At YourCanna-Club, we had a meeting this morning about whether we should post this story or not. While it’s not directly related to cannabis, which is our focus at YourCanna-Club, since most of us who are on this site are Americans who pay taxes, we thought you’d be interested as we are about what’s going on with the agency that collects our taxes – the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Right now it looks like Elon Musk, in a very short time, has singlehandedly created a total disaster out of the agency that collects the money to run the government. The Raw Story interview with Rep. Melanie Stansbury D-NM (pictured here), the ranking member on the DOGE panel, is fascinating. Some excerpts are below. But read the entire interview It’s depressing but worth it. Click HERE.
Excerpts from Raw Story Interview with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM)
“At the beginning, I think they honestly all bought the hype of Elon Musk. I think they thought, like, ‘Oh, this guy is a tech guy, and he’s so smart and he made all this money so he must be super smart.’ And the dude’s just a bullshitter. He had no idea what he was doing. And also, apparently he’s an as—hole too, so he’s very difficult to work with. And then he started doing stuff that pissed off the cabinet secretaries and apparently all the West Wing people didn’t like him, but he’s a major donor so they couldn’t push him out.”
“I’m a former OMB employee I knew Musk was a fraud from the second I laid eyes on him. When he stood up with that fake Twitter account to show his receipts, I was like, ‘Do you know how to use Excel? For real, because that’s how we put together budget spreadsheets and none of this adds up.'”
“I’m genuinely interested in making the government work better. My background is in the sciences and I’m really into big data. I actually helped set up the U.S. digital program that DOGE took over. I was interested from its inception, and I helped set it up when I was at OMB.”
“Again, I think they were so stupid — and by they, I would pin this on just the administration in general. Had they just spent six to nine months putting together a concrete plan, identifying what they wanted to end, how they wanted to restructure these agencies, and then brought it to Congress, they have a majority, they could have done it legally. But it was sloppy, stupid, uncoordinated and ineffective. Elon Musk’s fall from grace with the Republicans was after he tried to buy that Wisconsin judicial race. I think their bravado was that they could break everything and then buy their way out of it. But then people start marching in the streets and they’re like, ‘Oh, oops, I guess we broke it.’ ”