Summary
Elon Musk warned federal employees against leaking information, stating, “if in doubt, they are out,” as he helps Trump implement sweeping government changes.
A Reddit post alleged Musk’s team is using “fingerprinting” tactics to track leakers. Musk, who spent heavily on Trump’s re-election, now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
The administration is also encouraging civil servants to resign, prompting lawsuits.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk’s crackdown on leaks.
He’s gonna fire you anyway, leak harder.
Musk threatens to illegally fire employees he is already illegally firing.
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This dipshit has no authority! What the actual fuck is happening?
We are looking at a coup, they already have judicial power, order forces, and when they get most departments and branches, they will take the legislative power. I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
It’s already happening at the state level. Tennessee is passing a law that would make it illegal for state legislature to vote against a bill that aligns with federal policy.
I guess they’ve never heard of states’ rights…
They thought of everything.
Americans voted for this (or didn’t bother to vote to avoid it)
A government that was more intent on ruling than governing, has been doing all it can to muddy the waters on constitutional interpretation, finally hit a tipping point.
What is happening is that they don’t care about the law.
Also what is happening is people still seem to be surprised by that.
You cannot leak information! I’m the one who leaks information! -fElon
Attention all federal employees! Chances are you’re gonna get your ass fired anyway, so malicious compliance is the watchword from now on. Leak, document, obfuscate, lie, confuse, sidetrack and goosechase them every chance you get.
Remember Hannah Arendt: evil is when every bureaucrat ‘just does their job’ because a higher power gave the order.
You’re the frontline of this fight now. Even if you never signed up for this. Because none of you did.
now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
Why the fuck do they still write like this? DOGE isn’t a department of the government, it’s just Elon with a Carte Blanche. And there’s nothing controversial about this, it’s a coup in plain sight.
And wasn’t it originally going to have him and Ramaswamy or however the fuck you spell it as co-heads? Like, the top position was redundant out of the gate, and we’re supposed to take its idea of “efficiency” seriously?
No, you’re supposed to wonder what exactly its purpose is, who leads it, on what legal basis, and what the limits of its power are.
While 20-something year old unelected goons who won’t say their names dismantle the government in a week.
It actually is. They took a Obama-era department and rebranded it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
Which means it’s full expanded name is “United States Department of Government Efficiency Service”. Which is super efficient, isn’t it?
And DOGE is pretty much the mirror of RAGE (Remove All Government Employees), which a pretty infamous techbro came up with.
The name may have already existed. But what Elon is doing in its name isn’t what a governmental department does.
It is now. Elon Musk says so, and he bought a President.
Should be with the salute
Yes, but…a meme about an evil aspiring emperor manipulating those with the actual power behind the scenes in order to actually obtain that power is entirely appropriate.
It also bugs me how the O is stylized as a capital. In acronyms, isn’t it proper to make it lowercase if it’s a filler word like “of”?
And should he know this as an elite PoE (path of exile) player?
Don’t you know why he did this in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Elon_Musk_and_Dogecoin
Omg makes sense now. I never followed that blatant meme coin.
Everything he ever does is a grift. I can’t even imagine a life like that.
Depends, AOA is angle of attack. I’m sure there are more examples if I sit and think. The lowercase ‘o’ strikes me as more of a tech/internet thing, not traditional.
No I’m pretty sure lower case was always the case.
No, they just normally leave them out or capitalize. It really isn’t common outside of computer-related stuff as far as I can think. I would be happy to be proven wrong if you have some examples.
Got a few more where ‘of’ gets a capital letter for you to ponder on.
TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language
DOE - Department of Energy
Also other departments, DOD, DOJ, etc.
OOO -Out of office
MOA - Minute of Angle
I’ve always seen OoO for out of office. 🤷🏻
3 pages in, and haven’t seen that, but okay.
🤷🏻 seen it all through my career
It could also be straight-up omitted, such as with “United States of America” being U.S.A.
