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
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Musk’s DOGE Minions Refuse to Reveal Their Names When Grilling Civil Servants
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.
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".
Then take up the French model and protest, protest often and whenever, wherever you can ... do not cooperate and protest at your own small level everywhere you can safely. And contact your representatives and tell them what you think, as often as possible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While many vocally cheer it on.
Thunderous applause
I always wonder if people like that watch movies like Star
TrekWars and cheer for the Empire. Or if they are deluded enough to think that they are the Rebels.The problem is we only get that epic battle if the side with guns thinks they're losing control.
That side is taking control right now though.
Everyone is also conditioned to think that using the example of Hollywood movies, everything will come to a head and we'll all be saved at the last possible moment when everything is about to be lost.
Unfortunately, life doesn't work like the movies.