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Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"

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He’s cancelling out whatever to make room for those dollars to go to him in the form of the trillion dollars tax break to the wealthiest.

File under “shocking things still to come that we actually really should have seen coming”: Wait until Elon Musk is appointed Acting Head of Space Force, so he can start funding his fireworks and his Mars Rich White Bro-topia, exclusively with our taxpayer dollars. Mark my words.

And, to be clear, it would be submitting those suggestions regarding efficiency to Congress for review and proper channels for enactment if approved. Not one voter empowered DOGE regardless of who is running it to make changes.

As I said earlier. I am a novice reader of history. This is so similar to Alexander Hamilton's takeover of the treasury... I am not the smartest cookie in the girl scout box, but, but, but, we have to resist!!

They need to be calling DC police, physically blocking doors, holding on to keys, hard drives, kicking scratching and hitting these teens and THEN go on TV. Hell I could take them out as I’m properly motivated right now!!

Ok, but “business people” aren’t the be all and end all of efficiency knowledge. Also, the goal of business is money; the goal of govt is service. Big difference.

At least half of the US ppl have no clue what's going on. They just see a rich guy, they want that too, that is how they are brought up. Not for critical thinking, not for quality of life, but for making money. That's the carrot in front of the rabbit's head running towards the abyss.

I have friends in the US, that turned MAGA. And what I noticed is three fold. First: they were brought up not questioning their leaders, mostly driven by church and religion. You can see the foundation of MAGA in Christianity.

Second: their limited acces to good independent journalism and media. Third: most of them are so in debt that their first priority is money and their own well-being. The feeling of scarcity makes them blind and indifferent for other ppls needs.

You have to explain how this goes against the Constitution. Most don't understand why this is illegal. Assume the trump supporters need a crash course in civics and explain why it's illegal. They seriously love the cost savings. They don't understand govt enough to understand why this a BFD.

maga don't care about the Constitution or what's illegal. Our task is to talk to people who do, like Sen Blumenthal, who needs to DO HIS JOB as it's outlined in the Constitution. For example, he needs to get off the tube, and draft the Articles of Impeachment. NOW.

It's a violation of my 4th Amendment Rights.

NerdBrick@nerdbrick.bsky.social

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" -The Fourth Amendment What is fElon doing in the Social Security and Treasure with my data without my consent or knowledge? #ArrestElonMuskNow

It is mind numbing listening to our politicians. The House is constitutionally responsible for oversight of every government agency. Every one of these agencies was created by congress regardless which president suggest the department. They provide the funding.

Gov is not business. He's not saving money through budget cut recommendations. He's just not paying our bills. People sometimes try to save money by not paying their mortgage. Their houses get taken away & they're in even worse shape.

If they really cared about a fair "audit" of gov't spending, they'd have a special committee of equal party reps doing a transparent investigation of departmental spending that was freely available to the public. Obviously. Even debating that Leon and his gooners are on the up and up is stupid.

I see your point, but I believe his intent was to delineate a difference between someone who would play by the rules and color inside the lines versus someone who wants to destroy everything. Just my two cents.

We do have a Appropiation Comm in the US Congress for this job! It has always been their & done their job until the MAGA Congress Has 3 more votes that the working Dems..Now we have non working , non American wannabe party but now a death cult, that cannot and do not do their job because,

honestly, they don't know how to Just ask Kevin McCarthy! He sits home everyday and rolls on the floor laughing at his old, not a party, but by a movement of morons.

"And were still not actually stopping them. We're gonna sue them in the courts they control. We're gonna hold press conferences. And we might even put the burden on the people to resist the fascism we refused to stop for 4 years" They're breaking the law! Detain and arrest them! What the fuck?!

It still wouldn't be "one thing" - or in any way LEGAL - for such a person to have his people march past security at USAID or Treasury and take direct, granular control of federal funding with no oversight and, more to the point, no congressional authorization!

You’re right we should let criminals just do whatever they want without justice consequences and not even say anything or even try to uphold the law in any way. Why not just continue pretending they’re above the law?

Or better yet why did I just ask or elected Democrats to start pressuring law enforcement to do their jobs???? bsky.app/profile/colt...

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I don’t even see the Democrats making the point that this man should be in jail because he broke the law. They should be declaring this from the rooftops, but instead, they’re claiming lawsuits need to be filed to protect us from Elon & pretending no laws have been broken.

And it took too long for anyone to stop him. How many people will die before the people in charge realize that we're duplicating what Nazi Germany did?

Sorry, fuck no. The actions are illegal. It doesn't matter who is doing them or what their motivation is. It's illegal! It's wrong for everyone, including the President. And Musk. And Bezos top, before you get any ideas

Thats a really stupid idea. Business people have no business (pun intended) looking at what the federal government does. I don’t care how “disinterested” or “impartial” they are. Businesses are not democracies.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world conspiring with Donald Trump, has sentenced the poorest children in the world to death by starvation, an excruciating and slow painful death! Thus killing millions of children! If that isn’t 2 men being Nazis, I don’t know what is!!!

[grabs megaphone] GOVERNMENT IS NOT A BUSINESS BEING SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS GIVES YOU NO SPECIAL INSIGHT INTO GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY [throws megaphone away in disgust]

Leon Muskkk is a drug addled, insecure, weird assed nepo baby. He should be on Mars and not mucking around in our government. I didn’t vote for him. You didn’t vote for him. He’s committing crimes left and right. Arrest him or deport him.

Don't ever think that..The courts will never allow it to happen..even SCOTUS, have ruled against him 2 times in the past months. trump has not won ANY cases but time exensions, because he has idiots as attorneys, that all get sanctioned and then loose their licenses.. He has to be running

Uh. No it wouldn’t be different. NOBODY can be allowed to do what Musk/DOGE/Trump are doing. It’s all a crime and, essentially, a treason that weakens our nation. Christ. What the fuck???

We have to stop seeing governing as a business. Business works to increase profits above all else. Govt's job should be to guard against abuses by govt AND business, to be the guardrail that keeps either from taking too many freedoms from the ppl. The govt working as a business is what got us here

Spot the lie. He’s absolutely correct. Musk is a flippin carpetbagger and he’s found the perfect stooges in Trump & the GOP. Any info he gets access to will only give him more opportunities to enrich himself further. It certainly is not putting “America first”

But he needs to be held until trump dies or is out off office in a few months so that he cannot pardon his boss, musk, to torment the world any longer.. He doesn't look so good these days..he has been ordering his orange face by the truckload lately...must be all those EO he signs...

I think he should not be saying that. Now it sounds like it is OK if it's some random rich guy (oligarch) doing it. That is the problem! Has arguably been for a quite long time (the oligarchs).

Hate to break it to you, Senator, but good luck finding a disinterested, impartial business person. Oh, and highly successful, too. Such person does not exist. Everyone has a personal interest that would come into play.