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The process matters.
Those Americans who think the ends justify the means are just as guilty of crimes against the Constitution as Elon Musk is.
Warning notice! Profanity and an angry tone follows……
I have had it with my fellow Americans, who display a fundamental ignorance of how their government and, more importantly, its founding document work. I cannot be patient with them, and because of their stupidity, they deserve to suffer painfully every bit as much as Elon Musk does.
Let’s be very blunt here — the ends do not justify the means. One does not get to violate The Constitution just because it makes some right-wingers happy.
Elon Musk’s DOGE is an illegal and unconstitutional organization. No one elected Elon Musk. He is not a constitutional officer. DOGE is not a chartered organization, nor has ANY of its funding been approved by Congress.
Furthermore — it's guilty of false advertising in that it was portrayed as a study group, not something that would actually direct governmental actions. It has no authority to do so.
Let’s repeat that. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 gives Congress—and only Congress—the power of the purse. If Trump and his crew of fascists want to remove funding for government agencies, there is a process for doing so. It’s called the Appropriations and Budget process…