Tangentially related, something I scream whenever a congress critter says something positive about DOGE.
GAO already does this you nitwits. How can you not know?
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Fascinating program on NPRâs 1A on Monday. Talking about DOGE âAuditsâ they had this exchange:
Dina Temple Rastin: A federal judge called it hitting a fly with a sledgehammer. So even though theyâre calling this an audit, you, as an expert in this for decades, just donât think this is an audit at all. This seems like something completely different.
Corey Bretschneider: Itâs something completely different. Iâm gonna go out on a limb here and maybe beyond the scope of what you brought me on is, to me, it it looks like a domestic terrorist attack on the US government by people who figured that, theyâre not going to get their way through the rule of law.
(Since Elsewhere is loving footnotes these days, consider these footnotes)
Corey Bretschneider. Heâs a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. Heâs also the author of The Presidents and the People, five leaders who threaten democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it. (adding to reading list.)
Dina Temple Rastin. Sheâs the host and managing editor of Click Here. Thatâs a weekly cyber and tech news podcast from Recorded Future News.
DOGE and the entire Trumpy admin is looks like a domestic terrorist attack on the US government by people who figured that, theyâre not going to get their way through the rule of law. If I was thinking of running for President or working on getting the Democrats back into power, Corey Bretschneider would be my first hire.
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Iâm curious to learn if SCOTUS distinguishes between Social Security data and IRS data after reading about this:
The IRS has long been a DOGE / regime target.
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I donât know, but crypto is long overdue for regulation. That wonât happen while Trump is President, obviously, but current law doesnât explicitly cover cryptocurrency, so these issues right now have to be decided by the courts, and I donât think SCOTUS will side with the IRS.
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Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt!
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And the badge number is 69 420? Of course it is. Because 8th grade humor is eternal.
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I mean, inanely quoting those numbers like theyâre jokes in and of themselves is actually Muskâs best comedic materialâŚit only goes down from there. Did you know he was born 69 days after April 20? I am kind of curious how old he was when he finally noticed thatâŚmy guess is at least forty.
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Yeah, well, Iâm waiting for the other shoe to drop re April 20th.
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clear harm with barely any good to show for it
Is âbarely anyâ a new way of saying âabsolutely nothingâ?
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Well, Leonâs companies are profiting from it, so there is that.
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Besides that, itâs a cut. Bill Gates may understand that itâs killing people with no purpose, but heâs still a billionaire and I think heâs still assuming that being a cut is somehow a positive in itself.
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