Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Golden Cuckoo Award

Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Golden Cuckoo Award

I have been amiss in awarding the coveted Cuckoo Award, today it is for the crazy stuff that Musk is saying to justify his job.

Musk shares 'mind blowing' chart showing millions of 'noncitizens' given Social Security numbers under Biden
'We went there to find fraud and we found this by accident,' DOGE advisor said
Fox News
By Alec Schemmel
March 31, 2025

Elon Musk shared a chart during a get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, which he claimed showed millions of noncitizens received Social Security numbers during former President Joe Biden's tenure.

The event came just a day-and-a-half before polls opened in a contentious state judicial race.

The Sunday town hall garnered a lot of attention Monday over Musk's move to hand out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters who signed a petition calling for an end to "activist judges," after the state's Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge arguing the sweepstakes was unlawful.

After handing out the money, Musk brought friend and DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias on stage to discuss the work he has done with the federal government's Social Security system. Shortly after Gracias joined Musk, a large graphic that read, "New Non-Citizen Social Security Numbers Issued," was illuminated on the screen behind them.

Now here is the thing. They have Social Security numbers , now get this, because they pay taxes. If you don't have a SS you can't file a tax return!

To receive a Golden Cuckoo Award you have to double down...

Last week, DOGE said it had removed approximately 7 million Social Security accounts belonging to people listed as being over 120 years old. DOGE has also found through its audits that the Social Security database included 20 million dead people marked as alive, Musk said at the Wisconsin town hall Sunday.

Um... that is because the computer language the tax data is in is written in COBOL and the young computer aces have no idea what they are doing!

1 comment:

Anonymous4/1/25, 11:00 AM
Having worked for 30+ years for the Internal Revenue Service Musk and his crowd don't know what they are talking about. It use to be the Internal Revenue Service wanted to promote tax compliance by encouraging undocumented people to report and pay taxes. Undocumented people are issued taxpayer identification numbers that are used to record their income and file tax returns. Now, it seems the IRS is being pressured to aid ICE in identifying undocumented workers for deportation.
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