Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
They have called Social Security “the third rail” of American politics for years.
Old people vote, and they vote in every election without fail.
but will there be another election for them to vote in?
Earlier: this
Later:
In a shocking development, Trump cancels American federal elections going forward
- NYT headline, 2026-10-19, probably
Exactly. They are broadcasting their plan to all who are willing to listen, and shockingly few are willing to take them seriously, even as they do all the things they say they’re doing
It’s genuinely one of the most frustrating and stressful and appalling aspects of this for me: it’s like there’s fucking nobody anywhere, at any level of government, who has any balls whatsoever unless they’re a fascist. And that’s a harrowing fucking thing to realize in our current context. I just didn’t expect literally everyone who has power to resist anything fascistic to be such a fucking pushover.
This is the banality of evil. It’s what let the Nazis come to power in the 1930s and what allowed the Confederated States of America to coalesce into a feudal terror state. The majority of political movements are in some way horrible. Your best bet is to seek out marginalized people and find out what they’ve been doing to survive under the fascism they’ve had to exist under this entire time. They are experienced, they are prepared, and they need your help to expand their coalitions.
But if they die before the next election what do they matter?
That might have been true pre Trump. But racism knows no age.
