residents. 40% of children 50% of all births in some states Women (58%), Men (42%) White (40%), Black (22%), Hispanic (28%), Asian (5%), Other (5%) disability-related eligibility 9.9 million, 11%
This is Trickle-Up Trumpconomics. Trump supports deep Medicaid cuts to fund tax breaks, shrink federal programs, and reshape welfare. Critics warn millions could lose care, especially vulnerable groups. It’s less about efficiency, more about shifting resources and power under the guise of reform.
That is what they want. They want to push a nationwide voucher scam. Just look at Texas. They want to profiting every single thing in this country to line their own pockets and use the 99% of us as their ignorant uneducated slaves. They are so transparent.
Building billionaire owned and run "Freedom Cities" for which they need poor serfs who have no options. Idiot Trump has already talked about it, because Thiel and Musk have whispered in his ear enough and it stuck like a wad of chewed gum. They promised him personal profit, they get law-free zones.
They’re trying to make people poorer, less healthy, undernourished, and less well educated. The weaker the masses are, the less they have to fight back with.
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It's hard for most people to grasp what hateful sociopaths the MAGA oligarchs are. They don't care how many people suffer & die as long as they gain more power. They are destroying our rural spaces & next they will come for the cities.They would burn the world just to warm their hands by the fire.
I know there's lots of it these days, but this is one of the most ignorant & cruel things our government has ever done to us ! SO FAR !
killing Education would hurt the disabled the most... funding for their education in a large part comes thru the Department www.nea.org/nea-today/al...
I’ve been struggling to understand the play, but I don’t have to look much further than rural communities in my county. AWS is buying up farmland like crazy for data centers. And putting millions of gallons of diesel fuel in backup generators on top of our aquifer. What could go wrong, Indiana?!
End the regime
This will affect most MAGAs in rural areas. I think it is time they storm the Capitol again.
Their voters. Nowhere in the US is FAFO coming faster than where rural MAGA live and work.
Welcome to the last stage of capitalism: dystopic fascism.
😢 We must unite & fight 💪🏻these Billionaires & the ones that supported tRump will only react against him when it effects them & as sad as it is, it will impact them the most😢
Why support someone that's hurting so many Americans?
This is their base supporters. They know these people will not change their vote no matter how much they suffer because their goal is making other people suffer equally. Not hoping for the best for fellow Americans.
Oddly enough a very large portion of the population that lives in rural areas— without internet connection— are in fact red hat people.
Uninformed people who believe what Fox News says
Breaking SSA is the point. If they make it impossible to function and people are helpless, they won’t care if it’s privatized.
I agree 💯 make it so frustrating that we welcome anything else. Heaven only knows how things would go after that.
They’re going after the old the disabled, just like… who were those guys again, with the Hugo Boss threads?
This argument does not hold. Rural communities have internet and computers. WTAH
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All over WV older folks are going to be hurting with these requirements and school cuts, but they love DJT. They still believe he cares about them (even though they were devastated by floods recently) and will bring back mining.
Unless we all stand together we will all become disposables.
This will make people more vulnerable to fraud by forcing them to trust people, who may not be trustworthy, with their private info to make SS appointments online.
Cruelty is the point.
He's harming all his voters the most - because he knows no matter what they will still fall to his feet. He's got to go - no matter what it takes.
I had not considered that. But your putting it put there makes it all clear. Thanks for sharing.
That, plus rural people tend to be the most conservative, Republican, thus most willing to put up with the abuse in pursuit of conservative values, helping the plutocrats of the economic power establishment.
Try that in the big city, am I right?
Maga will cry hard when they have no more free babysitting all day. Also they need to make r room for their parents. No more nursing homes either. Today no more housing assistance for 2 million. Bye Section 8
I don’t care what we have to do, but this cannot continue this shit that’s happening is not sustainable to the American people. The only people that are going to benefit from any of this and won’t be hurt by any of it are the damn billionaires the rest of us mean shit. The people no longer matter.
No problem for this guy's Mom though. The Country under Dictator Felon Trump is gonna have to make a lot of changes.☮️
It seems Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Christian Nationalists & Techno Bros are behind TRUMP and yet NO ONE BLAMES THEM!!! Once they get control, it won't matter who is president, they will have destroyed democracy & installed THEOCRACY.
