#fema fraud

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Democrats wanted illegal aliens on PERMANENT Social Security so they could drain our system and we’d pay for them until the day they die. They’d never have to work a day in their lives in America...on our tax dollars!

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“He’s a businessman.”

No. He just played one on tv…

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How Democrats feel when...

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Pamela Herd for Can We Still Govern?:

Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. During a recent Oval Office briefing about DOGE, Trump and Musk used the terms “fraud” and “fraudsters” a dozen times, claiming that their elimination of fraud could save up to $1 trillion dollars. Musk’s social media is similarly laden with tales of fraud and abuse that his DOGE team has supposedly uncovered. Millions of dead people receiving fraudulent Social Security! “Illegals” living in high end hotel rooms paid for by FEMA! Corrupt USAID bureaucrats ripping off the government and enriching themselves! None of it is true. Musk and Trump’s focus on fraud is nothing new. Fraud has always served as a powerful political trope, one that provides a rationale for cutting government. Accusations of fraud were used to discredit Black elected officials during Reconstruction. Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen was an especially effective trope directed against poverty-based policies. A recent poll suggests that 70% of Americans believe government expenditures are filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency.

Trump and Musk’s fraud trope is distinct in three ways

First, Musk’s fake fraud claims are different from the past because he has built, and now is able to leverage, a propaganda machine to feed the fraud narrative. Ronald Reagan was an extraordinarily effective communicator, but Musk makes him look like an amateur. Musk can use DOGE to generate false claims about fraud, and how much money DOGE can save by tackling it. He then pushes those claims on his social media platform. The President and right-wing media obligingly repeat the claims. It is an integrated production function that converts conspiracy theories into government policy, and then conventional wisdom in MAGAland. Second, as we describe below, the scale and scope of the programs they’re targeting are fundamentally different from the past. It’s not just to gut programs that benefit marginalized populations. They’re targeting a broad swath of government programs, including popular policies that benefit most Americans, and using the fraud trope to justify extreme and illegal actions, like shutting down entire agencies. This fits with a worldview that government is fundamentally corrupt, and must be captured and radically refashioned. Third, the motivation is not really about shrinking government, rather it’s about state capture. The strategy is simple. Claim there’s fraud, dismantle the institutions that prevent fraud, and then capture public dollars for yourself. As Musk himself recently noted: “it's like, really easy to take advantage of the federal government. Very easy.” He should know. His companies have received at least $38 billion from government subsidies, loans and contracts. Their value, and his personal net worth, have ballooned since the election.

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Purpose 1: Targeting core programs in unprecedented ways

Part of what’s unusual about about these fraud claims is the breadth of programs they’ve targeted and the dramatic actions justified by claims of fraud. Lets take two examples. With USAID, they’re targeting a program that does not have broad support but proposing an unprecedented action: shutting down an agency that has existed since 1961. With Social Security, they’re focusing on a nearly universal and immensely popular public program. (To keep this post to a reasonable length, we will embed fact checks, but not explain them all. As Brandolini’s law notes: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it).

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Target #2: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

DOGE and the Trump Administration have also gone aggressively after agencies that are tasked with rooting out fraud and abuse in the private sector. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the first agency in Musk’s crosshairs. [...]

Target #3: The IRS

The agency that can be most effective at reducing fraud, waste, and abuse is the IRS. Every year, we lose $600 billion to tax fraud—or what the IRS politely calls “the tax gap.” About 80% of this is concentrated among the wealthiest taxpayers. When accounting for corporate tax cheats this amounts to $1 trillion dollars annually. Cryptocurrency and large and wealthy corporations account for much of this. A ProPublica investigation of tax records estimated that Musk paid no income tax and just 3.27% of his wealth growth. Much of the shielding of wealth may be legal, but some is in a grey area. Fewer IRS enforcement agents expands that grey area.

Musk’s so-called DOGE was built on a fraudulent foundation.

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Thinking About... (Timothy Snyder): The "Fraud" Fraud

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El FBI cobra un funcionario de CBP de alto rango en el principal caso de fraude de FEMA

Un funcionario senior de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de los Estados Unidos (CBP) ha sido acusado de supuestamente defraudar a la Agencia Federal de Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) y hacer declaraciones falsas a los agentes federales, según el director del FBI Kash Patel. Patel anunció los cargos en una publicación de redes sociales el miércoles, describiendo el caso como parte de un esfuerzo…

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That will be a hard NO! We're not investing our people in your war! #UkraineIsNotOurResponsibility

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Profound institutional failure is going to accelerate under Trump.

Getting rid of FEMA?

Canceling medical research?

Mischaracterizing and ending DEI?

Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?

Attacking legal immigration?

Attacking legal birthright citizenship?

All spearheaded by a rapist felon fraud traitor?

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Once again, their definition of fraud is "we don't like it."

This isn't an audit. They haven't proven fraud. This is a robber baron pillaging our government.

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Conflict of interest much...

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These are wins. Arrests are happening. Investigations are happening. Trials will happen. Convictions will happen. But it's a process. You can't just go through Washington and arrest everyone you don't like and go straight to the execution. We've seen this process subverted to pervert justice instead of upholding it. Part of the win is seeing our courts and our law enforcement used for their intended purposes once again. If all you want is the dopamine hit of seeing people in handcuffs, go to the UK and report a grandma's meme to the police. You'll get a lot of hits that way. For the rest of us, let's wait more than a month or two before we start getting impatient that Hillary Clinton hasn't been thrown off the Washington Monument yet, okay?

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DOGE identified $64 BILLION in wasteful and fraudulent spending in their first 17 days...

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The American people, 7 in 10 voters, support DOGE and its efforts...

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10 stories they chose not to tell you this week.

The Vigilant Fox

Dec 08, 2024

10 - COVID “Vaccines” Hit By New Bombshell

First, a court ruled that the COVID shots aren’t vaccines after all.

Now, a new Florida lawsuit takes it even further, calling them “weapons of mass destruction.”

Dr. Francis Boyle states: “It is my expert opinion that ‘COVID-19 nanoparticle injections’ or ‘mRNA nanoparticle injections’ or ‘COVID-19 injections meet the criteria of biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction according to Biological Weapons 18 USC § 175; Weapons and Firearms § 790.166 Fla.Stat. (2023).”

Dr. Boyle’s words hold tremendous weight because he is the architect of the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act.

The lawsuit, filed on December 1, demands an immediate BAN on COVID-19 injections in Florida, claiming they violate multiple laws, including Florida’s Weapons of Mass Destruction statute, Fraud statute, and Medical Consent Law. The lawsuit also argues the shots are classified as bioweapons under state and federal definitions.

Leading the charge is Dr. Joseph Sansone, joined by a team of experts: Dr. Francis Boyle, Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Dr. Rima Laibow, Dr. Marivic Villa, Dr. Andrew Zywiec, Karen Kingston, and Dr. Avery Brinkley.

This lawsuit comes as a new study has just confirmed alarming levels of DNA contamination in the COVID-19 injection vials.

Dr. Sansone, the mastermind behind the lawsuit, adds that the COVID shots are a “threat to the human genome” and, therefore, a threat to “the future existence of our species.”

He joins the show to discuss. This is a jaw-dropping conversation.

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