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I'm suggesting that conservatives can quite easily be both stupid and racist, and for the self-styled conservatives who aren't actually rich, stupidity is pretty much a given.
Law The DOGE JIG is almost up
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I'm suggesting that conservatives can quite easily be both stupid and racist, and for the self-styled conservatives who aren't actually rich, stupidity is pretty much a given.
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The EO was simply a broad directive—there were no specific cuts or buyouts until Congress authorized them. Clinton’s commission spent 6 months observing, investigating, and studying agencies and departments to see how to actually truly make them more efficient, and to determine what and how much could be cut without crippling the country.
—All things that DOGE didn’t do.
And they didn’t do it because Trump doesn’t care about the country. He cares about himself.
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Trump Might Actually Dump Elon After Embarrassing Defeat in Wisconsin
The billionaire oligarch's money failed to buy a judge on Tuesday.
https://gizmodo.com/trump-might-act...r-embarrassing-defeat-in-wisconsin-2000584124
"But only time will tell whether Musk is actually kicked to the curb. Even if he left tomorrow, he’s already done enormous damage to the country by destroying USAID and firing tens of thousands of people across federal agencies. The average American may not understand it yet, but Musk’s actions will be felt for generations to come, as the U.S. surrenders its position as a world leader. As soon as the average American does figure it out, it will be way too late to do anything about it. But Musk doesn’t have to worry, he’s got plenty of contracts around the world to prop up his wealth."
The billionaire oligarch's money failed to buy a judge on Tuesday.
https://gizmodo.com/trump-might-act...r-embarrassing-defeat-in-wisconsin-2000584124
"But only time will tell whether Musk is actually kicked to the curb. Even if he left tomorrow, he’s already done enormous damage to the country by destroying USAID and firing tens of thousands of people across federal agencies. The average American may not understand it yet, but Musk’s actions will be felt for generations to come, as the U.S. surrenders its position as a world leader. As soon as the average American does figure it out, it will be way too late to do anything about it. But Musk doesn’t have to worry, he’s got plenty of contracts around the world to prop up his wealth."
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Didn't the govt pay for that building?
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Yeah, that was you I see.
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No; we're 37t in debt. Trump needs to cut spending and raise taxes, but he won't do that.
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We are 37 trillion in debt - it's time to get drastic.
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"In 2004, Congress authorized $100 million for construction of USIP's headquarters, in part due to the efforts of Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, while the institute was required to raise the remaining $86 million. The funds raised by USIP included a $10 million donation from Chevron Corporation. Another corporate donor to the building fund, defense contractor Lockheed Martin, was named a "Founding Corporate Partner" after donating $1 million."
-Wikipedia
"USIP’s global peace-building operations are funded through annual federal appropriations. In 2004, Congress appropriated $99 million for a new headquarters. The remainder of the needed funding was to be developed privately. What is unique about USIP’s real estate strategy is that it used a mix of federal funding, $30 million raised from private donors, and a $50 million bank line of credit to enable the construction of the 254,000-square-foot (23,500 sq m) complex."
https://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/united-states-institute-of-peace-headquarters
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Remember the IRS workers "fired" for cost cutting?
They were never fired. They were paid fully to sit at home on administrative leave. Now they're being recalled with the April 15th tax deadline because the people remaining at the IRS can't handle the workload of tax season without being fully staffed.
The gaps in coverage have already helped tax cheats scam the system
Slashing IRS Staff Leaves Opening for Tax Cheats, Slow Returns
Cutting IRS staffing in half over the next 10 months would mean less help and longer waits for many US taxpayers and increase the risk that wealthy tax cheats escape paying what they owe.
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I can't imagine anyone defending this, but the day is young.
Remember the IRS workers "fired" for cost cutting?
They were never fired. They were paid fully to sit at home on administrative leave. Now they're being recalled with the April 15th tax deadline because the people remaining at the IRS can't handle the workload of tax season without being fully staffed.
