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WOW…JEFF CHILDERS HAS SOME AMAZING INSIGHTS INTO HOW MUSK AND COMPANY UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF DOGE ARE INFILTRATING THE HIGHEST ECHELONS OF THE US GOVERNMENTS WORKINGS
IT’S LIKE THEY HAVE FOUND THE WIZARD OF OZ BEHIND THE CURTAIN AND HAVE ‘DEMOTED” HIM WHILE THEY HAVE A CLOSE LOOK AROUND AT HIS APPERATUS
TRUELY MINDNUMBING…THE DEMS SAY IT’S A COUP…AND YOU KNOW WHAT…THEY ARE MOST DEFINITELY CORRECT …HA
SEE FIRST COMMENT AND THE SECOND AND THE THIRD
SNIP
“Never mind me, corporate media can’t keep up with the epic deluge of Trump Administration news. Trump’s teams are working around the clock, while his adversaries remain on a 9-5 schedule. As the President’s people continue taking more and more control, and as each new nominee is confirmed, the pace will only increase.
What we are all experiencing is, as advertised, shock and awe.”
Thanks to leaks, we are getting a pinch more visibility into Elon Musk’s Efficiency operations under DOGE. Yesterday, Reuters ran a story headlined, “Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say.”
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Sources say? Leakers. Reuters sourced its story to “two officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.”
It is true thought that DOGE has not discussed its plan in public. Thus, the details from the story were thrilling.
On January 20th, the day Trump took office, a DOGE team including current and former Musk employees assumed command of the critical Office of Personnel and Management (OPM). DOGE delivered pull-out sofa beds to the fifth floor of OPM headquarters. The fifth floor is OPM’s top-management floor.
The sofa beds were installed so the DOGE team could work around the clock.
Meanwhile, OPM’s staff managers, like its CMO Katie Malague, were quickly and neatly moved out of their offices down to new offices on lower floors. It was a physical and psychological demotion, even if not any change in title or salary.
“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one of the leakers complained to Reuters.
Next, OPM employees were unceremoniously cut off from all administrative access to the systems. They can still log in and do their work, but they cannot access any management functions or data. All this change is making their jobs much more exciting than usual.
OPM staff were “surprised,” for example, by the “Fork in the Road” memo last week, since the first time they saw it was at the same time it was sent out to all federal employees.
Amusingly, the article was sourced from leakers, but failed to connect the obvious dot: the DOGE team cut the OPM staff out of the loop because they clearly think the career people will leak like rusty sieves.
I’d hoped DOGE would do some good stuff, but I had no idea it would be like this.
? We learned even more about Musk’s work from three other leakers and an internal Treasury memo. The Washington Post broke the story yesterday headlined, “Senior U.S. official exits after rift with Musk allies over payment system.”
The Treasury Department issues all payments on behalf of the United States. In that sense, every social security payment, every grant, tax refund, stimulus payment, Obamacare reimbursement, foreign aid, Fauci’s security detail’s strip club reimbursement, the whole works— if paid by the US, the check comes from Treasury. It issues more than 1.3 billion individual checks totaling over $6 trillion yearly.
In other words, Musk’s database engineers have been dying to dig into that Treasury data, to determine exactly what the US has been buying and who we’ve been paying. For example, does their name end with “-ensky?”
This database is the mother lode leading to the deep state.
But for two hectic, fast-paced weeks, the Treasury Department has stubbornly refused to give DOGE any access to the payments database. The rift leading to the resignation referenced in the headline happened when newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ordered the highest-ranking career bureaucrat at Treasury to turn over the passwords.
Instead of doing, that he resigned. (It could be more accurate to say he was offered a chance to resign. We don’t know. After all, he can still take that 8-month deal.) The bottom line is, he refused to turn over the passwords.
Late in the article, the WaPo got around to admitting that DOGE’s request for access was completely legal. Trump ordered Treasury to do it back on January 20th when the President created DOGE. So if anyone is breaking the law, it’s career Treasury officials:
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Treasury officials’ resistance looks more like bureaucratic defiance than lawful objection. Bureaucrats cannot just ignore a President’s lawful order. If officials disagreed on the legality, they should have sought a court injunction—rather than deploying rogue bureaucratic resistance.
Trump’s executive order mandated transparency and reform. DOGE’s charter is to expose entrenched waste, inefficiency, or even corruption within the government, including the Treasury payments system. There is no reasonable objection to allowing DOGE its access.
Yesterday, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Trump administration’s “purge” of FBI agents sparks backlash—”Retaliation.”” It’s not quite a purge, not yet, but yesterday’s moves totally freaked out the already anxious Democrats.
CLIP: MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki hysterically cries about “FBI Purge” (2:32).
Yesterday, without warning, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove —formerly one of Trump’s personal attorneys— fired “25 to 30” DOJ prosecutors who worked on the Trump cases. They had always been temps, but Biden made them full-time employees right before the Inauguration.
Those sackings were unsurprising, but Democrats still complained worse than wet chickens.
According to MSNBC, the firings also included top FBI career leaders and “more than 20” directors of various FBI field offices across the country, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the DC Field Office. David Sundberg, who championed the J6 investigations, was the DC Field Officer Director, and was fired.
But what really got Democrats stirred up was Bove’s request for a list of all rank-and-file FBI agents and personnel who worked on the January 6th cases—a list that could include thousands.
That’s when the fur truly started flying. It was an all-hands-on-deck moment for Democrats. Cory Booker, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, Jamie Raskin, you name it, they all issued hyperbolic, outraged statements from their offices and on social media.
