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emptywheel.bsky.social • 10 days ago

CATO's Missing DOGE Model: DOGE Is a Pro-Russian Intelligence Operation

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/catos-missing-doge-model-doge-is-a-pro-russian-information-operation/

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nsightful.bsky.social•9 days ago

maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy•10 days ago

@emptywheel.bsky.social they’re all true. They’re not mutually exlusive answers, they’re all active components. including the pro-russia part.

catherinezoltan.bsky.social•9 days ago

DOGE is an unworkable solution implemented by Trump and the Republicans. Whatever problem they were trying to solve, DOGE was an unworkable solution that has cost the tax payers a fortune and undermined our national security. For this alone Trump should be impeached.

hopelong.bsky.social•10 days ago

"But no one has ruled out something far more sinister is hiding behind a cognitive (if evolving) model designed to look familiar."

joeathon.bsky.social•10 days ago

This tracks! https://medium.com/@joeathon/the-doge-anomaly-when-hubris-eventually-meets-justice-f415e483c1aa

mobrock.bsky.social•10 days ago

Good read: “DOGE has not been cost-cutting, though that has confused the good government types and libertarians for months. Rather, DOGE has been capacity-cutting . . .”

mandelbrot2.bsky.social•10 days ago

a parallel reason may well be Musk simply wants as much data he can get his mitts on to train his AI models. I doubt these clowns have any idea by how many times they have expanded the attack surface and, worse, they could care less.

pj1304.bsky.social•10 days ago

The Marvel Universe joins our government.

Would have much preferred Star Trek.

floralford.bsky.social•9 days ago

📌

novi-6.bsky.social•10 days ago

I miss the good old days when Aaron Maté, Lauren Chen, Matt Taibbi and the gang would reassure us this was all a Hoax ..
https://bsky.app/profile/alisoncreekside.bsky.social/post/3l3i6red3jj2u

bamboozer2112.bsky.social•10 days ago

Or in summation DOGE is a cover story for the Fascists goal of the destruction of the government, and democracy, as we have know it.

kramersus.bsky.social•9 days ago

That's why it was a mistake to let them in and give them the keys to the US. So much damage is probably already done.
If people hadn't started picketing, they'd be even further along.
It's horrifying the freedoms they were given at first.
They should all be investigated.

unnamedwill.bsky.social•9 days ago

Could KSA or China also be possiblies?

KSA helped Musk buy Twitter and I have worried that Musk could have given them data to track down people inside KSA that report on the government through anonymous SIM cards.

(Khashoggi was connected to someone who was smuggling SIMs in for this purpose.)

unnamedwill.bsky.social•9 days ago

And there was the amazing case of MBS hacking Bezos's phone. Bezos maybe went public with his affair and gave up half his fortune in divorce to get out of being blackmailed, but it seems unlikely that's the only time a state like that hacked a mega-billionaire.

unnamedwill.bsky.social•9 days ago

And obviously China has a pretty staggering degree of leverage over Musk through Tesla.

alouicious.bsky.social•9 days ago

Look no further than the priorities. USAID was FIRST. FIRST!

The only people who even cares about USAID are our enemies.

It's obvious. If you don't internalize it and act accordingly, you are in denial.

julstrangepork.bsky.social•9 days ago

Occam's razor.

Tech bros have extensively planned DOGE's mission. Between Yarvin's "techno-pessimist manifesto" and Andreessen's "techno-optimist" version, outcomes are identical.

Their "Mission"
-Destroy the US gov -Create corporate owned feifdoms
-Enslave
-Harvest resources
-Repopulate

jjludemann.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/jjludemann.bsky.social/post/3lkmjisvrp22r

storminbloom.bsky.social•10 days ago

Do we not have security services and an entire military apparatus that would NOT want TRUSK to be actively undermining national security in what appears to be a Russian operation? This is VERY confusing.

vermontmelbguy.bsky.social•10 days ago

My view is that DOGE is Project 2025 on steroids with data captured for use by Thiel's Palantir and Musk's xAI/Grok

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•10 days ago

And Russia

paddlefoot123.bsky.social•10 days ago

Great analysis. Also wondering if Musk isn't hedging his bets. If Trump's authoritarian project fails and/or Republicans lose Congress, Musk's control of data and systems will make it hard for Dems to make changes without his help.

news4dto.bsky.social•10 days ago

The truth is too difficult for DOGGIE fans.
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