#unelected official

[lost-carcosa]

Corrupt moron?

What would you call a private citizen running a fictitious government department for which neither he nor his teenage minions have been vetted or hold any security clearances for, and none of it has been confirmed by the senate? And all because the convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender currently inhabiting the White House said he could.

Actually that sounds less like corruption and more like a criminal enterprise. Any chance someone in the US can grow a spine and arrest them?

Musk under oath equals prison. MAGA knows it.

[intelligentchristianlady]

Who Elected Him?

"Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

"'We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.'" (x)

[marchofthewitchhunters]

michelle federer the woman you are

[ishouldgetatumbler]

I love the trend of "porn arists go to a place, make it popular, then get blackbagged off the platform"

[whatisthisnonsense]

Daily reminder that figures of authority do not get respect for having the job, they must gain respect by doing their job. If they’re not doing their job, they are, to use a colliquialism, a bitch ass motherfucker and not worthy enough to lick gum off your shoe much less owed your respect.

[jbfly46]

Originally posted by Peter Bernegger on X:

Liberal NGO's have become the fifth branch of government.

We have tons of information, data, and videos we made on the fraudulent NGOs of the left. View one at the link here, you'll be shocked who is in it from Charles Schwab to VanGuard to Fidelity to the Silicon Valley Foundation to the Chinese Progressive Association to the Tides Foundation to the 1630 Fund and a host of other NGO's being funded by you, the taxpayer: thefractalgovernment.com/?p=365

There are roughly 55,000 of them, mapped out in the image here. They have become the fifth branch of government. These corrupt liberal NGO's are using federal taxpayers' monies to interfere with our institutions and country.

To interfere at all levels, to promote the phony crap such as transgenderism, climate change, DEI, the Covid vaccine scam and so forth and so on.

Now, we can see the Biden leftovers are moving into these NGO's—funded by the US Treasury—to continue to do their dirty work. President Trump: all funding needs to be cut off now.

We can supply the names/addresses of all of them, and how they are connected to each other.

[lost-carcosa]

I disagree.

Arrest him.

Who: Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas)

X: @RepCasar

When: February 2025

What: DOGE and Elon Musk

Watch on C-SPAN

[wilwheaton]

The news that an unelected private citizen, in Musk and his young team of engineers, without security clearances now has access to the flow of federal dollars, as well as the sensitive personal data for millions of Americans that comes with that, alarmed both current and ex-government officials as well as outside experts and commentators. The move not only seemed at odds with privacy law but looked utterly unconstitutional.

The Musk/Trump coup will not be televised

I hope that at least one person who can actually do something about the illegality of this data breach and attack on America has looked into arresting Edolph and his little group of red pilled dorks.

The law is so fucking clear on this, it’s distressing that people with at least some ability to defend the law don’t seem to be doing that with the urgency this moment demands.

[porterdavis]

I'm going to post the entire dispatch in hopes more people will read it. It's a stylized version of how US media would cover events in America if they were happening in a foreign country. Chilling.

(Written by Garrett Graff)

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Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices February 1, 2025 By William Boot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as elite technical units aligned with media oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at the national treasury, block outside access to federal personnel records, and take offline governmental communication networks.

With rapidity that has stunned even longtime political observers, forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government in just a matter of days, unwinding the longtime democracy’s constitutional system and its proud nearly 250-year-old tradition of the rule of law. Having secured themselves in key ministries and in a building adjacent to the presidential office complex, Musk’s forces have begun issuing directives to civil service workers and forcing the resignation of officials deemed insufficiently loyal, like the head of the country’s aviation authority.

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The G-7 country’s newly installed president, a mid-level oligarch named Donald Trump, appeared amid Musk’s moves to be increasingly merely a figurehead head of state. Trump is a convicted felon with a long record of family corruption and returned in power in late January after a four-year interlude promising retribution and retaliation against foreign opponents and a domestic “Deep State.” He had been charged with attempting to overthrow the peaceful transition of power that had previously removed him from office in 2021, but loyalist elements in the judiciary successfully blocked his prosecution and incarceration, easing his return to power.

Over the last two weeks, loyalist presidential factions and Musk-backed teams have launched sweeping, illegal Stalin-esque purges of the national police forces and prosecutors, as well as offices known as inspectors-general, who are typically responsible for investigating government corruption. While official numbers of the unprecedented ousters were kept secret, rumors swirled in the capital that the scores of career officials affected by the initial purges could rise into the thousands as political commissars continued to assess the backgrounds of members of the police forces. 

