Paying Attention™ Secret Rerun (With Update)

The Grift That Keeps On Grifting

April 9, 2025

We felt the need to repost this piece. Not only is this issue critical – yes, we know critical issues are like raindrops in a hurricane at this point – but, the well-being of so many is at immediate risk. And yes, we know that also applies to innumerable issues right now. I would list them all, but I only have so much time left on this Earth.

The gist was MusKKK’s attack on Social Security, calling it a Ponzi scheme, but leaving out the fact that once you – well, not you, but others who shall remain shameless – earn over $176,000/yr, anything over that amount is exempt from paying into the Social Security fund, which the toxically rich claim is going bankrupt. You’d go bankrupt too if people who you rely on to pay you for your work only pay you what they feel like, and it’s never the agreed upon amount…like certain half-presidents we know who have spent a lifetime cheating people out of money he promised them. They really should, pardon the expression (or not), go forth and fuck themselves. If they have trouble performing that act, surely someone will help them out…for a fee.

This should be a daily talking point, perhaps a yelling point, which surely would resonate with most Americans:

There is an insane cut-off for paying into the Social Security Trust Fund after yearly income of $176,000. There is no good reason for this other than to fuck up the system.

UPDATE:

We also wanted to repost this because new information has come to light.

In the article below, we discussed the real goal of what appears to be (because it is) the sabotage of the Social Security Administration (and every other fucking thing in our lives). The endgame is to make Social Security a lame duck so they can then say “Oh my, what a mess Social Security is. Don’t you just hate the level of inefficiency? We told you it was bad, but who knew it was this bad?”

Well, we thought that was the endgame, but then we realized there was very likely one more piece to the puzzle; actually, not so much puzzle as Russian Roulette:

Not only do these greedy pigs want to privatize Social Security, but they will then tie the entire fund – and by extension the retirement income of everyone over 65 (or perhaps 85, once they finish fucking it all up before privatization kicks in) to DOGECOIN or Trump’s cryptocurrency grift. Bet on it. But not on cryptocurrency.

Talk about a Ponzi scheme.

Here’s the original post ICYMI:

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.

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