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Its Just Me's avatar

Minor quibble about today's holiday. It's still George Washington's Birthday.

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Alex's avatar

I can strongly recommend watching "Yes, Minister" (and the subsequent PM variant), a brilliant British political satire from the 80s, to understand the interplay between elected officials and entrenched bureaucracy. They knew exactly what they were talking about, and it's still very much relevant 40 years later.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

So much winning on Presidents Day:

Judge rules against federal employees suing Trump admin for privacy concerns

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4298336/posts

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Mark Wauck's avatar

More people than just Turley are taking note of the extraordinary $140K in "free legal services" that Smith received from a highly connected Dem law firm. As I noted, freebies are generally illegal, including services rendered:

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/17/special-counsel-jack-smith-disclosure-reveals-possibly-illegal-gift-from-dc-law-firm-n2185688

Sean Davis:

How on earth is it legal for a law firm with clients and business before DOJ to provide $140,000 in free gifts to a top DOJ official?

DOJ rules and federal regulations explicitly prohibit officials like Jack Smith from accepting or soliciting gifts.

Smith, who did not receive a pardon from Joe Biden, needs to be criminally investigated for this.

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Brother Ass's avatar

Gosh. I remember when we were lectured by Barack Obama that, “elections have consequences.”

I am so glad that smug, self-important a-hole has finally been reduced to irrelevance.

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ML's avatar

…add to that Hillary’s warning to DJT during their final debate to “respect the outcome of the election!”

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

Anti-Doge SHILLS and GLOWIES BTFO ETERNALLY Anonymous (ID: (Y62GC04K

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›be me

›lawyer, actually reads Trump's DOGE Executive Order

›expecting some illegal power grab, but it's airtight

›turns out Trump & Musk didn't create shit—Obama did

›Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014

>was meant to fix Big Mike's tranny BFF's website after it launched as a flaming pile of DEl shit

›bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown

›fast forward to 2025, Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service)

›keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission; Find the Receipts

›egally untouchable because it was already fully tunded and operational

>Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities

DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency

Seach team consists of a lawyer, HR rep,zoomer nerd, and an investigator

›they report to DOGE, not the agency they're embedded in

›but wait, there's more

>Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35 which govers federal IT and cybersecurity oversight

»since USDS was originally an IT oversight body. DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems

›yes, all of them-

›executive order is written to block legal challenges

›includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders

>orders every agency to comply, refusing means they violate presidential authority Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one

>DOJ can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written

›Dems trying to file legal chalienges, but they run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks

›Obama literally built the perfect Deep State IT backdoor

›Trump & Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls

Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency's internal systems the Deep State can't stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws

>MFW they legally outplayed the system and there's nothing anyone can do about it

>MFW Obama created DOGE

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Yep that was one of the first things Trump did was to re-purpose USDS to DOGE.

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Steghorn21's avatar

I never quite got what he had to be so smug and arrogant about. He was a complete nonentity.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Waiting for SCOTUS?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-judge-chutkan-declines-issue-order-halting-musk/

Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, held a hearing on Monday morning after 14 Democrat state attorneys general sued Trump and DOGE and claimed Elon Musk is operating with unchecked power since he is not Senate-confirmed.

Chutkan declined to immediately issue an order on Monday; however, she said she would try to rule within 24 hours.

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Steghorn21's avatar

The little bird was probably Musk: "Hey, that hard drive of yours...."

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Tamsin's avatar

As others have pointed out,

when Pelosi and Schumer say "Our Democracy" they mean Their Bureaucracy.

Same goes for the EU and all its member states.

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doug champion's avatar

Should the vote be called a landslide? The vote was pretty close, I thought. The electoral college stuff is a construct. I keep seeing it called a landslide here. 49.5 to 48.4 was the reported percentages. Perhaps this is a landslide historically, but numerically?

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

It’s a huge landslide when you take into account all the voter fraud and media interference in the form of cheerleading

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Brother Ass's avatar

Exactly. They cheated like there was no tomorrow AND threw all the propaganda they could at him (Rapist! Racist! Hitler! Felon!). But he still won both the electoral college and popular vote. I call that a landslide.

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