Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unleashes

[Jersey Girl]

I know you guys don't like someone probing your team's spending and would much rather probe the other team. Why be on a team if not to support it? However, shouldn't we welcome the idea that spending is being audited? Shouldn't we welcome cleaning up fraud and waste? There's probably a lot of republican waste, fraud and abuse for the democrats to crow about when found. So, let's have at it. Get the democrat version of DOGE going. Musk opened up a can of worms and now let's look at all of it, including his government contracts.

The phrase is fraud, waste, and abuse. Of course we should clean that up.

Let's start with the Oval Office and work our way down.

We're likely not going to get a chance to look at contracts or reports of any kind. What with Trump and Co-President Musk sanitizing destroying the record and all.

[Jersey Girl]

Somewhat related (and ironic as all heck) is the video clip below.

Trump: I am your president of law and order 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOjWTmSNMM

What a difference a few years makes to the unreliable integrity lacking claims of a politician. Not a darn thing he and Co-President Musk are doing right now is IAW the law.

[Doctor Steuss]

How much of the billions of federal dollars that goes to Elon's phallic hobby have been identified as wasteful? Y'know, since we're apparently pissed off that kids are learning to read on earth, and babies were being saved from getting AIDS, on America's dime. I figure that must mean that all of the federal funds have been stopped to try to check out cool rocks 67 million miles away. Right? Riiiight???

[canpakes]

I know you guys don't like someone probing your team's spending and would much rather probe the other team.

1. I don’t think that USAID belongs only to one ‘team’. Both (1) humanitarian efforts abroad, and (2) the projection of American soft power, seem the province of both parties. What’s your rationalization for declaring it otherwise?

2. I consider myself to be on Team Law and Order and Team Constitution. There’s a framework in place for reviewing agencies (a Congressional privilege) and rooting out waste (independent Inspectors General). We don’t have a legally-defined procedure for allowing an unelected tech bro unfettered access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems, OPM’s personnel files or dismantling whole agencies. Just because a guy who took 7 years to build a glitch-ridden electric truck thinks that his donating a quarter-billion dollars to a Presidential re-election fund makes him an expert in determining the viability of whole agencies involved in a thousand tasks that he has no expertise in doesn’t mean that we toss out our legal and constitutionally-established framework, in order to entertain his ego.

For a fellow who always seems so suspicious of government and power at the hands of your undefined ‘elite’, this whole waving away by you of an actual powerful billionaire elite just thrashing about without regard to our laws because he was magically gifted his own agency is … puzzling.

However, shouldn't we welcome the idea that spending is being audited? Shouldn't we welcome cleaning up fraud and waste? There's probably a lot of republican waste, fraud and abuse for the democrats to crow about when found. So, let's have at it. Get the democrat version of DOGE going.

What avenue does any Democrat have to redirect Musk to heavy hitters like DOD? What power of enforcement does any Democrat have right now? You’ve basically watched the new Administration just decide to unilaterally flout the rules, Constitution be damned. You are here stating your approval of that. If you toss out the legal structure, how does anyone else other than those in power play by any rules or effectively challenge the new status quo?

Musk opened up a can of worms and now let's look at all of it, including his government contracts.

I’m sure that he’ll get right on that, lol. : D

[Dr. Shades]

Not a darn thing he and Co-President Musk are doing right now is IAW the law.

"IAW" = "In All Ways?"

[Jersey Girl]

Not a darn thing he and Co-President Musk are doing right now is IAW the law.

"IAW" = "In All Ways?"

Question 1: Would you expect a person who works in law enforcement to know what the term IAW the law means?

Question 2: Could you please install a troll emoticon for the board?

[Dr. Shades]

Question 1: Would you expect a person who works in law enforcement to know what the term IAW the law means?

I've never seen it used in the context of my career.

Question 2: Could you please install a troll emoticon for the board?

To indicate what you're doing now?

[Gunnar]

Not a darn thing he and Co-President Musk are doing right now is IAW the law.

"IAW" = "In All Ways?"

I'm sure IAW stands for "in accordance with" in that sentence. And I think it is blazingly clear that much of what Trump and Musk are doing is not in accordance with the law. They just don't care whether or not what they do is in accordance with the law, because Trump is convinced that the Supreme Court has given him absolute immunity.

[Dr. Shades]

"IAW" = "In All Ways?"

I'm sure IAW stands for "in accordance with" in that sentence. And I think it is blazingly clear that much of what Trump and Musk are doing is not in accordance with the law. They just don't care whether or not what they do is in accordance with the law, because Trump is convinced that the Supreme Court has given him absolute immunity.

Ahh, that makes more sense. Yeah, that's probably what she meant.

[Dr Exiled]

I know you guys don't like someone probing your team's spending and would much rather probe the other team. Why be on a team if not to support it? However, shouldn't we welcome the idea that spending is being audited? Shouldn't we welcome cleaning up fraud and waste? There's probably a lot of republican waste, fraud and abuse for the democrats to crow about when found. So, let's have at it. Get the democrat version of DOGE going. Musk opened up a can of worms and now let's look at all of it, including his government contracts.

The phrase is fraud, waste, and abuse. Of course we should clean that up.

Let's start with the Oval Office and work our way down.

We're likely not going to get a chance to look at contracts or reports of any kind. What with Trump and Co-President Musk sanitizing destroying the record and all.

Good lord ... didn't know I was speaking with the language police. But thanks. Abuse, Fraud and Waste or Waste, Fraud and Abuse definitely isn't the same thing as Fraud, Waste and Abuse.

Any proof of this record destroying or sanitizing operation? Obviously, that shouldn't be done. I wouldn't put it past anyone like happened with the J6 committee and how they destroyed their documents or how a certain presidential candidate loved bleach bit.