-w-... I received a second Social Security Department email (Which I cannot opt out of) that was congratulating their new head, who called Social Security a Ponzy Scheme... "See?! You should feel safe, we put someone in charge of your money that thinks you don't deserve it!" *screams* ;A;...

By the way... SSA has not emailed me EVER with this kind of shit until Trump and DOGE gutted it and turned it into a propaganda machine, since so many red fuckers are on social security...

Drumpf has put a special fox in charge of every henhouse.

Their plan is to privatize Social Security.

If that’s bad enough, look at the reform party in the U.K.

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/08.....l-the-streets/

Yeah, I've been following what they do.

It's always in the name of "The women and children" or some such nonsense.

It also happens to be the 90th anniversary of social security.

The song you linked first reminded me of this Adam Freeland song,
although it's more about consumerism and the dissipation of life's meaning rather than an authoritarian takeover.

Much obliged for bringing all those stories together!
Brandon Johnson and Barbara Lee are amazing for standing up to the corrupt federal threat.
Trump calling anyone incompetent is a sad joke and blatant insecure projection,
especially when flanked by Pete "Oops, I just DM'd the launch codes to my GF" Hegseth.

Johnson spoke very substantively on the problem with the unhoused and the only viable solutions,
while Trump's plan is just an old cruel, cannibalistic stunt of removing some people
so that the conservative NIMBYs would enjoy nicer neighborhoods.

There are definitely similarities. And I remember that Coke ad from when it was current.

I fucking dare Drumpf to try to bring that shit to Oakland...

I'll break out my sandwich cannon.

Those ads do bring back memories, not specific ones, but those of the whole MTV era
that arrived to the local television ten years late, but it still colored
the post-Soviet transitory generation's perception of the world.

I'm sure Trump's goons won't stand a chance!

That ad long predates MTV.

My fault, then – apologies! MTV is the farthest my memory can go into the recent past,
it all turns into Fallout/BioShock retrofuturist medley in my mind past that point.

Heh.

And no apologies necessary.