For years, Dems have raised the alarm about Rs slashing Social Security, and Rs denied it. Now, Elon Musk’s DOGE is pitching massive cuts to Social Security at Trump's behest. While seniors struggle to make ends meet, the richest man on Earth wants to take money away from them. - ThreadSky

danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co • 80 days ago

For years, Dems have raised the alarm about Rs slashing Social Security, and Rs denied it.

Now, Elon Musk’s DOGE is pitching massive cuts to Social Security at Trump's behest.

While seniors struggle to make ends meet, the richest man on Earth wants to take money away from them.

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rollin1303.bsky.social•80 days ago

We rep what we sow

kestrel61.bsky.social•80 days ago

People didn’t believe Trump would do all the nasty shit he is doing. FAFO moron red hats.

djjakej.bsky.social•80 days ago

It will not Stand! They work for Putin!

shigeyo.bsky.social•80 days ago

... like👇this person - gutting social security was agenda but when asked, made poker face, Now after the election, they start making a move.

muskrapeskids.bsky.social•69 days ago

A reminder that Daniel Sachs Goldman, like Trump and Musk, inherited his enormous wealth from his vile family, and, like them, has never had to work a a day in his life. None can be trusted with the Social Security that people who do work for a living depend upon, and have funded.

coolafboomermom.bsky.social•80 days ago

He is putting a target on his own back.

robinbudd.bsky.social•80 days ago

Yeah, WE KNOW.
But what are YOU doing about it.

lexington-pelham.bsky.social•80 days ago

Funny how the waste fraud and abuse is never committed by the white collar guys committing waste fraud and abuse.

halfpint.bsky.social•80 days ago

You ASSHOLES BETTER NOT TOUCH IT

lisapottery.bsky.social•80 days ago

Musk did not win an election. Shouldn’t his hired position at least be approved by the Senate? I mean, he’s just there making loud noises.

lisapottery.bsky.social•80 days ago

Social Security is not an entitlement. It is money we paid into while working years and years.

terryklamb.bsky.social•80 days ago

We are going to have to flood them with phone calls. Even pro-Trump people won't be silent.

dino219.bsky.social•80 days ago

Massive cuts to putting people on Mars. Absolutely no reason we should be paying for that

shoshanna7111.bsky.social•80 days ago

Do something

lifelongtennisfan.bsky.social•80 days ago

So we can give more tax breaks to wildly profitable companies as they b reduce services and lay people off.

creativecatalyst.bsky.social•79 days ago

How about those that earn more
than $142,000/yr pay the same % into FICA- problem solved.

williegreen2569.bsky.social•80 days ago

Cynical and sinister

oldgasyman.bsky.social•80 days ago

The Government is running a massive deficit. If ignored the results could hit critical mass. I hate to say it, Elon is trying to save the US. This is by no means a mission for popularity.

susieblacksheep.bsky.social•80 days ago

Elon is NOT trying to save the US. He likes the attention and power that comes with this ridiculous made up agency. His mission is chaos and whatever govt funding he can score for himself.

paneintheazz.bsky.social•80 days ago

Fuck him too! 🤬

izzyjrjr.bsky.social•80 days ago

Why are these rich POS so damn greedy!

beckyann47.bsky.social•80 days ago

A billionaire having a lazy armchair discussion with no facts or actual knowledge. Meanwhile, if they simply raised the payroll withholding limit so rich people paid a fairer share, funding of these vital programs would not be an issue.

secretoriginz.bsky.social•80 days ago

barb1158.bsky.social•79 days ago

STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!

shampoochan13.bsky.social•80 days ago

I wish I would be that delulu likeva trump support

myfurbabies.bsky.social•80 days ago

This will lead to a significant increase in sinicide & social death of the elderly. This includes nursing home dumping & granny dumping, wherein people, regardless of mental capacity or physical health, are left in public places (or not) to, ultimately, die.

myfurbabies.bsky.social•80 days ago

When people cavalierly discuss cutting or ending Medicare and Social Security, this is what they are referring to. They need to be put on blast. What they propose is murder.

mugvogue.bsky.social•80 days ago

are you on X?

myfurbabies.bsky.social•80 days ago

Not any more. What's going on there? Have the MAGAS started to find out?

