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Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope
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Yea that’s fine that’s a bit of fuck around and find out on USAID’s part about letting it get as bad as it was. I have no love for USAID
What I worry about is what sort of new precedent will this set? Sure do a few sweeps but maybe Doge also decides to set up little bots constantly studying your every correspondence and task. I mean why not? Who is it that checks and balances Doge?
(I had the same sort of issue with the unlimited power of the Mueller investigation btw)
And the whole “it’s read only” reminds me of cops who say if you surrender your phone to us for this investigation, we will ignore any other information other than what we need for the investigation” yea fuckin right….
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It's not just USAID tho, they were only first on the chopping block. We can safely assume that this sort of financial trickery is occurring in many, many, many government agencies. Anytime any government hands out money, there are hundreds of layers of people skimming the cash.
This isn't setting a precedent so much as The POTUS is actually exercising the power granted to him by the constitution, every POTUS in like the past 60 years has been a swamp creature more interested in maintaining status quo, rather then running a federal government that works for The American People, but instead they have all been running an organization that greases palms and pays off whoever they need to in order to maintain this status quo
If the US Government wants your data, every detail of your digital life, they can buy it from Meta, Google, Telecoms, Banks etc. There is nothing in the US constitution that addresses personal digital data, nothing, not a whiff, if you type it into a text field or click on a link, Anybody can collect and sell that information
the system is so utterly broken and rotten that a new coat of paint can't even begin to address the problem, we have to tear down the structure and rebuilt it timber by timber
DOGE doesn't have any permanent status, and Elon can't operate in his position for more than 130 days in a 365 day period or he has to get another government employee definition.
I heard today from a reasonably reliable source that they are looking into at least 517 billion in funds appropriated by congress during fiscal year 2024 for programs that are expired, some over 40 years ago
congress didn't vote to re-approve the program's funding, they just kept on issuing checks
I once saw an interview with a DoD contractor like some dude from raytheon or lockheed, and he was saying it doesn't matter if their programs get cancelled or not, they always find the funding somewhere
now it all makes a heck of alot more sense