{"id":20376,"date":"2026-02-12T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:20:00","slug":"social-media-we-have-another-lying-idiot-sen-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/02\/12\/social-media-we-have-another-lying-idiot-sen-schumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media: The purpose of social media is to tell lies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sen. Schumer is lying with his claim of 21 million Americans would be disenfranchised. It&#8217;s unclear where this number comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335-1024x438.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335-600x257.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335-604x259.png 604w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-335.png 1142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He has misquoted the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>89% of adults have proof of citizenship documentation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9% (or up to 30M) do not have &#8220;ready access&#8221; to their documents because they (a) are in someone else&#8217;s home, such as for a student away at college, (b) stored with another family member, (c) in a safety deposit box. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2% (or about 6 million) lack any citizenship documentation, notably, a birth certificate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Until today I have not had a perspective on the SAVE Act. However, over the past week I have seen opponents routinely tell whopper lies like above. I dislike liars and arguments based on lies. Telling lies, repeatedly, crushes one&#8217;s argument &#8211; and persuades others to adopt the opposite position because of being fed up with the lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telling lies is not going to be an effective way to win an argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Another one!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-336.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-336.png 481w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-336-474x600.png 474w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-336-213x270.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And estimated 98% of residents of Pennsylvania have a birth certificate (basically the same as the national average), which is the primary root document for citizenship (another one is a naturalization document). Hospitals file birth registration automatically at birth, and provide for parents to &#8211; almost automatically &#8211; request and receive a copy of the birth certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This occurs because the birth certificate is usually required for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>enrollment in school<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>needed to request a  Social Security registration number<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>generally required for parent&#8217;s insurance policies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and its simple and cheap to do there at the hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the degree of lying going on with regards to this issue, I am leaning towards passing the SAVE Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If politicians can routinely lie about something that is so easy to verify, it implies every word from their mouths is likely a lie. And you wonder why no one trusts institutions anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s one of my posts on X to explain the situation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research by the Brennan Center for Justice, Pew Research, the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement estimate that about 89% of American adults have citizenship documents, about 9% do not have &#8220;ready access&#8221; (typically stored at their parent&#8217;s home or a safety deposit box) and <strong>about 2% lack any documentation (no birth certificate)<\/strong>. Immigrants who become a US citizen receive a naturalization document; almost all have their documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, it&#8217;s about 2% lack a birth certificate (costs about $10 to $31 to obtain). Most all naturalized citizens have access to their paperwork for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don&#8217;t we solve the problem of providing birth certificates for free to the 2% that lack them? Hospitals file birth registrations for every child born there. About 1+% of births are &#8220;home births&#8221; and all states mandate that these be registered too. Most home births include a midwife or other health care practitioner and they are required to register the birth. It is estimated that today, near 100% of home births are registered. That said, some home births decades ago may have occurred before filing was common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, some may have lost a birth certificate due to a disaster (fire, flood, etc). However, they have to replace lots of documents when that occurs, not just birth certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More lies being told. This is not necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20419,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions\/20419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}