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DC Residents said they were not fans of DOGE until they learned how the government spends their tax dollars. https://t.co/VLkhBuqAd1
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Do you think the government spends too much money? Absolutely, it's a given. Recently, they spent $750,000 to study whether it was one small step for a man or one small step for mankind during the moon landing. How is that justified? It's ridiculous.
Then there's a million dollars spent to see if cocaine makes Japanese quail more sexually promiscuous. Who cares about quail? And $100,000 to determine if tequila or gin makes sunfish more aggressive? That's absurd.
These expenditures are not a good use of taxpayer dollars, especially when you consider how much is spent on military funding.
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Speaker 0: Fans of Doge, but when the Fox News at night team asked them about government spending tonight, we got some revealing answers. Do you
Speaker 1: think the government spends too much money? Of
Speaker 0: course. Yeah. Well, by definition. Right?
Speaker 1: Do you think the government spends too much money? That's a loaded question. The government recently spent 750 k to study whether if it was one small set for a man or one small set for a man, the moon landing. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 0: I would wonder how in the world they spent that money. Stupid.
Speaker 1: Could you share taxpayer money?
Speaker 0: No. Absolutely not. I mean, aside from whether they should have spent it, how do you spend $750,000 on that question?
Speaker 1: 1,000,000 to study if cocaine makes Japanese quail more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 0: Quail to birds? Absolutely not. I know they're not doing it. Stupid. Why not?
Who cares?
Speaker 1: A 100 k to study if tequila or gin makes sunfish more aggressive.
Speaker 0: Sunfish. Wow. Who cares? It's a 100 k compared to the what? How much is our my military spending out?
Speaker 1: Good use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 0: Not a good use
Speaker 1: of my
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
The corrupt politicians “protesting” outside the USAID building are the ones getting money from USAID. That’s why they’re there – they want your stolen tax dollars!
@KamVTV - Kambree
People are upset at DOGE now. Just wait; there is more coming. Little do people know what I am working on in Texas for DOGE in D.C. Make Liberals Cry Again. Mission underway. -Kambree
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 #BREAKING: ANTI-ELON & ANTI-DOGE PROTESTS AT US CAPITOL CANCELED BECAUSE IT’S “TOO COLD.” Imagine claiming someone is "LITERALLY HlTLER" then deciding they're not "HitIer" enough to protest in the cold 🤣 What a clown show. https://t.co/CRgkdzi1xv
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
So many fake protests paid for by the same corrupt NGOs that @DOGE is defunding https://t.co/UfKRMVzpKu
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I'm concerned about the media's portrayal of figures like Elon Musk, comparing them to extreme historical figures. The protests against Elon seem organized, possibly by those who stand to lose financially from discoveries being made. These groups may have also been involved in efforts against Trump and even funded research related to the coronavirus origins.
Protests aren't always organic; they can be funded and mobilized by NGOs. I wonder if people who believed things would worsen will be capable of self-reflection if the world improves. Some will adapt, while others won't. People may realize they were supporting warmongering or the theft of tax dollars. Elon might be saving the West, especially with his involvement with X, formerly known as Twitter. He's smarter than the critics, and everyone is tapped into the platform, even those who claim to have left. Alternative platforms quickly become echo chambers.
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Speaker 0: What I worry about is how much mental this is where I get mad at the media for presenting this, like, this is Hitler. We're having it notched up to 11 for the past eight years, and now you've got this because he was put in it's almost like that that that energy has been transferred to Elon now. Because now do you see the Elon protests? They're protesting Elon. They're literally standing out there with signs that say arrest Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Listen. I guarantee it's organized. I guarantee it's organized by the same people that are gonna lose a shitload of money based on all these, discoveries at Doge. There's no way they're not. If you look at what Doge is uncovering, what they're uncovering with this USAID stuff, a lot of that stuff was organizing through NGOs protests.
They organized the, attempt at getting Trump impeached.
Speaker 0: I know you're gonna say killed.
Speaker 1: They they
Speaker 0: were not the impeached. Come out.
Speaker 1: They also spent USAID spent $50,000,000 in the on the lab Right. That invented coronavirus.
Speaker 0: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's there's a lot of money involved in this not working. And when you have a lot of money involved, you're gonna have organized protests. When you see protests, we all wanna think of protests like the nineteen sixties. Yeah.
Fight the war, man. It's like organic, like peace, love, and hippie shit, but that's not what this is. What this is is organized, funded protests where someone is spending a lot of money and they're mobilizing other NGOs. They're using their access to these mailing lists and all these different things. They're putting these things together.
Speaker 0: Yeah. But do you do you think that the average liberal person do you think that they're gonna wake up and come around? Or do you think that they're gonna be in, like, agony for four years and be What
Speaker 1: if what
Speaker 0: if it works?
Speaker 1: Like, what if the the world gets safer, the country gets safer, the economy improves, and they don't attack civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, all these things that everybody's worried about? And then at the end of it, you realize, like, hey, maybe I was wrong.
Speaker 0: I mean, that's my question though. Are you are they capable of that kind of self reflection? If you that
Speaker 1: Well, we're saying they as if it's like one different like one kind of person.
Speaker 0: No. I mean they
Speaker 1: There's so many different people in they.
Speaker 0: Agreed. I mean, when I say they, I mean people who are have bought into the idea that this person is going to make everything worse and we're going to slip into a fascist technocracy.
Speaker 1: Some of them. Some of them are gonna slip right into it. Some of them are gonna wake up and come around. You know, it's a test. It's a test of character.
It's a test of objectivity. It's a test of introspection. There's a lot of things that are gonna happen where people are gonna have to wonder, like, what was I rooting for? When I was rooting for this progressive liberal government, what was I actually rooting for? Was I rooting for warmongers who were making insane amounts of profit by funding overseas wars?
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What was I what was I rooting for? Was I rooting for a basic theft of our our tax dollars that's gone to all these, like, completely useless endeavors that were only set up as ways to pilfer money?
Speaker 0: Or the fall of America? You know, this is this is a weird thing to, like, hate your own country so much that you wanted to to fall, or the the dismantling of, the life the kind of West as we know it. Yeah. You know, I think there is a there is a feeling that Elon might have saved the West. Yeah.
I think he did. At least he's trying to.
Speaker 1: I think he did. I think he did, but just by buying x.
Speaker 0: But is it much funny that he got forced into it? I think there's, like, something kind of ironic.
Speaker 1: Because he was trying to get it at a lower price, because he knew that they were bullshitting about the amount of bots.
Speaker 0: Well, and then they came out yesterday, and now it's profitable. Yeah. There's, like, a whole article about how he turned it around. Of
Speaker 1: course, it's gonna be profitable.
Speaker 0: He's smarter
Speaker 1: than you.
Speaker 0: He is smarter. He also knows that we are all
Speaker 1: tapped in. Oh.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I can't I can't stop it. I have a I have a I've always had a Twitter addiction. It's the thing that replaced my drinking and smoking weed when I quit that. I went right to Twitter.
I was like, Elon knows none of these motherfuckers, even when they go to Blue Sky, they've all got secret accounts and they're lurking on Twitter still or x still or whatever.
Speaker 1: You can't live in that echo chamber, that Blue Sky echo chamber. You can't even go on there and say there's only two genders. If you go on there and say there's two genders, they ban you immediately.
Speaker 0: They're really eating themselves within two days over there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that's what always happens.
@ThePatriotOasis - The Patriot Oasis™
BREAKING 🚨 New leaks indicate that Hakeem Jeffries was caught paying protesters to rally against DOGE, Elon Musk and President Trump. https://t.co/B7K0ZYN2R8
@simonateba - Simon Ateba
BREAKING: Washington, D.C. protesters call for the 'eviction of DOGE, Elon Musk and his teenagers out of the Office of Personnel Management,' declares DOGE as illegal. https://t.co/N39eFgI4J5
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Good afternoon. We're here today to evict Doge and Elon Musk from the Office of Personnel Management and declare that Doge is done. We're fighting to protect the merit-based civil service and the rights, resources, and protections it provides. DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, is under attack, but it truly stands for civil rights.
This is an illegal operation, dismantling services important to every American family. Elon Musk spent millions to elect Donald Trump, and now Trump is giving Musk control of federal agencies. We need to expose this corrupt bargain and fight back against this betrayal.
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Speaker 0: Testing.
Speaker 1: Who are we? Who are we? Who are we? Are we?
Speaker 0: Sisters and brothers, good morning. Good afternoon, rather. It's 12:00. It's it's a lovely day out here. No excuse not to be outside to march, to rally for our rights.
We've come here today. We've gathered here today to evict Doge
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: And his teenagers out of the office of personnel management.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've come to declare Doge is done.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Doge is done.
Speaker 0: And we're not leaving. We're not ending this fight until they're completely done.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This
Speaker 0: is where the rights, the resources, and the protections of the merit based civil service take place.
Speaker 2: Right. Right.
Speaker 0: It says that on the books. Yeah. It says merit based.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So
Speaker 0: there's this myth coming from 1600 that there's somehow some discrimination because of so called DEI.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But
Speaker 0: the government and these employees and these jobs are merit based.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: They're not based on race.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: If anything Yeah. For decades, there has been discrimination the other way around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Ensuring or not ensuring that people of color and women and veterans and the disabled had a fair shot at one of these good merit based jobs.
Speaker 5: Yes. That's right.
Speaker 1: And this
Speaker 0: is the importance of labor. This is the marriage between labor and civil rights because when we organize, we win. Yeah. When we marry labor and civil rights, we can stand up for all those who have been historically discriminated against in this government.
Speaker 6: Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 0: DEI is the new term. Yeah. But DEI really is an acronym that says civil rights. So if you attack DEI, you're attacking civil rights and breaking the law
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: So that is why we are here, the American Federation of Government Employees. Who are
Speaker 1: we? ALGE. Who are we?
Speaker 0: We're gonna begin our program. We have some very distinguished speakers here today, including elected officials. I'm glad they're here because they understand the importance of this. These ain't cabinet positions. These ain't folks that shuffle every four years.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 0: right. These are regular folk who work every day whose retirements are threatened Yes. By Musk and Doge. Yeah. This ain't x.
This ain't Tesla. This ain't SpaceX. This ain't none of his companies.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: This belongs to the people Yeah. And our taxpayer dollars. Yeah. Right. So we are here to protect them.
Let's hear first and foremost from the national vice president district fourteen, Otis Johnson.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Good
Speaker 5: afternoon, brothers and sisters and junior family. We are here today because we refuse to stand by while the heart of our federal workforce, OPM, is under attack.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The plan to dismantle dismantle OPM isn't just reckless. It's an all out assault on the merit based civil service and attempt to strip away protections that ensure fairness, diversity, and integrity in federal hiring. Yeah. Let's be clear. This isn't about efficiency.
