Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE website mistakenly published classified intelligence data, including personnel and budget details for the National Reconnaissance Office.

The breach sent Defense Department officials scrambling, as the NRO’s headcount and budget are typically classified. Intelligence aides confirmed the leak is problematic under current security standards.

Concerns have also been raised about DOGE’s inexperienced staff. The White House has not commented, and the site was later hacked.

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    At this point I’ll believe anyone in the USA is worried when we see tanks at the Capitol.

    Until then it’s impossible anymore to believe this isn’t approved by the nation.

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      Their Shock Doctrine approach (thank you Naomi Klein) has been incredibly successful. Reading about history in my youth, I now understand why evil prevailed then as it is now. I was looking back at times of immense tyranny and thinking “why didn’t everyone just rise up against them!?” Some are fully onboard, others partially, but many are detached, struggling to survive. The rest of us do what we can, when we can, but disjointed and unorganized.

      It’s a whole lot of “please will somebody DO something!”, but the modern Democrats are not an opposition party, ever. The news media is complicit as well. There are a handful of judges and attorneys who are doing their damndest, but this is no longer a country of laws (for the rich and powerful).

      The country is geographically massive and your average citizen is both poor and uneducated, both politically and otherwise, by Western standards. Now that large swaths of worker’s livelihoods are being devastated they may have more time on their hands.

      I won’t hold my breath for “Occupy Washington”, but when the next movement comes it will be met with intense and violent opposition. Hopefully a silver lining may be a wake up call, far too late.

      I shudder to think of what comes next as it has been festering and fomenting within this country my entire lifetime. The sophisticated propaganda machine and socioeconomic warfare has kept our citizens dumb, divided, and despondent, I pray something beneficial rises from the ashes.

      There is no single answer to your question. My aim was to provide a contemporaneous snapshot of what I am experiencing. As I have been observing our descent into flagrant fascism, and telling anyone who would listen, for the better part of a century. And I hate it with every fiber of my being.

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        I’m so fucking tired of everyone blaming the Democrats.

        Trump has a 46% approval rating. ** 46% of the American people support explicitly this. **

        They don’t have the right to perform a coup without the consent of the people. And you, right now, are saying you don’t consent to their rule because they haven’t taken it by force. (What force?)

        Are you aware of how unpopular any impeachment typically is? If his approval rating is 46%, impeachment won’t happen.

        We’re going to have to wait for things to get bad enough that we all start to actually suffer in our lives, outside of just seeing it coming by reading the news.

        Seeing the train isn’t enough. We have to wait for it to hit us.

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        modern Democrats are not an opposition party, ever. The news media is complicit as well.

        The US political system is thoroughly broken but it’s not changed much leading up to the Trump era, it’s really the news media that made Trump happen right now.

        It started in the 80s with cable news and continues today with toxic podcasts and social media. People are like your annoying ex-girlfriend - they don’t want to be told the truth, they just want to be validated. Billionaires and con artists (and billionaire con artists) have figured out how to use newer forms of media to exploit that tendency and I think it’s still getting worse. Eventually like all predators they’ll overconsume their prey but there’s a lot of suckers in the world for them to run through first.

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      Americans are resisting, for instance lot’s of people are quitting their jobs, I’ve heard about at least 3.

      Sarcasm aside, I congratulate the people who refuse to aid Trump, and actually do resist. But it just doesn’t seem to be a lot.
      Maybe it’s too early, but I sure hope that some real resistance will emerge, and resist and prevent MAGA in their attempt to destroy democracy completely.

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    The website posting classified info, not being secure, and hiring a 19 year old who leaked classified data at a previous job. Hmm, almost seems like Elon is actively undermining the US government and inviting various groups and countries to steal our data.

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      Other countries having our data is the least of our worries. I’m ready for China to become our new overlords if that’s the only other option.

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        That’s the next step. We’re seeing the sun set on the American Empire and I’m afraid it’s going to take another World War for the sun to rise on the next Empire.

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          I think most Americans could use a reeducation camp. Our society didn’t collectively kill Elon after he did a Nazi salute. We need some reeducation on how to kill Nazis.

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    Lol “intelligence officials” can eat my whole asshole. They let the monkeys in without even a background check; they’ve earned their goddamn circus.

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    Maybe now the intelligence community will do their thing and none of us will have to worry about these dipshits anymore.

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      Can we start a rumor that Musk wants to shut down Boeing? He won’t last a month.

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    Develop heart attack gun and extensive ways to fabricate blackmail. Only use it against peaceful socialists like MLK.

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    Of course. Trump was keeping classified documents in his bathroom after his first term and the American people rewarded him with a second. This is what Americans want.

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      hes using him as a human shield, against crticism, and as a bullet"proof" armor.

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        I know, but he’s only protecting against headshots. No sniper in their right mind goes for a headshot. Much greater chance of hitting if you go for centre mass.

        Did you know that the longest confirmed sniper kill is 3800 m. It wss made by a Ukrainian soldier using the horizon’s lord anti material rifle.

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          hes also using him as a “social” human shield, if the kid intercepts the bullet, people would go “oh poor baby got shot by some cold hearted,bastard”. ever heard of people using human shields in military attacks, they do the same thing, hes like them using woman or children and the guy hides behind them while attacking an enemy. it helps turn public opinion in musks favor. Musk however does not care if the child gets hit, also hes keeping it from GRIMES.