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emptywheel.bsky.social • 5 days ago

DOGE2025 Is Getting the Catastrophic De-Ba'athification They Demanded

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/doge2025-is-getting-the-catastrophic-de-baathification-they-demanded/

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joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@emptywheel.bsky.social

"It’s not just that the DOGE2025 attack on government has destroyed critical expertise. But absent that expertise, Trump’s minions are finding it difficult to reverse the ill effects of their initial assault, because the initial damage they do to both systems and […]

faefromthefield.bsky.social•5 days ago

Like all elon products, doge is a danger to America.

standtall22.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not sure what will Hoping someone in each agency’s govt IT made a backup of the system coding as of 1/19/2025 and it hasn’t been destroyed.

sheethaduskrunner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks for the detailed report - this is exactly what could be expected if people who do not understand the expertise and merits of bureaucracy take a sledgehammer to it.

scorpio5954321.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is complete insanity - how is this mess and all the others they created going to be fixed?

bobyost.bsky.social•5 days ago

It is becoming very clear now that DOGE was actually a year-end class project of a tenth grade government class of a private school in a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas. Stunning ignorance in every key aspect of their operation. Their whole concept of the world is a manicured golf course.

bob-bury.bsky.social•5 days ago

Would seem logical for Senators to request SoS Rubio appear before committee to explain why USAID is not following a court order.

jeffo20.bsky.social•5 days ago

"...after he started firing administrators, administrators were unable to answer his questions, which he deemed insubordinate rather than just a natural consequence of firing the people who might answer his questions."

This sort of absurdity is funny in a dystopian film; not so much in reality.

arkancrow.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Importantly, this seems to suggest that PEPFAR — one of the programs that Republicans have vociferously championed — was only partly restored because someone didn’t understand the multiple programs it involves."

Yes....The Donald himself

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/PEPFAR2019ARC.pdf

arkancrow.bsky.social•5 days ago

“[PEPFAR] has been inarguably one of the most successful investments in health care and humanitarian aid in American history.” – Vice President Michael Pence, November 29, 2018

arkancrow.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's inarguably the most successful US investment, you see.... 🙄

cowchaser24.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am shocked there are no plans to actually run anything. Shocked.

tree207.bsky.social•5 days ago

Holy shit, MAGA culled almost every Republican who knew that De-Ba’athification was a total disaster. Unleashing it on your own country is traitorous! This had a death toll in Iraq, and it will here.

reinhardwitiak.bsky.social•5 days ago

Purely arbitrary and capricious cuts No study. No matching needs to jobs. Simply damned meat axe zealotry.

joelsef.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is a great compilation of all of their incompetence.

Too bad MAGA will never see or accept this truth. All of this is why Elon’s BS DOGE “agency” is dangerous. Willful ignorance is not going to save us any money.

tree207.bsky.social•5 days ago

It looks like it’s gonna cost us everything if some people don’t wake up.

splitrailfence.bsky.social•5 days ago

De-Ba'athification - dang! you know your shit and I like it. 🌹

theterriertribe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reading the article, the system-level problems are exactly the sort of problems Musk's hacker minions could cause. Can't log in? Can't approve something you used to have permission to approve? Software and configuration data have been scrambled and/or removed.

bitspersecond.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly. Subpoena them!

reallysarahha.bsky.social•5 days ago

The USSR had to fire people from the agency managing nuclear warheads bc it didn’t have the money; however at least they KNEW they needed staff to do this

moleatmal.bsky.social•5 days ago

Spot on!

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