I kind of think this actual threat to shut down Social Security

[CC27]

senseandsensibility

I kind of think this actual threat to shut down Social Security
should be receiving at least as many screaming headlines as the anonymous "Joe Biden too Old" ones that we were subjected to for months.

It was a real threat. Made in public. By someone who has the power to do it.

Break the glass moment if you ask me.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220163299

They just can't let this go. 🙄🙄🙄

[FunkyZero]

They just can't let this go. 🙄🙄🙄

They are pretty desperate for a successful propaganda campaign to take the focus off of how much they suck. If there's one thing left-wingers are good at, it's lying. They are taking every average missed payment or late deposit and claiming it's Evil-Elon singling someone out. The best part is the stupid people, almost all democrats, are the only ones who actually believe it.
Fixing their own retarded policy is never an option with those idiots, it's always a campaign to try getting people to focus somewhere else, and honesty is not part of the formula.

[SVPete]

DU-Denizens are trying to move from Elon is stealing Social Security to Social Security will be "shut down"?

[CC27]

They are pretty desperate for a successful propaganda campaign to take the focus off of how much they suck. If there's one thing left-wingers are good at, it's lying. They are taking every average missed payment or late deposit and claiming it's Evil-Elon singling someone out. The best part is the stupid people, almost all democrats, are the only ones who actually believe it.
Fixing their own retarded policy is never an option with those idiots, it's always a campaign to try getting people to focus somewhere else, and honesty is not part of the formula.

High five

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

We need to track all of their doomed-to-fail prophecies. Of course, knowing these liars, they will claim their unyielding opposition thwarted Trump.

[SVPete]

We need to track all of their doomed-to-fail prophecies. Of course, knowing these liars, they will claim their unyielding opposition thwarted Trump.

mal deserves a section all her own. Her pellucidity surged in the latter halves of 2016 and 2024.

[DUmpDiver]

We need to track all of their doomed-to-fail prophecies. Of course, knowing these liars, they will claim their unyielding opposition thwarted Trump.

I agree. We need a congressional committee for this. We can put Pelosi and Schiff in charge with Paul Krugman as a special economic advisor.

[BamaMoose]

They are pretty desperate for a successful propaganda campaign to take the focus off of how much they suck. If there's one thing left-wingers are good at, it's lying. They are taking every average missed payment or late deposit and claiming it's Evil-Elon singling someone out. The best part is the stupid people, almost all democrats, are the only ones who actually believe it.
Fixing their own retarded policy is never an option with those idiots, it's always a campaign to try getting people to focus somewhere else, and honesty is not part of the formula.

Yep.  Expect a lot of posts like this one from a month ago:

Xipe Totec (44,263 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 01:13 AM
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EP483 US Social Security Administration Suspends Accounts for Retirees Abroad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6s_45DJcI

In this video the publisher shares the current state of social security suspending accounts for those select people overseas and the confusion as no notice of action nor warnings come to the recipients either by mail or in their personal MySocialSecurity accounts online.

In the YouTube video (which runs 30 minutes) some guy who lives oversea and gets Social Security rants about how his payments were suspended and how it's somehow Trump's fault.  However, he spends a significant amount of time in the video identifying why his payments were suspended.  Apparently, if you collect Social Security overseas there is a form you need to fill out periodically to confirm/update your personal information.  The SSA was supposed to notify him to fill out this form last summer and was supposed to send him a follow-up reminder last fall.  He claims that didn't happen.  Apparently, this is not an isolated issue as it made national news that thousands of people were affected (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/benefits-suspended-americans-abroad-suddenly-203035535.html).  If I remember correctly there was this guy named Biden who was President last year, so, let's see who could be at fault:

   a.  The bureaucrats at SSA for not sending out the notices to make sure payments were going out properly.
   b.  The Biden administration for not making sure that the bureaucrats at SSA sent out the notices to make sure payments were going out properly.
   c.  The guy, who actually did get the form, but was so busy creating ridiculously long, stupid YouTube videos he neglected to take care of business.
   d.  Someone else who had no role in the federal government last year.

The DUmmies, of course, chose option d.

people (764 posts)
1. Wow

So AWFUL!

Lifeafter70 (477 posts)
2. I told hubby yesterday that this would be their first blow to ss

They think it's mostly dems that retire overseas and their base will be happy with this.

GreenWave (10,754 posts)
18. So DeJoy to the demons' rescue. He will slow down the process.

DeJoy?  When did he start running the SSA?  Or is he Postmaster General of the World?

KS Toronado (21,008 posts)
9. Lets make sure MSM reports on this a lot

Everyone receiving SS benefits and soon to be retirees need to hear about this without being white-washed or gas-lighted that Eloon is coming after YOU next.

We need to get the word out on social media, spread the word. This will be the downfall of the reQublican party we've been hoping for, plus Eloon might get kicked to the curb.

MSM did report on it and guess what?  It's Biden's fault.

BoRaGard (4,575 posts)
15. repubes are STEALING from retirees to give tax breaks to billionaires

G.O.P. a-holery has no bottom

And another swing and a miss.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220035345