{"id":39808,"date":"2019-11-12T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39808"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:49:26","slug":"beware-of-social-media-lie-pelosi-didnt-rob-ssi-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39808","title":{"rendered":"Beware of social media lie: Pelosi didn&#8217;t rob SSI fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SSI%20%23impeachment%20%23Pelosi%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Social media can be fun if it isn&#8217;t abused. When abuse occurs, it becomes a deadly toxin.<\/p>\n<p>A social media lie has been making the rounds about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and this idiotic notion that she grabbed $2.4 billion from a Social Security fund to pay for the impeachment inquiry under way in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t true.\u00a0Yet it&#8217;s gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>My gut reaction when I first heard of it was: Wait a second; the speaker doesn&#8217;t have that kind of authority. The speaker cannot move money around unilaterally.<\/p>\n<p>Fact-checkers have debunked the notion. Pelosi is too smart a politician, too adroit and too shrewd to even <em>consider<\/em> doing something such as that.<\/p>\n<p>This, therefore, presents a profound example of how social media can be weaponized. Let us take greater care when reading this nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Factcheck.org lays it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2019\/10\/pelosi-didnt-raid-social-security-for-impeachment-inquiry\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about we all just settle down and let this process play out?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SSI%20%23impeachment%20%23Pelosi%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media can be fun if it isn&#8217;t abused. When abuse occurs, it becomes a deadly toxin. A social media lie has been making the rounds about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and this idiotic notion that she grabbed $2.4 billion from a Social Security fund to pay for the impeachment inquiry under way in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware of social media lie: Pelosi didn&#8217;t rob SSI fund<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6553,2253,3178,4301],"class_list":["post-39808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-fact-checkers","tag-impeachment","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39809,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808\/revisions\/39809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}