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1 posted on 02/04/2025 1:32:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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When it comes to Democrats and corruption:
Burn it down.
Burn it to the ground
Burn the ground


2 posted on 02/04/2025 1:34:52 PM PST by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and Tperverts.)
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What happens when one of the branches of the government, the Congress, fails to cap the wasteful spending? Musk is turning into the Elliott Ness of fiscal accounting.
3 posted on 02/04/2025 1:35:37 PM PST by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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We don’t want Musk and his nameless, faceless bureaucrats controlling the purse strings of Washington!

We want the previous nameless, faceless bureaucrats to do it!


4 posted on 02/04/2025 1:35:37 PM PST by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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Elon Musk is employed by our by president Trump who appointed him. While this may rile nitwit Democrats who themselves are most likely corrupt he is doing a great favor for American citizens in so many ways. Uncovering corruption makes these criminals feel very uneasy. Just my hope that Justice finds all of them.


5 posted on 02/04/2025 1:36:19 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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I have questions.

Who in the LA Times works for US intelligence agencies.

See my tagline.


6 posted on 02/04/2025 1:37:03 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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Shadow government? You mean like having unelected people running the government instead of Biden. You mean like having Jill Biden and/or Hunter Biden sitting in on policy meetings? You mean like Obama and Valarie Jarrett maintaining influence and pulling strings during the past administration? Etc.
8 posted on 02/04/2025 1:37:33 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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The LAT is a part of KAOS.

Musk is an effective Chief of Control who has hired agents more in line with Agent 99 than Max Smart.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 1:40:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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Democrats who say the billionaire has no such authority.

That is entirely true. Musk has zero authority to do anything other than advise the incoming Secretary's of what he recommends.

The incoming Secretary's will make the decision how they want their agency to proceed not Musk who is basically a consultant.

11 posted on 02/04/2025 1:40:50 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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I have absolutely NO problem with this but the progressive CONgresscritters on BOTH sides of the aisle do because once exposed ain’t nobody putting that “toothpaste” of financial disclosure back in the tube. they know it, Trump knows it and finally THE AMERICAN PEOPLE know it. the only move any of these people skimming and scamming off the trillions of dollars that are at stake is to explain themselves to the American people. and it BETTER be good because we are done accepting excuses. would prefer the guiotine as consequences but i’d be ok with rope or squad too. welcome to “consequences” USA.


12 posted on 02/04/2025 1:45:24 PM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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Only in what is laughing called minds of the corrupt and incompetent political/media machine flailing around desperately to find narratative that might work for the lie machine


13 posted on 02/04/2025 1:45:36 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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and the question is

why the hell hasnt someone done this before


14 posted on 02/04/2025 1:47:49 PM PST by joshua c
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Elon Musk advises the President.


15 posted on 02/04/2025 1:49:01 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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Musk is acting at the behest of the executive. Their use of the word shadow government is at odds with the definition of shadow government.


17 posted on 02/04/2025 1:54:14 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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Read the Constitution. The president runs the entire executive branch and give access to whomever he wants and change whatever “established norms” he wants. This is why we have elections.


18 posted on 02/04/2025 1:56:58 PM PST by Petrosius
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So they spin making unelected bureaucrats answerable to elected officials acting in the course and scope of their Constitutional authority is that the agents of the elected officials is a “shadow government”.

That’s pretty much the opposite of “shadow”.

That’s light on darkness.

This is insanely stupid spin.


19 posted on 02/04/2025 2:01:32 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Chuck and Hakeem in their presser today said they’re totally willing to cut spending and waste. Just not with Trump and Musk involved.

Great. Let’s start today.


21 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:17 PM PST by lurk (u)
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“...riling Democrats who say the billionaire has no such authority.”

The authority granted through the authority of the President.


22 posted on 02/04/2025 2:11:38 PM PST by odawg
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The LA Times didn’t seem to be curious about unelected bureaucrats of the Biden years... like the ones who came up with the record 8000 pardons for Biden to “sign.”


23 posted on 02/04/2025 2:12:03 PM PST by Restless
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What Musk and a small handful of tech bros are doing right now is walking into the OPM and Treasury Dept. and clicking delete on any government program not specifically authorized by federal statute.

And it turns out there's a lot of these programs.

It's pretty cool.

And the people who got paid by these programs (mostly liberals) are really mad.

So where were the Freedom Caucus and TEA Party folks all of these years? Well, they were fighting amongst a legislative body of 535 politicians which is a lot more challenging than sending Musk in to just zap these programs with a mouse click one after the next.

"You can't do that!" the left howls. Turns out, you actually can just do that. And they're doing it!

24 posted on 02/04/2025 2:17:34 PM PST by Drew68
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Bbbaaaaawwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhh...
Catching my breath....bbbbaaaaawwwaaaahhhh


25 posted on 02/04/2025 2:29:49 PM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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