FRAUD Was obvious from the start when the INSPECTOR GENERALS from every agency were the first fired. A fired Inspector General is why the PPP fund had billions stolen last time Donnie was in office. Only the gullible wouldn’t have seen that Elon & Donnie are the corrupt ones. GOOD GRIEF America, WAKE UP!
Yes, but DOGE did find fraud, using court ordered PPP Recipients Data Records published Dec 1, 2020, during trump 1st term, found all these children receiving SBA loans for millions!! They found Trump’s fraudulent program, only 27 to 34% of the $953 billion actually went towards paycheck protection, the balance went to corporate and shareholders, $755 billion in loans were forgiven.🤬
So called BUT NOT an AUDITOR to prove it!! Just his lying word!! Show me the money. Don't know about you but I have lived on this word. Prove it to ME!! We have not been shown because it is NOT out there. We had the people they fired that had our back for years. Hey I am one that would like to get rid of government over spending but you DO NOT take a Chainsaw and Gut governent without at least any audit to PROVE the waste!! They only wanted to fire and get rid of the agencies that can show or prove them wrong and/or pay the price for siding against Trump and he told us ALL of his plans it is we the people did not believe him. The facts are now showing proof!!!
Elon had 32 businesses. 11 of them were under investigation. Guess which agencies were shuttered first and or had inspector generals fired? All the agencies that had a connection to Elon with an investigation. Have yet to see a dime of proof from Elon & Donnie’s excellent ransack adventure thru our government & data. All bullshit. Thing is they knew 1/3 of this nation were gullible enough to believe their nonsense as they ransack everything.
I too have no doubt there is some waste and fraud in government but my social security benefits that I worked 60+ yrs for are not anything that Donnie & Elon should have ANY access too. Neither is my personal data theirs to mess with. There is a proper way to audit for waste, fraud & unneeded employees. THIS random firing people without knowing the purpose of their job or how they are doing a job is NOT the way to conduct a reduction in government. I think all sane people understand that. Maggots not so much bcuz like Donnie they just want to destroy and get revenge against people & entities that did nothing to any of them but if the destruction is for Donnie they’re all in. Our country is being ransacked before our eyes and 1/3 of the country believes they spoke for all of us and gave the crooks permission. I beg to differ.
The inspector general’s report was a court ordered audit of the PPP recipients data. This was in 2020, during Trump’s 1st term. Trump told the SBA to just get the money out to whoever with no questions asked. Per the Inspector General’s audit, the results were loans to all sorts of people, including children, and tenants of Trump and Kushner’s real estate properties. DOGE/Musk found the report and tried to link it to SS fraud. it was Trump’s fraud in 2020. Yes he lied.
WHY did tenants of Trump’s & Jared’s real estate properties get PPP money? They aren’t employees of any businesses. They’re tenants. That’s trump/Jared fraud right there. As usual, Donnie pretending he cares about our money being wasted while he himself ransacks multiple departments & our government. WAKE UP people. The crooks are the usual felons— Trump & co!
Records show 27 to 34 % actually did go to small businesses. The balance did go to executives and shareholders. I know my son-in-laws small business did receive a loan for their employees paychecks but it wasn’t until after President Biden took office in 2021. The Inspector General s investigation was done in 2020, when Trump was in office.
Much of the PPP fraud found after trumps first term was from FAKE foreign businesses. I don’t find that to be just a coincidence that FAKE foreign businesses saw a clear path to helping themselves to billions during Donnie’s last reign. He wouldn’t care. He is a felon after all. Much of that money was never recovered and I’m sure the search has stopped with Donnie back in office to ransack the country. JFC we are one stupid country.
Elon is the only thing fake! He faked his way into Billions! We The People must follow those Billions right into the Business and Organizations that he has destroyed.Revamp Medicaid Medicare Social Security Veteran Benefits Healthcare Childcare Global Warming Parks USAID… Every Single Agency!!
