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That's what she said.
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Congratulations. You win the internet today for the most ridiculous post. Maybe ever. Yes, the CIA, FBI, NSA, and MOSSAD all forced these fools to post classified war plans to a journalist. Put down the bong, hightimes.
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The most incompetant US admin in history has been elected
TheAppletons replied to 3NUMBAS's topic in Political Soapbox
Economist Paul Krugman, former professor at MIT and Princeton, says the Administration is incompetent and evil: "So the disaster reflected both stupidity and bad intentions. And the same is true of other ongoing disasters, including the shockingly rapid collapse of the Social Security Administration. As I hope you’re aware, Elon Musk’s DOGE, which is supposedly rooting out fraud and waste, has made Social Security a special target. Musk has done this even though it’s one of the federal government’s cleanest, most efficient programs, and has done an immense amount to reduce poverty among the elderly...." and "On this view, Musk and company see crippling the Social Security Administration as a feature, not a bug, part of their overarching plan to undermine the safety net and make America safe for profiteering." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/incompetent-or-evil-a-false-dichotomy?r=efs7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true -
Tax Clearance Certificate
TheAppletons replied to morning glory's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
No, it isn't required and it isn't requested by Immigration. -
No, you claimed "what we do have is an official document from the TRD that clearly explains who is required to file a tax return." It isn't complete and thus it actually does NOT clearly explain who is required to file. Many people who meet both of the qualifications listed in that oversimplified, fifth-grade level graphic do not, indeed, need to file because the income they remitted is non-assessable.
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"The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts because the servers were overloaded. In the field, office managers have resorted to answering phones at the front desk as receptionists because so many employees have been pushed out. But the agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience with these services, because that office was eliminated as part of the cost-cutting efforts led by Elon Musk." and "The federal agency that delivers $1.5 trillion a year in earned benefits to 73 million retired workers, their survivors and poor and disabled Americans is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others who interact with Social Security." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/long-waits-waves-of-calls-web-crashes-social-security-is-breaking-down/ar-AA1BBnUP
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"The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios. Why it matters: These changes will strain the already struggling Social Security system and deprive some people of benefits entirely, according to current and former employees and advocates for retirees." and "These new developments leave us deeply concerned that DOGE and the Trump Administration are setting up the SSA for failure—a failure that could cut off Social Security benefits for millions of Americans—and that will then be used to justify a 'private sector fix,'" Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who both serve on the committee, said in a letter to Bisignano on Monday." https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/social-security-cuts-doge
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Petition for trump ban on U.K. visit gathers votes
TheAppletons replied to 3NUMBAS's topic in Political Soapbox
Yes, the UK sucks so much that the US President is considering joining the British Commonwealth: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-suggests-us-could-join-british-commonwealth-offered-king-charles -
"Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek said Friday that he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data." and "Everything in this agency is PII,” Dudek said. “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here. Dudek first made his threat to close down the agency during a Bloomberg News interview Thursday night. Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history and would immediately begin halting benefit payments for millions of Americans." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ar-AA1Bpp38
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"The Pentagon was scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said on Thursday." I'll link to the story since OP didn't. And no, no one in their right freaking mind, thinks this is a good idea. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.SRAZ.aIZGK_LvUkAE&smid=nytcore-android-share