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Julie Caudill's avatar

The fact that they sent out an email from SSA that was so clearly partisan actually bothered me more than the fact that it was full of lies

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Melody's avatar

I agree with you, Julie. I was appalled when I read the email.

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ITSNOTSAFE's avatar

As of July 4th, 2025, trust nothing you read and nothing you see. Do one thing and one thing only, which is to immediately call it out and push back with the resignation we are no longer fighting to save our nation but to win it back for we have lost.

Why have we lost? What happened? The silent majority not MAGA has chosen this for us. We are not imitating the courage and united front that provided us with 80+ years of freedom. We are imitating the cowardice and division and submission and hatefulness that replaced democracy with Hitler's rule.

Chapter 2 of Trump's reign is a chapter of living under an autocracy. None of us has a playbook for that reality. And Trump much like Hitler is only a charismatic but weak figure chosen by those who want to enrich themselves and champion their plan for the God given rights of humanity, which is to remove those rights and rule over the masses versus nurture and restore those rights and allow people to rule themselves.

Germany was before WWII was a vibrant and democratic nation expunged and replaced by a dogma of cruelty and hate and then let loose upon the globe. America today is seeding the same exact threat to the world and Americans in the majority much like the Germans at that time are silent no matter what their beliefs, silent!

With the USA off the stage Ukraine will fall and democracies across the globe will follow and WWIII a nuclear war is firmly in our future, but the threat will also be the stage upon which many democracies will capitulate.

There will be mass migration due to climate change and political upheaval. And there will be nowhere to go for those of us the descendants and heirs of what long ago was strategically and surgically removed -- the agency and power of the middle class. A full surrender to a blatant threat lost to in the majority the silenced voice of America.

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Randy S. Eisenberg's avatar

Thanks, that’s what I was failing to put across. ❤️

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Karen Ward's avatar

Just as when Trump sent out a letter giving himself credit for providing a stimulus from the Treasury Department. His name was not supposed to be on that letter.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Trump's name is going to be on a lot of things that his lieutenants wish fervently hadn't happened when the you-know-what hits the fan.

The Trump brand sucks . . . always has, always will.

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alesia's avatar

HE DEMANDED IT.

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Stephanie Myers's avatar

Same

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Tom Graves's avatar

I had the same reaction.

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Stacey's avatar

Exactly!

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Danielle P.'s avatar

I feel the same.

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Adam Stoler's avatar

the trouble isn't that he's lying Aaron. That's his default mode. It's the kool aid drinking members of his cult, the lying Fox News and others, and of course the Congressmen like David Valdaro, Young Kim and Mike Lawler, all in swing districts, all who told their constituents back home that they would never vote to cut Medicaid, and voila, lie through their teeth and vote for it in Washington.

do they think no one notices? or are that contemptuous of their constituents?

Him- he just lies like a rug. Default. He ain't changing Time to take the cannons out and fire them at the Republican Party. The whole damn party. They cannot be trusted. Never

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Whats Going On Brandi Dawn's avatar

They do not care if anyone notices at this point. Did you notice that Trump is now talking about “election reform”? That means his next project is changing election laws, in order to stop Democrats or Democrat leaning people from voting, and screwing with ID laws, voting machines God knows what… if he doesn’t manage to get to declare martial law, when California and other Democrat run states do not capitulate to his Marines sent to “free them” from their elected state and local governments… this is an authoritarian state. There’s no pretending any more. He is building concentration camps- like project 2025 said he would. He is going through everything in there. If you want to know the plan, read the same thing. Read the chapter summaries at least, the introduction.

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David Maceira's avatar

That's assuming that t doesn't declare an emergency and halts elections completely.

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Lastima's avatar

There’s no way he’s leaving office at the end of his term: he wants to be Putin: dictator for life with Absolute Control.

Who’s gonna stop him?

His Gestapo is just itching to be unleashed on protesters.

Tianamen Square, USA, here we come.

Help!

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David Maceira's avatar

They are hawking t-Rump 2028 hats right now.

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Harobed's avatar

All we need to do is believe what he said before the election. He told us... (not verbatim) just vote for me and you'll never have to vote again. That's what his next goal is. I can't un-hear that warning.

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David Maceira's avatar

If there's one thing t is known for is telegraphing his next move.

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Barbara Dillard's avatar

I read something the other day from the election board it said he’s not in charge of voting.

