Summary

The White House now claims Elon Musk is not leading DOGE, despite Trump previously stating Musk was in charge of the task force cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.

A court filing says Musk is only a senior adviser without formal decision-making authority. However, Musk’s tweets and Trump’s remarks suggest he has been directing DOGE’s activities.

The revelation raises legal concerns, as lawsuits argue DOGE violates the Appointments Clause by bypassing Senate confirmation.

A federal judge is set to rule on an emergency motion against Musk’s involvement.

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    “I’m not the head of the department, it’s just an empty shell company with a puppethead that follows my every whim.”

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    Reminder: this guy could be impeached and out of office in under 24 hours, but every single Republican is actively choosing to be a Nazi instead.

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      He was impeached multiple times the last time he was in office, why would doing it again magically dethrown him?

      Let’s be honest we all know what needs to be done to remove them from power.

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    A federal judge is set to rule on an emergency motion against Musk’s involvement.

    Best we will get is a superficial ruling that says he can’t do it while he continues to do it and there will be absolutely zero consequences nor will all of the people who he fucked receive any form of justice.

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      Depends on how far Judge Tanya Chutkan is willing to go see her order(s) enforced. She famously has no love for Trump and his law breaking. Even so any ruling negative to Trump will probably get appealed to the Supremely Corrupt Court and get overturned.

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    You are doublethinking that DOGE is run by Musk. This will be rectified by Minitrue.

    This thoughtcrime is doubleplusungood. Thotpol will be notified, the guilty will visit a joycamp, and then the guilty will be unpersoned.

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    If he isn’t running DOGE then why the fuck is he in the white house with his booger eater all the damn time? And why did he get access to those documents? And why is anyone listening to anything that falls out of his incel mouth?

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    Tell all of your wealthy friends that Musk/Trump has all of their social security, address, work history, salaray history, etc. in their hands, right now.

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      The current argument is “you give your SSN, address, salary etc to the bank, your employer, the DMV, etc. They all want something from you. The world’s richest man doesn’t need your money, so why are you afraid of giving him all your information?”

      It’s basically “if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to hide” but with your identity and life savings and social security.

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        Billionaires don’t become billionaires by being good people, but they would respond to that idea with some horse crap about the American Dream™

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          Billionaires don’t become billionaires by being good people

          And some millionaires. Musk and trump now have all the info on them to blackmail with. He’s a mob boss in real estate and casinos, of course he’s going to blackmail them.

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    We’ll find out on paper, it’s the little kid musk is carrying around to humanize himself that’s listed as the director.