Summary

Elon Musk’s team is reportedly gaining control over key U.S. government operations.

His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials have clashed with Treasury staff over access to federal payment systems, which handle $6 trillion annually.

Reports indicate Musk aides have locked civil servants out of government databases and are reviewing tech operations across agencies.

Originally intended as an external advisory body, DOGE was instead integrated into the government by Trump’s executive order, giving Musk a direct role in federal operations.

  • @Hobbes_Dent
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    1 month ago

    America is letting this guy put their government and economy on auto drive and it’s going to crash.

    Cuck country.

    • Drusas
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      821 month ago

      Some of us know and are incredibly frustrated and disheartened by it, but we’re still the minority. The state has a monopoly on violence at any meaningful scale. What are we supposed to do while we wait for the rest of the country to wake up? All we can do is talk about it and try to get them to see what’s happening.

      • SuiXi3D
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        481 month ago

        We’re in the minority because most folks aren’t bothering to pay attention.

        • Drusas
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          411 month ago

          Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years and choose to ignore it.

          • @cmbabul
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            281 month ago

            We’re all gonna suffer the consequences of the majority believing that it can’t happen here

          • @[email protected]
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            Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years

            Even if Trump doesn’t survive until then, and even if the best possible Democrat is able to become the next president, it will take decades to clean up Trump’s mess, and at least the same amount of time for the rest of the world to start trusting the USA and Americans again.

            We hoped you’d have learned how much of a mistake Trump was the first time, and then you just go and make the same mistake again a few years later.

            This is a mess of your own making, and you have to fix your own shit.

            Until then, the rest of us will be out here using your example as a warning, and getting on with our lives.

            • @[email protected]
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              130 days ago

              Dude the US is never having another election again, that doesn’t involve having (1) candidate on the ballot, ala Russia.

            • Drusas
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              -230 days ago

              Trump barely won the popular vote. So get off your high horse.

              • @vladmech
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                129 days ago

                The fact he could shit the bed so fucking hard in his first term and then still get elected is a huge indictment on the USofA.

                • Drusas
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                  128 days ago

                  I agree that is a huge indictment of our electoral system. Which is garbage.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 month ago

        The ‘Divide and rule’ strategy worked after all. Although the government could have blocked the channels for sowing hate and fear earlier

      • @[email protected]
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        -321 month ago

        You said it. Right on the nose. More Republicans own guns versus democrats, and most cops are Republicans, so the side with more common sense voted their gun rights away years ago and are sitting with their proverbial dicks in their hands.

            • @vladmech
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              129 days ago

              Oh yes the California that checks notes had the Black Panthers patrolling with guns because no one else could be bothered and then Regan and his cronies enacted the most extreme gun laws in the country. Those damn libs!

              • @[email protected]
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                128 days ago

                What’s ironic is that it was Republicans in power at the time, as well as the NRA support, which passed the bill.