Sunday, February 23, 2025
It is going around leftwing posts that Elon Musk is lying when he says that millions of dead people up to age 150 are receiving Social Security payments.
CBS News (!) has a balanced and fair report on that, see below. - Donald Sensing 
Here is how I responded to one FB friend's post, using some of CBS's material:
- Elon never said that millions of dead people were receiving SS payments.
- He said that more than 20 million accounts are still active of persons listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.
- What DOGE explained was that those accounts did not have a date of death recorded on the accounts, which just yesterday on CBS News was confirmed by the head of the Soc Scty Admin...
- Well before Trump had taken office, the SSA had internally identified $72 billion in improper payments, most being erroneous overpayments to living people.
- In fact, in January, before Trump was inaugurated, the U.S. Treasury clawed back more than $31 million in a variety of federal payments— not just Social Security payments— that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that former (that is, of the Biden admin) Treasury official David Lebryk said was "just the tip of the iceberg."
For weeks the media have insisted that Trump and Elon were lying about rampant government fraud, waste, or abuse.
Finally WSJ admits that “wasteful spending… isn’t hard to find.” Ya think? - Michael Shellenberger
The media and Dems say that everything Trump identifies as a problem doesn’t exist and is just a conspiracy theory.
The media and Dems say that everything Trump identifies as a problem doesn’t exist and is just a conspiracy theory.
They’re such knee-jerk partisans they can’t help but to further demolish their credibility.
Just 31% of the public trusts them and the number could decline further
- Everybody knows that if Democrat president were cutting waste, fraud and abuse, the media would be clapping like circus seals.
MSNBC analyst tries to mislead about federal workers and gets swift backlash online | Blaze Media
MSNBC analyst tries to mislead about federal workers and gets swift backlash online | Blaze Media:
"Rattner's chart is a convenient application of how to lie with statistics. By zooming out and using a percentage he hides the fact that the federal government civilian workforce grew by 2% in just one year from 2022 to 2023," said Eno.
He added that the number of federal workers increased by another 2.4% in 2024.
This explains much!-----Qatar: The hidden enemy - American Thinker
Qatar is a small country of less than 5,000 square miles that wields enormous power due to its immense wealth, with which it has bought off politicians throughout Western Europe and North America. - Joseph Puder 
...According to Dr. Udi Levy, former head of the Mossad’s Unit of Economic War against Terror, “Qatar has conquered Europe” and has great influence on some of the richest people in the U.S., many of them Jews, who lobby for this terror-supporting authoritarian regime...
- It also owns, among many soccer clubs in Europe, the premier French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain. Qatar owns the French department store chain Printemps and numerous luxury hotels in London, including the Ritz and Claridge...
- Qatar is heavily invested in giant German corporations such as Siemens, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Deutsche Bank. Qatar has a stake in London’s Heathrow Airport, Barclay’s Bank, and the Sainsbury supermarket chain in the U.K.
- In addition, most of the senior European politicians have been bought off by the Qataris, and the Qataris are doing the same in America.
- The Qatari regime utilizes its controlled medium Al Jazeera (in English and Arabic) to defame Israel and promote Hamas
'We're winning': Pam Bondi responds to the left's lawfare against Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal
'We're winning': Pam Bondi responds to the left's lawfare against Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal:
OXON HILL, Md.—Attorney General Pam Bondi told Texas Sen. Ted Cruz that the Trump administration is winning against the legal challenges of the Left, and on the cases the administration doesn't win, they will appeal them to the Supreme Court.
Bondi riled up the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday by declaring, "We're winning!"
US household debt hit an all-time RECORD:
US household debt jumped by $93 billion in Q4 2024 to a record $18 trillion. - Steve Kirsch
- It has been driven by a $45 billion surge in credit card debt, hitting an all-time high of $1.2 trillion.
- Household debt as % of disposable income is 87%.
The stock market and real estate market will crash before mid year, this is the best time to prepare for what lies ahead...
USAID’s Haiti scandal is staggering.
The U.S. sent $4.4B after the 2010 earthquake—yet less than 2% reached Haitians, while 56% lined the pockets of D.C. firms - Clarice Feldman
- The Red Cross claimed to shelter 130,000 people—but built just SIX homes.
- No transparency.
- No accountability.
- USAID and NGOs refuse to answer where the money went—while Haitians were left with nothing.
Democrats embroiled in election scandal in Connecticut city turn themselves in | Blaze Media
Democrats embroiled in election scandal in Connecticut city turn themselves in | Blaze Media:
The surveillance footage was so alarming that a judge later tossed the results and demanded a primary do-over, though Ganim prevailed over his opponents in the second primary as well as the general election. As in 2019, the results of the 2023 Democratic mayoral primary swung to Ganim almost exclusively on absentee ballot dumps on election night.
Are Climate Scientists Lying About Their Work to Secure US Research Grants?
“… I still have the grant because I changed the title …” - Eric Worrall
Am I reading this correctly?