I totally agree, Wanda. Elon and the DOGE kids (and Trump) have to restore our public health agencies—the FDA, CDC & NIH (National Institutes of Health) and restore all of the grants for the medical research being carried out in labs at our top Universities and Medical Centers. The United States is responsible for the top discoveries and innovations that have made many diseases a thing of the past due to VACCINES or manageable with medications. Some Examples:
A shame our younger generations have no realization as to how much disease has been eradicated by vaccines. So because of RFKjr s nonsense and conspiracy theories we’re going to let killer viruses run rampant thru society again? Because people are gullible we are all going to be subjected to their stupidity? Definitely sounds like a typical Trump approach . . .
Elons Degree in physics is FAKE. HE BOUGHT IT thru a donation to U of Penn. all his government contracts are based on him having a degree in physics. Never went to one class. Never graduated. Totally SCAM! $56 billion in government contracts. We taxpayers bailed his ass out of every failure and his thanks us is to stab us in the back and destroy the country he entered illegally & ransacked.
Tired of this con artist! The only thing he’s good at is illegal shit! Always cheating destroying slithering around aimlessly! He needs to be deported today!!
Was thinking the same thing.Musk once told Tucker Carlson that if trump didn't win the election , he,meaning Musk,was likely going to jail.Now,not only does he have the ability to quash the various investigations against him,but now he also has access to change the number of government contracts in his favor,and eliminate the competition.
Of course…Only in America.. or , perhaps Russia , could an unelected multi business owner of questionable ethics , who happens to be among the richest in world , be allowed to access and make changes to government agencies that weren’t just investigating him , but also gives him the opportunity to change , alter or add whichever contracts benefit his shady holdings. Trump and Musk belong in adjoining cells. Sadly , Merrick Garland dropped the ball on this.
Musk did this with the FAA. He was being investigated for violations with SpaceX and impending fines. He fired IG and director. Cancelled the contract it had with Verizon who was working on a new air traffic control system with the FAA and now he has a $2 billion contract.
Our little bank, in light of the things happening have updated their systems and switched us to MC. Although it was a 2 week pain in the ass, I don't know how they found out about Elons ties to VISA but they did and I'm thankful.
CFPB helped me when I had money stolen off a visa”Visa” gift card. I called the Folks at the Visa company listed on the back of the gift card and they said it would take 30-90 days for me to get my money returned after I filled out their form. Then I stumbled onto CFPB via the Consumer protection agency and where hundreds of complaints been filed. I filed a complaint on CPAs website as well as CFPB’s detailing all of the fraud that had happened and what Visa had told me. CFPB replied immediately and the visa company contacted me and overnight mailed me two new Visa cards replacing my money after CFPB got involved.
Perhaps his due date now, but I will post on my social media. What took place with the PB because I think they’re an outstanding agency for consumers and I don’t know of any reason that would cause them to shut them down other than that it would interfere with Elon‘s plan to have people purchase visas through his social media site
also has over 300 cases that were filed on the CFPB‘s website there seem to be some stuff that came up to under the name starlink most of those all had Bank names under them so I’m not sure what that was all about if it didn’t stay on it long enough to figure it out. There were a few complaints about solar panels that were being sold via Tesla and people being ripped off through that program that was being investigated on CFT as well.
If they continue to keep the agency closed, people will have no other no other recourse then to file lawsuits themselves.
Bear with me with any typos I post in my stacks here. My phone is on the fritz. Not correcting typos as a pet peeve of mine but I’m frustrated with this phone after all day trying to text and it messes up so I may have missed a few.
Besides upstanding lawyers and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges, here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin with Missouri's own Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper, then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Jim Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Steve Brodner, Brian Tyler Cohen, Jessica Craven, Annne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, AOC, Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jake Tapper, American Bar Association, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, Democracy Docket, ACLU et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE!
