When Joe Biden accurately stated that SOME Republicans wanted to either abolish or “sunset” (allow to expire) Social Security and Medicare, lying Republicans falsely accused him of lying.
Sure, not all of them support abolishing Social Security and Medicare, some merely want to raise the eligibility ages, reduce the benefits, slow sown the cost-of-living adjustment, privatize it, or undermine it in other ways.
But Biden never said they ALL wanted to abolish or “sunset” Social Security and Medicare, only some of them. And the next day Biden was ready, with printed proposals from Florida Senator Rick Scott (who was chair of the 2022 senate campaign committee) to “sunset” ALL government programs every five years, and videos of similar proposals from Utah Senator Mike Lee (to specifically abolish Social Security and Medicare) and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to “sunset” all government programs EVERY year, not every five like Rick Scott. Both Lee and Johnson are high-profile senators, not exactly back benchers. While I doubt such videos and proposals got much air play on Faux “News” and other right-wing conspiracy-theory, reality-denial hate media, they were widely reported and circulated elsewhere.
The good thing is that Joltin’ Joe took their lying taunts, and used them to rope them into a trap, forcing them to all stand with him and publicly pledge not to cut Social Security or Medicare. They tried to “own the libs” and got outsmarted — “owned” — by the guy they keep underestimating.
When Joe Biden accurately stated that SOME Republicans wanted to either abolish or “sunset” (allow to expire) Social Security and Medicare, lying Republicans falsely accused him of lying.
Sure, not all of them support abolishing Social Security and Medicare, some merely want to raise the eligibility ages, reduce the benefits, slow sown the cost-of-living adjustment, privatize it, or undermine it in other ways.
But Biden never said they ALL wanted to abolish or “sunset” Social Security and Medicare, only some of them. And the next day Biden was ready, with printed proposals from Florida Senator Rick Scott (who was chair of the 2022 senate campaign committee) to “sunset” ALL government programs every five years, and videos of similar proposals from Utah Senator Mike Lee (to specifically abolish Social Security and Medicare) and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to “sunset” all government programs EVERY year, not every five like Rick Scott. Both Lee and Johnson are high-profile senators, not exactly back benchers. While I doubt such videos and proposals got much air play on Faux “News” and other right-wing conspiracy-theory, reality-denial hate media, they were widely reported and circulated elsewhere.
The good thing is that Joltin’ Joe took their lying taunts, and used them to rope them into a trap, forcing them to all stand with him and publicly pledge not to cut Social Security or Medicare. They tried to “own the libs” and got outsmarted — “owned” — by the guy they keep underestimating.