The Social Security Administration under Trump/Musk/DOGE:

-Website crashed 4 times in 10 days
-Phone lines are overwhelmed
-Staff being forced out
-Customer experience office eliminated
-SSA field offices on the chopping block

This is an attack on Social Security itself.

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Wait until the April checks aren’t sent.
And if they suceed in privatizing it - it will just mean we will pay more for less; capitalism at work.
Now look the program is broken! We must end it! The inefficiencies of big government are the fault! Let’s reinvest that money in crypto!
Not “cRyPtO”. Bitcoin. The difference is immeasurable.
Oh definitely Trump Meme coin. Where else should decades of social security funds go
🤬
I'm not ready for this.
Where does a 70 year old get a job these days?
Son went to SOCIAL SECURITY office to check on his SSI. They are only stopping any new claims coming in.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
New addition to the SSA website Terms of Service. Not good.
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I’m furious.
Same. I hate it here.
👇😲 Current #GOP's platform looks like the one of Libertarian in 1980 - long time for them to get here.
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Except those taxes unless you’re uber rich
But at least @schumer.senate.gov and @fetterman.senate.gov kept the government open, right guys?
And the are getting quite concerned.
They are trying to break SS on purpose!!!
Thieves
My friend in NM along with his attorney have been trying to get ahold of his local office for a week and anytime someone answers after about a 2+ hour hold, they get hung up on. His lawyer is now going to reach out to their senator (i believe) to try to get help!
I couldn’t log in last night and it said only during some wild business hour. In addition, take a look at the terms of service. The last box . Uh?
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That whole terms of service is suspect and could be used against you if DOGE wanted. It's your word against theirs. 🙄
The phone lines have been overwhelmed for years. Long lines have been present for years.

Funny how you are just noticing.
Not if they say it ain’t, won’t convince MAGATS until their check doesn’t come.
Ok, well, the courts already made the ruling, and what they are doing is a crime and unconstitutional.

Since our politicians and police won’t enforce it, it is up to regular citizens.

Who is willing to show up in mass and citizen’s arrest Musk?
YES it’s an attack on social security itself. That has been the point all along. It’s so exasperating how few people are saying that.
Yes, it’s intentional
Call your representatives, post online, protest, talk to people. Make sure people know that this regime is hurting regular citizens while the rich are being taken of!
The website was down again this morning at 7 am
The fact that they would touch anything to do with seniors makes me crazy upset! Musk needs to go. That S.O.B. and these law firms that have folded to trump You are the lowest. 🤢No accountability, no integrity, no respect for the rule of law. Hope the $$ helps. Keep those proud boys safe. Piece of
Can we do a citizens class action suit?
Start with the main saboteur: Leland Dudek
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And there seem to be plans to rewrite the code per Musk. People with closed Society Security offices will be in a huge amount of trouble if there is a problem for them and they have no way to get to an open office.
Anyone who can’t get through needs to call their congressman and request help from their constituent services. Make Congress feel the pressure!
Yes it is. Congress must stop this
Yes and you would not believe how many people do not see this. Even like minded people. How do we get our like minded friends and family out of DENIAL.
Also any social support structures. No CDC, NIH, NOAA, MEDICAID, MEDICARE,and SSI. I am sure I left out quite a few more. It's obvious the people as a whole do not count.
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Do you think the software change will crash everything and stop payments and then they won't know how to fix it?
If I were Elon I wouldn't go to any retirement communities any time soon.
If in fact, social security benefits are not paid, and the effected come out to protest. That will be our most opportune time to join them and take out this coup administration. Get ready. Remember Patrick Henry.
Death by a thousand cuts.
Elizabeth Warren nails it ... they can't get rid of SS, only Congress can do that but they can make it unable to function....

https://bsky.app/profile/nowthisimpact.bsky.social/post/3llchcdaslk27
She is bringing the heat to Booker's filibuster.
She's bringing the heat! 🔥🔥🔥
Keep it going! We need her now more than ever!
Yes you called it. Saw an author on the Steve Colbert last night his new book is Abundance. He agrees with you that Trump and Vance and the foreigner who should be deported is gutting Social Security. He says the end game is too eliminate it hopefully with scores of millions supporting it.
DOGE So Far
Social Security:

DOGE declared 82 yr old SS recipient (WI) DECEASED
STOPPED SS pymts AND
Withdrew $5k+ from his savings
Claiming over-pymt

FL: SS offices no longer accept walk-ins.
Appt, via phone ONLY req'd Callers hear: "No one can assist.. try later"
Apps set MONTHS out
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This is theft. Plain and simple. Take our stuff, take our country, take our lives.
This is an attack on the entire working class retired population worrying about their SS every single month. This is a level of worry that’s crippling to them. My neighbor who 82 is only been eating soup once a day she’s afraid she won’t have a check for food or when it will come. Not acceptable!
There is a method to their madness.
#SocialSecurity and #Medicare OWE senior Americans, like me, a monthly payment & healthcare.
But if we’re sick, no medical care, no income, chances are we will be dead B4 the next Presid. election.

