Feminist News (and others) are having a hysterical freakout about Vance saying his wife has 3 kids. Talk about trying to manufacture a scandal. Watch the clip for yourself, it seems pretty innocent. She asks him if his wife has converted, to which he says no & then focuses on describing her going to church and looking after the kids. Perhaps it would have been better to say “we have three kids” but to insinuate he is trying to distance himself from his family or that he had no role in their existence is nuts when you watch it in context.
Clip here:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1090803262672916&id=100029618430626
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 ...
