{"id":89394,"date":"2025-03-14T07:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89394"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:07:49","slug":"focus-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89394","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democrats lately have had a lot of fun hopping up and down on the fact that there are no 300 year-old people giving Social Security checks; it\u2019s just a database problem.<\/p>\n<p>As if learning that the fact that our government data is that sloppy is all that much more reassuring.<\/p>\n<p>All of that, notwithstanding, I fully expect the Democrats to keep trying to focus on that, to deflect away from this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As crazy as it sounds, $312 million in COVID loans going to kids under 11 with fake Social Security numbers is just the tip of the iceberg.<br>\u00a0<br>My oversight uncovered $5.4 BILLION in COVID loans went to individuals using fraudulent Social Security numbers.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vUCavBdbWY\">https:\/\/t.co\/vUCavBdbWY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJoniErnst\/status\/1900277468637942184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had a long-standing suspicion that Minnesota under Democrat rule has been a national prototype, not only for how progressive politics is done, but for how progressive loot the public treasury.I\u2019ve had a long-standing suspicion that Minnesota under Democrat rule has been a national prototype, not only for how progressive politics is done, but for how progressive loot the public treasury.Is Minnesota the disease, or the symptom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Not sure. Either way, he\u2019s hoping the chemotherapy does something useful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats lately have had a lot of fun hopping up and down on the fact that there are no 300 year-old people giving Social Security checks; it\u2019s just a database problem. As if learning that the fact that our government data is that sloppy is all that much more reassuring. All of that, notwithstanding, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89395,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89394\/revisions\/89395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}