Women and children first doesn't mean what we thought it did. When breaking a society, go after the weakest.
They are destructive killers without a conscience
They won't get it through The Senate. Will they, Chuck?
Those rural communities mostly voted for this administration to take office, now they are getting what they voted for. Wait until some of them start losing their farms and their seniors won’t be able or afford their medicine.
They're freakin evil.
They want a de-solidarization and fragmentation of the community. If Venezuelans are put in the concentration camp - the majority thinks they deserve it. There is no health insurance - there was so much abuse! If people from authorities are dismissed - now they learn to work!
The resentments help everyone to fight for themselves and pursue their interests, instead of organizing themselves for common resistance. Urban population is played out against rural people, the federal state against the states, „real“ Americans against immigrants…
Only one thing is not: the poor against the rich! Taxation or expropriation of the super-rich brings the system to collapse. To stand up for minorities is unpatriotic. Granting the federal government core competences in order to align living conditions - unthinkable for every proud American!
There seems to be a certain intent with this mess.
Maybe more along the lines of who is cheapest to keep alive and to get taxes back out of. They see us as numbers, only.
Krugman shines a light on the Social Security outrage paulkrugman.substack.com/p/social-sec...
I guess we are too poor of a country to support our elderly and needy.
Yes. We are a failed country
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To kill off the sick and elderly and steal their earned benefits.
Also to spread misery. Cruelty is the point.
Perhaps rural folks displaced by Trump’s policies will help drive Congress to enable Thiel’s fiefdoms (network states) where the techbros can rule unconstrained by public law.
Have you read about “Sovereign Citites”? Ex: TN & Moscow Idaho are in full “example” mode. Check out Musk in, I think “ Starscape” TX or something similar. Exactly “their intention”. Peter Theil behind it plus many of White Christen Nationalist. Read about “Heritage Families”! Scary shit.
That's the idea. Suppose you don't get your SS payment (WHOOPS!) so you contact the SS admin to notify them & ask about it & there is no way to contact them (WHOOPS again.) Leave a number & someone will get back to you after the dicktator's reign has ended. Refuse fascism! Revolution is now! 🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙
GOP knows this. The plot is: make it as fugging impossible for Seniors, so they give up. Hell, they paid taxes for 40-50 years, but no longer work. We ar ON TO THIS CRUEL PLAN. HANDS OFF SS.
And of course, it's going to be up to Dems to go to bat for the same people whose undying love put their cheeto-jesus where he is now.
Yes. It is to run off all small owned business and then ok tens of thousands South African nazis over to buy it for pennies on the dollar. This is who will be in control of our food and decides who gets to eat. We are being governed by truly evil people.
Hi just saw Bulwark Longwell & JV (Jeffery Goldberg)story Signal chain accidentally included in top secret 🇺🇸 BOMBING today in Yemen 🙀go to YouTube Bulwark to see this recording! Trumps toast! free wheeling with all the cabinet members 🙃in on the call Security Breach 😀
I hate to think 🤔whole idea of « ethnic cleansing « however t-25 wtfmusk are following the P-25 playbook letting the chips fly where they may. They want baby-boomers to die off and middle an low income and poverty population to die off as well. Replaced with « gold card » recipients to acquire 🇺🇸 🌅😵
Jess keep on keeping on and speak 🗣️ your true narratives😀🫶thanks 😇
Orange Mussolini and Elonazi must be defeated
They are doing this to give the rich a bigger tax break. TAX THE RICH. SCRAP THE CAP.
My family has property in a small lake community in northern Minnesota with a population of 400 and school population of less than 600. The city council has proposed a $41M bond for sports stadium and cafeteria, no academic benefits, just something that sounds like a corporate real estate project.
Republicans just hate human beings! It doesn't matter who. No empathy is a hard thing for people with empathy to get their heads around. The Republican Party (if one can still call it that) only cares about itself.
I think you left out tax cuts, for them of course.
