Ponzi schemes, real and imagined
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The acting president went on the podcast most beloved by Moron-Americans to mumble his way through a nonsensical declaration that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme:
Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme it’s a promise that every American pays into so they can retire with dignity. Get loud and tell Elon Musk to keep his hands OFF social security.
[image or embed]— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) March 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
While they don’t believe in funding legitimate pensions, though, they do believe in taxpayer bailouts for actual Ponzi schemes:
A brave man finally dares to ask the question: what if the Hawk Tuah Pump And Dump had all 350 million US taxpayers as its marks?
[image or embed]— Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
And since we’re dealing with Trump, it has to be nakedly corrupt as well as evil:
Trump announces the United States will hold the exact same cryptocurrencies that his crypto tsar David Sacks holds
What a lucky coincidence @DavidSacks – how much do you financially gain? pic.twitter.com/fxuxzS2rZT— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) March 2, 2025
It’s a party of the working class now, if we define “working class” as “rich libertarian tech bros, preferably from South Africa.”