Discussion DOGE thread

[burninatortech4]

Word on the street at my office has it that US Forest Service is losing 7000 employees (out of 30000) to a combination of VERA (early retirement) and DRP (Deferred Resignation Program). Large parts of the agency have totally lost their ability to function for the American people.

This is BEFORE anyone is forcibly removed (RIF - Reduction in Force) which we're all expecting to happen by June.

Wildland fire, forest ecology and pathology research, biosecurity, recreation, sustainable equitable and transparent timber sales - all will be severely degraded.

I'm sure this will be spun as "government never worked, see?". 60% of my building is gone by 4/30.

 

[Jaskalas]

I assume we have some function of the forest service to thank for eradicating the Large Asian Hornet invasion the past few years.
There will be nothing to stop the invasive species next time.

 

[Brainonska511]

Word on the street at my office has it that US Forest Service is losing 7000 employees (out of 30000) to a combination of VERA (early retirement) and DRP (Deferred Resignation Program). Large parts of the agency have totally lost their ability to function for the American people.

This is BEFORE anyone is forcibly removed (RIF - Reduction in Force) which we're all expecting to happen by June.

Wildland fire, forest ecology and pathology research, biosecurity, recreation, sustainable equitable and transparent timber sales - all will be severely degraded.

I'm sure this will be spun as "government never worked, see?". 60% of my building is gone by 4/30.

The problem is public perception: so much is done well that people don't notice. But they're going to start noticing as the skeletons of agencies start collapsing in time.

 

[nakedfrog]

"These things are so poorly-managed by the government, we need private companies to step up and fix them"

 

[igor_kavinski]

"These things are so poorly-managed by the government, we need private companies to step up and fix them"

And guess whose private companies?

Congratulations to the American people for voting in scum who will bring the US to parity with the third world in terms of massive public scams.

 

[ch33zw1z]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Gee, who couldve seen this coming

 

[UNCjigga]

Federal spending is up $154 Billion under Trump vs. this time last year under Biden. DOGE is an utter failure. All they did was weaken the country.

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[ch33zw1z]

Federal spending is up $154 Billion under Trump vs. this time last year under Biden. DOGE is an utter failure. All they did was weaken the country.

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www.wsj.com

At this point, it seems clear that weakening our country has always been the intent

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

https://cybernews.com/security/whistleblower-doge-data-leak-russia-cyberattack-nlrb-labor-board/

Just the stuff we know about rn

 

[zinfamous]

At this point, it seems clear that weakening our country has always been the intent

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

https://cybernews.com/security/whistleblower-doge-data-leak-russia-cyberattack-nlrb-labor-board/

Just the stuff we know about rn

This.

It's only ever been a takeover. Trump promised to destroy the united states and turn it into a fiefdom littered with peasants that he owns, and that want to be owned. This was the purpose of his rallies, and this is what they begged for. Trump years for Imperial Russia and wants to restore the serfs. Republicans seem all to happy to oblige.

I guess these are the glorious times that Greenman loves to be alive for.

 

[Panino Manino]

This is hilarious.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/04/24/doge-ransomware-hackers-demand-1-trillion/

“Give me five bullet points on what you accomplished for work last week or you owe me a TRILLION dollars.”

 

[Paratus]

This is hilarious.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/04/24/doge-ransomware-hackers-demand-1-trillion/

Another ~30 years of inflation and we are up to 1 trillion

 

[Indus]

@pcgeek11 Yo yo yo Yo YO!!!

https://archive.is/qPNiu

 

[mikeymikec]

Whistleblower testimony due to DOGE switching off logging and removing security restrictions on government databases, as well as witness intimidation:

https://imgur.com/a/TYx0UQq

https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf

 

[mikeymikec]

^^ I have to say, it's fucking brave for a whistleblower to try and speak the truth during this administration.

 

[esquared]

This is funny because we all (rational people only)
knew this was bullshit.

DOGE’s Fraud Tracker at Social Security Turns Into a Massive Self-Own

Daily beast non paywall link

https://archive.is/8vE7l

"How’s that for efficiency?
Procedures implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency uncovered just two out of 110,000 calls to the Social Security Administration this spring had a “high probability” of being fraudulent, Federal Computer Week reported.
That is a far cry from the 40 percent figure that was parroted by MAGA in recent months, including by DOGE’s recently departed leader, Elon Musk, and Vice President JD Vance. The real figure is about .0018 percent."

 

[nakedfrog]

And now that Herr Musk has gotten what he wanted out of DOGE, reprehensible fascist shitbag Russell Vought is going to be in charge. I'd throw a fucking party if something terrible happened to him.

 

[Brainonska511]

Rebekah Jones (@georebekah.bsky.social)

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-warnings-delayed-because

bsky.app

Nice job Trump, Musk, and DOGE: your idiotic cuts led to delays in tornado warnings and now dozens are dead.

 

[K1052]

Rebekah Jones (@georebekah.bsky.social)

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-warnings-delayed-because

bsky.app

Nice job Trump, Musk, and DOGE: your idiotic cuts led to delays in tornado warnings and now dozens are dead.

Hurricane season in the gulf is going to be extra exciting this year between NWS cuts and FEMA dismantling.

 

[Roger Wilco]

death cult shit

Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com)

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."...

bsky.app

 

[Pens1566]

Hurricane season in the gulf is going to be extra exciting this year between NWS cuts and FEMA dismantling.

Damn shame they're almost entirely red areas ...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Damn shame they're almost entirely red areas ...

Yup and I’ll say it here and once again.
Fuck them majority of them voted for this.
Elections have consequences.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Trump admin tells Supreme Court: DOGE needs to do its work in secret

DOJ complains of “sweeping, intrusive discovery” after DOGE refused FOIA requests.

arstechnica.com

The party of transparency

 

[Brainonska511]

Trump admin tells Supreme Court: DOGE needs to do its work in secret

DOJ complains of “sweeping, intrusive discovery” after DOGE refused FOIA requests.

arstechnica.com

The party of transparency

Transparently lying.

 

[K1052]

Yup and I’ll say it here and once again.
Fuck them majority of them voted for this.
Elections have consequences.

There has been a spate of news stories about how the Feds won't declare disaster areas or help with storm recovery at places deep in Trumpland. Yeah this is what you voted for guys and ignorance is no excuse.

 

[Brainonska511]

There has been a spate of news stories about how the Feds won't declare disaster areas or help with storm recovery at places deep in Trumpland. Yeah this is what you voted for guys and ignorance is no excuse.

A part of me says "fuck them, they voted for this" - if you keep slapping my hand away when I extend it to help, then it becomes clear that they don't want help.

At the same time, I would still like to see them get the help they need, because doing the right thing still matters to me, even if it doesn't matter to Republicans.