DOGE Catch-All | DOGE ledger “riddled with errors”

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Lutheran Family Services in NC . Dump them and we are collapsing huge portions of Foster Care and 'relocation" of friends of the US who come over -like the Hmong folks
 
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The consequences of Musk’s and the OMB’s actions so far have been wide-ranging. A recent OMB memo ordering a freeze of federal grants and loans set off chaos in Washington, leaving lawmakers in Congress, nonprofits and some federal agencies confused as to the impact of the document. Musk’s allies, meanwhile, have acquired positions within the office that emailed a payout offer to thousands of federal employees.

Vought’s expected ascension back to the top of the OMB will test his relationship with Musk and whether the pair will be able to work together seamlessly or if their similar portfolios and mandates—and differing styles—will lead to dissenting viewpoints and turf battles.

A person close to Vought said he has privately asked allies how DOGE is going to operate from a technical perspective. A senior administration official said Vought and Musk have been building a partnership since just after Trump’s victory in November.

… Vought initially told Senate lawmakers during his confirmation process that he viewed DOGE as an advisory panel set to guide the OMB. But Musk was later given a larger government role, with free rein over technology and software, including at OMB and all other federal agencies.

… Musk has been spotted walking into government agencies, including the Education and Treasury departments, and being offered office space for DOGE within those agencies, according to people close to Musk.

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Amanda Scales, who worked at Musk’s AI company, has been serving as OPM’s chief of staff, while other officials at the agency include Brian Bjelde, who has served as a vice president for human resources at SpaceX.

Musk has made at least two visits to the OPM’s offices to meet with aides, including on Tuesday, the day the agency sent resignation offers to federal workers. …”
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I thought the pubs were against the surveillance state?

More big brother from the freedom party.
 
BillOfRights said:
Musk and Mike Flynn (!!!!!!) are shutting down payments to Lutheran Family Services. In North Carolina, LFS handles a lot of foster care. LFS is the largest employer in South Dakota, including assisted living facilities.





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They don't give a fuck about foster children. They only care about being in control of women and forcing birth. After that the kid and mother are on their own.
 
UNCatTech said:
Not just twitter, Facebook is censoring information also.

My wife runs an LBGTQ group that has had post and links removed.
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Heather Cox Richardson also named them in her Substack this morning. I love her and I really don't want this for her, but few things would be more impactful than Musk having the FBI try to arrest her for something like this.
 
So how do we best conceptualize the unprecedented things that are happening right now? A lot of smart commentators are calling it a coup. That may be right, but it doesn't seem sellable to me right now, especially with the military not (yet) involved. I've been thinking about it and here's my suggestion.

Trump 2.0 is two separate but coordinated movements operating in parallel. On one track, the anarchists, led by Elon Musk, are acting like an extremely aggressive vulture capital firm. They're taking a valuable but troubled "company" (the federal government) and stripping it down to its component parts. Anything they see as valuable is being appropriated and manipulated for their own benefit. Everything they see as lacking value is being tossed over the side. As anyone familiar with the industry knows, the end result is never a stronger "company." It's a massive shift of wealth to the vulture capitalists, and a shell of a company that can no longer operate functionally. That's exactly where we're headed if Elon continues to have his way.

On the second track, the Christian nationalists, led by Miller, Thiel, Vance, Johnson and many others, are working to implement what they see as conservative "culture" by returning us to something like the 1950s, when (in their view) women were mainly intended for breeding and black and brown Americans knew their place. And while the domestic features of the 1950s have received most of the attention, we can't forget that era was also defined by the onset of the Cold War, thus giving us foreign enemies to unite against. This is why we're seeing Trump 2.0 picking illogical and meritless fights with foreign countries, despite all the isolationist language in the campaign. I don't know if Trump will ever invade anyone. But I'm positive he wants us to have lots of enemies, and Trump is far more comfortable being antagonistic to our democratic friends than to our authoritarian (actual) enemies.

So far, Trump 2.0 is moving quickly along both of these tracks. That may continue for a little while. I have a feeling, though, that the dynamic is not sustainable in the long term. What happens when the trade wars start causing real economic harm to the tech oligarchs? What happens when Elon's desiccation of the military results in a massive embarrassment abroad, or when he starts talking about slashing Medicare and Social Security (which is absolutely, 100% coming)? There are a whole lot of ways these two tracks could intersect in irreconcilable ways, and given the egos involved, I doubt it will be long at all before that happens.

In the meantime, though, the destruction this plan is wreaking is enormous. It's amazing to see how quickly this 250-year old institution can be torn apart. Maybe the best analogy of all is the Romans destroying the Second Temple in a matter of days in 70 CE. The lesson from then, which applies equally now, is that it's far easier to tear down a monolith than it is to build it.
 
lawtig02 said:
So how do we best conceptualize the unprecedented things that are happening right now? A lot of smart commentators are calling it a coup. That may be right, but it doesn't seem sellable to me right now, especially with the military not (yet) involved. I've been thinking about it and here's my suggestion.

Trump 2.0 is two separate but coordinated movements operating in parallel. On one track, the anarchists, led by Elon Musk, are acting like an extremely aggressive vulture capital firm. They're taking a valuable but troubled "company" (the federal government) and stripping it down to its component parts. Anything they see as valuable is being appropriated and manipulated for their own benefit. Everything they see as lacking value is being tossed over the side. As anyone familiar with the industry knows, the end result is never a stronger "company." It's a massive shift of wealth to the vulture capitalists, and a shell of a company that can no longer operate functionally. That's exactly where we're headed if Elon continues to have his way.

On the second track, the Christian nationalists, led by Miller, Thiel, Vance, Johnson and many others, are working to implement what they see as conservative "culture" by returning us to something like the 1950s, when (in their view) women were mainly intended for breeding and black and brown Americans knew their place. And while the domestic features of the 1950s have received most of the attention, we can't forget that era was also defined by the onset of the Cold War, thus giving us foreign enemies to unite against. This is why we're seeing Trump 2.0 picking illogical and meritless fights with foreign countries, despite all the isolationist language in the campaign. I don't know if Trump will ever invade anyone. But I'm positive he wants us to have lots of enemies, and Trump is far more comfortable being antagonistic to our democratic friends than to our authoritarian (actual) enemies.

So far, Trump 2.0 is moving quickly along both of these tracks. That may continue for a little while. I have a feeling, though, that the dynamic is not sustainable in the long term. What happens when the trade wars start causing real economic harm to the tech oligarchs? What happens when Elon's desiccation of the military results in a massive embarrassment abroad, or when he starts talking about slashing Medicare and Social Security (which is absolutely, 100% coming)? There are a whole lot of ways these two tracks could intersect in irreconcilable ways, and given the egos involved, I doubt it will be long at all before that happens.

In the meantime, though, the destruction this plan is wreaking is enormous. It's amazing to see how quickly this 250-year old institution can be torn apart. Maybe the best analogy of all is the Romans destroying the Second Temple in a matter of days in 70 CE. The lesson from then, which applies equally now, is that it's far easier to tear down a monolith than it is to build it.
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It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue but to me its a possibly unconstitutional consolidation of executive power.

A coup would be some individual or group seizing power from the lawful leader. And Trump is the lawful leader. Calling it a coup doesn't sell and sounds like hysterics.
 
Thiel and Vance are in the anarchists' camp.

The coup officially happens when the next peaceful transition of power is abrogated. Maybe that happens in 2028, but the populace may not give a shit by then...
 
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