D.O.G.E (Department of Government Efficiency) II

[crimbru]

Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late-night...

us.yahoo.com

From the article:
Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander posted on LinkedIn that he was fired just after midnight Saturday, days after he started getting harassing messages on Facebook.

“The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter," Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote. “Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.”

He added: "When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.”

Spitzer-Stadtlander said he was supposed to be exempted from the probationary firings because the FAA office he worked in focused on national security threats such as attacks on the national airspace by drones.

 

[75thru79]

Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159

His post features a chart indicating there are more than 20 million listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.

 

[Jon]

Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159

His post features a chart indicating there are more than 20 million listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.

which comes from he and his moron doge kids having no understanding of the Cobol programming language

this has been pointed out to him for days publicly and who knows how long privately

he is simply continuing to Lie

Nope. There are no 150-year-olds on Social Security. It's COBOL!--UPDATED Feb 17

Elon Musk claimed that his team found 150-year-old people collecting Social Security! He implied there were dead people being sent benefits, with checks cashed by someone else. But no—the people getting paid are very much alive. They are collecting...

www.dailykos.com

 

[75thru79]

which comes from he and his moron doge kids having no understanding of the Cobol programming language

this has been pointed out to him for days publicly and who knows how long privately

he is simply continuing to Lie

Nope. There are no 150-year-olds on Social Security. It's COBOL!--UPDATED Feb 17

Elon Musk claimed that his team found 150-year-old people collecting Social Security! He implied there were dead people being sent benefits, with checks cashed by someone else. But no—the people getting paid are very much alive. They are collecting...

www.dailykos.com

I don't know what's worse, paying SS benefits to 150 year-olds or admitting we still have government systems relying on COBOL programs.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

I don't know what's worse, paying SS benefits to 150 year-olds or admitting we still have government systems relying on COBOL programs.

I remember dabbling in COBOL programming back in the day. It usually went like this:

[Me] What?! Won't compile, eh?!

*Pick's up desktop and heaves it across the room*

[Me] COMPILE THAT!!

 

[Jon]

I don't know what's worse, paying SS benefits to 150 year-olds or admitting we still have government systems relying on COBOL programs.

I've been in this business for 30 years most people would be shocked about the amount of antiquated technology that we all deal with on the regular. Not just government

but nice dodge on the point which is Musk continuing to Lie

 

[CrimsonJazz]

The 5 worst things about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers it set out to protect.

reason.com

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB is the government's youngest agency. In its short life, it has been reckless with taxpayer dollars while enjoying gratuitous positive P.R. When consumers were reeling from the impact of the financial crisis, Congress buried the foundations for this Main Street regulator in the depths of a massive bill, swearing it would protect consumers from the alleged excesses and exploitations of Wall Street. Yet this agency, hailed as the "cop on the beat" fighting for consumers, has spent much of its short life up to no good. Here are but a few reasons this young agency's days should be numbered.

I admit, I was unsure of this particular issue when it came up, but this helped shed a little light into the reasons behind the action.

 

[75thru79]

I remember dabbling in COBOL programming back in the day. It usually went like this:

[Me] What?! Won't compile, eh?!

*Pick's up desktop and heaves it across the room*

[Me] COMPILE THAT!!

I can do you one better:

[Me] What?! Won't compile, eh?!

*Pick's up stack of punch cards and heaves them across the room*

Yes, you've got that correct. Personal computers did not exist when I was roaming the halls at Bidgood. We ran our computer simulations on punch cards and handed them to a pimply-faced nerd working behind the counter to run for us.

 

[Jon]

The 5 worst things about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers it set out to protect.

reason.com

I admit, I was unsure of this particular issue when it came up, but this helped shed a little light into the reasons behind the action.

the CPFB cost under 800M a year and had forced corporations to return over 21B back to the American people, of course Reason is against it. As far as they are concerned corporations can police themselves, all of the evidence to the contrary be damned.

 

[crimsonaudio]

More USAID dirt...

Thread by @T_HicksOfThe303 on Thread Reader App

@T_HicksOfThe303: I quoted this earlier with the sarcastic remark in the screenshot below. I thought I was being flippant and snide, but then curiosity struck, and I started digging... A big old thread🧵 First, I pop...…

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[75thru79]

but nice dodge on the point which is Musk continuing to Lie

From the article:

In the discussion below, there are questions about the baseline in COBOL being May 20 1875.

There are many different versions of COBOL. Early versions used the standards set in ISO 8601:2004.
So what I posted was correct. (You doubters! I fart in your general direction!) The date was removed in later versions of the ISO standard. And it’s understandable that COBOL programmers didn’t know or didn’t remember this obscure fact. The information isn’t spelled out explicitly in the COBOL programming language—it’s simply part of the standard ISO definition used in the early versions of COBOL.

So, Musk's team was not aware of an obscure, out of date ISO standard, long since revised and made a mistake. He's working real hard on the lie.

 

[75thru79]

As far as they are concerned corporations can police themselves, all of the evidence to the contrary be damned.

The folks at the OCC, Fed and FDIC say don't forget about us. We're not actually regulating banks. It's all for show.

 

[Jon]

The folks at the OCC, Fed and FDIC say don't forget about us. We're not actually regulating banks. It's all for show.

yet they missed the 21 Billion dollars that the CFPB forced to be returned to the American people

 

[75thru79]

yet they missed the 21 Billion dollars that the CFPB forced to be returned to the American people

Maybe because they weren't doing their job. Fix that instead of creating yet another layer of bureaucracy

 

[Huckleberry]

Maybe because they weren't doing their job. Fix that instead of creating yet another layer of bureaucracy

Were they not doing their job or were they doing it too well?

 

[Jon]

Were they not doing their job or were they doing it too well?

schrodinger's oversight team

 

[crimsonaudio]

Amazing this was 'optional'... SMH

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process). In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1891614960452522187

 

[crimsonaudio]

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

www.huffpost.com

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

This is inaccurate. The referenced “classified information” is actually public FedScope data, posted publicly by OPM (Office of Personnel Management) in March 2024. https://fedscope.opm.gov

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1891367329616760989

 

[jthomas666]

I don't know what's worse, paying SS benefits to 150 year-olds or admitting we still have government systems relying on COBOL programs.

If the COBOL program still works, why spend a truly ridiculous amount of money to reinvent the wheel?

 

[Bamaro]

If the COBOL program still works, why spend a truly ridiculous amount of money to reinvent the wheel?

"If it ain't broke, dont fix it"!