Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Federal Payment System

Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by sundaeofshock on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:21AM (#42933426)

No, we did not vote for this. Show me the campaign ad that said Trump was going to give Musk and his gang of losers complete control over the treasury.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by epistasis on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:34AM (#42933684)

If you think that a politicians advertisements are the full picture of what they will do, I have a bridge you may be interested in buying.

That said, DOGE was well announced and widely publicized prior to the election, by Musk and the media. Musk was up on the stage with Trump quite a bit.

Those who did not know this was going to happen are either easily fooled or were paying no attention.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by exe34 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:31PM (#42938160)

I'm over across the pond - it was pretty obvious to me that Elon was going to take a wrecking ball to the ship of government. if it wasn't clear to you, I'm afraid you can only blame yourself and possibly your diet of information.

Trump said Elon would get to run a new department called "department of government efficiency". if you know what he did at Twitter, you can easily join the dots.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by jethro_tell on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:53PM (#42939404)

It’s all spelled out in the project 2025 doc that was widely publicized as the game plan.

Also, trump was impeached last time because he tried to shut down funding approved by congress. So, if you’re surprised it’s happening again, I suppose you can’t be helped

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by FireBeyond on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:05PM (#42939591)

Oh, the one that Trump heavily distanced himself from? Project 2025 was something skeptics pointed out as being the game plan, but Trump denied (or agreed, then denied).

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by jethro_tell on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:27PM (#42939898)

You’re saying that like I’m the gullible one but he’s following it to a t so . . ..

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:38AM (#42946173)

So, can you eat crow now, or are you genuinely surprised Donald Trump lied? Again.

Do I really have to explain how much of his 100+ EO's come from Project 2025?

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:00PM (#42952517)

I think a quick view of my comment history would show that I am not a fan of Trump. In fact, I would go so far as to characterize him as "if a wet dog turd were a person". I had zero doubt that 2025 would be a blueprint, just another of his lies.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:42AM (#42946213)

>Show me the campaign ad that said Trump was going to give Musk and his gang of losers complete control over the treasury.

Let's see: Trump appointed it the day after he won:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vi...

And Musk announced DOGE on September 2024:

https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-agrees-to-head-donald-tru...

So yes, this was not some secret. If you (royal you) trusted that photo in the 2nd link to make america efficient, I have no words.

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