Posted on 05/29/2025 12:56:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Elon Musk is stepping away from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But the technocratic system he helped construct is only gaining momentum.
On Wednesday night, Musk thanked President Donald Trump for “the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” and added that “DOGE’s mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
Indeed, beneath the early theatrics — silly memes, chain saws, and talk of rooting out fraud — the true mission of DOGE was clear: modernize the federal government by embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into its core functions. And in that regard, Musk succeeded.
As Wired noted:
Elon Musk says he’s stepped down from his government duties, and it may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.
DOGE failed to cut “at least” $2 trillion from the federal government budget. It didn’t shrink the state or reform its bureaucracy in a meaningful way by returning the power to the states. But that was never the point. What Musk actually built is more enduring: a centralized, AI-accessible data grid pulling from the Treasury, IRS, Social Security Administration (SSA), Health and Human Services (HHS), and more. Fraud prevention was the pitch. The real goal was to make government databases “talk to each other” — and feed them to private AI. In particular, Musk’s own Grok.
Such a system doesn’t fade. It consolidates power. And in the wrong hands, it lays the foundation for a digital regime that profiles, scores, and excludes without transparency or recourse.
DOGE didn’t launch with AI headlines. It launched with the promise of smaller government.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Smaller government is the what.
AI is the how.
This is what you asked for
Heavy is the crown
Fire in the sunrise
Ashes raining down
He did exactly what I said he was doing and everyone claimed he would not do.
Well he did didn’t he?
And now our government databases are hooked to a private corporation.
There is absolutely no way to justify this. It is out of bounds NO MATTER WHO DID IT.
That suggests private entities didn't already have govt database access and already doing the Dims' bidding.
Are you actually going to claim that two wrongs make a right?
Thank you Elon...You gave us a start in the right direction...
1. It is hooked to Musk’s corporate system because it requires the massive remote computing power for the AI to handle all the data.
2. It now requires perpetual Maintenance from Musk’s corporate team who will have perpetual remote access to private government data.
3. When the Democrats get control again they will kick Musk’s team out and either let the system fall apart which would be disastrous, or they will completely revamp it again to get rid of Musk stuff and make it an even better money theft and laundering machine.
4. When the Dems get done with it the system and theft will be even worse than it was before.
Am I really the only one who understands that opening that door to allow Musk to change the whole system and install his proprietary software is going to be a huge huge mistake in the long run? For every cause there is an effect. And we are NOT going to like the end effect of this one bit...
Thank you, Mr. Musk.
Yeah! We should just have left it the way it was!
“Yeah! We should just have left it the way it was!”
Please do not insult my intelligence, you are trying to play intellectual dirty pool. You know full well this is a two part situation and they are two different issues...
Of course we needed to root out the corruption, and Musk did a GREAT job of that.
But to leave his private software and backdoors installed is absolutely out of bounds period.
It is like foreign wars, go kick their ass and then get back out. To stay and occupy is always a huge problem and always backfires later. No private company should have permanent remote access like that to government databases period. None, zero, zip... no matter who they are.
It is a fuse that will set off a bomb of irrational Democrat retaliation against it later. They will screw up the system for good and will be able to blame it on Musk because his stuff is still in there. They CANNOT use that as an excuse to screw it up if Musk’s stuff is NOT there.
It really isn’t rocket science to comprehend the true end cause and effect of this. It really isn’t...
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