No. This is about control. Yeah. Doge and the forces behind this takeover want to politicize the very agency that protects federal workers. Yeah.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 5: They want hiring based on favoritism, not fairness. They want to erase policies that ensure diversity and inclusion, and they want to weaken the very system that makes our government work for the American people every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But let me
Speaker 5: tell you something. AFG isn't going anywhere. No.
Speaker 3: Let me
Speaker 5: try that again. AFGE isn't going anywhere. Yeah. We fought too hard for far too long to let this stand. We are here.
We are strong, and we are ready for this fight. Yeah. The battle has just begun, and we are confident that we will prevail.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because
Speaker 5: when working people stand together, we will when we raise our voices as one, we win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We
Speaker 5: are fighting not just for today, but for the future of our of every federal worker and every American who depends on a government that works for them. Yeah. So stay strong.
Speaker 3: Stand strong.
Speaker 5: Stay united.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And let them hear us loud and clear. Yeah. We will not let OPM fall.
Speaker 3: No. We
Speaker 5: will not be silenced.
Speaker 3: No. And
Speaker 5: we will win this
Speaker 0: here now representing the great state of Maryland, which I'm certain many of the folk who work in this building and perhaps some of you live in the DMV. Don't you?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Please welcome senator Chris Van Hollen, if you're
Speaker 3: Good to see you. Alright. Appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 7: Are we gonna stop the war on America's workforce?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You bet we are, and I wanna thank AFGE for being here and being the voices for so many federal employees.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: We're here today to stand with the patriotic federal employees here at OPM and other places around the government. And we're also here to say we will not stand for Elon Musk's illegal operation. Are we gonna stand for that? Hell no. No.
We have to shut down this illegal operation. Yes. And they decided to make OPM their sort of headquarters for this illegal operation. Are we gonna evict Elon Musk and Doge from OPM? Yeah.
You bet we are. Yeah. We're gonna do it in the courts, and I wanna thank a AFG and all the others who are bringing those cases. We're working with them. Yep.
We're gonna do it in congress through every means we have, and I wanna thank the Maryland congressional delegation here. They've been the tip of the spear. You're gonna hear from them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And
Speaker 7: we're gonna do this in communities all over the country.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: Because the word is getting out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: And that's what we're all about here is to make sure people know the truth about what's happening. You've probably seen some of these town halls
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Right? In other states and congressional districts where you've got a lot of folks, the members of congress, in this case, Republicans, they can't stand the heat. They can't tell the truth, and they can't answer the questions. Yeah. So they're running away.
Yeah. But they're running away from their constituents.
Speaker 3: Yes,
Speaker 7: sir. Because while we have a lot of great federal employees in this region, 80% of federal employees work outside
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 7: Of this area. Right.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: And what they're doing is hurting the services the critical services those employees provide to every American. Isn't that what they're doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So here's what we have to do to blow the whistle. You all know this, but we need to get the word out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: This is the most corrupt bargain in American history.
Speaker 3: Yes. It is.
Speaker 7: So Elon Musk spent $280,000,000 to elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: And Donald Trump has given Elon Musk the keys to federal agencies.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: And they are dismantling services that are important to every American family.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Are we gonna let that happen? No. Hell no.
Speaker 2: Hell no. God.
Speaker 7: And as Otis said, this has nothing to do.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 7: right. Nothing to do with efficiency.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: Right? You all know this.
Speaker 8: That's
Speaker 7: right. If you cared about efficiency, you wouldn't start by firing the inspector generals.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: Right? These are the independent watchdogs who look out for waste, fraud, and abuse. Yeah. In fact, that's what you would do if you were going to open the door to more waste, fraud, and abuse. Right?
Yeah. I you know, we all know that Elon Musk just got another billion billion dollar contract Yeah. Within the next couple weeks. The other reason we know this has nothing to do with government efficiency is they're talking about step two, replacing merit based federal employees with political hacks. That's not about efficiency.
That's about political cronyism. Are we gonna let that happen? Hell no. No. So let me just end with this because the word is getting out that what we are witnessing is the great betrayal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. The great betrayal because what Donald Trump promised on day one
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was gonna reduce prices for groceries, for rent, for housing. That's what he said he'd do on day one, cut prices. What's he doing instead? He's bringing Elon Musk in to do the dirty work, to rig the federal government so it works for people like Elon Musk Yeah. And not everyday Americans.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 7: And in the process, they're trying to make room for tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk at the expense of everybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And so we need to make clear to the American people what's happening here. Are we gonna do that or will we make sure our voices are heard? Yeah. We are. And are we gonna shut down this operation and bet Elon Musk?
Yeah. We are. Thank you all very much for what you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it for senator Chris Van Hollen. Alright. We're gonna hear from some other members of congress. Are y'all are y'all gonna go or you gonna skip this thing tonight? If you decide I'm a put you on the spot.
I'm not I'm going. You're not going you're going?
Speaker 2: I'm going.
Speaker 0: Alright. In the meantime, we're we're we're here
Speaker 1: to evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon.
Alright.
Speaker 3: We're gonna
Speaker 0: stay in Maryland representing, Baltimore County, Congressman Johnny Oseski.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 10: What's up, AFG?
Speaker 2: Hello. Alright.
Speaker 10: When we fight. We win. When we fight. We win. When we fight.
We win. Because we all deserve better. Yeah. Right. Because we all deserve better.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Our employees deserve better.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 10: Americans deserve better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. And I'm going tonight because I'm helping to tell the story of one of your own.
Speaker 3: That's right. Alright. Okay.
Speaker 10: I've got a woman named Katie who's joining me tonight. She was hired under the first Trump administration. She was
Speaker 11: hired she was hired
Speaker 10: at US Fish and Wildlife to help Maryland farmers. She did such an exceptional job that she was promoted. And so when Elon Musk and Doge, under president Trump's directive, took up residence here at OPM, they said, well, you're probationary. Time for you to go. She did nothing wrong.
In fact, she did everything right.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 10: Everything right.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 10: And now who's penalized? Someone who's given her life in service to this country, to Maryland farmers, to Americans, someone who thought that if she did everything right that this country would take care of her. Alright. And instead, we're turning our backs on her. Yes.
So I'm standing with Katie tonight just like I'm standing with our workers today. We're here at Ground 0. This is where Elon set up shop.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 10: And I say I say it's time we send Doge and Elon Musk packing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Because when we fight We will. When we fight We will. When we fight We will. Because we all deserve better.
God bless.
Speaker 2: Thank you. God bless you. Yeah. You, sir. Alright.
Speaker 0: Congressman John Yoshesi, give him another round of applause if you would.
Speaker 1: Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon.
Speaker 0: Our jobs are on the line. The morale of our workers are on the line, and these are workers and families again, many of whom live in this area. We wanna hear from someone else who represents the DMV in Prince George's County, Congressman Glenn Ivey. Right. Alright.
Speaker 6: When we fight We win. When we fight We win. When we fight We win.
Speaker 12: And we're winning. We are winning. The tide's turning. Hey. You just heard a few minutes ago.
They're afraid to do town hall meetings now. Yeah. Yeah. They're afraid. Now we just did one in Prince George's County on Saturday.
AFG was in the house. Right? Right. Y'all showed up, showed out. We had, like, almost a thousand people came out.
Almost a thousand people came out, and we're gonna keep going to the people because we know the people are coming with us. Right? Yeah. And we're winning in the courts too. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. Because your lawyers are doing a fantastic job. Yeah. Matter of fact, we just got a court opinion against these guys on Friday that put an injunction in place.
Right? Yeah. Yeah. Because what they're doing is illegal and unlawful. Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Alright. So the movement continues. We've gotta keep fighting. As you heard a few minutes ago, labor, civil rights, we've done this before. Yeah.
We know how to do this. Right? Yeah. We've done it without the White House before. Right?
Yeah.
Speaker 4: We've done it without
Speaker 12: the senate before. Right? Yeah. We've done it without the house before. Right?
Yeah. And we took them all back, didn't we? That's right. And that's when Barack Obama got elected. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. We can do it again. And it starts tonight. There are gonna be a lot of lies from the White House tonight.
Yeah. A lot of lies down from the podium tonight. Yeah. But we know the truth. Right?
Yeah. That's right. We know that what they're doing is illegal. Right? Yeah.
We know that what they're doing is wrong.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 12: And we know that we're gonna turn it around and win. Right? Yeah. Because when we fight
Speaker 6: We win. When we fight We win. We fight We We win.
Speaker 12: Today, we start winning.
Speaker 4: Have a
Speaker 6: great one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Alright. Thank you, sir.
Always.
Speaker 1: Who are we?
Speaker 13: Who are we?
Speaker 0: American Federation of Government Employees, we have descended here upon the office of personnel management to evict Elon Musk. We're gonna bring another veteran of the civil rights movement with us, former president of NAACP, raised in Baltimore, mentored by the hundredth senator Clarence Mitchell junior. Please welcome now congressman who said he ain't going That's right. To hear the the state of fascism speech tonight. It's not no state of the union.
It's a state of fascism.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah.
Speaker 0: Please welcome congressman Kwaizi Mfume.
Speaker 3: You. Yes, sir. Thank you, Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Let's do one thing if we don't do anything else. Remind America that federal employees are the heart blood of this nation.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 13: They are men and women all over the country in every state of the union Yeah. Who work hard, who play by the rules, who love their country, who cherish their faith, and who do a nonpartisan job day in and day out to make this country work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Let's never let people forget that. No. And never let people forget the union that represents them. Yeah. AFGE.
Yeah. AFGE. AFGE. I wanna thank you president f Kelly for joining me just a few days ago for a tele town hall where we had just under 10,000 people participate. People are upset because they recognize this is an illegal action.
And so you've heard, yes, it will be a legal fight. Yes. Yes. It will be a constitutional fight. Yes.
It will be a fight for the heart, the minds, and the souls of men and women across this country
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 13: Who today are trying to figure out how do I pay the mortgage, how do I buy food, how do I go forward without a job. This notion of getting rid of people without due process is about as anti American as you can ever get.
Speaker 3: That's right. You if
Speaker 13: even if you work for a snake, a snake would tell you, we're getting ready to take your job. Yeah. We want you to start getting ready to move out. Yeah. We're gonna give you three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, whatever.
Yeah. But now, Elon Musk, who really let me just calm myself. I don't wanna say that. Go ahead, sir. So, no, I will not be there tonight.
