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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

In my world glass pipes and gun safes are tax deductible. 

You may think that, but you promote fascism. You promote hierarchy. You defend it. You parade a political fantasy you know will never have to answer to the way the things are as if it's some clever trick and wipe your hands of any responsibility. It's as disgusting as it is tired. 

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11 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

You may think that, but you promote fascism. You promote hierarchy.

And you will continue to be amazed when you fail in achieving your political objectives based on this type of rhetoric. 

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1 minute ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

- Libertarian who washes his hands because he thinks America didn't swing far enough right in the 80s. 

Damn, you are an old. 

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2 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

This is actually worse than the Fox News Elon suck off you unironically posted.

Try the time stamp maybe? Hits with GenX too unless you also hate the Illmatic Nas. 

 

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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

The CR is filled with lunatics like this. 

 

When you think everyone is a weirdo.......

Finish it for me Cloak Room!

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1 minute ago, Thatguy said:

When you think everyone is a weirdo.......

Finish it for me Cloak Room!

Shit man, I spent time writing med recs for people in the Austin State Hospital. You are going to have to work hard to impress me. 

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Navy vet fired because DOGE didn't like the 5 bullet point email that was submitted:

Fortune link (paywalled) so here is the Archived version

https://archive.ph/jiuzK

 

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I joined the Department of the Navy because I believed in public service, in the mission, and in the people. After serving nine years on Active Duty — including multiple deployments — I was fired six months into my civilian career, not for failing at my job, but for sending a limerick in response to Elon Musk’s new requirements. 

Beginning on February 24, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has directed federal civilians to provide five bullets responding to the prompt, “What did you do last week?”. On March 17, I answered the fourth round of emails with five lines of rhyme – a limerick sent on St. Patrick’s Day. When leadership reduced our work to unclassified and meaningless bullet points, they got a response commensurate with the assignment. I was subsequently terminated for poor conduct; my termination letter cited the limerick as the only evidence. 

 

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My supervisor, who was cc’d on all of my weekly emails to DOGE, was blindsided by my termination too. I was fired without counseling. I had not received a negative performance review. My entire chain of command had stated repeatedly I was doing a great job and that I was an asset to the team.

The morning after I was fired, I opened my grandfather’s 1935 Watch Officer’s Guide which he had when he was a young Naval Officer in 1942, and in which he had underlined, “Complaints – In hearing complaints exercise patience; hear both sides of the story fully before deciding on action.” 

 

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The Navy that my grandfather and I joined in the spirit of service is currently buckling to Musk, sacrificing its long-held principles for the sake of political deference. A military department that ostensibly values leadership and fortitude is currently led by men rewarded for falling in line with Musk, heedless of the cost to their staff, or their mission. 

I have given my life and career to the Navy. I graduated from Stanford with a degree in Political Science. I then joined the Navy as an intelligence officer. After my nine years on active duty, I transitioned to the Reserves. I went to Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated with my Master of Public Policy in May 2024. I was hired as a civilian by the Department of the Navy in August 2024. 

 

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Six months into the role, I still was a probationary employee. With this status I lacked job protection and the right to appeal, should I be fired. My resume and prior service shouldn’t make me immune to disciplinary action, I offer my qualifications simply as additional context to illustrate the talent and commitment that the federal government is losing because of DOGE.

It’s hard to keep track of everything Musk has done in his unelected role as part of the Trump administration. With the endless barrage of news coming from Washington, my friends outside of the government were shocked to learn that the request that we provide bullets was real. It was real. This is what Musk wants – to sow confusion amongst the American people so he can operate without oversight. 

For those weekly bullets, I was told directly by my leadership: “We have not received any indication that these are being read.” Furthermore, we were told to keep the bullets short, and were given an example of one response that was only five words long. 

The security threat posed by nearly 1 million DoD civilian emails going to a single email address is immense. Aggregating seemingly unclassified information can result in collected information that is classified – which is why I won’t publish my full bullets from the preceding two weeks. 

Here’s the email I sent which led to my termination. (Replicator is the DoD initiative to field thousands of autonomous systems.)


