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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelanie Stansbury exposing DOGE for the scam it is.
Quick summary: Melanie Stansbury, in her no nonsense style, connects the dots of Musk's infiltration into our government systems, such as the FAA and NOAA for his own benefit.
Here is the link to the youtube video.
I am trying to figure out how to insert the transcript, as well.

bucolic_frolic
(49,514 posts)DOGE-Scam.
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)love_katz
(2,967 posts)It is a rip off of federally funded services which belong to the American people. Muskrat and his fellow broligarchs are outright stealing these contracts. Even in situations where our government contracts out for services, there is a bidding process. And qualified people from the agencies decide who will get the contract. None of that process has been done.
This is straight up corruption and graft.
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)On RWmedia they actually say that the Dems don't want DOGE to find the abuse, because the Dems have been perpetrating corruption...and DOGE is uncovering it. Seriously!?
Karasu
(864 posts)Trump's fucking golf trips alone are costing us more than money than this austerity scam of a "department" has saved in WEEKS of firing thousands of people without just cause.
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)particularly regarding Social Security.
malaise
(282,437 posts)Rec
soldierant
(8,318 posts)0:00
the FAA uh was infiltrated by Doge and
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by Elon Musk it's my understanding that
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he replace the communications contract
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for the
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FAA with his own Starly program is that
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correct that is correct and it's also my
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understanding that Mr Elon Musk who has
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also infiltrated Noah which is the uh
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agency that does our Weather Service and
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tells the Americans and the world uh
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that you know what's going to happen
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with the weather that uh there's also
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indications inside the agency that he
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would like to have SpaceX become the
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primary contractor for the satellite
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systems for no is that correct that is
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correct and we've also heard that Mr
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Elon Musk who the dod secretary almost
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gave access to secret War plans for
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China last week is also angling to get
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billions of dollars in new contracts
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under the Department of Defense is that
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correct that is correct so
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I don't know about all of you guys but
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this sure looks like a scam to
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me I mean right they're calling it waste
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Fraud and Abuse but really what we see
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is a special government employee who's a
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private businessman he's the wealthiest
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man in the world and he is literally
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infiltrating these federal agencies that
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he has a personal financial interest in
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he's cutting the programs he's
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eliminating staff and then he is
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essentially positioning himself to put
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into place private this is a total scam
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a total scam like folks need to wake up
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this is not about waste Fraud and Abuse
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this is a scam they are running a scam
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on the American people and on the
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federal government
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)
soldierant
(8,318 posts)There were three dots at the right, and you just clicked on them and then on Transcript. Now you have to, after you start the video with the CC on, scroll down a little bit and look for the word "Transcript" on the left. At least it' a different color. Also, it unfolds with the video, so you have to play it to the end before you can copy the whole thing. And Ctrl+A doesn't work - at least it didn't for me, perhaps there's a way I didn't try. But Ctrl+A gave me the whole darned page. So I just started at the end, held down the shift key, and scrolled to the top.
I have a very dear friend who is deaf - as least he was - he had one cochlear implant which has worked pretty well, although he kind of had to learn how to hear again. But he's getting the other one next week. I used to do transcripts for his benefit if I was recommending a video. But if the second works as well as the first, I may end up forgetting all these skills LOL.
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)soldierant
(8,318 posts)I have learned a lot of stuff like this from other DUers. I try to pass on what litle I know.
Amaryllis
(10,198 posts)yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)She mostly used the time as a soliloguy and rant.
LearnedHand
(4,590 posts)We need a thousand more just like her and with her enormous cache of courage and DGAF-ness.
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)She isn't running for anything. She's just delivering truth.