Raving Dem Lawmakers Protest Elon Musk, DOGE; ‘Shut Down the Senate, We are at War’
Warren forgets that no one elected USAID’s leadership either, yet they have the power to distribute $40 billion in taxpayer funds as they see fit.
The last straw for Democratic lawmakers came when Elon Musk’s team of 18 to 25-year-old geniuses pulled back the curtain and exposed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as little more than a global charity for progressive causes. In a collective frenzy, what looked like the majority of House Democrats along with several senators, converged outside of the Treasury Department building to let their voices be heard. Why, it almost sounded as if they were calling for an insurrection.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver bellowed into the microphone, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And godd*** it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
Rep. LaMonica McIver: "GODDAMN IT SHUT DOWN THE SENATE…. WE ARE AT WAR." pic.twitter.com/PtytpbIl4M
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 4, 2025
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley directed her ire toward her Republican colleagues. With California Rep. Maxine Waters grinning at her side, she yelled, “Pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!”
She referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls for violence: "I want to say to our Republican colleagues — pay attention. We're here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!" pic.twitter.com/YpUzB8EVt0
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 4, 2025
Next, Waters herself took the microphone and delivered a reprise of her infamous 2018 rant where she encouraged supporters to harass Trump Cabinet members wherever they may be. Except this time, her anger was aimed at Elon Musk. “We have got to tell Elon Musk, ‘Nobody told you you could get all of our private information. Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country. Nobody elected your a**!’ This is not Elon Musk’s country!”
"Nobody elected your ass! This is not Elon Musk's country!" – Rep Maxine Waters goes on an unhinged rant attacking Elon Musk at the anti-Elon rally.
All this drama because Americans simply asked what our tax dollars are funding. pic.twitter.com/tNRwfAKNPi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2025
Naturally, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) weighed in. “Not one Democrat in America voted for Elon Musk, not one. Not one Republican in America voted for Elon Musk. Not one independent in America voted for Elon Musk. Not one libertarian in America voted for Elon Musk, dammit, not one vegetarian in America voted for Elon Musk, and yet, Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people.”
Warren forgets that no one elected USAID’s leadership either, yet they have the power to distribute $40 billion in taxpayer funds as they see fit.
She also appears to forget that no one voted for the individuals who actually ran the government during President Joe Biden’s four years in office. He was clearly incapable of governing.
I guess the Democrats's new playbook is to scream about how no one elected Elon Musk.
Well, you wretched witches, we actually did vote for the creation of DOGE led by Elon Musk, and we are loving the results so far. pic.twitter.com/WVifDs4Ufg
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 4, 2025
Even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer showed up. He said, “We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have! We are going to fight this fight. I am going to stand with you in this fight. And we will win!”
RALLY FROM THE TREASURY BUILDING:
We are here to tell Elon Musk and DOGE that a secret squad of company men cannot pull off a hostile takeover of America's Social Security and tax information in the dead of night. pic.twitter.com/cmWrwyzPGh
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 4, 2025
Conspicuously missing from Schumer’s list of what Musk is supposedly taking away from Democrats is the real reason for their outrage: their power. Over the years, Democrats have concealed their reckless spending on progressive causes by calling on independent government agencies like USAID and government-funded NGOs to bankroll their projects. This strategy has allowed them to appear as heroes while taxpayers remained blissfully unaware of where their tax dollars were going. By shutting down the USAID gravy train, Musk is stripping them of that power.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters discussed this story on the Tuesday night edition of his eponymous show. He highlighted some of the wasteful projects USAID has spent money on. Examples include: “$27 million to give gift bags to illegals before we deport them,” “millions to help Afghanis grow crops instead of opium … opium production doubled,” “$300 million to build diesel-fueled power plants in Afghanistan,” and “$9 million to Syria for humanitarian aid, but someone messed up and it went to Al Qaeda.” Watters concluded that “USAID is a deep state $40 billion slush fund.”
Then he addressed the more nefarious projects the agency has been involved in. Watters said, “USAID is an American intelligence cutout. They’ve been caught staging coup after coup across Latin America and funding paramilitary groups.
He continued, “USAID was pouring billions of dollars into open borders group. We were literally funding the invasion and buying them gift bags as they left.”
Watters reminded viewers that “USAID is only 0.7% of the federal budget. If they found this much fraud and corruption in this one tiny agency, imagine how bad the rest of it is.”
