We've almost reached the point where I fully expect overly distraught, beyond crazed, D.C. Democrats to self-combust over the incredible work of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as they continue to uncover billions upon billions of government waste — and likely fraud.
From Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to far-left Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to barely-comprehensible Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and beyond, Capitol Hill Democrats continue to go DEFCON 1, daily.
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Why the histrionics? Perhaps satire site "The Babylon Bee" best illustrated it.
U.S. — Amid ongoing controversy over the Department of Government Efficiency's investigations into numerous federal agencies to uncover fraud and waste, a new study found that people trying to stop financial audits usually have great reasons and are totally innocent of any wrongdoing.
The study collected data from multiple audited institutions and individuals and showed conclusively that anyone who is opposed to audits and scrutiny of financial transactions is completely without fault and not trying to hide anything whatsoever for any specific reason.
"Everyone who doesn't want to be audited is blameless," said Dr. Evan Hornblower, lead researcher on the study. An astounding 100% of people polled who voiced opposition to government agencies being audited said they were doing so with entirely altruistic intentions and not in any way conveying any sign of guilt or malfeasance. They're all innocent, which is why they don't want anyone looking into anything, ever. Because that's what innocent people do."
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At publishing time, everyone rumored to be connected to the agencies being audited had reportedly packed up all their belongings and moved to countries that don't have extradition laws to further prove their innocence.
Remind you of any Democrats you know?
Study Finds People Trying To Stop Financial Audit Have Absolutely Nothing To Hide https://t.co/z9Z5jyssWD pic.twitter.com/sFtkH4Sf0a
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 10, 2025
Proving yet again that smart satire is the best form of comedy on the planet.
This Brings Us to CBS Evening News
Hardly satire, and desperate to discredit Musk and DOGE at every turn, CBS News on Monday night further lowered its blatantly biased self by fact-free scaremongering its dwindling audience, apparently believing that the view viewers who remain are imbeciles. Come to think of it— never mind.
The segment opens with a recap of a new CBS poll showing President Donald Trump with a 53 percent approval rating, and co-anchor John Dickerson quickly skewing the way Trump is fulfilling his promises to the American people.
Co-anchor Maurice Dubois kicked off the festivities (emphasis, mine).
I'm Maurice Dubois. President Trump today began the fourth week of his second term, and in the new CBS news poll more than half of Americans, 53 percent approve of the job he is doing. And 70 percent of them, whether they agree with him or not, say he is doing exactly what he promised to do. That includes cutting spending.
Dickerson sniveled: "But how he's doing it is a different matter."
Please tell us, John, how is President Trump doing it? (Shockingly, John didn't do that.)
Next up, Major Garrett, CBS chief Washington correspondent, began his ridiculously biased report.
The former regime is going all out to protect itself from @DOGE scrutiny. Major Garrett's report for the CBS Evening News opens by smearing DOGE with the language of spycraft: pic.twitter.com/6VARivr0l0
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2025
Journalisming?
Good Evening, Maurice and John. It's called the Bureau of Fiscal Service and what they are looking for is what people in Washington have been looking for for decades: waste, fraud, and abuse. This quest is not new. The methods, however, are.
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President Trump has given the world's richest man a temporary White House job and an ambitious order: audit the federal government agency by agency. Expose waste and fraud. And if you have to infiltrate sensitive government databases, do it.
Garrett played a clip of Yale Law School Professor Natasha Sarin, who also worked for the Treasury Department during the Biden administration.
Major Garrett's subject matter expert on the workings of Treasury was the person "focused on narrowing the gap between the taxes owed by the American public and those collected by the Internal Revenue Service." In other words, she was in charge of audits. pic.twitter.com/N0ctOGz82V
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2025
Sarin played her role perfectly, beginning:
The way to think about the Bureau of Fiscal Service is almost like the Accounts Payable department for the federal government.
Garrett wanted to make sure the audience understood he and Sarin were talking about Social Security checks, Medicare reimbursements, and other scary stuff that Musk "has access to."
The Treasury Department has told Congress Musk's associates cannot change any payments. That they have had so-called “read-only access” to the database. But those assurances have not been independently verified. There's also a question about data security.
I file my taxes electronically. Does that put me inside the database of the Bureau of Fiscal Services?
SARIN:
GARRETT: Not just who I am, where I live…
Sarin warned:
It sure does. And your bank account information- that's how you get your refund electronically.
"So if you're So if you're on the hunt for that, you don't go here," Garrett asked. Sarin responded:
You certainly don’t- that doesn't sit in the Bureau of Fiscal Service. That sits at the agencies.
Uh-huh. So if the federal government, wrought for decades with untold trillions of dollars in waste and fraud, followed this process, why are Musk and DOGE uncovering — daily — enough "shouldn't be there" stuff to make Democrat heads explode?
former Biden Treasury apparatchik all but calls Trump voters morons, suggests DOGE will ultimately make Americans less secure pic.twitter.com/YQ4mIJWvLd
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2025
The melodrama continued, unchecked.
GARRETT: Musk’s top Treasury deputy, a tech executive, had access until the weekend court ruling, accessing vast government databases by those not versed in federal data security could open systems to hacking.
SARIN: This is the most sensitive information about them that the federal government has historically held in the hands of very few career civil servants who are trained and experienced in how to deal with this data and these ecosystems. There are real security questions at play here.
GARRETT: There might be some who watch this conversation and say, “Look, I trust President Trump and he trusts Elon Musk. And I didn't know anything about this agency and I don't know anything about these civil servants. But I trust Trump and I trust Elon Musk. I'm okay with it.”
SARIN: Yeah?
GARRETT: What would you say to them?
SARIN: I don't want to be hyperbolic and I understand and really respect the fact that democracies churn, and that the people voted and made Donald Trump the President of the United States for a second time. That said, I think we should all be wary and be concerned about the fact that some of the actions that might be taken are actions that make us less safe and less secure.
Unbelievable? Of course not.
It's simply another stark example of why the legacy media is on life support — and drawing its last breath of relevance.
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