See update additions as of 3-26 (with more to come. Never ending. Thanks to all. With the anticipated thousands [million+?] of heroic protestors on April 5th (actually any and all days, including Women's March) here's an updated partial list of those fighting back every day [as of 3-26-25). I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Jasmine Crockett, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Mayor Michelle Wu, J im Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson--
American Bar Association, 22 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
American Bar Association, 22 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Your thorough inclusive list of authors historians intellectuals are all my heroic experts dedicated in their knowledge learning and teaching is way of life. I devour these awesomely intelligent writers, speakers, and read only those incredibly important subject matter books that I can learn a lot from. Thats why Substack is one of my selective media information sources. A few names speaking out from Missouri. Hooray for Missouri. I'm in SW Ohio (sigh). I plan on a round trip excursion on down south where I have relatives whom I like in Georgia and the state of Missouri. Do you recall Benny Thompson who was the care master of the January 6th committee hearings now I can't he's either I think he might be in Mississippi boy I just love that guy she sounds and looks like the father of America to me I was so proud of all that dedicated work I plan to carry on, starting by rustling up some real red Republican elected an appointed officials now 75% carried manager corruption. What a shameless crack of crooks. I would love to lecture these traders on their shameless stupidity, and tell them quite frankly You're not hiding anything and quite honestly frankly You're fired. Thank you for writing your post I enjoyed the inspiration. Liz Ann
Thank you. I especially wanted to give Jess Piper some national exposure. She's a ex- teacher and former Dem state rep candidate. Never gives up fighting in rural MO and elsewhere. A real treasure. The list keeps growing: Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger (obviously). Tanks again. Sharing would be good and appreciated.
It’s all a sham…the deficit is not from any of these programs but from George Bush’s wars and Trumps tax cuts and his mismanagement of a pandemic. This a**hole is just going on dismantling departments that don’t add to the deficit. He’s doing it mostly for his own self interest and this is a perfect sham to hide it. If Trump just wanted to give his buddies a tax break, he would do it just like he did last time. And then he had all the a++holes from his last administration devise Project 2025 do that he can push right wing agenda to try and help Repulsicans win elections and possibly be a dictator. Musk is a cancer that has to be excised before it causes irreparable damage.
It's likely they'll go for the "illusion of democracy" form of Dictatorship, whereby other political parties exist and can compete, but in every State controlled by Republicans, they'll use a mixture of Voter ID requirements, voter purges, onerous requirements to register as a voter, limitations on voting methods and times, plus significantly fewer polling stations and ballot drop boxes in areas likely to vote Democratic to ensure they hold their States and Elector slates in perpetuity.
Yes, The Destructionists is an eye opening clear truth telling book I first read about a year ago and just read it again this past weekend after you mentioned it here. Thank you.
It is obvious that the real reason Musk is rooting around in agencies is to gather data and to somehow benefit himself or his Dear Leader. It would take years and a team of hundreds of analysts to go through the millions of transactions in these agencies to find the fraud etc. Instead, the has a small team of hackers who are downloading and doing god knows what at the US Treasury. trump has literally let the robbers into the bank.
Elon and Donnie should HANG for this hopefully broadcast nationally on all the RW media for all the gullible idiots. Entire GOP Congress should HANG with them. Swing idiots swing!
If they were genuinely interested in rooting out fraud, they would have hired a Chartered Accountancy, since interrogating financial accounts is precisely what they're trained and qualified to do. A bunch of undergraduate geeks, on the other hand, are likely just qualified to do keyword searches on databases to find references to LGBT+, contraception, family planning, Planned Parenthood, gender, equality/equity/diversity/inclusion etc. - plus, of course, any funding to car manufacturers other than Tesla and space companies other than SpaceX.
He’s trying to find information to get out of his million lawsuits. Anyone caught doing identity theft goes to jail. Why are judges allowing him to not show up without ordering contempt charges? Nuts!
I think that’s part of it. But I had another thought… could it also be Elon getting rid of USAID as a quid pro quo for China (& Russia)? He’s got business in China and apparently he’s talked to Putin (God knows how many times) starting even before Trump was elected. And NOW he and his tech-bros have access to an enormous amount of US information, both government and private citizens! Oh, and let’s not forget one of his very young tech-bros had been fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets! Yeah, no alarm bells going off for me. 😡
I believe so. I think he’s going after all the agencies/departments/ppl who have investigations into any of his businesses. I think that’s a big reason they went after the FAA, too. For some reason he has a problem with the government’s investigation into his rocket exploding and debris raining down from the sky over the Caribbean causing airliners to divert to avoid the debris. Can’t imagine why the FAA would want to look into THAT! 🙄
Salome Persianprincess. I have great love and respect for Persian Iranian people. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for many years but the 1990's were the best. I met Mehrdad at the business he and his brother owned 3 blocks from my Apt & my stop shop after work. He politely, respectfully requested my consideration that he take me out to dinner. I said yes, gave him my # anywhere nice the 2nd night aft, enuf time fo feel special and wear my purple dress. A properly elegant dinner, then a drink on the terrace with a view of the bay cities below. He was the best boyfriend I'd ever known. Mehrdad's older siblings, Azam, Nahid, Majid, Sharavaugn, nephews Ali, Mehdi - my Iranian family I belonged with 7+ years. I had the honor of preparing and hosting my Iranian family's first Thanksgiving in America. And this is a true story I will be telling best suited from a comedy stage. I hope you don't mind my happy Persian memory. I'm isolated awaiting knee replacement surgery. I have 2 six yr old cats. Majid & Anju talk to me more than I talk to myself. Can you tell me how are the women and girls doing or hoping in Iran? Merci LizAnn
Ppl should note DOGE is "publishing their findings" on the DOGE website. Had to tell someone dogegov.COM IS NOT A GOVERNMENT SITE. The actual doge.gov site conspicuously has no data bc its like 7 federal crimes to knowingly put fake data on gov letterhead.
