Chaos is the objective and explains the "out of the gate" rush of executive orders to create an environment of uncertainty about all facets of life cultural social economic financial and even in the art community This also explains Der Fuhrer's indifference to the market response to tariffs since chaos is the intent to destabilize the global community and markets
Shake everybody up and then bend them to your will....capitulation by Big Law and tech companies
Protests can actually have a stabilizing influence if accompanied by hope
It will NOT go away. It’s never missed a payment in almost 90 years & is wildly popular. We have to survive this onslaught as we have all the others & then elect better people!!!
I worry because so many seniors have little income apart from social security. And he’s right about Medicaid. In addition to helping many disadvantaged people it pays for nursing home care most probably just can’t afford. Many families would struggle caring for aging parents with the kind of cuts the Republicans are planning.
Social Security is my only income at this time. I have worked since I was 16, part time during high school and college… then a few years off birthing my 2 wonderful daughters. I paid into it for many years. During crucial final working years I had very decent earnings. That matters. I earned every penny I receive. Now we have to keep it safe… for the present and the future.
Nobody except maybe Elon can afford the average cost of 100K a year for nursing home care. And more & more families every day have to deal with long term care.
It’s *Medicaid* that covers the majority of that care. HANDS OFF MEDICAID!!!
Thank you Jon for you constant work to protect this life saving program that becomes a lifeline for many of us as we age. Been a follower of Social Security Works for years. Rep. John Larson here in CT has been fighting for years to strengthen SS.
Those of us on Social Security aren't hoarding our money. It goes right back into the economy.
Touching Social Security is political suicide for anyone in Congress running for office. We seniors are tired of many showing up at senior centers a week or two before an election craving our votes.. They know we turn out and are loyal voters but many turn their backs on us once they win.
My mom died when I was 10 years old and my dad was able to get SS survivor benefits for my brother and I from her time working at a telephone company. It helped my family to be able to survive and for me to go to college.
Paul Ryan, who wanted to privatized SS, received benefits after his father died when he was young. It helped put him through college. There is so much deeply wrong with Republicans.
Great post, Janet. Survivors’ benefits have indeed been a lifeline for so many families. And it was truly unbearable when Ryan repudiated the very program his own family depended on. Of course now we have even bigger inmates running the asylum!!! RESIST!!!
57 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray. He was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers who were protesting for better working conditions and fair wages.
Dr. King once said about non-violence:
"We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts."
Oh you young people! The song closed the “Sha Na Na” TV show & all my live shows for 55 yesrs & my “Bowzer” character, a fake greaser, flexed his non-existent muscles like that all the time.
I absolutely loved seeing & hearing “Bowzer” & Simon live, together, this afternoon! Important issues that affect all of us were discussed… pertinent whether we are seniors ourselves or our families or neighbors are.
It seems that they are now ATTACKING VOTERS AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN NC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HfXI4d1byk . What do we need to do to help Anderson and the Judge to get over the finish line? Do we need to hear from Ms. Clayton again since they have 15 days to cure the ballots? Is the deadline correct?
Thanks.
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : So, the DEMOCRATS NOW NEED TO GO ON RIGHT WING MEDIA AND MAKE THEM DEFEND THIS OBVIOUS ENDANGERMENT OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN!! There is no safe harbor for propagandists!! MAKE COMMERCIALS ON EVERY MEDIUM POSSIBLE. FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF SECRECY, TELL THE STORY OF THE ENIGMA MACHINE AND CHURCHILL AT COVENTRY: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/myths/coventry-what-really-happened/ . History is important.
I am an ERISA attorney so comfortable stating I am an expert in pension plans. I don’t know one ERISA attorney who thinks social security should be privatized. The value of a guaranteed monthly payment- in essence a pension- cannot be measured.
Let me tell you a truth: private pension plans for the rank & file are dead, replaced by 401(k). They are not dead for senior executives. Tells you all you need to know.