That's right. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are destroying the state of the union.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I don't know why I should be there to sit and listen to him, try to convince me of otherwise. The people in this building and in federal buildings all across this country, they need support. They need help.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And we can't let them down. No. I know the odds look like they're overwhelming, but that's how most fights look. Yeah. We will win this.
We will resist this, and we will find a way to unify all over this country no matter what state you're in, no matter what department in. When we fight, we win. Alright.
Speaker 0: Okay, ma'am. Against
Speaker 3: you, sir.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna talk to you today. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 0: Kwaizi Mfume, congressman Kwaizi Mfume, give him another round of applause. Still in the fight, And now, the man of the hour who is our leader. Who are
Speaker 1: we? AFTG. Who are we?
Speaker 0: AFTG. As we come here today to protect our federal employees who are besieged by Doge and Elon Musk and his teenagers taking over the office of personnel management. And ain't that an insult to 18 year olds just coming. Don't even know just y'all just numbers. Yeah.
Not people. Yeah. Not human beings. Just some numbers on a piece of paper. Yeah.
That they can try to do something. That that's not that's just not right. Well, these are families. They are faces.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Human beings, families, children.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's right.
Speaker 0: Some of us are taking care of our parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Amen? Amen. And then what are we supposed to do when we can't get our retirement? That's just gonna be forfeiting the thin air so we can go up and out of space somewhere. Yeah.
Please welcome. We're hear from Claude Cummings in a minute. Claude gave me a CWA jacket. I don't
Speaker 6: You look good. I
Speaker 0: don't know. I I'm at the AFGE event. I don't have no AFGE. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's on the way.
Speaker 0: It's okay. Because I'm just wondering. Claude had to give me a CWA jacket because I don't have no AFGE jacket. Ladies and gentlemen, our brother, he's gonna be joining me and Claude in Selma. This this is the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
There was no democracy in America before 1965 because most of us couldn't vote, including women.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: There were no protections for the disabled to get into the voting booth. Yeah. They didn't have rap shit. And now this person comes along and wants to take it all away. So it's important not only for doctor Kelly to be here, but to join us in Selma so we can reclaim our democracy from this fascism.
Please welcome the reverend doctor Everett Kelly, AFGE national president. The I think it went out. Check the mic. It just went out. Mic
Speaker 3: check. Can we
Speaker 14: Fix the sound.
Speaker 11: We're getting it. Sound.
Speaker 3: Say something.
Speaker 0: See if
Speaker 3: it came back. Check
Speaker 2: one two.
Speaker 3: Check one not bad. Mic check? Okay. It's better. There we go.
Well, first of all, I'd like to say thank you to national vice president Otis Johnson and to all the elected officials for being here, the labor leaders. And I want you all to just pause parenthetically and give a round of applause for the workers at OPM. Yeah. It's great to be here with all of you today. My name is Eric Kelly.
I am the proud president of the American Federation of Government Employees representing over 800,000 federal and DC government workers. Right. Now I just left a press conference this morning where the MERIT Act was introduced by representative, TLIB and, Mac McClivre. Now it's designed to reinstate every wrongfully fired federal employee, and LGE will stand behind this bill. That's right.
Now we're here today because there is a job to do, and that job is send Elon Musk and Doge packet. Now, Elon and company like to say that Doge stand for Department of Government Efficiency, but we know that could be further from the truth. Now, truth be told, I don't think Elon Musk and Doge have done one single efficient thing since Trump has been in control of this White House. Or should I say since Elon has been in control of the White House? Because we all know that Elon sits in the big chair.
Uh-oh. And Trump sits in the little chair.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 6: Come on.
Speaker 3: Now, those may stand for many things, but efficiency, it does not. And for these reason, he and his fanboys have got to go.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: What do you say about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, those those stand for disrespect our government employees. Right. Now in my forty four years with AMGE, I have never seen the blatant, disdain, and disrespect for federal employee that we're seeing here today. Now we used to we used to hearing this type of rhetoric from anti worker members of congress and Donald Trump, but mister Twitter finger Uh-huh. Has truly taken things to the next level.
Now one would think that the head of efficiency department would spend some time well more efficiently. Right? Yeah. Nevertheless, he sit behind his phone all day spewing hate, lies, making demands on federal employees, hiding behind OPM's email to taunt and traumatize the members. Now is that efficient?
No. That's not efficient. He spent his time making insulting means and demeaning and discredit the work that all of you do on behalf of the American people. Having followers to troll and antagonize hardworking employees who simply want to do their job.
Speaker 0: Right. Right.
Speaker 3: Do we call that efficient? No. No. FGE, no. It is not efficient.
If one of you spent your time doing what mister Musk does, you would be disciplined. Right?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Now, you you were you if you were going to probationary employee, you would probably be terminated.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what we're here to do, to evict and fire probationary employee, Elon Musk Yeah. And his Twitter followers. Yeah. They need to get out of OPM and out of our government. Yeah.
Yeah. DOGE stand for disrupt over government e fish effectiveness. Yeah. Mister Musk came into the picture to destroy, divide, and disrupt our government, to dismantle the service. You all performed for the American people, and for that I am proud.
He is a puppet master. Come on. And let me tell y'all one thing. God says Come on. I need a prophet that will speak truth to power, not a puppet on a string.
Uh-oh. We came here today to speak truth to power. Now, now, now, my memory jogged me correct. Did we elect Elon Musk? No.
No. Are we gonna keep playing the twisted little game that he's playing? No. No. Now, I've stated several times.
If you wanna find a way to do a job more efficiently, then talk to the people that's doing it.
Speaker 11: That's
Speaker 3: right. Right? But what I've realized, AFGE, is that Elon doesn't care about efficiency. No. He doesn't care about federal workers, and he doesn't care about the American people.
Now before we evict evict mister Musk and Doge from 1PM, our entire government, let me give you approximately five bullet points of how LGE and federal workers are gonna win this war.
Speaker 0: Come on now.
Speaker 3: Number one. Uh-huh. We're gonna fight back. That's right. Let me hear you say it.
We're gonna fight back. We're gonna fight back. We're gonna fight against all of these attacks on our jobs, our dignity, and our unions. That's right. Number two.
We're gonna protest. Protest. We're gonna rally. Rally. And we're speak truth to power.
Yeah. Against the vision and disruption. That's right. We're gonna, number three, call on congress. Alright.
Tell them to do their blame job. Uh-oh. Yes. Uh-oh. Did y'all hear what I said?
Yeah. I'm a country boy and I like to say it like it is, blame job. Okay. They need to do their job. Elon Musk don't give a care about no one in this country.
Number four, we want them to do their job. Are y'all with me? Yeah. Say do your job. Do your job.
Now, number five, we're gonna stand united and we're gonna stand together as one federal government, as one union. We're gonna stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow civil servant because when you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
Speaker 0: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna allow them to divide us. No. Never. We will never be defeated. Now we're gonna let this big and a bully and his followers disrespect and demean us.
No. Are we gonna stand together? Are we gonna stay in this fight? Yes. Now it's gonna be tough.
But one thing I know, weeping may endure for the night. Uh-huh. For joy. Uh-huh. Joy come in the morning.
Come on. Yes. The morning is gonna come. Let me tell you one thing else as I close. Uh-huh.
There is an old scripture Uh-huh. That said when the enemy comes in as a flood Uh-huh. I have raised up a standard against it. That standard is a reminder that God had done it before and he will do it again. Will he do it again?
Yes. Will we do it? Yes. We will do it. Stand strong.
Last two words.
Speaker 6: And
Speaker 3: I need you all to do it. Take your time. Last two words. Evict. Elon.
Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon. Elon.
Evict. Elon. Elon. And his puppet masters.
Speaker 1: Evict. Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon.
Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon. Elon.
Speaker 0: Alright. Let's hear it for the national president. Alright. Yeah. Doctor Edward Kelly.
We will hear now from the Metro Metropolitan DC AFL CIO President Samuel Epps, my brother. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Afternoon. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3: That's what
Speaker 15: we need. One day longer, one day stronger. Right?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 15: So we're gonna be a lot stronger than they are, and we're do it one day longer. I'm just here on behalf of the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL CIO, Sam Epps, representing a 50 affiliate unions across DC, Prince George's County, Maryland, Montgomery, and Southern Maryland, where where many of you here at AFGE live, work, and have church and worship there. And what we're saying at the Metro Council, we stand in solidarity with you. We will fight across all of our affiliates from teachers to housekeepers to electricians, we are here with you now because we know what it is doing to to you. You're directly impacted, but it impacts all of our communities here.
DC just released revenue estimates that they will have to cut $1,000,000,000 by 2028 because of federal workers that are not here working and doing their jobs here in DC. Yeah. Right? And so what we know that is, that'll be Head Start. That'll be teachers pay.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 15: That'll be first responders pay. Right? Hotel workers won't have people staying in the hotels because they come visit you all to get things done with federal government here. Yeah. And so we are standing with you.
And our community service agency, the Metropolitan Washington Council has stood up a solidarity fund for impacted Thank you. Impacted federal workers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: And you can go to our website at dclabor.org, and you can access that. We have some criteria, but we are trying to be helpful there with everyone who's impacted by this this this craziness. And what we're gonna do is we're going to evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon.
Thank you. We're in solid air. Samuel
Speaker 0: Epps, Mitch Paul and Washington, AFL CIO. Yeah. He he's talking about home rule and statehood. Right. Amen?
And what did Trump say? He wants to do away with home rule altogether.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: So that affects us all too, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: He's right. We lose
Speaker 2: more
Speaker 0: per capita
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 0: Because of folk who aren't here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. But yet we serve and benefit them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: You know, this is historic.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: When doctor Kelly speaks, brother F speaks, and some of the other speakers. Our grandparents, some of them migrated from the South
Speaker 2: Yeah. To
Speaker 0: go get jobs in Detroit, in Chicago, in Milwaukee, in industry. Yeah. But then some of them came here
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To be civil servants and serve that that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And work their way up through the ranks Yes. So that we could finally have in some of these unions, some of these labor unions
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: People who represent our great grandparents.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've never had so many women and people of color Yeah. In these positions.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Like in Everett Kelly
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And like our brother here, this was a big fight, a long fight, we're glad he's here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: This means a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To have the president of the Communications Workers of America. It means a lot. Yeah. To be Claude Cummings, to have him in that position. Give him a round of applause.
Yeah. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. We fight. Win.
When we fight We win. When we fight We win. And we're gonna win. Let's give president Kelly a round of applause for his leadership. Yeah.