I had to take a look myself. It’s mostly about selling meme coins. DOGE is just another scam we’ve all come to expect from DT. This time though he’s causing serious damage.
How this country has surrendered its power to the morally weakest political party in U.S. history is beyond head scratching. The Republican Party surrendered to MAGA (which is nothing more than a renewal of the Confederacy...their motto may as well be "The South Has Risen Again") and MAGA has surrendered to the billionaire class. And frankly, I fully believe China and to a lesser, but more visible degree Russia is behind ALL of this. They own this POTUS (I can't say that traitors name without a "Darth" moniker, i.e. Darth Dipshit, Darth Diaperload, etc.) and most likely all of his despicable and incompetent cabinet picks, advisors, etc. It's not a stretch to say that if we are indeed on the precipice of a world conflict, the Chinese have brilliantly neutered and sidelined the lone super power in the world by manipulating our insecurities, and done so without firing a shot. While Putin has sewn (sown?) discourse throughout Europe, Xi has consolidated power and filled and stands to fill the vacuum left by the moronic "policies" of the current admin. It is clear that there is no one in Darth Dumbass's administration that even remotely understands geopolitics.
It is incredibly sad that our country is falling by the wayside simply because the most corrupt and vain POS to ever taint the US Presidency was kept from being held accountable for his decades of criminality.
FRAUD Was obvious from the start when the INSPECTOR GENERALS from every agency were the first fired. A fired Inspector General is why the PPP fund had billions stolen last time Donnie was in office. Only the gullible wouldn’t have seen that Elon & Donnie are the corrupt ones. GOOD GRIEF America, WAKE UP!
I know, right? It's crazy people actually believe their lies!
Yes, but DOGE did find fraud, using court ordered PPP Recipients Data Records published Dec 1, 2020, during trump 1st term, found all these children receiving SBA loans for millions!! They found Trump’s fraudulent program, only 27 to 34% of the $953 billion actually went towards paycheck protection, the balance went to corporate and shareholders, $755 billion in loans were forgiven.🤬
So called BUT NOT an AUDITOR to prove it!! Just his lying word!! Show me the money. Don't know about you but I have lived on this word. Prove it to ME!! We have not been shown because it is NOT out there. We had the people they fired that had our back for years. Hey I am one that would like to get rid of government over spending but you DO NOT take a Chainsaw and Gut governent without at least any audit to PROVE the waste!! They only wanted to fire and get rid of the agencies that can show or prove them wrong and/or pay the price for siding against Trump and he told us ALL of his plans it is we the people did not believe him. The facts are now showing proof!!!
Elon had 32 businesses. 11 of them were under investigation. Guess which agencies were shuttered first and or had inspector generals fired? All the agencies that had a connection to Elon with an investigation. Have yet to see a dime of proof from Elon & Donnie’s excellent ransack adventure thru our government & data. All bullshit. Thing is they knew 1/3 of this nation were gullible enough to believe their nonsense as they ransack everything.