The gaps in coverage have already helped tax cheats scam the system
Slashing IRS Staff Leaves Opening for Tax Cheats, Slow Returns
Cutting IRS staffing in half over the next 10 months would mean less help and longer waits for many US taxpayers and increase the risk that wealthy tax cheats escape paying what they owe.news.bloombergtax.com
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I'm not sure if this was DOGE, but regardless this administration has frozen funds that farmers in my state were counting on. In a red state farmers are getting bent over no lube by Trump.
www.theassemblync.com
North Carolina Farmers Reel From Trump Administration Payment Delays
Farmers say they're waiting for payments linked to conservation programs, projects aimed at combating climate change, and disaster loans.
www.theassemblync.com
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Musk is cancelling contracts by the billions and claiming the cancellations as "savings". But who are the new contracts being awarded to and for how much?
"Though DOGE claims to have saved a total of $140 billion, not all of it is true savings, according to Bank of America. The advisory group has “overstated” its savings by failing to account for new contracts and inflating the value of other cancelled contracts, according to the bank. Other contracts listed on the DOGE Wall of Receipts were cancelled before Trump took office or ended naturally, The New York Times reported."
DOGE’s private contract crackdown has eliminated more than 120 Deloitte contracts—more than twice the amount of any other consultancy
https://fortune.com/2025/04/03/doge-private-contract-crackdown-deloitte-consultancies/"Though DOGE claims to have saved a total of $140 billion, not all of it is true savings, according to Bank of America. The advisory group has “overstated” its savings by failing to account for new contracts and inflating the value of other cancelled contracts, according to the bank. Other contracts listed on the DOGE Wall of Receipts were cancelled before Trump took office or ended naturally, The New York Times reported."
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Do you actually doubt any corruption?
Thought this article made some sense ~
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you -- and that's what we need right now.
These Department of Government Efficiency volunteers are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It's the greatest robbery -- more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption -- in world history.
Yet too many Democrats are reacting as though Musk himself is the scoundrel.
The "Musk-ateers" have marked nearly 10 million Social Security recipients over the age of 120 as deceased. (How many monthly checks were sent out?) How about $10 billion in rent for empty office buildings? Hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs that went to "nongovernmental government organizations" and then disappeared down a rabbit hole? Billions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid spending? A federal workforce that has been MIA for three years?
In the wake of this epic failure of governance, nearly every leading Democrat in Washington has protested: "Elon Musk is going too far."
They say that they are against waste too. But former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama never lifted a finger to stop it. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.
Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America. It's so routine that it isn't seen as a criminal action anymore but rather the cost of doing business inside the Beltway. Like paying off the mob.
Why are Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not sharing in our collective outrage? Is it because they knew it was happening all along and feel guilty that they did nothing to stop it?
Or maybe the real answer is that THEY ARE IN ON THE SWINDLE. This could explain how so many politicians spent their careers in Congress and retired as multimillionaires.
In other words, what is most revealing about the Washington slime that we are waking up to in real time thanks to DOGE is that the waste and fraud is the currency of Washington. It pays the bills, and everyone in the swamp gets their cut. Remember: One third of $7 trillion is the stuff of fortunes.
How else does one explain the $2.7 million that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly directed/laundered to his wife via a nonprofit environmental group she worked for? This would clearly be graft, but it has gone unpunished.
We are living through the harrowing last scene in a Hollywood murder mystery in which you discover that the chief of police was in on it all along.
When confronted with the ocean of evidence of massive fraud In Washington, politicians reflexively change the subject to the rich "not paying their fair share of taxes." Their solution to the culture of waste is to feed the beast with more money.
In reality, perhaps the greatest public service of the Musk-ateers is that they have taught voters that Washington should never get another penny of our tax dollars until the sewer is completely drained and the tens of thousands of fraudsters inside and outside of government are put out of business and hopefully behind bars.
hotair.com
Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you -- and that's what we need right now.
These Department of Government Efficiency volunteers are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It's the greatest robbery -- more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption -- in world history.
Yet too many Democrats are reacting as though Musk himself is the scoundrel.
The "Musk-ateers" have marked nearly 10 million Social Security recipients over the age of 120 as deceased. (How many monthly checks were sent out?) How about $10 billion in rent for empty office buildings? Hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs that went to "nongovernmental government organizations" and then disappeared down a rabbit hole? Billions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid spending? A federal workforce that has been MIA for three years?
In the wake of this epic failure of governance, nearly every leading Democrat in Washington has protested: "Elon Musk is going too far."
