- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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.
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.
You don’t have Wormtongue pulling strings to let you in.
We really don’t need it. We have numbers if we can manage to coordinate. Me and one or two other aging veterans would be far more than what’s needed to intimidate 6 fucking children and a man baby.
Yeah but if you rock up on a federal building in DC it’s not going to be six children and a manbaby, it’s going to be DC police, Capitol police, the FBI, probably another federal security org I don’t know about, and contracted security officers too. Three middle aged dudes aren’t getting past the lobby.
God damn, did you really need to throw in the middle aged part?
The point was that it wouldn’t be just us 3 vs 6 kids and a man baby. The point was that a decent mob overruns people who really aren’t that vested in it. Most of the secret service, FBI, CIA whatever, aren’t in it to destroy the democracy. They joined to preserve the country. I hate giving credit to the FBI but they’re resisting on a small level by not reporting on each other to musks goons. You act like 100% of every agency is all in on trump/musk and that’s just not the case.
They saw that maga isn’t on their side after J6. Sure, ICE is obviously a bunch of racist maga shitbags, but most of the rest of them joined the services to help the country, again, many were probably misguided but the heart was in the right place.
Please record it with video. I want to watch. I’ll pay to watch that. Would be funny as hell
Plus you could just say your part of DOGe, whose going to know?
Only Elmo. And ghosts can’t argue against you.
The 'ol counter coup. I like it.
And when they mobilize the military against you?
I was in the US army. There are a surprising amount of people who joined for altruistic reasons like me. It may be misguided, but it’s there. Also, the US military is smaller, fatter, and of a lower intelligence than any time in the last 80 years. But more to your point, there’s 1.2 million in the entire US military, including army, navy, Air Force, coast guard etc. theres 320+ million Americans. There’s an unknown amount of guns, but there’s definitely more guns than people. I don’t care how many drones exist. The people outnumber the military by so much that it really doesn’t matter at all, especially considering a large number of those military personnel also joined for the same altruistic reasons that I did. We also still have a handful of good people left in the government. Not a lot, but it will matter.
Also, name one fucking time the US military won a war against a guerilla insurgency.
The issue when we were fighting those guerillas was brutality. At the end of the day, the military command structure was worried about there being a country and people. Many countries have shown us that it is SURPRISINGLY EASY to suppress guerilla movements if you’re willing to be incredibly brutal - roving death squads, for instance, or just annihilating suspected guerilla’s families. While I do not think there’s a LOT of people in the military willing to do that, it requires a surprisingly small amount of people willing to do it to make everyone else fall in line.
Abu Ghraib says hi.