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BONUS POD： Propaganda Prime Time： What the Media Won’t Say about what DOGE is Finding


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00:00:05.780 Well, Doze, you're showing us the way.
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00:00:20.360 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:24.200 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:25.440 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:28.000 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:29.220 And we have two major stories for you this morning coming from the Trump administration.
00:00:34.680 First up, in a shocking development, Social Security has now officially removed 12.3 million individuals
00:00:44.440 listed at the age of 120 or more.
00:00:48.620 And you will also be shocked by how many illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers
00:00:53.540 and are receiving benefits from our government as part of the investigation.
00:00:58.860 Those details in a moment.
00:01:00.980 And finally, you may not hate the media as much as you should after a study has come out stating
00:01:07.280 just how much negative news there is during the first 100 days on Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
00:01:14.340 I'll break that down for you as well.
00:01:16.120 Now, before I get to everything the left is saying, I want to take a moment and tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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00:02:51.180 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
00:02:54.680 Story number one.
00:02:55.760 One of the big reasons why Donald Trump was elected is he promised you,
00:02:59.400 the American taxpayer, that he was going to make sure that your money was no longer being wasted,
00:03:04.520 your tax dollars.
00:03:06.360 Well, he's making good on that promise yet again.
00:03:09.080 This time, it deals with Social Security.
00:03:11.900 And the fact that we've had to remove from the Social Security rolls 12.3 million individuals
00:03:20.180 listed as 120 years old or older.
00:03:24.580 That according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.
00:03:29.460 Now, the discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed
00:03:34.940 have garnered national attention over the last several months.
00:03:38.840 And as a result, in March, DOGE began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security.
00:03:47.040 In a March 18th update, DOGE said Social Security had marked 3.2 million Social Security number holders
00:03:54.560 aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done.
00:04:02.080 Over one month later, on April the 24th, DOGE provide another update revealing that a stunning 11 million individuals
00:04:11.560 listed as age 120 or more were now being marked as deceased.
00:04:19.100 And the most recent update delivered this week by DOGE,
00:04:22.920 they revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older
00:04:33.000 are now officially marked as deceased in the system.
00:04:37.020 Elon Musk brought on stage to talk about this issue Antonio Garcias,
00:04:42.600 and he showed a chart of the new non-citizen Social Security numbers that have also been issued.
00:04:48.420 He said it literally blew them away.
00:04:50.200 So it's not just people that are dead or 120 and older, but it's also illegal immigrants as well.
00:04:56.380 Take a listen to what they said.
00:04:58.320 So, Antonio, can you tell us what you...
00:05:01.980 Antonio is helping out with Social Security.
00:05:05.540 So just trying to review Social Security, where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people
00:05:11.480 marked as alive in the Social Security database.
00:05:15.480 This is so crazy.
00:05:17.400 And then you'll notice there's a strange trend here, where how many Social Security numbers were issued?
00:05:28.140 It's...
00:05:28.700 Do you want to...
00:05:29.480 Yeah, so let me tell you what happened here.
00:05:31.640 We started at the top of the system.
00:05:33.800 You want to talk about a lot of them?
00:05:35.120 We started at the top of the system, mapping the whole system of Social Security
00:05:38.480 to understand where all the fraud was.
00:05:39.720 And there's a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste.
00:05:44.320 And so that came up with a big list of stuff they're working on.
00:05:46.560 You've heard some of that already.
00:05:47.320 But this is what jumped out at us.
00:05:49.460 When we saw these numbers, we were like, what is this?
00:05:52.400 In 21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24.
00:05:58.680 These are non-citizens that are getting Social Security numbers.
00:06:02.840 Yeah, this is a mind-blowing charge.
00:06:04.700 Yeah, just...
00:06:05.560 This literally blew us away.
00:06:07.800 Like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident.
00:06:11.860 And this isn't political, by the way.
00:06:13.420 My parents are immigrants.
00:06:15.520 Yeah, this country's been great to us.
00:06:17.000 My brother and sister are all born in Spain.
00:06:18.780 I'm pro-legal immigration.
00:06:20.600 This is not political.
00:06:22.460 This is not political.
00:06:23.960 This is about America and the future of America.
