One thing I've thought about a lot over the past few days is we were told that Musk's effort involved myriad high-profile Silicon Valley names willing to forego salary in order to help revamp government and what we got was child soldiers.
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We are already hostages.
How do we use our power to break them?
We are the source of their power.
But, who is the main character/ KingOfMountain here?
Have MangoFelon+MuskFElonBabyBros already
given it to Putin? China?
or are they waiting until they have every department?
Meet the Moment!
The appointment of Tom Krause to head the Treasury payment systems is a deliberate act to circumvent the agreement the DOJ made with lawyers suing about DOGE access to treasury systems, as I noted would happen here.
This lie is synonymous to Trump & Mega GOP. This overwhelming tactic in governmental disruptions to see what sticks should be seriously combated! Demonstrate preparedness by planning on a Senate, State AG’s & Governors should fundamentally act on the premise of a matter of National Security!—JMHO
When someone wishes to "improve efficiency" of *any* organization, in good faith, the way one would do that would be
1. observation of existing workflows
2. submission of an analysis, and plan
what we got was cyber-nazis barging into government buildings and shutting things down.
Before they shut things down, they dumped / stole a copy onto their own servers so they could do an AI search for buzzwords like "woke" and "equity" and "women," plus extract all the personal information you'd need to doxx, threaten, and retaliate against individual "enemies" like judges.
Anyone that has any knowledge about what they are doing also knows their actions come with serious jail time if not capital punishment (treason).
The only people dumb enough to follow this drug addled racist are trust fund babies whose parents failed to give them consequences their whole lives.
Meanwhile, I'm recommending an "antidoge".
We would be folks with experience willing to volunteer time.
We'd work within laws, clearance restrictions, and ethics/best practices to help the resistance within government understand and respond to what Elon's intern-lads are doing.
The thing is that what he promised was going to happen this time is actually pretty much what happened with trying to save the healthcare dot gov launch. I think you get a much smaller pool of selfless volunteers from people who lean toward Ayn Rand's philosophy
The healthcare dot gov team did a lot of work talking to the government people who had built the failing version of the site. Those government people were also made part of the solution. They took what had been done and helped triage the issues and guide improvements, and it got fixed.
Yeah my point was to contrast the different kinds of people who volunteer for different kinds of causes. When the cause is to destroy government agencies instead of help people, you get different, lower quality volunteers
He’s a groomer, isn’t he? A hate groomer, a greed groomer, an imperialist groomer, a white nationalist groomer, rules for thee and not for me, groomer.
but magas hear that they aren't taking a salary, so they're fine with them possibly stealing who knows how much more than any salary they may have gotten.
Young men in their 20s are not "child soldiers" they are the same age as almost all actual regular soldiers in every war fought in history, including the two World Wars, Vietnam, etc. These guys are not children, and treating them that ways absolves some of their accountability.
Maybe he thought that all the sad people from Silicon Valley who showed up for their photo ops and personal humiliation on January 20 were going to leave their plush lives and join him sleeping on the floor of the old Executive Office Building. Unlikely.
The big-name billionaires will swoop in when it’s time to “fix what the children innocently broke”, in the form of AI and blockchain solutions that just so happen to weld US govt and techbro support service contracts together until the end of time.
An oddly flippant analogy. You do realize child soldiers are a real thing that has lead to the deaths and maiming of untold numbers of children in conflicts worldwide?
Warlords and SV bros have a lot in common and hubris and the fealty of the people around them are two of their commonalities.
Also: young men are almost always the most vulnerable demographic for recruitment into cults. See al-Qaeda, the Lord's Resistance Army, and Hilterjungend.
With or without salary, I'm not sure how this band can be described as anything but a band of mercenaries or pirates. They're not engaging in lawful, sanctioned activity and they don't appear to be government employees.
Rich baby brats insulated from real world consequences by money and mommy/daddy's lawyers and they think that both makes them average, yet above most of the population.