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David Maceira's avatar

That may be the case but he's certainly setting the stage to control them. How? He's still pushing the election fraud lie. It's an attempt to undermine the validity of elections. In addition, he's been pushing states to do away with vote by mail, electronic voting and has weakened protections against foreign interference in our elections.

Remember that t is also ignoring judges and SCOTUS decisions. And gotten away with it.

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deadmanwalkingwmd's avatar

Remember, the only good Republican is a dead Republican.

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James Murphy's avatar

Not good

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S. A. Linden's avatar

They'll carry themselves out soon enough. We should not help.

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David Maceira's avatar

They have no choice. If they stopped lying their coup would be over immediately.

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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

I got the email and I don’t collect SS! I knew it was BS when I saw it!

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Heather R.'s avatar

I don't get SS yet, but have an account to see my status. I received that email. It was overall weird that an agency would send an email like that at all. Jeesh!

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Bayley R.'s avatar

SSA is supposed to be non-partisan….. anyone else afraid they sent this out

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bee morrow fuller's avatar

Yes. I was so pissed off that the SSA sent out a blatant fcking propaganda LIE on behalf of the administration to mislead people, particularly seniors, that I replied with an "FU"

I've lost my entire family to MAGA because of BS lies and propaganda. I'm way past over it.

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Ronna Smith's avatar

You’ve got us & we’ve got you…ugh! It’s a mind fk!

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bee morrow fuller's avatar

Thank you ❤️ It's a mindfck that is so hard to comprehend. At this point, I wish we could ship the admin & cult to their own island to live miserably together with their insanity, so that the rest of us can restore democracy and normalcy in America. 💔

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Stacey's avatar

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Barbara Dillard's avatar

I never received anything from SS

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S. A. Linden's avatar

I haven't either thus far. Maybe it's because I'm so low income. His SS lies were there to fool the wealthier suburbanites.

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bee morrow fuller's avatar

I believe it may have been sent to people who already had an online SSA account set up, with their preferences set for email communication.

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Joseph Felser's avatar

Gave me the chills when I saw it in my inbox.

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Diane Lee's avatar

Me too. I immediately thought wtf ?? It reeked of partisan bs

It was upsetting to get that.

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JillDiane's avatar

Same.

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Margaret's avatar

Same

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MB Matthews, she/her's avatar

They are not longer non-partisan. Big Balls is also working for them now. The tax cuts end in 2028, have strict applications, AND move up Social Security's solvency date.

I wrote about the propaganda email and the lies yesterday.

https://mbmatthews.substack.com/p/maga-newspeak-social-security-tax

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S. A. Linden's avatar

That's well written, MB. Thank you!

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Robot Bender's avatar

Big Balls is working there now.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Yeah. Wait until Big has to get SS himself or finds his pension gone to hell.

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David Maceira's avatar

Hasn't landed in my inbox yet. But I'm not going to be happy if it does. 🤬

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Me neither. It's an absolute outrage. But MAGAs will never know the difference and what it took to keep the SSA non-partisan all those years. Right wing media has taught them that everything must be partisan. They will see nothing wrong in this travesty.

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David Maceira's avatar

Unfortunately, true. The real awakening for MAGAt's will be when they come for Social Security. Because you know the rich are dying to get their hands on that pile of money. And all this time I thought conservatives hated socialism. Evidently, billionaire socialism is fine.

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SLMontgo's avatar

We folk on SS know that claim is BS. I thought at first it was spam. And it is. The SSA is no longer run by honest people, so I am going to scrutinize carefully all future emails purported to be from MY SSA.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

yeah me too, I deleted it. Then I started seeing it on other posts and went to the official site and there it is. Pure propaganda. The government is totally infiltrated by fascist propaganda and tyrants.

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PinkyLee80569's avatar

If I heard right, you can only access SS thru their platform on X? Can't verify that horrid thought! But yep, Palantir has got our info across all agencies now.

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SLMontgo's avatar

I tested your theory because I do not have or want an X account. It would be illegal for it to be on a private platform anyway. ... as if that matters to them. However, I have been using Login.gov with the passcode generator as soon as they offered it. It worked just like always when I tried it a few minutes ago. It was genuine in appearance and correct in posted information.