00:06:27.260 And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed us in this direction.
00:06:31.520 I want to honor them right now.
00:06:33.160 They work in the government today who took risks to show us these numbers and tell us what's going on.
00:06:38.460 So I want to stop for a minute.
00:06:39.500 I want to honor those people today.
00:06:41.780 Very good people.
00:06:43.280 Very good people.
00:06:45.040 I have been from D.C. to Social Security offices to the border to track this down.
00:06:52.040 And very good people have helped us along the way.
00:06:53.600 I want to thank them.
00:06:54.180 This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're illegal, there's a couple ways to come in.
00:07:01.500 You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you're afraid.
00:07:04.760 They'll give you an asylum case.
00:07:07.060 You'll get an interview.
00:07:08.100 Then you get in.
00:07:09.140 That's one way to do it.
00:07:10.340 Another way to do it is to just go to the border.
00:07:13.060 Literally, this happened.
00:07:13.840 I talked to Border Patrol myself.
00:07:15.200 Elon was there, too.
00:07:16.560 I went to Laredo, and I went to Bronzeville.
00:07:19.560 Elon went to Eagle Pass.
00:07:21.020 You walk up to a Border Patrol officer, and you tell them you want to come in.
00:07:24.420 They have a couple of choices.
00:07:25.960 They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make it an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically.
00:07:33.100 They were told to do that, make it an administrative offense under the last administration.
00:07:37.440 And then you go walk across the border.
00:07:38.720 Or they do what's called a release from your own recognizance, and they give you an NTA, a notice to appear, which is to appear at a judge.
00:07:47.100 The wait times on judges are like average six years.
00:07:50.100 Look at Garak.
00:07:50.620 You'll see it on immigration judges.
00:07:52.280 There's only 700 of them.
00:07:53.740 This is 5.5 million people.
00:07:56.020 Okay?
00:07:56.500 So what happens then?
00:07:57.820 Once you're in the country and you've got asylum through one of these pathways, and we map the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document.
00:08:07.180 You file a 765.
00:08:09.300 It's the work form.
00:08:10.520 You get this form called the 766.
00:08:12.920 That's the authorization.
00:08:13.600 And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number.
00:08:19.620 No interview.
00:08:20.680 No ID.
00:08:21.400 This is worth, like, just reiterating.
00:08:23.560 It's not that, it's not, people sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch.
00:08:29.580 He wasn't asleep.
00:08:30.580 They weren't asleep at the switch.
00:08:32.420 It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people.
00:08:43.600 And make it a permanent, deeply one-party state from which there would be no escape.
00:08:48.280 Look, if I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it.
00:08:50.460 I went through it myself and mapped it.
00:08:52.300 And Elon is right.
00:08:53.300 This is true.
00:08:53.980 The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people.
00:09:02.480 And minimum collection.
00:09:03.760 That's what's happening.
00:09:04.380 We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, as an example.
00:09:08.660 We've gone through, on every benefit program we went through,
00:09:11.160 we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people, in those benefit programs.
00:09:17.540 And then what was really, really disturbing us was why.
00:09:20.780 We're asking ourselves why.
00:09:22.040 And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records.
00:09:25.160 And we found people here registered to vote in this population, yes.
00:09:28.960 And who did vote?
00:09:29.760 And we found some by sampling that actually did vote.
00:09:32.800 And we have referred them to prosecution at the Home Ed Secure Investigation Service.
00:09:36.700 Yeah.
00:09:37.360 Already.
00:09:38.340 Already.
00:09:38.900 That is already happening.
00:09:39.620 So let's just be clear what you just heard.
00:09:42.960 You just heard Elon Musk and Antonio show a chart of new non-citizen Social Security numbers issued.
00:09:50.500 They said it literally blew them away.
00:09:52.720 They went there to find fraud.
00:09:54.920 And what they found was all of this by accident.
00:09:58.400 The update coincides with other red flags issued by Elon Musk and Doge as well.
00:10:03.440 They made waves in March when he said at least 2.1 million non-citizens are receiving Social Security numbers in 2024 alone.
00:10:11.920 So not only is that true, they're also on Medicare, Medicaid, and many of them have registered to vote and have actually voted.
