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   AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 07:04:32 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

   Notice the slight-of-hand here.

   1) Stealing the graphic from "liberal" MSNBC to cover the "bias" charge.

   2) Still using the false charge of $71 BILLION, ignoring the fact that that number reflects the receipt of ALL LEGAL payments of Social Security, giving the implication that ALL of SS is "illegitimate" and "fraudulent" spending.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 07:05:08 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     3) Then, glossing over the low, low percentage (less than ONE PERCENT of SS outlays considered "fraudulent") by dealing the "Well, percentage doesn't matter, it's still fraud!!" card as a justification for allowing DOGE to nuke everything so Emperor MusKKKrat can bribe people into submission with his SpaceXBucks....errrrrrrrrr, "DOGE Dividend".

     Don't be bedazzled by all the bullshit; it's a classic bust-out.

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     New Year, Old Jen (itsjennotgoblin@goblin.camp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 07:42:53 JST New Year, Old Jen

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     @AnthonyJK it's incredibly wild to see people losing their mind over this because I PROMISE you that if you did an ACTUAL AUDIT (not this move fast and break stuff bullshit currently happening) of Tesla or really, the vast majority of private corporations, you would find a SIGNIFICANTLY higher percentage of waste there.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 07:46:00 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • New Year, Old Jen

     @ItsJenNotGoblin

     In-Goddess-DAMN-deed.

     This is projection that IMAX would be proud of: using the "waste" and "fraud" meme as a hammer to cover the actual fraud of private corporations and billionaires leeching off the public fisc far more severe than any "illegal" immigrant or SS recipient could muster.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 06:11:58 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • New Year, Old Jen

     @ItsJenNotGoblin

     And now, Snopes enters the chat to further bust even bigger mudholes into DOGE's mountain of horseshit about "150+ year old zombies collecting Social Security checks!!!"

     Tl;Dr: Out of 18.6 million Social Security recipients listed in the database they use that are listed as 100+ years old and not listed as deceased, only 44,000 was found to have still received SS payments.

     Details below:

     https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-150-year-old-social-security/

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 06:20:24 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • Snopes

     @snopes

     44,000 out of 18,600,000. Yeah, some "fraud".

     And remember, that's 18.6 million out of 315 MILLION LEGAL CITIZENS of these United States of America that received actual Social Security checks in 2023.

     This isn't a "mistake" or an "accounting error". This is a deliberate staight-ASS LIE intended to cover up a mass looting of the Social Security Trust Fund by DOGE and Trumpster to cover MusKKKrat's KetamineKoup.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 06:35:11 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     But, wait.... there's MORE!!!

     Read these screenshots taken directly from the Snopes article....right after you have taken your heart medicine.

     Alt-text incoming...