▪️I’ve seen them post this meme several times since Rush Limbaugh’s death, which means ironically he’s still living rent free in their heads. But it’s not even true no one talks about him, just search his name in X and you’ll find countless posts, even recently.
▪️Last week was his birthday, there were tons of people posting happy birthday, how they missed him, his voice, his show, contributions, etc. Of course, there are also still posts from bitter leftists cheering his death years later. Clearly, he left a mark.
▪️The reality is that you don’t hear about almost anyone years after they die. When was the last time you heard someone talk about the legacy of George Bush Sr.? Or Alan Colmes (the long-time liberal co-host with Hannity). Most young people couldn’t tell you anything about Johnny Carson.
▪️The most famous actors and sports stars of the 1930s-50s are virtually unknown to the youth today. Only a handful of artists, politicians and philosophers are remembered more than a decade after their deaths. It’s not a knock on them, just how it is, live accordingly.
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 ...