OSD PR Overlords, 
I coordinated across the field,
Ensured that our plans were well-heeled.
I synced with the teams,
Pushed Replicator schemes,
And pondered why bullets won’t yield.  
V/R, 
Grace 


Civilians in the intelligence community (IC) are allowed to submit their bullets via a higher classification. Those of us who work on classified information but outside of an IC organization, however, were not given that option. 

The Department of the Navy provided no written guidance for fulfilling the requirement to provide five unclassified bullets. Instead, it left its employees to fend for themselves against Elon Musk. The morning I was fired, I compiled and sent my entire team’s actions for the week via top secret channels, a practice I had established long before the DOGE-mandated emails. I believe wholeheartedly in accountability and the need for a supervisor to be aware of an employee’s actions. 

Morale and esprit de corps are core to the success of our military. Ask any veteran about their service, and–sure–it will be about sacrifice. But it will also be about the stories, the pranks, and the laughter that made it bearable. Service members have stolen goats and mules for the Army-Navy rivalry, snuck little memes into slides for senior briefings, and routinely hidden ID cards in the ceiling. Yes, I wrote a rhyme for levity during these dark times, but it was hardly conduct unbecoming of a defense official.  

Musk’s approach to attempted spending cuts is preposterous. Don’t get me wrong, there does need to be a cut in defense spending. Pouring millions into outdated systems and bloated programs weakens—rather than strengthens—our national security. DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts in the department, however, have been neither systematic nor thorough. Rather, they are firing workers who lack protections. Workers willing to sacrifice everything for their country are instead being sacrificed for expediency. 

I was fired because I dissented in the most minor of ways. It was dissent nonetheless. In these Orwellian times, the truth continues to be extinguished by tyranny. 

To federal employees: I see you. Do not live in fear. Semper Fortis. 

To Musk and DOGE: History will not be kind. There’s still time to jump ship in favor of whatever honor remains. Non sibi sed patriae.

 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Anastasis said:

As someone with maybe just a little insight into data models as they relate to different health care IT infrastructures, this is a huge area for optimization. It's frankly amazing the just total politically oriented push back on the shit that we all know is waste and potential fraud and abuse. 

No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

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What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

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The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.

 

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Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits.

“Of course one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se but [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.

The Social Security Administration did not immediately reply to WIRED’s request for comment.

 

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SSA has been under increasing scrutiny from president Donald Trump’s administration. In February, Musk took aim at SSA, falsely claiming that the agency was rife with fraud. Specifically, Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening. Over the last few weeks, following significant cuts to the agency by DOGE, SSA has suffered frequent website crashes and long wait times over the phone, the Washington Post reported this week.

 

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This proposed migration isn’t the first time SSA has tried to move away from COBOL: In 2017, SSA announced a plan to receive hundreds of millions in funding to replace its core systems. The agency predicted that it would take around five years to modernize these systems. Because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the agency pivoted away from this work to focus on more public-facing projects.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for mainframes, or computer systems that process and store large amounts of data quickly, by the 1970s. (At least one DOD-related website praising Hopper's accomplishments is no longer active, likely following the Trump administration’s DEI purge of military acknowledgements.)

As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found. In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan.

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates the total amount beneficiaries should receive for different services, a former senior SSA technologist who worked in the office of the chief information officer says. Even minor changes could result in cascading failures across programs.

“If you weren't worried about a whole bunch of people not getting benefits or getting the wrong benefits, or getting the wrong entitlements, or having to wait ages, then sure go ahead,” says Dan Hon, principal of Very Little Gravitas, a technology strategy consultancy that helps government modernize services, about completing such a migration in a short timeframe.

It’s unclear when exactly the code migration would start. A recent document circulated amongst SSA staff laying out the agency’s priorities through May does not mention it, instead naming other priorities like terminating “non-essential contracts” and adopting artificial intelligence to “augment” administrative and technical writing.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported that at least 10 DOGE operatives were currently working within SSA, including a number of young and inexperienced engineers like Luke Farritor and Ethan Shaotran. At the time, sources told WIRED that the DOGE operatives would focus on how people identify themselves to access their benefits online.

