After last night’s disaster debate performance, some on the left are trying to salvage one good quote from Fetterman. But (putting aside the typo in the meme) this isn’t even an accurate quote, it’s literally what his supports imagined him saying.
Here’s what he actually said, it was disjointed and muddled like most of his quotes from last night, watch for yourself beginning at 2:40
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hj65-LZ-f7o&feature=share
My close captioning attempt:
🔹”I don’t ever recall in the Statue of Liberty did they say, you know, yo…take our tired, huddled masses and put them on a bus, and use cheap political stunts about them. I believe we have to develop a comprehensive and bicartisan solution to…to address our issue here, for immigration here, in our nation.”
▪️The only reference for this quote appears to be from what his wife tweeted as her apparent recollection of the debate.
https://twitter.com/giselefetterman/status/1585069343595196418?s=61&t=h4HlUVQvHAhG6Fsq9NTfiA
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
