must have been something in those early polio jabs to produce so many of us asperger types and elon is certainly a great example;

What in the world was going on with the nation’s finances under the Joe Biden administration?

It seems the public purse was at the whim of the wily, corrupt, money-grubbing Deep Staters. This certainly isn’t a novel insight.

The U.S. government and its many lobbyists, insiders, and parasites have been bleeding the host for many decades. However, for many years, there was at least some effort made to obscure the crimes. Somewhere along the line the larceny turned into a complete free for all.

DOGE extraordinaire, Elon Musk, believes the federal government under Biden was handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to fraudsters and people who don’t exist. Where money goes, when it goes to people who don’t exist is a mystery. Certainly, it must go somewhere.

According to estimates from the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. government made $236 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2023. Improper payments are payments that should not have been made or were made in the incorrect amount.

Somehow this $236 billion in improper payments was an improvement. In fiscal year 2022, an estimated $247 billion in improper payments were made by the U.S. government. What’s more, these estimates don’t include the Department of Health and Human Services’ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families – a program that’s rife with fraud.

Musk doesn’t like all the fraud and waste. It makes him mad. He wants efficiency. He wants to get to the bottom of where the billions of dollars went. He also wants to cut off the spending and stop the waste........more.....

 the recent past has provided me with more cheap entertainment than i could have imagined and now this comes along which surely gets to 'take a cake';

From The Daily Mail, "Nancy Mace makes stunning accusations of rape and sex trafficking in 'scorched earth' House floor speech":

Rep. Nancy Mace delivered an astonishing speech on the floor of the House Monday night where she said she had uncovered a ring of men who engaged in serial rape and sex trafficking while filming their victims.

The South Carolina Republican brought a series of props to the well of the House including handcuffs, cameras, a safe, and a drinking glass to illustrate her case, as she spoke for more than half an hour on the floor about the explosive allegations.

Mace said the glass served as a representation of how she says she was raped after blacking out when served two small vodka sodas.

She identified the alleged perpetrators by name – even giving the towns they live in – on the House floor during extended speaking time that had been yielded to her by the congressional Republican leadership.

‘I will burn this system to the ground if I have to,’ she intoned.

‘Today, I’m going scorched earth,’ vowed Mace, who wore white and invoked her Christian faith during her speech..........more.....

 pepe escobar gives a round up of trump world in recent days;

Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.

Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.

Here’s a partial pile-up:

• Egypt: the Palestinians will not be ethnic cleansed here, or in Jordan, or anywhere else.
• Saudi Arabia: We will not normalize with Israel before there is a sovereign Palestinian state.
• Turkey, via Sultan Erdogan: No power can remove Palestinians from their “eternal” homeland.
• Arab League: this is a “complete detachment from reality.”
• Hamas: there will be no more ceasefire violations.
• Iran, via Leader Khamenei: we will NOT negotiate anything with you.

And this is just the beginning.

Russia, via Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov: “Washington’s attempts to give Moscow ultimatums or to demonstrate the alleged ‘big favor’ in exchange for unacceptable U.S. demands are doomed to failure in the dialogue with Russia.”

So we should expect Mr. Disco Inferno to go totally ballistic in the next few days, literally burning the [geopolitical] dancefloor: “Burning, burning (Disco Infernoooooo) / burning burning / burn that mother down”..............more..........

pcr sums up some of the results of the latest elon show;

Democrats and Presstitutes Panicked that Musk Is Revealing Their Grift

Paul Craig Roberts

Elon Musk’s revelations of the extraordinary corruption in federal departments have made it clear for me why so many Democrat Representatives and Senators without business backgrounds became multi-millionaires and how the presstitute media abandoned by the public remains on its feet.  Their source of wealth and funding is the US budget, which also explains why the budget is so totally out of control.  The political establishment and the media are living on the federal budget, while American taxpayers cannot make ends meet and are up to their eyeballs in debt.

The Federalist reports that just last week Washington Democrats held three press conferences denouncing the US Department of Government Efficiency’s revelations of massive theft and corrupt self-dealing as an invasion of their privacy. These same Democrats, little doubt well paid by the Chinese, never said one word about Chinese hackers breaching the US Treasury Department’s computer security system and stealing documents that the Treasury classified as “a major incident.”  Much less did the Democrats hold three press conferences about the Chinese hacking.

Do you really think Democrats, who have permitted unlimited violation of the American people’s privacy by the CIA, FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, care a whit about our privacy?  The only thing the Democrats are concerned about is the US Department of Government Efficiency’s discovery of their theft and corruption...........more........

 fraud found one more time;

I’d be astonished if it’s only 50% fraud.

Via: EKO:

Simple things were left blank:
Payment categories
Payment rationales
Basic audit controls

The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.
Here’s what Treasury didn’t want exposed:

Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing. When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was “unequivocal and obvious fraud,” the answer revealed decades of corruption: Half.

…

“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization,” Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet.

This wasn’t incompetence. This was design.........https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=72034

 i wonder if we'll see any real revelations here, though i doubt it;

Via: Fox:

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets – including records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other documents in the public interest, Fox News Digital has learned.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., appointed Luna to chair the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.”

Luna is expected to focus on examining the declassification of materials in the public interest, including the client list of Jeffrey Epstein, and files relating to Sept. 11, 2001, COVID-19 origins, UFOs and more.

Fox News Digital has learned that Comer and Luna are sending letters to necessary agencies to kick off the declassification investigations............more...........

 eureka: the feds just found some paperwork;

While Trump FBI Director nominee Kash Patel patiently waits for his turn to kick down the doors at the FBI, the 'old guard' has suddenly uncovered around 2,400 'secret JFK assassination records,' and then promptly leaked that 'fact' to spooky Axios without shedding any light on the contents of said records........more........