Screw them kids!
If you listen to Elon Musk, and the MAGA propagandists, kids getting social security benefits is clearly fraud...except it isn't. Inside the game to strip our benefits.
Have you heard the one about 4 and 150-year-olds getting Social Security?
It’s a good one and it’s very popular in MAGA world these days since the world’s greatest genius himself, Elon Musk, started spreading the word about his massive discoveries at the Social Security Administration! He has been very vocal about the outrageous things his evil Oompah Loompah’s at DOGE have found when breaking into our social security records and more.
It was only a few weeks ago they opened their assault on Social Security by wrapping every lie in a cloak of waste and fraud. This is the playbook they are using but it may be reaching its all but predictable breaking point.
Americans are waking to the assault on our earned benefits and they aren’t going to take it. Of course, this doesn’t stop the desperate lies, the twisting of facts, and the all out assault to break our government.
It’s started all the way back in February when DOGE was able to access Social Security records for the first time and put an AI scrubber through. It only took a short time for Elon to appear on Joe Rogan to blow up the SHOCKING RESULTS!
They found that there were 20 million dead people…marked as alive! Everything after that is all made up. They then trickled out more shocking statistics. For example, there are thousands of people who would be over 150-years old and still marked as alive!
It took experts about 15 minutes to point out how stupid they were.
Wired has the story:
Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project had uncovered massive government fraud when it alleged that 150-year-olds were claiming Social Security benefits.
But Musk has provided no evidence to back up his claims, and experts quickly pointed out that this is very likely just a quirk of the decades-old coding language that underpins the government payment systems.
Computer programmers quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud but rather the result of a weird quirk of the Social Security Administration’s benefits system, which was largely written in COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language that undergirds SSA’s databases as well as systems from many other US government agencies.
COBOL is rarely used today, and as such, Musk’s cadre of young engineers may well be unfamiliar with it.
Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.
These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
That’s just one possible explanation for what DOGE allegedly found. Musk could also have simply looked up the SSA’s own website, which explains that since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.
So, no.
No one who is 150-years-old, or faking they are, is being paid social security and the convoluted conspiracy he makes up for Rogan is truly completely out of his ass. There isn’t a shred of proof that any of this fraud is occurring but they have to feed the masses the lies.
If you want to spike a headache search Twitter for this topic and you’ll be flooded by an outpouring of right wing influencers peddling his lies word-for-word.
They’re giving social security to kids!!
So, it only took a moment to go to a new, and even more outrageous discovery!
THEY ARE GIVING KIDS AS YOUNG AS 1-YEAR OLDS SOCIAL SECURITY!
Yes, you heard that right! The eagle eyed sleuths at DOGE including Big Balls and his friends found even little kids supposedly getting social security payments! Thus a flood of jokes about retiring young!
That lie lives on. Here is the latest version from none other than Judge Box-of-Wine herself last week on the Five.
You can hear Jessica Tarlov directly interjecting that its a lie. Jenine does not care and bulldozes right through with the lie.
Why would little kids get payments? Those are children whose parents have died and they are being paid survivor benefits. They are getting their deceased parents social security for support until they turn 18. Recent reporting from SSA itself estimates about 2.7 million children receive social security survivor benefits.
I’m actually pretty familiar with it myself as I have loved ones whose father passed away when they were only 5 and 3-years-old who have been getting his survivor benefits since. It has helped support their families and was earned by their father through his lifetime of work.
I guess they will be shocked to find out disabled people get social security disability payments along with millions of veterans too!
It’s all bullshit
The entire charade is meant to divide us. They want us to question objective reality. They want us to say “yes, I’ve paid into social security my entire working life but I’m being ripped off but THOSE people!” Fill in the “THOSE” with disabled people, kids, and, of course the worst of all, IMMIGRANTS!
The latest truly evil maneuver is to override federal regulations and mark immigrants who have been told to pay their taxes and get social security numbers even though they aren’t eligible, as dead. They are going to “unalive” people who are still living to disenfranchise them from other benefits and identify people to kidnap.
Of course, we all already know they are making massive mistakes and have sent deportation notices to American citizens and disappeared legal residents and the wrong targets. You can be sure they are going to database kill thousands of Americans.
The process once that happens is a massive headache that can take months. ABC has a story in March of one man that has been dealing with it:
An 82-year-old man in Seattle woke up feeling very much alive until he and his wife opened a letter from his bank stating he was deceased.
Ned Johnson was mistakenly declared dead, which led to the cancellation of his Social Security benefits. It took him two months to prove the mistake, including numerous phone calls, letters to government officials and enduring a four-hour wait at his local Social Security office, he said.
And he told ABC News the problem is continuing to follow him.
"I've since learned that I'm on the Death Master File that apparently is going to chase me for the rest of my life," Johnson told ABC News. "It means that when Social Security declared me as deceased, there's a file that's kept ... that I'm listed on and, apparently, it doesn't go away. So we're struggling with a few issues now that are starting to crop up since we started this whole thing."
This will cause more hardship for senior citizens, survivors, and disabled Americans all in a false effort to prove there is fraud in such a massive scale the whole system needs to be tossed out after they have vacuumed up all of our personal data.
That’s the goal. Vacuum up millions of private records and do whatever they want with them. We literally have no idea who most of the DOGE employees are, they haven’t been cleared by any government security agency, and they are known to be installing AI crawlers and outside drives to the government databases.
No one is stopping them and Congress is busy and didn’t see that tweet…or something.
So, it’s on us. We must take to the streets, the airwaves, social media, and the halls of Congress to demand they do their damn jobs. Millions are pending massive losses and all so Elon can make up a new number of fake savings.
All so they can dismantle the public safety net and get us all in their factories. We have a long list of things to fight. This is a big one.
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I'm 69. My husband and I learned during the early days of covid that generally people don't care about seniors and kids. The rejection of vaccines and masks because they couldn't be bothered to care about vulnerable people. I'm seeing this casual disregard resurface now.
That's why we need to cancel all his contracts when all the Democrats get in office because he's such a liar. He just wants to trash everything because it's his billions and trillions of dollars that he doesn't want taxed. He's an a******.