All y’all getting excited about the idea of that $5k check need to exhale. 1. The math isn’t even close to correct on what #DOGE has “saved” so there’s no way to calculate an amount anyone might get. 2. “Saved” isn’t the term if people’s lives have been upended with mass layoffs, cuts to…1/5 - ThreadSky

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brienneofthighs.bsky.social • 3 days ago

All y’all getting excited about the idea of that $5k check need to exhale.

1. The math isn’t even close to correct on what #DOGE has “saved” so there’s no way to calculate an amount anyone might get.

2. “Saved” isn’t the term if people’s lives have been upended with mass layoffs, cuts to…1/5

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brienneofthighs.bsky.social•3 days ago

… #cancer and #alzheimer’s research, cuts to services for special needs students, saying money is saved for things like The Presidio Trust which hasn’t actually received regular Congressional appropriations since 2013, and on and on. They’ve just stopped paying for things or…2/5

brienneofthighs.bsky.social•3 days ago

…are adding numbers that don’t exist. So “saved” is actually “made up”, aka “A #Con.”

3. The #TaxCuts will add $4T to the deficit while cutting programs we all depend on. So what sense does it make to add to the deficit that much more by sending everyone money? If that money were truly savings…3/5

brienneofthighs.bsky.social•3 days ago

…then there wouldn’t be this adding to the #deficit mess. If we dont have $ to pay for tax cuts without gutting #veterans benefits, #medicare, #socialsecurity, and #medicaid, then how is anyone getting a check? Unless…are we adding that roughly $400 billion to the deficit, too? And if we are…4/5

brienneofthighs.bsky.social•3 days ago

…using a % of the fake savings to pay down the real debt, then why is $4 trillion about to add to the deficit with the tax cuts? Math, y’all.

4. Read this aloud and listen to the words: Trump and Musk are f**king liars. Source: there are too many to list.

#TheBigGrift

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