505
Musk’s DOGE minions refuse to reveal their names when grilling civil servants
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
505 points (98.8% liked)
News
36480 readers
2477 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
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
The 'ol counter coup. I like it.
Plus you could just say your part of DOGe, whose going to know?
Only Elmo. And ghosts can't argue against you.
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.
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.