Those tax cut ideas worked out so well for the Russian and Chinese billionaires that they all moved out of there home countries to stay alive. Our billionaires should have been paying attention since that story was well told in financial circles. The game being played is not safe for anyone. 😳
There = their. I know better. 🤦♀️🤣
I wish we knew the goal… good or bad. But I think we can all agree, The Bull was released in the China Shop.
SSA EMPLOYEE *Hearings, claims 1 yr. This two weeks for SSR? I don’t do that. LOST 15% staff Covid *Phones. Bad for YEARS. *The change is ONLY TO VERIFY ID. Online soon? *Why do all SSA offices give 1-800#? We’d answer phones all day no work. Truth, sorry. *Yes rural issues, been to many.
Too bad Yam Tits wants to destroy the infrastructure bill that gave rural areas broadband internet.
I saw an ad for Starlink looking to fill that void. Curious how that works.
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I wouldn't trust it!
Who did they vote for? Bet I know. 😏
The sadists behind these changes have honed their cruelty to a level clearly meant to hurt as many innocent citizens as possible. Such venom and spite, why ? Never forget who they are! They will not outrun accountability because the people won't let them. Shame on their willingness and complicity
And the kids will be enlisted in work gangs because school is going to be optional.
Those small towns are generally MAGA. You know where I'm going with this
In my state the majority, if not all, of rural counties voted red. I still hear the blind support. I don’t think many will believe it until they feel it. It’s sad but self inflicted.
The response from voters of said nonsense has been to move goalposts instead of acknowledging the disdain their reps show for them in their action.
40m Americans don’t have internet at all - and 25% of seniors have never been on the internet
NCAAP and NEA are suing to stop the dismantling of the Education Dept. Who's suing for SS.
And it's the Dems who forgot about the working man in the rust belt. Right....
Here’s what’s truly fucked up and inhumane. This is why, even if you’re a “it doesn’t impact me!” person, you can’t look away. Those rural seniors were their biggest supporters…and they’re the first on the list marked as wasteful and disposable. If you don’t see it, you must learn empathy.
we used to have a Social Security office in this town. Named after a US Representative. 3 or 4 years ago, they tore it down and built a bank where it used to be.
Same tactics as from GOP run states for voting, more restrictions, more challenges, fewer locations and services to correct (made up) problems.
Won't be a problem. Just listen to Howard Out-to-Lunchnick: "Let's say social security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She'd think something got messed up, and she'll get it next month..."
If that billionaire wasn't supporting his 94 year old mother HE'S the problem ❗❗🤬
Lutnick actually said “mother-in-law”. Imagine you’re a billionaire and you’re such a ghoul that your wife’s mother depends on social security.
Boldfaced bull$h!++er - those two guys he was chatting with should have had their pulse checked! Clap back, for God's sake!
Like the Clearances and other land grab events that made us or kept us serfs.
Yep, states will not care to fund the rural areas. Have a feeling segregation will rear its ugly head again. Can’t believe America was this stupid when voting.
Figure it out! They don't give 2 shits about the elderly or disabled. They just want you to die and get it over with. Christ on a cracker, they just want us dead.
I help seniors learn to navigate SS in my local OfA and would really like to read this so I can stay up to date. Can you please share a link straight to it? Thx 🙏🏾!
Jess, it definitely fits in with what Vance and others have talked about. They want independent cities run by billionaires.
The irony is though, the people who live in these areas still heavily support Trump and all his policies. They are not educated to a point whereas they actually understand the ramifications of what they voted for. They consistently vote against their own needs.
Most of them know and didn’t think they’d care so long as black and brown people hurt more. Oh and they hate hearing spanish spoken.
I know. God forbid you speak Spanish.
JD Vance apparently has an app that tells you which farms are about to go belly up.
The 20 something DOGE brainiacs that combed through the SSA data misread EVERYTHING The SSA still uses the operating language COBOL, which they knew nothing about. You’d think something like a 300 year old getting SS payment would have alerted them
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Do you think they have thought that far ahead? Their thought process seems to be "what splash can we make by closing government offices" then figuring out the consequences after the fact. Now....your supposition seems entirely possible.
So many of his votes came from rural areas. I hope they’re happy now.
Trump is targeting the elderly poor who depend on Social Security.
