Meet the Little Boys In Charge Of Your Money

This is getting positively spooky. Let’s get this all into context. Elon Musk has now done a coup d’etat of the government. He knows where all the bodies are buried, who gets what checks (even competitors of his with government contracts) and he’s in control of the disbursement of these funds. The newly appointed Secretary of the Treasury gave him this role. And so Musk had to delegate the work, right? And so take a look at who he delegated the work to.

How the fuck are little boys who have yet to have their balls drop, not just laughed out of the fucking building?

Oh my GAWD!

"Mamas, come get your babies out of our government!" Is the best line I have ever heard! pic.twitter.com/WtMYDKuVll

— Billie Nelson (@Mamabenergy2) February 3, 2025

Luke Farritor is a Thiel fellow. Peter certainly has a type. pic.twitter.com/pgwdQ6EmTU

— Gary B (@GplusB) February 3, 2025

Let Joyce Vance make sense of this, insofar as sense can be made.

I read Wired’s story titled, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover,” with a growing sense of disgust. Government employees take an oath to the Constitution. Their mission is to serve the public. But if reporting is accurate, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which is not a government agency and which is staffed by private individuals loyal to Musk, not the interests of Americans, has, while inserting itself into government payments systems housed at the Treasury Department, unlawfully accessed some of the most sensitive information the government maintains about citizens and businesses.

The full story is complicated and still emerging. On Saturday, Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, raised the alert. He posted that he’d been told Trump’s new Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, gave DOGE “*full* access” to the U.S. Treasury payment system. That includes “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies. All of it.”

You can find more detail about the systems that were accessed in news reports here and here. The office’s website gives a detailed picture of what they do, including processing salary, benefits payments, and tax returns to millions of Americans. A similar takeover of data and systems is reportedly underway at the Office of Personnel Management.

If private individuals accessed this information for one or more people without proper authorization, we’d call it a federal crime. What happened here is well beyond that, and it’s important to call it what it is. The language in the Wired story describes a coup—a takeover of government by a self-appointed group that wasn’t duly elected by the American people. Musk and his crew of men barely out of their teens haven’t taken an oath to serve, and they are not accountable to the public. They are not a “Department” of anything. They’re a private army that has taken over. Presidents can set up private advisory groups, but they have to function according to the rules, which include transparency. That’s not what’s happening here.

You have a group of people here, barely out of their teens, and they’re running the finances of the government, under the auspices of the world’s richest man. This is Idiocracy coupled with Wild In The Streets. Maybe they will pursue a Wild In The Streets agenda. Maybe Elon will decide at some point that the old folks need to go and just cut off the checks and let them starve. Or, riot in the streets and then Trump can declare martial law.

I know how dystopian and batshit this all sounds, but you tell me if it’s impossible. I really want to be wrong about all of this. Pete Hegseth got his job running the Department of Defense for one reason only: he will obey an order to attack civilians if Trump wants that and Mark Esper would not.

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