00:10:19.820 So yes, illegal immigrants are actually voting in this country.
00:10:24.580 And this is exactly why Doge has so much more work to continue to do.
00:10:29.280 There is a new study that has just come out that makes us realize we may not hate the media as much as we actually should for their bias and lying against Donald Trump and people that are close to him.
00:10:43.420 We all know how much the media lied about Donald Trump.
00:10:46.800 Russian collusion is a great example.
00:10:48.680 Or how much they protected the Biden crime family by claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't even real.
00:10:54.920 We also know that they used the media countless times to try to impeach Donald Trump not once but twice and to overthrow the will of the people.
00:11:03.840 But what happens when you are an ally of the president and you're standing with him in his second term in office?
00:11:09.880 Well, now we understand because of the data just how hard it is to stand up for what you believe in.
00:11:17.480 A recent study by the Media Research Center has found that Elon Musk received 96% negative coverage from major U.S. television networks ABC, NBC, and CBS during the first hundred days of President Donald Trump's second term.
00:11:35.520 Now, how extreme is 96% negative coverage?
00:11:39.880 Well, during the first hundred days of President Donald Trump's second term, he only received 92% negative coverage for himself during the same period.
00:11:50.780 Meaning that the media understands that Donald Trump is evil in their eyes and they'll do whatever they can to take him out.
00:11:58.000 But if you're an ally of the president, they'll come after you even harder.
00:12:02.560 Now, the analysis focused on evening newscasts and highlighted the intense scrutiny that Elon Musk face, particularly in the role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
00:12:12.860 You know it as Doge.
00:12:14.720 The study's findings have sparked discussion about media extremist bias and the portrayal of influential figures in the tech industry who stand with Donald Trump.
00:12:24.580 What's even worse is the fact that they do it to destroy his entire livelihood, attacking his companies and anything that he is invested in.
00:12:34.720 Joe Rogan talking about this in his show with Aaron Rodgers.
00:12:38.920 And here's what they had to say about the shocking details of this report.
00:12:43.360 Recently, that showed that 96% of all the stories that mainstream media prints about Elon are negative.
00:12:52.640 96%.
00:12:53.160 Meanwhile, the guy saved those f***ing people trapped up in space.
00:12:57.440 You didn't hear a peep about that.
00:12:58.740 And the s*** he does when there's natural disasters with the Starlink.
00:13:01.880 Oh, yeah.
00:13:02.580 He's revolutionizing space travel, revolutionizing satellite internet capabilities and the availability all over the world.
00:13:13.700 It's crazy.
00:13:14.700 It's really crazy.
00:13:15.500 And saving billions of dollars of your tax money from going to f***ing fun, stupid-ass programs all over the world.
00:13:22.340 It's not just stupid-ass programs.
00:13:22.840 Some of it is like you don't even know where it went.
00:13:24.900 It's corruption, too.
00:13:25.740 He said that some of the money, that there was billions of dollars that was written out with no receipts at all.
00:13:32.380 He said if this was a private company, or excuse me, a public company, they would be delisted and all the executives would be thrown in prison.
00:13:39.540 But in the government, it's just like standard practice, business as usual.
00:13:42.540 How come nobody has gone to prison?
00:13:43.500 That's one of my main questions for Trump and the administration.
00:13:46.060 It's a good question.
00:13:46.980 It is a great question.
00:13:48.320 Why aren't people going to jail?
00:13:49.980 And there's a good chance moving forward that may actually happen.
00:13:52.800 As for Elon Musk, he's responded to the new study's results, accusing the legacy media of dishonesty and suggesting that the negative coverage is part of a deliberate campaign to undermine him due to his influential status and political leanings.
00:14:08.420 Now, this situation clearly underscores the relationship between the media and the narratives that they want to push on public perception, especially concerning high-profile individuals who play a significant role in Donald Trump's administration.
00:14:25.600 One thing is for sure, this study needs to be shared everywhere so that the people understand that when you're watching the nightly news, you're not actually watching the news anymore on ABC, NBC, or CBS.
00:14:37.420 Yes, you're watching liberal government-sponsored propaganda, and it's there to undermine Donald Trump and anyone around him in the administration.
00:14:47.940 Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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