Watters played a recent clip of Trump advisor Stephen Miller describing USAID:
There’s probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats with less accountability, less oversight than USAID. They funnel money to their cronies all over the world through a swampy network of NGOs – non-governmental organizations … focusing on such things as regime change and destabilizing foreign countries. This is not about America’s interests.
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Americans voted for one man. … They voted for Donald Trump to make government accountable to the taxpayer.
DOGE is to Democrats what a pail of water is to the Wicked Witch of the West. Expect to hear even more shrieking from the Left as this group continues to expose wasteful spending in the federal budget. That outcry is simply proof that DOGE is fulfilling its mission: to “giv[e] power back to the people.”
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Musk is taking a lot of fire. He must be directly over the target.
Time to open the bomb bay doors.
“We are at war!”
They have already lost this war. Dems need to place a large order with J&J for KY, they will need a lot of it.
We have been at war for the past 12 years, you flaming assholes.
This is just the first time YOU have been on the defensive side.
Enjoy it. YOUR RULES.
He sure is. The Dems are angry that their money laundering operation is coming to an abrupt halt and Musk has his eyes set firmly on the chicanery in Ukraine. All the Dems and some of the Republican Neo Conservatives had their hand in the till over there through the NGO’s.
Since the demonrats have publicly declared War on America, they have intentionally and publicly condoned insurrection against the government. Time to arrest all of them starting with Chucky then going down the entire list.
Go Bondi!
As Biden reminded everyone, the government has tanks and F15’s. Good luck, Dems. Maybe they are going to rethink their firm support of gun banning to help them out. Nah….
I speak for everyone on the conservative side of the fence.
I read the news. I get giddy.
Haven’t felt this way about the trajectory of the future of our nation prior. Ever.
President Trump is slowly driving the DemoncRats mad.
Actually, he’s doing it pretty quickly. It’s only been two weeks! And someone needs to do a wellness check on those people.
I check on the Facebook profiles of the Occupy Democrats FB page to gage sentiment of the vox populi of the left, and all I have to say is that talk is cheap. Stand behind your mouths and start the executions you are promising. Trump survived two, and he has the F-16s now.
First they nominate Attention Hogg to be vice chair of the DNC and now they apparently forgot how Trump got elected. People in this country by a majority don’t like the government and what it has been doing to us.
Musk is a cruel man. He took the trough from the pigsty. It’s inhuman.
Did anyone elect the people in FinCEN who are trying to control us?
Warren can shove it!
“We are at war!”
So, you’re declaring war on the Trump-47 administration? That sounds a bit insurrection-y to me. (Also, would be the first time anyone in Congress has actually declared war in 80 years.)
The apparatchiks of the Dhimmi-crat criminal organization (masquerading as a political party) are lunatics, fanatics, Maoists/Stalinists, Islamofascists and identitarian supremacists of all stripes. Evil fools and reprobates, all of them.
DOGE and Elon Musk could not have been more publicized when Americans went to the polls. That was a key campaign theme. Also, I thought inciting violence was a crime.
Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, covid started at a wet market, the laptop was fake, and we believe in democracy.
NSAID was run for years by unelected bureaucrats. When Elon Musk exposed what was going on, Elizabeth Warren bleated, “Not one Democrat in America voted for Elon Musk, not one.”
Then she provided a list of people who had been elected to run USAID. Here is the list:
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And come to think of it, Pam Bondi wasn’t elected, Sean Duffy wasn’t elected, Marco Rubio wasn’t, Hegseth. Need I go on?
NSAID?
These folks are the headache, not the cure. 😉
There’s been $ billions sloshing around and doled out by ideological bureaucrats to their partisan friends and causes. Not just by USAID either. Remember CNN ‘ratings’ from airports? Now think about subscriptions to various media outlets across the Federal govt. Or the sheer number of purchasing decisions under a ‘green’ or DEI directives and how those could be funneled via precise vender requirements that ‘just happen’ to narrow down to one or two privileged vendors who are selected. Lots of.grift, graft and corruption opportunities and DOGE is derailing the gravy train. That is why they’re PO.
We are at war ?
Bring it. Can’t wait.
Hmm perhaps the FBI should give them the J6 treatment.
FBI 2.0.
Trump has the F16s and nukes this time.
