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Deepak Puri's avatar

Loved your article. It inspired this interactive follow-the-money infographic.

Crypto Kings Win, You Lose: How Trump cuts your Medicare & Social Security to pay back his donors. Follow the money!

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/03/07/trump-crypto-reserve-grifting-corruption-cuts-medicare-social-security/

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Musk’s demotion is to have the Federal cabinet leader liable for future Federal employee firings. Musk has thousands of civil lawsuits coming his way for fired-employee damages. There is a fraud by Trump and Musk. Americans are being played. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. We are being distracted by hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by Federal employee firings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by thousands of cancellations of grants and contracts, all of which are illegal. The courts are intervening now.

The Fraud on America: Trump, Musk, and Speaker Johnson are trying to ram through the tax cuts, before:

• the courts cite them with civil contempt and levy huge financial penalties

• the impact of their illegal actions are reversed, and their “savings” flip back to $0.00.

I call for immediate full disclosures of what currently is in douchebag Musk’s DOGE bag of findings. He is hiding that at the moment since the courts have stifled his efforts. Let us make him certify his cost and pricing data, so that it comes under the Truth in Negotiations Act, now the Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (Title 41 U.S.C., Chapter 35). That must be required. I also call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress.

I call for Musk to divulge the truth of what he found, after he deletes what the courts say he cannot do. He cannot fire. He cannot cancel a single contract or grant. He cannot impound funds. Johnson intends to use Musk’s currently bogus data in his CR bid. Crook.

Spare me the BS braggadocio about saving billions and billions. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Trump and Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors, now a hidden accounting not corrected by current court edicts, and a “bury you in paper” con job.

Let us see it. Empty the douchebag’s DOGE bag. Transparency now! Don’t let the douchebag hide it another day. We cannot shoot any line item down until the residual data is displayed.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/empty-doges-bag?r=3m1bs

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Becky Daiss's avatar

Hard for me to admit, but trump is a genius at cheating. That might be the secret to his cult of personality also. So many of his toadies are grifters who bow down to the greatest among them.

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Ed Walker's avatar

I'd say prosecutors have failed, and the judicial branch has protected him at the expense of the nation.

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Jill K's avatar

The analogy of the proposed Crypto reserve being like a farm subsidy but for billionaires making magic beans instead of food was brilliant and memorable! Thank you for this article and laying out the obvious corruption and grift that I've been wanting/needing to understand better. How does this man get away with everything? The list is endless - I remember back when he got away with not releasing his tax returns and was he proudly proclaimed he was smart for not paying taxes. He literally hates this country and the working class people.

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Janette Dean's avatar

Oh no! I accidentally deleted my important but long comment when I wanted to edit it to add a semicolon. If anyone got it in email or a notification?, please send it to me or post iit please. Next time I will copy and save it. Thanks!

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Janette Dean's avatar

I guess my iPhone doesn’t have the usual edit option. Grrr.

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Edith Brideau's avatar

I'm an outsider in the world of cryptocurrency, but even I can smell a rat. This obviously is designed to further enrich the wealthy and shrewd investors, while the rest of us toil away for paychecks or await our SS payment every month.

On another grift-related note, many posters have pointed out that Trump's on again off again tariff policies cause swings in the stock market that allow savvy traders to easily buy low and sell high. Again, the rich get richer.

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Ed Walker's avatar

The cryptobros, even the criminal-in-chief, ran out of greater fools.

So they make the government the Greatest Fool.

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Mark In Colorado's avatar

When does the bubble burst?

I mean, the whole economy, not just crypto?

The Atlanta Federal Reserve already is projecting a recession.

Will crypto collapse be a trigger to a deeper recession?

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tecolote42's avatar

"Everything is for sale" really sums it up.

But this song keeps running through my head https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EdErmCWsZ04

"But he can't even run his own life

I'll be damned if he'll run mine, Sunshine"

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jane's avatar

djt has pulled off the greatest con in history thus far.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Every “good” tyrant deserves favor.

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