Summary

Elon Musk amplified Senator Mike Lee’s calls to overhaul Social Security, labeling it a “nightmare.”

Lee, known for advocating the elimination of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, criticized the program as deceptive and mismanaged.

Musk, co-chair of Trump’s advisory commission on cutting federal spending, faces accusations of aligning with GOP efforts to privatize or gut Social Security.

Advocacy groups denounce these moves as a threat to seniors and disabled Americans, warning that Republicans aim to shift earned benefits to Wall Street, despite broad public opposition to cuts or privatization.

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    23 days ago

    It flabbergasts me that Musk, an unelected billionaire, has any input at all in policy decisions.

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      Just another day in the post-truth age. This and much more awaits in a society that allows a handful of algorithms unfettered editorial control over what people think.

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        23 days ago

        It’s just another day in the plutocracy that has probably run things the entire lifetime of “democracy”.

        The only difference is with MAGA the plutocracy no longer need to hide behind lobbyists, campaign financing, super PAC’s, nepotism/cronyism, quid pro quo, virtue signaling about national security, etc to engage in corruption, loot the public coffers, and divert trillions to their own companies or cronies in the MIC or whatever.

        The conservative propaganda machine has now successfully groomed and cultivated a mentally ill cult, who will let their king insert a microchip into their brains without a second thought… Hell, they’ll probably hand over their life savings for the privilege.

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      Trump’s just doing it in the open. Every president has had unelected advisors.

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      Plenty of unelected people have a massive say in policy. We wouldn’t get anything done if every bureaucrat had to be elected.

      This specific unelected soon-to-be bureaucrat is fucking towel though.

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        This specific unelected soon-to-be bureaucrat is fucking towel though.

        Hey now, that’s not very fair, towels are at least useful and pretty good at wiping up shit. Phony Stark only ever makes messes and then wallows in the shit.

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      22 days ago

      Sure he is unelected, but he paid Trump 75 billion

      Doesn’t that entitle him to bankrupt your parents. They can move in with you.

      N’est pas?

      /s