Sources within SSA expect the project to begin in earnest once DOGE identifies and marks remaining beneficiaries as deceased and connecting disparate agency databases. In a Thursday morning court filing, an affidavit from SSA acting administrator Leland Dudek said that at least two DOGE operatives are currently working on a project formally called the “Are You Alive Project” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries. The agency is currently battling for sweeping access to SSA’s systems in court to finish out this work.

Again, 150-year-olds are not collecting social security benefits. That specific age was likely a quirk of COBOL. It doesn’t include a date type, so dates are often coded to a specific reference point—May 20, 1875, the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.)
In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WIRED. “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months then their way is the right way and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist.

DOGE would also need to develop tests to ensure the new system’s outputs match the previous one. It would be difficult to resolve all of the possible edge cases over the course of several years, let alone months, adds the SSA technologist.

“This is an environment that is held together with bail wire and duct tape,” the former senior SSA technologist working in the office of the chief information officer tells WIRED. “The leaders need to understand that they’re dealing with a house of cards or Jenga. If they start pulling pieces out, which they’ve already stated they’re doing, things can break.”

 

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Just now, Francisco 2.0 said:

What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

 

 

 

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This proposed migration isn’t the first time SSA has tried to move away from COBOL: In 2017, SSA announced a plan to receive hundreds of millions in funding to replace its core systems. The agency predicted that it would take around five years to modernize these systems. Because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the agency pivoted away from this work to focus on more public-facing projects.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for mainframes, or computer systems that process and store large amounts of data quickly, by the 1970s. (At least one DOD-related website praising Hopper's accomplishments is no longer active, likely following the Trump administration’s DEI purge of military acknowledgements.)

As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found. In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan.

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates the total amount beneficiaries should receive for different services, a former senior SSA technologist who worked in the office of the chief information officer says. Even minor changes could result in cascading failures across programs.

“If you weren't worried about a whole bunch of people not getting benefits or getting the wrong benefits, or getting the wrong entitlements, or having to wait ages, then sure go ahead,” says Dan Hon, principal of Very Little Gravitas, a technology strategy consultancy that helps government modernize services, about completing such a migration in a short timeframe.

It’s unclear when exactly the code migration would start. A recent document circulated amongst SSA staff laying out the agency’s priorities through May does not mention it, instead naming other priorities like terminating “non-essential contracts” and adopting artificial intelligence to “augment” administrative and technical writing.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported that at least 10 DOGE operatives were currently working within SSA, including a number of young and inexperienced engineers like Luke Farritor and Ethan Shaotran. At the time, sources told WIRED that the DOGE operatives would focus on how people identify themselves to access their benefits online.

Sources within SSA expect the project to begin in earnest once DOGE identifies and marks remaining beneficiaries as deceased and connecting disparate agency databases. In a Thursday morning court filing, an affidavit from SSA acting administrator Leland Dudek said that at least two DOGE operatives are currently working on a project formally called the “Are You Alive Project” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries. The agency is currently battling for sweeping access to SSA’s systems in court to finish out this work.

Again, 150-year-olds are not collecting social security benefits. That specific age was likely a quirk of COBOL. It doesn’t include a date type, so dates are often coded to a specific reference point—May 20, 1875, the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.)
In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WIRED. “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months then their way is the right way and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist.

DOGE would also need to develop tests to ensure the new system’s outputs match the previous one. It would be difficult to resolve all of the possible edge cases over the course of several years, let alone months, adds the SSA technologist.

“This is an environment that is held together with bail wire and duct tape,” the former senior SSA technologist working in the office of the chief information officer tells WIRED. “The leaders need to understand that they’re dealing with a house of cards or Jenga. If they start pulling pieces out, which they’ve already stated they’re doing, things can break.”