An entire Generation they won’t owe money 💵 #ResistanceUnited
the fight must continue to protect Americans from this nonsense!!!💙🗽💪
Yes, we CANNOT give up. The system needs serious reform, but it can be fixed if enough people band together.
Don’t give up!
That’s what they want.
They want to rule us, control us and dominate us.

#RESIST
We can’t let then cancel us!
That’s right. We have to fight them. 👍🏼👊🏼
DOGE is a racket, a con, a fake, made-up agency.

#Republican legislators are afraid of Trump and #MuskyPants, but we don’t have to be.

Trump is afraid that we will join together. That’s what he’s really scared of.

Speak-up, march, protest!

#RESIST
Why are the Uber rich so determined to take away the little support most Duhmerikans receive? Can't they just fly their private jets to their private islands and leave us alone?
Because being evil feels good.
Broken as intended.
It's a sort of malicious compliance with Republican promises, they're not cutting payments just making them impossible to claim.
At what point do we call this theft?
Or at least breach of contract (btwn the people who paid into the system, and the agency charged with dispersing those funds)
I am 83 and disabled , what am I to do go out and get a jiob or pray for death. I wonder how long it will be before they come up with euthanizing the elderly and the disabled the same as the Third Reich did?
We’re not going to (legally) cut SS benefits. We’re just going to destroy the SS systems so they can’t manage to send out checks and people can’t get anybody on the phone to help
PURE DAMN EVIL
-Individual recipients can now be targeted by AI for disruption

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lljlsxptjk2d
I waited 4 1/2 hours on hold just to get an appointment … she said it chaos there and everyone is nervous, depressed and stressed .. they already can not handle the volume of work … it’s crazy, I hope someone shows for the appt 🙄🤞🏼
Create Caos to hide the actual intentions
dismantle and destroy !
Killing Social Security was McConnell's wet dream. He probably never expected Trump to be the one to kill it for him.
If there are few employees able to respond to phone calls, the elderly or disabled person loses out!
ABSOLUTELY. It's intentional. People will die.
If social security does not get the ppl in the streets nothing will
Musk is a terrible person
Elon does want our money. The Radical Right Fascists want all the money. Elon is a liar. Fight Oligarchy.
Republicans are Trump accomplices. They are all in this together. Remember.

>>> This would all STOP if they objected. <<<

They have now become the enemy. Treat them accordingly!
doge is an act of war, by a foreign adversary.

It is not about 'efficiency', or 'fraud'.

It is about .

When will we act like we are literally under attack -- from the inside -- by a foreign country?

Hint?

The same country at war with Ukraine, today.

Not a coincidence.
Foxtrot Echo Mike & Foxtrot Delta Tango
Which is likely exactly what Trump & his chief techno-nazi Musk were hoping for. The sooner the SSI system is unusable, the sooner Trump & his billionaire oligarchs can gut it then privatize the whole system for their own purposes.

https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
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Robert I think someone with your gravitas should suggest no one pay taxes like the billionaires especially after they’re firing the agents.
It can be nothing less than a step towards insolvency……
Can't see this ending well.
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Time to get out the pitchforks
Lots of protests coming up.
May I suggest sunflower seeds - for snacks, for birds, for teslas
Why would an old person vote for someone who would take away their social security and medicare?

Do you know someone personally who you could try to convince to vote otherwise?