I too have no doubt there is some waste and fraud in government but my social security benefits that I worked 60+ yrs for are not anything that Donnie & Elon should have ANY access too. Neither is my personal data theirs to mess with. There is a proper way to audit for waste, fraud & unneeded employees. THIS random firing people without knowing the purpose of their job or how they are doing a job is NOT the way to conduct a reduction in government. I think all sane people understand that. Maggots not so much bcuz like Donnie they just want to destroy and get revenge against people & entities that did nothing to any of them but if the destruction is for Donnie they’re all in. Our country is being ransacked before our eyes and 1/3 of the country believes they spoke for all of us and gave the crooks permission. I beg to differ.
The inspector general’s report was a court ordered audit of the PPP recipients data. This was in 2020, during Trump’s 1st term. Trump told the SBA to just get the money out to whoever with no questions asked. Per the Inspector General’s audit, the results were loans to all sorts of people, including children, and tenants of Trump and Kushner’s real estate properties. DOGE/Musk found the report and tried to link it to SS fraud. it was Trump’s fraud in 2020. Yes he lied.
WHY did tenants of Trump’s & Jared’s real estate properties get PPP money? They aren’t employees of any businesses. They’re tenants. That’s trump/Jared fraud right there. As usual, Donnie pretending he cares about our money being wasted while he himself ransacks multiple departments & our government. WAKE UP people. The crooks are the usual felons— Trump & co!
Records show 27 to 34 % actually did go to small businesses. The balance did go to executives and shareholders. I know my son-in-laws small business did receive a loan for their employees paychecks but it wasn’t until after President Biden took office in 2021. The Inspector General s investigation was done in 2020, when Trump was in office.
So they say but I bet billionaires benefited from that! No normal American received a red cent!!
Much of the PPP fraud found after trumps first term was from FAKE foreign businesses. I don’t find that to be just a coincidence that FAKE foreign businesses saw a clear path to helping themselves to billions during Donnie’s last reign. He wouldn’t care. He is a felon after all. Much of that money was never recovered and I’m sure the search has stopped with Donnie back in office to ransack the country. JFC we are one stupid country.
Elon is the only thing fake! He faked his way into Billions! We The People must follow those Billions right into the Business and Organizations that he has destroyed.Revamp Medicaid Medicare Social Security Veteran Benefits Healthcare Childcare Global Warming Parks USAID… Every Single Agency!!
I totally agree, Wanda. Elon and the DOGE kids (and Trump) have to restore our public health agencies—the FDA, CDC & NIH (National Institutes of Health) and restore all of the grants for the medical research being carried out in labs at our top Universities and Medical Centers. The United States is responsible for the top discoveries and innovations that have made many diseases a thing of the past due to VACCINES or manageable with medications. Some Examples:
AIDS, MEASLES, MUMPS RUBELLA, POLIO, WHOOPING COUGH (pertussis), SMALLPOX, CHICKENPOX, SHINGLES, HEPATITIS C, CERVICAL CANCER, CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIAS, MALARIA, DIPHTHERIA, COVID-19, TETANUS, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV), RSV,
DENGUE FEVER, MPOX,
ALL OF IT!!
A shame our younger generations have no realization as to how much disease has been eradicated by vaccines. So because of RFKjr s nonsense and conspiracy theories we’re going to let killer viruses run rampant thru society again? Because people are gullible we are all going to be subjected to their stupidity? Definitely sounds like a typical Trump approach . . .
Elons Degree in physics is FAKE. HE BOUGHT IT thru a donation to U of Penn. all his government contracts are based on him having a degree in physics. Never went to one class. Never graduated. Totally SCAM! $56 billion in government contracts. We taxpayers bailed his ass out of every failure and his thanks us is to stab us in the back and destroy the country he entered illegally & ransacked.
Tired of this con artist! The only thing he’s good at is illegal shit! Always cheating destroying slithering around aimlessly! He needs to be deported today!!
And the Inspector General’s report found the fraud back in 2020, DOGE tried to take credit for exposing Trump’s fraud🤬 when he was in office in 2020.
They need to be sued and I want to be part of the lawsuit!!
Exactly
GOOD GRIEF!!!
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The gullible and the scared.
Elon has recently partnered with Visa to offer digital payments on X. Dismantling the CFPB is entirely self serving
Was thinking the same thing.Musk once told Tucker Carlson that if trump didn't win the election , he,meaning Musk,was likely going to jail.Now,not only does he have the ability to quash the various investigations against him,but now he also has access to change the number of government contracts in his favor,and eliminate the competition.