 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

I know everyone agrees with the concept until anyone actually tries to do something about it. What we need is a task force to study the issue for the next 12 months, write up a report, and issue some recommendations that everyone can ignore for the rest of the political cycle. Meanwhile the SSA database will operate on COBOL and everyone should just act like this is normal and the real risk is fixing the problem. Oh look, another interest payment due, keep rolling over those t bills until we can't anymore. Keep the carriers gassed up.     

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

I know everyone agrees with the concept until anyone actually tries to do something about it. What we need is a task force to study the issue for the next 12 months, write up a report, and issue some recommendations that everyone can ignore for the rest of the political cycle. Meanwhile the SSA database will operate on COBOL and everyone should just act like this is normal and the real risk is fixing the problem. Oh look, another interest payment due, keep rolling over those t bills until we can't anymore. Keep the carriers gassed up.     

Classic Ana non-response response.  Do you want to respond to the valid concern that Big Balls and co lack a basic understanding of what they're fucking with (as well as any interest in informing themselves before they run in and start breaking shit)?  Given their performance thus far, it seems likely that DOGE will end up spending a metric shit-ton to end up with something that's more fucked up than what we started with (while also jeopardizing ongoing payments and everyone's private data in the process).  

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5 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Classic Ana non-response response.  Do you want to respond to the valid concern that Big Balls and co lack a basic understanding of what they're fucking with (as well as any interest in informing themselves before they run in and start breaking shit)?  Given their performance thus far, it seems likely that DOGE will end up spending a metric shit-ton to end up with something that's more fucked up than what we started with (while also jeopardizing ongoing payments and everyone's private data in the process).  

Yes, but that's still better than doing nothing!

- My very, very smart financially savvy Trump-voting friends

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

 

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

This proposed migration isn’t the first time SSA has tried to move away from COBOL: In 2017, SSA announced a plan to receive hundreds of millions in funding to replace its core systems. The agency predicted that it would take around five years to modernize these systems. Because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the agency pivoted away from this work to focus on more public-facing projects.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for mainframes, or computer systems that process and store large amounts of data quickly, by the 1970s. (At least one DOD-related website praising Hopper's accomplishments is no longer active, likely following the Trump administration’s DEI purge of military acknowledgements.)

As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found. In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan.

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates the total amount beneficiaries should receive for different services, a former senior SSA technologist who worked in the office of the chief information officer says. Even minor changes could result in cascading failures across programs.

“If you weren't worried about a whole bunch of people not getting benefits or getting the wrong benefits, or getting the wrong entitlements, or having to wait ages, then sure go ahead,” says Dan Hon, principal of Very Little Gravitas, a technology strategy consultancy that helps government modernize services, about completing such a migration in a short timeframe.

It’s unclear when exactly the code migration would start. A recent document circulated amongst SSA staff laying out the agency’s priorities through May does not mention it, instead naming other priorities like terminating “non-essential contracts” and adopting artificial intelligence to “augment” administrative and technical writing.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported that at least 10 DOGE operatives were currently working within SSA, including a number of young and inexperienced engineers like Luke Farritor and Ethan Shaotran. At the time, sources told WIRED that the DOGE operatives would focus on how people identify themselves to access their benefits online.

Sources within SSA expect the project to begin in earnest once DOGE identifies and marks remaining beneficiaries as deceased and connecting disparate agency databases. In a Thursday morning court filing, an affidavit from SSA acting administrator Leland Dudek said that at least two DOGE operatives are currently working on a project formally called the “Are You Alive Project” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries. The agency is currently battling for sweeping access to SSA’s systems in court to finish out this work.

Again, 150-year-olds are not collecting social security benefits. That specific age was likely a quirk of COBOL. It doesn’t include a date type, so dates are often coded to a specific reference point—May 20, 1875, the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.)
In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WIRED. “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months then their way is the right way and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist.

DOGE would also need to develop tests to ensure the new system’s outputs match the previous one. It would be difficult to resolve all of the possible edge cases over the course of several years, let alone months, adds the SSA technologist.

