Source?
If youāre asking how he knows theyāre virgins, I believe that was a conclusion reached after visual inspection of photographic likeness.
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The Dept. of Energy IT system is where they keep the nuclear secrets.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/climate/doge-energy-department-trump/index.html
A representative from Elon Muskās Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted access to the Energy Departmentās IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, two people with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
Apparently these tech geniuses who are going to rewrite the code for the systems running our entire government do t know how to delete their own racist social media posts.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93
A key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Departmentās central-payments system resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.
FTR, this is not the one who goes by the online handle āBig Ballsā. That teenager is still rooting around in your financial and medical history.
āDespite fabricating the United States DOGE Service out of thin air, President Musk has already grown his unelected bureaucracy to lay claim to nearly $7 million of American taxpayer funding,ā House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. She said that amount is ānearly twice the annual salaries and expenses budget of the White House.ā
Trump is treating the federal budget like itās one of his slush funds, allowing him to choose where the money goes - or doesnāt go. Thatās not how itās supposed to work, but he has his SCOTUS-manufactured immunity and Musk has the check book so I donāt know how any of this gets stopped.
Seems like someone needs to test how far the court is willing to go with the immunity situation sooner rather than later. Trump isnāt moderating his behavior as it is, so a vomit-inducing decision wouldnāt necessarily exacerbate anything, and itās possible the Supremes take a narrower rather than a broader view of the ānational security interestsā under which he can claim his bespoke immunity.
I donāt knowā¦bad idea?
Is there a legal argument to be made right now that heās done something since Jan 20 that has heretofore been considered criminal? It certainly seems like authorizing an extra-governmental department like DOGE to break into Bureau of Financial Statistics offices would represent at least a violation of his oath of office. No?
Forgive me if my thinking betrays a lack of information. Iāve reasserted the news diet of the first Trump Administration. When I take a peek it all seems extremely surreal and dispiriting.
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That would be on the DOJ, right? Soā¦
Thatās because it is. He has a compliant Congress, is gutting the government bureaucracy of any checks or oversight, and has immunity in his back pocket. He is, and I do not say this lightly, King.
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Couldnāt state AGs bring suit based on the filching of their citizensā financial records? Is the immunity supposed to extend to the civil sphere as well?
Immunity extends to official acts as president. These things are being done by Executive Order, so it would take SCOTUS reversing itself for them to be prosecutable. Donāt forget that the circumstance even of the president ordering a political assassination was raised during the hearings and deemed to be immunized.
Any charges brought in a state court would be immediately removed to federal court at which point the immunity ruling evaporates the case.
As to civil cases being brought, that is happening. And judges are issuing orders and injunctions. And Trump is ignoring them. Who is going to enforce the law against a president who chooses not to follow it?
Paging Cousin Eddy:
āApportionedā means a thing but not the thing you are implying. Basically, the $7M has been shifted from the Treasury (bank) to the USDS operating fund. Thatās normal Gov FinOps (and large corporate FinOps) movement of $$. They have not spent it. It just moved into the USDS account so they can start to obligate the $$ to various initiatives. Under a normal passed budget, all that $$ flows to the various agencies once the budget is passed. In a Continuing Resolution environment like what we are in, you see these types of incremental disbursements to Agencies all the time as the financial managers of the Government try to deal with the budget execution challenges surrounding a CR.
Every government employee has a degree of immunity for official acts. It is not absolute, however. So do Texas government employees. This was a big part of my practice because I represented ISDs.
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Whether Elon and his minions are actual government employees is a debatable question.
Not talking about them, only employees.
Itās not really a debatable question. SGEās are indeed government employees. Their responsibilities and restrictions are well established.
Thanks, good to learn new things.
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In a very non-despotish move, Trump has fired the Chairman of the Kennedy Center and installed himself in that role. He will now dictate the art and culture scene for the center.
Iām not joking.
Gold toilets are a type of art.
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Shitty art.
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