- Did an anonymous climate scientist just admit to conspiring to defraud the US Government into providing funds for a climate paper, by turning the very title of their paper into a lie?
- How many climate scientists are willing to bend the truth to keep their access to federal grant money?...
History for February 23
History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com 
Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1734
- 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
- 1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
- 1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore.
- 1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
- 1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
- 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
- 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
- 1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Trump targets taxpayers' money used to 'incentivize or support' illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Trump targets taxpayers' money used to 'incentivize or support' illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The idea is to make certain "taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens," said the order, which also cited statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
That group said American taxpayers are being forced to pay at least $182 billion a year to cover the expenses of 20 million illegal aliens and their children, including more than $66 billion in federal expenses and $115 billion paid by states and local governments.
Funny Money - by James Howard Kunstler - Clusterfuck Nation
Funny Money - by James Howard Kunstler - Clusterfuck Nation - James Howard KunstlerStacey Abrams popped up again this week in what looks like a textbook case of political scamming, uncovered by The DOGE team of forensic financial investigators.
As “Joe Biden” racked up Democratic presidential primary wins in 2024, the shadowy claque behind him allocated $27-billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from the huge Inflation Reduction Act, ostensibly for “climate change action.”
The money was stashed at Citibank, where it became a hidden slush-fund to keep payoffs flowing to party favorites no matter who won the 2024 election...
- The key to understanding how the Democratic Party works is how it uses federal grants to redistribute taxpayer money into jobs programs for its rank-and-file.
As seen in the recent USAID scandal, the action revolves around the creation of countless NGOs (non-governmental orgs).
They are easily created, poorly supervised, and assembled into large networks of self-serving, inter-dependent organisms whose main mission is paying staffers — and secondarily pretending to do good works, as suggested by a given group’s name is.
These staffers make up the matrix of Democratic Party activists, well-paid foot-soldiers in do-nothing jobs who can be called upon
- to cheer-lead for the party,
- organize street protests and,
- most critically, harvest ballots when the time comes...
WATCH: Sen. Kennedy's Bottom-Line Take on Public Broadcasting Is LOL Hilarious and Spot-On
Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy's ability to turn a phrase in hilarious fashion has become legendary. The witty senator didn't disappoint on Thursday as he ripped into the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and called on Congress to stop funding all public broadcasting - Mike Miller
President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking for fat to trim. As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.
After providing examples of blatantly biased headlines and slanted content published by National Public Radio (NPR), Kennedy said he wasn’t trying to censor the news outlets, but that it's “immoral” to force taxpayers to fund them.
I’m all for this, if that’s what these outlets want to do. But, I’m not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CPB) to the exclusion of everybody else. That’s immoral...
We are running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It is disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful to the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn’t mean the rot doesn’t have a right to exist, but they don’t have a right to taxpayer money.
White House highlights border wall progress as Trump shuts down benefits for illegal aliens | Blaze Media
White House highlights border wall progress as Trump shuts down benefits for illegal aliens | Blaze Media:
"My administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans," the order read.
Trump accused "numerous administrations" of undermining the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which bans illegal aliens from receiving benefits.
Trump was wrong about Zelenskyy starting the war with Russia because the real culprit is much closer to home.
Zelenskyy and the morons in the EU were just pawns in a fear-driven game of "Get Russia", led by American Democrats and establishment neocons. - Michael Smith 
If you want to know who really is behind the war in Ukraine, google the name Victoria Nuland.
Victoria Nuland, a U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2013–2017), played a significant role in Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan uprising.
This movement, which led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, was widely seen as a struggle between pro-European and pro-Russian influences, with the U.S. actively supporting the opposition.
Nuland was a vocal advocate for Ukraine’s pro-Western shift, visiting Kyiv during the protests and even distributing food to demonstrators.
Following Yanukovych’s ouster, Ukraine signed an EU Association Agreement, prompting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine...
cato.org - The U.S. and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War. It's Not 'Siding With Putin' to Admit It
But Moscow’s cruel overreaction deserves emphatic condemnation.
Victoria Nuland, a U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2013–2017), played a significant role in Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan uprising.
This movement, which led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, was widely seen as a struggle between pro-European and pro-Russian influences, with the U.S. actively supporting the opposition.
Nuland was a vocal advocate for Ukraine’s pro-Western shift, visiting Kyiv during the protests and even distributing food to demonstrators.
- Her involvement became controversial after a leaked phone call between her and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt revealed discussions on Ukraine’s post-Yanukovych government.
- In the call, she expressed preference for Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister and dismissed EU caution, famously stating, “F** the EU.”*...
Following Yanukovych’s ouster, Ukraine signed an EU Association Agreement, prompting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine...
cato.org - The U.S. and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War. It's Not 'Siding With Putin' to Admit It
But Moscow’s cruel overreaction deserves emphatic condemnation.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)