DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected

Report: IT officials who fought DOGE access put on leave and under investigation.

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[LotusPoet]

You doubt it's deliberate?

Well ... I mean ... If you're into conspiracy theories, word has it that Musk, Thiel, Bezos, et al subscribe to the Dark Enlightenment theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

If I had read that shit a couple of years ago, I would have made fun it of, and asked if it also included a pedophile ring run out of the basement of a pizza joint in Washington.

Nowadays... I mean... I don't know WHAT to freakin' believe anymore. :-/

I'm currently waiting on some tiktok influencer with 14 followers to accidentally start a culture war by reviewing an overly expensive vest, followed by Facebook AI scraping Google search trends and noticing "suicide" as a key word in a growing # of searches and publish an article about the growing popularity of deepfaking celebrities with suicide vests. Then Amazon algorithm will scrape that article, notice it doesn't have very many sales of suicide bomber vests this quarter, and correct this oversight by auto-creating a website called "HireSuicideBombers" so the AI can out-price itself and all the fuckin' idiots that sign up and actually try to hire suicide bombers from a random fuckin' website will quickly be arrested and/or gainfully employed as temporary truck drivers.

That's what I believe nowadays. I also pray that I'm proven wrong by Xenomorph Ninjas dropping a stealthed space rock on us hard enough to scramble the solar system like a cosmic(ly hilarious) break in a billards game.

Now, if you'll excuse me, Ima go buy rum, walk to the park, and hurl stale bread at the suburban yoga moms and flirty dad jokes at the geese and squirrels.

 

[LotusPoet]

Pretty sure this is how the Gestapo worked. We just haven't gotten to the point of making people disappear....yet.

Yeah, the Trump regime is already disappearing people. Pretty sure there's a partial list posted/linked in this very thread.

 

[LotusPoet]

I can think of several reasons:
The detained individuals are denied access to lawyers.
The families of the detained individuals fear the consequences of legal resistance.
The detained individuals cannot afford lawyers.
The detained individuals don't speak the language that their captors speak.
The detained individuals don't have family outside.
The families of the detained individuals don't yet know they are missing.

Also, the detained individuals have been sent to prisons outside of US territory.

 

[LotusPoet]

So far I’ve collected “Pol Potty,” “Kmart Rouge,” “Year Zero.” Also “Reverse Von Braun” (must be a Joker card). Haven’t found one for RFK Jr yet but will keep looking. (Gotta find them all!) All resemblances intentional. Steal, use, make them yours.

TTFN&GL

"Douche Vader" is a favorite of mine

 

[LotusPoet]

I say, has anyone noticed the fine cut of this person's jib?

Has anyone noticed how hilarious it is watching a flock of geese chase screaming suburban yoga butts?

Next I think I'll head up to the lightrail station, feed birds until I get a nice flock, then toss the bread into a train so all the birds fly in and I cheerfully wave as the automated door closes.

"It's performance art in homage to Hitchcock's 'The Birds'!" is what I'll try to tell the cops, but it'll probably come out more like "Ow my face!! I'm not resisting! GragggreaeggreeahurgahruAAAA!" as I pee myself from the taser.

 

[LotusPoet]

I am wondering why we have not seen a flood of writs of habeus corpus here.

edit: to clarify: I say that knowing people are quite literally being grabbed off the streets by armed, masked, plainclothes people claiming to be law enforcement where passersby are saying "You don't look like police," with authorities not acknowledging they have the individual in custody, not pressing specific charges, and subsequently being found to have moved the individuals taken across state lines and in many case to other countries with zero due process. This is exactly what the Constitution prohibits. Why are these attorneys not in front of a judge filing writs? Trump saying it is an ivasion DOES NOT MAKE IT SO and the one judge I have seen commenting on this has said as much.

RE: Your edit for clarity.
How easy do you think it is to get an American lawyer from a jailcell in El Salvadore when nobody knows you're there? It's called "disappeared" for a reason.

Side Note, and this in no way is meant as a reflection on anything that's been posted or the people posting, but ya know, I every time I read "detained individual" I hear it in the voice of that cop from Idiocracy.