President Trump press secretary turns the tables on goose stepping Democrats who complain about DOGE.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Ignorance of SQL may be part of it, but ignorance of the complexities of social security is a big part as well. 卐LON complained that the SSN database hadn't been de-duplicated. The fact is, there are shared SSNs out there for whatever reason. And it takes time and money to change an SSN, so what's the most cost effective thing to do?

And there are procedures not represented in the database that protect against fraud. For example, anyone who reaches age 114 gets their SS cut off. They have to prove they're alive to re-start the checks. And a certain number of uncashed checks gets you cut off too. I'm not an SQL or database person either, but you have to be well versed in the details of SSA practice before you can make sense of things.

@ElwoodBlues For sure. And duplicate SSN numbers can't just be fixed with keystrokes.


Here in Canada with Social Insurance Numbers. Very similar. Anyway, when it was rolled out in the early 60s they had not entirely nailed down who and when a number would be issues. Anyway, that confusion led to people like my father and my uncle both being issued a second number when they enlisted in the Air Force.

decades later some over zealous person tried to fix that with the delete key and declared my uncle dead on paper.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow My uncle found out when his boss told him they could not give him his paycheck because according to the feds he was dead.

@Reason10 You wish. Here's what happens when the government starts to respond to an emergency. Employees with expertise are moved to new positions to address the problem. And they are classified as probationary employees in their new positions, regardless of how long they've served.

And so when 卐LON fired all the provisional employees, he decimated the ones working on bird flu. Also nuclear security. Seems that the "shoot first and ask questions later" policy has its downsides. SAD.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/usda-scientists-overseeing-bird-flu-232410078.html

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-fires-nearly-50-nuclear-security-office-employees

@ElwoodBlues LOL, seems to us that nuclear security has been in the wrong hands....

@Reason10

@IM5688 I completely agree with you. Amazingly she actually answers questions and doesn't have to spend half of her time pulling Biden's foot out of his mouth.

@IM5688 kjp is about as brain dead as aoc...

@sunsporter1649 I legit don't know what argument you're going for.

@AthrillatheHunt Considering that was one of the causes of the October 7th attacks, it was probably a good thing the other presidents didn't do that.

@AthrillatheHunt Trump didn’t move the embassy to Tel Aviv, he moved it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And I definitely don’t remember any Democrat promising to do that and wouldn’t have agreed with them if they did.

@JPWhoo my bad. Yes I meant FROM Tel Aviv. . Then you have a lousy memory or don’t care to know the facts. If you believe me or not it doesn’t matter.

@wildbill83 I would reverse that and say aren’t all sides selective in what they call out and don’t? The principle applies to both republicans and democrats. I would advance that banning AP is a subjective abuse of the principle and denies free speech…

@wildbill83

@Sterler45 it doesn't deny free speech, AP can still spout nonsense; they just can't do it in the white house anymore

if you walk into a business and start raging like a lunatic, they're well within their rights to throw you out/have you trespassed, they're not violating your free speech, you're just abusing yours...

@ffony Ferrari , top of the line car .Dream car for most. Not for me . (Bc my age and size ). WH press secretary is a Ferrari , but not my type . Was the analogy THAT ambiguous?

@AthrillatheHunt Yes it was.

@AthrillatheHunt Ferrari, fine; but here's what I'd really like:

@AthrillatheHunt It doesn’t sting because it’s actual nonsense. It comes from people who actually believe Hitler when he called himself a socialist.

People like me though…we take the radical position that Hitler lied about things. 🤣

@tenente So you are one of those supporting more gubberment waste, corruption, and graft, eh....

@BigGuy2 Also we're talking Social security, not taxes. Stay within the goal posts for once, we know that's hard for you maga chuds and conservatives but please make an effort

@MethDozer Since when is SSI not a tax?

@MarineBob that’s exactly what I was getting at w my comment about 2008 Dems.

@MarineBob Exactly. How they've changed yet will look in the mirror and deny it even while the historical video's are played for them.

@Gibbon that is perhaps a leftist's largest failing...

remembering the past. Many will make a statement, then deny ever saying it 5 minutes later...