Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread

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That’s why a team from Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency headed straight for O.P.M., dragging in sofa beds to sleep on so they could be there round the clock. O.P.M. is root access to the entire United States government.

With that kind of access, even a small team can search the entire government for employees whose job titles contain suggestions of wrongthink, or who might resist takeovers or wield bureaucratic tools to slow the pace of change.

In effect, this small DOGE crew has become sysadmins for the entire government. Soon after O.P.M., they descended on the Treasury Department, where every payment the government has made is stored: root access to the economy (including many companies that are direct competitors to those of Musk). Their efforts expanded recently to the I.R.S. and Social Security Administration, both of which hold extremely personal, sensitive information: root access to practically the entire American population.

The Atlantic reports that a former Tesla engineer appointed as the director of the Technology Transformation Services — a little-known entity that runs digital services for many parts of the government — has requested “privileged access” to 19 different I.T. systems reportedly without even completing a background check, making him less vetted than the person delivering pizza to that mine.

…All this has merged with and amplified another kind of insider threat brewing for decades on the political side: the expansion of unchecked executive power.

“With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, to warn against the ways that what he called elective despotism can become a self-feeding cycle.

He had feared that an elected authoritarian would not just pulverize the institutions meant to limit his power, but take them over to wield as weapons, thus further entrenching himself. …”
 
nycfan said:


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That’s why a team from Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency headed straight for O.P.M., dragging in sofa beds to sleep on so they could be there round the clock. O.P.M. is root access to the entire United States government.

With that kind of access, even a small team can search the entire government for employees whose job titles contain suggestions of wrongthink, or who might resist takeovers or wield bureaucratic tools to slow the pace of change.

In effect, this small DOGE crew has become sysadmins for the entire government. Soon after O.P.M., they descended on the Treasury Department, where every payment the government has made is stored: root access to the economy (including many companies that are direct competitors to those of Musk). Their efforts expanded recently to the I.R.S. and Social Security Administration, both of which hold extremely personal, sensitive information: root access to practically the entire American population.

The Atlantic reports that a former Tesla engineer appointed as the director of the Technology Transformation Services — a little-known entity that runs digital services for many parts of the government — has requested “privileged access” to 19 different I.T. systems reportedly without even completing a background check, making him less vetted than the person delivering pizza to that mine.

…All this has merged with and amplified another kind of insider threat brewing for decades on the political side: the expansion of unchecked executive power.

“With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, to warn against the ways that what he called elective despotism can become a self-feeding cycle.

He had feared that an elected authoritarian would not just pulverize the institutions meant to limit his power, but take them over to wield as weapons, thus further entrenching himself. …”
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It’s not a choice between efficiency and manila folders in underground mines. There have been plenty of promising efforts to develop digital technologies that preserve our privacy while delivering its conveniences. They have names like zero-knowledge proofs, federated learning, differential privacy, secure enclaves, homomorphic encryption, but chances are you’ve never heard of any of them. In the rush to create newer, faster, more monetizable technologies — and to enable the kind of corporate empires whose chief executives stood beside Donald Trump at his inauguration — privacy and safety regulations seemed like a bore.

Now we are stuck with a system that offers equal efficiency to those who wish to exercise the legitimate functions of government and those who wish to dismantle it, or to weaponize it for their own ends. There doesn’t even seem to be a mechanism to learn who has gained access to what database with what privileges. Judges are asking and not always getting clear answers.

The only ones who know are the sysadmins, and they’re not saying.”
 
Callatoroy said:
freebeacon.com

DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

DOGE found $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's...
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Hahahahahahah. $100 in revenue and receive a grant for $2 billion. Should be a 50 page thread on here talking about the possible shenanigans going on here between the jill administration and abrams. Can't wait to read all the concern that was voiced in the elon threads because there aren't any hypocrites on the zzl.
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He who does not understand timeouts will not understand early stage financing.
 
wmheel1287 said:
It's pretty impossible to make a mean spirited accusation against Elon Musk. He's likely actively engaged in things far wrose than any accusation that could be levied.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if Musk is using the kid as a shield, but I think there’s a reasonable chance he likes taking the kid around because he’s poorly behaved. Telling adults to shush their mouths and wiping boogers on museum worthy furniture is the kind of thing that most parents would profusely apologize for. Musk seems to use it as a passive aggressive FU to those he meets with.
 
AlbionAmerican said:
Let's look at her father, a man who worked in the aerospace industry for many years (despite being a foreign born immigrant), which normally wouldn't be such an issue, except when it turns out the very company her father worked for many years, Collins Aerospace, turned out to have been in several controversies regarding the theft of American aerospace tech which then got handed over to the Chinese (see below).
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Shocking that a poster calling himself AlbionAmerican would make such a big deal that a "foreign born immigrant" is working for a huge aerospace company (Collins has 50K employees and like 100 offices around the country; my son was looking at them for an internship).

The problem is not Usha. There's not a shred of evidence that the Vice-President's wife is calling any shots. The problem is Trump and Elon and his sycophants.

You idiots object when we point out your animus toward brown people, but then post shit like this.
 
Military needs to act soon and take this administration out or it will be too late. Don't wait for NATO pullout. Just do it. Set up a coalition bipartisan government to run things until the next election cycle.
 
CeruleanBlueHeel said:
Military needs to act soon and take this administration out or it will be too late. Don't wait for NATO pullout. Just do it. Set up a coalition bipartisan government to run things until the next election cycle.
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Wait, which government are you advocating be overthrown? The U.S. government?
 
CeruleanBlueHeel said:
Military needs to act soon and take this administration out or it will be too late. Don't wait for NATO pullout. Just do it. Set up a coalition bipartisan government to run things until the next election cycle.
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There's only one American who could function as an interim president. Barack Obama.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Our entire political system and government has degenerated into a reality television show. And the people running the government have about the same level of intelligence, morals, and ethics of most reality tv show stars, so it fits. And far too many people are lapping it up because all they watch are reality tv shows, "pro" wrestling, and the like. And it will remain that way until the shit really hits the fan - say, an economic collapse or serious foreign policy crisis - in which case we're all screwed because the loons we have running the government won't have a clue as to what they should do to fix it. Imagine Trump 2.0 trying to manage something like the Cuban Missile Crisis or the 2008 near-economic implosion and you'll get the idea.
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Or, ya know, a global pandemic
 
BlooVooDoo said:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Musk is using the kid as a shield, but I think there’s a reasonable chance he likes taking the kid around because he’s poorly behaved. Telling adults to shush their mouths and wiping boogers on museum worthy furniture is the kind of thing that most parents would profusely apologize for. Musk seems to use it as a passive aggressive FU to those he meets with.
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Speaking of the boogers, is this related?:

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Wait, is he implying that chemtrails cause autism?

“… it’s the autism stat [… ramble …] if you go back 15 years ago we had, like, nobody, it was one in 20,000, now we have one in 34 … kids have autism … that’s unbelievable. So there’s something wrong, there’s something wrong uh we’ve done something wrong, that’s something you’re going to figure out [pointing at someone]. Maybe it’s a spray that we spray all over the place that nobody else does, other countries don’t uhhh the Pennsylvania Dutch, they don’t do anything and they’re amazingly healthy …”
 
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