Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

[ZiprHead]

A legitimate audit has a thrid party

There is no need for any audit. We know what they were doing and Congress did nothing, What we (you) need is people going going to prison for a long long time.

Right back atcha there, chief.

 

[Elixir]

Yeah, they looking for disloyalty to Deep State.

THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.

 

[ZiprHead]

DOGE’s hastily-launched site has already been hacked: ‘This is a joke of a .gov site’

DOGE’S website launch got off to a rocky start after two pages on the site were defaced

www.independent.co.uk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s website has already been hacked after it was hastily launched earlier this week, and has reportedly leaked classified information.

DOGE’s website launched Wednesday as Musk vowed the department would be “maximally transparent.”

“I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization,” Musk bragged in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump this week.

But the launch got off to a rocky start after two pages on DOGE’s site were defaced by hackers, 404 Media first reported.

Two messages appeared on the site on Friday afternoon, with one saying: “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN - roro.”

The other said: “This is a joke of a .gov site.” Both messages were since removed.

They can't even create a secure website. What makes you think they should have control over huge government computer systems?

They fired a bunch of nuclear regulators because they didn't know they were protecting our nuclear arsenal. When they decided they needed them back they had no idea how to contact them.

And then we have this:

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

www.huffpost.com

Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it.

Theses people do not know what the hell they are doing.

 

[robnisch]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

 

[Elixir]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

Hands you a bucket of parts and tells you to call a cab.

 

[Elixir]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

Hands you a bucket of parts and tells you to call a cab.

Not funny. In the blessed event that we ever get the chance to repair all this damage, who is going to pay for it?

 

[ZiprHead]

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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.

Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, has now left her position after the disagreement, the people said.

President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition anonymity to speak candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.

The White House declined to comment on the developments. However, White House officials have said that Musk’s associates are being properly vetted and have the proper security clearances before they are appointed to official roles in the agencies they are helping scrutinize. Administration officials have also been skeptical of career employees’ efforts to guard federal data, which they have maintained political appointees should also be able to access, particularly if necessary to root out wasteful or erroneous spending.

“What I know is that DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files — the same way they’re trying to do at Labor and Treasury — and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, a left-leaning group, citing conversations with several current officials at the agency.

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“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is,” she said.

 

[ZiprHead]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

Hands you a bucket of parts and tells you to call a cab.

Not funny. In the blessed event that we ever get the chance to repair all this damage, who is going to pay for it?

Luckily we have the world's richest man on our side.

 

[barbos]

Nope.
Those folks all have legitimate federal authority.

And they should not have.

Your opinion on that doesn't change the reality.
I don't think Trump should have it either. He's a traitor and an insurrectionist, both are well documented. But, nevertheless he does.
Tom

Reality is, these people are scum, this is well documented. Trump is a different type of scum which more benign when it comes to foreign politics.

 

[Shadowy Man]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

I’m sure there were some parts you could do without.

 

[ZiprHead]

Nope.
Those folks all have legitimate federal authority.

And they should not have.

Your opinion on that doesn't change the reality.
I don't think Trump should have it either. He's a traitor and an insurrectionist, both are well documented. But, nevertheless he does.
Tom

Reality is, these people are scum, this is well documented. Trump is a different type of scum which more benign when it comes to foreign politics.

Says the guy who constantly defends his scum.

 

[ZiprHead]

Statement from NYC Comptroller Lander on the Trump Administration’s Illegal Reversal of FEMA Funding

“This morning, my financial team shockingly uncovered that President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally executed a revocation of $80 million in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from New York City’s bank accounts late yesterday afternoon. This is money that the federal government previously disbursed for shelter and services and is now missing. This highway robbery of our funds directly out of our bank account is a betrayal of everyone who calls New York City home.”

“New York City cannot take this lying down. I call on the Mayor to immediately pursue legal action to ensure the tens of millions of dollars stolen by Trump and DOGE are rightfully returned. If instead Mayor Adams continues to be President Trump’s pawn, my Office will request to work in partnership with the New York City Law Department to pursue aggressive legal action.”

 

[barbos]

Nope.
Those folks all have legitimate federal authority.

And they should not have.

Your opinion on that doesn't change the reality.
I don't think Trump should have it either. He's a traitor and an insurrectionist, both are well documented. But, nevertheless he does.
Tom

Reality is, these people are scum, this is well documented. Trump is a different type of scum which more benign when it comes to foreign politics.

Says the guy who constantly defends his scum.

Says the guy who constantly defends his scum.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

Hands you a bucket of parts and tells you to call a cab.

Not funny. In the blessed event that we ever get the chance to repair all this damage, who is going to pay for it?

Slap a 70% tax on all the billionaires would be a good start.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Now Trump is saying Musk isn't the head of DOGE:

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/18/musk-doge-authority-trump-white-house

Musk is not a DOGE employee and "has no actual or formal authority," WH says​

Elon Musk is not the administrator of DOGE nor is he an employee of the department that's overseeing massive cuts to the federal workforce and agencies, per a Monday night White House court filing.

Are we one step away from "Elon Musk, you say? Who is that?"

 

[ZiprHead]

Delta didn't land planes upside down when the gay guy was in charge.

 

[Elixir]

Delta didn't land planes upside down when the gay guy was in charge.

You telling me the SA twerp isn’t gay?
Maybe that’s the problem.

 

[Shadowy Man]

He didn’t shoot anyone, he just pulled a trigger.

 

[Elixir]

It's like your car is not running right, so you take it to the shop, and the mechanic tears the engine down. When all it needed was a tune-up.

Hands you a bucket of parts and tells you to call a cab.

Not funny. In the blessed event that we ever get the chance to repair all this damage, who is going to pay for it?

Slap a 70% tax on all the billionaires would be a good start.

I think 90% above $100m would be fair and would hurt nobody. $10m-$99m paying 65% wouldn’t cause any pain either.
I simply cannot comprehend the level of greed that lets those people keep grabbing as if they were starving and their next billion was a matter of life and death.

The current top marginal tax rate is 37% - and disingenuous Republicans stand around the halls of Congress wondering where all the money went since America was Great. Well, assholes, when America was great, the top marginal rate was 94%.

And we FOUGHT Nazis, we didn’t fucking ELECT them.

 

[Swammerdami]

The pot is on the stove and getting hotter and hotter. When will the frogs wake up to reality?

Statement from NYC Comptroller Lander on the Trump Administration’s Illegal Reversal of FEMA Funding

“This morning, my financial team shockingly uncovered that President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally executed a revocation of $80 million in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from New York City’s bank accounts late yesterday afternoon. This is money that the federal government previously disbursed for shelter and services and is now missing. This highway robbery of our funds directly out of our bank account is a betrayal of everyone who calls New York City home.”

“New York City cannot take this lying down. I call on the Mayor to immediately pursue legal action to ensure the tens of millions of dollars stolen by Trump and DOGE are rightfully returned. If instead Mayor Adams continues to be President Trump’s pawn, my Office will request to work in partnership with the New York City Law Department to pursue aggressive legal action.”

Is it time to play hardball? There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world). With the present price of gold about $95 million per ton, this is more than enough to compensate New York for Trump's larceny. When will Gov. Hochul send in her National Guard and seize control of these vaults? [/s?]