I will not feel my retirement is secure until Musk, Trump et al are rotting in their own El Salvadoran prison. They wanna play Kafka? We'll play Kafka right back. Fuckers.

Skittles

(169,514 posts)

13. exactly what I thought

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:36 PM

Mar 2025

their cover stories are utterly RIDICULOUS

Ocelot II

(129,021 posts)

3. The mere fact that he considered and threatened a shutdown should make us pay attention

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:23 PM

Mar 2025

even if it isn't happening for now - because it could. And the threat will likely be made again for some other form of extortion.

Irish_Dem

(79,741 posts)

4. Yes, we lucked out this time.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:30 PM

Mar 2025

Next time we will not be so lucky.

They will try it again.

TxGuitar

(4,332 posts)

5. "I am not shutting down the agency"

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:33 PM

Mar 2025

How big of him. Are we supposed to thank him? Like still getting our allowance even though we got a D in math last semester? "thanks Dad!"

Pinback

(13,501 posts)

19. No shit. Classic abuser behavior. (nt)

Reply to TxGuitar (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 08:18 PM

Mar 2025

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,180 posts)

6. I'm just an ignorant nobody

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:36 PM

Mar 2025

who refuses to indulge in the "news," but does anyone know if these assholes are aware that Social Security is OURS? Americans have been paying into it our whole working lives. Why do they think it's theirs to do with as they please?

I'm so sick of this unAmerican grifting bullshit!

elocs

(24,486 posts)

7. Reassurance from Trump makes me doubtful since he has destroyed his credibility

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:37 PM

Mar 2025

with his incessant lying. False hope is worse than no hope and DU is where I come for the constant feeling of no hope at all.

central scrutinizer

(12,648 posts)

8. They like kicking anthills

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:42 PM

Mar 2025

Just to watch the terrified ants scurry around.

Mme. Defarge

(8,886 posts)

9. Would shutting down Social Security even be legal?

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:07 PM

Mar 2025

NameAlreadyTaken

(2,235 posts)

10. Only Congress could

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Reply #9)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:19 PM

Mar 2025

madaboutharry

(42,027 posts)

11. "Therefore, I am not shutting down the agency."

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:28 PM

Mar 2025

Talk about an asshole on a power trip!

It really makes me doubt the universe that there were so many monsters hiding under rocks for so long.

dalton99a

(92,076 posts)

12. "You all should thank me for my magnanimity"

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:31 PM

Mar 2025

William769

(59,147 posts)

14. These people are playing mind games on us.

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:17 PM

Mar 2025

Wiz Imp

(8,917 posts)

15. Still not being covered by any of the major media outlets

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:42 PM

Mar 2025

But Bloomberg had a story on it.

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/doge-ruling-shouldn-t-stop-social-security-payouts-judge-says?embedded-checkout=true

DOGE Ruling Shouldn’t Stop Social Security Payouts, Judge Says
Maryland judge rebuffs US official’s response to her ruling
Order restricted DOGE access to Americans’ personal data

A Maryland federal judge pushed back on speculation that her court order restricting Social Security Administration data access for Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team may threaten benefit payments by forcing much of the agency’s operations to shut down.

In a letter released Friday, US District Judge Ellen Hollander said the order she issued Thursday didn’t apply to nearly all of the agency’s employees, only to Musk and and affiliates of his Department of Government Efficiency. “Any suggestion that the order may require the delay or suspension of benefit payments is incorrect,” the judge said.

Hollander’s 14-day temporary restraining order prompted the Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to say that the judge’s references to “DOGE affiliates” could apply to any agency employee and that he would follow Hollander’s order “exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems.”

In her letter Friday, Hollander said Dudek’s claims were “inaccurate.” A DOGE “affiliate” was “a person working on or implementing the DOGE agenda,” she said. “Employees of SSA who are not involved with the DOGE Team or in the work of the DOGE Team are not subject to the order,” she wrote.

barbtries

(31,122 posts)

16. we also know

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:56 PM

Mar 2025

he could be lying.

i hate this.

valleyrogue

(2,568 posts)

17. It's going to be okay regardless--however Trump and company WON'T be. n/t

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:57 PM

Mar 2025

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