Elizabeth Warren, author of the CFPB is pretty nervy whining about unelected, uncontrolled powers
“The CFPB stands with ObamaCare as a crowning “achievement” of Mr. Obama’s transformation of America. With unprecedented automatic funding provided directly by the Federal Reserve, the agency is unanswerable to anyone. Democrats chose to insulate it from Congress, the president, voters and the democratic process. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia noted as much in its recent PHH v. CFPB decision, which ruled the bureau’s governing structure unconstitutional. The court said the unelected CFPB director “enjoys more unilateral authority than any other officer in any of the three branches of government of the U.S. Government, other than the President.”
As the Doge guys are going though the USAID books, ‘interesting’ tidbits are being uncovered. For instance, we now know that Politico received $8-MILLION from USAID. How is that even legal?
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887136820544049218
We need to see the appropriations bill. I don’t think USAID has a charter so it may be able to spend all it wants domestically. But it is not right and may violate the Hatch Act.
Apparently, it’s not just USAID doing this. There was one grant from DoD to – wait for it – REUTERS for $9,000,000.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887194970031026547
It’s absolutely inexplicable. No wonder DoD has never passed an audit. If a private company was run this way, people would go to prison.
If a private, non-Progressive, company were run this way….
I do believe we’re starting to see answers to the question of how the entire MSM simultaneously became Democrat whores.
He is finding amazing sums donating domestically, and not to organizations that do international work. Such as Politico ($8M), Bill Kristol’s LLC, and more. And then there are grants that need far more explanation…$3B to the BBC. Lots of grants to overseas Hispanic organizations that are left wing political in nature. Money sent to Brazil to fund organizations against the former president. That reeks of the CIA.
USAID is generally recognized as a CIA front.
Except by Deep State supporting US media.
I wonder if the medical plan members of Congress participate in have a generous Mental Health feature?
How does “shutting down the Senate” gain them anything? Hey, go for it…
I wonder if the President can compel them to attend? Or could he simply declare it in recess and appoint all of his people then?
I seem to remember Bob Dole boasting that he passed the Brady Bill by waiting until enough opponents had left the chambers late one night, then bringing it up and passing it. If that’s the way the Senate quorum rules work, then let’s encourage Chuckie, Liz, Da Nang Dick, Schiff, and the rest of the Mental Mouseketeers to stay home.
We are at War! Sounds insurrectiony to me. Maybe Pam Bondi should look into these out of control domestic terrorists. I for one would like the FBI to look into how all those people suddenly became rich while in Congress. Pelosi, Warren, AOC, Sanders. Funny they didn’t have that much to start, except Pelosi, and now are worth millions.
This is all a sideshow, folks. What they are really frightened of is Kash releasing Epstein’s little black book and who is really in there going on trips to Pedo Island.
I hope they will shut down the Senate, do us all a favor! The news these day is so much fun to read. I’m loving it, it’s so fast and furious, so much outrage! So hard to keep up. Trump really learned a lot from his first time in office. I’m truly impressed. He’s not going slow just dropping giant bombs everywhere and making it happen. Doesn’t give the #resist crowd enough time to even order their pussy hats from China.
They probably won’t arrive in time anyway. DW tells me she got a notice from UPS saying that they are putting a hold on accepting all small amount (<$500) merchandise packages from China.
Temu's been TikTokked.
We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have! We are going to fight this fight. I am going to stand with you in this fight. And we will win!”
We know what you all have been up to and now we have the goods. I wonder how Chuck and co plan on fighting, given their ages. Maxine can just show up at your door and scowl, I guess. Chuck can come over to your house and try to force you to eat undercooked cheese burgers. I still don’t get why Covid didn’t take them when it had the chance.
Public spending by USAID deserves no privacy!
An aid agency has not need for any secrets unless they are illegally spending money.
The people who brought you Sarbanes-Oxley, which was a complete pain in the ass for businesses large and small and very expensive to implement, don’t want their own books looked into.
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Alvin Bragg taught us that internal accounting entries that are incorrectly named are felonies.
Go ahead with your insurrectiony bad self and start something.
I have a second amendment right.
I suggest that those making a fuss are more concerned with two things: power and money. The loss of their power being the primary concern cuz their sucking at the taxpayer teat illegally via USAID laundered funds, which if they are actually prosecuted for stealing the money will dry up. Thus the protesting over DOGE actions, it’ll dry up the power and the money.
Sounds like I’m not the only one unimpressed with the Democrat threats to shut down the monster government they , gorged from, or to riot and burn the liberal enclaves and Sanctuary Cities full of the voters stupid enough to elect them. Bring it on, Baby!