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1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

Just laugh at them. So miserable. 

I've got an idea to help you. I know you love a meaningless couple of words as an empty reply on most threads to get your post count up (as you like to boast about "winning"). Have you ever thought about splitting your meaningless sentences in to multiple posts? One word per post to make up a sentence, that would mean more childish "winning" for you! Think how happy you'd be!

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1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

And on Ukraine:

 

"TRUMP CLAIM: The U.S. has "spent perhaps $350 billion" on supporting Ukraine's defense

 

FACT-CHECK: False

 

According to the special inspector general responsible for overseeing the spending related to the war in Ukraine, Congress has appropriated or otherwise made available $182.75 billion for the overall U.S. response to the war since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Of that money, about $119 billion has been for the direct benefit of Ukraine, including approximately $65.9 billion in military assistance.

 

White House officials have offered various explanations for how the Trump administration has arrived at the significantly higher figure of $350 billion, but most of the arguments rely on dubious logic–such as factoring in inflation–which has no bearing on the actual dollar amount appropriated by Congress."

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-trumps-speech-congress/story?id=119447124

 

 

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And on Social Security:

 

"Social Security fraud

TRUMP: "We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program that our seniors and that our seniors, people that we love rely on, believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members, people aged 100 to 109 years old.”

Trump and his adviser Elon Musk have both claimed, without evidence, that there is rampant fraud in the Social Security system. In his remarks, Trump asserted that government databases list millions of people aged well over 100 years old, including 1.3 million people between 150 to 159 years old and over 130,000 people aged over 160.

 

But a 2023 report from the Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General said that there were nearly 19 million Social Security number-holders aged 100-plus who didn't have information about their deaths in the system and that "almost none of the 18.9 million number-holders currently receive SSA payments." "

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g-s1-50488/trump-congress-joint-address-fact-check

 

The bottom line, as reported elsewhere, is the current Social Security Admin's data systems for keeping track of older dates of birth and deaths in their systems are flawed by the SSA's own admission. And as a result, their databases show misleading and inaccurate counts on details being used by Trump and Musk, not that they care they are spouting known nonsense.

 

Per Associated Press:

 

"THE FACTS: The databases may list those people, but that does not mean they are getting paid benefits.

 

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which doesn’t use a specific format for dates. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. The news organization Wired first reported on the use of COBOL programming language at the Social Security Administration.

 

Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these people were receiving benefits.  The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million. As of September 2015, the agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old."

 

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-ukraine-3bea1df50167ac0a91f8c419b58c4b97

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Anyone who believes half of the false and misleading manure Trump is trying to sell is the epitomy of moronic.

 

I said almost. 

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49 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Literally know one cares, please stop announcing these.

Thanks for sharing 

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