What's the betting any NASA contracts with SpaceX's rivals will be swiftly terminated and SpaceX becomes the sole supplier to NASA?
Of course…Only in America.. or , perhaps Russia , could an unelected multi business owner of questionable ethics , who happens to be among the richest in world , be allowed to access and make changes to government agencies that weren’t just investigating him , but also gives him the opportunity to change , alter or add whichever contracts benefit his shady holdings. Trump and Musk belong in adjoining cells. Sadly , Merrick Garland dropped the ball on this.
Musk did this with the FAA. He was being investigated for violations with SpaceX and impending fines. He fired IG and director. Cancelled the contract it had with Verizon who was working on a new air traffic control system with the FAA and now he has a $2 billion contract.
Guess that's Trump's way of thanking Elon for "knowing those voting machines so very well"
Came here to say that.
Our little bank, in light of the things happening have updated their systems and switched us to MC. Although it was a 2 week pain in the ass, I don't know how they found out about Elons ties to VISA but they did and I'm thankful.
Might have to switch to mc… dang!
That will be gone soon too while the dems waste time "going to court?" Right.
Glad to hear this. I informed my credit union. While they have great fraud support I expect no change.
CFPB helped me when I had money stolen off a visa”Visa” gift card. I called the Folks at the Visa company listed on the back of the gift card and they said it would take 30-90 days for me to get my money returned after I filled out their form. Then I stumbled onto CFPB via the Consumer protection agency and where hundreds of complaints been filed. I filed a complaint on CPAs website as well as CFPB’s detailing all of the fraud that had happened and what Visa had told me. CFPB replied immediately and the visa company contacted me and overnight mailed me two new Visa cards replacing my money after CFPB got involved.
Perhaps his due date now, but I will post on my social media. What took place with the PB because I think they’re an outstanding agency for consumers and I don’t know of any reason that would cause them to shut them down other than that it would interfere with Elon‘s plan to have people purchase visas through his social media site
also has over 300 cases that were filed on the CFPB‘s website there seem to be some stuff that came up to under the name starlink most of those all had Bank names under them so I’m not sure what that was all about if it didn’t stay on it long enough to figure it out. There were a few complaints about solar panels that were being sold via Tesla and people being ripped off through that program that was being investigated on CFT as well.
If they continue to keep the agency closed, people will have no other no other recourse then to file lawsuits themselves.
Bear with me with any typos I post in my stacks here. My phone is on the fritz. Not correcting typos as a pet peeve of mine but I’m frustrated with this phone after all day trying to text and it messes up so I may have missed a few.
I will NEVER do any banking on X
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Besides upstanding lawyers and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges, here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin with Missouri's own Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper, then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Jim Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Steve Brodner, Brian Tyler Cohen, Jessica Craven, Annne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, AOC, Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jake Tapper, American Bar Association, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, Democracy Docket, ACLU et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE!
May I add Dan Rather, jasmine Crockett, Rick Wilson, Ron Filipkowski! I’m sure there’s more!
See update additions as of 3-26 (with more to come. Never ending. Thanks to all. With the anticipated thousands [million+?] of heroic protestors on April 5th (actually any and all days, including Women's March) here's an updated partial list of those fighting back every day [as of 3-26-25). I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Jasmine Crockett, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Mayor Michelle Wu, J im Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson--
American Bar Association, 22 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
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American Bar Association, 22 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines et al. And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer."
Please add Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney!
And Stephanie Miller amplifies them all 3 hours every weekday morning with comedy gold to 6 million listeners on progressive radio and tv outlets.
Your thorough inclusive list of authors historians intellectuals are all my heroic experts dedicated in their knowledge learning and teaching is way of life. I devour these awesomely intelligent writers, speakers, and read only those incredibly important subject matter books that I can learn a lot from. Thats why Substack is one of my selective media information sources. A few names speaking out from Missouri. Hooray for Missouri. I'm in SW Ohio (sigh). I plan on a round trip excursion on down south where I have relatives whom I like in Georgia and the state of Missouri. Do you recall Benny Thompson who was the care master of the January 6th committee hearings now I can't he's either I think he might be in Mississippi boy I just love that guy she sounds and looks like the father of America to me I was so proud of all that dedicated work I plan to carry on, starting by rustling up some real red Republican elected an appointed officials now 75% carried manager corruption. What a shameless crack of crooks. I would love to lecture these traders on their shameless stupidity, and tell them quite frankly You're not hiding anything and quite honestly frankly You're fired. Thank you for writing your post I enjoyed the inspiration. Liz Ann
Ask the people: "What do we want?"
