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> "DOGE is uncovering a ridiculous amount of corruption, and only the likes of you are unhappy."

We know Musk has repeatedly lied about what they found: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/10/elon-mus...

We know Trump is prone to lying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...

And Trump has signed an executive order making all their actions secret, which is suspicious for a president who campaigned for transparent government that wouldn't need Freedom of Information requests, and for a department which is supposed to be uncovering and revealing things: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-do...

In short, I don't believe it. (That's not to say 'I believe there is no corruption' or even 'I believe there is little corruption'. It is to say 'I believe an employee sends Musk an email saying they found $10M spent on <whatever> and Musk gives it three seconds of attention then declares it is fraud and announces that on Twitter').

The problem is not The Privacy but the consequences of non-vetted, inexperienced kids allowed to access systems and processes that are vital to the nation.

Kids that because of the lack of vetting could be susceptible to approaches by enemies—private or state actors—for the knowledge and access they now hold.

Sources?

Source of what specifically do you want?

If you want the corruption they have found so far, the press secretary is doing daily briefings where she lists some of the insanity they have found.

Trump's approval ratings are quite good, while Biden's are tanking as their corruption is uncovered.

Waving around printouts of screenshots and calling them receipts is hardly evidence.

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Moving the goal posts already. No amount of evidence will convince you.

You didn't produce evidence. You mentioned that the propaganda arm of the president said they found something.

As I said, "your evidence is not evidence" nonsense.

Have you personally looked into the claims made by Leavitt during her briefings? It doesn't take much digging to see that they are much more nuanced than we are being led to believe.

Democrat's money laundering schemes at industrial scale. Of course your only argument "oh, it's nuanced".

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-doge-sub...

For there to be fraud that means they are bringing charges and the court will decide if it is fraud. Fraud has a very specific meaning. If it is waste then it's in the eye of the beholder thus nuanced. I doubt Elon and his script kiddies would even know how to find actual fraud.

Assertions made without any evidence. Again.

Oh ok. I forgot to check the approval ratings for evidence.

Are these fraud findings as accurate as his hurricane trajectory map?

I've been following Doge pretty closely and I see a lot of hand-waving but a lack of real evidence.

Maybe I need to drink the cool aid first.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...

Unfavorable rating of 48, vs favorable of 46.

was this satire or sarcasm?

>If you want the corruption they have found so far, the press secretary is doing daily briefings where she lists some of the insanity they have found.

Okay: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/

>Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan

> Statement from the National Security Advisor [This is about Russia]

>Presidential Message on Super Bowl LIX

> United States-Japan Joint Leaders’ Statement

>Statement from the Press Secretary on January’s Jobs Reports

>Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Call with President el-Sisi of Egypt

So yeah, where are all these briefings of corruption? It's only been 3 weeks, so I didn't take long to exahaust all the briefings. None of them talked about DOGE

Pretending this is some goo-goo (good government) initiative is ridiculous. Trump is the opposite of good government movement, he is literally the most corrupt president we've ever had. His administation is full of lies and attacks on the press and lack of transparency even when it is legally mandated.

Trump is the guy selling access and advice in Margo Largo. He's the guy doing business with people laundering money for Hezbollah https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-hotel-in-baku-tied-to-co...

"Totally unrelatedly" he has spoken out against the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which such actions likely violate.

Claiming this will save money is also ridiculous, its just about destroying large parts of the government. Some of which they dislike, other parts which they don't care about. Because they don't care about making things better.

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