The mentally declining and aging head of state, who has long embraced conspiracist thinking, spent much of the week railing in bizarre public remarks against the country’s oppressed racial and ethnic minorities, whom he blamed without evidence for causing a deadly plane crash across the river from the presidential mansion. Unfounded racist attacks on those minorities have been a key foundation of Trump’s unpredicted rise to political power from a career as a real estate magnate and reality TV host and date back to his first announcement that he would seek the presidency in 2015, when he railed against “rapists” being sent into the country from its southern neighbor.

In one of his first moves upon returning to the presidency, he mobilized far-right paramilitary security forces to begin raids at churches, schools, and workplaces to identify and remove racial minorities, including those who had long lived in harmony with the country’s white Christian majority. He also immediately moved to release from prison some 1,500 supporters who had participated in his unsuccessful 2021 insurrection, including members of violent far-right militias who promptly upon release swore fealty to him in any future civil unrest. Elsewhere, even as he released violent criminals onto the streets, Trump by fiat pulled longstanding government security protection from former military and health officials he felt had betrayed him.

Underscoring his apparent disconnection from reality, reports surfaced that the president had ordered military forces to unleash an environmental catastrophe and flood regions of a separatist province known as California that is led by a high-profile political opponent. The order underscored how the military, which had resisted Trump’s unconstitutional power grabs in his first administration, was now led by a subservient defense minister, a favored TV personality with no experience in management who faced an embarrassing series of allegations about his drunken behavior in the workplace.

Foreign allies who had long aligned themselves with the United States on the international stage were unsettled by increasingly destabilizing nationalistic and imperialist rhetoric coming from the president’s social media accounts—largely posted to a network owned and run by Trump himself—and worried in private conversations in capital embassies that he would mobilize the compliant military to fulfill heretofore unimaginable territorial ambitions that included seizing the country’s northern neighbor, which shares the world’s longest undefended border, and potentially colonizing Panama and Greenland.

Both the country’s defense minister, who has previously said he does not believe women should be allowed to serve in combat roles, and Trump’s new interior minister, who appeared on national TV wearing the paramilitary uniform of the border security force central to Trump’s political rise, spent much of their first days echoing and amplifying the president’s hysteria about racial and ethnic minorities. They and other government officials also immediately canceled all official observances of religious and ethnic minority holidays and launched efforts to scrub official websites and prohibit educating workers or schoolchildren about those minorities’ long, proud history in the country. Overnight Friday, hours after journalists had gone home, the defense minister’s office announced it would bar establishment independent media outlets from working out of the country’s military headquarters and replace them with friendly right-wing media organs.

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The administration’s propaganda minister also announced Friday, apparently with little preparation, that it would initiate an immediate, unexpected, and seemingly ill-considered trade war with the country’s two primary economic partners, a move that if implemented would upend the national economy, disrupt supply chains, and accelerate the return of an inflationary crisis that has roiled domestic politics over the last five years and had just seemed to be returning to normal. Ironically, it was that very inflationary crisis and Trump’s promises on the campaign trail to lower the price of eggs that paved the way for his unforeseen election victory in November.

The country’s other business oligarchs have watched Musk’s unexpected and rapid rise to power with trepidation, and leading media and technology companies who compete with Musk’s extensive business empire—like Meta, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Apple, and OpenAI—have quickly lined up to negotiate and pay bribes to the president that would allow their companies to operate unimpeded; initial payment terms ranged from million-dollar gifts to the presidential inauguration to $15 million and $25 million payments, made by Disney and Meta, to fund the construction of a presidential shrine. The highest known payment was $40 million from Amazon, which was structured as a gift to the president’s wife in exchange for the media company having the opportunity to film a hagiographic biopic.

It was unclear, exactly, what deal terms any of those bribes and payments unlocked and when subsequent tribute payments would be expected, although on Saturday Trump moved to fire and neuter government watchdogs that had long bedeviled the country’s financial elite.

Throughout the week’s fast-moving seizure of power—one that seems increasingly irreversible by the hour—neither loyalist nor opposition parliamentary leaders raised meaningful objection to the new regime or the unraveling of the country’s constitutional system of checks and balances. A few members of the geriatric legislature body offered scattered social media posts condemning the move, but parliament — where both houses are controlled by so-called “MAGA” members handpicked for their loyalty to the president — went home early for the weekend even as Musk’s forces spread through the capital streets.

It was unclear what role, if any, Musk’s forces would allow parliament to have in the new governmental structure by the time it next returned to the national assembly known as Capitol Hill.

[macmanx]

This flagrant disregard for proper procedures jeopardizes the integrity of government functions and public trust. Immediate steps must be taken to revoke any access Musk or his affiliates have obtained and reinstate full control to the career civil servants intended to operate these systems. Unelected private citizens should never be permitted to exert undue influence over core government operations in this manner.