The people: "The End of Autocorrect! "
Ask the people: "When do we want it?"
The people: " COW!" 🐄
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Thank you. I especially wanted to give Jess Piper some national exposure. She's a ex- teacher and former Dem state rep candidate. Never gives up fighting in rural MO and elsewhere. A real treasure. The list keeps growing: Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger (obviously). Tanks again. Sharing would be good and appreciated.
subscribe and support these honorable people and we yet may have nation...
Yes and All their followers.
Jasmine Crockett
Thank you!
It’s all a sham…the deficit is not from any of these programs but from George Bush’s wars and Trumps tax cuts and his mismanagement of a pandemic. This a**hole is just going on dismantling departments that don’t add to the deficit. He’s doing it mostly for his own self interest and this is a perfect sham to hide it. If Trump just wanted to give his buddies a tax break, he would do it just like he did last time. And then he had all the a++holes from his last administration devise Project 2025 do that he can push right wing agenda to try and help Repulsicans win elections and possibly be a dictator. Musk is a cancer that has to be excised before it causes irreparable damage.
It's likely they'll go for the "illusion of democracy" form of Dictatorship, whereby other political parties exist and can compete, but in every State controlled by Republicans, they'll use a mixture of Voter ID requirements, voter purges, onerous requirements to register as a voter, limitations on voting methods and times, plus significantly fewer polling stations and ballot drop boxes in areas likely to vote Democratic to ensure they hold their States and Elector slates in perpetuity.
A la Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey... but MUCH WORSE bc Vladimir is highly involved
Read “the destructionists” and find out how this happened!
Yes, The Destructionists is an eye opening clear truth telling book I first read about a year ago and just read it again this past weekend after you mentioned it here. Thank you.
Just another narcissist revelling in his tyrannical bullying.
You put it eloquently, I was going to say it’s just two overgrown idiots having meltdowns over anyone who questions their actions. 😂
Must be the first time I’ve been called eloquent! Thanks. I don’t swear, and simply believe using correct and appropriate language has more impact. 😁
It is obvious that the real reason Musk is rooting around in agencies is to gather data and to somehow benefit himself or his Dear Leader. It would take years and a team of hundreds of analysts to go through the millions of transactions in these agencies to find the fraud etc. Instead, the has a small team of hackers who are downloading and doing god knows what at the US Treasury. trump has literally let the robbers into the bank.
Elon and Donnie should HANG for this hopefully broadcast nationally on all the RW media for all the gullible idiots. Entire GOP Congress should HANG with them. Swing idiots swing!
Not surprised at all 🤣. DT would flip this USA at any given time!! I wouldn’t trust him to walk my dog😝
I dare say walking your dog would be way too much to expect of bonespurs. The dog would outsmart him and he wouldn’t be responsible for anything.
Donny is now fucking the Eurpeans with his extra tarifs.
If they were genuinely interested in rooting out fraud, they would have hired a Chartered Accountancy, since interrogating financial accounts is precisely what they're trained and qualified to do. A bunch of undergraduate geeks, on the other hand, are likely just qualified to do keyword searches on databases to find references to LGBT+, contraception, family planning, Planned Parenthood, gender, equality/equity/diversity/inclusion etc. - plus, of course, any funding to car manufacturers other than Tesla and space companies other than SpaceX.
I like your comment and I wish I could do something more than letters to my reps in congress $ the senate ( they already agree with me)
Obviously using his AI bot looking for keywords of unintended consequences
He’s trying to find information to get out of his million lawsuits. Anyone caught doing identity theft goes to jail. Why are judges allowing him to not show up without ordering contempt charges? Nuts!
Submit this post to NY Times or Wash Post as Op-ed please.
Gee, Elon and Donnie are corrupt LIARS! What a shock!
Fire the MuskRats.
Stealing that, thank you!
