😱 Commerce Sec’y Lutnick (worth $2-4B): “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks…my mother-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain…a fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming and yelling and complaining”
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Geezus these people have zero concept what a normal persons life is life.
Can’t imagine you can talk like this and have the respect of a single relative of normal person, only circle of YES men and other billionaires type a**holes
I will be yelling and screaming if I don't get that life saving SSI check in the bank account. I will not be able to pay the rent, or anything else. It is 95% of my income. How dare billionaires make these statements, they are out of touch and selfish.
If the checks stop coming, FAMILY members will be calling because they will have to support their elders or let them die. And those family members are also often raising young people so they will be crushed by the debt.
A thing I hadn't considered: more than 30 states have "filial responsibility laws." You have to take care of your parents whether you want to or not. (Credit: @parkroseperma.bsky.social ) https://youtube.com/shorts/UmEa4v7hsds?si=rF6hR7o49d7GAwNV
The outcry from those with families, if effective enough to have an impact, will also benefit seniors who have no family to object. And I believe the pushback will be substantial enough.
What the actual truth is, they might call a social security office eventually, but first they are gonna call you. You will take days off work to deal with this problem that this dipshit and his lord and savior just created for all Americans with older parents, and their parents. Everyone loses.
He could wipe his 🫏 with what most people take home from SS and not miss a single cent of it. Even just 1 billion is more money than most anyone can fathom and he has several of them. Oligarchs are the most dangerous group to democracy there ever was.
He’s trying to condition the American people (or at least Trump supporters) to believe only crooks will be complaining when they cut off the money for everyone.
It won't work with SS, though. Most people - even or perhaps especially Trump supporters - know damn well that every paycheck they've ever received had money taken out for SS and that they're supposed to get that money back when they retire.
Exactly, they’re associating people who complain about not getting their earned benefits with fraud. This also sounds like an admission that no one’s getting their checks next month
I'm not a crook and I've spoken with SS at least 3 or 4 times in 2 months over payment issues. It's exactly what he's trying to do. If he and his ilk can minimize this service, he thinks people won't complain when it's gone. WRONG.
And if there's no number to call, who will hear them complain? It'll be like the covid testing > if you don't test as much, you have fewer cases. 🤦🏻♀️
Extremely wealthy people don't exist on the same plane of reality as the rest of us. Between the ability to do whatever they want, whenever they want and having nearly every single person around them enable their bad behavior warps their brains.
Yeah, the guy who's got his dead Mom in the freezer, he's the guy who's gonna be jumping up and down yelling, not the billionaire's Mom living in a multimillion dollar house, whose monthly SS check wouldn't even cover the landscaping maintenance.
His 95 yo MIL likely doesn’t need that check, right?
But even so, SS deposits have always been there.
Always.
So when the money isn’t there it’s highly unusual.
If I don’t get mine you can better believe I’ll be hollering!
This motherfucker can’t conceive of people having a problem waiting another month for their checks? Especially a 94 year old who hasn’t worked in 30 fucking years??
JFC you think there's any tension at Thanksgiving?
"OK, great seeing you. We're taking a private jet to Turks & Caicos and hey look, the free senior shuttle bus is here to take you back to assisted living thxbai!"
Never mind that fraudsters absolutely do not make the most noise... they create as little wake as possible to stay beneath the radar. God dammit this guy pisses me off.
Eh. As someone whose dealt with people who write bad checks freaking out over check verification not going through, there is a grain of truth to that... buy people have been legitimately dicked over also complain too. Lol
Well, Hitler was pretty vague about his actual policies and the result was basically that his henchmen then proceeded on a race to absolute bottom to try and impress him with their cruelty.
This is all a malignant narcissist's retribution tour and every American is on his list because he lost.
If he’s telegraphing that checks won’t go out in April , I’m gonna call my mortgage company and negotiate a delay till I can scrape together the house payment! Oh fuk ! This is frightening! #ProtectSocialSecurity
In the olden days, when I worked for a GOP Member of Congress if you had trouble like this with federal agencies you could ask for help from Congressional staff.
I expect GOP offices these days, with their infamous lack of empathy, just ignore you.
let's say he's not arguing in bad faith (he is), it STILL shows he has never been poor in his life. @kenmartin.bsky.social this is like shooting fish a barrel, come the fuck on
His mother in law doesn't give AF if she gets her minimal Social Security check she lives on family money c'mon dude.
I had no idea until this week this guy was from the Cantor Fitzgerald family
Ok clarification after further study.... He ran Cantor Fitzgerald after Cantor died he's not from the family itself. Still he has an interesting history full of what I would call "decisions that should have been examined more fully"
This included getting Cantor to sign a succession plan so he could take over Cantor Fitzgerald against the family's wishes (Cantor's wife sued him saying Cantor lacked the mental capacity to sign the papers)
So.... he wrestled the company away from the founders just like Elon did with Tesla. Fun!
All those 75 to 95 year-old fraudsters out there complaining when their Social Security checks don’t arrive.
That’s the problem.
Not a bunch of ketamine fueled techbros pawing through everyone’s sensitive and private personal data and deleting it without rhyme, reason or legal justification.
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My 4 siblings and I will call and complain for 93yo Mom, because she's literally ENTITLED to the benefits she and her employer (and my deceased father who was self-employed) contributed to all those years.