After past elections, there were usually highly respected people in the field switching to the administration, often surrendering their dual citizenship etc. Not this time, as far as I can see.
After decades working w/19-25 year olds…
You don’t hire boys w/BigBalls LinkedIn handles posting online for help w/assignments on LLMs bc they’re geniuses.
You hire them bc they idolize you, and their inexperience makes them dumb about danger, risks, ramifications and consequences. Tools as tools.
The thing is that "idolize you" and "dumb about danger, risks, ramifications, and consequences" is apparently how Elon Musk assesses "genius"; it's the same picture.
I wish more time were spent on: 1. Do they have legitimate security clearances/have they passed rigorous background checks? 2. Do they have authority from the Constitution to take these actions, or are they just doing what Musk wants without legal authority? 3. If DOGE was never legally...
...formed by Congress and there were no confirmation hearings, how can they have this much power? 4. Saying you "want to reform something" and "going about reforms in the appropriate way" are two entirely different things. Why are they behaving so inappropriately? 5. Why should we trust them? 6. Are
they trained in the laws, rules, and regulations designed to protect citizens, and are they following these laws, rules, and regulations? Is there any oversight? If they are breaking laws, how will we know, and how can they be held in check?
I don't think it is about the money. They went with young losers first, who were too naive to understand the legal exposure they were taking on. It is a proof of concept.
Once Musk establishes the proof of concept that a fascist coup can prevail, the rest will follow.
I've been thinking changing systems requires one knows about the system, ie Treasury, USAID. A person coming in green will do a lot of damage. My concern is data will be junk when they're done with it.
My hope is there are back-up copies that career staff can reinstall if the madness ends.
Given how he's run X into the ground and turned it into 4chan, no one with any cachet would want to be associated with lowkey fascism or the implosion of the U.S. government. I'm just waiting for Musk to break something.
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How do we use our power to break them?
We are the source of their power.
But, who is the main character/ KingOfMountain here?
Have MangoFelon+MuskFElonBabyBros already
given it to Putin? China?
or are they waiting until they have every department?
Meet the Moment!
The appointment of Tom Krause to head the Treasury payment systems is a deliberate act to circumvent the agreement the DOJ made with lawyers suing about DOGE access to treasury systems, as I noted would happen here.
https://burningbird.substack.com/p/lawyers-next-time-talk-to-the-techs
1. observation of existing workflows
2. submission of an analysis, and plan
what we got was cyber-nazis barging into government buildings and shutting things down.
It's not "improving efficiency" it's rank vandalism and squatting.
The only people dumb enough to follow this drug addled racist are trust fund babies whose parents failed to give them consequences their whole lives.
We would be folks with experience willing to volunteer time.
We'd work within laws, clearance restrictions, and ethics/best practices to help the resistance within government understand and respond to what Elon's intern-lads are doing.
The billionaires have become the generals in command.
The recruited young are the foot soldiers to carry out orders.
The big-name billionaires will swoop in when it’s time to “fix what the children innocently broke”, in the form of AI and blockchain solutions that just so happen to weld US govt and techbro support service contracts together until the end of time.
It’s convenient for them if one of their competitors is taken out before they swoop in “to clean up his mess”
Also: young men are almost always the most vulnerable demographic for recruitment into cults. See al-Qaeda, the Lord's Resistance Army, and Hilterjungend.
they’re trying the thing that failed in Solano but it’s definitely going to work for the whole country
Post-Xbox Live players maybe.
https://bsky.app/profile/debralhd.bsky.social/post/3lgx425wznk2y
You don’t hire boys w/BigBalls LinkedIn handles posting online for help w/assignments on LLMs bc they’re geniuses.
You hire them bc they idolize you, and their inexperience makes them dumb about danger, risks, ramifications and consequences. Tools as tools.
Once Musk establishes the proof of concept that a fascist coup can prevail, the rest will follow.
My hope is there are back-up copies that career staff can reinstall if the madness ends.