It’s worth noting that his minions are building a tool to block individual payments (eg: social security for a specific person) if they so choose:
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25-year-old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. I can independently confirm these details based on conversations going back to the weekend. I can further report that Elez not only has full access to these systems, he has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system.
This would give him incredible power to punish people he doesn’t like, and we know that Musk has a LOT of those.
“Dear unvetted 20-something, if you let us use your admin credentials to access the US treasury’s system, we will build you a palace and you will want for nothing for the rest of your life.”
-adversarial foreign government
But they have Treasury money. Why take foreign government money when you can just redirect the Treasury to your own account?
The banks would reverse the transactions.
If the foreign government pays you, you can take the money and move to that country
That way they can assassinate you and save the money they were going to give you. Perfect.
I mean sure, but 20-something’s are dumb, as a rule. I was, you were, everyone is. That’s why the lower threshold for president is 35. When you are old enough to hopefully know better.
We should really have had at least one other metric, but apparently we didn’t.
Or probably just open a safe haven account to drop it into.