Well gee, color me surprised.

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    4 months ago

    This is a pretty deliberate falsification of what this idiot is saying using out-of-context quotes. He’s saying that by cutting fraud they’ll be able to raise $1 trillion. He said specifically that they wouldn’t touch Social Security except for fraud.

    Of course the claim that there’s $1 trillion of fraud is false, but we don’t need to promote misleading clickbait headlines like this when there’s so much awful news coming out of this administration as it is.

    Edit: Look. Social Security and Medicare are about $1 trillion each. To save $2 trillion they would have to eliminate these programs entirely. People would lose their homes. People would starve. If they wanted to start an actual revolution against the government, this is exactly how they would do it. No one is saying to trust any of these people; I’m saying doing this and remaining in power are at odds.