This was so good for so many reasons! First, to see Bowzer and learn about his activism was a delight. Secondly, I finished the video with a smile that I will carry with me. Following politics today is hard and consuming. It’s been taking away my joy. Time to readjust.
Thanks for the Jon Bauman interview. The GOP has been trying to kill Social Security and and Medicare since their inceptions in 1935 and the mid-1960s. Their greed knows no bounds. The one suggestion I would make is that Democratic electeds and influencers spell out for voters what privatization of Social Security would actually look like. The private alternative promoted by the GOP would force Americans to pay into private investment accounts that are subject to the vicissitudes of the stock market. With the stock market crashing, this would be a particularly good time to do it. Social Security for 90 years has meant financial certainty for hundreds of millions of Americans' retirement. Privatization means risk. Don't assume that everyone fully understands this.
Chaos is the objective and explains the "out of the gate" rush of executive orders to create an environment of uncertainty about all facets of life cultural social economic financial and even in the art community This also explains Der Fuhrer's indifference to the market response to tariffs since chaos is the intent to destabilize the global community and markets
Shake everybody up and then bend them to your will....capitulation by Big Law and tech companies
Protests can actually have a stabilizing influence if accompanied by hope
thank you for posting this!
Here is a postlude after you’ve seen the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzB7n2GviM&ab_channel=TheMidnightSpecial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isvK4PzeA4c&ab_channel=Musikladen
Thank you for sharing -- new to me!!!! We need energy -- hope & love -- now more than ever.
Thanks for the memory!🤩
Brings those memories back! Different times.
Hot damn, that takes me back!! Adored Sha Na Na back in the day (am 66). Thanks for posting these, Deborah. 😁
Excellent interview, Simon and Jon! Loved Bowzer’s musical coda!! 💙 🎶
I care about SS!! I am taking it finally at 64 from hearing it may go away.
Now that ass trump/elon trying to steal OUR MONEY!!!
Tax cuts for the top 1% dismantling medicaid. Transfer if wealth!!
It will NOT go away. It’s never missed a payment in almost 90 years & is wildly popular. We have to survive this onslaught as we have all the others & then elect better people!!!
I worry because so many seniors have little income apart from social security. And he’s right about Medicaid. In addition to helping many disadvantaged people it pays for nursing home care most probably just can’t afford. Many families would struggle caring for aging parents with the kind of cuts the Republicans are planning.
Social Security is my only income at this time. I have worked since I was 16, part time during high school and college… then a few years off birthing my 2 wonderful daughters. I paid into it for many years. During crucial final working years I had very decent earnings. That matters. I earned every penny I receive. Now we have to keep it safe… for the present and the future.
Yes, and these are your EARNED BENEFITS!!! It’s YOUR money!!!
Nobody except maybe Elon can afford the average cost of 100K a year for nursing home care. And more & more families every day have to deal with long term care.
It’s *Medicaid* that covers the majority of that care. HANDS OFF MEDICAID!!!
Thank you Jon for you constant work to protect this life saving program that becomes a lifeline for many of us as we age. Been a follower of Social Security Works for years. Rep. John Larson here in CT has been fighting for years to strengthen SS.
Those of us on Social Security aren't hoarding our money. It goes right back into the economy.
Touching Social Security is political suicide for anyone in Congress running for office. We seniors are tired of many showing up at senior centers a week or two before an election craving our votes.. They know we turn out and are loyal voters but many turn their backs on us once they win.
My mom died when I was 10 years old and my dad was able to get SS survivor benefits for my brother and I from her time working at a telephone company. It helped my family to be able to survive and for me to go to college.
Paul Ryan, who wanted to privatized SS, received benefits after his father died when he was young. It helped put him through college. There is so much deeply wrong with Republicans.
Great post, Janet. Survivors’ benefits have indeed been a lifeline for so many families. And it was truly unbearable when Ryan repudiated the very program his own family depended on. Of course now we have even bigger inmates running the asylum!!! RESIST!!!
