A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.
Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.
The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”
Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.
Somebody call Seabass to kick this doge pricks ass.
If Harry and Lloyd were president and vice president, they would be smarter and more competent than who are currently in charge.
Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.
Ok, it’s a crime. And?
Legality means nothing when you’re the law. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People
Isn’t that assault?
Nah
Yesss make them work for it
o7 Greg, you madlad
This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.
To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg’s bravery to the early days of Social Security
I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding, don’t get hysterical. /s
Big balls attacks again. The stunlock intensifies
DOGE == WW2 SS
SA, but they don’t know it yet.
You must use long knives to trim the fat.
They are trying to take over Social Security, so they can have the acronym.
Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it’s “illegals” now, the rest of us “parasites” next?
That’s exactly it. Owners want people desperate, because desperate people work for less. As you point out, they start with “illegals”, but they will eventually come for the old and the disabled too, because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line? We need to be clear: this is not about government efficiency or even a crackdown on “illegals”, but a war — the owners’ war on us workers and our kin.
They’ve been manufacturing consent in a similar way in Germany, agitating against immigrants and dubbing some or all people in your situation “Sozialschmarotzer” –“social parasites”–. Under the pretense of fighting those threats they conjure, they’ve been dismantling social security — without DOGE’s viciousness, but bit by bit.
Yep. Start with immigration (fakers!), then move onto disabled (fakers!) Then on from there
because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line?
This is true for those who have support locally. I don’t have anyone I can rely on locally right now if this starts happening to the DML. There is no other safety net for me. The safety net I do have was already riddled with holes and partially on fire BEFORE Jan 20th.
Also, this hasn’t even started happening and already people are struggling paycheck to paycheck and won’t risk it by protesting – at least not to the point where we can get sustainable numbers over weeks in all 50 states.
This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
So we’ve officially got a Gestapo in the country now?
C’mon guys… let’s wake the fuck up here.
Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.
Because it’s sensationalised and he didn’t physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.
But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy
The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.
Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault?
Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there
They have been rolling with either DC police or the Marshalls. Can’t remember, but they are bringing guns and muscle.
Fun fact, this is “assault” and the guy has a wonderful civil case.
Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.
Civil cases against government officers are however subject to qualified immunity while ones against the government are subject to sovereign immunity.
DOGE isn’t a real government entity, Big Balls isn’t on the US payroll and neither is the founder of Airbnb.
Believe it or not, the nebulous nature of the department actually is what makes them more likely to have qualified immunity because their role hasn’t been “clearly established” by case law. You couldn’t even talk say what “actions as a part of their duties” are. I’m not a fan of qualified immunity.
As far as suing the government over what DOGE does, good luck figuring out where an agency deputized by executive order fits in here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
Fun fact #3: If he sues he will be thrown in prison
Counterpoint: Luigi.
At least in Russia if he sued he’d fall out a window.
so America are still the good guys, right?
Okay, 100 Million.
Sounds like a great lawsuit.
I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.
Can’t pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.
Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he’s bleeding everyone else.
Keep suing it until the rest of the shit bags cut the line, turn on them, and leave them for dead. Like Giuliani
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP.
Or he just won’t. What’s anyone going to do about it?
Judges have broad power to enforce civil settlements. Just look at all the shit that NY did to Trump to collect on the E Jean Carroll lawsuit. I’m not sure whether she actually collected, but I assume he sold enough $TRUMP to easy marks to pay for it all.
She hasn’t seen a dime from him and never will in the remainder of her lifetime. If she was much younger and trump hadn’t won again she might have had a chance, but her victory is basically symbolic only. I’m sure you know that the rich can just keep appealing what amounts to forever since the legal system crawls at the speed of a sloth. Legal, and especially financial consequences do not apply to oligarchs.
It got far enough that the judge made Trump secure a bond for the full amount in case he couldn’t pay. I assume he finally did pay up, in fact it might have forced him deeper into crypto once he realized people would pay for his shitty tokens.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP
Or Smellania
We just pardoned a corporation.
Correct. For criminal acts. As Mitt Romney said, “Corporations are people, my friend.” (Yes, I know corporate personhood makes no sense, but this is the messed up world we live in.)
I understand that. And as you noted we’re well past the point of law and making sense. 2 plus 2 is now fish because the Supreme Court said so.
I hope we have some legal sense remaining to where what you’re saying makes sense. It would be a small confirmation law is still a thing.
We’re not past the point of law, there’s just an executive-in-chief who thinks he is. Law still applies to everyone else.
He’s openly defying the SCOTUS, and nothing is happening. The law doesn’t apply to him, therefore it doesn’t apply to us. We are all already dead in the US. Stay armed. If they come for you, make them pay with their lives. Make them fear “just following orders.”
If you’re in the US, you’re already dead. Your body just hasn’t gotten the message yet. Fight like the cornered badgers we are.
Wait what? I think I missed that.
However that’s just one of many sources where you can learn more about this. Don’t know the legitimacy of this particular site.
Holy shit! He’s basically given them a license for unlimited money laundering with no repercussions! 🤬
As for The Hill, it’s generally skewed to the Right (though not as far right as the fascist GOP) on anything subjective, but usually pretty reliable otherwise.
Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it’s a fucking lawsuit
We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.
No no, not instead of - it’s in addition to.
The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.
Not for long if you can’t trust the data.
Well, I suppose it’s time for the banks to move away from using Social Security numbers as a form of identification. Honestly, they should have done this years ago. SSNs were never intended to be used as a form of ID, but they were convenient, so banks did it anyway. But if Social Security records are no longer reliable, they no longer reliably list living and dead people, then banks will need to move to other forms of identification.
Possibly because that story’s already been out for a few days
I think the rest of the world will stop trusting the US’s word about the status of anything. The boy who cried wolf has contracted rabies.
I think that has already been happening for a long time.
Ya know, dead people have some crazy perks.
They don’t owe anything on their debts, for one.
Time to max out those credit cards!
Being “dead” isn’t ideal if you have a mortgage that the bank can foreclose on.
We’re only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire…they all need to be on death row.
