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Jjamie's avatar

God, if that were me. My anxiety level would have shot out the roof. I could not have been calm in the SSA office. I would have been shaking and screaming (not meaning to do either) and I would have likely been arrested. This is all so frightening!!

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. I'm very glad I visited the downtown Social Security office with my state ID and marriage certificate to change my last name to a hyphenate. Still have to petition the court for the name change, but last time I did that (to change my name from the typo on the birth certificate) it was easy, so I believe this time will be easy, too. Ned should sue fElon skuM and the dogboys.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

And now DOGE is eliminating the SS phone system AND closing a bunch of their offices AND firing a bunch of staff. So if DOGE thinks you're dead and cuts off your Social Security you're pretty much shit out of luck.

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Anzu's avatar

Hank Green had a pretty good video on what the actual "fraud" is from Social Security - overpayments because the rules for SSI are so damn out of date, and so draconian.

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Alternative Dog's avatar

You know, there are some seriously good hackers out there. I wish a few of them would start waging a no-holds-barred attack against Leon and his Doge pubes. Bury those fuckers with every financial and social plague they can inflict.

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SterWonk's avatar

> It’s almost as if “move fast, break things,” is not actually a good way to manage the Federal Government and the benefits people are relying on to survive.

"Move fast and break things" is not an unreasonable attitude for *internal* *prototypes.*

Not for production, and sure as shit not when people's lives are at stake!

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SterWonk's avatar

> ... Musk’s folly ...

Going to need to be *way* more specific there, Robyn.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

My SS payment is due tomorrow. Let's see if I'm ded or not.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Can he bludgeon them with "waste, fraud and abuse" the way they're shamed us for DEI?

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Maybe's avatar

musky and his twee muskyteers. muskyrats?

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Elon is starting remind me of Bob Parr’s boss in the Incredibles (voiced by the incomparable Wallace Shawn) who was furious that Bob’s clients were “penetrating the bureaucracy” and able to get around all of the barriers that were designed to prevent them from collecting their benefits.

As always, the plan is to make government programs impossible to access so they can justify eliminating them or privatize them so all the money can be transferred into their pockets.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

Yes. Mr. Dorothea waited 6 months, endured physical therapy and neck pain in order to get an MRI. After the MRI they told him that they had spotted a nodule in his thyroid and recommended that he have that checked out. When Mr. Dorothea tried to make an appointment for that today they denied him. They demand a referral. DELAY, DELAY, DELAY, DENY, DELAY, repeat.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

I spent a year in which I had to use a walker fighting with my insurance company over a knee replacement.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

They do not fucking care.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

No they do not. I was in excruciating pain and all they was try to come up with excuses not pay. One time, they denied me for being a smoker.

I’ve never used tobacco products in my entire life. All of my medical charts said “non-smoker.” They lied just to delay things further.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

"THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS, THEY'RE EATING THE CATS!!!11!!"

Nothing this regime says or does is related to facts or truth.

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Maybe's avatar

Repubs are eating the truth and excreting smelly lies.

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Jens TINGLEFF's avatar

Speechless, here.

Courage to everyone who have to live through this without actually having called it upon themselves.

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Liminal's avatar

Yeah, the guys I knew who worked 80 hours a week came in at noon and fucked around half the day. Which was only fair since they were working so hard. I reckon they got about 40 hours of actual work done in their 80 hrs

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

That's why Union stewards always started a shift with "Give them a good seven hours, boys", because that would be about as much efficiency as you could get from humans working 8 hours.

That and in the olden days when there were Unions the wimmens were at home doing unpaid labor.

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Anzu's avatar

The estimate for the average amount of real work done in an office environment is around 3-6 hours a day. Everything else is stuff like meetings that could have been a phone call, or phone calls that could have been an email, or emails that could have been a slack message.... etc.

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Caepan's avatar

Muskrat McNazi will always have his name at the top of the tumbrel ride list.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

No, he gets to ride Starship into glory.

Impacting Mars will be spectacular, and we'll even name Musk crater after him.

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Caepan's avatar

Heck, I doubt he'd get more than 1000 feet up before the rocket has "a rapid unscheduled disassembly" they're so famous for.

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Cakes We Like's avatar

Maybe he was only mostly dead.

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Maybe's avatar

Virtually dead?

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

"There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."

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Maybe's avatar

Well, there are a lot of brain-dead folks infesting Washington right now. Are they mostly dead?

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

Check their pockets for loose change.

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