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The Department of Justice warned it would prosecute anyone obstructing Elon Musk’s DOGE operations after Trump named him a special government employee.

DOGE holds full access to unclassified records, software, and IT systems.

Musk and aides quickly gained access to Treasury systems holding sensitive federal employee data, and they pursued merging USAID with the State Department.

Interim Attorney Ed Martin unequivocally vowed legal action against anyone threatening DOGE workers, firmly stressing protection for Musk operations during the aggressive restructuring.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Aggressive restructuring' is a funny way to spell coup

[–] whostosay 18 points 1 week ago

After allegedly committing a bunch of consensual rapes for sure maybe, the Republicans have started their forcible-like transition of what some may call power.

We will continue to try to find out why no one took this seriously when we allegedly wrote about it for the last eight years. It could be argued that maybe we are the most to blame for our limp-dick reporting and our willingness to turn a blind eye for profit, but we have yet to substantiate any such claim-like accusatory-esque statements such as these.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Department

Of

Grifting

Everybody

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Department

Of

Gimme

Everything

[–] whostosay 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're trying to steal money and power on such a scale that it's going to be worthless by the time its done.

They must have some kind of incentive and assurance that they will still be rich in Rubles by the end of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's like saying you have 100000¥, sounds big.

[–] Soltros 71 points 1 week ago

Was watching AOCs live today, and She explained that Elon is trying desperately to find 4 trillion in "waste" to justify renewing Trump's tax cuts that expire in 2025.

Starting to make sense now huh? Why can't we just take away elons Pentagon contracts? (She mentioned we should do this).

Take away his dumb space x shit. Take away his subsidized Tesla shit. Why isn't that considered waste?

She said this is designed to freak you out but you need to follow the money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every day that we go further, I become more convinced that the federal government is at last unsalvageable. If, somehow, we still have elections and the democrats did sweep 2028, the wounds would be so deep that it wouldn't matter, and the democrats are too invested in the institution to not try to salvage it. I'm growing in certainty that we're going to Balkanize. Does anyone have any good resources that detail what the lead up to and process of balkanization looks like in the modern era?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I think youll have to just read up on the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Balkanization is somewhat rare since most countries nominally follow sane or historic borders meaning when they fail the worst it usually gets is civil war. Luckily if things do start falling apart I dont any of the states will go to war all that fast since a whole lot of BS will have to be reorganized.

[–] HasturInYellow 2 points 1 week ago

God I hope so. Let me OUT!

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

trump complains the DOJ is weaponized

weaponizes the DOJ once trump gets in power

O boy I hope the people that didn't vote for kamala love this timeline

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

They’re still complaining that Kamala’s campaign didn’t do enough to woo them into voting for her; still claiming both sides are equally bad… 🤦🏻‍♂️

That’ll probably be their last words, as they get sent off to the concentration camps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Heart goes out indeed

[–] ieatpwns 3 points 1 week ago

Department

Of

Jerking-off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago