My mother died on January 6, 2025 (obit). She’s still eligible to vote in New Jersey and some other states, I think, so it makes sense that a new Proud Democrat card arrived in the mail this month:
I can’t figure out why the righteous are limited to 3 outrage choices in each category. If my mom had lived to pick
- Attacking the fundamental rights of LGBTQ+ Americans
- Gutting abortion access
- Enacting mass deportations
she would be precluded from picking “Severely limiting voting access” (e.g., to those who are alive).
A longer letter was attached. Your kindergarten education will serve you well because 100 percent of those who participate can be a “leader”:
Every Democrat — each and every one of us — will be a leader in the fight to stop the Trump administration’s dangerous agenda.
Could this be a reference to the War of Northern Aggression (“Civil War”)?
But we, the Democratic Party, have fought through major inflection points in history before.
The overall package seems inconsistent. America is going down the “path of darkness, chaos, and hate”. At the same time, there is a concern about “mass deportations”. Why wouldn’t a noble undocumented migrant be far better off after being deported? He/she/ze/they would get a U.S. taxpayer-funded flight far away from the darkness, chaos, and hate.
Seems that your mom, may her memory be a blessing, has bright political future. In some time, if DOGE is successfully resisted, she may even join 20 million plus of post-centerians who remain on social security rolls.
Thanks, P, but the funeral home folks notified SSA, I think, as part of their standard service. At least if everything works as designed, the only way that SSA is paying out for dead beneficiaries is if someone dies at home and is quietly buried in the back yard.
Philip, doubt that SSA missed over 20 million deaths in the last decades, as revealed by DOGE. Those $10 million mansions of civil searvants making $150 K per year in post-Biden money do not grow on trees.
@philg: “the only way that SSA is paying out for dead beneficiaries is if someone dies at home and is quietly buried in the back yard”
I’ve got to believe there are hundreds of thousands of deceased SS recipients still receiving monthly checks in such places as Ukraine, Romania, Nigeria, Ecuador, Mexico, Philippines, etc., and, heck even Puerto Rico. I’m guessing the reporting practices are not to reliable in those places.