Wired has identified 6 young men helping Elon with his illegal coup inside our Office of Management and Budget (OMB), their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran
editing to add a photo of these weirdo children you can download and… print? put up around town? send to friends?
People were so credulous of what social media and political speeches said about DOGE (e.g. it was going to be for mass-firing personnel) that they didn't read the Executive Order that set it up. I did.
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Clearly, its power to hire people has been exercised. Also clearly, the people that it has hired are here to put in place a Presidentally-signed back-door into U.S. government I.T. systems under the guise of "upgrades".
Of course, the major things are the 2 emergencies, the declaration of an "invasion" by poor people from Central and South America, and the mobilization of the military. But there are a *lot* of (comparatively!) minor things. One of them is that the new Department of Dodgy Affairs has no power to review personnel and is in fact only empowered to look at software and IT systems. Indeed, it actually requires hiring *more* government personnel. https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ #USPolitics #DonaldJTrump
It's not both. Ironically, the firings have been nothing to do with DOGE.
And the indication is right there in the Executive Order. As I said, it seems that not many people have actually read it. Almost all of it is directly and solely about every U.S. government agency (bar 1) hiring these "special government assistants" for I.T. systems and putting them on the government payroll at Agency Head level.
The reality is that Hollywood has misled everyone for 50 years with its tales of subverting classified computer systems with "sleeper agents", decades of planning, and camps of U.S.S.R. orphans.
It takes an octogenarian POTUS, a group of home-grown recent university graduate mercenaries, one Executive Order, the old "We're here to upgrade the software ." trick, and about a fortnight.
The full nature of the problem doesn't make itself apparent until one realizes that the U.S. government's attack surface for the malicious has just become whatever can influence a named 19-year-old/20-something male postgraduate with unfettered access and *proven ability* — reported to the world by CNN, no less! — to bypass security systems and personnel.
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