except he wants "to be cool and liked" by a bunch of terminally online turbovirgin incels which is hilarious in and of itself
Elon Musk has no GD need to access IRS data. No Politico does!!
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Does anyone still trust Trump? I trusted that the head of these agencies had expertise that qualified them to make decisions on behalf of those agencies. When you fire all of the experts in every agency and bring it Elon and his nerd patrol, no I do not trust that they are making competent decisions on who/what should be destroyed at every one of them. It's clear they don't give a shit.
I would love an explanation on what qualified Trump to be in Charge of the Lincoln Center for the Arts. Also interesting that he appointed Usga Vance and Trump's chief of staff to the same board. Again, without them having any experience in arts.
Is that an example of hiring the best and brightest.
He did this because he knew the people who were in charge hated him as well as all the performers who played there, so he did it for revenge. Can't wait to see the next honorees - I'm thinking Ted Nugent, Scott Baio and Roseanne Barr 🤢
Well, you trusted people you don't know who were presiding over massive waste, abuse, and undoubtably a large amount of fraud. We elected Trump to effect change. That's what's happening.
Rapid change is hard and messy. No way to ease into this given the level of entrenchment and inertia built into the government.
I'm calling bullshit on all the fraud nonsense. Do I think there may have been some, sure, because the government is too large for there not to be, but this is all a slickly produced propaganda campaign to make you think they're doing something good for America before they fleece us all for 4.5 TRILLION DOLLARS. This is all a speck of dust comparatively speaking so if you REALLY care about waste and abuse - there's your number one target and it ain't close.
If this was one of Bidens stooges pulling this IRS BS, you'd be singing a different tune
Crickets from Dems and GOP when this shit happened:
Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance to be targeted only at non-Americans abroad, but Americans’ communications are “inevitably” captured too. The reason is simple: We talk to family, friends, and colleagues who are located abroad, generally for entirely innocent reasons. Recognizing this reality, Congress directed intelligence agencies to “minimize” the retention and use of Americans’ information collected under Section 702. Yet, despite this clear mandate, officials from the FBI, CIA, NSA, and National Counterterrorism Center perform more than 200,000 warrantless “backdoor” searches every year to find and review Americans’ private phone calls, text messages, and emails.
Lax rules adopted by agencies allow intelligence officials to perform backdoor searches whenever they have reason to believe the query will return foreign intelligence (or, for the FBI, evidence of a crime). Given FISA’s capacious definition of foreign intelligence, this low bar should be easy to clear, but officials have repeatedly stumbled over it. Government reports indicate that in 2022, the FBI performed close to 4,000 backdoor searches that violated even its own permissive rules. In another recent one-year period, the FBI violated the rules governing searches of FISA databases 278,000 times.
It's amazing how no one cared until their grift was getting exposed. Bunch of bleating sheep ITT.
Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance to be targeted only at non-Americans abroad, but Americans’ communications are “inevitably” captured too. The reason is simple: We talk to family, friends, and colleagues who are located abroad, generally for entirely innocent reasons. Recognizing this reality, Congress directed intelligence agencies to “minimize” the retention and use of Americans’ information collected under Section 702. Yet, despite this clear mandate, officials from the FBI, CIA, NSA, and National Counterterrorism Center perform more than 200,000 warrantless “backdoor” searches every year to find and review Americans’ private phone calls, text messages, and emails.
Lax rules adopted by agencies allow intelligence officials to perform backdoor searches whenever they have reason to believe the query will return foreign intelligence (or, for the FBI, evidence of a crime). Given FISA’s capacious definition of foreign intelligence, this low bar should be easy to clear, but officials have repeatedly stumbled over it. Government reports indicate that in 2022, the FBI performed close to 4,000 backdoor searches that violated even its own permissive rules. In another recent one-year period, the FBI violated the rules governing searches of FISA databases 278,000 times.
It's amazing how no one cared until their grift was getting exposed. Bunch of bleating sheep ITT.
Odd that the recently fired head of the USAID was also heavily involved in unmasking Americans.... crickets from the left:
As we reported, earlier:
According to numerous reports, “[f]ormer United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power is believed to have made ‘hundreds’ of unmasking requests to identify individuals named in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his presidential transition team.”
Think about that: Hundreds of unmasking requests by Obama’s U.N. Representative. And “[o]f those [hundreds of] requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate.”
Now new reports have revealed the unprecedented number of unmasking requests made by former Ambassador Power: “[She] was “unmasking” at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration . . . .”
This caterwauling is simply a reaction to folks getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Former Senior Obama Official Samantha Power Blames Others for Her Unmasking Scandal
Shocking new information about President Obama’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and her unprecedented unmasking requests has just come to light.As we reported, earlier:
According to numerous reports, “[f]ormer United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power is believed to have made ‘hundreds’ of unmasking requests to identify individuals named in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his presidential transition team.”
Think about that: Hundreds of unmasking requests by Obama’s U.N. Representative. And “[o]f those [hundreds of] requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate.”
Now new reports have revealed the unprecedented number of unmasking requests made by former Ambassador Power: “[She] was “unmasking” at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration . . . .”
This caterwauling is simply a reaction to folks getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
We could make this into some kind of SNL skit where government employees had to jump through hoops to access records
Need I say more
Just so you will be informed the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CAN GIVE ACCESS AT ANY TIME AND TAKE IT BACK AT ANY TIME TO ANYONE HE WANTS INCLUDING ELON
Elon is doing what he is doing at the direction of the President
You on the other hand have no authority to see anything
Learn to live with that fact
Like IN GOD WE TRUST on the currency
IN TRUMP I TRUST on my tee shirt
Since 2015 he has been my man for office
Don't you think if Elon wanted to snoop around at people's finances, he already would have done so through Paypal?...
