Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficult

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[+] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    they stole our fucking information.

    it's odd. went my entire life, decades and not once did my SSN get compromised. three months after this mother fucker got his nasty little Nazi fingers into the US identity databases, I have been getting slammed with loan after loan after loan.

    that's ending in the new year though, because I found one of them and have been keeping a close eye on them.

    I will take my pound of flesh from their back, and all the backs of those that empowered them.

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    [–] 56 points 10 months ago

    We also know there's been no actual reduction in government spending as well.

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    [–] 46 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    There's also almost no chance we can uncover what DOGE did in any organized way, because the people Musk brought in had complete control over the systems that would create logs and records of their changes, and assuming (pretty reasonably) they knew they were breaking rules, they almost certainly deleted and obscured what they were doing.

    Doing a code audit for every governmental system seems like it should be a Week 1 item for some future non-evil administration, assuming we can get out of this timeline.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    Yes we do?

    They embezzled money and fired competent workers to impose their will to cause massive damage to the democratic process.

    They lied about everything and took money while doing so. This isn't a fucking question.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    Yeah we do. It was designed to fuck shit up

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    We know exactly what they did. They stole. Everyone knows this.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Installing backdoors into all government computers, rendering the entire system compromised beyond salvage.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    They gave palantir a direct pipeline of sensitive information tied to individuals government identity.

    That's it.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    It had no function or value beyond attempting to dismantle the federal government in an attempt to consolidate power.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    One thing that's safe to say is that if Musk didn't have your personal data, he does now

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They copied everyone's personal data. Look at that shining example of human integrity that is Elon musk and tell me that doesn't scare the bejeezus out of you.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    He went after anyone investigating him . We know that at least.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Something, something, something, dark enlightent

    Something, something, something, anti-democracy

    Something, something, something, I control the government now

    -Elon Musk and other billionaires

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Mission Failed Successfully.

    They were sent in to “Move Fast and Break Things”. (AKA ruin everything). They did succeed this goal.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ya we do. Fuck shit up, screw the lower and middle class, benefit the rich. Done.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    They had their hands in the cash drawer

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Fairly certain it was a limited purge

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 62 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    they scraped all government data.

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago

    Targeted everything that regulates his companies while turning children loose everywhere else to make it look confusing...

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Not going to forget what doge did because of articles like this.

    Slashed as many oversight programs as they could, caused havoc with mass federal firings when we needed to be hiring instead, hurt international relations by shutting down USaid programs.

    Most importantly, doge saw to the end of every federal investigation into Musk’s crimes or those of his companies, and harvested financial data from the treasury on every single American for them to feed into their “control the world” AI models.

    What doge did was grotesque, and Elon should be facing charges of treason for being the ringleader. Nazi prick.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Most importantly, doge saw to the end of every federal investigation into Musk’s crimes or those of his companies, and harvested financial data from the treasury on every single American for them to feed into their “control the world” AI models.

    This sounds highly plausible. Have the details of each part of this been documented somewhere?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    The traitor nazi's child minions had complete and total access to destroy the evidence and logs of their high crimes against America, thanks to the access granted to them by the demented pedophile "president" and his handlers.

    Just another nail in the coffin of American freedom.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It fucked everything up. It's the details that are sketchy at present.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    That was the point...

    If he just went after what he wanted, then when we could fix shit we'd be fixing what he wants broken.

    He burnt a proverbial hospital down so he could rob an orphanage, instead of just robbing an orphanage

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    The goal of DOGE was to terminate thousands of employees so they could use that money to hire ICE gestapo criminals. Their second goal was to nuke any agency that would stand in the way of tRump. The third was to nuke agencies launching investigation. Fourth, agencies with oversight. The fifth goal was to ransack their database and steal personal and sellable data. Lastly, Musk wanted the Institute for Peace building for himself but courts blocked the theft.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    It nuked a bunch of investigations and prosecutions against Elon Musk companies, for one thing...

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    Didn't it get people to forget his manipulation of DOGE meme coin by calling it the same thing? Didn't it also allow him access to everyone's personal information? Just asking questions here.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Steal data. Steal personal information. If you know everything from everyone, you can always blackmail anyone that’s against your regime.

     

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Put backdoors in government systems for Musk corporations and foreign adversaries to exploit. Provide Musk with a cache of any government data he wants, including the personal financial records for every US taxpayer.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I don't understand what exactly is going on, but it seems really weird to me that Kash Patel is moving the FBI HQ into the building that was previously occupied by USAID before the DOGE sledgehammer.

    https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fbi-closing-headquarters-j-edgar-hoover-building-kash-patel-announces

    I remember there was some kind of a controversy with members of DOGE showing up to USAID and demanding access to sensitive information about individuals in other countries who were working undercover with the U.S.

    Again, no idea what the full story is, but definitely seems like a bit concerning, considering the Trump administration's unusual level of friendliness with countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia.

    Edit: so fucking weird

    March 2025: USAID staff invited to attend a daylong event to burn and shred classified documents, email says

    In an email sent to certain employees and obtained by Fortune, USAID’s Acting Executive Secretary, Erica Carr, asked staff to shred and burn classified documents and personnel documents cleared from the agency’s headquarters.

    She told staff to meet at USAID HQ from 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday for the daylong event.

    “Shred as many documents first and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” Carr said in the email. “If you need to use the burn bags, do not overfill, and ensure the burn bag can be closed with staples at the top.”

    She added that burn bags should be labeled with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/(B/IO)” in a dark marker

    One former USAID worker, whose identity is known to Fortune, said documents may still be preserved electronically, adding that the loss of the Ronald Reagan Building, the USAID headquarters, meant there was limited space to safely store hard copies.

    Btw IO is the Bureau of International Organization Affairs

    The IO is charged with developing and implementing the policies of the U.S. government with respect to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies, as well as within certain other international organizations. The Bureau of International Organization Affairs was created in order to strengthen the United States involvement in important international relations.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Does he? Do they?

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    [–] 73 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What they did is forcibly enter places they weren't supposed to be allowed access to and take over their systems. Incidentally, most of those places held data owned by groups with regulatory authority over some or all of his businesses.

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  • I'm still convinced it was a cover to steal every bit of internal data on every American to supply Musks xAI venture in an attempt to get an advantage over the other AI firms.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    It's a feature, not a bug. That way you can't disprove the made-up numbers they use.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They just backdoored or snagged a DB dump on every possible database they could get their hands on and gave it to Palantir (and who knows who else, but probably also the FSB, Mossad, and possibly MSS). That was the mission. That was what they did. They fully got away with it.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    They stole sensitive data for Russians and Chinese.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes we do… they stole data.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    They gutted USAID which in turn caused thousands to starve in other countries. So that’s fun.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    That's intentional...

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    His littlebigbawl bois went in and stole as much as they could.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I’m sure we have a pretty good idea.

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