Congresspersons and Senators Denied Entry to US Government Building

[Anonymous]

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USAID refused to give our new State Department any documentation.

Consequences stink. Too bad for the criminals.

Should they have? USAID is a separate entity, why should they give State documentation?

Please explain.

Why? Because a government agency should be transparent with the elected officials in control of government regardless of of whether they have to or not.

Exactly. CIA doesn’t appreciate scrutiny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter if you hate USAID. It doesn't matter if you think the money they spend is a waste of taxpayer dollars. It doesn't matter if you think Musk is a genius and a renegade and superhero all wrapped up into one. None of it matters. What matters are the laws of the United States of America say there is a right way to do things, and Musk is operating outside of those laws right now. He has no legal authority to do what he is doing. So he needs to be stopped and held accountable.

[phone]

It is NOT about USAID. It's about letting a rogue agent take over the government and do whatever he wants.

Trump and the GOP can shutdown USAI, it's within their right. But there are rules,. procedures and laws for how to do it. Elon cannot fire employees who are civil servants and command government police forces. GTFO.

Elon does not run our entire government outside of the law.

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I'll keep posting this on threads all over the place until I'm blue in the face. It's the process everyone should be paying attention to, not just the outcome. Our democracy is built on a constitution and rule of law, and when you eliminate those, despite being happy with the outcome, you're an ignorant fool.

Come on. This just rings so hollow. Our country has an extremely long history of individual and collective action that breaks or bends then prevailing law—all the way back to the country’s founding fathers who knew they were risking their lives in declaring independence.

This goes all the way from the trivial (Harry Reid intentionally misleadingly insinuating that Mitt Romney was a tax cheat from the Senate floor—and laughing about it no less) to the most important issues (John Lewis and his good trouble).

Indeed, we’re less than 8 years removed from an FBI director leaking stories to the press, an FBI agent altering evidence in a warrant application and, as we speak, purported FBI agents are sharing details with each other on social media on how to anonymously leak information they are not authorized to disclose. My guess is that you are mostly supportive of these ethical and legal lapses (hopefully not on the warrant business), but we are to believe that all of a sudden you really care about the rule of law and process?

The left can’t spend the first Trump presidency declaring that he is such a unique threat to democracy that institutional guardrails should be ignored and then come back and assert institutional guardrails. It just has no credibility.

I’m not happy about violation of the law and institutional guardrails being ignored. But this has been happening for the better part of my adult life dating back to the second Bush administration. Why should we care now? Because this time it is different? Maybe you are right and this is the time to care. But after decades of this garbage, across both political parties, I just can’t…

Come on nothing. You don't burn the entire place down and then claim you give a crap about the rule of law and institutional guardrails. Except for Elon Musk, every single person you mentioned swore to uphold the constitution when they took an oath of office. That's not just for show. It means something. You seem to want to want equate civil rights protest (good trouble) with the utter crap show we have now so you lack all credibility. If the FBI is corrupt (and yes, I believe many of them are) root them out - do the job that you have been elected to do, not hand over the reins to someone who has absolutely no care in the world what our constitution says as long as his checkbook is open for business. This is absurd, and you know it. And yes, I've tended to care about the rule of law for decades now, because I'm not an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GO TO THE TREASURY.

It is a national emergency!

Transparency is indeed a national emergency! —Democrats

[Anonymous]

Who knew our tax dollars were being wasted like this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh

Elon's disinformation crew has arrived, trying to direct the narrative away from HOW USAID was closed to trying to overwhelm the conversation to why USAID was closed. Yawn. This is trolling 101.

Again, DOGE was only established to RECOMMEND changes to the government, not to have unilateral power to close office and fire civil servants. Not even the president can give them that power.

I’m not a disinformation troll, I’m just now learning more about USAID.

Geopolitics is dirty, but reading more about USAID blows my mind.

This is an aid agency.

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign Policy link:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought communism was bad and defeating it should be a goal of foreign policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh

Elon's disinformation crew has arrived, trying to direct the narrative away from HOW USAID was closed to trying to overwhelm the conversation to why USAID was closed. Yawn. This is trolling 101.

Again, DOGE was only established to RECOMMEND changes to the government, not to have unilateral power to close office and fire civil servants. Not even the president can give them that power.

I’m not a disinformation troll, I’m just now learning more about USAID.

Geopolitics is dirty, but reading more about USAID blows my mind.

This is an aid agency.

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign Policy link:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought communism was bad and defeating it should be a goal of foreign policy.

We gave up on that goal, seeing how China is one of our biggest trading partners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who knew our tax dollars were being wasted like this?

Because Elon told you so? How do you know he's telling the truth?

[Anonymous]

If they are mad about being denied entry they should defund the agency.

Shutdown the whole government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When this is all over, Musk is going to spend the rest of his days in prison.

Hopefully his days are short in number.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States

Be real. That's exactly what everyone said about Trump. But instead of an orange jumpsuit, he became president again. Rule of Law is dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they are mad about being denied entry they should defund the agency.

Shutdown the whole government.

At least keep trimming the Feds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh

Elon's disinformation crew has arrived, trying to direct the narrative away from HOW USAID was closed to trying to overwhelm the conversation to why USAID was closed. Yawn. This is trolling 101.

Again, DOGE was only established to RECOMMEND changes to the government, not to have unilateral power to close office and fire civil servants. Not even the president can give them that power.

I’m not a disinformation troll, I’m just now learning more about USAID.

Geopolitics is dirty, but reading more about USAID blows my mind.

This is an aid agency.

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign Policy link:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

This link is for 16:45.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh

Elon's disinformation crew has arrived, trying to direct the narrative away from HOW USAID was closed to trying to overwhelm the conversation to why USAID was closed. Yawn. This is trolling 101.

Again, DOGE was only established to RECOMMEND changes to the government, not to have unilateral power to close office and fire civil servants. Not even the president can give them that power.

I’m not a disinformation troll, I’m just now learning more about USAID.

Geopolitics is dirty, but reading more about USAID blows my mind.

This is an aid agency.

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign Policy link:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought communism was bad and defeating it should be a goal of foreign policy.

We gave up on that goal, seeing how China is one of our biggest trading partners.

We can, and should minimize funding the evil Chinese Communist government.

[Anonymous]

Good thing the CIA and USAID massive corruption is getting exposed. I had no clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh

Elon's disinformation crew has arrived, trying to direct the narrative away from HOW USAID was closed to trying to overwhelm the conversation to why USAID was closed. Yawn. This is trolling 101.

Again, DOGE was only established to RECOMMEND changes to the government, not to have unilateral power to close office and fire civil servants. Not even the president can give them that power.

I’m not a disinformation troll, I’m just now learning more about USAID.

Geopolitics is dirty, but reading more about USAID blows my mind.

This is an aid agency.

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign Policy link:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought communism was bad and defeating it should be a goal of foreign policy.

We gave up on that goal, seeing how China is one of our biggest trading partners.

We can, and should minimize funding the evil Chinese Communist government.