Elon Musk: “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security”
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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It’s COBOL. Elon has no idea what he’s doing.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL
Feels like he wrote the query wrong.
If he posted anything other than unverifiable tweets we could actually figure out what’s true and what isn’t but clearly he wants to lie as much as possible without consequence.
The sad part is that there are actually people dumb enough to believe this.
There is absolutely no way the engineers running the social security database wouldn’t have caught this already if it were true. Elon is definitely leaving something out, or perhaps the DOGE guys writing these database queries don’t know what they’re doing.
Why does this d*ckhead have access to the SS database? Also, who genuinely trusts this man?
He’s just tech fraud who hires idiots who don’t understand the system used
https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/s/3E82KmLZ1N
I thought they explained that it is because of the COBOL coding. Maybe we should double-check before sharing whatever Ketamine-Kid scribbles down. Accuracy clearly isn’t his high!
[https://x.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1890604349669154986](https://x.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1890604349669154986)
Over 10 million people over the age of 130 collecting SS and that wasn’t discovered until wonder Musk had his teenage wiz kids scour the records. Smells like a bunch of malarkey from Musk!
Edit: And of course it is malarkey from Musk. The SSA did an audit in 2023 and found that over 19 million of SS number holders with birth years on/before 1920 didn’t have death records in the master file, but a subsequent audit determined that only 44,000 of those number holders were actually receiving payments. Ergo, there were only 44,000 beneficiaries, at the time, over the age of 102 receiving SS payments and Musk is a flagrantly deceptive idiot.
[https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf](https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf)
MAGA really do be the kind of morons who would see this and clap like seals because they think digital record keeping just poofed out of nowhere in the 30s when SS was created.
If they want to attack social security, which they obviously do, it has to be a longer process than what they’ve done for other things. This is the beginning of that.
This also says that 45 million people between 10 and 19 are collecting social security. Which we all know isn’t true.
*COBOL has entered the chat*
Cherry picked unverifiable data that was posted with no context to create temporary outrage by a bored billionaire who purchased a political party and is playing fantasy government.
Oops. That’s your an Trump ballot rigging. Don’t touch that and never speak out
Cannot wait to see him rotting in jail on state charges.
lol that’s what happens when the intern writes your code
This is just putting out a lot of noise to make it look like some big scam is being uncovered while giving no proof. Optics for the MAGA
It’s completely out of context without laying out both legal and logical principles of database. I can draw random table in Excel too.
I think doge should investigate everyone on HGTV
Husband: Plumber
Wife: stamp collector
House shopping budget: $1.8 million
….some fraud and abuse going on there for sure…
I am also going to note that someone who is not elected is making decisions about Social Security, and sharing wrong data to base all of the decisions on.
It’s hard to believe anything Elon posts or says at this point. He has zero credibility. He’s been blasting claims about criminal this and fraud that only to have to totally walk back on those claims and move the goal post so much that he’s proving the government is actually doing its job.
At all my jobs you’d include the query along with the data.
There is the explanation https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL
It is really the coding of unknown birth data (equating to 1875 x COBOL = 150 years if you take 2025-1875)
I feel like this is a direct reply to the COBOL people
Wow that’s an enormous lie haha Jesus Christ…. Ive already had one comment taken down by reddit so I’ll say it like this…. That monologue that Gretchen Wieners gives about Caeser 👀
I call bs elon
Just the first 8 age brackets (0-79) is more than the population of the entire United States
355,411,408 is more than 334 million
Fake transparency to placate the psychos.
Why is this man who is not in govt posting screenshots of govt data on twitter??? Like that shit means nothing but ppl gobbling it up.
Maybe there are other indicators in that database that exclude people from getting benefits. Also, the administration was created in 1935. Quite a few of those really old records are from that era. There is probably a requirement that you need to see a certificate of death to set the deceased flag. I used to maintain a database that had records that went back to the beginning of the 1900s and we knew 100% that somebody was not alive but were not allowed to set that flag because we needed proof of death. So, there were other flags and indicators that excluded them.. you know, “mostly dead”.
Zero trust in these data mining skills once he said the Govt doesn’t use SQL.
I work with data in a 120 year old company that is much MUCH smaller than the Social Security Administation. Our data is a mess. Between the 10+ ERP systems we have and the companies we’ve acquired along the way, there is often not one single source of truth for some attribute you want to know. You might have a flag in one database that has the right data most of the time, but in certain circumstances you need to go to another database and use that. But you know what? Our suppliers and our employees get paid exactly what they are owed, inventory gets ordered, product goes out the door. We may no know exactly how many parts are in every bin, but the important things get handled. I’m guessing its a similar story at the SSA.
Musk discovered the “death field set to false”
what’s a death field?