Ya this is also a good point.
For any dedicated centrists, or even Trump Voters who are starting to feel this increasingly itchy feeling in the back of your mind, like there is a question you want to ask but your brain kind of shies away from putting it into words, let me help you out:
Yes, you are the baddies. Yes, it is only going to get more uncomfortable from here on out. If you haven’t walked away after reading this comment, you are now choosing the side you know is wrong. On purpose. That is now your identity.
How exactly is elon who has no position in teh government firing people?
He has an entire department that was created specifically for him to do shit like this.
I mean that would suggest he has a federal appointment then. I mean he was given authority as head of this department??? Because I have not heard his title or anything for a government position.
Dunno.
But I did some digging into the EO, and the USDS (United States DOGE Service) was a hack by renaming from United States Digital Service. It is under the USDS that they created the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. The EO also states that there is to be an administrator appointed by the White House that reports to the chief of staff. It sounds like to me that they are utilizing loopholes in the constitution/law to sidestep Congress.
Im not sure if the goal is to clog the courts or what but hiring and firing is not an at will with the federal government and it sounds like none of this will really fly. I feel like the way companies try to just see who they can drop and won’t fight it but with unions its unlikely anyone would just give up without a fight since they have support.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk’s crackdown on leaks.
Lmfao. How, exactly, are whistleblower protections going to do shit ?
Know what Nazis and the USSR did to “whistleblowers”? They killed them. Just a matter of time before these people who are leaking the information and slowing things down get shot for “refusing to vacate the premise” after being fired.
Like the Boeing whistle-blowers?
So he wants them to quit but if they leak anything he’ll fire them? His mind is an enigma
I hope people just say fuck it and leak everything
A lot of that is happening. But you’ve still got to leak to a source. After the way Snowden and Assange were handled, and the degree to which the bigger journals and news channels have been compromised by conservative financial interests, there’s a big open question of who you even tell this stuff to.
Going to another Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi would be a huge mistake.
There are a few out there, Ken Klippenstein has been receiving and publishing a lot of leaks recently. It does make me worried for his security though.
What if the workers leak information that Elon is an agent of China?
Orr worse, what if he’s secretly DEI and woke? Smells like a foreigner with ties to hostile nations to me
You know what would really bring the conservative movement to its knees? Saying Trump is an agent of the Russian government. Then make a big picture of him and Putin kissing.
Absolutely guaranteed to work. There’s nothing America can’t fix by doubling down on Red Scare.
It won’t work. AI exists now, they will just say its fake.
He may just be a useful idiot, but he’s doing exactly what Putin wants.
How Trump’s Army veteran pick for Pentagon chief, Fox & Friends’ Pete Hegseth, sees the world
Throughout the war, Hegseth has shifted stances, calling Putin a “war criminal” and criticizing Biden for not getting Ukraine military aid quickly enough. He told Fox News in March 2022, “What’s at stake is repelling an authoritarian who basically is saying ‘I want the Soviet Union back, I want Ukraine back, I want Kyiv back.’”
He has criticized the NATO alliance, saying the US’s European allies need to lead efforts to defend their borders. In his recent book, “War on Warriors,” Hegseth called some NATO allies “outdated, outgunned, invaded, and impotent.”
He wrote,“Why should America, the European ‘emergency contact number’ for the past century, listen to self-righteous and impotent nations asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense arrangements they no longer live up to?”
This doesn’t benefit Putin, it benefits the US military export industry. Europe rearming would be a bonanza for US arms sales.
This man needs to be tried for treason, convicted, and hanged for his crimes against the republic.
If you tell on me I’LL FIRE YOU! also, here’s your pink slip, we’re going a different direction, goodbye.
We can’t let them complete the Network State takeover. This is hostile to democracy. We will not survive this.
Why are you using their made up name for it?
Network State = fascism
Its corporate fascist states
https://balajis.com/p/the-network-state-2021
