You’ve voted for it, assholes. Eat it up!
I wouldn't gloat over this one, because a huge number of people who didn't vote for it will also face the same consequences and many of them will suffer and/or die because they depend on social security for their main or sole income.
Oklahoma is already a failed state - look into child welfare and DHS. There are parts of OKC and Tulsa that look like a third world country - while the rural regions are mostly micro cults.
The US conservative movement is a cancer that has eaten this country from the inside out.
Edit: https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
this doesn't really strike me as a 'leopards ate my face' moment, unless we're just meant to assume everyone living off of social security voted for cheeto hitler. or is this community just becoming a place for laughing at the misfortunes of united statesians in general?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Oklahoma
66% of Oklahomans voted for their own misery and for that of the others.
And ... ? This affects the whole country.
I don’t think this is the place for you
It might be, if you weren't here.
closer to 25%, actually. about a million voted for trump, out of about 4 million total oklahomans. regardless, this article isn't about trump voters specifically getting fucked over, and rueing their own stupid actions and choices, this is about elderly and disabled people throughout the country, regardless of their voting history, getting fucked over. seems off topic for the sub.
Yep, I'm seeing more and more blaming all Americans no matter that almost as many voted for Harris as for trump and no matter how hard so many worked to defeat him. So no surprise they're fine with innocent people losing their social security.
This article is taking about boomers in Oklahoma. I guarantee 90+% of them voted for Trump.
OK boomer
edit: I'm actually glad to see the downvotes on this comment because I'm sick of people using "boomer" as an insult (which is why I replied with this as a retort to the poster who did that). Thanks for those recognizing we're in a class war, not a culture war and downvoting it!
I wasn’t using boomer as an insult, I was specifically referring to the generation that is currently either retired or in the process of retiring and is most affected by SS cuts. Like it or not, that generation voted overwhelmingly for Trump, especially in Oklahoma.
Glad my parents and grandparents are all dead already. Real normal thoughts to be having.
Sounds like they got theirs
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