Until this question is answered, the rest of us are stuck in this political two-step dance we find ourselves locked into.
😡
I’m due to start benefits in a few weeks. I cannot get through at all. Waited until 70 while continuing to work. I’ve been paying into SS since I was 15. *rump is a criminal. The GOP will never have my vote.
Yes! Musk calls AMERICAN citizens
'entitled' for wanting their OWN retirement funds in Social Security!😡
tRump and Musk continue to dismantle Social Security from within so they can say it is not working and then do a
take-over to eliminate or
privatize. Devestating for Social Security staff too
Sorry.
It’s so stressful.
I heard one of our expert cabinet members say that most people wouldn’t mind missing a SS check and only fraudsters would complain.
🤬infuriating🤬
How insulting to the millions of Americans who paid all their lives into SS and in their elderly years depend on funds for housing, food and to maintain their health.
HOW did anyone believe
tRump was going to care about the condition of ANY average citizen?!
NO! He does NOT care.
He’s a scum bag. He’s never seen a senior eagerly awaiting their money so they can eat.
That was Lutnick. He's one of the billionaire dickwads we need to eat.
Yes. It was. I find him particularly infuriating.
Is he lying just to lie/gaslight or is he that out of touch?
Most people I know would struggle to pay bills for a month without it.
I think he has no clue and doesn't care about regular folk. Just like most white, rich fatcats.
Just like he improved twitter. And the ruins will then be bought by xAI
Efficiency at its finest
They’ve got it functioning as they want it … which is poorly
It's not a bug, it's a feature. 😎
Well said
good job, maga losers
SS recipients can’t go online to print out their documents, can’t phone to make needed changes, can’t visit a closed HQ or regional office. What about this is “protecting” SS?
Sadly, I don’t think protecting it is what they have in mind
no shit
My boomer parents have been saying the government would get rid of social security since I was a child... They are getting what they voted for.
If you haven’t gone on the SS website and printed out your statement, please do so now! If they switch to a new system, who knows what will happen. Better safe than sorry.
Done. This won’t keep Elon from gutting the agency but when it gets restored by the 2029 democratic President, we’ll have proof of what is owed us.
That trust fund money can be put to better use elsewhere I'm sure. Maybe a golden dome.
If billionaires won't allow us
to keep our own money
which we put into Social Security,
then we should take theirs.

They need to feel the pain of
granny forced out of her home because
Musk messed up her payments.
This will be the end of them.
Do they really think we're gonna just sit home and take this ripoff?
Mark my words - they’ll argue it’s so dysfunctional (now that they’ve hobbled it) that is clearly has to be privatized.
Don't worry, the DOGE Bros & Big Balls gonna use AI to rewrite all the SSA systems next week.

All good or goof.
One or the other!
This!

Musk, Trump, and Republicans are intentionally breaking Social Security to later stay, "it does not work". It does work and would be solvent if we remove the caps.

Remember this when any Republican speaks of "broken" government. They are likely breaking it themselves.
This!
When we say it's broken (because it can't work like this) they will immediately come to the rescue and be able to fix it (through privatization). As a public school teacher for over 20 years, I've been fighting this very same thing that's happening to our schools.
Well said and thank you for giving back to our country as a teacher!

They will betray themselves when they say that privatization "works". We see what "works" means: to syphon value from a company and its workers to the leaders and investors.

The structure of parasitism must end.
Yup it is. Trump is responsible. Why are the Democrats not out in Red states telling the people about it. The Democrats cannot depend on the media. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/?m=1
Survivor benefits for children attacked
Isn’t that the point? For Gods sake, it was spelled out for us.
& I hear Mr.Big Balls & pals now want to upgrade the old coding system (which seems to be working just fine) & upgrade it all in several months! A job I understand would take several YEARS to be done properly. We’re beyond screwed.
It's not an attack on social security.

It's an attack on America.
Shameless
Don't buy bitcoin with my Social Security!
It's an insider attack.

The I.T. guy who was placed on administrative leave for giving unauthorized access to Social Security data to Elon Musk/"DOGE" was placed in charge of the entire agency by Trump.
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Works as designed.
Designed to make it fail- despicable!
Same things would happen if Elon was trying to improve it for real, because he's just that much of a stupid fucking DOGEtard
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Is there a decent billionaire who will set up a fund to support anyone who doesn't receive SS checks and are at risk as a result. Trump/Elon/Project25's goal is for seniors, and people with disabilities to suffer, to be unable to maintain their lives. We can't let them succeed.
Now they'll also be vulnerable to being bribed for votes.
If anyone complains, then we know who the fraudsters are.

I heard that's how it works.
Republicans have been wanting to do away with SSA for years. If you can’t starve the beast, then make it unworkable.
Those on social security should unite and fight for their social security checks and its services.
This is yet another attack on the citizens of the U.S.
They want disabled people, and grandparents to jump through higher hoops to have relief of their suffering. What a pathetic state we live.
Basically, every government agency is going to become like twitter/x … an unreliable, hollowed out shell of what it once was.
They going to make SS so hard to get, people won’t care when it’s eliminated.
I completed my entire 2024 taxes while on SSA hold yesterday for 5 hrs 45 minutes. I finally hung up bc it was after 7 pm, when they supposedly close.
Thank Muskrat for your experience. Exactly what he planned with tRump!😡
Fire so many workers and the agencies are not able to function properly.💔
Yep. I was just providing anecdotal evidence of how it’s going. Their plan is working!
It’s also the usual musk attack on seniors, survivors and the disabled.
Explosive Incompetence

