r/politics • u/soloChristoGlorium • Feb 02 '25

Paywall Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system

https://www.ft.com/content/27ba0a6a-0d9b-4e08-8329-730b581c0481
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u/TheSurgeonMD Feb 02 '25

Where is the FBI? Where is the oversight? Why are career bureaucrats “leaving” instead of steadfastly standing in his way? What’s going on?

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u/ExRays Colorado Feb 02 '25

Y’all this guy just leapfrogged the court system that 22 states just used to sue Trump to restart.

This is a constitutional crisis. States should move to seize Musks assets and arrest his personnel.

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u/eeyore134 Feb 02 '25

This is a constitutional crisis.

Exactly this. And the side that needs to fight is taking it like business as usual. Taking weekends off, making statements, bringing legal proceedings. This needs action immediately. Not the slow movement of normal politics.

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u/ExRays Colorado Feb 02 '25

Democrats in congress need to be having press conferences every day outlining everything that is happening.

AGs and Governors in blue states need to use every amount of power to defend the constitution of the United States and the interests of the American people from this. People’s lives and livelihoods are going to be destroyed.

This is a coup in progress

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u/withywander Feb 03 '25

100%. Democrats are Veni Vidi Vichy.

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u/justagirlfromchitown Feb 02 '25

We are afraid he will physically take us out!

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u/charcoalist Feb 02 '25

trump recently purged the FBI and replaced its leadership with his own criminal defense attorneys from the stolen classified docs case, Jan.6 case, and Georgia election interference case. Pam Bondi and Emil Bove now control what the FBI investigates, making the agency trump's Gestapo.

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u/Kittenmomma89 Feb 02 '25

People, are fucking asleep right now.

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota Feb 02 '25

Where is armed security?

Where are the compliance officers?

Where are the inventory specialists?

And so on.

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u/anti_coconut Feb 02 '25

Trump is firing them all

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u/mistertickertape New York Feb 02 '25

Where is Congress? Where is anyone?

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u/sadcow49 Feb 03 '25

The stories you are reading are sanitized. The senior civil servants are not "leaving", they are being threatened, fired and dragged out by thugs. They have families. The thugs have guns. Rank and file civil servants are trying to hold the line. Please support them any way you can.

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u/TheSurgeonMD Feb 03 '25

Exactly why I say “leaving” - it’s a genuine question. How can we help secure our republic?

And who are these thugs, exactly? 3rd party, or complicit federal agents? Sources?

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u/Hubertino855 Feb 02 '25

Destroyed your government is now powerless end of the USA is coming Trump will be it's last president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&pp=ygU_REFSSyBHT1RISUMgTUFHQTogSG93IFRlY2ggQmlsbGlvbmFpcmVzIFBsYW4gdG8gRGVzdHJveSBBbWVyaWNh

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u/999avatar999 Feb 02 '25

Why are career bureaucrats “leaving” instead of steadfastly standing in his way?

I mean, at least some of them are /r/fednews

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u/Panda_hat Feb 02 '25

Because they've been seat warmers their entire careers and at the first sign of trouble said 'well guess I'm out!'

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u/sadcow49 Feb 03 '25

The stories you are reading are sanitized. The senior civil servants are not "leaving", they are being threatened, fired and dragged out by thugs. They have families. The thugs have guns. Rank and file civil servants are trying to hold the line. Please support them any way you can.

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u/CoreDreamStudiosLLC Kentucky Feb 03 '25

FBI is too busy peddling child porn on their servers and sucking off Elons little weiner.

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u/chiefbrody62 Feb 03 '25

The FBI is being filled with trump stooges