You will see these savings start to trickle through to the economy.
I do think a good barometer of DOGES success will be the 10 year and 30 year interest rates. Keep those down and we can refinance our debt at sustainable rates.
I do think a good barometer of DOGES success will be the 10 year and 30 year interest rates. Keep those down and we can refinance our debt at sustainable rates.
If these jobs were redundant and/or extremely inefficient wouldn't it be financially prudent for the government to cut the excess or to consolidate roles to streamline processes and reduce the waste of taxpayer funds?
Recency bias masks all the evils done in the past. You think the govt is your friend?!?!?
You guys have always trusted the nameless govt employees forever and Musk is conclusively showing they were robbing us blind but you get mad at Musk. This is why we have a long thread about libs not being smart.
Wasn't Karine Jean Pierre on the board before? Pretty sure she has zero experience in arts as well. Those board positions are usually handed off to folks that are likely to be able to promote the Center or wrangle in some top dollar donations. They don't truly care if any of the board members have been deeply entrenched in "the arts"
BS, Elon says shit to get you all riled up, he does NOT prove stuff. But again, none of this matters when he robs us blind with his windfall tax cut. None of it...
Absolutely, in a careful, considerate and deliberate way by people who have relevant experience. Not non-governmental techies unilaterally firing thousands a day, including all the experts, with no clue how it's going to affect the populations that benefit from these agencies. Taking a chainsaw to every agency instead of a scalpel is absurd. Real people who aren't rich like Elon will be damaged so that he can make room in the budget for his windfall tax cut.
I hate this libs aren't smart narrative. It's simply not true.
A vast contingent of the left is extremely intelligent and they are very well read (granted, a lot of what they read is bought and paid for narratives.)
The world isn't black and white (even though our MSM tries to portray that reality.)
The well educated (not the poly-sci/gender studies ilk) have latched onto a stream of news media that consistently tells them their beliefs are well grounded. Every truth revealed is swamped by article after article to effectively obfuscate that reality.
How would you react if someone told you everything in your daily life was manipulated data designed to emit a certain psycho/emotional response?
Yes, some will never see the truth, but embrace those that do and celebrate their comeuppance.
Intelligent folks span every facet of the political spectrum.
The Trump train is rolling!!!
🚨 🇺🇸 TOP SOCIAL SECURITY CHIEF OUSTED AFTER BLOCKING DOGE'S FRAUD INVESTIGATION
Acting Commissioner Michelle King exits after refusing to give @DOGE access to agency records needed to investigate potential fraud.
She's replaced by Leland Dudek, who previously praised DOGE's efficiency efforts.
This follows similar departures at Treasury and IRS as career bureaucrats resist fraud investigations.
King had been at the agency since 1994—until now.
Source: Washington Post
🚨 🇺🇸 TOP SOCIAL SECURITY CHIEF OUSTED AFTER BLOCKING DOGE'S FRAUD INVESTIGATION
Acting Commissioner Michelle King exits after refusing to give @DOGE access to agency records needed to investigate potential fraud.
She's replaced by Leland Dudek, who previously praised DOGE's efficiency efforts.
This follows similar departures at Treasury and IRS as career bureaucrats resist fraud investigations.
King had been at the agency since 1994—until now.
Source: Washington Post
Bullshit, she was fired so no one can monitor what he's doing. They've now fired almost every single position in the government that provided oversight, including all Inspectors General whose job was to root out waste and fraud. They had already rooted out 91 B worth when they were unilaterally fired. Elon blowing up the IRS and storming in as billy bad ass, who has no relevant experience in entitlements, gets to do whatever the fvck he wants and also claim whatever he wants with no one there to fact-check him. This is corrupt as fvck
you have concerns?
what about me?
no 173 year old can afford to lose their social security with these egg prices
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I do, and I do respect what Elon has done.
I push back at the idea he is some great inventor. On this board he has been compared to Edison.
These are the same people that cant tell you what a woman is, that thought the vax would prevent the spread, and thought Pedohitler was sharp as a tack, and Kamala was going to win in a landslide. Just pointing out what you are facing...
While condoms are used in IED's Im not sure $50 mil went for it... If you dont think condoms are used you are ignorant and should just sit this one out...
I knew I should have taken that elective. Can you tell us all the ways you can use condoms for bombs - I'm so dumb on the subject. 🤤
indeed you are. I learned while serving. You could have served also and learned a lot about the big bad world or you could have just went and helped in Ukraine. You chose not to do either you coward. Two of the big reasons is to prevent the ied from going off due to static electricity setting off the detonator and the second keeping it dry. In fact if you go watch any number of videos of either bomb makers making or EOD defusing IED's you will see condoms. I was just a grunt and not a crazy EOD guy. Maybe there is a current or former EOD person that can chime in to educate you further. Bet you thought a windmill didnt need oil to run too lol...
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I don’t take it to mean literally. Their policies are not smart, but I agree with you it’s never been a question that they have very intelligent people. Mark Kelly says hello. Shitty politics but undeniable genius. (Does make you wonder why dems didn’t elect him?)
Democrats tend to want to choose their politicians based off social policies instead of economic and it seems to be backfiring right now.
Respectfully, if there were oversight people who allowed the database of social security recipients to include millions of entries for people over the age of 120 ...... they deserve to be fired. They were wasting taxpayer money. Same goes for all the other willful incompetence being discovered.
