George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Republicans were indignant after President Biden called them out for wanting to phase out Social Security and Medicare. But the fact is, that's exactly what many of them want to do.

And now The White House is bringing the video receipts. Watch it here: Https://secondnexus.com/fox-lies-johnson-social-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

White House Uses GOP Senator's Own Words To Brutally Fact-Check Fox News Over Social Security 'False Claim'

That is how you do it.

Second Nexus
Feb 10, 2023 at 10:43pmWeb
Show threadHomerHarlequinFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei Love it!
Show threadMelissamc1Feb 10, 2023
@georgetakei This is a brilliant strategy. Call out #gop on their lies and hypocrisy.
Show threadStegosaurusFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei *sigh* Knowing that the crybabies are also liers doesn't bode well for the future. I do wish our "leaders" would look to underlying root causes for all this hate, instead of jockeying for power. 🤟
Show threadGrandpa DonFeb 11, 2023
@Stegasaurus
the underlying root cause is they are greedy, self-centered, power-hungry megalomaniacs who smell an opportunity to kill "government by the people" once and for all.
Show threadJesseFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei More like Ron Johnson (Q-Kremlin).
Show threadsxpertFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei @47of74 i prefer Don Johnson for some reason 🤣
Show threadNormal GuyFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei Why in the hell old Wisconsinites voted to reelect Ron Johnson? Incomprehensible!
Show threadnotchristFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei White House when they're prepared to release another video receipt:
Show threadSammyGalenFeb 10, 2023
@georgetakei #JoeBiden is not a hero! He is one of the idiot Senators who did NOTHING to preserve Social Security! What we need to do is to raise taxes on Corporations to pay down all the debt incurred by 90% #Rethuglicans and 10% #Dumbocrats !
https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/
Ronald Reagan And The Great Social Security Heist | FedSmith.com

The author says that the Social Security amendments passed under Reagan's presidency laid the foundation for 30 years of embezzlement of the trust funds.

FedSmith.com
Show threadBlaise PascalFeb 11, 2023

@SammyGalen @georgetakei

You will be happy to know, then, that the money in the SSA trust fund that Allen Smith says was stolen if it's never spent on Social Security is, in fact, now being spent on Social Security. Just like it was planned, in 1983.

Which Allen Smith should have known, if he looked into it. The plan was to build up surpluses to be able to cover the expected deficits when the Boomers started to retire. That happened in the last decade, after he wrote that article.

Show threadSammyGalenFeb 11, 2023
@blaisepascal @georgetakei Did you even read that article? There is no surplus. Reagan, and all other presidents, used it as a slush fund. Our national debt doesn't cover what the government owes to the social security funds.
Show threadBlaise PascalFeb 13, 2023

@SammyGalen @georgetakei

Not only did I read the article, I followed the links to the data it was supposedly based on. The data doesn't say what he says it does.

The law has required -- since 1937 -- that all Social Security surpluses be lent to the Treasury. the Trust Fund has never had cash, it has always had special-purpose Treasury securities. The Trust Fund has $2T+ in Treasury securities.

Take a look at https://www.gao.gov/assets/720/717470.pdf, which a report on the GAO's financial audit of the debt.

Show threadBlaise PascalFeb 13, 2023

@SammyGalen @georgetakei

It covers 2020 and 2021. It lists 6T in intragovernmental debt, 48% of which is OASI trust fund. It is absolutely incorrect to say that the national debt doesn't cover what the government owes it. The government lists it in its details about the debt.

Show thread⁰FisherTX14Feb 10, 2023

@georgetakei

Now GOP can never be trusted on that issue no matter what they say. They lied about it once. They will lie again. Checkmate.

Show threadMorganaFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei It’s hard to hide sn agenda ehen it’s on video!!!! Easily accessible…..
Show threadSpacecoast WaltFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei I can't seem to open the link, George
Show threadQuanah SchlesselmanFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei Go Joe, Go!
Show threadSane ThinkerFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei Amazing how Republicans can explicitly state how they're going to hurt people and get approval for it. Hate and ignorance are impenetrable.
Show threadGinalolajupiterFeb 11, 2023

@gdeihl @georgetakei

It’s the Grand Oligarchy Party. They work for THEM.

Show threadSane ThinkerFeb 11, 2023
@Krystyna @georgetakei I've been an unhappy voter all my life. Never voted GOP. Government has become corporate run. The real elephant in the room is #ClimateChange. California and the basin states are in serious trouble from drought. CA is the 5th biggest economy in the world. The world's grain supply is thin. The climate refugee crisis is just beginning. It will be, already is, Americans, too. Leadership seems to have no idea or care of the perils.
Show threadGinalolajupiterFeb 12, 2023

@gdeihl

You have a great Governor there in newson in CA. Take heart in knowing CA leads the country in solving problems however painful they be. I did live in CA for about 15 yrs so I know—they had the best PSA’s tackling road rage, consumer conservation of electricity. Get yourself aligned with your local Dems and KEEP WORKING AT IT. Get corporate oligarchy out. Etc etc etc.

Show threadDanaBlankenhornFeb 11, 2023

@georgetakei Republicans ran the same play on abortion. Denying they had intent to do it until they had the power, then did it.

Don't get fooled again

Show threadMegaCassie83Feb 11, 2023
@georgetakei he isn't going to do anything he's rich his donors are rich and he needs be removed he has done nothing to stop oil companies from stealing lands that belong to Indigenous people.
Show threadSandyclausFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei I just don’t understand what their game is. Because this is the way you become an outcast, the violence, the fascism, the constant lying. They should be shunned.
Show threadLonewolfFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei so wierd having a president that backs up his statements with fact
Show threadNeilFeb 11, 2023
@georgetakei and it’s the unadulterated bad manners that underscore how they continue to denigrate the honor of the United States. Muzzle them. Then vote them into oblivion.
Show threadRyan RichardsonFeb 12, 2023
@georgetakei
Show thread§ Jason 🥄Feb 12, 2023

@georgetakei

Really all of them, but most know to keep their big yaps shut about it.

Show threadJulianeFeb 14, 2023
@georgetakei I really like how Joe Biden came to my home state of Wisconsin. Then called out Ron Jonson. Loving how he’s all Dark Brandon. Calling out the Republicans. During the STOU. Then the next day call out RoJo. Yes! Awesome job POTUS!