BRAAAAAAINS

Where are the brains in the Trump/Elon Administration?

During Trump’s address to Congress last week, he repeated Elon Musk’s lie that 150-year-olds are collecting Social Security. The lie is even more malicious than originally thought because Trump repeated and enhanced it after it’s been debunked.

It’s a lie.

Elon previously posted on X in February, when it was working, that DOGE found beneficiaries in their 100s, 200s, and even 300s who were still receiving Social Security payments.

Nobody’s actually against the government rooting out waste and fraud. What we’re against is the lack of transparency by a Trump-appointed, corrupt, lying unelected bureaucrat with huge conflicts of interest and a lack of any qualifications to make decisions on government spending without any input from the three branches of government. Why is this so hard to understand?

We know there’s waste and fraud in government, but you don’t elect lying swamp creatures to drain the swamp.

In his address, Trump said, “We are also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. He then went on to list the number of people who are past the age of 100. "Money is being paid to many of them, and we are searching right now," King Grifter said.

At one point during the speech, he criticized “unelected bureaucrats,” which made the Democrats laugh.

But according to a 2024 report, the Social Security Administration's inspector general (who was probably fired by Trump), between fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the Social Security Administration paid about $8.6 trillion in benefits. About $71.8 billion (or less than 1%) were improper payments, many of which were overpayments.

Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, said, “Tonight, President (sic) Trump doubled down on Elon Musk's debunked lies about Social Security supposedly paying benefits to the deceased. Fewer than 100,000 Americans over the age of 100 receive Social Security benefits- about the same number of people who have actually reached that age.”

John Svahn, who was the SSA commissioner during the early 1980s, said in an interview with MarketWatch that the database Trump and DOGE are referring to is a computer file with a list of individuals' Social Security numbers - not payments. “There was no place to put a date of death, so a lot of those people, when you look at the records, there's no date of death. The people at DOGE jumped to the conclusion that those people are still getting benefits. They might have been 85 in 1936 when they got their number. I can guarantee they're not living now and not getting Social Security.”

Shockingly, the people claiming 200-year-olds are collecting Social Security aren’t the same people who think there are gay airplanes. Well, maybe they are.

After Trump’s speech, Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Work, said, “Tonight, Donald Trump brazenly lied about Social Security. That's because he doesn't want the American people to know the truth: Trump and his co-president Elon Musk are in the midst of breaking Social Security.”

I don’t care what lies Trump and Elmo create about Social Security to destroy it, people are still going to get upset when the checks stop coming in.

Today, I encountered an old man on the city bus wearing a black MAGA cap with a huge “45” on the side. This guy is a great example of a Trump supporter Trump doesn’t care about. Billionaires don’t ride city buses. I guarantee that no matter how deep this guy’s head is up Trump’s ass, he’s going to howl when his Social Security check stops coming. He’ll probably blame Joe Biden.

The only good thing about being a MAGAt is that they’ll all be safe when the brain-eating zombies rise for lunch.

Braaaaaains!….

The rest of us opposing all this stupid shit are in deep trouble.

Creative notes: This is one where time got away from me. I started around 10 a.m. and finished close to 3 p.m., and barely noticed all the construction work going on upstairs above my apartment. I like drawing zombies, and I really got into it.

I’m writing this blog in a coffee shop (had to go to the post office), and I have ten minutes left to finish this.

Drawn in 30 seconds:

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