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BethS's avatar

Thus far, they have made no changes to the site used for SSA or the communication methods, but that doesn't mean they won't in the future. The changes they HAVE made is to close some of the SSA offices (which affects those who do not have access to internet or are not signed up with the SSA site), fire many employees and install MAGA administrators.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

what the young li'l doggies were doing there obviously!

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MB Matthews, she/her's avatar

Get used to what I call MAGA Newspeak. Future emails will be full of it. I break it down in my post yesterday. https://mbmatthews.substack.com/p/maga-newspeak-social-security-tax

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AVee. (Alexia)'s avatar

Bravo! Thank you Aaron for exposing this!

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Marlo's avatar

So I guess we can refuse to pay taxes on our social security and just produce DJT’s written statement if it is called into question.

Actually, as Olga Lautman said in her Substack podcast, maybe we should all refuse to pay our federal taxes. We could say it’s against our religion to send people to concentration camps and to imprison people without due process.

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Eileen's avatar

At this point federal taxes in my eyes are a no go! Why? So they can pay for alligators, ice and deportations? NFW

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Marlo's avatar

He gutted the IRS. The department that goes after people is impotent if non existent.

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Eileen's avatar

The IRS and all other agencies are a hot mess. I contract with one of them and because we are not funded by congress we have been very fortunate. However, SSA, Medicare and the rest are destroyed as we knew them. You can't get a person on the phone to save your life. I have tried to appeal an issue with SSA now for 14 months, 4x, and just said fuck it, I want a hearing in front of an admin. Law judge and to date I have heard nothing! They stated I have an overpayment however I wasn't receiving ssa at the time. Such morons!

I am dead serious about fed taxes too. Fuck them!

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Marlo's avatar

The only problem, they could withhold our Social Security. So we would be “biting off our nose to spite our face.”

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Debra Slater's avatar

That will also add to the federal deficit, which is why Biden wanted to hire more IRS agents to audit tax returns to bring in more revenue that was already owed.

When the projections about the big obscene bill give an estimate of how many trillions it will add to the federal debt, it doesn't include all the other ways a Trump (any Republican) administration will explode the debt like they always do.

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Marlo's avatar

Good point! The “Big Obscene Bill” doesn’t include the outstanding taxes that are owed the federal government.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Only the part that goes after the 1%.

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Marlo's avatar

He LIED to get elected. He is withholding services. He is THREATENING members of Congress. Senator Murkowski said they were all afraid.

He is withholding FEMA funds from blue states. He wants the states to take care of their own reparations.

He has turned our democracy basically into a dictatorship telling his party in Congress how to vote, threatening them if they vote their conscience or bribing them with “carveouts.”He has fired anyone who might arrest his corrupt actions (inspector generals, JAG).

He is giving our enemy (Russia) the green light to illegally take Ukraine by halting weapons to Ukraine and lessoning sanctions on Russia. Russia winning the war threatens US and our democracy.

The list of reasons is endless. We have to figure out some way to stop him.

He has lost his mind. Did you see the reporter asking him (and repeating the question for him) how long he intends to hold the prisoners in “Alligator Alcatraz?” He responded he didn’t know how long he would be staying in Mar a lago!

Here it is. You can fast forward to the end which shows the clip:

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-what-you-re-feeling-is-the-banality-of-cruelty-from-trump-and-the-republican-party-242567237977

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Marlo I SO wanted to not pay any taxes! I'm in California and we'll see if we actually as a state withhold our taxes since the tyrant is hell bent on destroying us and all democrats and blue states. But ya can't throw the baby out with the bathwater, we do not live in isolation.

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Marlo's avatar

He LIED to get elected. He is withholding services. He is THREATENING members of Congress. Senator Murkowski said they were all afraid.

He is withholding FEMA funds from blue states. He wants the states to take care of their own reparations.

He has turned our democracy basically into a dictatorship telling his party in Congress how to vote, threatening them if they vote their conscience or bribing them with “carveouts.”He has fired anyone who might arrest his corrupt actions (inspector generals, JAG).

He is giving our enemy (Russia) the green light to illegally take Ukraine by halting weapons to Ukraine and lessoning sanctions on Russia. Russia winning the war threatens US and our democracy.

The list of reasons is endless. We have to figure out some way to stop him.

He has lost his mind. Did you see the reporter asking him (and repeating the question for him) how long he intends to hold the prisoners in “Alligator Alcatraz?” He responded he didn’t know how long he would be staying in Mar a lago!

