They put the guy who leaked some rich people's tax returns to ProPublica in prison for 5 years https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-i...
All animals are equal...
Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm. Tinfoil hat time... Musk could use this to get Trump's tax returns. That could be blackmail material on Trump. (And the Supreme Court, in the same way.) He could leverage that into getting an even freer hand to do whatever he wants. Now who's ruling the country? People talked about "President Musk", but that was just sarcasm (we think). But he could use this to really be "the power behind the throne", with money…
Trump is happy to golf and sign EOs. Musk... Has probably cooked his brain on a combination of stimulants and ketamine and Neo-Nazi Twitter. He's living on entirely frictionless life because of his money and thinks his scions will be the princes of Mars.
Remember when Trump denied knowledge of project 2025?
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#23>”A Trump administration official said DOGE personnel needed IDRS access because DOGE staff are working to “eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and improve government performance to better serve the people.”
My bet is that these people think they can feed all this data to a magic AI and presto, out comes a list of “waste, fraud, and abuse.” Otherwise you’d need trained auditors, which the IRS already has. What a shit show.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens if court says "it's ok"?
This is inevitable. US attorneys are being given orders inconsistent with the law and DOJ rules. US attorneys are resigning instead, Democrat and Republican. Eventually the only people left are those willing to follow Trump's orders rather than the law. The federal government is nearing a state of abeyance. It's run by a mafia. Why wouldn't they come for judges next?
Sadly they're already coming after judges: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/impeachment-judges-republic...
Re: Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
#25So the White House (where doge sits) has direct access to anyone’s tax returns. I assume this can be used to blackmail or threaten anyone they don’t like? Imagine the outcry if the Biden White House had tried to do this, especially because Trump has never (to this day!) posted his tax returns..
Hmm. Tinfoil hat time... Musk could use this to get Trump's tax returns. That could be blackmail material on Trump. (And the Supreme Court, in the same way.) He could leverage that into getting an even freer hand to do whatever he wants. Now who's ruling the country? People talked about "President Musk", but that was just sarcasm (we think). But he could use this to really be "the power behind the throne", with money…
And what about Elon’s tax returns?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens if court says "it's ok"?
Then Musk will use the data to further his aims. Dissidents will have addresses, employers, etc exposed, for randos to use to abuse the dissidents.
So like how leftists have been hounding and doxing people for the last decade?
What goes around comes around, wake me up when something unexpected happens
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then Musk will use the data to further his aims. Dissidents will have addresses, employers, etc exposed, for randos to use to abuse the dissidents.
So like how leftists have been hounding and doxing people for the last decade? What goes around comes around, wake me up when something unexpected happens
Nice "whataboutism". We also had right wingers doxxing and cancelling pro-palestine protestors very recently.
If it was wrong for "leftists" to do something, that makes it morally correct for right wingers to do it? Do no t right wingers have moral agency of their own?
Beyond all that, these "leftists" weren't the US government, they did not have historical employment and income and related data, and they didn't have the capability of organizing some kind of large scale smear campaign with other arms of the government.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then Musk will use the data to further his aims. Dissidents will have addresses, employers, etc exposed, for randos to use to abuse the dissidents.
So like how leftists have been hounding and doxing people for the last decade? What goes around comes around, wake me up when something unexpected happens
Do you have sources on leftist administrations doxing people in the last decade? If not, and it is just randos who are on the left, then you aren't making a valid comparison. Did those leftists have access to every person's information in the way that Musk does?
This is a false equivalency I've been seeing for a very long time: Someone on the right claims that the left is just as extreme as the right (usually they're claiming the left is more extreme), when the people they are referring to on the left are nobodies with little to no political influence or power, whereas on the right the extremists run the entire party and currently control the entire government. It isn't a valid comparison.
There will always be nuts in any large enough group, the difference is that the left doesn't give them outsized power, whereas the right elects them as congresspeople and president.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trump is happy to golf and sign EOs. Musk... Has probably cooked his brain on a combination of stimulants and ketamine and Neo-Nazi Twitter. He's living on entirely frictionless life because of his money and thinks his scions will be the princes of Mars.
Remember when Trump denied knowledge of project 2025?
I do. I don't even fault Trump for lying anymore; he's famous for reneging on his word. I think the media in their quest for "objectiveness" seem to have given up on object permanence. "Surely the leopards with their history of eating faces and Eating Faces 2025 platform would never eat faces, they've given me, a very special boy, their word!"