We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-federal-government-what-matters/index.html
We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-federal-government-what-matters/index.html
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Nothing good
Stealing, it’s called stealing
He’s making it his.
The political machinations of Capital are now visible for all to see. The American project, the city on the hill, was always an experiment to see if a nation could have political democracy and Capitalism. The experiment is coming to an end and the answer is a resounding “no.” Capital it seems will infect all mechanisms of power, including political, changing the democracy into a dictatorial state to serve its ends.
What we do know:
Elon is trying to illegally gain access to US Treasury accounts that handle a volume upwards of **$6 Trillion Dollars** in annual payments for social security, medicare, pension, etc.
Elon Musk’s staff reportedly [caught installing hard drives](https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lh3dl3rkgc2u) at OPM, GSA, and **US Treasury**.
[Statement from Senator Wyden](https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-following-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system) (Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, D-Ore) Demanding Answers
Update: [Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html)
He shouldn’t be doing anything
He is a South African immigrant private citizen. Not elected. Holds no oath.
Why the fuck he is doing anything with our government at all.
Edit: wrote American instead of African.
Yeah, well…
He’s probably gonna fucking kill Medicare/Medicaid really. And leave lots of people dead and/or dying really. And many families left behind grieving and demanding answers.
Here’s a pretty solid guess. He thinks he can automate all of this and bring in new technology to handle all of these transactions. He’s half right. He can do these things but none of it will be in a legally required, government compliant way.
Little Nazi doesn’t have any idea that government accounting is very special. That government PII laws actually mean something. That there are mandatory record keeping requirements. The list goes on and on.
What he’s doing is incredibly illegal and there’s no one to investigate because… well that’s a function of the executive branch.
Will he steal all of our personal info? Identity theft is bad enough already.
Prison and sieze his assets.
Taking Federal data sets with PII and using it to train Generative AI models along with public data to build a list of Federal employees who are not loyal (vote not Republican) in order to fire them.
It’s easy. Taking it over. Anyone ever see a movie called equilibrium? I feel like that premise would be worse than 1984.
The article referenced a NYT article with this nugget:
“Several of Mr. Musk’s top aides have landed senior adviser roles at the Office of Personnel Management. They include Brian Bjelde, a human resources executive at SpaceX who has identified himself as the company’s 14th employee and who played a role in Mr. Musk’s takeover of Twitter, where he helped carry out widespread layoffs. Another arrival is Riccardo Biasini, an executive at the Boring Company, Mr. Musk’s tunneling company, who also joined Mr. Musk’s team at Twitter.
But the most empowered of Mr. Musk’s allies at the Office of Personnel Management has been Anthony Armstrong, a top technology banker at Morgan Stanley who worked on the billionaire’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022.”
I want to know how it happens that Elon’s closest allies are suddenly in top positions at OPM. What kind of a hiring process is there? Who were in these posts before, and why did they leave? Were the openings posted? Isn’t there a rigorous process for hiring? This kind of crap alone would be enough to bring any normal administration to a screeching halt, but it’s barely a footnote in the unfolding larger catastrophe.
Congress needs to get off its knees and wake up. They are about to become completely irrelevant to the government, if it isn’t too late already.
I’m so tired, man. I’m so so so so tired. I’m sick of these fucking people and their cryptic, scary nonsense. I just want it all to stop. I’m trying so hard to stay optimistic, to keep my head up, and to organize, but it is just. so. exhausting.
Not much, just updating every federal 401k plan to include 58% allocation to $TSLA stock
It’s very simple – he is positioning himself for the biggest ransomware attack ever. Trump was simply his trojan horse.
How are they allowing a foreign guy to come in and take American lives? What’s the real reason for this?
Same thing he did to Twitter! He’s breaking all the systems and getting all of them to answer directly to him.
Private citizen just shows up and takes over government.
We also don’t know why the staff of government agencies are allowing unauthorized individuals to access their computer network or even enter the building in the first place. Rip that shit out, call the police or in-house security to escort them from the premises. Charge them with trespassing. The unauthorized individuals are actively seeking to fire the staff of those agencies anyway. What do they have to lose?
How are we standing back and allowing a non elected or appointed government official destroy the country. Dems & Republicans step up and do your dam jobs and stop this maniac..
He’s an unelected, unconfirmed, foreign national likely compromised by multiple international sources that now has unlimited access to all of our government’s digital records and the entirety of the Treasury.
This is a coup, and he’s the one in control.
If we don’t treat it like that and do something **fucking immediately**, whatever comes next will be entirely at his whims.
I wish we had leaders that treated this as the existential threat it is.
I’m not going to listen or respond to a single naysayer or a bot who says “it’s hopeless” and I know I’ll receive these comments, but
CALL/EMAIL YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE. THIS CONCERNS YOUR DATA! CALL YOUR GOVERNORS! Let them know you are concerned and let them know YOU KNOW this is illegal, and pressure them to take action.
You don’t think they listen? They fucking listen. If their constituents flood their inbox with concerns, their interns or whoever’s managing their inboxes and voicemails HAS to report it. You HAVE TO SPEAK UP.
Where are those 2nd Amendment people?
I contacted my senator and told him to rally up Dems to fight against Elon and his influence. Someone has to do it. I don’t know if my message will have an impact but I’m trying to do my part.
It’s clear he’s taking it over. People voted for Trump so he could hand the presidency over to Elon. Donald Trump is a traitor to America.
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