jerryskids

I'm going to try to help you parse this, since you keep posting it as the ultimate authority, but it won't help. First, it's a little odd that Wired has not one not two but three sources that nobody else has. It's like the 3 Wired tech bros connected with the Musk tech bros, on Discord or maybe a lightly trafficked FF website, and the Musk tech bros were like "bro, check it out, we've got many admin privileges!" Second, presuming the sources indeed know something, check out that last paragragh. "many" admin privileges, what is that exactly? "Typically"? Is typically what "many" means? As I pointed out earlier, there are a vast array of admin privileges. But our 3 Wired tech bros have speculated on what "many" is. Third, the lead author of this piece, Vittoria, has another article I might like entitled "The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover." Government takeover? Ima guess Vittoria doesn't like Musk. Or seemingly, young men.

Well, I tried to have a civil discussion, and outlined my objections, but you chose this way. So since this addressed roughly 0.0% of my questions, I'm going to presume either English isn't your first language, or you are special. If the latter, how are you buddy? Sorry for offending you. Here, I'll help you. Agencies may make financial promises called obligations. Those are not Congressional obligations of payments or a payment schedule. Put another way: is it illegal to not pay the Clinton foundation boondoggle $84M in 36 equal monthly payments? Read my post slower, maybe pretend it is in crayon, and get back to me.

I would be surprised, because in that case the richest man in the world would be performing a clearly illegal and traceable act which would lead to him facing prison and his empire crumbling. for some indeterminate sales to analytics firms.

Can you walk me through the illegal/unconstitutional part? USAID is in the Executive Branch. The head of that branch has put a pause on some outlays pending an audit by people he assigned to do just so. Did Congress specifically outline the payments to each beneficiary of USAID? If so, did they outline the payment schedule for each beneficiary? If "yes" to both, then I agree that Trump should not be able to put a pause on payments that were legislatively outlined.

These guys don't understand how large computer systems work. Multi-user operating systems like Unix or Linux have a variety of access privileges (read/write/execute) at different levels of hierarchy. To be able to do anything with the computers, Musk's teams would have needed to have been provided some level of admin privileges. We don't know what level of admin privileges DOGE had, but the Leftist cult is being given the marching orders that Musk and young engineers$#@! have downloaded all of our personal information, presumably to use as part of Musk's plan to take over the government. But Righties are the ones chasing boogeymen with USAID.

Elon has received it? Like Chelsea?

I can't help you and Girl fix stupid. To quote him, I think this is where I'll sit back and wait for the "I told you so" moment.

Congrats, you have the internet knowledge of 1985.

Careful, TrollGuy might drop 25 laugh emojis on you! I'm triggered by it like I said.

With every post, you increasingly convince me that you aren't a blue-haired Leftie sky screamer. Defending USAID? They serve a purpose, in a Colonel Jessup sorta way. But there is a lot of bad stuff going on there. But Trump! Musk! Young engineers! Whatever else my Leftie cult masters tell me!

At our church, every week at 8:30 mass during football season, is a family that comes in their Chiefs gear. And by family, I mean 50+ yr old guys in bright red and yellow Chiefs jerseys and sweatshirts. Even last week, when they weren't playing. I view it as them wearing their "Sunday best." Also, I'm looking forward to seeing if this trend continues after the SB. Anyway, I'll be rooting for the Eagles because I'm from PA. I actually think it's going to be a blowout, or at least an easy cover.

I... think so? Sounds familiar. Voltaire accused Kutulu of changing his submission after the fact, right? I never took sides in it. On the one hand, Volty is pretty high on the autism scale for tracking such stuff. On the other hand, Kutulu, while borderline retarded, always seemed like a good guy and has remained quite adamant in his innocence.

That is odd.

Wuttabout$#@! Also, your premise is flawed because Biden is brain dead, so he can't send anyone anywhere. You were planning to vote for him.

What about that statement sounds Dictator-ish?

If your point is to wuttabout that some people have a cult-like fascination with Trump, congrats?

Answered my own question: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-says-elon-musk-doge-has-read-only-access-to-payment-systems/ Not writing themselves checks, not stopping federal expenditures. What's the next concern from the Cult?

I think it's fair to question the oversight, or lack thereof. But it's funny that the Leftie Cult is tossing everything at this because Trump! Musk! We've debunked the "unelected" part I think. What's next, young engineers/tech bros? So, they are uncovering significant grift, and your takeaway is that some 22 yr old working for Musk is going to write himself a check? The check would bounce, USAID already stole it all.

You avoided my question. So, I take it we can end the "unelected" faux concern? Does Treasury or other departments ever hire contractors who aren't direct employees?

Unelected! Billionaires! I'll ask you the same question @TrailGuyavoided: who did you vote for to run or work in Treasury?

Moving past your cultist dehumanizing labels, who did you vote for to work in Treasury? To run Treasury? You imply that these people are elected after all.

This is a good guess at what is happening. Trump also loves to launch trial balloons, so he could be saying this just to gauge reactions, particularly from leaders of the bad guys in the Middle East. Even so, I'm fairly confident that the US is not going to commandeer Gaza, evict millions of people, and build Mara Gaza. Gaza Lago?

Well done!

Cultist lemmings like Girlfriend and TrailGuy have their marching orders from their cult leaders -- ignore the info coming out, and shoot the messengers instead.

Hey @Fnord, I appreciate you bumping this thread. I had planned to do so but have been kinda busy, and my intention with it was very much to track things as we entered the Trump era. Your concern is noted. If Trump dismantles the EPA, that would be a very valid concern.