The unelected Nazi Unterführer of DOGE - one Elon Musk - barged his way yesterday into federal buildings and administrations, forcing his way on Treasury, IRS, Social Security and other managers to give him access to the files of millions of Americans.
This owner of a social medium platform - X - who already steals your personal information through your stupid X account, now has all your private and personal information that he lacks. Zuckerberg of Meta must be fuming in jealousy.
Know who Musk is. It seems that soon after apartheid South Africa crumbled and the Black African majority took power, Musk fled his country of birth for Canada, his mother's birthplace. He did not seem to like Canada very much (perhaps too civilized for him), he quickly moved to the US where he eventually cheated on his student visa to obtain an H-1B visa, obtain residency, then citizenship. He now seems to have found his comfort zone among the worst of American communities: American Christian KKK nationalists with Nazi flavors.
On one occasion in 2023 he endorsed an anti-Semitic post on X which read, “Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” To which Musk replied, “You have said the actual truth.”
Whether for deep concealed ideological reasons or for the sake of his business ventures, he is using Trump's license to wreck democracy and encourage Nazism in the US and Europe. He routinely appears in meetings of the far right Nazi party of Germany known as the Afd (alterntiv fur Deutschland). And recently, at Trump's inauguration, he flashed a clear Nazi salute that people and organizations could not initially believe as genuine, but he soon backed it up with comments about how Germany should forget its Nazi past and get beyond the guilt, or making jokes with word play using Nazi themes (Goebbels for gobble, etc.).
The New York Times reports that Musk and his aides now have access to the Treasury Department’s payment system. Which means he has access to your every detail (bank account, social security number, tax records, etc.). Can you imagine what the owner of X can do with this information using artificial intelligence? Something like China's Communist Party controlling its people's individual lives, as a recent documentary witnessed: the wife of a peaceful Chinese dissident, whose apartment is literally besieged day and night by government agents who told her one day that they know the dates of her menstrual periods.
With Trump and Musk, this is the America we have going forward. Four years is a long time, during which terrifying things could happen. The 1,500 criminals who attacked the seat of their own government to undo the election results of 2020 are now free to rejoin their white supremacist militias, with the added endorsement of the Trump Administration. Brace yourselves (for the scams coming your way due to your information falling into the hands of MAGA criminals).
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Per NBC:
Less than two weeks into Trump's return, it's clear that Elon Musk has had an outsized and unusual role: helping Trump wage a war on his own federal government. Musk is not a federal employee and has no clearances, yet has already gained access to highly sensitive information at the Treasury and USAID. And those who have tried to stand in his way have either been put on leave or forced to resign.
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Per The New Republic:
Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.
Musk and his handpicked associates at the fake “Department of Government Efficiency” are using their ill-gotten access to control federal databases containing Social Security numbers, home addresses, medical histories, and other sensitive personal information, according to journalists Caleb Ecarma and Judd Legum at Musk Watch.
Many of these Musk staffers are young people between 19 and 24, such as software engineer Akash Bobba, an undergraduate student at University of California, Berkeley, and 2022 high school graduate Edward Coristine. At Musk’s direction, these inexperienced underlings now have access to the private information of every federal employee, and even people who have merely applied to federal jobs.
Musk’s people were given access to the federal government’s official hiring site USAJOBS, where people hoping to secure a federal job often enter their personal information including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment records, in their applications. They also gained access to the Enterprise Human Resources Integration, or EHRI, system, which contains Social Security numbers, dates of birth, salaries, home addresses, job descriptions, and disciplinary records of every single federal employee.
“They’re looking through all the position descriptions … to remove folks,” said one OPM employee about Musk’s team. “This is how they found all these DEI offices and had them removed—[by] reviewing position description level data.”
In addition, the DOGE staffers also have access to systems relating to onboarding, job performance reviews, and even the system the government uses to manage employee health care, which could violate laws on protected health information, such as HIPAA.
“What [Musk is] doing will put so many government employees at risk. It’s not at all what the office is intended for,” a former OPM director told Musk Watch. “I just can’t believe what I’m seeing.”
The unprecedented access also leaves federal employee data unsecured and vulnerable to hackers, said one OPM employee. One of the new email lists created by Musk’s people was already hit by a flood of spam emails last week.
“China and Russia are literally trying to hack us every day, and we just gave all this data over to somebody that’s not been properly vetted,” one of the OPM staffers said. “It’s not just Amanda Scales, it’s all the [political appointees] in that office right now. So it’s multiple vulnerability points.”
Many senior government officials have been locked out of EHRI and OPM, and thus can’t track what changes have been made by DOGE cronies. They could be doing irreparable damage to the federal civil service in their attempts to thin it out, with few, if any, ways of finding out what they’re doing. It kind of makes Hillary Clinton’s storing of government data on a private email server look rather quaint, doesn’t it?
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