This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.
Ok, it's a crime. And?
Legality means nothing when you're the law. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People
Sounds like a great lawsuit.
I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.
Can't pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.
Doesn't mean people shouldn't still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he's bleeding everyone else.
So we've officially got a Gestapo in the country now?
C'mon guys.... let's wake the fuck up here.
Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it's "illegals" now, the rest of us "parasites" next?
That's exactly it. Owners want people desperate, because desperate people work for less. As you point out, they start with “illegals”, but they will eventually come for the old and the disabled too, because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line? We need to be clear: this is not about government efficiency or even a crackdown on “illegals”, but a war — the owners' war on us workers and our kin.
They've been manufacturing consent in a similar way in Germany, agitating against immigrants and dubbing some or all people in your situation “Sozialschmarotzer” –“social parasites”–. Under the pretense of fighting those threats they conjure, they've been dismantling social security — without DOGE's viciousness, but bit by bit.
DOGE == WW2 SS
They are trying to take over Social Security, so they can have the acronym.
Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.
Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault?
Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there
Because it's sensationalised and he didn't physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.
But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy
The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.
They have been rolling with either DC police or the Marshalls. Can't remember, but they are bringing guns and muscle.
Fun fact, this is "assault" and the guy has a wonderful civil case.
Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.
Civil cases against government officers are however subject to qualified immunity while ones against the government are subject to sovereign immunity.
DOGE isn't a real government entity, Big Balls isn't on the US payroll and neither is the founder of Airbnb.
Believe it or not, the nebulous nature of the department actually is what makes them more likely to have qualified immunity because their role hasn't been "clearly established" by case law. You couldn't even talk say what "actions as a part of their duties" are. I'm not a fan of qualified immunity.
As far as suing the government over what DOGE does, good luck figuring out where an agency deputized by executive order fits in here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.
To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg's bravery to the early days of Social Security
The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.
Well, I suppose it's time for the banks to move away from using Social Security numbers as a form of identification. Honestly, they should have done this years ago. SSNs were never intended to be used as a form of ID, but they were convenient, so banks did it anyway. But if Social Security records are no longer reliable, they no longer reliably list living and dead people, then banks will need to move to other forms of identification.
I think the rest of the world will stop trusting the US's word about the status of anything. The boy who cried wolf has contracted rabies.
We're only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire...they all need to be on death row.
Sounds like assault and maybe other legal issues. They aren’t LEOs.
Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law
Not guilty
Absolute fucking hero. If my time ever comes I hope I have the same moral fortitude.
Big balls attacks again. The stunlock intensifies
Tell me more about how DOGE isn't actually making the decisions in any department
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