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-what-you-re-feeling-is-the-banality-of-cruelty-from-trump-and-the-republican-party-242567237977

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Agree completely. Yes I saw a clip of that and just ... well what can you say, the dementia is escalating and the lies are off the charts. He never was fit, and now even less so, and his minions do NOTHING about it while he golfs and preens and eviscerates the country.

This IS a dictatorship, the one thing he didn't lie about. And I do fear for the next elections, as voter suppression is a huge part of Project 2025.

We know the election was rigged, and the next ones will be unless we can somehow stop this train wreck.

People have to stop being afraid and intimidated, mostly in Congress. GOP (Genocide Of the People) values are still self-interest above public service.

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Marlo's avatar

I used to think Senator Murkowski possibly had a backbone but I now realize it was a facade. I am beyond disgusted with her to borderline hate. These people don’t seem to realize the implications. And we all heard MTG say she didn’t even read the bill before voting. That should be grounds for ejection if not censure.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Agree 👍 she had a moment and mandate that could have changed the course of this country but she capitulated. She threw us all under the bus.

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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

That’s totally legal isn’t it? Maybe we should try it! We would need a lot of people to sign on and people are so scared of IRS and SS.

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Marlo's avatar

He has also ruined our credit with his idiotic tariffs and by doing so we are now having to pay a huge amount more in interest. So he lied about waste, fraud and making our economy better.

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Sal Teodoro's avatar

Lies, lies , and more lies.

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Lulu's avatar

On Thursday. They are gaslighting recipients

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Diane Schuler's avatar

I received that email - who the hell does he think he is!?

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

Hell is right; He thinks he's God. But he's really the antichrist.

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SLMontgo's avatar

Not only do we rely on it, it is OUR MONEY ALREADY. Trump is stealing it from us and trying to blow sunshine up our skirts.

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Stacey's avatar

Thanks so much for pointing this out! We have all been paying into Social Security and Medicare since our first job. It is our money!

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Murray Smart's avatar

NO ONE in America should buy this LIE!!! This regime and PROJECT 2025 has a goal to ELIMINATE Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. They are just setting the table to move the Overton Window as they SCHEME to OVERWHELM the system FINANCIALLY and drive it to collapse. Dictator Donnie, Russell Vought, Project 2025, and the Republicans are NOT FRIENDS of Americans - they are out to SCAM and CON Americans and crush the systems of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid out of existence! Do NOT trust them EVER!!!! Do NOT buy the LIES!!! They are NOT telling you the truth!!! The things they say a meant to sound good, while behind your back they are scheming to take everything from you!! They are NOT your friend!!!! They are just sharpening their knives to drive them into your back - over and over and over and over.......... DO NOT TRUST THEM!! They MUST to removed from any ability to handle they system they are working to destroy!!!!

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deadmanwalkingwmd's avatar

Remember the new suffix for Republicans is LPOS, also know as lying piece of shit. It's now an ongoing Republican strategy.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

I call the GOP Genocide of the People.

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OLSH Survivor's avatar

I got the email. I was disgusted. It's very misleading to seniors who will not understand that it's not true. I'm not retirement age yet, not close. I figured there'd be more people talking about it.

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Barbara J Adamcek's avatar

Thanks for all you do Aaron!

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Patricia D's avatar

I received the email. And since it’s a big fat lie, wouldn’t this be considered some sort of mail fraud? I may be way off base here because quite frankly, this is also tiring and scary but aren’t emails the same as hardcopies in the mail are still considered mail?

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Eileen's avatar

It is mail fraud, full of lies

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MB Matthews, she/her's avatar

It's not a lie to those who use MAGA Newspeak. I break it down in my post from yesterday. https://mbmatthews.substack.com/p/maga-newspeak-social-security-tax

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Michelle Lazar's avatar

I sent a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel about this email. Not only is it misleading, it is a violation of the Hatch Act because the SSA is an independent agency but this email is highly politicized. It was kind of a pain in the ass to file the complaint, but I think it's an important thing to do. Emails like this are how they are trying to convince the public that this legislation is good for the citizenry. It is not and we need to call them on it. I used Chat GPT to walk me through the process of filing the complaint.

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Karen  O’Quinn's avatar

Kudos to you for filing a complaint! Our elected officials should be doing the same and then some. Every lie needs to be exposed immediately! We the people need to consistently and loudly protest this authoritarian a**hole before it gets too late to turn it around.

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