For what it’s worth….just noticed the debt clock added the DOGE clock to their display. A tiny fish in the sea of debt, but at least it’s a start!
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To be clear, Canadian banks didn’t have their ‘code’ taken over, it was a policy directive from Trudeau’s government that they abided by.
I’m not sure what you mean by code here…it seems enormously unlikely to me that Elon’s team would be in the business of writing execution level code that would bolt onto the existing programs.
That’s wildly difficult to do. I’d have to ask people in the coding business what the risks there are, but I haven’t heard any specific concerns there yet. Heck, the 20-somethings would probably completely useless anyway given how much of the goobermint probably still runs on COBOL or Fortran.
These really aren’t on my personal concern list at present.
What is at the top of that list is wondering what the now-wounded and therefore infinitely more dangerous neocon and progressive wokesters are going to do to crash the system and “get back.”
Next on that list is worrying about a systemic financial crisis kicked off by the profound disturbance of trust that’s in the air.
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Agreed Chris. Perhaps my views were somewhat raw (and heightened) as I had just finished re-reading Atlas Shrugged (for the 7th or 8th time!) last week, and was similarly “queasy” (or “squirrely” as you put it) listening to Mike this time around. Had seen other interviews where he was sharp as a tack and quite insightful, but in this one he was ‘off’. Definitely on mental probation…
It came to me that his “moral compass” seems to have encountered a glitch or two, and it was Tucker who was trying to help him out at times to get him back on track, without much success. Tucker’s compass seemed to be on the right track.
The morality of a country undermining their perceived enemies, for financial gain of their internal corporations, let alone their ‘friends’ and neighbors, to advance their own agenda, whether it be thought to be noble or some woke bullshit, is morally repugnant in either case and can not be rationalized into existence.
Thanks for what you do!
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It could also be that he has a plan to gain attention and trust through legitimately pointing out corruption while giving a bit of secondary info about the dual purpose of much of the funding. And then once he as that attention and trust to hammer on the dual purpose and how maybe we want to keep doing that, but more “ethically”. If this is the case, I would be more concerned, because it’s essentially another non-transparent psyop. We would also be left with the question “On who’s behalf is he doing this?”
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Yes, he seemed fine with the idea of continuing with the system as it is, albeit to some undefined better way, “ethically”… it is concerning indeed… who’s ethics???
Therein lay the crux of the problem as I see it: no one seems to know exactly what they have access to.
I do hope you are correct that it is unlikely the have access to actual computer code. But it cannot be 100% discounted.
Yes, of course the Canadian bank account seizures was a policy decision. My point was merely to insinuate a “what if” these so called auditors did in fact have access to computer codes for banking transactions within the federal govt. I am not going to discount what these 20s somethings are capable of. Again this was a question of CAF and Wolf - they are not govt employees and therefore would have no knowledge of govt information security protocols, for starters. There are so many questions… but as Wolf noted, the horse has already left the barn. If there was anything nefarious, it will be far too late.
I absolutely concur that there is considerable risk of big payback of some kind by the progressive cult, in addition to the financial risk especially given the news trickling out about potential Treasuries fraud. No question as to the risk of systemic financial crisis.
Which makes me wonder… it has long been speculated that to bring in the Great Reset, part of which is the Great Taking, that some kind of systemic financial crisis would have to take place. So it begs the question, is there any possibility this all amounts to an intentional engineering of such a crisis?
Food for thought, which certainly arises for the tinfoil hat crowd, of which I am a proud member in good standing. 
More food for thought. This is a whole lot of banks…
A short excerpt. Note Musk recently indicated he wanted to bring in blockchain as part of his reform efforts.
• In order to pull off a full digital currency system with blockchain, it would require populations to reduce their energy usage by 1/3rd because it is a massive power source drain. However, space-based solar systems to power satellites where the control grid would operate, could dramatically minimize the need to reduce power on earth while expediting the control grid in space. The United States, Russia, European Space Agency, China, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan, and the United Kingdom are already working on their space-based solar systems. More on this below.
