Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news. Now, we need to be crystal

clear about the fact that just because you have a whole lot of money doesn't really mean you're

smart. It means you may have been smart at a thing or you may have made a good choice on some things,

but it doesn't necessarily mean you are intelligent or that you have integrity. And according to

the New York Times article, The Burekat and the billionaire inside Doge's chaotic takeover of Social Security, one thing we need to be very clear about is having a lot of money does not make you a good person. In fact, it might actually in some ways incentivize you to aspire to your lower demons, if you will. But this report essentially looks at how Elon Musk's team essentially attempted to destroy

the Social Security Agency through a bunch of lying.

And they call it something like a misinformation in social media campaign.

But it was a whole ass lie.

It was a bunch of lies.

And there were a lot of longtime employees who were responding in the Social Security agency in real time and doing what they could to save these resources for the people who need it, but not all of them. And we're going to talk a little bit about the drama and how the lying that wealthy people engage in, particularly when it is designed to destroy agencies or services that the rest of us rely upon.

And the wealthy people in this story also have an added incentive because they actually want to privatize the services that we get from Social Security.

Then you realize America, as I've said many, many times over the past couple of weeks,

we endanger girl.

Now, you all may recall that elongated muskrat, which is my name, non-affectionate name for Elon Musk.

And you may recall that a few months ago, he was saying that 40% of the calls made into Social Security

were fraudulent, that they were scammers.

And that number, 40%

scam, 40% fraud, took off on its own. It had like a life of its own. And this was despite the

fact that most of the people working in the Social Security office knew that this was absolutely

not true. And when journalists began investigating, there were some efforts made from people

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