And certainly, Mark, we appreciate you. Yeah. So I am here today to let you know the CWA members and retirees have your back.
Speaker 2: Alright. Simple as that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We depend on experienced, qualified fellow workers every single day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We need an independent OPM to make sure that our fellow workforce remains merit based. Yeah. Donald Trump and JD Vance want to look at voting records instead of resumes
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To decide who is qualified to make sure our water is safe to drink. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: To see that our parents' social security gets deposited on time Yeah. To provide our veterans with health care they need Yes. Does that make sense at all? No. Hell no.
It does not make any sense. We cannot allow this administration to hand control of our civil service system over to the political appointees at the White House. Yeah. Simple as that. The chaos and confusion that Donald Trump thrives on doesn't help working people one damn bit.
That's Not one bit. Yeah. Throwing qualified public servants to the curb doesn't do anything to lower prices or create good jobs or help our kids get a good education. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 4: Do you know who it does help? It helps the people who want to turn every part of our lives into an opportunity for private gain. Yeah. That's what it help. It helps the people who want to rip us off Yeah.
And put our taxes in their own pockets. Yeah. It helps the people who who are billionaires, who run huge corporations and look at public services as a money making opportunity. Donald Trump and the billionaires who put him in office think they have answers to no one but themselves. Yeah.
But that's not true.
Speaker 2: That's
Speaker 4: right. Our country belongs to the people who go to work every day Yeah. And who take pride in their jobs. Yeah. It belongs to the people Yeah.
Who want the freedom to be themselves Yeah. Who want hope for a brighter future for themselves Yeah. And their families. Yeah. Our country belongs to us.
Say that. Our country belongs to us.
Speaker 3: Our country belongs to us.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna use every tool we have to prevent the billionaires and the bullets from taking control. So I got some questions for you.
Speaker 3: I'm going
Speaker 2: to answer them.
Speaker 3: Are we
Speaker 4: going to let them destroy the civil service?
Speaker 3: No. Are we
Speaker 4: going to let them divide us? No. Are we going to fight? Yes. And we're gonna win because when we fight We win.
When we fight We win. When we fight We win. Let's win. Thank you. Bless you, brother.
Speaker 0: Claude Claude Cummings, CWA president, now president Cummings and president Kelly. Can I can I announce the surprise? Yeah. So President Kelly and President Cummings told me that every member of Congress that does not go to speech tonight, they're gonna take him out to dinner. So so so so so you got you got a dinner date tonight because he congressman Byer told me he ain't going, so he's gonna be here you go.
Here's where he wants somebody going dinner. Congressman Don Byer from Virginia, give him a round of applause.
Speaker 11: Here, I thought I was eating at McDonald's tonight. I am not going to the speech tonight
Speaker 13: Alright. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Because, you know, I do respect the tradition of the State of the Union address. It's a good time to come together. But this president has shown nothing but contempt for the US congress, nothing but contempt for The US people. Yeah. You wanna know what makes America great?
It's that building right behind us, the people that work here. Yeah. When you think about the governments around the world that don't work, you think the countries that don't work, it's because their governments don't work.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: And, you know, I I can't compete with these guys. They're they're they're so wonderful. Time. I can always speak from my heart. Yeah.
My grandparents came here to work for the federal government.
Speaker 0: Yes, sir.
Speaker 11: My grandmother with the Department of Labor for fifty years. My grandfather, Department of War. Other grandfather, Department of Interior. Wow. My dad was career army.
My wife worked for State Department. Just lost her job. Wow. And we we understand that it is the quality of our federal workforce that makes our country strong in
Speaker 2: every Yes, sir.
Speaker 11: And instead, what we have is Elon who got us exactly backwards. And somehow, they think that by just firing people, by taking over OPM's job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And just throwing everybody out. Yeah. They've missed it. It's the ready fire aim. I mean, it always makes sense to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: But the people who know about the waste, fraud, and abuse are the people right here.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: People that do the job day in and day Yeah. And we're fighting as hard as we know how on Capitol Hill. We have more than a hundred lawsuits. We've won about 25 of them already.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: We have to hope they hold with the Supreme Court. Yeah. We are gonna do everything we possibly can to lift you up. It's the whole notion of the people that are most valuable are the people that have given up their careers, given their their lives. Almost every one of you can make more money selling cars.
I promise you that. We're we're working on it. But instead, you're taking a lower pay in order to serve the American people.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 11: And and we are deeply, deeply grateful. Yeah. And please be hopeful. We are not gonna lose this.
Speaker 3: We're not. We're not. We're not.
Speaker 11: We're here today, but this is a marathon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: You know, we're we're making progress each and every day.
Speaker 0: That's right.
Speaker 11: What we can't do is be so afraid, so depressed, so so lost because we have to be hopeful, we have to be courageous, we have to fight back in every way that we do. Yep. And when we do that, we're gonna send Elon back to South Africa, which he came from illegally, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Speaker 11: And we're gonna make sure that we have the federal government workforce that really makes America ever stronger, ever stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And, and by the way, when we take back the house, we're gonna pass the PRO Act.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Alright. And we're gonna
Speaker 11: put this in law so that we respect our workers, all
Speaker 14: of our
Speaker 11: workers, especially our federal workers
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: To make sure that we come together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: By the way, I I've been a businessman for a long time. A long time ago, I figured out the only thing I have to sell is the work that the people I work with do. Yeah. That if if I have people who are motivated and well treated and well respected Yes. Like each other, feel like like they are lifted up, they do a really good job.
Speaker 16: Yes,
Speaker 11: sir. And when you tell them that they're dirt, that they're not important, that they, then they don't do such a good job.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: That's right. I just wanna say that if I were Elon Musk, and thank goodness I'm not, I would do it the exact opposite way. I'd be coming to Everett
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 11: And others and say, how do we make this workforce happy, productive, respected, well paid, and lifting up every service that we provide to the American people? You are the the people who serve America. You are America. Yeah. And I'm so grateful to be a small part of this.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Congressman Don Byer, who's not going to the state of fascism address tonight, and and I'm glad he brought up South Africa. They wanna relitigate apartheid.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Elon Musk is representing a government in a country that's long gone apartheid South Africa. Yeah. Donald Trump is representing another country, not this one that still exists.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: I I'm saying that. That's that's not I put that on him. You blame me for saying that.
Speaker 2: That's That's alright. It's okay.
Speaker 0: If y'all get a minute, watch the mini not the it's the television series out a few years ago Yeah. Called The Americans.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Y'all know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 0: Y'all need to watch that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Because because you government can't function if you fire everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 0: So why would you not want it to function?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Yeah. You wanted to bring it down.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 11: That's
Speaker 0: right. For the benefit of someone else. Amen?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: So we gotta be we gotta be very, clear about that in in in what we're looking at. And just one other thing since he brought it up. He's reminiscing about apartheid South South Africa while he decimates Africa today. Yeah. These electronic devices that we use run on batteries.
His car is Tesla.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Laptops run on batteries made from minerals in The Congo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Mined by slave labor and child labor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. So we gotta keep that in mind too. Now wait a minute now. Wait a minute. Know your history.
Labor.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
Speaker 0: Made the difference in ending apartheid. Yeah. His old country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Labor got Nelson Mandela out of prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's right.
Speaker 0: So we might need labor again to save the Congo.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And get Elon Musk out of here. Amen?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Randy Irwin of the National Federation is with us. Give him a round of applause.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Randy. Alright. Thank you.
You. You. Brother. Alright.
Speaker 8: Thank you
Speaker 2: for having me. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Proud to stand here with AMG District fourteen. Appreciate you. I'm Randy Irwin, national president and nephew. Represent a 10,000 federal workers nationwide. First, I wanna thank all the federal employees for the incredible work that you do for this country every day.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Alright. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: People forget the important work.
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Keeping our military ready. Yeah. Caring for our veterans. Yeah. Caring for our national parks
Speaker 2: and
Speaker 8: forests and public lands. Yeah. Main maintaining our homeland security Yeah. Clean air, clean water Yeah. Safe food, safe air travel Yeah.
Secure borders
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Secure passports
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir.
Speaker 8: And so much more.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Affordable housing.
Speaker 8: Affordable housing. Yeah. But federal employees Yeah. Your work is what makes America great. Yeah.
You are the backbone of this country. Yeah. And so many, this administration and then and fools in congress have forgotten that. Yeah. So NEFFE is proud to stand with AMG today and tell Elon Musk and his Doge cronies, you should not be at OPM.
Get out of here. Yeah. Pack your crap and get out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 8: You don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Go ahead, man. They don't know what they're doing. They're breaking the law, and they're undermining every federal agency out there that is doing critical, often life saving work for the American people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: We've seen them file fire wildland firefighters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are
Speaker 8: you kidding me? Air traffic controllers and other FAA folks keeping our air traffic safe. Are you kidding me? Yeah. VA suicide hotline workers.
Yes. How can you do this? How how are you kidding me? Nuclear regulators. The list goes on and on.
Yeah. So they sent a fork in the road to to that fork in the road email to 90% of federal workers out there.
Speaker 11: Do
Speaker 8: you know how irresponsible irresponsible that is? Yeah. Come on. Yeah. We're tired of it.
Speaker 3: Tired of it.
Speaker 8: We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies weaponizing OPM for a doge agenda. Yeah. We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies forcing a usually meticulously law abiding agency like OPM to do things that are illegal. Yeah. We're tired of OPM of Elon Musk and his cronies accessing highly sensitive personal information of our members and not caring for that information.
You're right. We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies sidelining the dedicated civil servants that work in this building. Yeah. I've been working for with them for twenty four years. They do great work.
Yeah. And they're sidelining them to break the law. Yeah. The work being done by the federal government is serious work. Yeah.
DOGE doesn't take what is done seriously. Yeah. So they can't be here at OPM putting the sticks in the spokes of our government.
Speaker 3: That's right, sir.
Speaker 8: Every day that Elon Musk and his cronies are here, they are doing irreparable harm
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: To the federal government.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: And by the way, Trump and Doge, to do these things, he is violating the law. He is violating his the president, by allowing Doge to do this, is violating his oath of office. Yeah. Under section two Yeah. Article three of the constitution Yes, sir.
Constitution Yes, sir. The president has to faithfully execute the laws of this country.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And he is not doing that. No. The American people should be pissed about this. I don't care who you voted for.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 8: So now we have new number, new number. A 75,000 federal workers have now either been laid off or forced into a, you know, a deferred resignation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Okay? That's that's terrible.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 8: true. Among them, we've got over 50,000 veterans
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: That are now jobless
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Because of these jerks. Yeah. Okay? That's unacceptable. 50,000 jobless veterans.
