There’s a whole genre of these memes that purposely ignore the primary objection behind modern drag shows and kids; the overt sexual element. A man dressed as a woman on stage twerking, spreading his legs, having kids put dollar bills in his g-string, etc. is obviously different than a comedy act where a guy wears a dress (the gag being that everyone knows he’s not actually a woman). To equate the two equally is extremely disingenuous.
There is now an overreaction from some on the right that could potentially infringe on first amendment issues (i.e. banning anything with drag content) but the initial and primary outrage over the past couple years has focused on shows with adult sexual content advertised as “family friendly.”
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 ...