It backfired horribly. It was incredibly bad optics. These politicians’ support doesn’t help the FBI at all. The fact that all the Democrats’ most partisan members were screeching like barn owls only proved the point. You’d think that if the FBI Agents were apolitical and totally unbiased and neutral and so forth, at least some Republicans would be sticking up for them (likewise, if they were really even-handed, some Democrats would be irritated with the FBI).
Has the FBI no friends left among the Republican Party? If not, it speaks volumes.
? Perhaps sensing the political moment better than Hakeem, Schumer, and Schiff, the FBI Agents Association shot for a more conciliatory approach. It invoked political self-interest, by suggesting how firing so many FBI agents at one time could backfire on the Administration: “Dismissing potentially hundreds of agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats, and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure.”
But there’s a big problem with that argument. The argument is that firing these FBI Agents will weaken investigations into domestic terrorism and crime by understaffing the agency. But if these agents were so non-essential they could be assigned to January 6th cases for three years, it’s very hard to imagine we can’t somehow limp along without their particularly ignoble crime-fighting efforts.
In CNN’s story, one anonymous FBI employee said the January 6th case was the largest investigation ever worked by the FBI. “Everyone touched this case,” the employee explained helplessly.
In other words, imagine how much more efficient the FBI will run, once the “largest investigation ever,” which distracted everyone, is finally over. Speaking of efficiency, on Thursday, media began reporting that a DOGE team was now embedded on the Director’s floor at FBI headquarters. The 4-man DOGE team reportedly includes two former FBI agents, a former aide to Representative Jim Jordan (R-Oh.), and an as-yet unidentified SpaceX employee.
Combine the OPM couch story, the Treasury takeover, and the SpaceX employee telling the FBI what to do, and you can understand why the BlueSky-ers are so aggravated they are tossing around inflammatory words like “coup” and “oligarchy takeover.”
Yesterday, the Hill ran another outrageous story headlined, “Democrats slam Trump over reports he’ll merge USAID with State Department.” Uh-oh. It’s about to get real.
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Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, launched the rumor that Trump was trying to figure out how to shut down USAID altogether:
As Schumer correctly noted, USAID was created by John F. Kennedy through an executive order and later established by Congress. It’s meant to be an “independent” agency overseen by the State Department to handle disbursing billions of dollars of “humanitarian relief and economic development.” Those terms are squishy enough that Democrats and every sketchy deep state agency have coopted it as a money spigot. USAID is a tool to quickly splash cash around the world wherever it may be needed, like funding color revolutions and regime change operations, or Democrats’ congressional campaigns.
USAID’s “independence” frustrates oversight and shuts down scrutiny. But the agency’s “independence” is constitutionally dubious, entrenched only through statutory loopholes and bureaucratic inertia. The Constitution vests all power over foreign relations in the Executive Branch (Article II, Section 2). Foreign aid logically falls under his constitutional authority over foreign relations.
Over the years, lawmakers have created statutory authorities purporting to allow USAID to function semi-autonomously. This effectively gave unelected bureaucrats wide latitude to execute U.S. foreign assistance policy— even if it contradicted the sitting President’s policies. But Reagan’s unitary executive theory suggests that the President may fire USAID officials and override their decisions without congressional micromanagement.
It sure looks like President Trump is toying with a showdown with Congressional Democrats over his control of Executive Branch agencies and their employees. This is another developing front in the war with the deep state. If Trump can cut off the money, the deep state will wither away.
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The Kyiv Independent reported one of the most important developments since the Inauguration, quietly headlined, “’Dishonest’ to suggest Ukraine could have fully defeated Russia, retake Crimea, Rubio says.” Among other things, Rubio called the Proxy War “dishonest,” explaining that “the dishonesty was that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able, not just to defeat Russia, but destroy Putin, push him all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014 before the Russians took Crimea.”
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YouTube: Secretary Marco Rubio on Buying Greenland, His Trip to Panama, and How to End the Russia-Ukraine War (1:04:52).
Watch the whole thing. The Rubio upgrade installed in the State Department is a massive improvement. The new Secretary of State said that the U.S. has been “funding a stalemate” in a war that has “set Ukraine back 100 years.” Both of those critical, long-overdue admissions suggest the Trump Administration is taking a practical, honest approach to the Proxy War.
That is terrific news.
But Rubio went much further. He also explained a whole new policy approach upending fifty years of settled neocon theory. “It’s not normal for the world to have a single unipolar power; that was an anomaly of the Cold War,” Rubio explained. I wish I had more time to further explore the implications of this revolutionary declaration. Maybe tomorrow.
Either way, the Trump Administration just announced it will abandon the all-costs pursuit of American hegemony. The alternative is a practical, multi-polar world with at least three independent, cooperating superpowers (if not four).
In other words, the globalist era is over.
As a quick reminder, Rubio was the Senator who forced deep state diva Viktoria Nuland to admit that the U.S. built biolabs in Ukraine. So we can be confident Marco Rubio knows what time it is in Kiev
I’m pleasantly surprised at Rubio, so far.
He and T probably had time to coalesce on a strategy down in Mar a Lago that suits them both, and avoids the corrupting influences of the others on the Senate Intelligence Committee that he sat on but as a solo artist. Now he has cajones backing him up on whatever they can agree on.
Plus, with his Spanish, he can probably be quite effective communicating with Milei and Bukele as allies, and get across his meaning without ambiguity when speaking with Maduro, Petro and the other communists currently residing on the bloc.
Plus 1 on Rubio
and now Treasury falls (reportedly)
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1885800350776484020