They say that they are against waste too. But former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama never lifted a finger to stop it. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.
Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America. It's so routine that it isn't seen as a criminal action anymore but rather the cost of doing business inside the Beltway. Like paying off the mob.
Why are Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not sharing in our collective outrage? Is it because they knew it was happening all along and feel guilty that they did nothing to stop it?
Or maybe the real answer is that THEY ARE IN ON THE SWINDLE. This could explain how so many politicians spent their careers in Congress and retired as multimillionaires.
In other words, what is most revealing about the Washington slime that we are waking up to in real time thanks to DOGE is that the waste and fraud is the currency of Washington. It pays the bills, and everyone in the swamp gets their cut. Remember: One third of $7 trillion is the stuff of fortunes.
How else does one explain the $2.7 million that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly directed/laundered to his wife via a nonprofit environmental group she worked for? This would clearly be graft, but it has gone unpunished.
We are living through the harrowing last scene in a Hollywood murder mystery in which you discover that the chief of police was in on it all along.
When confronted with the ocean of evidence of massive fraud In Washington, politicians reflexively change the subject to the rich "not paying their fair share of taxes." Their solution to the culture of waste is to feed the beast with more money.
In reality, perhaps the greatest public service of the Musk-ateers is that they have taught voters that Washington should never get another penny of our tax dollars until the sewer is completely drained and the tens of thousands of fraudsters inside and outside of government are put out of business and hopefully behind bars.
Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon M
hotair.com
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is the jig up yet?
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I love how you're asking that question as if it wouldn't be trivial for them to prove (and needless to say, massively in their best interest to do so). The fact that they haven't should tell you something about the validity of the claim.
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All this musk news just makes me think that somewhere brakis is about to have stroke from built up rage
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LOL what should infuriate you is how poor your education must have been for you to support this stupid shit.Thought this article made some sense ~
Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you -- and that's what we need right now.
These Department of Government Efficiency volunteers are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It's the greatest robbery -- more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption -- in world history.
Yet too many Democrats are reacting as though Musk himself is the scoundrel.
The "Musk-ateers" have marked nearly 10 million Social Security recipients over the age of 120 as deceased. (How many monthly checks were sent out?) How about $10 billion in rent for empty office buildings? Hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs that went to "nongovernmental government organizations" and then disappeared down a rabbit hole? Billions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid spending? A federal workforce that has been MIA for three years?
In the wake of this epic failure of governance, nearly every leading Democrat in Washington has protested: "Elon Musk is going too far."
They say that they are against waste too. But former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama never lifted a finger to stop it. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.
Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America. It's so routine that it isn't seen as a criminal action anymore but rather the cost of doing business inside the Beltway. Like paying off the mob.
Why are Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not sharing in our collective outrage? Is it because they knew it was happening all along and feel guilty that they did nothing to stop it?
Or maybe the real answer is that THEY ARE IN ON THE SWINDLE. This could explain how so many politicians spent their careers in Congress and retired as multimillionaires.
In other words, what is most revealing about the Washington slime that we are waking up to in real time thanks to DOGE is that the waste and fraud is the currency of Washington. It pays the bills, and everyone in the swamp gets their cut. Remember: One third of $7 trillion is the stuff of fortunes.
How else does one explain the $2.7 million that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly directed/laundered to his wife via a nonprofit environmental group she worked for? This would clearly be graft, but it has gone unpunished.
We are living through the harrowing last scene in a Hollywood murder mystery in which you discover that the chief of police was in on it all along.
When confronted with the ocean of evidence of massive fraud In Washington, politicians reflexively change the subject to the rich "not paying their fair share of taxes." Their solution to the culture of waste is to feed the beast with more money.
In reality, perhaps the greatest public service of the Musk-ateers is that they have taught voters that Washington should never get another penny of our tax dollars until the sewer is completely drained and the tens of thousands of fraudsters inside and outside of government are put out of business and hopefully behind bars.
Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon M
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Elon Musk inking multibillion-dollar Pentagon deal amid DOGE cuts
Musk's SpaceX will reportedly help the U.S. Space Force send sensitive satellites into space.
www.newsweek.com
Who could have seen this coming?
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