mugvogue.bsky.social•80 days ago

MAGAs never connect the dots. it’s always the Dems’ fault. I asked about Twitter because I wanted to RT your ⬆️ post about cuts to Social Security and Medicare etc amounting to murder.

myfurbabies.bsky.social•79 days ago

Sure, just take my handle off of it. Even stuff like this is bound to flip them out.

ann702.bsky.social•80 days ago

Liars lie with a straight face.

mygovexpert.bsky.social•76 days ago

Former SSA Manager perspective: https://youtube.com/live/5MoxYR2aq80?feature=share

christinelouise.bsky.social•80 days ago

That is my damn money. They had better not touch one penny of what I worked so hard for.

oldbrownshoe.bsky.social•80 days ago

The price of eggs just got harder to buy if they take away your social security.

I wish someone warned them…

drbirdeye.bsky.social•80 days ago

I think most people are ok if they reduce fraud in social security and Medicare.

diakuy.bsky.social•80 days ago

How naive

drbirdeye.bsky.social•80 days ago

That's what it reads in the marked paragraph he linked.

miketan.bsky.social•80 days ago

hard to do at scale without making the lives of non-fraudulent claimants worse.

dproper.bsky.social•80 days ago

Social Security is NOT an entitlement program. People that get social security payments paid into it their entire working lives. They EARNED it for their retirement! Keep your hands off!!!!!!

nicoleann.bsky.social•80 days ago

Claps on electing the world's richest man, an immigrant (one time illegal immigrant) to tell Americans to go f**k themselves. Yes, by electing trump, they elected the Oligarchy.

shadowbox73.bsky.social•80 days ago

They’ll continue to deny it and further, manage somehow to place all the blame on the Dems.

ceindeed.bsky.social•80 days ago

I think Musk needs to read up on what happened in France in 1789.

guywithsongs.bsky.social•80 days ago

How did Republicans manage to convince voters that they are on the side of ordinary Americans?

shadowcreekman15.bsky.social•80 days ago

Don't forget the Disabled Community of which I am a member. Not by choice, but necessity. The South African Space Nazi & Racist Indian wants to cut ours too.

chicken-chick.bsky.social•80 days ago

That’s our fucking money!! That slimy immigrant can go to hell… the sooner the better 🖕🤬

dragonfalconeagle.bsky.social•80 days ago

Cut it for rich old people. Keep it for poor old people

scharper72.bsky.social•80 days ago

True, but Republicans told us that was a lie.

artweber.bsky.social•80 days ago

It's NOT immigrants or trans folks who are coming after the ACA, Social Security, Medicare, & *veteran's* healthcare. It's BILLIONAIRES like Musk and Ramaswamy. They push for PLUTOCRACY while hiding behind a made-up Dep't of Government "Efficiency."

Resist!
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org

lt-jlh.bsky.social•80 days ago

next will be "T4 Aktion".google it

mfperry.bsky.social•80 days ago

They are
Truly not prepared for the backlash they’ll face if they try to cut these benefits.

genxscribbler.bsky.social•80 days ago

Someone is going to take Elon and Vivek to the train station one day.

odannyboy.bsky.social•80 days ago

It’s so great we have an unelected ketamine addict deciding these things

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•80 days ago

You are going to see it happen. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/?m=1

msgtvetret.bsky.social•80 days ago

Okay, so this is kind of like a proverbial "mass deportation" of "illegal" entitlement recipients including those dependent on social security, veterans' health care, Medicare, and Medicaid. Define illegal. Cutting fraud, waste and abuse is fine, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

mellofellow.bsky.social•80 days ago

Bro needs some receipts before making claims like the wrong people are receiving benefits.

friedokra.bsky.social•80 days ago

Bingo! This is like the millions of fraudlent votes the deranged musketeers - Donny, Rudy and Mr. Pillow - keep swearing they will produce evidence for, but in fact have failed to produce any evidence in 61 court cases, to name a few.

curtthoughts.bsky.social•80 days ago

I can't believe people fell for another Trump lie. Maybe this Trump flyer can be used against him.

thatguyjerry.bsky.social•80 days ago

Hey Dan, big fan. In future hearings, can you please ask these clowns if they understand that cabinet posts are the result of the legislative body, not the whim of man-child presidents?

