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they were UNACCOUNTABLE FOR A WEEK with our data. Why should I just “some guy” coming in with a team locking doors without even being an employee of the government? Bringing in mystery men to do stuff, lying about their identities to federal employees? You want accountability, it has to include the team that’s supposed to be working on it. They’re regularized it NOW. But not last week. I have no reason to “forgive and forget” because we do not know what they did in that time and we will never know.
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Ok. They’re regularizing a little now. Two members of DOGE are now Treasury employees as of today. As of yesterday, Elon Musk was made a temporary employee under Trump. This is better. I hope they dismantle that email server too they slapped in last week that’s faulty and sending spam to Federal employees or at least fix the botched security of it. I’m not happy about outsider unvetted people with full read-only access to treasury data including bank account info — but at least there’s 3 heads that can go on a platter if something gets massively leaked on the dark-web from any of them. – or at least two. The lack of accountability was gross. But at least now there’s a tiny bit theoretically.
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Yes they do. I have at times. But here is the difference: When you have ALL OF IT, all at once, everything changes. Now you can GROUP-BY-TYPE. You can CATEGORIZE. You can MOVE GROUPS from one area to another. You can DENY-ALL from a category. It is not just a small window of data here. It is also with the addition of POWER and PERMISSION. Call centers have VERY LIMITED powers to do things for a good reason. Everybody can only do a few things. To be able to view ALL OF IT, from the TOP DOWN and ACT UPON the data that can affect millions with a simple change in the WHOLE DATABASE, it simply does not compare.
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The US Government and China both compete in providing aid to low income nations. The benefit to helping low-income nations is they get a “foot in the door” for future development. USAID is (was) the US arm. But China is directly competing – AND WINNING in this area. Africa for example, China has us beat in providing similar aid as USAID does. And we’ll lose because now by shutting USAID down, China gets it all because they were already winning. https://philiproessler.net/research/competing-aid-regimes/
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Please do. You may _agree_ with it – maybe “end justifies the means” — a lot of people are taking that attitude.
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DOGE is part of the “U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (USDSTO)” which is a temporary team created by the EO to act at the whim of the President and they are not employees of the Federal Government. That is what Elon Musk runs. The USDS (“United States Digital Services” renamed “United States DOGE Services”) _is_ an existing department of the US Government. However, Elon Musk has NOTHING to do with that. I don’t know what they’re doing except having a new name. USDS is a real department that answers to Congress. USDSTO is a fictional ‘entity’ that is not an organization or department of the US Government but a team of fellas brought it from the outside by the President. They do not answer to Congress and they are VERY MUCH EXCEEDING their authority, which does not include budgetary changes, which fall under Congress. Shell game.
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It’s not weird. He doesn’t care either way. But he’s been told it’s something that people respond so and like a standard politician, makes that his focus. I don’t believe he cares either way about gender essentialism or whether people have trans hormones or surgeries. I truly believe that. But it’s got his base hopped up and as long as he can do things to keep it a repeated focus and people keep responding well to it, he’s free to do what he REALLY wants to do in the background that they won’t be looking at.
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