I can't believe that. And their aim no. They they have not taken their foot off the gas. They wanna lay off 75% of the federal workforce. Yeah.
If they're successful, that'll be half a million middle class veterans jobless because of these heartless sons of guns over here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Come Come on.
Speaker 8: And I just wanna touch on the hypocrisy of Elon Musk. Yeah. This guy put out a tweet a couple weeks ago calling people on federal programs and federal workers part of the parasite class. Yeah. Did you see this?
Yeah. Okay. There's not a person in this country who has benefited more from federal programs than Elon Musk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: Okay? Right. Yet he's gonna call 9,100,000 veterans on veterans programs parasites.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: They're not parasites. They're heroes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah. He's gonna call 77% of people on Social Security are seniors that rely Social Security to be kept out of poverty. He's gonna call them parasites? Hell no.
Speaker 3: No. No. And
Speaker 8: at this point, we know that this doge effort has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency. No. He has been running out off the best and brightest in government. A lot of these folks that were probationary workers were only probationary workers because they got promoted into into new positions.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 8: Some of them have been with the federal government for decades. They're the best and brightest. The list goes on. Worse maybe worst of all, he is creating a toxic work environment in the federal government. Folks, this is not a recipe for efficiency.
This is a recipe for disaster. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 8: So, you know, after nine eleven, the terrorist attack, we said never forget. And right now, we are telling the dedicated workers that keep our country safe. We've we've told them to scram, and and we are we are forgetting the hard lessons learned from nine and 09:11.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It should not take another terrorist attack for for this country to wake up and say this garbage has to stop.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: And and the worst part of it all is that these cuts don't really have to happen. Elon Musk was in the in in the, Oval Office the other day, with a cabinet saying, oh, well, if we don't have all these cuts, well, we're gonna we're gonna go bankrupt. That's not true. They're pushing through a 4,500,000,000,000 tax cut for the only the only the wealthiest in Americans will benefit from that, and they're doing that concurrently. We're not we're not going broke if they're trying to push through the biggest tax cut in history.
Get lost with that crap.
Speaker 3: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 8: Alright. So so, Doge, pack your crap and get out.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 8: You don't know what you're doing. Yeah. You're putting people in danger. Yeah. The dough's gotta go from OPM.
Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Appreciate you.
Speaker 0: Appreciate you. Appreciate you.
Speaker 8: You for your Thank time.
Speaker 0: Amen. Let's hear it again for Randy Irwin. Give him another round of applause. Alright. All of us here in solidarity together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Let's hear now from Brittany Anderson of Pride at Work. Alright. Where's
Speaker 2: Brittany? Alright, Brittany.
Speaker 0: There you
Speaker 4: are. Hi.
Speaker 0: Thank brother. Okay. Come on now. Alright.
Speaker 17: Good afternoon, siblings.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My
Speaker 17: name is Brittany Anderson, and I'm a proud union queer.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 17: Yeah. Yeah. I serve as the interim executive director of Pride at Work, which is the labor movement's organizing hub for LGBTQIA plus workers and union members, including many members of AFGE and other federal workers. I wanna thank president Kelly and all of you, the membership of AFGE for your leadership
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 17: In this cross roads in our American history and for the work that you do every single day to make our country, our economy, and our communities function. My mother is a federal worker in rural Missouri. So it makes me particularly angry to see billionaires who only got where they are because their daddies were rich claiming to know anything about real work or who is qualified to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
Speaker 17: Let's be clear about the lies Trump and Elon tell about the office of personnel management. OPM protects merit based jobs.
Speaker 2: Yes. That's right.
Speaker 17: So and let's also talk about why Trump and Musk and MAGA Republicans tell these lies. The attacks on federal workers, on transgender kids and adults, on immigrants, on black Americans are an intentional strategy
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Right. To divide the working class.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Yep.
Speaker 17: The ultra wealthy and the politicians they buy want to distract us from their real agenda
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Which is to lower wages.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 17: Bust unions.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And make our health care more expensive. Yeah. So they can keep lining our their pockets with the profits.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 17: But we aren't falling for it. No. No. No. When we see these tactics for what they are, we can join together across our differences to build a properly funded government
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And an economy that works for all of us, whether we are black or brown, Asian, white or Latino, native or newcomer, trans or cis, straight or queer, a person of faith or not. And to build that better future, we need to protect and invest in our federal workforce, not dismantle it. From the Pullman sleeping cars to Selma to Stonewall Yeah. We will build a government, country, and economy where all of us can thrive, no exceptions. Yes.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it. Let's hear it for Britney again.
Speaker 3: Alright. Alright. This
Speaker 0: this obsession the White House has with our LGBTQIA community. Britney is here. We are here Yeah. Because labor is here. Yeah.
And a lot of what Britney is saying that we need to keep building, we've already built. That's what they wanna take away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've come too far Yeah. To to turn back now. Amen? Right. Thank you, Brenda.
Give her another round of applause.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 0: Now we wanna hear representing black voters. Where's Danielle? Black voters matter. Danielle Brown. Come on, Danielle.
Speaker 2: Danielle. Danielle. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 14: Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is Danielle Brown. I'm the national co field director for black voters matter. But more importantly, I'm an AFGE girl.
Speaker 3: Come on. Alright. Alright. By
Speaker 14: way of local seventeen thirty eight out of Salisbury, North Carolina where I got my organizing skills Yeah. And my labor skills.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 14: So you learn from the best. Yeah. Today, I wanna focus on two words. One is civil, the other is service. Wow.
Because there's been nothing civil about firing government workers who have done nothing but serve this country.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There has been nothing civil about gutting benefits that leave children starving and illiterate.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about making veterans who have served this country wait for treatment because there's no one to service their needs.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about dismantling the postal service and crippling our mail system.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about DEI being used as a resource to define hatred, racism, and bigotry.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 14: There has been nothing civil that has come out of this federal government since January.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So today, we focus on what is civil. What is civil is continuing to fight for voting rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: What is civil is continuing to fight for organizing rights.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: What is civil is continuing to fight for our rights
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: As government employees
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Here in this community.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 14: As we continue to fight and as we say in black lord black voters matter, we fight back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See? Come on. How?
Speaker 14: Black voters matter not only stands with our union siblings, but we are in the fight with you in the communities across 30 cut across 30 different states
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Here in this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We are not about to stand for someone that will that continues to abuse the power through blatant racism, fascism that seeks to devour our democracy. Yeah. Democracy. Yeah. This has been an embarrassment
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: To the voting rights and to the work that each one of us have put in in 2024 when we knocked on doors, when we made phone calls, and when we said go to the polls. Yeah. This has been an embarrassment to our country
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: As a whole. Yeah. So we stand today here with here with all of our gov our government employees
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 14: And our siblings to say that we will continue to fight back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Let's see it for Danielle Brown once again. Black voters matter. Yeah. Well, okay. You know, I don't have no black voters matter jacket either.
Y'all see them nasty jacket today? Yeah. We got to have a jacket meeting. I just I'd be remiss. I should have said it when Kwaizi was here, but looking at Claude and others who are members of the of the NAACP family, we wanna just lift up the name of mama Hazel Dukes Yeah.
Yeah. Who was a stalwart
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: And and helped to consummate the marriage between civil rights and labor. Amen? Yeah. So we lift her up for her ninety years of over ninety years of service
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To our people. Amen?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Amen.
Speaker 0: We got some retirees here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We got a few retirees? Yeah. Look, folks, retired still out here, but you never retired from the struggle, do you?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Reggie Booth. Come on, brother. Brother well, give Reggie brother Reggie a round of applause. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 16: Alright, Reggie. Afternoon, everybody. I appreciate you all coming out here, and I'm really low low shook up right now. I re recently retired, you know, from the government. I did six years in the in the air force.
Was part of it. Tell me back up. Come on. Okay. Can y'all hear me now?
Yeah. Okay. Like I said, dealing with with some frustrates, especially when I heard him mention the the 50,000 veterans that that have lost their their their their jobs Mhmm. Since all of this this is going on. You know, we every everybody should be upset about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: You know, just like even when he mentioned, lest we never forget, you know, nine eleven. When nine eleven happened, I was, working at the Pentagon. And I was a a maintenance person. And for, you know, everybody else you know, a lot of folk were able to go home, but those of us on the maintenance side had to had to stay there and go inside of that that that blast zone to make sure that we secure water valves for the air conditioning heating and for the fire department, you know, to put out the fire so that the building could continue to remain open as the generals and everybody flew in order to be able to prepare for us to go over overseas and kick ass of those who had just attacked us. So so to hear that, you know, it's very frustrating because a lot of people were lined up, you know, after that to go over and fight for their their their country.
And and a lot a lot of them didn't come back. Yeah. But that's that's something they they wanted to do, and a lot of them did come back. And a lot of those, they they they come came back. You know, they deal with the the mental and the physical scars that they bought back.
Also, you know, there are those of us here that deal with whether mental or or or physical scars, you know, that began, you know, while we were in the military and continued on a lot of time. You know, we you kinda keep those things, you know, to ourself. I retired January eleventh of this year. I'm relying on this building right here to remain open. Yeah.
You know, when I when I have to go and and log on every day and wait and see the disc come or wait and see the dot come or you you you look and you know you you they said your pay gonna be there, but your pay isn't there. But but you also, you know, get numbers to call, but no no one answers because of the fact that everything is, you know, is is downsizing so quickly. I I I I feel sorry for everybody who works here right now, not knowing from day to day, whether when they come here, whether they they they'll the the fake handshakes that they're being greeted with Yeah. To try to make it look like want want you all to think that everything is fine up in here, you know, when it when it's really not. It's a lot of frustration.
It's a lot of a lot of fear. You got childcare, whatever you wanna say, being, you know, ran up in here right now, young people basically trying to put down those who've been working here all of these years and make it seem like somebody 18, 19 years old could come in here and have the the the the experience that that that you have, and and and that's just not, you know, that's that's that's not so. Right. You know, I wrote some things down. Like I said, I'm fraud so so frustrated, but I'm just trying to make sure, you know, that that, that keep everything, in here.
Op you know, what I said, OPM, just like other agencies that are an attacker, need to keep employees safe and ensure there are adequate policies that don't fluctuate based on who's in the in the in the White House. Regardless of who the president is right now, Musk, Trump, whatever. We all know, you know, what's going on.
Speaker 11: Mhmm.
