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What Is That Suffocating Stench?

March 30, 2025

Full disclosure: I’m not some kind of genius. I’m not any kind of genius. I’m just a regular guy who might wear tennis shoes or an occasional python boot. But this seems so painfully simple. So painfully dishonest. So painfully full of shit.

All kinds of people are running around with their hair on fire about Social Security being unable to fund full benefits by the year 2035. They come up with all manner of workarounds – cutting the staff to a skeleton crew, closing offices (while simultaneously demanding people show up in person rather than phoning to resolve issues), raising the eligibility age, reducing benefit amounts – and then offer pathetic, bullshit (at best) excuses as to why Social Security is simply not sustainable in its current form. fElon Muskkk calls it a Ponzi scheme.

Thankfully, surprisingly and likely just-not-yet, team Trump has not recommended (at least not publicly) simply “eliminating” some number of those collecting the money they have long been promised for all their years of work and paying into the system. Of course, if these ghouls – led by the world’s richest asshole fElon Muskkk – succeed in gutting the Social Security Administration, which they are very close to doing, there will be plenty of death to go around.

 

It Doesn’t Fucking Have To Be This Way – This Is Fucking Bullshit

Two easy fixes jump right out. The option that hews less to the letter of the law would be to cut or eliminate benefits to those clearly not in need – the toxically rich.

The fix that I have been caterwauling about for decades is much more simple, much more fair and much less painful to 99% of Americans. And it has to do with this:

In 2025, the Social Security tax limit, or the maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security taxes, is $176,100.*

There is only one way to respond to this bullshit: are you fucking actually fucking with me? Ironically (to put it politely), anyone making this kind of annual money should not only be paying the Social Security tax on every fucking penny they earn like everyone else, INCLUDING MIGRANT WORKERS WHO WILL NEVER COLLECT A PENNY, but these are the same people who should be recused from collecting Social Security (and Medicare for that matter) when they reach the appropriate age.

Talk about a fucking Ponzi scheme.

And just think about those making ten times that $176,100/year. Someone once said of these leeches, “You didn’t build that.” They did not get that rich without taking advantage – quite literally – of the largess of the American taxpayer. They are happy to step over us, or stomp on us, using our infrastructure, on their way to the top. Their custom-made imported leather shoe prints are constantly messing up our hair and flattening our heads.

This thievery must stop. This is total, unmitigated, runny, fuming BULLSHIT.

I have not heard anyone discuss this.

Did I mention this is BULLSHIT?

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*Democrats should be shouting this little-known fact from every fucking rooftop, microphone and social media platform every fucking day and night.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Secret Word.