Can you explain your conclusion?
They’re doing it because they are republican MAGA trash! Once it hits their constituents, they’ll regret it. Also, billionaires don’t care because: billionaires.
And yet the red states voted and still support the 🦧 turd
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It’s tragic, really. If they do feel they no longer need to worry about elections anymore, the rural community and their associated costs will be the first they abandon.
I hate them. I really, really do.
And they will love trump for it
And closing post offices will hurt rural seniors the most. Again, the cruelty is the point.
We sold the Family Farm that Grandpa Bought and paid for in the Lathrop/Plattburg area several years back now. Just in my 50 years of growing up around this place I had seen the woods and creeks closest to the fields deteriorate. Just the fish alone has declined dramatically. #ChimPanion
The Republicans sure don't look the least bit worried about the rural vote. They either believe they'll get it anyway or they won't need it anymore.
Unfortunately a lot of them voted for the 🍊 creature.
They also want prisons like the one in El Salvador (slave/internment camps) to be placed all over the USA in rural areas... Make no mistake - if the gop gets their way, ALL mega-prisons will be sponsored by corporations for slave labor. #gopDeathCult #StopProject2025
Big chemical basically does that already. But it is going to get a lot worse. MAGA doesn't care about anybody, but their high dollar donor cronies.
Rural voters in Missouri voted to hurt themselves because of hatred for others. I feel sorry for everyone who voted democrat but feel no sorrow for magats or non voters.
Interesting point about making space for corporate farms. I remember driving through eastern WA and OR a few years ago and driving for hours through what looked like corporate wheat fields -- not a person, home, grocery store, nothing.
If their plans are successful, who will be left to buy their produce?
Don't forget the disability community. They will also be in a world of hurt.
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These are small farmer killing actions.
The DNC and state Democratic parties need to jump on this County Democratic offices should already have good internet and computers to use. They need it to use VAN Set up some tables with connected computers, have computer savvy folks help local folks to connect to the SSA to resolve any issue
The new Rules will be.... No SS before the age of 70 (maybe 75) No special circumstances allowed (like a disability) No more choosing the (higher) SS of a deceased spouse Then get rid of all online and phone support. Re-app will take forever and hopefully you die first.
I expect that they will "pause" SS, then require everyone to "re-apply" for SS under the guise of 'review to eliminate waste and fraud'. During the pause, they will change the rules of application, making it so onerous, many will die before completing the process, which of course is their goal.
That is a brilliant idea!
They are picking on those who are unseen or unheard the most. Less money on those who need it is more money for their projects.
You hit that nail on the head. With a bonus of a 'captive' workforce to do the oligarch's polluting for them.
I've tried to get verified online, but was thwarted. I don't have a camera or mic, and I don't have a smartphone--just my desktop PC. Got into a chat with the AI helper and it told me to find a friend to help me!
I worry that Trump & Muskrat will drop Social Security recipients from the rolls if they do not "verify" their identities by March 31. I haven't seen much about this in the news. There are some 70 million Social Security recipients out there and they gave us a two-week deadline. That's Monday!
It's right in the text of Project 2025. Get rid of subsidies Get rid of migrant workers Get rid of markets ( USAID and Food Assistance ) Tariffs that force counter tariffs on US products Bankrupt family farms for billionaires to buy up the land and lease to corporate farms.
Hopefully emptying rural areas is not related to Techbros desired nation cities and is just the usual corrupt wealth transfer. theweek.com/tech/network...
Clear violation of IDEA.
While buying the land CHEAP
Includes foreign interests. Biggest nonrenewable aquifer in the US midwest is being drained with irrigation. Dust storms & fires making a come back. No care for the future. GOP policies want money NOW
Ditto privatized USPS.
I’m not sure if that’s the reason, but it certainly could be one of the consequences. And no matter how it plays out, this reckless slashing will hurt rural families & communities badly, and doubly rural seniors. It’s outrageous.
Unfortunately, it remains to be seen if the Dems will return to their roots and defend rural residents’ interests effectively.
