Anonymous wrote:
What’s happening here was in my required cybersecurity training. it’s called social engineering. Trump really fell for it and because he’s the naked emperor, none of the republicans are apparently willing to tell him this.
We know that all this information is getting fed to Grok (AI) because Musk has told us this. Which is why it can’t distinguish the aid for Gaza Mozambique for Gaza Strip. Of course Musk doesn’t want USAID to exist. It’s not good for his bottom line and he’d rather spend more time hanging out with all his dictator “friends”.
I can’t imagine that Grok is a closed system, so yeah, a huge data breach is extremely likely but MAGA is cheering for it because they think this proves all kinds of stuff. They were pretty surprised when the spending freeze also froze their SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid benefits. Also head start, and shut down access to their usda building loans. But they’re not complaining about that. Oh, wait, they did complain.
Most MAGA are too ignorant to understand that federal funds account for a large percentage of state funding (more in red states than blue states typically). And now Grok/Musk/DOGE can decide what to pay and what not to pay.
Massive cuts to the federal workforce creates more unemployment in all 50 states. Massive cuts to state budgets creates more unemployment in all 50 states. This pushes inflation up. This means increased costs for people who have jobs and stated paying out more unemployment benefits. Who’s going to feel that then? Everyone. Who’s going to feel the pain? Actually more red states than blue. But hey, needed to be done. Market correction. And all that. Since apparently republicans no longer understand basic economics. I’m blaming NCLB.
Trump can just grant the security clearances. There was legislation introduced last Fall to try to limit this from happening.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/05/fbi-trump-cabinet-security-clearance-00192693
Plus, sleeping at the office is probably a zoning violation. We can’t have nap pods in the library because of zoning. And that’s just for napping.