Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Elon Musk's social insecurity</p><p>The billionaire's reckless claims seem intended to manufacture outrage to justify an end to what he refers to as an “entitlement program.”<br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/elon-musks-social-insecurity" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/elon</span><span class="invisible">-musks-social-insecurity</span></a></p><p>"Ronald Reagan called <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> “a secure & stable base so that older <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> may live in dignity.”</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> calls it a “Ponzi scheme.”<br>...<br>differences of opinion between <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> & <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, the White House... pledging not to cut Social Security, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> or <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> benefits"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
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With #Trump & #Musk seeking to crash the #economy & decimate #socialsecurity, the #GOP in #Congress shouts #USA while the #Democrats pray for mid-term #elections. Trump received less than 50% of the votes for his "mandate".
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy
Common Dreams · Critics Ask If Trump and Musk Are 'Intentionally Crashing the Economy' | Common Dreams"If you think back at the last economic crashes... the rich were able to buy up assets on the cheap and emerged even wealthier and more powerful than before," noted one progressive commentator.
Rep Alford on CNN today: "It's true that the Medicare, Medicaid, & Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. We've got to find the savings there.
We will do that."
Most Republican Reps agree with Musk, they'll defund the social safety net for tax cuts. Those funds will go to the oligarchs, like Musk & Trump's donors. They're no longer hiding their views bc #Musk, through #DOGE, has emboldened them. #Trump has always lied about not touching SS.
The weirdest part of this is when Bernie Sanders is making a speech and he’s talking about how it takes so long to get disability benefits that elderly people who apply for disability end up dying before they get benefits. But if these cuts go through more people will die, and we’re not going to allow that. People cheer, and I am so confused.
It’s great that they’re not going to allow more people to die waiting, but to acknowledge that this has been happening forever, this IS the way it is, then to claim this isn’t what America is about is blatant bullshit.
So they were OK with the regular amount of people dying waiting for disability, it was fine that I ended up homeless for years after working 25 years then becoming disabled, but when that happens to more people that’s where they draw the line?
Cool, but let’s see it. Good. Make it stop then.
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19/ JFC moment. A short read of a court filing regarding #SocialSecurity data and doge and the delicate nature of the data, how the current commissioner got put in and a lot of bells and whistles. #USPol
It's been reported on in the press, but read this short, double spaced court filing.
Ex-Social Security official describes ‘significant’ risk of sensitive data going to wrong hands under DOGE, handled based on three myths.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.22.10.pdf
h/t @tiamat271
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In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/in-affidavit-former-social-security
"detailed how deputies for #ElonMusk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive #databases...
also warned that careless actions by Musk’s #Doge could lead to interruptions in #SocialSecurity payments."
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Why Musk Isn’t Reined In
In a word, #Trump can’t rein him in because #Putin doesn’t want him reined in
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/why-musk-isnt-reined-in
"The head of #SocialSecurity has resigned and been replaced by a #Musk acolyte. We will see more of that.
...cabinet secretaries will have to face... if they will be blamed for what goes wrong. The answer is, short of resignation, they will be blamed, along with Trump.
Musk is universally despised."
Social Security is YOUR MONEY!
Musk Calls Entitlements the ‘Big One’ to Cut, Countering Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-calls-entitlements-the-big-one-to-cut-countering-trump
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Dudek has repeatedly rebutted that claim. While a database of people who have had #SocialSecurity numbers is missing dates of death for millions of records, that doesn’t mean those people appear in a separate database of beneficiaries, he said.
Under #Trump, the agency is already undergoing a *reorganization*, w/snr staffers exiting, & job cuts & office reductions in the works—alarming Dems who see them as a threat to a #benefits program….