The Chilling Reason Why Elon Musk Wants Your Data: Former Federal Worker Fired by DOGE Speaks Out
On ‘America Unhinged,’ Francesca and Wajahat respond to the Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green. Plus, a former VA worker shares his experience being fired by DOGE.
It’s day 46 of Trump’s second administration, and US democracy has descended into further chaos.
On the latest episode of ‘America Unhinged’ on YouTube, Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali break the House vote to censure Texas Rep. Al Green. Ten Democrats voted alongside Republicans to censure Green after he protested against Trump during his joint speech to Congress.
“There is no reason to censure your colleague over standing up and doing something that we have absolutely seen happen on the floor before… And then you also vote with your opposition party – the people who don’t care about you, who absolutely do not respect the rule of law, do not respect elections – that’s who you’re going to vote with to censure?” Francesca says.
Meanwhile, the government continues to be flipped upside down by Elon Musk’s DOGE. As Trump reportedly moves closer to signing an executive order that would effectively dismantle the Department of Education, the VA announced it is planning to reduce its department size by 80,000 workers.
Jonathan Kamens, who led cybersecurity for VA.gov, joins the show to break down his experience of being fired by DOGE and just how dangerous it is for Musk and his minions to have access to Americans’ data.
“I think both Elon Musk and Donald Trump are pretty vindictive, vengeful people, and I think that they will use the data to go after people who they consider their enemies,” Kamens warns.
He adds, “I will point out that every authoritarian regime in the world has a secret police source, of some form or another, whose job is to collect data about private citizens and build dossiers about them and to build a culture of fear in which people tattletail on their neighbors and their co-workers. I think that’s the trajectory we’re on. I think we should expect that to happen.”
Watch the episode above to hear the full discussion, and their reaction to the calls from right-wing pundits like Ben Shapiro to grant Derek Chauvin – yes, the officer convicted of murdering George Floyd – a federal pardon.
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Trump 2.0 + Musk + GOP = Fascist State, Chaos, Pain. We've got to save our democracy. Unite & Fight!
There is a fraud by Trump and Musk. Americans are being played. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. We are being distracted by hundreds of line item veto “ex post facto” savings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by Federal employee firings, all of which are illegal. We are being distracted by thousands of cancellations of grants and contracts, all of which are illegal. The courts are intervening now.
The Fraud on America: Trump, Musk, and Speaker Johnson are trying to ram through the tax cuts, before:
• the courts cite them with civil contempt and levy huge financial penalties
• the impact of their illegal actions are reversed, and their “savings” flip back to $0.00.
I call for immediate full disclosures of what currently is in douchebag Musk’s DOGE bag of findings. He is hiding that at the moment since the courts have stifled his efforts. Let us make him certify his cost and pricing data, so that it comes under the Truth in Negotiations Act, now the Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (Title 41 U.S.C., Chapter 35). That must be required. I also call for Musk’s testimony under oath before Congress.
I call for Musk to divulge the truth of what he found, after he deletes what the courts say he cannot do. He cannot fire. He cannot cancel a single contract or grant. He cannot impound funds. Johnson intends to use Musk’s currently bogus data in his CR bid. Crook.
Spare me the BS braggadocio about saving billions and billions. Illegal actions are not savings, they’re crap. I don’t buy crap when we are talking about a $4.5 trillion tax cut. I say Trump and Musk’s ploy is all a fraud founded on a bag of smoke and mirrors, now a hidden accounting not corrected by current court edicts, and a “bury you in paper” con job.
Let us see it. Empty the douchebag’s DOGE bag. Transparency now! Don’t let the douchebag hide it another day. We cannot shoot any line item down until the residual data is displayed.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/empty-doges-bag?r=3m1bs