I think we have at least a couple on here that fit that last line...***

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Are you familiar with Congress? No? It sounds like you aren't.

Feb 2, 2025, 6:45 PM

Congress is the legislative body in the United States, and as such, is responsible for approving every dollar to be spent by the US government (and rescinding contracts and associated disbursements, incidentally).

Instead, you have an unofficial agency called "Department of Goverment Efficiency". Do Presidents establish federal agencies? Since you're not familiar with how our government works, here's the answer for you: No. Not at all.

Despite the broad authority granted by the United States Constitution to the president, he does not have "unilateral and unrestrained authority over the Executive Branch" and "congressional action is required to create Executive Branch departments, to fund them, to determine the nature and scope of their duties and to confirm the appointment of their top leaders".[2] While the president manages the conduct of executive branch offices, "it is Congress, not the President, that establishes departments and agencies, and to whatever degree it chooses, the internal organization of agencies".[7]

So what we have now is a (likely) formerly illegal immigrant who is unelected and unaccountable in Elon Musk, who now has access to the Treasury system. If you're curious as to whether or not this is legal, the Treasury Dept. told Trump and Musk they they could not have access, so did Trump/Musk argue the legality of this? No, even worse, Musk simply disabled the payments portal, which means no Congressionally-approved funds can be disbursed because the portal doesn't work. This includes Medicare payments to states. In the wake of resignations and forced leave for Treasury officials, Musk NOW has full access to the Treasury payments system.

Use your brain, and think this through.

And do you want to know what's worse? Musk now has access to personal information of every US citizen--social security numbers and everything else the Fed has. Didn't even remotely have the security clearance to access this information, so Trump put the officials doing their jobs and denying Musk, on leave. Personal data is now the most valuable commodity in the world--more valuable than oil and gold combined. And the richest man on the planet now controls it, purely on the word of Donald Trump.

Now, imagine, let's say, Joe Biden, giving this level of access to Federal government information and controls, to, let's say, Jeff Bezos. Or George Soros. You good with that? Because that is exactly what's happening right now. You fucking hypocritical turd, you.

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The benefit of DOGE is not limited to the legality of their recommended cuts to spending by various agencies and organizati9ns. Maybe DOGE’s recommended cuts will not stand up in court.

Event(s) like this are not ‘shucks, Trump has failed again’ scenario(s).

The good part, whether a nickel can be cut via presidential action, is via exposure of governmental illegal expenditures, anti-American expenditures, smear campaigns and LawFare campaign against Deep State ‘enemies,’ etc etc etc.

The ‘we see you and now everybody else does’ value, while not possible to quantify at this point, has enormous qualitative value for most Americans.

Of course, Americans who make their livings via NGO’s that get their funds from US government fraud / shell game organizations such as USAID aren’t happy.

DOGE is killin' it.

None of this is even remotely legal.***

Why do you hate cost-cutting so much?***

Ending contracts that cost tax payers billions, that fund NGO's

Are you familiar with Congress? No? It sounds like you aren't.

DEI programs were implemented via a Biden EO.

Do you think Presidents cant establish programs or something?

They can also take them away you ignorant tool.***

Oh, hey, why so profane, hypocrite?

DOGE value goes way beyond actual spending cuts

Whoa, whoa. "Recommended cuts"? Is that what's happening here?

Re: Whoa, whoa. "Recommended cuts"? Is that what's happening here?

There's also no transparency on what was cut or how it's DEI-related

Re: There's also no transparency on what was cut or how it's DEI-related

They have thrown their principles to the wind,

Re: They have thrown their principles to the wind,

Ummmm, Executive Order 13985

Yer not a man!!!***

idiot

LOL***

Re: DOGE is killin' it.

Re: DOGE is killin' it.

We deserve everything that's coming to us. Every bit of it.

Maybe Clapper and Brennan can 'comfort' you. They have some extra time now.***

$1 Billion is NOTHING...Headlines for non math types to extol. Divide

Re: $1 Billion is NOTHING...Headlines for non math types to extol. Divide

"Gravy train" is how I explained it to my wife before I ever read your post.***

Re: $1 Billion is NOTHING...Headlines for non math types to extol. Divide

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