Why would musk need it anymore? He got what he paid for.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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It wasn't a serious attempt at what it's name suggests it might be about. It was just about destroying things some billionaires didn't like.
This is it exactly. He just wanted to gut the agencies that were actively investigating him or were threatening to regulate his businesses. There was no altruistic motive behind any of it. He paid for the access he needed to destroy that infrastructure.
It was also about getting their hands on sensitive government data.
Wait... are you telling me that an agency named after a meme was fundamentally unserious??
And stealing our data.
And installing malware.
And...
Nah, it would be different if that was it
At least some of them legit thought they were helping, and everyone else was an idiot.
Huge changes were given ridiculous deadlines and zero guidance. A lot of that shit won't kick in till new year, agencies are legally required to follow thru, there's no off ramp.
A lot of basic shit no one thinks about is going to stop breaking, in addition to the shit they intentionally broke.
The fact that the American public doesn't care about this is pretty much what has allowed Trumpism to arise.
I care. I don't know what I can do about it, but I care.
All the hooks have been latched on. Backdoors opened. The vaults copied and shuffled away.
Its been a long while, but the answer was posed very early on, and it kinda sucks.
Start over from the ground up. Throw everything out, don't let it network into the new system.
So of course, it'll never happen.
The United States was my grandpa and Doge was Microsoft on the phone asking him to give them access to his computer. He did. Every time.
What a great gig. Get paid in a contract (probably up front), cause lots of damage without any accountability, and then quit early.
Are you saying that they got cut for wasting government money?
So can we get United States Digital Service back? You know the thing that was working just fine before it was renamed and broken?