Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Clueless Fucking Moron Completely Out Of His Depth

Then take it to court and prove it in public. Oh, but you can’t, because: So if a tree falls in the forest and you don’t hear it, it doesn’t make a sound? And when you do hear about it, it happened the way you wanted it to? As I was saying... Both borders are equally quiet. But you need fear in order to govern, so you lie. Or you’re just that stupid. Two conditions that often appear alike. See? And you are not the law. You don’t get to declare what is, and isn’t, fraudulent. Besides: “millions and millions of people over 100 years old?” Nope. Even randos on Twitter know more than you do.

Here, let’s start with Snopes:
However, these claims need context. The Social Security Administration (SSA) does more than just send out payments — it is also in charge of registering unique Social Security numbers and their related information for nearly every legal resident in the U.S. The government and businesses then use these numbers to identify individuals and to track their financial records. 
A government audit published in July 2023 showed that as of 2020, there were 18.9 million registrants in the central SSA database born in or before 1920 whose death record information was not properly recorded, suggesting they would be more than 100 years old if still alive. 
However, just because some people were improperly recorded as "alive" did not mean they were receiving payments from the SSA. While the missing death records could make the agency vulnerable to fraud, the same audit found that "almost none" of the registrants born in or before 1920 were receiving benefits at the time of the report. These records were likely spotty because the individuals died before the use of electronic death reporting, the auditors wrote.
What this has to do with is the “Numident.”
The SSA's central database is called the Numident, or "Numerical Identification System." The Numident is the "numerically-ordered master file" of all assigned Social Security numbers. It is also used to create the SSA's "full file of death information," referred to as the Death Master File (DMF). The DMF is then shared with federal agencies that pay people's benefits. 
The 2023 audit by the SSA's Office of the Inspector General investigated Social Security number holders older than 100 who did not have death information recorded but were in the Numident. This audit, which used data updated as of December 2020, determined that 18.9 million number holders were born in or before 1920 and did not have death information in the Numident, meaning they were technically recorded as alive in the administration's system. 
But the same audit found that approximately 98% of these number holders were not receiving SSA payments and had not reported earnings to the SSA in the past 50 years. In other words, only 44,000 were receiving payments. In 2020, at the time of this audit's research, about 80,000 Americans were centenarians, according to the Pew Research Center, a self-described nonpartisan fact tank "that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world."
There’s plenty more where that came from, but you get the idea. This is publicly available information from two recent audits (2015 as well as 2023). The errors mentioned were found in 2015, but not corrected because the cost outweighed the benefit, since there was no evidence of fraud.

Nor is there now. Just evidence of the ignorant leading the stupid. I’ll say it again: Trump is uniquely positioned to access more government information than any other individual on the planet. And he, also uniquely, can’t be bothered to. He listens to morons like Stephen Miller and Alina Habba and Elon Musk, people as clueless and ignorant as he is, because it’s the path of least resistance. That path being the one where he doesn’t have to think. At. All. Anymore than the rest do.

And they chase each other around and around a dark room, thinking they’ll find things no one’s ever found before; and thinking, when they run into furniture and walls, that they have.
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