Do you know if Elon also has a dislike for USAID being as the supported ending apartheid?
I think that’s part of it. But I had another thought… could it also be Elon getting rid of USAID as a quid pro quo for China (& Russia)? He’s got business in China and apparently he’s talked to Putin (God knows how many times) starting even before Trump was elected. And NOW he and his tech-bros have access to an enormous amount of US information, both government and private citizens! Oh, and let’s not forget one of his very young tech-bros had been fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets! Yeah, no alarm bells going off for me. 😡
Weren't they also , along with the fired IG's , investigating Starlink for interferring with Ukraine's missles?
I believe so. I think he’s going after all the agencies/departments/ppl who have investigations into any of his businesses. I think that’s a big reason they went after the FAA, too. For some reason he has a problem with the government’s investigation into his rocket exploding and debris raining down from the sky over the Caribbean causing airliners to divert to avoid the debris. Can’t imagine why the FAA would want to look into THAT! 🙄
It is shamefully obvious how fraudulent his operation is, most things about this regime are extremely questionable…
Well, I hope that the maga who voted musk into power are happy (trump is just musk’s puppet ) . They fell for it and now we all have to suffer!!!
Bought and paid for.
It's not clever at all. It's the same gaslighting they've always done. "If you oppose the war you must hate America." They just swapped some words out
I truly hate him. I wish he was gone and that our govt defenders will ROOT him out. He can go upload his mind to another computer.
Salome Persianprincess. I have great love and respect for Persian Iranian people. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for many years but the 1990's were the best. I met Mehrdad at the business he and his brother owned 3 blocks from my Apt & my stop shop after work. He politely, respectfully requested my consideration that he take me out to dinner. I said yes, gave him my # anywhere nice the 2nd night aft, enuf time fo feel special and wear my purple dress. A properly elegant dinner, then a drink on the terrace with a view of the bay cities below. He was the best boyfriend I'd ever known. Mehrdad's older siblings, Azam, Nahid, Majid, Sharavaugn, nephews Ali, Mehdi - my Iranian family I belonged with 7+ years. I had the honor of preparing and hosting my Iranian family's first Thanksgiving in America. And this is a true story I will be telling best suited from a comedy stage. I hope you don't mind my happy Persian memory. I'm isolated awaiting knee replacement surgery. I have 2 six yr old cats. Majid & Anju talk to me more than I talk to myself. Can you tell me how are the women and girls doing or hoping in Iran? Merci LizAnn
Ppl should note DOGE is "publishing their findings" on the DOGE website. Had to tell someone dogegov.COM IS NOT A GOVERNMENT SITE. The actual doge.gov site conspicuously has no data bc its like 7 federal crimes to knowingly put fake data on gov letterhead.
I had to take a look myself. It’s mostly about selling meme coins. DOGE is just another scam we’ve all come to expect from DT. This time though he’s causing serious damage.
Kind of like emptying out the US Gold Reserves and converting it to Bitcoin? The US will never see those $$$ again.
How this country has surrendered its power to the morally weakest political party in U.S. history is beyond head scratching. The Republican Party surrendered to MAGA (which is nothing more than a renewal of the Confederacy...their motto may as well be "The South Has Risen Again") and MAGA has surrendered to the billionaire class. And frankly, I fully believe China and to a lesser, but more visible degree Russia is behind ALL of this. They own this POTUS (I can't say that traitors name without a "Darth" moniker, i.e. Darth Dipshit, Darth Diaperload, etc.) and most likely all of his despicable and incompetent cabinet picks, advisors, etc. It's not a stretch to say that if we are indeed on the precipice of a world conflict, the Chinese have brilliantly neutered and sidelined the lone super power in the world by manipulating our insecurities, and done so without firing a shot. While Putin has sewn (sown?) discourse throughout Europe, Xi has consolidated power and filled and stands to fill the vacuum left by the moronic "policies" of the current admin. It is clear that there is no one in Darth Dumbass's administration that even remotely understands geopolitics.
It is incredibly sad that our country is falling by the wayside simply because the most corrupt and vain POS to ever taint the US Presidency was kept from being held accountable for his decades of criminality.
If Elon was actually looking for fraud, he’d be hiring forensic accountants—not a bunch of programmers.