Is Musk's social security date confusion the biggest DOGE mistake so far? Probably where his "billions" claim comes from.

In the social security data, the DOGE boys encountered a number of dates going back to 1875; thus implying that the people were 150 years old. And, in his unique mixture of arrogance and ignorance Musk assumed this was proof of fraud.

But Musk & the DOGE boys don't understand COBOL. If a date is unknown, many COBOL data sets use a zero to indicate missing data. And because the earliest date that COBOL can represent is May 20, 1875, that zero prints out as May 20, 1875. Importantly, every zero date shows that exact same value of May 20, 1875.

Of course only a few people understand enough about COBOL to know why May 20, 1875 keeps showing up. I certainly didn't know until yesterday.

Here's the funny bit: when Musk & the DOGE boys repeatedly encountered that same mysterious date, did they investigate why it kept showing up?? Did they do any checking?? No, they did not. Instead, they assumed fraud and announced it at a presidential press conference🤣😂😝🤣😂

See what I mean about the unique mixture of arrogance and ignorance???

The full article: https://similarworlds.com/politics/5226452-Trump-says-DOGE-found-tens-of-billions-in-savings-Not-even

Isnt it odd that DOGE has not looked at the second biggest item on the expenditure list? They one that has failed 7 previous audits? Defence? It must be just a coincidence that all the departments "reviewed" so far are ones that Musk and his businesses have outstanding legal law suits and condition violations with..😷

It's all to undermine all American institutions in an effort to reshape them to the needs of oligarchy

And misrepresenting legitimate government spending as fraud in order to divert it towards funding tax cuts for the wealthy is of course . . fraudulent!

Two weeks ago, several of us predicted the "there's no evidence" narrative. You guys are so lame, it took you this long.

So how come the democrats aren't denying it?

It's all being presented with 0.0 evidence. Why not just say, Elon has invented immortality and Cry-Baby-trump is fit and trim? "The base" will defend it to their death.

@Reason10 Meanwhile, the security at DOGE is so awful their website has already been hacked🤣😂😝🤣😂

DOGE is (in reality) the front office of Trump endorsed shadow government with President Musk in charge

The far left Wapo? Seriously?

That rag isn't important enough to line a bird cage.

Raw Story 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 They're worse than vox, politico, buzzfeed, and guardian, put together 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