Having 19 year old groypers in the department of memes running around disrupting government finances what could go wrong
That would be so funny if one of their fail is buying trillion in crypto and having to try to sell them to be able to keep functionning
It’s all so goddamn depressing
A good president could help this fucking country in a snap. We could even keep capitalism. All we need is massive public investment. Not bullshit public private partnerships that just funnel money to corpos. The government buying things and building things. Join belt and road. Any grifter gets nationalized.
They would bitch and cry “this is communism” to which we would say shut the fuck up or we will show you what communism is.
But this is just fantasy.
Now I want to know what you wrote
Check again
I wrote liberalism
well done, it takes real grit and determination to resign in protest and leave your position of power available to people who want to wreck and loot the system
On the other hand: you don’t owe your job (or the dumbfucks that voted for this) a single goddamn thing. Go whistleblow or talk about it on 60 minutes, instead.
Whistleblowing and/or going to 60 minutes is about as useful as singing your complaints to yourself in the shower nowadays.
You don’t owe your job anything when it’s Johnny corpo who benefits, but in this case the sacrifice of comfort would be to protect all of us. There are those that didn’t vote for this that are also getting screwed :/
You know what also would do dick? Staying at your job until they fire you or persecute you for “misappropriate funds” which you didn’t do.
I mean yes.
But also: he likely didn’t have a choice. It was resign with dignity or be fired. He refused to let them acces the system and was probably given an ultimatum.
They’ve been doing the same at every agency. Musks goons are at the top of OPM because they fired the management down the tree until they found someone who would allow them run untested and unsecured systems that directly harass all federal workers.
Many other agencies are having the same thing happening but are under strict gag orders and therefore the management massacres are slow to make it to news.
I still don’t fully understand who precisely the schedule f thing applies to, but I’m fairly certain that it primarily applies to mgmt/SES employees who make up the admin hierarchies of most agencies. And this is the result.
wouldnt it be pretty dignified to be fired over not wanting this dude to have access to all of our money and also look bad for the people firing him for not giving elon access?
Second reply: here’s an example that feels a bit more satisfying. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usaid-purge
That admin refused in writing and continued to refuse, so they put him in admin leave.
Yes it would probably. I mean he is a top treasury guy, so I don’t want to try and carry his water too much. But career civil servants are very used to a culture where you are encouraged constantly to demonstrate neutral outward views and to more or less follow direction from supervisors without pushback. It’s one of the things you sorta slam into if you transition in from private sector. Everything is “ask your direct supervisor” military-lite command chain. His thought process is probably, it would be against protocol to comply with this request, but the executive is basically asking for it, so I just resign to satisfy both requirements. Also he’s treasury and probably likes money? And resigning might get him better retirement pension, not sure. That’s not a point in his favor, just trying to paint the picture where career civil servants are not usually activists and have material concerns.
I still can’t get over that it’s called DOGE. This is so surreal. Like the dumbest way a country could sabotage itself. But I guess in a system where you reward the most selfish, sheltered and underqualified with power, that’s what you get.
Makes me regret posting all those funny dog memes in 2013
THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US
The fact that it’s such a stale meme is so… weirdly fitting. It’s already so stupid and asinine to bring memes into the government, and we’re doing dead memes from ten years ago? Elon is sooooo lame dude.
(I know it’s just to pump his shitcoin, whatever)
It really adds a disproportionately large amount of insult to injury
Like we want to project power and that we are a real and serious country and we have le epic doge department, this country is a cruel joke
Yes but it is crueller and stupider than it has ever been I think
Is it time to cash out bonds?
Watch, Musk about to pull the Superman III “fractions of a penny” ploy on the Treasury.
Why bother with that when you can just directly wire the cash to the Cayman Islands?
