When this nation was strong we executed people for less than what this freak is doing.
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It's time for Elon to go
We need Luigi
Who the fuck even is this guy? No vetting process, no confirmation hearings, nothing.
And he's just given this kind of power?
This country is so very, very fucked. Thanks to donvict's base and a huge assist from the apathetic and the "bothsides" idiots.
I think a lot of people still, even now, believe that the statement "this country is fucked" is a bit overboard.
They don't grasp that the writing is on the wall. America literally is fucked. The point of no return has already been passed. What you're witnessing is the wholesale sellout of America to the wealthy, who will remain in power indefinitely, and a system way too far gone to do anything about it.
It's over.
Next stop, Russia 2.0. In the end, we really weren't any better than them.
Reminder that he’s not even American. He’s a South African billionaire with no allegiance to any one country. He’s a carpet bagger
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He wasn't "given it". He stole it and nobody with the power to stop him is trying to stop him.
he was given it by the elected president. which i think is so much worse
Except the president doesn't have that authority. Congress could push back, but it's currently populated by sycophants.
Most Americans are sleepwalking. As much as they're going to hurt other countries they're going to hurt Americans the most.
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Democrats, including Sen. Ron Wyden, raised alarms over Musk’s influence on federal funds. Treasury access concerns intensified after Trump ally Michael Flynn posted grant payments online.
That's funny, the only thing I get when I search for "Michael Flynn grant payments" are about payments Flynn received from the Russian government
I thought we were agreed: Any Musk photo in news from now on is his Nazi salute.
Hitler didn't mean to do that. He was just excited and he had self-diagnosed autism.
Wait, who are we talking about again?
We need to accommodate the wealthy man’s self diagnosed autism when it manifests in fascist hate symbols, but we need to pull all resources from professionally diagnosed autistic adults on disability.
I'd be fine if he had the Hitler mustache as well
He's not an employee of the Federal Government. This is completely illegal. And he's a psychopathic junkie so...
"Illegal" no longer means anything for the top people in the Trump administration. Including the ones who are not official employees.
Yup, they know what we all know. That the American justice system is the butt of a joke.
It's open season for criminality if you're a politician or rich person.
Why isn't he arrested
Arrested? This man needs to be 6 foot under by any means necessary. That's the only way this thing ends. Nobody is going to arrest him.
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Can we please send this fuckwit back to where he comes from? Like, the seventh circle of Hell?
Is it appropriate to say something about sending him back to a continent of origin or is the whole sentence racist no matter the subject?
I would say it's fine to use his and his ilk's language against him, but I wouldn't force Muskrat upon any country.
The 8th circle might be a better fit, especially in the 8th Bolgia for councellors of fraud.
We don't want him. I propose shooting him out of a cannon into the sun
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There have been two court orders requiring that payments continue normally. It looks like Musk has decided that court orders do not bind him. It hasn't even been two weeks and already we're at the constitutional crisis?
When you're the wealthiest man in America the laws don't apply to you.
The system in its infinite wisdom prevents poor and rich alike from begging on the streets....
It’s only a constitutional crisis if anyone will pursue it.
If court orders don’t apply and higher institutions do nothing, well, there is no crisis.
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We’re setting up the “Mr Burns’ diseases” system. We’ll just have every constitutional crisis in existence all at once, and they’ll balance each other out! 🤦♀️
Gee, there is no way Musk would abuse that power...
Like canceling grant payments to rival EV manufacturers
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Democrats "raised alarms"? Gee thanks, that'll take care of it you pathetic wimps. Why haven't they brought an immediate case to the Supreme Court for an emergency ruling? A non-elected, non-nominated or confirmed by Senate (and we should of course note) immigrant has been given access to the United States Treasury. This is insane.
RIGHT!? The treasury and HR! Why are Senators not screaming until they’re hoarse!? If this isn’t the worst Executive overreach in the history of this country I don’t know what is!
He's already hoarse from the last bout https://newrepublic.com/post/190958/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bernie-sanders-big-pharma-money
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So if he's acting as a government official doesn't he need to be confirmed by Congress?
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Mush is a terrorist.
So the country is now a dogecracy or is it still aan oligarchy? Does this count as a coup?
It's a coup
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Only democrats are fussing. That is why this shit gets a pass.
Oh just wait until cheques stop coming, plenty of Republicans will have quite the wake up call as tons of then thought Trump was only going after "the bad ones".
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The world’s richest man, who bankrolled Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and was tasked by the president with running the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, boasted on his social media site X that he was “rapidly shutting down . . . illegal payments” after a list of grants to Lutheran organisations was posted online.
The threat came after Musk appeared to confirm on Saturday that DOGE had access to the Treasury system, which disperses trillions of dollars each year, including social security payments.
He justified the move by claiming his team discovered “that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups”.
The system has been run by career civil servants and the Treasury already has an in-house team tasked with identifying fraudulent payments. A source with knowledge of the situation said that DOGE representatives did not have the authority to cut payments, only to read the data.
Senator Ron Wyden, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said his office had been told that Treasury secretary Scott Bessent had granted DOGE “full” access to the system.
Lutherans!! Well, I’m glad Elmo Nazi shut that shit down! Who knows how long those shady Lutherans were growing fat off the Treasury’s ample, juicy teats!
Srs tho, omfg the batshit is everywhere.
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