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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “Musk May Be Gone, But His Stench Lingers”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQbjgBi4p94

Jun 3, 2025

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joined MSNBC’s The Weekend and sounds off on Elon Musk’s chaotic exit from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). While Musk might’ve left the building, Crockett makes clear the damage is done—gutting federal agencies, slashing jobs, and peddling fake savings. She calls out the sham cuts, the lack of oversight, and the GOP’s obsession with gimmicks over governance. And she’s not letting anyone forget who’s paying the price: working families, seniors, and public servants. The DOGE experiment? A disaster. And Rep. Crockett’s ready to clean house.

Transcript

musk is not completely going away

Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead

the most sweeping and consequential

government reform program in generations

I expect to remain a friend and uh an

adviser and uh certainly if there's

anything the president wants me to do

I'm at at the president's office

Doge cuts have certainly been sweeping

According to a New York Times analysis

Doge has cut 99% of personnel at

Broadcaster Voice of America and USAD as

well as nearly half the workforce at the

Department of Education and nearly a

quarter of employees at HHS As for the

$2 trillion in savings Musk Musk

promised last fall it's just 175 billion

as of this week according to Doge's

website Although the website has a

history of dubious information For it

claimed $8 billion in savings from a

contract that was actually just $8

million and posted quote unquote

receipts that save no money And there's

no real evidence of the fraud Musk has

pledged to find The so-called fraud Doge

touted was either previously uncovered

or wildly overblown

Joining us now is the Congresswoman from

Texas Jasmine Crockett who serves on the

House Doge subcommittee Congresswoman

welcome to the weekend So just your

thoughts on Elon Musk and his departure

from Washington

Hallelujah is what I got to say Is it

Sunday let us all give thanks to the

good Lord above Listen let me tell you

something He is gone but the musk is

still going to linger in the air We know

as you went through in your intro that

there are so many people that have been

impacted by these ridiculous and

notthought out cuts And it's not just

the federal workers It's those

constituents of ours our citizens that

are being impacted the hardest by these

cuts And so here it is You basically let

this guy run wild And honestly I feel

like all of the cuts to federal

employees that was nothing more than a

distraction for the things that he

really wanted to do which is to make

sure that there was no oversight over

his companies the companies that were

under investigation This was to kind of

keep us busy and distracted And

unfortunately in the process we have

harmed our federal government and

ultimately we are harming our overall

economy

Yeah Congresswoman like you said the

damage has already been done The people

have been fired The ch a lot of those

changes have been made Is there any

reason for folks to anticipate that at

some point the you guys will the

Congress or someone will be able to claw

back some of these jobs and policies

that people really need around the

country

i mean would you really want to work for

the federal government at this moment i

mean like like let's be honest Um you

know in in reality we have been down as

it relates to some of our federal

workforce Anyway this is one reason that

the Biden Harris administration invested

so much money in the inflation reduction

act when it came to the IRS because they

wanted to make sure that those people

that were best trained to do those

complicated um audits of people's taxes

basically the very very rich making sure

that we had the best of the best to make

sure that we could bring in additional

income In addition to that while we've

been talking about the reconciliation

package and we've been talking about the

cuts and how many people are going to

potentially lose their health care or

how many people are going to lose food

off of their tables one of the things

that we've not been able to do because

there's again still so much in this

terrible bill is talk about things that

happened in the oversight committee such

as deciding that they don't want federal

government employees to have the

protections the protections that the

federal court um has acknowledged and

said "Hey you've got to reinstate these

federal employees Instead they want to

change federal employees to at will So a

lot of the things that once attracted

people to want to come and work for the

federal government they are disappearing

as well as well as making them pay more

into um their furs So it's it's

absolutely insane and nobody wants to

come work for us right now Congresswoman

yesterday in the Oval Office it didn't

exactly sound like Trump and Elon Musk

were completely breaking up He sounded

like he might still be lingering in some

unofficial capacity Yet you know he had

to end his special He was at the final

day as a special employee How is the

House Oversight Committee going to keep

holding Doge and Elon Musk accountable

you said keep We never started Um Doge

was just a little pet project for um

Marjorie Taylor Green to be able to say

"Hey they gave me something I've got a

gavvel." And so you know the last Doge

hearing that we had it was on uh trans

folk doing fencing Um I mean we were

talking to people that don't get any

federal dollars whatsoever Um and

dealing with that We have a Doge

