The picture says it all as Musk is the new Howard Hughes, becoming more power hungry and crazed as we speak. As an unelected operative, Musk now has unprecedented control over the government's payment system as well as access to secret documents thanks to the fact Agent Orange isn't running things, Musk, and significant others, are. With this being said, the "team" charged with the task of hijacking the government are rather young to say the least as seen in a perceptive Wired piece titled The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover.
To whit.
Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college. Most have connections to Musk, and at least two have connections to Musk’s longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chair of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.
WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.
It get better.
The six men are one part of the broader project of Musk allies assuming key government positions. Already, Musk’s lackeys—including more senior staff from xAI, Tesla, and the Boring Company—have taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA), and have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, potentially allowing him access to a vast range of sensitive information about tens of millions of citizens, businesses, and more. On Sunday, CNN reported that DOGE personnel attempted to improperly access classified information and security systems at the US Agency for International Development and that top USAID security officials who thwarted the attempt were subsequently put on leave. The Associated Press reported that DOGE personnel had indeed accessed classified material.
“What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.”
Question, would this self appointed genius allow these leftovers to design rockets? I thought so.
Crossing the line
Addendum
Beyer: As of now, there’s not a lot of change from the administration, from Musk, or from Trump. What has changed, though, is an enormous outpouring of public protest and response to this. I think we had close to 15 members of Congress there giving powerful speeches. But even more importantly, we had more people and more press than we’ve had in anything in the first two weeks of the Trump administration saying, This is not right, this is against the law, and really calling out Elon Musk, an unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed person who came to this country illegally in the first place deciding what’s going to happen to our bona fide institutions of government. This has to stop now!
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