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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/really-gonna-get-me-assassinated-musk-warns-he-cant-push-too-hard-corruption-stuff

During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk suggested that he'll be assassinated if he goes too deep into the corruption in DC.

"It's more than just insider trading. The stock portfolio stuff is quite trackable, but it's a lot more than insider trading," said Musk.

"The way they're acquiring wealth?" Rogan asked.

...pause...

"Correct," replied Musk.

"And what other methods," asked Rogan.

"I mean this is really gonna get me assassinated," Musk replied. "It's like, I'm not lengthening my lifespan by explaining this stuff, to say the least. I mean, I was supposed to go back to DC. How am I going to survive? This is fucking going to kill me for sure," Musk continued.

"In fact, I do think like this... it's like, I actually have to be careful that I don't push too hard on the corruption stuff because it's going to get me killed."

https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/business/john-podesta-375m-epa-slush-fund-gave-billions-to-newly-formed-charities/

$375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier

The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.

In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.

The non-profit fund had only been incorporated in Delaware on November 30, 2023, according to public records, five months before Harris handed over the cash in April 2024.

The Climate United Fund then announced “the historic investment” in a press release, noting the group’s work “delivers benefits like cleaner air…and increased energy security.”’

However, because the company is so new, there is no publicly published accounting of how it plans to spend the $7 billion.

Clown world strikes again:

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.

Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices last month, according to current and former CDC employees.

A message seen by the AP was sent with the subject line, “Read this e-mail immediately.” It said that “after further review and consideration,” a Feb. 15 termination notice has been rescinded and the employee was cleared to return to work on Wednesday. “You should return to duty under your previous work schedule,” it said. "We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.

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This is why we desperately needed Elon Musk’s DOGE

“When this government worker goes to the office every day there's nothing to do. There's nothing to pretend to do — His work days have been pretty much empty since March 1996”

MAKING $100,000 PER YEAR

“Taxpayers are covering his generous paycheck. How much do you get paid to do nothing?

About a hundred thousand a year.

So what do you do all day when you go to the office?

I've managed to publish a couple of books, some short story fiction, a little bit of non-fiction writing. Yes, with all that free time and with taxpayers footing the bill, he's become a successful mystery writer”

BTW, Musk companies got north of $138B in government subsidies over the yers. It can be argued that it was necessary to get them off the ground, but now It's time to pay that back. We are hurting and need every penny. GM did pay back the bailout money, so Elon must too. In the spirit of government efficiency.

Fuck, the US gub'ment paid Boeing how many billions for the SLS that still can't fully complete a manned mission (ground to orbit and return) after 10 years of funding. Where's the refund here?

@patrick - botnet alert ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Interesting. Hard to tell who's a real person these days.

Could just be a disgruntled leftist.

Patrick says

Interesting. Hard to tell who's a real person these days.

Could just be a disgruntled leftist.

they do have a point, so far lots of noise, will have to see actual results. illegals still selling oranges on the corner here, inflation still climbing, wars still going, Trump back threatening more sanctions, no one been prosecuted or charged with anything, trannies have more rights than you and I. Government deficits still high, everything Trump wants to do will only add to deficit.

they need to raise interest rates like 3x to stop inflation, but they won’t because RE will take a dump. they aren’t deporting or making it illegal to hire illegals. Trump is threatening Russia again trying to force a deal. situation has not improved.

https://nitter.poast.org/DOGE/status/1897864793526001823#m

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Careful here, as Bernie may reply "You keep exposing fraud and I may outlive you."

https://nitter.poast.org/bog_beef/status/1898120691024625731#m

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/bog_beef/status/1898120691024625731#m

How does Washington DC have a GDP? That chart looks more like a per capita income.

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/bog_beef/status/1898120691024625731#m

It doesn't make sense to me either.

HeadSet says

How does Washington DC have a GDP? That chart looks more like a per capita income.

Consulting firms, and Law firms and Sign printers all work for money.

There's a rumor that every criminal defense lawyer in (former) DC is booked solid.

Would a government shutdown also suspend DOGE?

AmericanKulak says

Would a government shutdown also suspend DOGE?

no, they aren’t paid by government

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sanity-day-monday-march-10-2025-c

“DOGE says $312M in loans were given to children during COVID pandemic.”

Yesterday, DOGE announced discovering that in 2020 and 2021, the SBA awarded over 5,600 forgivable loans (totaling $312 million dollars) to extraordinary borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. Kiddie loans. Those immature borrowers also all used social security numbers with the wrong names, just saying.

On top of that, the efficiency agency also reported that the SBA issued 3,095 other loans ($333 million) to industrious borrowers over 115 years old. One wonders how many “small business owners” over 80 years old got forgivable SBA covid loans, and whether they even know it happened. Never mind the under 11s, how many were under 18?

Is there a single functioning neuron in the SBA? Were these freebie ‘loans’ to kiddies and grandpas approved by the same diligent, apolitical federal workers who can’t be troubled to report five weekly accomplishments? Is this why DOGE can’t be allowed to peek inside Treasury or Social Security?

Again, the story isn’t just about savings. This story is much bigger. It’s about what the Hades is going on? The same bureaucrats who rubber-stamped giveaway loans for toddlers and centenarians are the same ones now assuring us that our elections, our economy, and our institutions are in capable hands that cannot be questioned.

Patrick says

s there a single functioning neuron in the SBA? Were these freebie ‘loans’ to kiddies and grandpas approved by the same diligent, apolitical federal workers who can’t be troubled to report five weekly accomplishments?

The NY Mafia in the 1980s had a racket where they were given SBA loans they never paid back. The mob had a man on the inside.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

AmericanKulak says

Would a government shutdown also suspend DOGE?

no, they aren’t paid by government

Elon's not getting paid, but DOGE is just a renaming of Obama's Digital Services Agency or some such, so it is a government agency.