subcommittee hearing coming up and it's

to talk about NOS's and basically to go

after them We have had a hearing on PBS

and talk about why it's important to

quote unquote defund PBS I mean we've

not dealt with those things We have

tried to subpoena Elon Musk before The

Republicans did not want to do that I

don't know why you wouldn't want to have

your main man come in and tell us about

all the great work that he's doing

unless he absolutely isn't doing any

great work So listen I think that

unfortunately we're going to have to

wait until the Democrats are in the

majority which will hopefully be in the

midterms and then we can absolutely

bring Elon Musk in and we can have him

under oath and we can have him tell us

about everything that he did because as

I've been home this week to hear from my

seniors that are concerned and don't

have answers about how much information

he had access to and what he did with

that sensitive information they are

scared

Um Congresswoman have a listen to what

Elon Musk had to say in an interview on

Tuesday about his thoughts on the

so-called big beautiful bill that was

passed by the House

I was like disappointed to see the

massive spending bill frankly uh which

increases the budget deficit not does

decrease it and undermines the work that

the Doge team is doing I think a bill

can be can be can be big or it could be

beautiful

I don't know if it could be both

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Congresswoman I have no question Just

hold forth

Listen I mean you know you know I'm not

necessarily besties with Elon Uh but

when I can agree I'm just going to agree

because it's just the truth The reality

is that we saw when this bill passed the

House which it barely made it over the

finish line 215 to 214 We know that

there were two Republicans that somehow

went MIA We know that two Republicans

voted with us And then we know that one

Republican just voted present And let me

just tell you even if a Republican voted

with us it wasn't for the same reasons

okay but we got to the same result which

is that this is a big bad bill Okay and

their reasons for saying you know what

we're not going to vote for this is

because they still want to raise the

debt ceiling by five trillion dollars

And so what I have explained to people

is that the cuts that they want to give

to the rich folk in this country are so

deep that even after cutting almost 14

million people off their healthcare and

cutting over $30 billion out of SNAP

benefits as well as all the other ugly

stuff And we don't talk about the fact

that they want to have this big chunk of

money so that ICE agents can get

approximately

$42,000 a piece in a bonus So we had

money that was going up for crazy stuff

And then we also of course had to set

aside enough money so that somebody

could go golfing I believe that the

number may be a billion dollars or so um

over the four years for him to be able

to go golfing This doesn't really make

sense and frankly nobody has asked for

these things to be their priorities But

there are fiscal responsible Republicans

that are saying "Listen I don't think

they really care about the cuts but they

absolutely care about the fact that we

still are needing to lift the debt

ceiling and honestly have nothing to

show for it." One might say that you

would call this um a bad built bad built

Butch bill Go on Elise

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Move Has Ties to Kremlin

https://newrepublic.com/post/196029/trump-official-ties-kremlin-russian-propaganda-state

Malcolm Ferguson

June 3, 2025/9:10 a.m. ET

Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

Department of State

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie, a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda, is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.

Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida. She moved to D.C. in January. Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $150 million in 2005. That year, he served in Russia’s ministry of natural resources and was then deputy governor of Siberia’s Nenets region. Cherniko later served in Putin’s civic chamber from 2008 to 2010.

The relationship raises even greater scrutiny around Beattie’s April decision to eliminate the Global Engagement Center, a State Department office tasked with dealing with Russian disinformation campaigns. Beattie has been a staunch supporter of Putin, setting himself apart from the traditional conservative right in Bannon-esque fashion.

“US gov’t has been supporting Ukranian neo-nazi groups in its obsessive proxy war against Russia,” he wrote on X in 2022.

“State Department could sell butt plugs and forward proceeds to fund resistance effort in ukraine,” he wrote again that year. “Iran Contra but with a modern American twist.”

“A big part of American ruling class’ hatred of Russia is that Russia is a major power that rejects the woke ideology at the core of American regime,” he wrote in 2021.

This is a clear conflict of interest that is extremely typical within the Trump administration. And on top of that, Beattie was initially fired from the Trump administration in 2018 for attending a white nationalist conference. He has a long history of many other deeply problematic views.

“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” Beattie wrote on X in October. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” On January 6, 2021, he spent the day on X warning Senator Tim Scott, “BLM,” Ibram X. Kendi, and Kay Cole James to “learn their places” and “take a knee” to MAGA.

That, on top of this personal in at the Kremlin, is highly questionable behavior for a ranking official, which has been overly normalized by this administration.

