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I'm reminded of Rand Paul repeatedly pushing an "Audit the Fed" bill despite the fact that the Federal Reserve is already audited.
Also might want to point out how the DOGE staffer demanded write-access to the Treasury's database backend systems. I've been through a few accounting audits in my time. Never had an auditor demand the ability to overwrite data in my system of record.
Would be pretty crazy if the purpose of DOGE was to perpetrate fraud rather than uncovering it, don't you agree?
If there was an audit done in the past, how the heck did the money still end up in the hands of terror organizations, corruptors and countries hostile to the US?? Why only now they're being exposed?
Because the US is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism as a deliberate tool of foreign policy.
We aren't doing an "Oopsie!" This is an explicit Strategy of Tension.
They've been exposed for centuries. We were arming hostile insurgents straight back to the French and Indian Wars. Operation Cyclone. Operation GLADIO. Iran-Conta. The Phoenix Program. The FBI's COINTELPRO. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Support for anti-Spanish insurgents in Cuba during the 1890s. Emancipation of slaves during the 1860s. Polk's aid to Texas Revolutionaries that included a former US congressperson turned filibusterer.
None of this is a secret. It's in high school history books.
What's being exposed now? Are you honestly drinking the fucking kool-aid? Not a single thing Musk has said is true. Not a single fucking thing.
You're in denial. If you could just open your mind for a second. I'm also a liberal who believes in democracy, and I once hated Trump too for shutting down the climate change agency and all the weird things he said. But now it all made sense. Protecting American interests and the American values is what's important now.
I can't decide if you're trolling, or really committed to some kind of satire. I'm doubtful there's any sincerity to what you're saying, because you're just making such empty statements. Why wouldn't protecting interests and values have been important before, and how is Trump doing that with any of his actions?