As Teslas and SpaceX rockets explode,
Musk looks down the Social Security road.
His kiddie programers will probably screw up.
65 million American lives they’ll interrupt.
When Musk called Social Security a Ponzi scheme it was obvious he wants to eliminate it. The real Ponzi scheme is Tesla stock which is still higher than it was a year ago and its price-earnings ratio is a significant multiple of PE ratio for GM or Ford.
They are a death cult.
Done
I consider the dismantling of SS a true threat on my life. What happens if I threaten theirs? The Gestapo shows up? Throws cuffs on me? Grills me on my intentions? Sends me to El Salvador? Is protesting all there is? If so, we are fucked. No one is enforcing his compliance with the law.
Fingers crossed. Let's just hope it totals the remainder of their Project 2025 fascist plans.
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Republicans in Congress make up a really weak bench, if they don't think this will haunt them for a very long time.
they have no soul
HANDS OFF MY MONEY!
Neighbor received letter that she would no longer receive social security. High tailed it to SS office, waited for three hours to learn that she was not qualified for deceased husband’s SS which she already knew plus the letter did not even mention that. In an office that wait time previously short
This is fiscal eugenics. They are starving, underserving, jailing, deporting, and disappearing anyone who they feel doesn't create shareholder value.
They're trying to overwhelm us with the amount of news stories.

The speaker of the house wants to eliminate the courts.

People are disappearing from our streets.

The social safety net is being dismantled.

The fascists are here and performing a soft coup.

Current recourse: mass protests, voting
Congress and not President should be in charge of National Museums.

SMITHSONIAN - MUSEUMS, EDUCATION, RESEARCH CENTERS SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT OF CONGRESS.

James Smithson

"an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/factsheets/brief-history-smithsonian-institution
This is unbelievable worked since 15 ..screw them, this is my money I paid into for years without even earning interest on it. BS..
Is it too soon to get the Judicial Branch involved???? Social Security earned benefits recipients vs 47?
These are evil monsters attaching a key fabric of the New Deal. They need to be held accountable.
So, what are the disabled supposed to do when checks stop? No one has answered this question.
tRump does not care!
Fired federal workers face loosing their homes, no way to feed their families and hardship of starting their jobs/careers over after years of dedicated work for agencies that serve the citizens of our country.💔
I fear the question hasn't been answered because there is no good answer. They do not care if we die.
We are at this crossroad.

America is in the hands of corrupt men and women.

The GOP has become America’s shame.

How will we save America?

What did the writers and poets before us say?

#America
#Wisconsin
SEE?
PROVIDENCE EMPOWERS Free Will w/Everything and All-Involved For EACH To, BE, Good and Well; HAPPY, In, THE WORD Love of THE ONE That COMMANDS: Love the other, to Fulfill Empowering Free Will.
There by.
PROVIDENCE Empowers Free Will.
Consequently.
Love, Is, FATE.
Free Will, Is, DESTINY.
VOTE!
The conservative OPENS With how God is The Force of conservatives' Ways & Means: THEN Proceed to AGGRESSIVELY Attack & KILL The Peoples' WELFARE In Healthcare Education Food Shelter Transportation Entertainment and HAPPINESS....
AND, All you all DO Is VOTE FOR conservatives To DO EXACTLY ALL OF THAT
THE WORD Love, IS, PROVIDENCE For exactly all that in Single Payer Health Education Welfare Food Shelter Transportation Entertainment Happiness and What All to EVOLVE Into, TO Live in Justice Liberty Equality Peace and Happiness, IF; And ONLY If, you-We-EACH VOTE To make SP Legislation The Law of
The Land and Prime Directive INSTEAD OF ALL THAT conservative SHIT YOU Vote for conservatives To DO....
WHAT The fuck is in you?
These people aren't on our side. It's not about left vs right, now it's about Moscow vs Washington.
This is intentional.
You forgot the planned rewrite of ALL SSA computer code using JAVA and AI - NOT accounting programming languages by CHILDREN with criminal records. If there are ANY SSA payments by June 1st I'll be amazed. The entire system has been deconstructed and destroyed and Congress didn't lift a finger.
ALL by design
So they can put in their ai. They already have the ability to delete social security numbers.

They weren't trying to steal them. They're gaining access to be able to erase people. Create non-citizens.
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It’s an attack on the American people
They’re going to “redo” the current COBOL code using AI in 5 weeks? Officials say it should take years to do correctly. Watch the entire system crash, taking the economies of many towns with it.
#It'sOurMoney
Yup and just think how much of that is caused by the thousands of calls they get per hour from people who do not need Social Security but are just calling it over and over for their social media posts to show how overwhelmed that it is.