Pete Hegseth’s Garbage New Press Secretary Is as Extreme as They Come

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson has troubling views when it comes to just about every topic.

Kiyoshi Ota/Pool/Getty Images

The Pentagon’s new press secretary is a chronically online 26-year-old white nationalist who believes in the “great replacement” theory, thinks Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy is an “entitled midget,” and pushed an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched after being falsely accused of murder in 1915.

Kingsley Wilson, who has served as deputy press secretary since January, is the daughter of right-wing talking head and former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and previously worked for Center for Renewing America, a think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russel Vought. She will now act as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s primary mouthpiece at the Pentagon, a department that has not had regular press briefings for some time now.

“The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs is announcing that Kingsley Wilson will serve as Press Secretary for the Department of Defense,” senior Defense Department adviser Sean Parnell wrote on X last week. “Kingsley’s leadership has been integral to the DOD’s success & we look forward to her continued service to President Trump!”

Wilson’s personal X page is a treasure trove of ultraright-wing content.

“Minneapolis became Mogadishu in 10 years time,” she said over a video of Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar at a rally in her district. “The Great Replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory … it’s reality.”

She has posted about the great replacement therory—a racist conspiracy theory that alleges there is a coordinated plot to decrease America’s white population through immigration, in some iterations at the behest of Jewish leaders—incessantly for the past three years.

She said, “I hate this entitled midget,” in response to Zelenskiy receiving military aid from the U.S last year, and lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin for having “encyclopedic knowledge of his people’s history,” which she called “beyond impressive … especially when contrasted with the low-IQ lunatics working at the U.S. State Department.”

“Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” she wrote on X. “The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.” The ADL stated that they were “deeply disturbed” by Wilson’s comments.

While troubling, this is a predictable pick, as Trump has lined his highest ranks with fringe MAGA loyalists with often openly racist politics, like State Department official Darren Beattie and National Counterterrorism Center head Joe Kent. They, like Wilson, are anti-neocons who subscribe to the same far-right, deep-MAGA views as figures like Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel, rather than the more conventional conservatism of the GOP.

More on how things are faring for Hegseth:

Pete Hegseth Hit With Stunning Illegal Wiretap Allegations

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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

June 2, 2025/3:54 p.m. ET

Trump Officials Leave Out One Key Detail on Colorado Attack Suspect

Trump and his team keep saying the suspect behind the Boulder, Colorado, attack was here illegally. But was he?

ELI IMADALI/AFP/Getty Images

Trump officials claim the suspect behind Sunday’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, was in the United States illegally. But they’re leaving out one convenient detail: He had filed an asylum application.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, has been charged with a federal hate crime for attacking peaceful demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza, leaving eight people injured.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Soliman entered the country on a B-2 tourist visa in August 2022. He filed for asylum the next month, and his visa expired the following year.

Donald Trump and his entire administration seem to have seized on the expired visa as proof that an “illegal” immigrant committed such a heinous crime.

“He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly,” said Trump in his own statement on Monday, conveniently ignoring that Soliman entered the country on a tourist visa. “This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland.”

“The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

“There’s certainly a concern that the previous administration allowed way too many terrorists and illegal immigrants into the interior of our country,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This individual, this terrorist, was allowed into the country by the previous administration, was foolishly given a tourist visa, and then was illegally allowed to stay.”

But each of these statements seems to be obfuscating the truth: If you file for asylum, you are not here illegally until a judge denies that request. Until then, you have a pending asylum application.

“He entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired on February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022,” McLaughlin said on X on Monday.

But what happened next? If his asylum application was denied and he stayed anyway, why wouldn’t she say so?

donny's got a brand new bag

im your puppet

donny's got a brand new bag

Come here sister, donny's in the swing He ain't too hip, about that new breed babe
He's really a big drag donny's got a brand new bag

Come here mama, and dig this crazy scene He's really fancy, but his line is never clean
He's really a big drag donny's got a brand new bag

He's really a Jerk, He likes to Fly
Don't play him cheap 'cause you know he ain't shy
He looks like a Monkey, he's a Masher too, Jump back Jack, Skip to my loo.

Come here sister donny's in the swing
He ain't too hip now
But he can dig that new breed babe;
He's really a big drag donny's got a brand new bag

thanks to JAMES BROWN

Monday, June 2, 2025

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation;

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where

hillary's doing fine,

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!