[lost-carcosa]

Department of General Excrement

Republicans are dooming the global economy.

Who would ever trust the US with Elon?

[saywhat-politics]

In a post on X, unelected government official Elon Musk revealed that he has cut the staff of the Internal Revenue Service that oversaw the system that allows Americans to file their taxes for free easily on its website.

A right-wing MAGA influencer called the "direct file" tax program a "far left government wide computer office" that was "built by Elizabeth Warren."

He claimed, "Direct file puts the government in charge of preparing people's tax returns for them," he claimed.

[godblessthesickos]

Trump and Elon Musk are targeting federal workers to destroy public services. Contact your Congressional representation NOW.

Find your elected officials HERE. If you don't know what to say, feel free to use this form for emailing or script for calling. This is dire. We need congress to address this issue RIGHT NOW. The Trump administration is out to destroy federal services by targeting its workers. This puts at risk your access to disability, to education, to clean food and air, to tax returns. If nothing is done to stop this, every single American will feel the material, concrete consequences of this in their daily lives very soon.

EMAIL

Dear [Representative/Senator], Hello, I’m a constituent from [Your City/State]. I’m reaching out to express serious concerns about recent security breaches involving federal employee data and the increasing targeting of federal employees through harassment, coercion, and threats to job security. I’d like you to be aware of three critical issues that pose both a national security risk and a direct threat to federal employees:

1. Unauthorized access to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data at the behest of Elon Musk that exposed sensitive federal employee information, putting employees at risk of targeting, coercion, and financial exploitation.

2. An increase in harassment against federal employees, including threats to job security, illegal financial solicitations, and other intimidation tactics.

3. Reports that personnel files for the entire federal workforce have been copied from OPM servers and moved to a foreign cloud provider, raising serious concerns about who controls federal workforce data and whether foreign actors now have access to it. When sensitive federal employee data is compromised, it creates a serious risk to national security. Employees in financial distress or facing workplace pressure are at higher risk of coercion or exploitation. If these reports about data being transferred to foreign cloud servers are true, this is an unprecedented security breach. It could allow foreign actors to track, manipulate, or target U.S. government personnel. The ongoing harassment of federal employees is unacceptable and appears to be escalating, including financial scams and threats to job security. This must be addressed at the highest levels. I am asking you to take immediate action by.

1. Demanding full transparency from OPM about what data was accessed, how many employees were affected, and what protections are in place.

2. Pushing for an investigation into the harassment and coercion of federal employees, including illegal financial solicitations and threats to job security.

3. Calling for a congressional inquiry into reports that federal personnel files have been transferred to foreign cloud servers—who authorized it, whether it violated federal law, and what risks it poses. I’d like to know what steps you will take to address these security concerns. Please pass this message along and inform me of actions you have taken in response. I will be following up. I appreciate you looking into these urgent issues and advocating for the security of federal employees and our national workforce. Thank you, [Your name]

CALL

Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State]. (If leaving a voicemail, provide your address or it doesn’t get logged)

I’m calling because I’m concerned about the unauthorized access and theft of federal employee personnel files. This sensitive information puts employees at risk of targeting, coercion, and financial exploitation. It should be protected at the highest level, and it’s unacceptable that unelected, non-vetted individuals have had access to it.

Adding to this concern, federal employees have been receiving frequent emails from OPM, such as the “Fork in the Road” email and others, which feel targeted, intimidating, and harassing. These toxic, hostile tactics only add insult to injury, especially in light of the privacy breaches and theft of personal information.

I’m urging [Representative/Senator’s Name] to take immediate action to investigate this breach, hold those responsible accountable, and implement stronger protections to secure federal employees’ personal information.

Thank you for your time—I truly appreciate your attention to this critical matter.

[apas-95]

here's the thing: if you're not a member of the electoral college in the USA, it literally does not matter if you vote. electoral college members take the popular vote numbers, officially, as a *suggestion*, and they are full within their rights to vote against it (historically this was justified using the potential case of the ballots being collected just prior to some major event that would clearly invalidate a prior vote, such as a candidate being killed by another candidate). it literally only matters whether these unelected 538 people (unrelatedly, the USA has ~700 billionaires) vote for a given party. literally everyone in the country could vote for one candidate, but if those 538 people decided they didn't want to, they could just elect the other one, and it would be perfectly within the bounds of the US's constitution and so-called bourgeois 'democracy'.

Lenin said:

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for the slave-owners.

[greetings-inferiors]

Imagine someone is put in power without a vote and then told “you have two years to fuck up this country as much as possible” and they do everything in their power to fuck up the country but also attempt to rig it so they win the next election again

I have to explain what is going on in the UK, because it is absurd.

