Saturday, February 01, 2025

Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System -- at Any Cost

A top-ranking official in the U.S. Department of the Treasury is resigning after a fight with Elon Musk over a sensitive payment system.

Posted by retort at 09:28 AM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

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The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems. David A. Lebryk has served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202 ...

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-- Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM

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If Musk had Trump's permission to do this, that's scary. If Musk doesn't have Trump's permission, and is going rouge, that's scary.

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-02-01 09:40 AM

I'll say it again...Musk is the fly in the Chardonney. And keep in mind this is only their 2nd week. If this doesn't give you the heebie-jeebies, just wait...no doubt they'll start tinkering with some aspect of your life you DO care about.

#2 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-02-01 12:16 PM

Finally! A plan to bring down the cost of eggs, gas and groceries?

Oh? It's not? My bad.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-01 12:25 PM

Trumpers are just the dupes Billionaires needed to take over the Government and control their own regulators.

The People be damned.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-01 03:22 PM

Dems have more billionaire donors and it's not even close

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-01 04:02 PM

Dems have more billionaire donors and it's not even close

What's the ratio?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-01 04:05 PM

What's the ratio?
#6 | Posted by DIAL AGAIN

5:1

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-01 04:07 PM

Finally! A plan to bring down the cost of eggs, gas and groceries?
Oh? It's not? My bad.
#3 | Posted by donnerboy

Biden ag kills all the chickens and youre wondering why egg prices are through the roof.

LMAO.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-01 04:08 PM

#7

Prove it.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-02-01 04:08 PM

By the time any of the MAGA idiots realize they've been duped, it will be far too late. That's how dumb they are

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-02-01 04:11 PM

5:1

That's the normal number of brain cells to naught for brains'.

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-02-01 04:12 PM

There isn't a single post from ONEIRONAUT worth reading.

All he does is spread lies and misinformation.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-01 04:13 PM

By the time any of the MAGA idiots realize they've been duped, it will be far too late.

Yea. They'll be dead.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-01 04:13 PM

Just ask Herman Cain.

Oh never mind ... he dead.

From Covid.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-01 04:27 PM

5:1

That's odd when 57 of the top 100 donors were Republicans.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-01 04:36 PM

This is why DOGE is needed, to ferret out such abuse of our tax dollars - just unbelievable and one wonders why our government costs us so much annually.

www.zerohedge.com

#16 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-01 04:58 PM

Elon Musk Is Trying to Getting Control of Key Payment System

Musk bought Trump and will get a return on his investment.

I'm not sure what destroying America gains him.

But it's obvious Putin and Musk's Russian allies who helped him buy Twitter stand to gain immensely.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-01 05:16 PM

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#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-01 05:16 PM

This is why DOGE is needed
#16 | POSTED BY MSG

You think a billionaire immigrant will fix your delusions?

He's going to rob this country and leave the people you love* paying the bills.

*Assuming there's anyone you love living in America.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-01 05:20 PM

Get this stinking Nzi apartheid cnnt away from America's treasury and out of our business.

#20 | Posted by cbob at 2025-02-01 09:13 PM

Just to clarify, this is the system that actually pays people. This is the group that sends out the checks that the federal government issues, SS, grants, medicare and several trillion dollars.

Musk is saying that this system is corrupt, that payments go out willy nilly.

The danger is he unilaterally starts putting stop payments on checks or stops issuing checks. On his whim or --------

This could be unfathomably destructive

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-01 10:58 PM

Dems have more billionaire donors and it's not even close

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

STFU s*^&bag. This is the literal "deep state" you dumbf*&^s have been whining about for years...and you're cheering it.

So are you stupid? Or were you lying before?

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-02 01:52 AM

Libs pull this ------- gimmick where they set up all these government programs and bureaucracy then claim that anyone trying to undo what they did is "big government" or "government overreach" or some other stupid ----.

Hey you stupid ----libs, undoing the dumb ---- you did isn't "government overreach" it's returning things to the way it was before you ------ it up.

#23 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-02 07:11 AM

" STFU s*^&bag. This is the literal "deep state" you dumbf*&^s have been whining about for years...and you're cheering it.

So are you stupid? Or were you lying before?

#22 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-02-02 01:52 AM | FLAG: "

Get bent. Dems and the left cheered when Harris/Biden raised way more than Trump with a lopsided number of mega donors.

This isn't 'Deep state'. You don't even know what the term means. It's corporatism/ corporate fascism / oligarchy and the absolute best way to combat it is to shrink the powers of the federal government back down to its Constitutional roots.

Pare back the administrative state and the oligarchs have much less influence over the federal government. The problem is this ---------- relationship between big business and big government has been mutually beneficial.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-03 01:44 AM

JPW,

Biden recently gave the Freedom of Medal award to Soros, who is a decades long oligarch who has poured his money into our political system to stoke his preferred policy outcomes. You are clearly angry (these days you are always angry) about Musk getting into politics. Does that apply to Soros too, or is that different?

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-03 01:47 AM

Medal of Freedom. I hate typing on mobile devices.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-03 01:48 AM

@#16 ... This is why DOGE is needed, to ferret out such abuse of our tax dollars ...

"such abuse" ...

That implies you have justification.

What's yer got?

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-03 02:05 AM

@#5 ... Dems have more billionaire donors ...

Even if that assertion is correct, I have one question ...

Have the Democrats given control of the government to those donors, as Pres Trump appears to do with Mr Musk?

Have the Democrats given control of a major part of the government to a billionaire donor?

If they have done so, please provide a documented example.


#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-03 02:10 AM

,

Biden recently gave the Freedom of Medal award to Soros, who is a decades long oligarch who has poured his money into our political system to stoke his preferred policy outcomes. You are clearly angry (these days you are always angry) about Musk getting into politics. Does that apply to Soros too, or is that different?

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-03 01:47 AM | Reply

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Trump selected his ministers with an eye on their former entrepreneurial successes. Shortly after the election he stated, "I want people that made a fortune". His richest cabinet member is his Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, who made a fortune by reconstructing imbalanced companies, ranks second on the list. However, Donald Trump did not succeed in building the wealthiest US cabinet in history. In Obama's second term, he selected Penny Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt Hotel empire, as his Secretary of Commerce. Her $2.2 billion net worth alone is almost as big as Trump's whole cabinet's monetary assets.

#29 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-03 03:23 AM

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