The Heavyweight ‘Genius’ with a Chainsaw

February 23, 2025 Decker Culture, Current Events, Home Leave a comment

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Argentine President Javier Milei has given Elon Musk a chainsaw as a symbolic gesture reflecting their shared commitment to cutting government bureaucracy and public spending.

Musk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump tasked with slashing federal government spending, appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington on Thursday, waving the chainsaw above his head.

The audience at the convention center erupted in applause and gave the Tesla and SpaceX CEO a standing ovation as he took the stage alongside Milei wearing a black MAGA baseball cap and mirrored sunglasses.

“This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” Musk exclaimed, brandishing the power tool, which was engraved with Milei’s campaign slogan, “Viva la libertad, carajo” (“Long live freedom, damn it!”). – rt.com

WOW! Inspirational! The masses are quite entertained by the continuing circus!

Isn’t it fantastic that the smartest among us, a true genius mind, has been appointed to an unelected position where he has controls on government money slashing and spending, without any oversight?

In Clown World, what else would we expect.

The billionaire heads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a body established by Trump to streamline federal operations and cut $2 trillion from federal spending by 2026. Musk has asserted that up to $1 trillion in cuts could be feasible.

And just what is this DOGE thing in Clown World, and what is it doing?

via SenseReceptor:

“[With] DOGE…we’re going from a more covert and invisible [kind of] financial control to a much more high-tech and much uglier kind of control…We’re canceling the old corruption…to build the tools of the new corruption.”

Former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report Catherine Austin Fitts (@solari_the) describes for KlaTV (@klaTV4NA) how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a vehicle for transforming the federal government from “a more covert and invisible [kind of] financial control to a much more high-tech and much uglier kind of control.” Furthermore, Fitts notes that if DOGE really wanted to tackle the government’s enormous debt, it would start with the $21 trillion that the DOD has stolen since 1998.

Fitts, along with MSU professor Mark Skidmore, have elsewhere said that this $21 trillion was stolen by the Department of Defense between 1998 and 2015. Fitts notes in this clip that it’s hard to say how much the DOD has stolen since 2015 because of FASAB 56 (the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Statement 56), which was implemented in 2018, during the first Trump administration.

For reference, GROK says FASAB 56: “permits federal entities to:

-Modify or obscure financial information in unclassified General Purpose Federal Financial Reports (GPFFRs) to prevent the disclosure of classified activities.

-Shift amounts between line items or even omit certain spending details entirely if revealing them could compromise national security.

-Exclude a component reporting entity from one entity’s financial statements and consolidate it into another entity’s reports.”

GROK goes on to say: “These modifications do not necessarily have to be disclosed to the public, meaning the published financial statements may not fully reflect the true financial position or activities of the government entity. The ‘real’ data may be maintained in classified records, accessible only in secure environments.”

————–Partial transcription of clip—————- “So let’s get back to DOGE. What’s DOGE doing? The first thing that DOGE is doing is it’s saying, okay. The old tools that we needed to run things in the unipolar empire are no longer needed. Instead, we need new tools. And in fact, those tools need to be much more high-tech, and they need to centralize and give us much more control. So we’re going from a more covert and invisible financial control to a much more high-tech and much uglier kind of control.

“So when you listen to DOGE, they’re talking about, aren’t we once wonderful? We’re canceling the old corruption. If you look at what they and the administration are doing to build the tools of the new corruption, I’ll take the old corruption any day of the week. And I hated the old corruption. I hated the old corruption.

“Anyway, so, so when you look at the new tools, there are 2 things you need to remember. One is our biggest sign of corruption over the last 3 decades in America is the fact that since 1998, we have failed to obey the financial management laws. So America has been operating financially way outside of the law. During that period, as of 2015, $21 trillion had gone missing from the U.S. government.

“And the reason we only know up until 2015 is in 2018, the Trump administration instituted a new policy called FASAB 56, F-A-S-A-B 56. And that policy allowed the US government by administrative order to keep secret books. Now let’s say that you and I were coming in as DOGE to the US government. We were going to stop the corruption. The first thing we would do is say, no more secret books. We’re going to cancel FASAB 56 and bring sunshine to the US government finances. And then the second thing we’re going to do is we’re going to start obeying the federal financial management laws.

“And part of that is we’re going to go over and audit the Pentagon and the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the New York Fed accounts for those agencies, those 3 agencies in the U.S. government We’re not going to audit the New York Fed. We’re going to audit the Treasury and HUD and DoD accounts at the New York Fed and see how much money they’ve been sending to the BIS and central banks and other people around the world, including the Clinton Foundation and the Gates Foundation. And we’re gonna find that $21 trillion, and we’re gonna assert ownership of those assets. Right? Did they say that? Guess not.

“They didn’t mention FASAB 56. There were no arrests So that’s a little bit like you’re not gonna deal with the tank rolling down the street. You’re gonna, you know, you’re gonna take out a pea shooter and, you know, and hit a bottle cap. I mean, it’s just a joke.”