DOGE is a bunch of 19-24 year old computer engineers

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Anonymous wrote:These are still kids folks. And they are acting like kids. Exposing them and making them a space goat isn't the way to go. They are taking marching orders from other people.

They are adults and have agency. They made a choice. Would you say the same if a 19 year old killed your child because Elon told him to? Get real - people will DIE because of what they are doing.

What?

You don't understand the gravity of what they are doing? We are at DEFCON 1.

"DEFCON 1" and "people with DIE." Ok. No desperate need for attention resulting in catastrophizing here...

USAID administers grants for things like vaccination and clean water initiatives in the developing world. Cancelling those grants without any warning, which Musk claims he’s doing as we speak, means people will die.

Take it up with congress

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These are still kids folks. And they are acting like kids. Exposing them and making them a space goat isn't the way to go. They are taking marching orders from other people.

They are adults and have agency. They made a choice. Would you say the same if a 19 year old killed your child because Elon told him to? Get real - people will DIE because of what they are doing.

What?

You don't understand the gravity of what they are doing? We are at DEFCON 1.

"DEFCON 1" and "people with DIE." Ok. No desperate need for attention resulting in catastrophizing here...

USAID administers grants for things like vaccination and clean water initiatives in the developing world. Cancelling those grants without any warning, which Musk claims he’s doing as we speak, means people will die.

Take it up with congress

How does that have anything to do with what I said?

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Anonymous wrote:These are still kids folks. And they are acting like kids. Exposing them and making them a space goat isn't the way to go. They are taking marching orders from other people.

They are adults and have agency. They made a choice. Would you say the same if a 19 year old killed your child because Elon told him to? Get real - people will DIE because of what they are doing.

What?

You don't understand the gravity of what they are doing? We are at DEFCON 1.

At my agency we have already had 18 suicides. Trump is literally murdering people.

Please update the news on this one!! If true this is beyond heartbreaking

[Anonymous]

From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284:

"I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

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Amazing that the entire federal government can be replaced by a handful of genz , sounds like the thing the generation has been complaining about technical inept boomers and Genx (government workers)

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The aren't (all) computer engineers. They are fake engineers like Elon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TBH these dudes look like they can whip up enough code and automation to do the job of 500 ppl.

If they could find a legal pathway do that for something legitimate? Cool. What they're doing now is committing federal crimes, however.

We had that -- the USDS. Musk hijacked it for his inane "DOGE" project like a parasitic wasp laying its eggs in the body of a caterpillar, because 30 years and billions of dollars later he still wishes he was as cool as a real techie, as low as a bar that is.

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This Reddit post is from last weekend, not from today (Feb 2).

Anonymous wrote:From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284:

"I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TBH these dudes look like they can whip up enough code and automation to do the job of 500 ppl.

Yeah…this

No they don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TBH these dudes look like they can whip up enough code and automation to do the job of 500 ppl.

Yeah…this

No they don't.

I mean they seem to be doing it lol. All these ppl locked out of systems yet no one not on the fed payroll seems to be complaining…

[Anonymous]

All of them, including MUSK, need to be rounded up and ARRESTED by COB Monday. F these effers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TBH these dudes look like they can whip up enough code and automation to do the job of 500 ppl.

Yeah…this

No they don't.

I mean they seem to be doing it lol. All these ppl locked out of systems yet no one not on the fed payroll seems to be complaining…

No one is complaining to you? Why? Do you think it’s because you’re a teenager who doesn’t know any federal employees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we FOIA all of their emails?

Oh that’s a good point. If they are t in fact govt employees, then anything provided to them, inclusive of the entirety of the Treasury system, can be FOIAed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we FOIA all of their emails?

Oh that’s a good point. If they are t in fact govt employees, then anything provided to them, inclusive of the entirety of the Treasury system, can be FOIAed

Haha people are going to jail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I said this to my DH yesterday:

These people are stealing our money. My money. Your money.

I pay taxes, that money is appropriated by duly elected members of Congress to be spent on projects that ostensibly are in the public interest, and an elected president is supposed to appoint an administration with the advice and consent of the Senate to execute those appropriations. If people think the federal government is too big or we need to cut back, then by all means elect people to these offices who will do this.

Some random billionaire does not get to hire a team of 22 year old tech bros to stick their fingers in that system and swirl them around. They do not get to simply decide, independently, where MY money goes and where it gets spent, with zero accountability.

These people are criminals. I want to sue the crap out of them as a tax payer.

Ok. By all means, try that lol.