▪️This comes from a viral TikTok post last Dec. A guy ordered what appears to be the most expensive meal possible from McDonald’s then complained about the price.
▪️Looking at the receipt, he ordered a double smoky BLT quarter pounder with cheese and large fries/drink. The smoky QP was a limited time special menu item, so I couldn’t exactly recreate it. But using the app I tried as close as I could come (pictures posted in comments):
▪️I put in bacon QP/cheese, added an extra patty, and added lettuce, tomato & mayo. With large fries/drink that comes to $13.54, so ~$14-15 depending on sale taxes.
▪️Keep in mind this is basically the most expensive burger and fries meal you can create from McDonald’s and clocks in at >1500 calories, 3/4s of your daily calories (the app says 1400 calories, but it gets confused when you add a bunch of options).
▪️However, an ordinary double QP/cheese large meal is $10.89 (w/1510 calories) and a more normal “burger and fries” meal like the headline suggests, a QP/cheese with medium fries/drink is $8.19, and still clocks in at 1050 calories. Which is about 1/2 the price the meme claims.
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 ...
