Summary
Michelle King, the top Social Security official, resigned after refusing Elon Musk’s request for sensitive records, including Social Security numbers and bank data.
Trump appointed Leland Dudek as acting commissioner and nominated Frank Bisignano for the role.
Nancy Altman of Social Security Works condemned DOGE’s request, warning, “I don’t think you can overstate how serious this breach is.”
DOGE’s similar attempts at the IRS and Treasury have sparked legal challenges over privacy concerns.
STOP GETTING OUT OF THE WAY
Stay at your post for fuck’s sake. Make them fight you. Drag it out, make it slow and expensive, make them look bad.
Don’t just offer them your chair and the keys to the kingdom and tell them here let your stooge take over, have fun
She’s likely worried about repercussions, about her family. I wouldn’t doubt that she already received threats.
Well letting these fools keep doing whatever they want will put her family in much bigger trouble in the long term. Pathetic
Imo if that’s all it takes to make you quit you shouldn’t have had the position in the first place.
Edit: I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this. How is this not seen as pure cowardice? Is this not purely caving in to authoritative practice?
Protecting yourself at everyone else’s expense is exactly what fascists want. They want you so terrified of consequence that you just give up entirely. Fuck that. And fuck everyone who bends the knee or caves in to threats.
It’s very easy to get irate at other people not making sacrifices on your behalf.
But it’s not just on my behalf? It’s on theirs and literally everyone else’s behalf.
They’re willingly getting out of the way to protect their own. Disregarding everyone who will be harmed by doing so.
That should be seen and treated as cowardice.
It’s also very easy to call other people cowards when you aren’t the one making the sacrifice.
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Why are all you mfs resigning stand your ground come on. If you leave they just appoint some yes man fuck.
Yeah I’d rather stay in place and use my knowledge to resist and work from within.
If you’re hours away from being fired, you can control the narrative by quitting and making the first statement.
Hmmmm I’m conflicted
Americans in general: stop quitting, stand your ground, do the right thing
Also Americans: I can’t be bother voting, it’s all the same after all
You wouldn’t be allowed to stay in place. Get it?
I assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. “w e know where your kids go to school.”
I assume they are being given the choice of resign or be fired.
I’d take fores and hell they have to force me out the damn office
Why, why do they keep stepping down IT MAKES IT SO MUCH FUCKING EASIER FOR THEM. This is such bullshit and spineless behavior. They can’t protect the American people if they FUCKING RESIGN. Like how does this in any way help us.
Great. Soon they will have teenagers directing all money into oligarch’s pockets while people are homeless, starving and committing crimes against other subjects, all under the rule of a stupid, mob boss dictator.
Don’t we need more people to step the fuck up?
I used to play Battlefield 4 back in the day. If you abandoned your vehicle for any reason the enemy could come in and steal it for the enemy team. This means that instead of having 2vs2 tank fights, you might be able to force 3vs1 or even 4vs0 tank fights. There was an unwritten rule that if you are in a vehicle then you die in that vehicle to avoid that from happening. Your vehicle will not respawn if they are actively being used, even by the enemy. Today it feels like all the “pilots” are abandoning their “vehicles” while our “tickets” get drained.
All Americans should freeze their credit immediately.
Should have after many credit leaks from credit companies
The best time to freeze your credit was 10 years ago.
The second best time its right now.
So, either 90% of our admin is in on the coup and just doing little grand standing actions like “refusing DOGE”, or they refused and the Russians found out about their families and sent a strongly worded letter saying it’d be a shame if something happened to their family.
I can see option two being the more likely case, but the cynic in me is saying these people are all in on it and there will be no one but the peasants to fight for their rights.
Why resign? Keep refusing the order. You can’t keep blocking it if you don’t work there anymore. They will eventually fire you, but that will slow things down.
It was probably a “you resign now after you tell me no, or we get you fired in an hour” or something along those lines.
I’m gonna have to keep saying this, but if you know you’re hours away from being fired, you can quit and make the first statement on the matter. That way, you control the narrative. If they got fired, they’d just be another static.
Or they go right over their head because Trump respects nothing of procedure that doesn’t benefit him, they slow down nothing, and now they’re also complicit
DOGE is doing a great job!
The record breaking speed at which they are transferring money from the poor to the oligarchs is unprecedented in American history. Remember everyone to work hard, we have to make sure those poor billionaires get the money the deserve .
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This already has me very worried since I get SSD benefits along with Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP due to a mental health impairment, and someone really needs to step the fuck up and get the DOGE NAZIS the fuck out of there.
Let’s please stop pronouncing this piece of shit entity doge as “dozh” (doʒ), it’s so ridiculous and we make fools of ourselves by parroting what we’re told. We should deliberately “mispronounce” it, say something like dogie or dog-ee, I dunno–I’m sure you all can come up with something better.
Point is, I bet Musk gets a hard-on every time he hears reporters or democrats fall in line and repeat this ridiculous shit the way he likes it. "yes master dozh, dozh, tell me more about dozh master. 🤮 Disgusting. It’s humiliating to cater to him like this. Fuck saying “dozh” like you’re Musk’s little bitch and stop running to serve to his every oligarchical whim like the lowly serfs he thinks of us as.
I refuse to pronounce it at all. Fucking cringy. I just call them Elon’s Nerdtroopers.
I’ve been calling them Hitler Youth
Oooh! That works too.
I pronounce it “Nazi”. Just saying.
Everyone complaining about this and calling them a coward: Trump and his crimes won’t respect the law now, what makes you think this bureaucrat can obstruct anything? Trump will absolutely go over the heads of anyone refusing his orders.
Better to resign and not be complicit than sit by and let your name be anywhere near this shit.
People tried staying and being an “inside” ally during Trump’s first term. In the end, it just helped his administration maintain a veneer of competency.
Leave. Let the institution fall. Collapse of the systems people rely on is the only way to gather overwhelming popular support to contain Trump’s destruction.
I’m so mad! Here! Here’s everyone’s most important data! If you reveal it in a hacking attack, you better say sorry to every single American!
Is disagreement the right word here?
