This isn't just about privatizing SS. They're looking for a so-called "humane alternative to genocide." I think that's also why RFK Jr was chosen to lead HHS: no vaccines means more seniors will die each year. To them seniors are dead weight, useless to society and expendable. The same can be said of disabled people who don't work, including disabled veterans:

Jenny Cohn
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6/ "There is ... the problem of adults who are not productive members of society ... [T]he most profitable disposition is to convert them into biodiesel ... Okay, just kidding," but "it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal ... is a humane alternative to genocide." - Moldbug aka Yarvin

OMG, see how they lie, emphasis mine:

Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support

An internal memo from the Social Security Administration proposes changes to its phone service that could derail the benefits application process for many Americans.

Why it matters: The Trump administration has repeatedly said it doesn't plan changes to Social Security, other than to address fraud and waste--but these proposals risk "crippling" a system already plagued by delays, and facing staffing cuts, former agency officials tell Axios.

The latest: Axios obtained a draft of the memo, signed by acting deputy Social Security commissioner for operations Doris Diaz on March 13, and written on behalf of the agency's operations department.

Its existence was first reported by Popular.Info, which published screenshots of a subsequent version, sent to acting commissioner Leland Dudek a little later that day.

Context: The memo was sent one day after the agency denied, in a press release, a report it was scrapping its toll-free phone line.

Well, yeah.
So, what are the lies trying to cover up?
#6 | Posted by LampLighter

One theory:

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) laid out a potential GOP "attack plan" for the program on X Friday:

One: Trump and his vassals tell lies that there's no plan to cut Social Security.

Two: Trump and Musk lie loudly about imaginary Social Security "fraud" to lower public confidence in the program.

Three: Musk sends his nasty Musk-rats in to Social Security to damage administration of the fund, leading to "interruption in benefits."

Four: Trump then declares emergency and hands administration of Social Security to private equity and tech bros to fix problem they created.

Five: Republicans declare victory that they "saved Social Security" by handing it to private equity/tech bros, and put Trump's name on checks.

The advocacy group Social Security Works took note of Whitehouse's thread and said: "Everyone needs to read this. Musk and Trump are breaking Social Security so they can turn it over to Wall Street."

#9, 10 & 11:

Elon Musk's war on Social Security unmasks the GOP's true disdain for retirees

Terms like "vampires," "fraud," "scam" and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people

Musk frames retired people in parasitical terms, not seeing them as those who have paid their dues and have earned their reward. In light of that, when he speaks of "waste" in Social Security, he's hinting at this broader view that retired people are inherently illegitimate. While he couches language like "vampire" and "fraud" in false claims that he's talking about illegal payments, the accumulated impact of his rhetoric is to demonize elderly people as a useless burden on society. When the end goal is "efficiency," it's easy to get to this view that retired people are an "inefficiency" and "redundancy" that should no longer be funded. . . .

Musk hinted at this during his Rogan interview, complaining, "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit." While insisting "you should care about other people," he made it clear this was rear-covering nonsense. His larger point was that empathy is "civilizational suicidal" and "the empathy response" is "a bug in Western civilization." The larger interview painted a picture of a man full of contempt for other people, with all their needs and subjective experiences, when he would rather they be compliant automatons who fulfill his demands without resistance. He fantasized about replacing people with "artificial intelligence" and robots, even talking up the incel-inflected dream of replacing women with sex robots.

Musk and his fellow techno-fascists often cast themselves as the saviors of "civilization," but that rhetoric is only there to put an ennobling gloss on a deeply sociopathic view: that human beings exist to serve the system, and not that the system is there to serve humanity. In this case, the system is capitalism, which has taken on a near-religious status to Silicon Valley's billionaire elite. It's an attitude that's inherently eugenicist, measuring people's value solely in terms of whether they can be utilized to make more money for the already-wealthy investor class. It's why Musk has no respect for federal workers whose labor is centered around helping people, not profits. And it's certainly not a worldview that has space for retirees, people who, by definition, are out of the paid labor market.

Causing people who have earned their Social Security to lose benefits doesn't look like an unintended consequence of "efficiency." It's becoming clear that it is Musk's end goal.

"I hope it's just a rumor." How about let's find out ASAP and make sure it isn't true:

Grassley can't confirm DOGE ordered deep cuts to Social Security staff, services

Grassley couldn't confirm whether DOGE had ordered the deep cuts at Social Security, cuts which would have a significant impact on millions, especially in rural areas of Iowa.

"I hope it's just a rumor, and if it isn't, then I'll be expressing to the DOGE people, I'll be expressing it to the nominee for Social Security administrator," Grassley says, "when I asked and what he said he was going to do is enhance the service."