Musk’s DOGE minions refuse to reveal their names when grilling civil servants
Musk’s DOGE minions refuse to reveal their names when grilling civil servants
Federal employees say they were asked which of their colleagues should be fired during the “one-way interviews.”
Summary
Musk’s DOGE team is conducting opaque “one-way interviews” with civil servants, raising concerns over transparency and accountability significantly.
Federal workers report being interrogated about their roles and colleagues’ performance, while Musk’s aides refuse to reveal their full names.
Under the DOGE banner, Musk’s team now controls vital agencies including USAID and the Office of Personnel Management.
Civil servants are resorting to encrypted messaging to track Musk's rapid and opaque government takeover.
Why don't you do that whole "no taxation without representation" thing again? Seemed to work okay last time.
So tell me again why it's okay for the Government to backdoor encryption.
The fact that they don't even name said goons in this article is pathetic. To reiterate, their names are Gavin Kliger, Ethan Shaotran, Akash Bobba, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine. Musk doesn't want their names out there - say them louder!
they read like the list of names from the japanese nes baseball game
Americans losing control of their government in the movies: ..... epic battle for freedom and outwitting overwhelming forces ... heroes appearing out of the most unlikely places
Americans losing control of their government in real life: ..... (shrugs) ... meh, can't get that bad ... can it?
Americans loosing control in real life: it's more than a thousand miles away and would take at least 15 hours of continuous driving to get there. I can't afford to skip work, and they've gotten worse since the time they beat and shot rubber bullets at peaceful protestors in a park for a photoshoot, so they might actually just shoot us and I don't want to die. If I'm arrested it will ruin my life: I may never be able to get a job that pays enough, or provides healthcare. Given how many voted for and presumably want this, I've lost faith in my fellow citizens and neighbors ability to even see the problem, to say nothing of doing anything. Nothing like this has ever happened in our countries history, so we don't have any framework for a nationwide protest, when it should happen, how we know it's happening or even what we do. Do I middle school dance this thing and go awkwardly throw a Molotov cocktail at a Denny's to break the ice and get everyone out there?
I want to say we're scared, and we don't know what we should do, or even what we can do. But the reality is, I don't know how big that "we" actually is, because so very many of us are also worried that we're deeply in the minority, and have no faith that our neighbors would stand with us if we tried to do anything.
To add: we legitimately need a French guide to what to do in times like this. They seem to light it up every few years over stuff like "cost of college rose to $50 a semester" or "retirement age rose to still younger than the US age, and still with actual benefits".
I was posting this elsewhere recently but people massively underestimate how the US's size factors into this. You can drive 10 hours from some parts of Texas and still be in Texas. The amount of money it would take to assemble all of us willing to protest in locations that would actually matter is incredible, and protesting in small town Kentucky won't do much for you. We flat out cannot get the whole country together. I'm like 9 hours away from the capitol and I am closer than 80% of the country to the capitol.
I feel like it has to be a very "American" solution, annoyingly. Like, reconfigure your W4 to the minimum amount of withholding without getting in legal trouble. Pay the bare minimum on student loans and miss payments for a few months if you don't mind the credit ding. Buy nothing except your bare minimum to survive/provide for your family. Create an action hedge fund where everyone tosses in $20 that is crowd-sourced to start shorting stocks that affect the oligarchs the most and its entire mission is to fuck up the stock market. Stop using mainstream social medias so the oligarchs have a harder time mass-surveilling, stop paying for monthly entertainment services, find the cheapest cell phone plan you can find, use your old phone a bit longer and don't buy a new one. Avoid buying any new "consumer goods" that aren't completely necessary. Find ways to carpool and reduce the amount of fuel you're using. Cancel Amazon Prime. Cancel subscriptions to sub-par media like Washington Post and NY Times.
Oh, and that money saved? Save it, save it all, kill outstanding debts, they hate it when debts are paid off. Pay off the student loan, the mortgage, the credit card. Or just save a pile of fuck you money so when things do get darker, you at least have enough money to float for a few months without a job.
Basically, collectively reduce our "economic footprint" with some fun horse bet manipulation of their precious stock market while saving up for a nationwide strike. You're still shopping at your local stores and supporting local workers. Day to day doesn't change too much, you just have a little less. However that works out for each individual.
Unfortunately, this approach takes coordination on a large level, but it would also collectively impact citizens' direct lives the least to avoid the, "lost my job and my insurance went away with it and I now need $3000 a month for medications," problem, while affecting the oligarchs' precious stocks from multiple attack vectors.
Also, the fascist plutocrats own pretty much all of not only the traditional media, but also the digital "town square" and will absolutely censor even the slightest whiff of organization to resist them.
This is the reason for the 2nd amendment. This is literally what it was written for.
Technically, It was written to allow state militias to exist before we had a standing US army.
What? No it's not. It was about the idea that a standing army helped lead to tyrrany.
However, it does also support the idea of armed rebellion. They've worked real hard at enabling it for that.
The same preppers who hoarded ammo and canned foods and water filters couldn't be bothered to wear a mask when a real pandemic showed up, too.
While many vocally cheer it on.
Then don’t fucking acknowledge them
Stop cooperating .... if you're going to be fired, removed, penalized, punished any way ... then just don't cooperate. Even if you do work with them, who's to say they'll just get rid of your job later anyway
I really don't see any reason for them to believe they'll have jobs in even a week anyway by behaving.
Or acknowledge them with: Bring a gun to work day
What if we just started walking into the .gov buildings and started demanding info based on 'trust me bro? Go interview some of these doge dogs and tell them their services are no longer needed.
Guarantee Russian and Chinese spies see the opportunity to just start questioning government officials, they don't even need a fake identity, they can just refuse to identify themselves. Musk just made that normal.
Musk and his little personal gestapo.
Xitler youth
Imagine, as a senior federal employee, seeing a 25 yo nerd barging into your office uninvited and asking you questions without revealing as much as their name. US feds really must be paragons of politeness and patience for not telling them to fuck off right away
"Since you refuse to identify yourself, I'm calling security." Standard protocol when handling any sensitive information.
What’s been bothering me is security looks to be complacent or is aiding it. You see where people have resisted and are “escorted by security”. Who is security in this case listening to?
Then I believe the correct form of address is "you little shit."