Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Republicans Hate America 25: Ben S. Shaprio says 'Work will set you Free'

 I can not stress enough how much Republicans HATE You.  Republicans hate Americans with a visceral passion.  And they get perverse pleasure at getting the people they hate to vote for them.

And no this isn't another leftist screed about how white people vote against their interests.  White people, especially poor and working class (the only workers the Corporate Media acknowledges) get exactly what they want from Republicans in office;  bad faith morality, racism, religious hypocrisy, and non-stop attacks on oppressed and powerless people.

If you think this post title is in bad taste Shapiro
defends rabid racist Jew-hater Elon Musk and 
argues for the extermination of the Palestinian people
However, every so often, a Republican will make it clear they intend to fuck over the working class by stealing social security and white people get indignant and upset... not at the Republicans mind you but, at Democrats, for instance when President Biden points out the Republicans absolutely intend to cut and swindle people out of the Social Security.

Back in 2010, Republican John Boehner, the soon to be Speaker of the House after leftists got mad Barack Obama didn't turn the United States into Plato's Utopian Republic, proposed eliminating Obamacare, raising the Retirement Age to 70 and making drastic cuts to the slender America social safety net.  Americans still voted in the Tea Party Extremists.

So, it's little surprise that Republicans continue their quest to impoverish Americans and ensure no one can every retire.  Here's Harvard educated elitist Ben SShapiro plainly stating American workers should not get to retire EVER but should work up until the day they die.

No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.  And let's be real about this - it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States. It's totally crazy. Everybody that I know who is -- who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.  It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65 -- which is a 45 year period -- pay in, and then you'll receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for, like, another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not fiscally sustainable.

Ben posits that workers should consider they must work from 20-85.  Life Expectancy for men in America is 73, for women is 79...  the reason Americans die within 5 years of retirement is because they’ve worked themselves into the grave.

 Perhaps Ben is considering how his leisurely life will play out and expects to make it to 85.  Must be because he's not doing anything anyone in the world would consider "work".  Remember Ben counts sitting on his ass talking about Barbie for 2 hours, or complaining about rap music, or demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) send him pictures of her feet as "work".  This pampered dilettante has never done a day's labor in his life, has never had a real job, never served in the military, never helped his community, never put a shovel in the dirt, or hammered a nail into a board.  But, like all rightwingers he feels absolutely qualified to lecture others about things he has no experience and no knowledge about and he always has.

Ben Shapiro is a man of leisure who has taken his Elite Education and coddled upbringing and used it to advance murderous illiberal and authoritarian Republican governments for 20 years.  He argued anyone protesting the Iraq War should be tried for sedition and treason under the Espionage Act.

If you protest this War I have no intention of fighting you should be arrested! 

I'm certain my Reactionary police officer co-workers believe people shouldn't retire at 65 even though some can retire at 50 and even the Tier 2 pensioners can retire at 55.  I Got Mine, Fuck You remains an animating principle of rightwing politics. 

But, Shapiro is far from the first rightwing influencer to argue you don't get to retire peasant, you work until you drop.  Racist Rush Limpballs made this argument years ago,

No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left... ~ Racist Limbaugh, [Crooks and Liars]

Infamous Twitter Troll Catturd2, claims he came to his conservatism by listening to Limbaugh daily while working.  Catturd2 has turned in his work pants for rightwing trolling finding it much more lucrative to tweet and be paid by Elon Musk.

Republicans hate You.  They hate an America in which people can possibly find relaxation and enjoyment instead of dropping dead on the job.  Republicans don't believe in the American Dream.  They don't believe in the American people.  Republicans hate America.

President Joe Biden believes in America.  He believes in giving the American people freedom and a chance to live.  This is why Republicans hate Him.  The choice is simple;  Joe Biden and the American Dream or Traitor Trump and jack-booted Fascist Dictatorship.

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