Speaker 16: The mass firing, the risks that are taking place are going to place past and present government employees in harm's way. We need the services provided by OPM to remain fully operational as a government.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 13: Let me
Speaker 16: say that again. We need the services provided by OPM to remain fully operational as a government. Yeah. I've spoke I spoke with veterans and non veterans alike at OPM, and they are worried, not just about themselves, but about the harms Americans will face now and in the future.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: It's gonna get much worse for employees as OPM continues to be ground zero, and they are ground zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: OPM is ground zero
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 16: For the onslaught of attacks on hardworking government employees Yeah. And other federal federal agencies. Many who have served their country are now being spat upon and forced out of the doors as buildings are being taken over. Support OPM. Yeah.
Yeah. OPM. Yeah. Support OPM.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: We need them to remain independent from the White House and Doge. Evict Doge. Get the fork out of OPM. Okay.
Speaker 0: Support OPM. Support OPM. Support OPM. Support OPM. OPM.
Speaker 2: Support OPM.
Speaker 0: Now wait a minute. Did Reggie say that they run their daycare? Did you say that? That might be the line of the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Guess give Reggie another round of applause.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And lastly, one of the individuals affected, you can't help but know. It's we're like one at the most, two people removed from someone who's affected by we all know somebody Yeah.
Speaker 8: Who's
Speaker 0: been affected by this. And here to close us out, our dear sister, who is just one such person
Speaker 3: Alright.
Speaker 0: Who was in that category of probationary employee. Yes. Why don't you come and tell us? Shanice Mundell is gonna tell her story. Come on, Alright,
Speaker 2: sis. Sorry. Hello,
Speaker 17: everybody. Hello.
Speaker 9: Name is Shanice Mundell. I live in Maryland. I was an employee of OPM. I'm I'm a union member, chapter thirty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I'm also a veteran.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 9: And Yeah. A mom I'm I'm a mom of three kids. My youngest one is 17. I as of, you know, February 13, I was employed OPM member. I protected the postal workers that deliver your mail every day.
Yes. During rain, sleet, snow, sunshine, I was one of the employees that made sure they were protected to get the mail to you. Thank you. Thank you. Right now, I just wanna bring awareness to everyone out here of what's going on.
I was fired thirty minutes before the end of my day
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 9: Through a video email. Wow. It was a prerecorded email telling me in thirty minutes, I I 03:00, I would have to I would be terminated. I had to gather up my things. I would receive a follow-up email regarding my termination.
So now I'm unemployed. I don't know what kind of efficiency, Elon Musk thinks he's doing, taking people from their jobs, putting them on unemployment No. Making them have to apply for SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: You know, we we're we just wanted to go to work every day and do our jobs. Yeah. You know, I I don't I don't know what's going on. We're living in an upside downtown right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But I I do know this is not going to defeat me.
Speaker 3: That's right. Right.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna let it stop me. I'm actually thinking about running for something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Come on. So Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 9: now they have a problem on their hands because I'm gonna keep amplifying my voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.
Speaker 9: So, you know, just keep us in your prayers. And as the smart, beautiful Kamala Harris said, we will not go back.
Speaker 2: Alright. We are not going back. We're
Speaker 3: not going back.
Speaker 8: Not at all.
Speaker 3: We ain't going back. Bless you. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it for Shanice Mandel, who we're proud had the courage out here to come out today and announce her candidacy for president of The United States in 2020. Let's give her another round of applause. Amen. See what y'all did? She was just trying too.
See what y'all did? She was just trying to come work at OPM every day, and y'all done radicalized her to run for president. You're gonna regret that. You're regret it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We want everyone to encourage their members
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Of congress, their elected officials to support h r four nine two, the save the civil service act.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Is that right?
Speaker 2: That's what
Speaker 3: it's called? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Alright. We wanna thank everybody for being here. This won't be the last time.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: We're keep our heads up. When we fight, we win.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon.
Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Who are we? AFGD. Who are we?
AFGD. Who are we?
@amuse - @amuse
DOGE: The government spent $8M painting Black Lives Matter on the street in Washington DC?!?!? https://t.co/q3flCmcdY9
Video Transcript AI Summary
I was unaware of the Black Lives Matter plaza, but given recent government spending, I'd estimate its cost at $1.5 million. I was shocked to learn it actually cost $8 million.
As a small business owner, it's disappointing to see that amount spent, considering our operating costs, employee pay, and taxes.
I don't think removing the Black Lives Matter Plaza will hugely affect the Black community.
As for renaming it, I would rename it to All Lives Matter.
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Speaker 0: How much do you think the Black Lives Matter plaza cost to put on the street? So I wasn't aware of the plaza, but
Speaker 1: with the things that I've been seeing recently with the costs of different things that the government is spending money on and initiatives, I would say $1,500,000 It actually costs $8,000,000
Speaker 0: How do you how do you feel about the government spending that much money on a Black Lives Matter plaza?
Speaker 1: So it's really difficult for me because we are small business owners. Thinking about what it costs for us to operate and pay our employees for money to be spent like that and the taxes that we have to pay as small business owners is pretty disappointing.
Speaker 0: How do you feel like the removal of the Black Lives Matter Plaza will affect the Black community?
Speaker 1: Probably not in a hugely significant way. I can't imagine that it would. I mean
Speaker 0: Do you think we should rename the Black Lives Matter Plaza for something else? What would you rather rename it to? All lives matter.
reSee.it AI Summary
Elon Musk is more than just an electric car mogul; he's seen as a threat to democracy by protesters in Chicago. The "Takedown Tesla" march targeted Musk’s proposed Department of Government Efficiency, which critics argue aims to dismantle federal oversight and empower billionaires. Protesters want Tesla to become a symbol of corporate greed, similar to other controversial brands. This movement highlights broader concerns about the influence of Trump's billionaire allies on public services and accountability. Our tax dollars support Musk's empire, and the fight against this power grab is just beginning.
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Tesla’s Takedown: Chicago Protesters Declare War on Musk’s Billionaire Power Grab If you still think Elon Musk is just a guy who makes electric cars, you’re not paying attention. Downtown Chicago just erupted, and the message was clear as a blaring Cybertruck horn: Musk isn’t just a businessman—he’s a billionaire executioner, axing federal agencies while playing kingmaker for Trump’s second-term demolition crew. The ‘Takedown Tesla’ protest, led by Indivisible Chicago, wasn’t just a march—it was a declaration of war. Protesters stormed Michigan Avenue straight to Tesla’s Streeterville dealership, waving signs like “Launch Musk to Mars” and “Democracy Dies with DOGE”. Their target? Musk’s dystopian Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—a Trojan horse designed to gut federal jobs, erase oversight, and turn public services into billionaire chew toys.
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Why the Uproar? 🔥 Musk’s “Efficiency” is a Hostile Takeover The U.S. government isn’t a startup, but Musk is running it like one—firing thousands, dismantling regulation, and grabbing more unchecked power. DOGE isn’t about cutting waste—it’s about cutting everyone but the billionaires out of the equation.
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Tesla: The New MAGA Uniform? Protesters are pushing to make Tesla the next corporate pariah—think Chick-fil-A or MyPillow. The message? If you’re driving a Tesla, people should know exactly what side of history you’re on.
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club This isn’t just about Musk—it’s about Trump’s entire billionaire class, using “government cuts” as a smokescreen to consolidate wealth and kill accountability. First, they strip public services to the bone—then they sell them back to you at a premium.
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Chicago just drew the battle lines. The only question is: who’s next?
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
‘Takedown Tesla’ protest: Hundreds gather in Chicago to criticize spending cuts by Elon Musk and Donald Trump
Hundreds of people gathered downtown to protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s government spending cuts, carrying signs that read “Launch Musk to Mars” and “Democracy Dies with DOGE.”
chicagotribune.com
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Our tax dollars built his empire and it’s also our tax dollars protecting his empire. https://t.co/CRi2Cp2lwK
@allenanalysis - Brian Allen
Stay ahead of the curve—because by the time the media catches up, it’s old news. Hit follow for real-time updates, tap the bell icon for instant alerts, and if you want deep dives with razor-sharp analysis, follow @allenanalysis. No fluff. No spin. Just the unfiltered truth.
@SaveUSAKitty - MAGA Kitty
Of course he gets paid…🤷🏼♀️
@nataliegwinters - Natalie Winters
🚨 Soros-funded group exposed for paying protestors to oppose DOGE! https://t.co/wobZeUg7qq
Video Transcript AI Summary
Grassroots Democrats, mirroring tactics used to engage with their own representatives, are now targeting senators to prevent a government shutdown. Groups like Indivisible are focusing their resources on pressuring senators to hold the line against Trump.
Indivisible is framing their efforts through the lens of Musk or us. They are reimbursing protesters, whether at town halls or elsewhere, hundreds of dollars for criticizing the Trump administration and supporting senators who might prevent a government shutdown.
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Speaker 0: Is where the sort of grassroots Democrats are on this. Right? If you look in the same way that our audience knows just how we hound our senators, our representatives, you're seeing the same exact thing go down now with the Democrat grassroots, for example. Right? These groups that were organizing those town halls to oppose Doge groups like Indivisible.
They have shepherded all their resources. They have rallied the troops, and they are descending not just upon Washington, but into these districts to really go. Or I guess, these states to go after these senators to make sure that they hold the line and basically force Trump into a shutdown. That is sort of the line, the the angle of attack that they're taking. I wanna put the pictures up on screen for you, Steve, though.
Groups like Indivisible, particularly, they shut down their framing it through the lens of Musk or us. And they are now offering they are reimbursing protesters, whether it's at town halls or wherever it may be, hundreds of dollars for daring to come out and criticize the Trump administration and just basically support these senators who are not going to potentially join that, you know, gang of eight and help avert a government shutdown. So I
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
🚨Sen Joni Ernst gets booed after she announces that DOGE has saved American taxpayers $115 billion since January. Keep it up, Democrats. You’re doing just great. https://t.co/Pflpt310Ad
Video Transcript AI Summary
Since January, Doge has saved $115 billion. This amounts to $714 per taxpayer.
