What do we HONESTLY BELIEVE the reaction will be if Musk shuts down SS payments for 73,000,000 Americans?

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134. Honestly? Confusion at first.

The Media will try to whitewash it at first - "Temporary pain while the Government tries to get rid of all the Liberal Fraud" and non-*rump cultists will start lawyering up. *Rump cultists and other GOP fans will basically have a deer in the headlights look - "there must be a mistake - I earned my Soshul Security"...for a good week or two.
Blue states will start scrambling to backstop needed services, if they haven't already.
Red states will shrug and say "wait for the fraud to be fixed."
15 days after no payments, there will start to be a cascade collapse; some elderly services(nursing homes) might attempt to keep things going throughout a four week period but corporate ownership (especially pharmacy and medical services like dialysis) will basically tell any beneficiary "f-you, gimme the money you're contracted to before I'll give you what you need."
After 20 days, the Media and Federal Government can't avoid it anymore. At best, the eviction notices will start going out. At worse, people will have started dying - starvation or lack of medication.
After the first month, Medicare scammers, pharmaceutical and medical services companies will start talking to the government about maybe starting payments back up.
That's what the general public will probably see.
Those personally affected (SS beneficiaries and their survivors) however, are going to be seriously pissed by the end of the month. Who knows what happens when we get to the Hooverville/Bonus Army stage?
Tech Bros will probably call out the Warthogs. If they can find any pilots willing to take on civilians that might include kin of friends or co-workers, if not their own.