The meme is bs (it’s a political map from 2016 not a gun violence map) but the fact check is too. Politifact switches it from red/blue areas to STATES. But often the areas in red states w/high gun violence are blue areas (New Orleans, St. Louis, Cleveland, etc.)
The meme suffers from other logical issues. There’s no way to know where all the guns are but it’s highly doubtful 97% are in the red areas. The blue areas are where the bulk of the population lives so you would assume where the bulk of the violent crime is too (but again 97% seems to be pulled from thin air).
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 ...
