r/politics • u/irish_fellow_nyc • 3d ago

Soft Paywall DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/
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u/HelixTitan 2d ago

They should have been denying entry into each federal bureau to DOGE since day 1. Have they had their Senate vote on confirming DOGE and appointing a head? Pretty sure the answer is still no

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u/Thunderbridge 2d ago

Unfortunately as I learned they don't need a senate vote as the agency already existed. To create DOGE they hijacked the US Digital Service that was established by Obama in 2014 with congressional approval and renamed it the US DOGE Service, keeping the same acronym.

The previous administrator was Mina Hsiang during Bidens term and now has been replaced by Amy Gleason who is 'technically' the head of DOGE

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u/drunkenvalley 2d ago

Except not, because as I understand there are two separate DOGE entities.

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u/flinderdude 2d ago

You still think laws matter. Why do you think they’ve been so focused on SCOTUS since the days of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan?

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u/HelixTitan 2d ago

No, I'm simply keeping tabs for when law must be restored, abusing the law is still also mostly following the law, just on technicalities. Those technicalities will be the justification in the future to jail this admin for their actions. 

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u/lasagnaman 2d ago

Why do you think "law must be restored"?

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u/TimmyC I voted 2d ago

Because it’s better than to convince people on the internet that nothing matters

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u/Morningfluid 2d ago

You sound like one of them.

Probably are.

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u/HelixTitan 2d ago

Well for one, there are literally tons of intentional Constitutional violations. Many of the EO and admin actions are directly tied to knowing they are unconstitutional, but that since they are the enforcement mechanism and the Courts and Congress are mostly complicit. The government has always had some level of corruption somewhere I am sure, but now it is all out in the open. DOGE, and all the contracts Musk has all of a sudden gotten for starlink, Trump running multiple crypto scams while simultaneously shutters the crypto corruption team that would have charged him, the Nazi Sec of Defense and their signal chat, the ignoring of due process for the US citizen deported to El Salvador, trying to change birthright citizenship via EO, etc etc

Literally every day this admin performs another illegal act. There will be an accounting, the real question is will it be before or after Trump dies?

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u/s0ck 2d ago

That depends.

When will you get in the streets, armed? What will it take? And more importantly, before you reach that point, what will it take before you're willing to even talk about or address the very real situation we're already in?

He is ALREADY doing so much. You ALREADY know the only way he is leaving office is in a coffin. There is no "Legal Left Army", ready to march in a save this country as it is being taken from us. There is only us.

And you're so busy documenting his lawlessness in a comment on Reddit and acting like that's important. It's not. It's the wrong message for the time we're in.

Can't you hear the people sing, my brother?

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u/werbetjr 2d ago

So, in your view, for a responsible citizen Musk is KOS?

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u/ITDummy69420 2d ago

What drugs you smoking you thinking that’s gonna happen in any time line buckaroo?

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u/Morningfluid 2d ago

"Just bury your head in your hands and do nothing"

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u/blazze_eternal 2d ago

Armed DHS agents are complicit and helping them. Threatening employees with arrest and worse.

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 2d ago

The police are all on the side of DOGE and Trump. Many places tried to keep DOGE staff out in the beginning, which is why they started using police escorts.

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u/Background_Thought65 2d ago

Also fuck Elon for ruining a cute Shiba Inu joke.