The ultimate goal of this Nazi regime is the same as the one in the 1940s - the killing off of "undesirables" that they see as systemic leeches and not as living, breathing human beings. In this case, the elderly, the poor, and minorities. They do this by taking out support structures first. Evil.
Nazi came for the sick 1st. Can't have supremacy with the old and diseased.
I’d argue that they are also doing this to thin out (saying this as nicely as I can) those communities deemed as not contributing back - another correlation to the Nazi movement. People are livestock to them and if you aren’t making them money, they have no use for you.
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Interesting so much support for MAGA comes from rural communities but these cuts will impact them the hardest. I just drove through rural Nevada and the amount of trailers with Trump flags left me shaking my head. They have nothing and are about to have even less.
Yes, Jess, and also: Attrition is what they want. Every senior who dies a few years early saves money for the system. You think I'm being too hard on them? I'm likely not being hard enough.
Wow, the average person doesn't know much about factory farms, if they knew more, maybe they would react, we are losing too many small family farms. And they were the original backbone of our food supply.
As an European, whenever I read rural, I have to make an effort to remind myself that the US is a continental country. The distance between someone's home and a SSA office may be farther than a whole European country 🤯 It only takes 2.5 hours to cross the NL into GE.
Well the rural communities voted for this crap. Dems should absolutely go help but unfortunately it more than likely won’t make a difference at the ballot box. Those farmers are stubborn SOBs that listen to nothing
They are "getting a taste" of it now - not what they were expecting.
That sounds about right
Exactly!!!!
That’s the idea. They want to choke us so everyone is too poor to protest.
Google Network states and Curtis Yarvin . Admirers are JD Vance
And to kill the poor.
This would be beyond devastating!! I'm not a rural senior, but as a sole source of income, it's life or death. Hint: You can't save $ on SS.
VP Vance is a big investor in a company that buys farmland from bankrupt farmers for pennies an acre, then develops and flips it.
They're probably looking at those areas for "start-up cities". Cities on US soil, where tech billionaires own everything & everyone & the only rights anyone has are at the whim of the king techbro. No rights + mandatory human trials inside the cities are scary as hell.
Then the government needs to send people to them, if THIS is how it's going to be. The system was working just fine, but since Trump and Musk told LIES about the system, the MOST VULNERABLE are being FORCED to pay the price. Disgusting.
I always think of “the cruelty is the point” as their North Star. Cruelty, and obsequious devotion to Russia.
and relentless racism. Jim Crow / Confederate style
yeah 100%. That seems to be part of cruelty though, don’t you think?
Pollute and use child labor
They don’t care y’all. Remember C19? They were ok letting people die. We are not like them. We cannot comprehend such treatment. WE ARE NOT THE SAME. I’d stop trying to make it make sense.
The farmers…I do not care. They FAFO’d. They wanted to tear it down. They got just that. And Vance has a company to pluck distressed farmlands. We tried to tell all of them.
And who did the majority of rural voters vote for? ...
I would love to hold a town hall for Ann Wagner, @piperformissouri.bsky.social , but I'm not a candidate for anything, just a fed up constituent of a rep who has no fucks to give about anything other than her own undeserved re-election. I need some help getting it going.
I wondering what the rural communities are thinking about regarding Donold Messiah “telling it like it is”….
Greed and selfishness rule the GOP. Humanity--meh.
And to kill as many seniors as they can because the GOP doesn't care about America they only care about their self and Trump and Putin the rest of us mean nothing to them and seniors mean even less
They want us to die so they don’t have to pay us our money. Just like they want vets to die so they don’t have to take care of them. Death is the point.
Ask anyone living in rural areas—corporate farms have been destroying them for years now and medical care is increasingly sparse.
This is purely to deny people their benefits.
That is where most MAGA live.
They're doing it so they can take the money to pay for the riches tax cut. All so the rich don't have to pitch in.
It will also hurt people with disabilities who get SSI and SSDI who don’t have the means to easily leave their homes.
I believe this but what a ridiculously stupid long term plan as rural communities are most likely to vote red.
They don't plan on allowing anyone to vote anymore. Or if we have just-for-show elections like Russia, Elon's code monkeys will ensure that Rs win every time.
time to wake up gramps...we've got some voting to do
