PBS and NPR are under investigation by Elon Musk for disloyalty to the president’s agenda and for spreading factual information that might call into question the wisdom of Mr. Trump’s policy decisions, whatever they might be, no matter how creative, illegal or, frankly, insane.  The psychotic racist Nazi salute shooting billionaire, Mr. Musk, is acting as Mr. Trump’s Roy Cohn and he’s not taking any shit from any commies like the Liberal Corporate Media or Public Broadcasting.  He is, after all, the apostle of free speech. 

I was curious to see what a constitutional scholar interviewed on PBS might have to say about whether any of Trump’s actions constitute executive overreach. Say illegally creating a one man government “agency” and giving that one man the power to shut down any agency he pleases if he feels there could be waste, fraud or abuse in that agency– say giving food to starving African, Asian and Central American children, funding natural disaster relief or paying for medical care for orphans in Congo, Ukraine, or Gaza, which would be egregiously fraudulent, abusive and wasteful indeed…

This “constitutional scholar,” Ilya Shapiro, is from the Manhattan Institute, a “think tank” whose largest single donor is Charles Koch (with a half million annually from a rabidly “Libertarian” billionaire descendant of Andrew Mellon). Note the “scholar’s” fealty to the defense of the lawless president’s actions as perfectly legal and constitutional, certainly matters for the courts alone to decide.  With brazenness characteristic of his kind of partisan, he accuses Obama and Biden of creating agencies willy-nilly, at the very moment that Elon Musk is effectively the president of the United States and head of an agency pulled directly out of Charles Koch’s crusty old Nazi ass in line with his Project 2025.

Let me quote this super-confident illiberal scholar for you when asked about Trump/Musk overreach in shuttering agencies and not spending funds already allocated by Congress.  Recall that Trump was impeached the first time for doing that very thing — withholding money already allocated by Congress to get a quid pro quo from the new president of Ukraine.   Here’s the constitutional scholar:

Executive overreach is when you create new programs out of thin air, like Barack Obama with his pen and phone government, with DACA and all of these other things, or president Biden forgiving student loans, that was blocked by the Supreme Court, then said “I’ll do it another way” or vaccine mandates, all of these things creating new authorities that did not exist.

PBS gives this stinking pile of dung a forum to spout this Nazi apologia, the dictionary definition of gaslighting, presumably to demonstrate to King Musk, head of a perfectly legal newly created pen and phone government agency pulled out of Koch’s adorable tush, in order to show their fairness and willingness not to be shut down by Musk for not advancing the president’s agenda properly.  

Its painful to be living through this fascist nightmare here in the land of the free and the home of One Supreme Unelected South Afrikaan Bureaucrat unvetted appointee/government contractor with absolute power over the government’s budget and access to the personal financial and medical information of every citizen.