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The Treasury guy shrieked in horror and resigned when they showed up at the Treasury building and asked for access to the payment system.

The Acting SSA babe resigned in a huff when they showed up at the Social Security Administration to audit the system.

USAID people rushed to court to try to get the money turned back on as well as get their jobs back.

And now the USIP folks literally barricade themselves in the building and have to be arrested and escorted out.

What is it about DOGE that these career bureaucrats find so absolutely alternately terrifying or infuriating?

REAL CITIZEN ACCOUNTABILITY.

The one thing DC has needed for decades and artfully avoided...until Trump won a 2nd term.

NOBODY in the DOGE team is a professional politician or a member of the political class. They are citizen appointees. Most come out of the business/corporate sector.

So the Swamp Denizens who spent decades deliberately constructing the federal Leviathan specifically to make it opaque and hide all the shit they've been doing with our money [while Congress and Inspector Generals PRETENDED to have oversight of all of it and saw nothing wrong at all!] do not want ORDINARY CITIZENS poking around their fraud machinery.

We've reached a point in the timeline where these federal career bureaucrats will LITERALLY barricade themselves inside a building to try to keep the citizenry from seeing what they've been up to with the public's money.

This is how you know we're winning and they're losing.
 
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the quiet part out loud. The resistance to Elon Musk’s DOGE in DC is because lobbyists want our tax money “to keep flowing into their pockets”

“I am completely aligned with what Elon's doing”

Scott Bessent says if you don’t move as quickly as Elon Musk is moving, the lobbyist will stop DOGE

“Everyone says, do you have to do it so fast? Like I said, I've only been in this business for 7 weeks. I've only been in DC for 8 weeks. The thing I can tell you is if you don't move fast, the vested interest will weigh you down — Everybody's got lobbyists, I mean think about it, within a 10 mile radius of here, 25% of the GDP of the US pulsates through here every day. And everybody wants to just skim a little.”

“I said to Elon, people are mad at you because you're moving their cheese. It's not their cheese, it's the American people's cheese. 100%. Every dollar spent goes into someone's pocket and that person's going to fight tooth and nail to get that dollar to keep flowing into their pockets”

“There is no winning in Elon's role. Every single time he takes action, there are people that are going to come after him”
 
They used to call this "pork", but it's obviously waste that become fraud with a kickback.
 
Goldhedge said:
Queer and transgender farmers?
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Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
 
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Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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Very true. There are some shitty breeders of hops cousin out there and you will find that some females end up with balls as well. They are probably the DEI breeders.
 
Someone_else said:
Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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I don't know about THAT. Stories abound, of dairy farmers who liked their cows, more than might be considered usual. Or keepers of horses, or sheep.

Just sayin'. Perversion doesn't stop at the city limits.
 
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I hear this; and I wish them luck. I hope they make progress.

But I read about how the Dumbo Party is agitating SS recipients; "organizing" them into protests to "keep Elon out of our Social Security payments."

It's like this. The nooze liars are completely removed from fact. They spin a fantasy Narrative; older television viewers suck it up, and then organize the riled-up oldsters into "protests." Where demagogues like Schmuck Choomer appear as heroes - probably wearing capes or some such - and "pledge to protect Social Security." And use that as some sort of force to attack Musk, DOGE, Bondi and of course Orange Man.

How can you fight this Astroturf false-reality?
 
The taxpayers in this country are getting hosed.
at least 11 million illegals allowed in or flown in and put on some sort of government assistance. Billions spent overall of taxpayer money to do this. Now billions more to send them all home and the next time the left takes charge they will just do it all over again.

On average we are sending 9400 a week home. Let's call it 10k. At that rate it will take 21 years to remove them all. Even if we ramp up the numbers and double that amount we are looking at more than 10 years. We need a cheaper and faster way.
1) Need to start fining business owners that hire illegals. Possibly even jail time. That ends one revenue stream for them.
2) Cut off all government money to states that house or give benefits to illegals. That cuts off the 2nd revenue stream they have.

Now they will be begging to go home or starve on American soil. I'm ok with free bus rides to the border. Now they will self deport. Those that are left here are probably criminals.

Farmers that need the labor to pick crops should be be allowed to fast track current illegals if they have committed no other crimes while here.
 
Someone_else said:
Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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It would be weird if a sativa thought itself was an indica. I am not participating in that fantasy.
 
Every time and I mean EVERY time I read an article about waste, abuse or fraud involving taxpayer monies I think of the old Davy Crockett story "Not Yours to Give"

Many of you have probably seen it before,

For those of you that haven't, enjoy.

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Not Yours to Give - FEE

[The following story about the famed American icon Davy Crockett was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, a pseudonym used by Edward S. Ellis. The events that are recounted here are true, including Crockett’s opposition to the bill in question, though the...
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This is mind blowing

DOGE “There is actually really only ONE BANK ACCOUNT that's used to disperse ALL monies that go out of the federal government”

“It's a big one — A couple weeks ago it had $800 billion in it, it's the treasury general account”

“We're serving 580+ agencies. And up until very recently, effectively they could say, make the payment and Treasury just sent it out as fast as possible. NO VERIFICATION”

“There's a $500 billion of fraud every year. There's hundreds of billion dollars of improper payments and we can't pass an audit. The consolidated financial report is produced by treasury and we cannot pass an audit”
 
DOGE plans to cut a trillion dollars in fraud and waste before they finish up in a couple months. The problem with that is congress just passed a continuing resolution to keep spending at last years levels so not cutting a trillion there. I think the deficit is around 1.8 trillion right now so cutting a trillion is a nice start but we need another trillion in cuts to break even and have a balanced budget.

A few congress critters have come out in support of DOGE but very few. An attempt to make the cuts permanent failed so these corrupt POS will figure out another way to funnel money back into their families and campaigns.

In the end this all makes for great headlines but so far there are 0 arrests and it feels like the politicians are just riding all of this out as they know in a couple months DOGE will be no more and back to business as usual.

100's of billions laundered or stolen and 0 arrests. If you or I stole 10k we would be behind bars for 7-10 years. So if the thieves in DC are not prosecuted this was all an exercise in futility.
 
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