I am posting this comment by Steve Schmidt as a test for DU. Do you want the harsh truth or

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48. Posted on FB by Elizabeth Warren (sorry it is a bit long)

Let’s be clear about what’s happening right now.
The Trump administration has allowed Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire—along with an unknown number of his unqualified flunkies—to access critical federal payment systems and illegally shut down government funding for certain departments and programs.
The system that he is now controlling is the same system that Americans rely on to receive Social Security payments, Medicare support, federal salaries, government contracts, grants, and tax refunds this filing season.
What happens now? Maybe you get paid, maybe you don’t. It all depends on what Elon Musk thinks. He can now turn on funding for his friends and turn off funding for anybody that he doesn’t like.
And as long as Musk has this access, he can retrieve people’s sensitive personal information. Social security numbers. Bank account numbers. Tax returns. Musk now has the power to extract that information for his own use, to boost his finances or strengthen his political power.
To say the least, this is an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I’m working to get specific answers from Donald Trump’s new Treasury Secretary on why Musk was given access to this information. And I’ve called on the Secretary to lay out what safeguards are in place to protect the privacy and economic security of the American people.
On Twitter (or “X,” as Musk wants us to call it), I made the point that no one elected Musk. His handpicked Twitter CEO wasn’t happy to hear that. She wrote back to me: “Actually, over 77 million people for exactly that.”
Actually, no. I can’t believe I have to say this, but over 77 million people did not vote for Elon Musk.
Over 77 million people voted for Trump.
Over 75 million people voted for Kamala Harris.
Elon Musk was not on the ballot.
Elon Musk did not win a single electoral vote.
Elon Musk did not win an election.
Elon Musk has not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a position in the administration.
And the Constitution doesn’t give him any power to cut off funding that Congress approved.
He’s in this position because he spent more than $290 million on the 2024 elections—and that bought him an opportunity to be “co-president” with Trump.
This situation is alarming. When unelected billionaires start ransacking our government offices, we cannot act business as usual. We are living a nightmare created by Trump and Musk, and we need to wake up and do something.
I’ll keep ringing every alarm bell I can find and continue doing everything in my power to get this under control.