So if you're illegitimately having your check withheld you should say nothing, because if you complain you'll almost certainly a fraudster? It would explain why Trump whines and bitches so much, but otherwise it's about the dumbest shit I've heard all week, and that's quite something these days.
70+ million American's, across all parties, all ethnicities, all ages, are about to tear Trump and Nut-Lick apart limb by limb. The head of SS just threatened to shut it all down. They are doing it to defy the judge under the guise that they don't know how to get Musk out of the department.
Wealthy elites have no clue what it’s like to live SScheck to SScheck.We paid into it; we have a right to think it will be there when we need it. I spoke to the owner of an insurance company. He said poor people don’t have insurance because they just don’t want it. This is how the super rich think.
A vote for a Republican is a vote for someone who could neither get nor keep a regular job to make decisions about almost every important aspect of your life.
So, if you're freaked out over not being able to pay your rent and utilities and call about it, you're a fraud. I mean, who cares about being evicted? Small potatoes. 🙄
No, she would call her son-in-law, the well-connected Lutnick, to find out where the hell her Social Security check is, you would make some calls, and she would get her check. Plus she probably has savings to buffer her for a month or two.
So ….about all those industry lobbyists who show up to complain about legislation and send out wild apocalyptic press releases about what will happen if regulations get passed…..
I can't stand much more of these imbeciles who have no clue as to how many people live from one social security check to the next and are forced to make choices between food and medicine.
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If there is a hell, I hope they all burn in it someday.
My 85 year old mother would go without food and medicine. She and I both would yell and complain since she and I both put money into the Soc Sec system.
I can’t quite understand ppl when they incite anger in millions of others. I would be afraid to be seen in public. There are SO many guns on the streets these days.
Just like I'm sure Lutnick wouldn't call about money owed to him from his businesses. He'd just let it slide. Every time he speaks I feel like I need a shower to wash off the delusional grift.
Whether it's BILLIONAIRE Howard Lutnick thinking it's OK for average Americans to miss a #SocialSecurity payment or Republicans on Capitol Hill, like Ted Cruz/Virginia Foxx, buying expensive Teslas, the message Republicans are sending LOUD & CLEAR to Americans is: Suck it, you fools!
There is an odd parallel between this and the logic used to determine witches. If they float, a witch, sink, not a witch. If they complain, a fraudster, if they silently accept losing their Social Security, not a fraudster. But the result is the same either way.
So his mother in law does not need her social check to live on, it’s bonus spending money for her. She can afford not to complain. The people who need it for rent and food have to complain. Lutnick thinks *needing* social security is a sign of fraud. What an ignorant evil asshole.
Your mother in law has lots of resources and will be just fine. Unfortunately, many millions of recipients rely on their monthly check to survive. Has there ever been a cabinet more out of touch with the common citizen?
I don't think that the hunger of their children will chill the rage of MAGA. I don't think the homelessness of their parents will chill MAGA. Anger always trumps logic.
My mom doesn't depend on this and is maga, but she would literally call every hour, on the hour, if the check didn't come. She would probably camp out in person in front of their office, assuming they haven't closed it. I hope they stress test this. FAFO.
Reminds me of a story- a famous actor was interviewed and asked about his success, and he replied "All these houses and cars and money, and what good is it all when my mother is living in an unheated apartment in a third floor walkup in the Bronx?"
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Can’t imagine you can talk like this and have the respect of a single relative of normal person, only circle of YES men and other billionaires type a**holes
There's a whole agriculturesky for that, or maybe a veterinariansky? I don't know.
All the old racist abuses are being repurposed for the entire population now. We let these systems fester and grow, and now they are being used on us.
But even so, SS deposits have always been there.
Always.
So when the money isn’t there it’s highly unusual.
If I don’t get mine you can better believe I’ll be hollering!
You're worth $2B and your MIL is on social security?
Dafuq
"OK, great seeing you. We're taking a private jet to Turks & Caicos and hey look, the free senior shuttle bus is here to take you back to assisted living thxbai!"
Yes, "fraudsters" double down when confronted, in some cases... but fuck this guy everything he says sucks lol
This is all a malignant narcissist's retribution tour and every American is on his list because he lost.
The frail ones, well....
He’ll get tossed soon.
Too much exposure and pissing off everyone.
I expect GOP offices these days, with their infamous lack of empathy, just ignore you.
I had no idea until this week this guy was from the Cantor Fitzgerald family
So.... he wrestled the company away from the founders just like Elon did with Tesla. Fun!
"Yes, she'd probably be found dead a week later by the cleaner, which I am still paying for."
That’s the problem.
Not a bunch of ketamine fueled techbros pawing through everyone’s sensitive and private personal data and deleting it without rhyme, reason or legal justification.
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Not that he leaves her depending on social security, but they just don't know anything about how normal people live
I forgot, only the “best” people!! We’re all on to you, 47!!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/joellawsondc.bsky.social/post/3lkvq3twj3s2s
Folks are crazy like that. Pay money in? You expect it when it's due. Kinda like the government come tax day.
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If there is a hell, I hope they all burn in it someday.
You don't complain if you don't need the money and you don't want to draw attention to yourself.
Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on threat to close agency
Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3lkw3cpgimc2m
Letter 1: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.51.0_2.pdf
Letter 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.52.0.pdf
"The TRO expressly applies only to SSA employees working on the DOGE agenda. It has no bearing on ordinary operations at SSA."
#SocialSecurity
#TeslaTakedown
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Perfectly describes Musk and Trump, the loudest, whiniest complainers of all.