So, this is Gary Lineker:

He's known for a fair few things over here. He was a very good (association) footballer, playing for England in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, winning the Golden Boot in 1986, and managing to never get a single yellow card in his playing career. He played for Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona, and Tottenham, before finishing his career in Japan. But if you aren't in your mid 30s, you probably know actually know him him for a couple of other things. The first is the role of spokesman for another Leicester icon, Walkers Crisps (which are sort of equivalent to Lays, but hit different), as pictured above. Despite being a notably clean player, he used to play a cheeky serial crisp thief. I don't think he's done that for well over a decade, but his ads were on the telly a lot when I was a kid and it's a bit like learning that the hamburglar was an incredibly clean (American) football player or something.

The second thing Gary is widely known for is having presented Match of the Day, the big football program on the BBC, the sort-of state broadcaster, since 1999. He is, incidentally, very well paid for this (though with a consensus that he could get even more if he went to one of the non-free-to-view broadcasters because he is very good at the job). He also has a twitter account. And political opinions. So, the UK government has got itself dead set upon doing heinous stuff that will totally somehow work to prevent people who want to come to the UK making the perilous crossing of the Channel (between England and France). By heinous, I mean "openly advertise that they won't attempt to protect victims of modern slavery" stuff. It's very obviously using a legal hammer to victimise a marginalised group of people in order to win votes. And, uh, I should clarify that by "legal" I mean "using the passage of laws" - the policy is, in addition to all the other ways it's awful, probably incompatible with the Human Rights Act and the UK's international law obligations. Gary, top lad that he is, objected to this. On Tuesday 7th March, he made a quote Tweet of a video of the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, bigging up the policy, he wrote "Good heavens, this is beyond awful.". This got a bunch of backlash from extremely right-wingers, and then he made the tweet that really got him in trouble (with right-wingers): "There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?".

Now, I am not actually subjecting myself to watching a video of Suella Braverman bigging up a cruel policy to say whether the specific comparison of the language to 1930s Germany is accurate. But needless to say, Ms Braverman was amongst the many figures on the right of UK politics objecting to Gary's rhetoric. And here's the part where a fact about the BBC comes in: it is nominally neutral and impartial (and so, of course, is routinely accused of bias from all sides but particularly the right-wing), and has something of a code for its contributors to this effect. Now, that code has previously been applied to Gary Lineker, over a comment about whether governing Conservative Party would hand back donations from figures linked to the Russian regime. But it generally hasn't been applied too strongly to people like Gary, whose roles have nothing to do with politics (such as presenting a "here's what happened on the footie today" show), on the basis that, well, their roles have nothing to do with politics. However, when directly asked about whether the BBC should punish Gary Lineker for his tweets, government figures basically went "well, that's a them problem". But a couple of days passed, and it seemed like Gary's approach of "standing his ground because he did nothing wrong" was working and everything would die down. He was set to get 'a talking to' but not much more than that. The Conservative right, after all their fire and fury earlier, had gotten bored and moved onto something else. And then, on Friday 10th March, the BBC announced that he would be suspended from hosting Match of the Day this weekend. But it could still go ahead, because there are, like, other hosts! Except, well, funnily enough, when you take a beloved figure off air, for making a fairly anodyne tweet, no one wants to be the scab who actually takes up the role of replacing him. Gary's two co-hosts, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright, said that they would not appear without him. People who (co-)host Match of the Day on other days followed suit. The net result is that Match of the Day is currently set to air without hosts, BBC commentary, or global feed commentary. And the solidarity shown to Gary Lineker, over what is very flagrantly actual cancel culture and an attack on freedom of speech (the logic implied is that institutional impartiality requires that no one say anything too critical of the government ever), has continued to grow. The BBC has pretty much been unable to run pretty much any live sports content today, and has resorted to raiding the BBC Sounds archive to fill the sports radio channel. And, as of 17:30 on Saturday 11th March, the situation shows no signs of improvement, though some are calling for the Chairman Richard Sharp, who is separately facing corruption allegations, to resign (yes I linked to the BBC itself there, there is nothing, nothing, the BBC loves more than going into great detail about how much the BBC sucks).

[marvelsmostwanted]

Genuinely concerning:

• Elon Musk’s aides “locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials” (per Reuters).

• Earlier this week, DOGE tried to gain access to a sensitive Treasury Payments System that includes information about Social Security - after Elon Musk openly said he wants to cut the program.

The richest man in the world, who is unelected and has absolutely no right to handle any federal data, nevermind sensitive data, trying to gain access to your benefits and information should be a massive scandal.