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Joinfortmill

(17,950 posts)
Thu May 8, 2025, 08:32 AM Yesterday

Misinformation with a Motive: Senator Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security



'May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.' 5:51 min.

My words: Please watch.
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Misinformation with a Motive: Senator Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security (Original Post) Joinfortmill Yesterday OP
How to wreck Social Security (destroy or privatize). Timeflyer Yesterday #1
Bravo Senator Whitehouse hot2na Yesterday #2
Gets a good dig in at Lil Marco Rubio also. Love Sen. Whitehouse. erronis 23 hrs ago #3
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe 21 hrs ago #4

Timeflyer

(3,132 posts)
1. How to wreck Social Security (destroy or privatize).
Thu May 8, 2025, 08:42 AM
Yesterday

The "Let's Privatize Social Security" operation, step by step:

1. Lie about plans to destroy Social Security,

2. Discredit Soc. Sec., to lower public confidence,

3. Send in DOGE to damage Soc. Sec. operations internally,

4. Say “only fraudsters would complain about Soc. Sec. non-payment,”

5. Cause poor service so tRump can declare emergency, send in private equity and technofascist bros to "fix" what they broke,

6. Privatizers take over Soc. Sec. to "fix" what they deliberately broke and achieve GOP dreams of destroying Social Security.

hot2na

(421 posts)
2. Bravo Senator Whitehouse
Thu May 8, 2025, 09:02 AM
Yesterday

The assault on Social Security needs to be called out daily in stark terms as Senator Whitehouse did here. Yes, they are LYING! DOGE is not about efficiency, it is about sabotoging SSA for privatization. This includes a propaganda campaign to diminish trust in the SSA.

Thank you Senator.

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