SS deserves its own thread.

It has never been threatened as much as it is right now. Today.

sfb is going after it based on outrageous lies of fraud.

MAGA will believe him. And they will support him even as they sabotage their own welfare.

Former SSA administrator Martin O'Malley has said it could collapse in 30 days. Hyperbolic? Maybe. Should we ignore him? I don't think so.

SS used to be the third rail of politics.

It is not that any more.

further reading

Locked in the trunk of a Tesla

Man, they are **** the MAGAs even worse than the rest of us, aren't they?

The denigration of social security is going full steam ahead. 

Limiting, eliminating or privatizing social security is currently a third rail. But if its denigrated, often repeating lies, then people will start to believe. To make it no longer be a third rail. 

They hope their calumnies will cause the majority of the public to accept their replacement plan for social security.

Social Security is in the crosshairs of the Musk/Trump administration. First Musk came out with the claim that tens of millions of dead people are still receiving benefits. This claim has been thoroughly debunked, but still made its way into deputy president Trump’s big speech Tuesday. Then Musk began declaring that the 90-year-old program is a Ponzi scheme.

The first claim seems to reflect the fact that the Dunning-Kruger kids — the mostly very young staffers DOGE sent into the Social Security Administration, too incompetent to see their own incompetence — didn’t know how to interpret SSA databases. The second claim showed that Musk doesn’t understand what Social Security is or how it works.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-little-secret-of-social