Summary
Staff at the Social Security Administration (SSA) warn the agency is in “complete, utter chaos” due to drastic budget cuts, office closures, and job losses led by Elon Musk.
Plans to cut 7,000 jobs and centralize operations have disrupted services, with website outages and record backlogs.
Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek backs DOGE’s changes, despite union opposition and legal pushback. Critics say Musk is pushing misinformation to justify dismantling SSA.
With staffing at 50-year lows, experts fear a “death spiral” and potential collapse in service delivery.
I dunno. Fucking with trans people, black people, women is cool. Destroying the economy in general is cool. Eradicating education and free lunches is cool. Cozying up to foreign states that are clearly fascist is cool. Sexually assaulting women is cool.
But fucking with old, white people’s money is most certainly not cool. It’s surprising how quickly a mind is changed when it is finally their turn to suffer. This isn’t something many seniors can live without, literally. They rely on social security as their only income source. If social security fails, the Republicans will kill a significant portion of their own voter base.
Dead people don’t vote.
Well, if the qons think their elections are at risk because they killed so many of their own base, they’ll find a way.
No, when the checks stop coming Conservative media will say “This is all part of Trump’s Master Plan, the woke corruption runs deep and it will take a while to fully root it all out”, and their voters will buy it (but nothing else, since they all are running out of money)…
Good thing Fox news is on cable something that won’t be able to afford without those checks. So I hope they al fucking strave to death. Sick of these old fucks getting in the way and stopping progress. Because of their short sited racist views.
It’s not just Fox anymore, though. If anything, the hardcore ones have migrated off of Fox onto other, more extreme platforms.
Like Facebook, which boomers are addicted to and lap up every bit of misinformation years after telling their kids “not to believe everything they read on the internet”
Yea it’s oan newsmax, right wing grifters
They can excuse racism, but they draw the line on welfare
Thank you, Britta.
I’m not giving them any sympathy. They voted for it.
I already expected that I won’t get Social Security as a Millennial because of these fucks. They simply added everyone else to that list.
My mom still refuses to believe they’ll end social security as they’ve “been saying that for 30+ years”, but I guess she’ll learn that Musk doesn’t give a shit.
Not only that job prospects for some fields are piss poor or extremely difficult to get into it
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Not in this scenario. They’ll play both sides.