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Should be a wild four years.

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^ cant reply or quote but the social security death index does not have any death data prior to 1962.

funeral directors usually fill out a form and report it to SSA
but not everyone goes through a funeral director.
and we have 5 million expats living outside the USA who could die on foreign soil and may or may not hit the SSDI
 
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^ cant reply or quote but the social security death index does not have any death data prior to 1962.

funeral directors usually fill out a form and report it to SSA
but not everyone goes through a funeral director.
and we have 5 million expats living outside the USA who could die on foreign soil and may or may not hit the SSDI

Can we actually make it a law that you have to reside in the US to receive any form of government benefits? Please?
 
Can we actually make it a law that you have to reside in the US to receive any form of government benefits? Please?
millions of people leave the USA because they cant live comfortably on their retirement or savings in the USA but can do pretty well for themselves on 1800 a month elsewhere. its retirement. youre supposed to do whatever the hell you want.

SSI recipients who didnt pay into it? id agree. id even rather they didnt get a check at all.
 
How was that embarrassing on his end? Zelensky was being a massive sperg the entire time. Also a meme coin is… embarrassing… how?
A meme coin is embarrassing because he is a publicly elected official leveraging his political influence to massively inflate the value of a cryptocurrency he has 80% ownership of as a means to personally enrich himself. The value of the coin plummeted shortly after its launch. He gifted large shares of the coin to people within his own administration, including Kash Patel. If you don't understand how this negatively affects how people perceive him, then you are too blinded by your own support for him. I'm a conservative, and I am glad that he won instead of Kamala Harris. But I have absolutely no obligation to support this kind of behavior.
 
That was the "Condoms for Gaza" thing, where the Gaza in question turned out to be another Gaza. You are mixing events up.

Also, it should be noted that even then other parts of USAID were in fact funding Hamas.
The “condoms for Gaza” claim was never disproven:
It was always bullshit. The claim that it went to Mozambique was originally published by terrorist rag Middle East Eye, a media outlet of abysmal credibility that is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood (terrorist organization that created Hamas). It is also Qatari funded.

MEE with the big brain thinking attempted immediate damage control in resposne to Trump's claim that the US allocated $50m to Gaza:
“It's unclear whether this is what the Trump administration was referring to, given that there are multiple locations in the world named Gaza, including inside the US.”
Though I’m sure the $50m totally went to contraception as intended, and not to rockets right guys?
 
A meme coin is embarrassing because he is a publicly elected official leveraging his political influence to massively inflate the value of a cryptocurrency he has 80% ownership of as a means to personally enrich himself. The value of the coin plummeted shortly after its launch. He gifted large shares of the coin to people within his own administration, including Kash Patel. If you don't understand how this negatively affects how people perceive him, then you are too blinded by your own support for him. I'm a conservative, and I am glad that he won instead of Kamala Harris. But I have absolutely no obligation to support this kind of behavior.
while you probably deserve to have a thread made about you, id prefer it not be this one.
 
Yes. If you're living off the government dime, there should be a requirement that you actually be in the country you're receiving gibs from.
I'm living off my dime, not the government's. I paid into the SS system for decades. Why should it be anyone's business that I'm spending my golden years banging hookers in Thailand?
 
A meme coin is embarrassing because he is a publicly elected official leveraging his political influence to massively inflate the value of a cryptocurrency he has 80% ownership of as a means to personally enrich himself. The value of the coin plummeted shortly after its launch. He gifted large shares of the coin to people within his own administration, including Kash Patel. If you don't understand how this negatively affects how people perceive him, then you are too blinded by your own support for him. I'm a conservative, and I am glad that he won instead of Kamala Harris. But I have absolutely no obligation to support this kind of behavior.
I genuinely don’t give a shit about cryptocurrency so I’m not gonna really comment on this, other than no I don’t think this is a big deal.
 
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