muskβs employee Marko Elez has made changes to the US Treasuryβs computer code base, likely allowing payments to be stopped and their stoppage to be hidden.
No word on whether it funnels money to musk directly.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mβ¦
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to βread onlyβ access to departmentβ¦Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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in reply to 2xfo • • •This boggles what's left of my imagination. Even Putin wasn't foolish enough to hand over control of the national treasury to his oligarchs.
2xfo
in reply to JoeChip • • •Trump isn't nearly as smart as he is cruel and vindictive.
Unfortunately his need for Daddy's love drives him straight to the worst despots, desperately seeking their approval. They all know this and they are all using it.
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in reply to David August βπ • • •He got peer review, style review, security review, and owner approval that fast?
Oh who am i kidding. Code quality is for chumps.
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Unknown parent • • •@MissConstrue @SkipHuffman even though being saved by their incompetence alone is not perfect, I'll take it if we can.
Good point.
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in reply to KanaMauna • • •you are right, it is crimey. Multiples crimes.
In the U.S. law enforcement falls on the executive branch.
The minority party, the Democrats currently, likely cannot deploy the U.S. Capitol Police all by themselves.
Politicians are only capable of political responses (kind of by design).
I found this article helpful and clarifying: statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-soβ¦
Is Somebody Doing Something?!
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in reply to Frank Heijkamp • • •@alterelefant quite possibly so.
I hate it.
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in reply to Frank Heijkamp • • •@alterelefant indeed.
We may want to monitor our wrist health going forward π
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in reply to David August βπ • • •"We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."
Elon Musk on Twitter, July 24, 2020
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Unknown parent • • •@MissConstrue @heafnerj @SkipHuffman your assessment is not off in the wilds of crazytown, and it really should be. We should not be able to be here, but here we are.
This is so bad.
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Unknown parent • • •David August βπ
Unknown parent • • •@Huntn00 You're right, because it is a coup.
"A sudden attempt by a group to overthrow a government." - ahdictionary.com/word/search.hβ¦
The American Heritage Dictionary entry: putsch
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Unknown parent • • •yes. The very real potential for very bad situations is upon us. This is bad. Very bad.
Right now I am too tired to articulate much more than that.
Steve
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in reply to Steve • • •@devtrash important news coverage canβt be done for free.
And you need to talk it up with them, not with me.
Steve
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