I really wish more people were aware of how much of this shit came from 4chan. They are information terrorists and they have been escalating their manipulation of media for nihilistic glee for over a decade now. A group of idiot children have become a serious threat to democracy.
Elon definitely has some connection to 4chan because after he bought it he brought exactly the same content onto the platform. It plagued reddit for a while, they were doing it on purpose because they think it's funny. I mean they are racist, but they think it's funny to be racist and get reactions.
This came from a COBOL programming misunderstanding, if I recall it was something about how certain dates default to 1850 or something, but it doesn't mean any wrongdoing
Its always hard with these lies if there is just one example of it happening. We've all seen one example (real or fictional) on TV of a body being hidden and the killer continuing to collect their money. Ergo, it must happen all the time...
People are quite simple when it comes down to it and very few people really think beyond the headline... that someone would be collecting for sixty years after their Granny died would be insane, but people don't analyse that far.
Anybody notice how first it was claimed that 150yr old people but last night Trump said 100 and 109yr olds were receiving social security? Like, why wouldn't they be?
“average dead person collects 3 social security a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average dead person collects 0 social security per year. Dead Georg, who lives in cave & collects over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
people who follow Curtis Yarvin's philosphy and want the USA to be replaced with a national corporation headed by a CEO-king. it was consent for arson, manufactured from wholecloth.
sorry if i'm doing the bluesky thing of missing the joke here, this is my bugbear for hopefully obvious reasons
I'm guessing the people making this accusation are exactly the same people who *would* collect bogus Social Security benefits on behalf of dead relatives if they thought they could get away with it
It came from the programming language they use for data entry where when the birth date data is unavailable or missing, the computer defaults to an age of 150 (presumably programmed that way at the time because it was known it couldn't possibly be true or viewed by idiots)
Literally one of Musks teenage minions didn't understand how coding people's ages works and now it's morphed into one of the biggest lies ever uttered by a sitting President.
You right I was going to say “ They’re eating the cats eating the dogs eating the pets” doozy but not a sitting president
To be fair I’m convinced that was what convinced the maggots to elect him
Same level of lie - ludicrous patently false - yet here we are
Same people that think school nurses are performing sex change operations on elementary school kids, that children are being trafficked in pizza shops, and that it's ok threaten the sovereignty of allies. Can't fix stupid.
It's not an urban legend, it's an intentional and malicious lie created by billionaires to demonize the poor receiving the social security income they paid into their whole lives.
Trump knows his base would absolutely hate him if he just gutted social security. But by bullshitting about some falsehoods in some attempt to "save it", his supporters would eat that shit up. They're going to find out once it's too late.
The same people have been claiming dead people are swinging elections in Chicago since at least the 60s. If you subsist on a diet of mostly bullshit, you won't even notice when they slip some horse shit in there.
its been a republican myth about all kinds of things for decades. they try to imagine ways that fraud could exist and then insist without evidence that its happening at a larger scale than like 3 total. "ppl are voting under dead peoples names", "people are collecting dead ppl's benefits"
If 83% of SSN are fraudulent AND they’re cashing checks, as Musk claims, then that would mean over ONE TRILLION dollars in fraud annually. It’d be the biggest government scandal in history,
No shit! Don’t funeral homes, morticians,etc automatically send death confirmation directly to stop payments? They do here! It sounds like it just wasn’t removed from the database
I don’t believe they remove anyone from the database even if they are not making any payments. Once you get an SS number, you’re in the database forever.
Everyone knows someone who knows someone whose granny died and they just put her in a fridge so they could keep collecting her SS check. Didn’t you know that?
19 & 20 year olds & ketamine drug addict “geniuses” not knowing how computer languages evolved. COBOL Basic Fortran…
They can’t conceive computers the size of refrigerators that needed refrigerators to keep cool
The Florida tags? Anyone anyone?
Dems should be pointing out that millionaires and billions with W2s also get to collect social security, despite not needing it. There’s your fraud and abuse.
Like the idea that there are millions of federal employees not working and collecting a paycheck. It’s all fake bullshit that his zero IQ base eats up.
There are LITERAL caravans of 200 year olds defrauding the social security administration. They are also eating pets. And they do not have birth certificates. And most important of all, Donald Trump is going to make. America. Great. Again!
I believe in unity and in giving people a chance. I also believe in calling out incompetence. Dems have incompetent leaders. Their inability to organize protests at GOP senators/reps offices, their inability to deal with Musk, a stupid SOTU sign tactic, etc.
ANYONE who has analyzed data knows that NOTHING occurs based on raw data alone. The key is to analyze the end result - the issuance of checks. It is very likely that none of that age data resulted in fraudulent checks.
Every data system has some crap data. You address that in the programs.
It's because those DOGE kids are actually incredibly bad with computers. Anyone who has had basic database experience would immediately see the issue - but those clowns are too inexperienced and too hellbent on destruction, so they used it as an excuse and hoped no one would notice.
A few folks from my mentions point out not only are we NOT paying 150 year olds, but that social security ends when someone dies AND they TAKE BACK the social security from the month when you die. Not way down the road, like IMMEDIATELY. SSA is *on it* (in a sort of horrifying way)
The Social Security administration automatically checks anyone over a certain age and removes them. The actual fraud according to an audit last year was .08%
I wonder if their plan is to fire so many workers that issues like this and/or missed payments actually start happening for the first time so they can go “See?! It’s totally corrupt! Time to take it all away”
I used to process Treasury reclamations for cases like these. Even if the money is spent or the check cashed out, they just hit up the financial institution that accepted the payment and it'll be on them to recover. Either way, the Treasury gets its funds.
He doesn't believe it. Elon doesn't believe it. The gop doesn't believe it. But the stupid voters do and that gives them the power to do whatever they want.
To some extent, it's probably based on the lie they use to push voter suppression measures, that the names of dead people are being used to commit voter fraud on behalf of Democrats. It's an oldie but goodie.
I think religious career politicians just saw the reality of the FLDS and some fringe Christian groups ‘bleeding the beast’ and thought “lol what if we just say someone else is doing fraud?”
I always thought the urban legend was someone discovering a long dead body in a locked bedroom because the relative taking care of them collected the check.
Right?! There was just a woman in England that got arrested last year they found her parents bodies still in the house where she was collecting their pension checks.
It’s projecting. They claim there are fake people collecting benefits, when in fact they’re the ones coming up with the fake people in order to justify cuts to social security.
They're peddling these lies to people who had no knowledge or interest in politics or economics before they could afford budget smartphones. You could tell them dinosaurs are still walking and they'll believe it.
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He just makes bullshit up.
Or has his AI make it up and believes it.
https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/noncore-property-listw
sorry if i'm doing the bluesky thing of missing the joke here, this is my bugbear for hopefully obvious reasons
To be fair I’m convinced that was what convinced the maggots to elect him
Same level of lie - ludicrous patently false - yet here we are
Greed.
They can’t conceive computers the size of refrigerators that needed refrigerators to keep cool
The Florida tags? Anyone anyone?
We can't get a minimum wage, we can't get Medicare for all, we can't get college debt relief, we can't get a pullback in our militarism
The government is ineffective.
The Democrats have primed people to believe it
/s obviously of course
Dems have no idea how to fight fascists
Every data system has some crap data. You address that in the programs.
the people receiving the money are not social security recipients - they are a different class of fraudster.