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Trump and Musk’s dismantling of government is shaking the foundations of US democracy [barf alert]
Associated Press ^ | 9:56 AM EST, February 5, 2025 | Lisa Mascaro

Posted on 02/08/2025 10:25:50 AM PST by Olog-hai

When Elon Musk debuted the Department of Government Efficiency recently at the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson enthusiastically predicted the coming Trump administration would bring “a lot of change around here.”

Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs, sparking widespread public outcry and challenging the very role of Congress to create the nation’s laws and pay its bills.

Government workers are being pushed to resign. Entire agencies are being shuttered. Federal funding to states and nonprofits was temporarily frozen. And the most sensitive Treasury Department information of countless Americans was opened to Musk’s DOGE team in an unprecedented breach of privacy and protocol.

“This is an erosion of our democracy,” said Brian Riedl, a longtime economic adviser to conservative Republicans, now at the Manhattan Institute think tank. […]

“Whatever DOGE is doing, it is certainly not — not — what democracy looks like or has ever looked like in the grand history of this country,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said.

“An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government,” Schumer posted on Musk’s social media site X.

Musk responded on his platform: “Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that DOGE is doing work that really matters.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apfakenews; barf; barfalert; doge; fakenews; lawfare; lisamascaro; mds; tds; usaid; wambulance
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Ever read the Constitution, Lisa? or are you just worried about the “democracy” that was supposed to be a republic instead?


1 posted on 02/08/2025 10:25:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Is it Democracy to have the fed, state, local govt to account for 1/2 the national economy?


2 posted on 02/08/2025 10:28:18 AM PST by Professional ( )
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To: Olog-hai

I think she meant “kleptocracy”.


3 posted on 02/08/2025 10:28:52 AM PST by GingisK
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To: All

Musk responded to the hopeless Schumer on X:
“Hysterical reactions like Schumer’s is how you
know DOGE is doing work that really matters.”


4 posted on 02/08/2025 10:29:34 AM PST by Liz
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To: Olog-hai

It might be shaking the foundations of bureaucracy, but that’s about it.


5 posted on 02/08/2025 10:29:58 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: Olog-hai

Jesus wasn’t popular with the money changers. So Musk is just doing the Lord’s work…


6 posted on 02/08/2025 10:29:59 AM PST by Professional ( )
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To: Olog-hai

AP got a lot of USAID money, can you tell?


7 posted on 02/08/2025 10:30:57 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Olog-hai

The last gasp of the progressives and their marxist offspring.


8 posted on 02/08/2025 10:31:14 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai

The foundations of Democracy depend on systemic corruption? Good to know.


9 posted on 02/08/2025 10:31:40 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

The dismantlng is such a beautiful thing to behold.


10 posted on 02/08/2025 10:32:32 AM PST by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: iamgalt

Mascaro might be a direct beneficiary.


11 posted on 02/08/2025 10:33:58 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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No worries since we are not a democracy.


12 posted on 02/08/2025 10:37:15 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Olog-hai

>>>.sparking widespread public outcry <<<

BS


13 posted on 02/08/2025 10:37:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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“This is an erosion of our democracy,” said Brian Riedl,

Long live the REPUBLIC!!!
14 posted on 02/08/2025 10:40:52 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Olog-hai

How much money did AP get from USAID?

And that was just 1% of the government wide audit.


15 posted on 02/08/2025 10:41:18 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Olog-hai

By shaking they mean restoring.


16 posted on 02/08/2025 10:41:23 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Right off, we are not a democracy. All these liberals and bobble headed TV news folks keep calling us that. We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. Arrggghh


17 posted on 02/08/2025 10:42:43 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: ifinnegan; All
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.

In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.

The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.

In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.

Dan Smoot Report, 1966
The foundations of the Republic need to be restored rather than “democracy”, of course.
18 posted on 02/08/2025 10:43:11 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: comebacknewt

“ The dismantlng is such a beautiful thing to behold.”

It is amazing.

And it wouldn’t have happened like this if they hadn’t blatantly stolen the election and tried to put Trump in jail and assassinated him.


19 posted on 02/08/2025 10:45:01 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Tell us I’m a gadfly goofball without saying I’m a gadfly goofball.

You can understand not all republics are the same but only see one rigid understand if democracy or democratic.

A republic not an empire, not a republic not a democracy.


20 posted on 02/08/2025 10:48:54 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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