Okay, let's work from that. "I don't know how likely that could be" is something I can answer - whenever anyone is talking about the "third rail" in politics, they're talking about social security. It's the original untouchable entitlement. It's been argued that Putin invaded Ukraine to prop up sagging popularity from raising the retirement age - if you check that "third rail" wiki page you'll notice that there are more than a few countries where the one thing you don't fuck with is healthcare and/or pensions. USAID? That's easy to pick on because no one has ever heard of it. Treasury? Weren't they the bad guys in Die Hard 2? Social Security is what nana uses to take your kids to McDonald's. You've been paying into it since you delivered newspapers.

Now - let's talk "foreign nationals." I mean, yes, Elon was born in South Africa but he's been effectively American since 1992. It's like Arnold Schwartzenegger, the only Austrian thing about him at this point is the accent. YOU care about this very much because there are procedures and they must be followed and that's one of the reasons they step all over them when they can, they give no fux for procedures. The bullshit Musk is pulling is plenty bad, you don't need to get the vapors over his birth certificate about it. Besides I'd rather have Musk in there (I don't want Musk in there - at all) than, like, Paul Manafort, who is American AF. "Foreign national" is posturing language that inflates the magnitude of the problem in a useless direction - it lets you feel more fear without solving the problem.

Finally, you skipped straight to "my health" when the question was "can you affect the likelihood of TrumpCo fucking with social security." Here's the thing - social security is pretty easy to defend, most of the people who are on it are the vulnerable members of our culture. Here you are - a legit choir boy whose health could be jeopardized by threats to social security and it's not like you're the only one. I call up Action 7 News and say "they're coming for my social security!" and nobody gives a shit. You? You're making a life with a congenital heart defect. My question was not "how do you survive without social security" it was "how do you increase the difficulty of fucking with social security" and this is a situation where your very existence gives you a leg up over me. I'm a mostly-healthy white male, we're the problem. You? You're sitting down with Gayle King.

I say this because I recognize your brand of catastrophizing. More than that, you're mostly too far gone to even have this conversation. Things are bad - not going to sugar-coat that. You're vulnerable - not going to diminish that either. But you're not powerless and you're not threatened.

None of this is good? but running around with your hair on fire is what they want.