• In 2019, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4, ordering the Pentagon to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military.
A huge mortgage data program called MSP, currently owned by Black Knight, formerly owned by a Fidelity subsidiary, is last I knew, a massive cobbled together mess of old programming in old languages. There are many interfaces written in modern languages but the heart of the matter is ancient.
An amazing amount of really old software in still in use in both large and small businesses.
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Ban Reddit? No, that’s just as much of an attack on free speech as if Biden had banned X. The problem is not the speech of the hopelessly deluded cult members - it’s the fake bots that are pulling open the Overton window.
What we should do instead is insist (legislate?) that all social media platforms have some kind of safeguards against bots and other fake accounts. Technology is such that you can never completely eradicate fake accounts and bots, at least not without a Nikki Haley-style enforced registration of every internet user’s online accounts with their legal identity, which is much worse than the problems she pretended it would solve. But there are some basic security measures you can take to force users to prove they’re human, or to limit the number of accounts an individual can have on a platform. If we can get the bots off of sites like Reddit, I think the conversations would calm down pretty quickly, at least closer to the low simmer we saw during the first Trump term. Do something about the legacy media and you might even see some of these TDS sufferers finally lose interest and move on with their lives.
Harder to combat are the click farms in places like India where thousands of human bots can be paid to make inflammatory posts and then “like” and respond to each other’s posts, egging each other and their audience on to ever more horrifying displays of anger and glorification of violence. Maybe this is where we need moderators to step in and enforce some real “community standards” - not the nebulous unstated ones that YouTube cites when it wants to censor or punish a content creator, but ones that encourage users to flag inappropriate content (like death threats or incitements to violence or actual criminal activities) and then have an AI assess whether flagged content actually violates the law, and recommend said content to a human who either confirms and deletes it, or vetoes the AI’s decision. Again, this should be doable through legislation.
I’m just brainstorming…but my knee-jerk response when I hear anyone say that a site or content - a platform for speech, essentially - should be “shut down for the good of the country” is to be wary. We don’t want to become the thing we hate. Imagine what the left would call us if we told them THEIR speech was dangerous misinformation.
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I cannot access all of this article because it is behind a paywall. Perhaps someone here has full access and can comment further. This supports the point I was trying to make about access to code.
I saw this over a decade ago on an auto forum I admin’d. Two members, overnight got in this huge fight with each other. On a whim, I checked the IP address, and it was the same freaking address.
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That doesn’t mean they were the same person arguing with themselves.
Most likely answer is that the IP address was a NAT interface between the Internet and the private network behind it. Or a VPN service’s Internet-facing end-point.
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Karoline Leavitt said in a presser that Elon did not have write access to the database.
I think at one point Elon schooled another tech billionaire. The other tech billionaire was laughing at how Musk described the difficulty of getting info out of USAID. I think Musk said he had to download the database (which was painful) and then because the database keys were stupid he had to re-sort and re-key it to make it useful. Then he could look at the data.
Things to note:
- This database is for funding grants only. No employee bank information should be in it. If there are USAID employees bank data in there, that would be fraud
- This database has no access to Social Security payments. That is in another department’s database somewhere else.
- All the database tuples should have a government id associated with it. That should be the recipient’s social security number, if the grant was to an individual or another type of id for institutions or charities.
- Musk has said that many of the social security were invalid
- He has also said that some grants were still being funded past the expiry date.
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Slim Possibility… what made me check IP address, the writing style was similar between the two.
In that case, more than likely a troll.
Some people have too much free time on their hands…
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I was familiar with another incident on a different forum, where the system admin was so disturbed by one “woman” literally claiming her life was in danger, and he called the police in her alleged hometown. Police called him back, the woman in danger, was actually an unemployed 45 yo man.
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I believe it. I’ll bet it happens a lot more than people realize.
So what exactly is this DOGE clock???