Lot of common sense missing these days.
Block doge from Social Security before it's too late.
Your congressional representatives are tasked with helping you personally deal with difficult government agencies - one of those is Social Security.
Go around SS and demand your representative act for you dealing with wait times, the downed website, closed offices.
Flood them with complaints.
TOWARDS AN MPOX INFECTED SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM
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How far off of having walled cities that keep all the poor people locked inside so the wealthy don’t have to look at what they created?
They want to be able to say, "See, Social Security doesn't work." It's their modus operandi.

Fucking goppers.
Checks stop, lives stop. Theirs.
Maybe the government was already efficient.
And now, they think they’re going to replace all the computer systems, in a couple of months?

Have any of them ever experienced a systems migration?
These are techno-brats. They didn’t even know COBOL was a programming language. This is just a cover to erase data.
Amen. They're going to plunder it first, then destroy the systems to make them unusable, and if possible, unrecoverable.
This is how they shred Social Security without congress.
This is entirely by design.

The Project 2025 crowd wants to cull as many elderly folks as they can, and manufactured austerity and bureaucracy are cheaper and less visceral than making them actively "go away".
The administration is perpetrating an attack on the entire country.
Like he did messing with computers to help Dump win
The online services are down today. Next round of installment payments go out on the 1st. Bet some people don't get their money on time.
To actually eliminate it, they’d need Congress, but they can do a pretty good job breaking it using weaponized incompetence, which turns out is their strong suit.
Undermine, say it's broken. Sell off together with it's mega cash balance to a billionaire.Big win for billionaire. Big loss for social security beneficiaries
The Russian Way
Yes, it is.
No. This has become an attack on Elon Musk and ALL DOGE members. I know they monitor the past on Bluesky. They just won't believe until it starts happening to them.
Attention all SSI recipients ! Please get your copies from SSI office before it's invaded and hacked. Billionaires are waiting steal your SSI benefits. Get you history earning living documents keep ..proof you have a case for yrs.
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Glad some Americans takes me serious. My daughter old retired Air Force sgt.did 23 yrs. Only retired for injury. Warned whole family to get copies. Before the DoGe group invade.Elon Musk work overtime hacking system.
This so true . It happens in Maine. Billionaires gets your income earnings from SSI. Hurry get proof of your income from SSI office
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Attention SSI recipients get copies keep copies . SSI going have cases erased by Elon Musk. Americans help elderly establish copies please ! Please do this not. You deserve your income.dont allow them to remove your benefits. Get your copies now !
Ok ,wake up ! All SSI recipients Elon Musk and Donald Trump' plan to erase records that provides SSI. Trump and Musk plan to erase your income records. Get your proof before hackers do. They already did Maine. Trump and Elon Musk hacked election to win. Bragged about cheating. Attention you get your
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They’re trying to make it collapse so they can privatize it and hand it over to hedge fund managers where it will vaporize like Crypto.
Perhaps it’s time to begin executing counter measures rather than observing the dismantling and forfeiture of those resources?
It absolutely is! However, we the people are not going to take it laying down!
And the republicans in congress are complicit.
Dem’s messaging problem:
NOWHERE in this article do you read that SS Trust Fund payments are NOT subsidized by the Government. Zero. Nada. Zilch. #HandsOff! It’s MY money!
Link➔ https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/31/trump-musk-waste-fraud-social-security/82739772007/
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Seems like everything is going according to plan, tragically.
75 million of us retirees have calculated into our retirement, our social security. These rich scum don't care about any of us. The uninformed people who still support him will get what they deserve, worse poverty. We know why the rich support him.
MAGA must fail at destroying democracy, our economy, and our allies.
Slow lines - all day
Now, at least one republican is saying it out loud: first Medicaid, then Medicare, later social security.

This is the goal of Chuck Koch and his Project 2025 he paid Trump to carry out:
The price of billionaire tax breaks hitting ordinary Americans
#KoupKlutzKlan must go. Tired of pretending the Dollar Gen tech billionaire Bond villain administrative coup is legitimate government.👹
🤬🤬🤬
I loved your podcast today regarding the best selling MAGA hat in Greenland...which stands for "Make America Go Away". I needed a good laugh, but unfortunately, it's not funny.
Just now:
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Probably time to March.
There is an organic groundswell movement awakening because what trump does hurts Them!
It's sounds extreme. But this seems like exactly what they want.
Social security will cease to exist by the end of the year.
Social Security is one of the many ways FDR dragged this country out of the Great Republican Depression. That, and putting millions on the government payroll. It seems we should be less Hoover & more FDR.