Biden and Inflation is going to crush him in 2024

[sonatine]

Shapiro obv looking to generate views on the heels of Trump but i took a look cause its you. I curse you. Shapiro is an odd little guy and rough on the ears. You hurt me.

Why is this Sonatine worthy?

Shapiro starts off crowing about how he “blew up the internet”. He doesn’t intersect with my world and if it weren’t for you i would never have known he had a take - nor cared.

Shapiro: “There are a few simple facts of the matter regarding social security”. “The retirement age is 65”.

Its 67 you sperg.

He goes on to say its crazy we have not raised the retirement age. I covered this for Druff’s edification a while back. The only thing that has changed is that infant mortality has declined. Once you reach adulthood longevity has been pretty static for a couple hundred years.

The truth is that being over 50 is basically an exercise of being lucky enough to dodge all the various things that can kill you.

The luck has always been more relevant on the front end - not the back end of a life cycle

Human longevity over thousands of years has had a pattern where if you survived to 30 humans where likely to sail another 40. This is remarkable but true.

It has always been more difficult to survive to adulthood than into old age. Infant mortality and childhood diseases etc.

The above has always been my understanding. Prove me wrong, bruh.

Ironically, there is no purpose to living past 50 as your children are typically adults by that point. Biologically, you serve no purpose past 50.

The guy who never met a foreign intervention he didn’t like talks about social security funding. We covered the $10 trillion spent the past 2 decades on our various militwry follies with Kalam recently in one of the Israel threads.

We are covering Ukrainian pensions Ben. No irony?

I could go on about his idiotic observation about people dying within 5 years of retirement or his dopey take that work provides purpose and fulfillment in people’s lives.

I had to stop. I’ve done nothing to deserve this

I remember hall of fame Sonatine OP’s that were reason to check the site. We are doing Shapiro? I don’t get it.

You made me look.

SS reform is a poison. its why every election cycle, one of the stand-by slurs is 'they are going to go after your social security!'. but the reason why its such a visceral and powerful accusation is because deep down we know sooner or later, some generation is going to be the last one to have it.

so i always pay attention to who is bringing it up and why.

shapiro is an intellectually emasculated hack clown so naturally the right considers him a prophet and a teller of great truths. basically hes carrying the same ball as tucker and candice and all the other tentpole revivalist grifters.

so for him to strut up to the microphone and declare social security an albacore around all our necks instead of braying about how 'the woke left' wants to do away with it so we need to double our weapons shipments to israel etc etc is really quite noteworthy.

and for him to clumsily roll back his very clear points almost immediately is also very noteworthy.

not sure who he was testing the waters for but i can make some guesses.