Thanks

mairestar.bsky.social•80 days ago

Social Security is NOT an “entitlement”. We paid for it, out of our paychecks.

3olives.bsky.social•80 days ago

Reminder that Rs will spend millions to save just a handful of dollars. https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/just-we-suspected-florida-saved-nothing-drug-testing-welfare

friedokra.bsky.social•80 days ago

Do we need any further proof that DOGE is complete BS than the fact that the appointment process is a case study in inefficiency and waste? They want to hire incompetent, biased wackos with no vetting. Elon would never hire any of these clowns at Tesla, SpaceX or his Montessori preschool.

ttothep.bsky.social•80 days ago

The crap he's (musk) saying is not backed up by facts.

lmfao.wtf•80 days ago

Has it ever been?

nancyruth.bsky.social•80 days ago

I've always heard that messing with Social Security is "the third rail", and it is! Any Congressperson who votes for that is GONE.

alwayscorrect.bsky.social•80 days ago

Not now when so many are so easy to lie to. They'll just blame the democrats and immigrants and that will be the reality for half the country

cmsp.bsky.social•80 days ago

Make America United Healthcare, Inc.

utexas-96.bsky.social•80 days ago

These people have no idea how social security is funded.

pughkhee.bsky.social•79 days ago

Maybe you can find out (1) where’s the evidence and (2) what happens when they (elon/rami) screw this up.

zactli.bsky.social•80 days ago

Doge is only real if you listen to the idiots inside it. Don’t legitimize this stupidity.

castanton.bsky.social•80 days ago

Elon and his fellow DOGErs are forgetting that we have paid money into Social Security and Medicare. It is not our fault that it wasn't invested in order to produce the money needed to payout after we retire. Don't cut output, increase growth of the funds.

snowdragonium.bsky.social•80 days ago

Now they're going to start with the BS narrative of fraudulent claims like their wet-dream, circle-jerk fantasies about voting fraud

spiril.bsky.social•80 days ago

Trump is setting up billionaire rule and the groundwork for something like the French Revolution.

mlroff.bsky.social•80 days ago

He’s thinking he can treat this like the elusive, delusional massive voter fraud they hollered about. It didn’t exist, folks.

ko57s.bsky.social•80 days ago

I would say maybe it’s because they are trying to help Vance get the grandmas back in babysitting mode…(they’d have to charge an hourly rate to watch their grandkids) except they don’t seem to be paying much attention to him anymore. Is he still around?

boulderdaisy.bsky.social•80 days ago

How about he pay his taxes and sthu

boulderdaisy.bsky.social•80 days ago

You don’t expect them to consider adding revenue by scraping the cap on SS contributions or closing loopholes for the wealthy?

old-tired.bsky.social•79 days ago

So, what is he really planning/doing while we're distracted by this?

patricia59.bsky.social•79 days ago

great question!

ellencdesq.bsky.social•80 days ago

AARP and other groups that lobby for seniors need to shout loud and clear so that the constituents of these heartless Republicans can hit them with a barrage of phone calls and letters.

flminjay.bsky.social•80 days ago

It's our money, we earned it! I paid into SS since I was 16 until I retired at 65. So did my late hubby.The richest man in the world who has never worried about how to spend his last dollar, should not be cutting government programs that people need. Millions of old people will be homeless.

markthepatientman.bsky.social•80 days ago

If it wasn't for Social Security, my wife and I would be homeless. And, I am a disabled Vet with medical issues. Republicans have been threatening this for years. 70 million people will be a little more than just upset.

nsxguy73.bsky.social•80 days ago

The harsh realities of the Orange Menace’s lies will begin on 1/20/25

tracyc.bsky.social•80 days ago

They began in the 70s.

nsxguy73.bsky.social•80 days ago

I agree….but those who voted for Trump in 2024 will see the negative consequences of their votes!

tracyc.bsky.social•80 days ago

Some will, I fear many are lost due to the propaganda they've fed on.

mtnmystic.bsky.social•80 days ago

See page 605, Project 2025. Of course that’s always been their plan. We tried to tell the red hats, but they’re deaf to anyone who’s not Trump.