“This is an environment that is held together with bail wire and duct tape,” the former senior SSA technologist working in the office of the chief information officer tells WIRED. “The leaders need to understand that they’re dealing with a house of cards or Jenga. If they start pulling pieces out, which they’ve already stated they’re doing, things can break.”

 

 

why can't they build the new system and keep the old one going until the new system is proven ?

who else bid on building this new system ?

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This doesn’t seem like a conflict of interest in the least.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun integrating officials from billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to an internal email sent to SEC staff on Friday.

The email, reviewed by Reuters, stated that DOGE task force members had reached out to the SEC and would be granted staff-level access to networks, systems, and data. The SEC is forming a liaison team with the "intent to partner" with DOGE, the message added.

Also, quit interacting with the brain worm addled shitposter.

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13 hours ago, Hmbre97 said:

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And look at that cross hanging out there for all to see.  As bad as a "Jesus fish" on advertising.

Hold on to your wallet and watch your Cornhole.

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Republicans drove us into this debt over the last 40 years with tax cuts and overseas wars of choice in order to get normies to agree to cut their own benefits and undergo certain and immediate pain because of a unspecified and uncertain amount of pain at an unspecified and uncertain time in the future. 

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5 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

That limerick was not worth it.

I would have started:

There one was a prick from the Transvaal...

What rhymes with Transvaal?

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2 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Republicans drove us into this debt over the last 40 years with tax cuts and overseas wars of choice in order to get normies to agree to cut their own benefits and undergo certain and immediate pain because of a unspecified and uncertain amount of pain at an unspecified and uncertain time in the future. 

Well, you DO notice Ana furiously masturbating about the millions DOGE is supposedly saving us all by taking a chainsaw to programs on which human lives actually depend.....but you also notice that he has not a single problem with the trillions of dollars ADDED to our deficit by virtue of the reduced revenues caused by Trump's tax cuts.

See, we are in deficit danger!  "DANGER!  WE MUST DO SOMETHING!  Let's cut this, and that, and that thing over there I don't even know what it is or what it does or whether it's important but let's cut it!" 

Cool.  So, I guess we should also see if we could find some more revenues, too, to add to the plus side of the ledger to help close that gap, right, since "unsustainable deficit" is the greatest existential threat the Republic has ever seen?

"Oh...no.  We need to slash revenues too."

Anyone who has passed third grade math:

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Deficit hawks are liars.  They always are.

If my household budget was truly in the type of dire straits that Ana says our country is in, I'd both 1) slash spending (sorry, no more purses, no eating out, turn the A/C temp up, no vacation this year) AND 2) tell my wife she needs to get a full-time job to give us more revenue.

If I followed the DOGE plan, I would 1) shut off all my utilities, sell my cars so I couldn't get to work anymore, decide that only 3 out of 4 of my household get to eat each day, and 2) tell my wife to quit her part-time job, and start working less myself, because hey, producing revenues is hard and unpleasant.  Oh, and I'd slash more in revenues than I slashed in spending because like Barbie said, math is hard.

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I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

Big Ballz?

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12 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

 

this is how they kick everyone out, then make everyone verify themselves in person. with reduced staff and offices 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

You realize what's at stake here, right?  Yes, kicking the can down the road can be a problem, but as someone observed, this is a lot of people's livelihood.  Miss a check or two, erroneously halve the amount, and you got granny starving to death and/or getting evicted, or can't buy life-preserving medications.

That's not a business oopsie.  That's a horrid fuckup.

This is why you cant run government like a business.  There's no place to externalize the costs.

And, it's going to be massively expensive.  This DOGE shit is going to blow up the deficit, big-time bro.

It's a shame, but bodies stacked in the streets like cordwood should do it.

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

He knows all this, which is the biggest reason why he's totally insufferable. 

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What a fucking twat. Calls the entire federal workforce parasites then starts stutter crying over walz talking shit. 

Fuck that pussy ass bitch. Dishes out cruelty by the ton, yet when someone simply mentions the blowback, he cries like the pathetic, worthless little bitch that he is. The sooner he offs himself the better humanity will be.
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I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

I can do the whole job in Fortran77. Is that still a thing?
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