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Speaker 0: Iowa. Mister president, since January, Doge has saved $115,000,000,000. That's that's amounts to Order. Please. That amounts to $714 per taxpayer.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
The Elon Musk Tesla protests ARE PAID Watch as these protesters pick through a pile of pre-made signs provided to them. This is all BEING FUNDED by Democrat donors and activist NGO groups. We demand investigations and accountability into the money trail https://t.co/0gbH63GPEZ
@cb_doge - DogeDesigner
First, they targeted Elon Musk, then DOGE, then Tesla, and now 𝕏. This is nothing more than a coordinated attack against Elon, funded by forces who do not want to see America win under Trump. https://t.co/CVtd2sU6uC
@pr0ud_americans - 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇
Tesla protesters spotted with scripted chants on paper, per Jason Rantz. Ties into today's "Tesla Takedown" protests worldwide against Elon Musk’s DOGE role. Organized? Sure seems like it. https://t.co/D8dwQCPy5Q
reSee.it AI Summary
I uncovered a network of 24 Democrat-aligned organizations orchestrating protests against Elon Musk and Tesla, with revenues exceeding $124 million. These events, presented as grassroots movements, are actually coordinated efforts using platforms like ActionNetwork and Mobilize.us. Key players include the Indivisible Project, Democratic Socialists of America, MoveOn.org, and Swing Left. At a Virginia protest, demonstrators displayed Democratic signs and called for Musk's deportation, revealing the political nature of these actions and challenging the narrative of nonpartisan activism.
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸 INVESTIGATION REVEALS MASSIVE DEMOCRAT-LINKED PROTEST MACHINE BEHIND TESLA TAKEDOWN After nationwide protests targeting Elon and Tesla, former WSJ reporter Asra Nomani uncovered a network of 24 Democrat-aligned organizations behind the scenes, with revenues over $124 million. Marketed as spontaneous grassroots anger, these "Tesla Takedown" protests are actually coordinated "AstroTurf" events run through platforms like ActionNetwork and Mobilize .us, closely tied to Democratic Party activism. Among key organizers: Indivisible Project, Democratic Socialists of America, MoveOn .org, and Swing Left. At a protest in Virginia, demonstrators openly displayed Democratic signage and called for Elon's deportation. Nomani’s investigation challenges the narrative of nonpartisan activism, exposing this effort as top-down political theater. Source: @AsraNomani, @zerohedge
Video Transcript AI Summary
Speaker 1 expresses a negative opinion of someone, questioning where she was born and stating he was born in India. He claims to receive many spam calls from India attempting to defraud elderly women. He asserts that many Indian people are uneducated and relegated to sweatshop jobs where they take advantage of others through phone scams and fake caller IDs. He refuses to reveal his name and calls the other person a loser. He also claims India profits from Tesla cars in the US.
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Speaker 0: Me what democracy looks like. Tell me what democracy looks like. See what democracy looks like. Tell me what democracy looks like. See what democracy looks like.
See democracy looks like. Democracy looks like.
Speaker 1: Absolutely pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Pathetic. Tree? I don't even know where the hell she's from.
Where she was born. Where you're I don't know where you're born. Where were you born? Tell me. That'll answer my question.
I asked the question. I'm curious. Where are you born? I was born in India. Yeah.
See? And and you know what? You got a lot to learn. You know how many calls I get every day? Spam calls from India trying to rape old women and take their money, their life savings?
In those sweatshops, Indian people, majority of them are low on the totem pole. They can't get good jobs. They can't learn. They can't be educated. So they so they take sweatshop shop jobs, taking advantage of people, calling their houses, pretending to be somebody else, putting fake caller ID.
What's your name? I'm not telling you my name either. Get away, loser. I think India makes some profits off of Tesla cars too in The US.
reSee.it AI Summary
A lot of discussions are happening about the protests against Elon Musk, DOGE, and Donald Trump. I want to highlight that these were paid protesters, as captured by Laura Loomer. There were buses loaded with pre-made signs, and the protestors were transported into DC with scripts. The footage shows all the “Hands Off” protestors leaving simultaneously, creating a ghost town as soon as it was time to wrap up.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Alot of people are going to be talking about the anti- Elon Musk, DOGE and Donald Trump protests yesterday Make sure to send everyone this so they know these were PAID PROTESTERS, Laura Loomer captured them - Loading buses with PRE MADE signs to hand out - Transporting the protestors - Releasing their protestor foot soldiers into DC with their pre made signs and scripts - Frontlines caught all the DC “Hands Off” protestors all LEAVING AT THE SAME TIME. As soon as it was time for everyone to ‘clock out,’ the place was a ghost town
Video Transcript AI Summary
After a thirty-minute break, the speaker and Gabe returned to find the protest site empty, in stark contrast to the packed scene just moments before. The speaker suggests two possible explanations for the sudden disappearance of the protesters. Either they were paid and their shift ended, or they are part of a cult and left simultaneously. The speaker presents these as the only two options.
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Speaker 0: So me and Gabe took about a thirty minute break, and we went back to the hotel to recharge. When we come back, and this place is dead. Take a look. Like, not a single protester in sight. And just twenty to thirty minutes ago, it was completely packed with protesters.
So one of two things. Either a, they were paid and their time was gone. You know, they're off work. They get to go. Or b, they're literally just a cult and they all left at once.
Like, it's one of the two options. You tell me.
reSee.it AI Summary
I’ve uncovered that the anti-Elon, anti-DOGE, and anti-Trump protests in D.C. are not genuine grassroots movements. Instead, they are orchestrated events with hired protesters arriving on buses. Signs are distributed in bulk, and scripts are provided to ensure consistent messaging. The protesters leave in unison, resembling a shift change. This is a clear case of organized astroturfing, backed by NGOs and donors, aimed at preserving the interests of those threatened by Elon’s actions.
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸EXPOSED: ANTI-ELON PROTESTS ARE STAGED & PAID—BUSSED-IN, SCRIPTED, CLOCKED-OUT The anti-Elon, anti-DOGE, anti-Trump protests in D.C.? They aren’t grassroots. They are payroll-driven theater. - Buses rolled in packed with hired protesters. - Pre-made signs handed out assembly-line style. - Scripts distributed to keep messaging “on brand.” - Protesters all left at once—just like a shift change. The protests are organized astroturf—NGO-backed, donor-funded, and as fake as their outrage. It's a union of grifters and bureaucrats trying to stop Elon from cutting off their taxpayer-funded gravy train. Source: @WallStreetApes
Video Transcript AI Summary
After a thirty-minute break, the speaker and Gabe returned to find the protest site empty, in stark contrast to the packed scene they had left. The speaker suggests two possible explanations for the sudden disappearance of the protesters. Either they were paid and their shift ended, or they are part of a cult and left simultaneously. The speaker presents these as the only two options.
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Speaker 0: So me and Gabe took about a thirty minute break, and we went back to the hotel to recharge. When we come back, and this place is dead. Take a look. Like, not a single protester in sight. And just twenty to thirty minutes ago, it was completely packed with protesters.
So one of two things. Either a, they were paid and their time was gone. You know, they're off work. They get to go. Or b, they're literally just a cult and they all left at once.
Like, it's one of the two options. You tell me.
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸TESLA PROTESTERS PAID UP TO $200 BY INDIVISIBLE A now-deleted webpage published by the organization offered to pay groups up to $200 to stage protests against Tesla and Elon. Source: @nataliegwinters
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇮🇹TESLA ATTACKS HIT EUROPE: 17 CARS TORCHED IN ROME The Tesla backlash has gone global - a blaze at a Rome dealership left 17 vehicles scorched and part of the building damaged. No injuries were reported, but authorities say the cause is under investigation as attacks on https://t.co/JlpPDCeNhB
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Protester in Utah who is protesting Elon Musk, DOGE and Donald Trump confirms he is BEING PAID $25 per hour Another protester makes it clear they are ready to protect Trans Rights by any means necessary (his shirt has a knife and trans rights) https://t.co/dDyb5qNFol
Video Transcript AI Summary
Speaker 0 asks how many hours someone is getting and how much they are paid per hour. Speaker 1 responds that they are paying 25 bucks. Speaker 1 then states they would do crazy things for $25.
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Speaker 0: How many, like, hours are getting? How much you get an hour? Twenty five cents.
Speaker 1: Twenty five. Right? Yeah. I'm paying 25. 20 5 bucks.
Hey. You know what? I would do some crazy shit for $25. Oh my gosh.
Video Transcript AI Summary
Christian interviews attendees at an April 5th capital protest, which he believes is against Elon Musk and his potential deportation. One attendee says they are there to observe.
Another attendee expresses concern about the potential loss of democracy, citing the firing of federal workers and tariff controls. They display a flag referencing the War of 1812 and James Lawrence's "don't give up the ship" cry.
Another protestor states they are protesting against all injustices, claiming the country has no democracy and is losing its rights. They express concern about education, parks, government, schooling, libraries, and veterans. They warn that young people will be more affected and could lose their rights, potentially facing war. They also accuse the younger generation of not valuing education.
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Speaker 0: Sup, everybody? My name is Christian. I'm out here at the April fifth capital protest. I do believe they're protesting Elon Musk and trying to deport him. So we're gonna do some interviews.
What are you doing out here, sir? I'm just watching. What does your, shirt mean? What does that say? Who are we protecting trans kids from?
So they need protection from nobody? Nice. Hi. What are you out here for? Democracy.
So are we losing our democracy? I don't know. You tell me. Who are who am I being interviewed by, by the way? Wannabe famous TikToker.
Wannabe famous TikToker here. How old are you in there? I'd rather not say. Definitely in the 20s, right? Yeah, this is unprecedented what's happening right?
Think it's high time everyone get out here and figure out if we want to stand up with each other or next to billionaires. Yeah it is pretty crazy there's a lot of people out here. How did you learn about this? About this? Oh word-of-mouth everyone knows about this, cares?
But if you're not paying attention, you know, you don't care. You didn't hear about it online or anything like that? Oh, no. I'm I'm a little older than that. No Reddit?
No. And you're just out here by yourself or not? No. I've got Okay. So you're telling me democracy is like dying or whatever.
Explain to me how that is happening. Well, I think that when we're basically people are saying federal workers are being fired, it's like federal workers work for us, don't work for the president of The United States. Tariff controls should be in place by Congress, not by the president of The United States. So those are just a few things that I would consider to be non democratic. What is your flag?
Well if you know your eighteen twelve war history, did you know any '18 Yeah UK against us. The second time around right? For all your viewers out there, just Yeah. The one viewer. The one viewer.
This harkens back to story of James Lawrence whose dying words were, don't give up the ship, and he was trying to help defend against losing democracy back against the British for the second time around. So on his dying words, we're stitched upon a banner and flown above Commodore Perry's ship during the battle of Lake Erie, and they slept in '21, and it's been a rhyme cry ever since. Hi. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 0: I'm good. What are you out here for?
Speaker 1: Protesting against everything that's injustice. Who are you with?
Speaker 0: I'm a wannabe TikToker. Wannabe.
Speaker 1: Okay. What are you here for? Just to get reports? Or
Speaker 0: Get content. Hey. What do
Speaker 1: you wanna know?