shundy1978.bsky.social•80 days ago

Surprise surprise...this is rhe same guy that said Americans will need to endure some pain. The richest man on earth that won't feel a thing is deciding/recommending who gets to feel the pain and just dismissing it like no big deal

kemek.bsky.social•80 days ago

bensterboy.bsky.social•80 days ago

That’s a bit harsh. The Supreme Court had more to do with delays

epluribus.bsky.social•80 days ago

This is how Trump avoids the blame.

pedelpusher.bsky.social•80 days ago

We need less of Elon and more Dolly Partons

gototown.bsky.social•80 days ago

We need to make sure the right people are getting social security sounds a lot like voter ID. Are they going to cherry pick people for benefits based on race? Are they going to gerrymander benefits?

miketan.bsky.social•80 days ago

my guess is he’s mostly talking about disability payments.

gototown.bsky.social•80 days ago

And that's discrimination as well

miketan.bsky.social•80 days ago

Sure. There’s definitely some level of fraudulent claims in the current system, but eliminating them without harming legitimate claimants is not easy - and probably not a priority for these people.

alwayscorrect.bsky.social•80 days ago

Yeah, they will likely use the same approach they try with voting. Find a few anecdotes of fraud (some won't even check out), and then use them as an excuse to make it more difficult for everyone so many who qualify won't be able to complete the process and give up.

gototown.bsky.social•80 days ago

That makes sense

mlroff.bsky.social•80 days ago

🎯

khaosan.bsky.social•80 days ago

Sickening.

davelikescars.bsky.social•80 days ago

If entitlement fraud was in the hundreds of billions range I’m assuming someone before now would’ve figured it out.

cruzankenny.bsky.social•80 days ago

I don’t understand. Based on the highlighted portion, the aim is to cut billions from fraud.
If they find it I am going to thank them.
I believe they have hyped each other up to expect billions, when that won’t be the case. What comes after that failure is going to become the problem.

karlasu2.bsky.social•80 days ago

As if billionaires are the authorities on saving money. Ask working moms. Ask college students.

outspokenwoman.bsky.social•80 days ago

I'm sick and tired of Social Security being referred to as an entitlement! It is NOT an ENTITLEMENT!! The damn government needs to keep its hands OFF SS and repay the "borrowed" principal amount NOW!

demgirl24251.bsky.social•80 days ago

It is actually an entitlement - the money that we paid into while working and are entitled to receive. I say if they cut Social Security, give me all the money I paid into it for 30 years.

bensterboy.bsky.social•80 days ago

Plus interest

outspokenwoman.bsky.social•54 days ago

The perception is that the term entitlement indicates that it is not an earned benefit in these political times.

outspokenwoman.bsky.social•80 days ago

Don't forget what your employers contributed also.

ladyfville.bsky.social•80 days ago

...because OF COURSE, We the People should never have access to the programs WE paid our hard work into? I guess we ALL should have gone into politics instead

alanhowe.bsky.social•80 days ago

If we are not going to use the intelligence we have gathered about Trump's compromised relationship with Putin right now to defend our nation, when are we going to use it? Never?

Make Biden #DeclassifyTrump, so we can force the Congress to #ImpeachTrumpNow.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00

kimrn81.bsky.social•80 days ago

If only…oh never mind

patricia59.bsky.social•79 days ago

The working folk funded/fund SS, NOT the government...WTH...it's NO money out of the government's pocket to pay benefits!

richsmit.bsky.social•80 days ago

It’s out in the open now, no more denial.

noeinan.bsky.social•80 days ago

Anyone who has ever applied for SSDI/SSI knows it is already very difficult to get benefits even if you are extremely disabled. I was bedridden for years before I got approved, and the only reason I got approved was because someone with my illness went through years of appeals and educated staff.

creativecatalyst.bsky.social•79 days ago

I’m going on 4 years of waiting for SSDI. Haven’t received it yet and now this! If cut we all need to stop paying rents, mortgages, utilities, everything. Power of the people with their wallets. We will see what happens to the economy then. They think we are disposable.

trixxyil.bsky.social•80 days ago

Orrin Hatch proudly said poor people know how to make-do with less. Poor people are resourceful. Rich people don’t know how to go without, and republicans will never ask wealthy people to try.

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