We’ve discovered the Great Democrat Zombie Army.
A full decade ago in 2015,
the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General reported that 6.5 million active Social Security numbers were assigned to people aged 112 or older, despite there being only 35 such individuals known to be living
worldwide. (
Robert Kennedy should be happy to hear about this.) That was alarming enough, but
in 2023, an expanded audit looked at SSNs aged 100 and up. This time,
18.9 million active SSNs with birthdates of 1920
or earlier lacked a date of death, meaning
they are still active.
But last year (2024), PEW Research reported there are only 80,000 living Americans aged 100+, leaving a shocking discrepancy of 18.8 million mysterious perennial people still receiving social security and possibly disability as well, not to mention generous credits from phantom tax returns, and of course, blue state and local benefits.
And of course, these immortal individuals are probably also
voting. Voting
Democrat.
The IG’s 2023 follow-up report detailed all the Agency’s terrific progress in resolving the problems identified since the earlier 2015 report. In short, the Social Security Administration’s diligent, alert, and apolitical permanent career civil servants grabbed hold of the IG’s 2015 report with both hands and
shoved it into the basement furnace.
I, for one, thank the gods of bureaucrats for all the hardworking, non-biased, non-partisan federal workers in the Social Security Administration who concluded, probably right after their 3-mimosa-lunch (held by Zoom), that it was just
too hard and
too expensive to stop 18.9 million fraudulent social security records by putting a presumed date of death into the date field.
It’s no use.
It’s not like it might have made any difference in the 2020 election or anything.
I’m sure this will (not) shock you. Both times, 2015 and 2023, the media ignored or downplayed the story. A sane person living in pre-Millennial America might assume that the tireless watchdog media, upon learning about the vast numbers of impossibly fake Social Security accounts and the trillions of dollars of attendant waste and fraud would
never give the government a moment’s peace until it was fixed.
But no.
We are not surprised. We are scarred veterans of the post-Millennial period, and we understand the media’s main job is not to expose, but to
cover up government incompetence — and
especially bury any news at all that might fuel legitimate concerns about election integrity.
Not to mention upholding corporate media’s timeless narrative chestnut that entitlement fraud is
rare and
overhyped and only a
right-wing conspiracy theory. That narrative, after all, is as timeless as the millions of zombified centenarian recipients.
In 2015, apart from one-offs in some conservative media (Breitbart, Washington Times, Fox), I could only find a single AP story about the 6.5 million fraudulent Social Security records aged 112+. In 2023, after the SSA’s OIG published its report finding 19 million digitally breathing people over 100 still “alive” in the system, once again, there was mostly media silence. It should have been a five-alarm fire, but only a handful of “far-right” sites mentioned the news (Federalist, Washington Examiner). The usually reliable New York Post only briefly mentioned the OIG report, but even that was buried in a bigger article about government waste generally.
But CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the other major outlets? Crickets. My searches came up empty.
It just wasn’t important enough to report.
In the latest electrifying development that will also probably not shock you, DOGE —for the last week slogging through the SSA’s septic systems of archaic paper and antique Cobol software — is beginning to report that the OIG canaries in the SSA mineshaft were, if anything,
woefully underreporting the problem.
Yesterday, apparent DOGE mouthpiece
Elon Musk posted a simple database count of active Social Security Numbers by age range. The dumbfounding chart was a political hydrogen bomb, and it speaks for itself:
Apparently, we’ve been operating on the
honor system this whole time. We normal, non-civil-service Americans were the only ones who didn’t know. It’s just the latest reason they sneer at us and think we’re stupid and gullible.
Those neanderthal conservatives will believe anything. They’re right.
We’re the biggest suckers in human history.
I added up the numbers for our cherished, specially abled readers in Portland. Based on Elon’s chart, the total count of active SSNs is 398 million. That means there are
+64 million more active SSNs
than the entire population of the United States (334 million).
Let me say it again:
sixty-four million zombies. Needless to say, it’s totally impossible, at least under our current scientific understanding of human mortality. The diligent, hardworking, apolitical employees in the federal government appear to have diligently preserved a shadow army of dead or nonexistent “Americans” on the books — zombies — with tens of millions of them potentially still receiving benefits, filing tax returns, and “voting” Democrat.
This appears to be a scandal of unfathomable, indescribable,
revolutionary proportions. Since I have a very strong feeling that we will not be receiving tax refunds for our cataclysmically misspent entitlements lavished on millions of career criminals, including those inside the government, I say
burn it all down.
There is no fixing this. There is no audit big enough. There is no reform package meaningful enough. It is a soul-crushing abomination. It boils the blood. It is enraging beyond explanation. Just napalm the whole Kafkaesque apparatus and start over from scratch.
This scandal will be the Deep State's Waterloo.
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