Speaker 0: What's the injustice going on?
Speaker 1: What isn't? Education, parks, government, schooling, libraries, veterans. What isn't? What is an injustice? Everything is in justice right now.
We have no democracy. We're losing our rights. I am 66 years old, and I have never seen anything of this caliber in my life. And we have to fight for our justice, and the young the young people need to be afraid because it's you guys that it's gonna affect more than it will my age.
Speaker 0: What should I be afraid of?
Speaker 1: Losing your rights. Do you wanna be back in when Hitler was? Back in Europe when they had no rights?
Speaker 0: No. What rights
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 0: What rights are am I gonna lose?
Speaker 1: What rights aren't you gonna lose?
Speaker 0: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, you need to think about it. I can answer for you, but you need to think about what rights you're going to lose.
Speaker 0: Can you
Speaker 1: My rights, I'm fighting for. If you don't stand up for your rights, it's you that'll lose it. It's you that'll lose it'll it's your generation that will have to go to war if he starts a war. Not my generation. We've been there, done they?
Speaker 0: Are you talking about me.
Speaker 1: I've had education. You guys don't want education. You don't wanna be educated? It's you that's gonna lose schools. It's you that's gonna lose education.
It's you
Speaker 0: Dispenning units. Good. Can I answer your first question? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And how how many, like, hours you can How how much you get an hour? Twenty five cents. Twenty five. Right?
Yeah. I think $25. 20 5 bucks. Hey. You know what?
I would do some crazy shit for $25.
reSee.it AI Summary
I noticed that the protesters in Austin, Texas, disappeared right at noon. It seems like there's a lot of evidence suggesting that the anti-Elon Musk and Tesla protests are paid. Their quick exit makes me think they don't genuinely care about the issue.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Austin, Texas protesters VANISH as soon at the clock hits 12pm noon There’s so much evidence the anti- Elon Musk and Tesla protests ARE PAID “Well, there was a protest here, but as soon as noon hit, they all vanished. They clearly don't really care that much about this issue, because as soon as the clock ran out, they were like, yeah, we're gonna go home. Bye. That's enough.”
Video Transcript AI Summary
A protest occurred, but participants left abruptly at noon, suggesting a lack of deep commitment. It's considered ridiculous to rally against an American business that creates American jobs, referencing Donald Trump's mandate. There were approximately one hundred protesters across the road, but few were willing to engage in conversation. In contrast, the five people present were all open to discussion.
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Speaker 0: What are we doing here today? Well, there was a protest here, but as soon as noon hit, they all vanished. They clearly don't really care that much about this issue because as soon as the clock ran out, they were like, yeah. We're gonna go home. Bye.
That's enough. I think it's ridiculous to, rally against an American business that creates American jobs. And, again, there's a reason why Donald Trump and his administration were given the mandate. You know what's interesting? There were, like, a hundred people on the other side of the road, and and almost none of them wanted to talk to us.
Five people over here, and I know I could talk to every single one of these people.
@TONYxTWO - TONY™
This guy actually went on TV and admitted his company pays people to protest because they can’t get an actual turnout 🤣👇🏼 https://t.co/MUb0SV7FEK
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A host confronts a guest whose company provides activists for hire. The host asserts the company pays actors to hold signs and protest, showing a video of a man who doesn't know why he's protesting. The guest claims they provide engaged activists and that compensating people is necessary to ensure sufficient turnout, similar to how the host is compensated for his show. The host objects to companies staging events and hiring people to make scenes appear larger than they are, arguing that activism should be organic. He believes such practices stir up conflict and distort the true scale of issues. He expresses his dislike for the guest's business.
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Speaker 0: I don't know how you sleep at night. I would not do your job. I do not like it. So people can literally call your company and get a bunch of paid actors, if you will, to stand up there, hold signs, and scream on the street corner because that's what your company does.
Speaker 1: Because number one, it's not actors. We're providing activists who are truly engaged with the cause.
Speaker 0: Right? Are they? I just showed you a video of a guy going, don't even know why I'm here. They got signs and they got sheets and they said, go say this and talk to cameras and hold signs.
Speaker 1: It's challenging for them to get sufficient turnout to a lot of these events compensating people just like Dan, you're compensated for hosting your program. These are your real views on this program, but you're compensated.
Speaker 0: Our program But I don't pay my viewers to watch me. So I love the fact that I can go on the street corner and say whatever the hell I want, agreements against my government, or call my neighbor or whatever I want because that's America. But I don't like that companies try to stage it all and hire people and set it up. It should be organic. The American people should wanna come out, get on their soapbox, my show.
I'm talking. They should come out and wanna gather together and say, here's the cause I'm sticking up for. But you see, guys like you the bureaucrats and the folks in DC love stirring up the pot between us Americans. And so you pay people to do this, and you make a scene look bigger than it really is. You make an issue bigger than it truly is.
And so I don't like your business. I'm gonna end it there, but I appreciate you coming back on.
@joyreaper - Joyreaper
The @SenateGOP was pretty stupid to vote against DOGE cuts and they have a lot of nerve complaining about the budget when they couldn't do that. Vote them out! https://t.co/GPOXrbvlHj https://t.co/qwXqFWvh7M
@matt_vanswol - Matt Van Swol
Per usual, @ScottAdamsSays it best. The reason you are seeing so many members of the GOP lashing out and tweeting about DOGE this week… …is because they are finally starting to realize that NO ONE voted for them in 2024 Everyone voted for DOGE. https://t.co/SobovqtuZa
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The speaker discusses Matt Van Swal's summary of the "Doge situation," claiming Doge is one of the most popular government initiatives ever. According to the summary, 73% of Americans support cutting government waste, and Trump brought in "the smartest man on earth" to do it. However, the left allegedly destroyed Elon Musk for his involvement, and the GOP won't vote on it.
Elon Musk responded to the post with "did my best." The speaker expresses frustration that Congress will not codify the savings, despite Musk's efforts. The speaker notes Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to get it codified. The speaker believes Congress thwarting the effort is a tragedy.
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Speaker 0: I've been following, on ex, Matt Van Swal, who's, doing a great job of talking about the Doge situation. Here he summarizes it this way. Doge is literally one of the most popular government initiatives in history. 73% of Americans say they support cutting government waste. Trump brought in the smartest man on earth to do it, and then the left destroyed Elon for it, and the GOP won't vote on it.
I can't believe this. And then Elon responded to the post. Three words, did my best. Wow. There's almost nothing I can say about that.
You know you probably heard me early on in the Doge process and I was saying you know I love everything Doge is trying to do but when it gets to Congress they're just gonna spend his savings but it's even worse than that. They're not they're never gonna even codify the savings. Not the Democrats, not the Republicans. They're not even gonna vote on it. So all that work, all that sacrifice that Elon Musk did to get that right, Congress is gonna shit on it.
And I'm almost losing my mind that we can just watch this happen. Now it's not everybody you know Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to get it codified etcetera. But the fact that all that effort it looks like you know some portion of it anyway is going to be thwarted by your own congress is such a is such a tragedy. It's almost it's almost impossible to understand. It's like we're running as fast as we can toward a cliff and we even have the smartest people in the world trying to prevent it, and even that doesn't help.
What is going on here? What is going on?
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
These paid protesters need to go to jail! Arrest them all. https://t.co/UDYAmE73XN
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That violates our First Amendment rights. Have have life share. We have the right to protest. We have the right to bear witness to this crime scene. You are aiding and abetting the crimes that the federal agents have committed. Two federal judges have found that their conduct was illegal and unconstitutional. If you don't step back and stand down, you're subject to a citizen's arrest for aiding and abetting. You can step back and stand down. I'm giving you a lawful order. Move back now. The power of the people. This motherfucker is happy as hell. Should be a shame. Fuck you, bitches. I gotta get I gotta take out my so I could run because I almost tripped with the I had on. Fuckers. Guys.
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Speaker 0: That violates our First Amendment rights. Have have life share. We have the right to protest. We have the right to bear witness to this crime scene. You are aiding and abetting the crimes that the federal agents have committed.
Two federal judges have found that their conduct was illegal and unconstitutional. If you don't step back and stand down, you're subject to a citizen's arrest for aiding and abetting. You can step back and stand down. I'm giving you a lawful order. I'm telling you, you will be arrested.
You will have to be subject to a citizen's arrest if you don't step back and stand down. I'm giving you a lawful order. Move back now. The power of the people. This motherfucker is happy as hell.
Should be a shame. Fuck you, bitches. I gotta get I gotta take out my so I could run because I almost tripped with the I had on. Fuckers. Fuckers.
Fuckers. Guys.
@Milajoy - Mila Joy
This paid protestor/agitator discusses what he charges for different levels of RAGE when “protesting”. We always knew the protests weren't organic. This guy PROVES it. https://t.co/XtfX1kT8Fp
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The speaker discusses paid protest work and different rate structures. They say protest contracts are lower: “maybe 20 an hour to hold a sign.” For “outside agitators,” the rate is higher: “I go 50 an hour. Nice. Go 50 an hour.” After certain temperatures, the pay increases further; in negative temperatures like “negative 30 Minneapolis,” the rate is “100 an hour to be out here.” The speaker notes someone is paying them and confirms they’ve received similar payments recently: “I know I got the same check last week. Exactly. Know.” They add that they were previously earning “35 an hour,” but they weren’t “screaming my lungs off,” and there are contingencies in place. The speaker mentions decibel readers used to measure loudness and says the right doesn’t know about that yet, claiming to personally have one: “They make you aware of those decibel readers to see how loud you’re actually… MAGA doesn’t know about the decibel readers. I got one on me right now.”
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Speaker 0: Really, it's paid. Speaking of being paid, how much do you get paid to protest? I know that's a Usually protest rates go like outside agitator rates or just strict protest rates? Like, just like sign up, put your code on, hold a sign that was pre made for You you just hold a sign. I got a couple of pictures holding signs.
I can tell you those contracts are lower, maybe 20 an hour to hold a sign. You want to outside agitate? I go 50 an hour. Nice. Go 50 an hour.
Then that once we pass certain temperatures, we're in the negatives, like negative 30 Minneapolis, I'm charging a 100 an hour to be out here. Yeah. You better. You know, who's paying me too. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I know I got the same check last week. Exactly. Know.
We get like, I mean, I was getting 35 an hour, but you know, I wasn't screaming my lungs off. I was only, you know, I was There's contingencies. They make you aware of those decibel readers to see how loud you're actually They do. And the right doesn't know, MAGA doesn't know about that yet. Yeah.
MAGA doesn't know about the decibel readers. I got one on me right now.