Enough Musk Spam

Some orphans will take matters into their own hand

I pulled up next to a guy the other day and the passenger looked like Elon at first glance. My first thought was if I could shoot him in the face and escape long enough to at least make a few phone calls. That's how much this guy deserves to be deleted. I'd risk my life to end it all.

Yep. C'mon America. How long you gonna let these nazis fuck you?

Yeah, I am not doubting that this happened, because in the mix of callousness and incompetence on display, it isn't unlikely. But a source would be much appreciated, still.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/how-jeff-bezos-made-peace-with-donald-trump/

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/g-s1-29665/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/media/cbs-news-trump-60-minutes-legal-threat/index.html

You're going to see a lot of news stories falling through the cracks in our modern Trump-friendly media landscape.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/no-more-loans-to-babies-or-the-dead-elon-musks-doge-backs-sbas-crackdown-on-fraudulent-loans/articleshow/119435488.cms

It’s stopping direct loans applications by people under 18, nothing about actual payments. When are dumb fucks going to learn Tweets aren’t sources?

I’m so glad the leftist plan to beat the right is be as completely critically illiterate as they are. Just cede the movement to the maniacs now because once the conspiracy theorists take root it’s a short stroll to leftist QAnon

It's a screenshot of a tweet, I don't know what further proof you could want. Did you not see the blue checkmark? /s

If I remember correctly, the money goes to a guardian for the benefit of the child.

20 years ago I knew someone who's husband was on a motorcycle and was run over and killed by a commercial truck driver (I think he was falling sleep or something.) She was a stay-at-home mom of 4 kids at the time. In the end between the settlement and the social security, she was able to continue to stay home to raise the children and college wasn't going to be a problem either.

I haven't thought of that family in years. In typing that out, I'm realizing that the American dream is still alive and well! Kids just have to be ready to sacrifice one of their parents to get it.

I don't know about orphaned, but my guardians got $300/month in the 90s because my mom was on social security disability. And when I was still with my mom, I think she got $700/month on social security disability. That's with me included?

Obviously this is different from what orphans would get, and 25+ years ago. But if Musk had stolen it from us then, our situation would've been even worse...and it wasn't great to begin with. Even back then, with my mom having an incurable disability, she had to be careful of how much money extra she made from odd jobs lest they take it all away (people on disability aren't allowed to save or have above X amount in income or the benefits will be revoked). And apartments in the area were $700/month, and we weren't in section 8 housing so all of her benefits went to rent--and that was before utilities, food, etc.

From what I've heard, similar restrictions are in place now. Nobody's getting a plush ride on benefits, ever, and it's a struggle to even get on them to begin with. Even with things that are 100% disabling and incurable.

You think children are getting undeserved money from the government.

I think children are getting money from the government.

We are not the same.

Regardless of evidence provenance, children need to be our most sacred class of people, followed by the elderly and disabled. It shouldn't even be a question about how and why we take care of them, we just fucking should.

Misinformation is real, so I see part of your point, but the people outraged at this are WILDLY different from the people outraged that kids might be getting money they don't "deserve". Can we not just be nice to each other? This isn't actually a zero-sum game.

I found two sources for this info.

https://en.as.com/latest_news/bad-news-for-social-security-beneficiaries-this-new-proposal-would-stop-payments-to-170000-people-n/ says:

Who could see their Social Security benefits stopped?

Government Executive reports that the SSA memo proposes ceasing payments that are made to people without Social Security numbers. While people without an SSN are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits of their own, there are scenarios where they can accept benefits on behalf of an eligible person who does have an SSN as that person’s “representative payee.”

A link in that text goes to https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/ssa-weighs-axing-payments-170000-beneficiaries/403740/ and it gives an example:

That task could be arduous, as finding payees is already so difficult that at times the agency turns to institutional payees like child welfare agencies, said Romig. SSA staff also have to assess the suitability of payees.

“Say you’re a kid and you don’t have a payee for a while — they stop paying the benefit until they sort it out,” she said of the potential for interruptions to benefits.

It may be that the OP read that and extrapolated it to mean orphans would be cut off ... which may or may not be true.