57 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray. He was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers who were protesting for better working conditions and fair wages.
Dr. King once said about non-violence:
"We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts."
Take care this Saturday, Hopium Community!
Love the song!!!! Not sure what the gestures are. Is it elbows up -- solidarity with the Canadians? Such a key issue. Thank you both.
Oh you young people! The song closed the “Sha Na Na” TV show & all my live shows for 55 yesrs & my “Bowzer” character, a fake greaser, flexed his non-existent muscles like that all the time.
Yowza Bowzer!!! Here's more Goodnight Sweetheart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZu6tCYYGQ&ab_channel=ShaNaNa-Topic
Here is more of Jon's 💪🏼 signature pose 💪🏼 with Sha Na Na! ... and about his work defending Social Security.
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/18/jon-bowzer-bauman-strikes-a-pose-in-portland-calls-for-protecting-senior-citizen-safety-net/
https://www.bowzerparty.com/about-bowzer
I absolutely loved seeing & hearing “Bowzer” & Simon live, together, this afternoon! Important issues that affect all of us were discussed… pertinent whether we are seniors ourselves or our families or neighbors are.
And his musical sign off was perfect!
Just received an email that the DNC is assembling a shadow cabinet. Stay tuned. Thank you for great ideas.
Project 2025 Trackers:
https://www.project2025.observer .
https://substack.com/@project2025progress .
https://substack.com/@ahmedbaba/p-158109308 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPElaGebGPc (timestamps 13:10 and 55:07).
Simon:
It seems that they are now ATTACKING VOTERS AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN NC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HfXI4d1byk . What do we need to do to help Anderson and the Judge to get over the finish line? Do we need to hear from Ms. Clayton again since they have 15 days to cure the ballots? Is the deadline correct?
Thanks.
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : So, the DEMOCRATS NOW NEED TO GO ON RIGHT WING MEDIA AND MAKE THEM DEFEND THIS OBVIOUS ENDANGERMENT OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN!! There is no safe harbor for propagandists!! MAKE COMMERCIALS ON EVERY MEDIUM POSSIBLE. FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF SECRECY, TELL THE STORY OF THE ENIGMA MACHINE AND CHURCHILL AT COVENTRY: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/myths/coventry-what-really-happened/ . History is important.
Thank you! I very much appreciate the helpful chat. Love his delivery!
Thank you so much, Marilyn! As difficult as these times are, we know what we have to do! Hope to continue updating Hopium on senior issues!
I look forward to your Hopium return! Thanks again, Jon.
Really great discussion that everyone should hear
Thank you Rachel! What a pleasure to on with Simon & hopefully bring some Hopium!
I am an ERISA attorney so comfortable stating I am an expert in pension plans. I don’t know one ERISA attorney who thinks social security should be privatized. The value of a guaranteed monthly payment- in essence a pension- cannot be measured.
Let me tell you a truth: private pension plans for the rank & file are dead, replaced by 401(k). They are not dead for senior executives. Tells you all you need to know.
This was so good for so many reasons! First, to see Bowzer and learn about his activism was a delight. Secondly, I finished the video with a smile that I will carry with me. Following politics today is hard and consuming. It’s been taking away my joy. Time to readjust.
Thank you.
Thanks for the Jon Bauman interview. The GOP has been trying to kill Social Security and and Medicare since their inceptions in 1935 and the mid-1960s. Their greed knows no bounds. The one suggestion I would make is that Democratic electeds and influencers spell out for voters what privatization of Social Security would actually look like. The private alternative promoted by the GOP would force Americans to pay into private investment accounts that are subject to the vicissitudes of the stock market. With the stock market crashing, this would be a particularly good time to do it. Social Security for 90 years has meant financial certainty for hundreds of millions of Americans' retirement. Privatization means risk. Don't assume that everyone fully understands this.