this would've been a much better idea if the autistic cars-to-mars man wasn't involved in it
Milei has shown that you can clean out the government quite well by fighting it from within, but nothing's going to get done if you put autistic grifters at the helm instead of oddballs with actual love for the idea. Elon doesn't care about the government, I believe he's more concerned with being Trump's pal and being vaguely connected to a Big Boy space agency than anything, and if this thing wants to succeed at what it's doing then it needs to give Elon either the MOST POWERFUL tardwrangler on earth or just hand the whole thing over to Trump
the meme name is dumb, but honestly I like it. Future kids might enjoy history a bit more if they get to learn about shiba inus at the same time that they're trying to memorize whatever Trump does in the next four years for a test. It'll be a lot easier to remember something this important if it's tied to something as familiar and cute as a funny-looking doggy.
The question is, which idea would have been better? DOGE has been touted as several different things, and no one really knows what it is now. It's doing almost none of the things it was originally supposed to do, like take reports of wasteful spending or make recommendations to the President. Its legal basis is a law authorizing advisory committees, but it isn't behaving at all like an advisory committee. None of its employees seem to have any education or experience in government, business, law, accounting, or the subject matter of the agencies they are making more "efficient." The various imaginary versions of DOGE that were pushed on social media and outlets like Fox News persist in the popular imagination of the right, but the real thing is almost entirely different in composition and function.
The question is, which idea would have been better? DOGE has been touted as several different things, and no one really knows what it is now. It's doing almost none of the things it was originally supposed to do, like take reports of wasteful spending or make recommendations to the President. Its legal basis is a law authorizing advisory committees, but it isn't behaving at all like an advisory committee. None of its employees seem to have any education or experience in government, business, law, accounting, or the subject matter of the agencies they are making more "efficient." The various imaginary versions of DOGE that were pushed on social media and outlets like Fox News persist in the popular imagination of the right, but the real thing is almost entirely different in composition and function.
I disagree that Elon is merely an "autistic grifter" in this instance. Trump has gone out of his way to put people in charge that have an axe to grind with whatever they're supposed to gut.
USAID was a high priority target because they seem to have been where all the black money the intel community used was coming from (and maybe Trump figured he could find some evidence exposing the deep state for being complicit in the 3 attempts to fucking kill him), but now Elon gets go audit the IRS.
I have little doubt that Elon believes he was unfairly targeted by the taxing agency because of his status as world's richest man and is chomping at the bit to peel back and expose the layers of stinking bureaucracy that has complicated his life goal of being the guy that gets us to mars.
As for DOGE as a whole, it's looking like its actual job is to show up and cut through the bullshit of bureaucracy faster than a court can pop up and tell them to stop what they're doing. I wouldn't be surprised if the moment they get caught by a court order the agency just shifts to a wildly different department and starts tearing it apart instead.
High offense build, maxed out Attack, maxed out Speed, with anything extra being thrown into Evasion.
A federal judge Thursday limited access to a Treasury Department payments system that various Department of Government Efficiency surrogates had burrowed into at the behest of Elon Musk.
Tom Krause and Marko Elez, two DOGE-connected “special government employees” of the Treasury Department, were granted “read-only” access to Bureau of Fiscal Service systems “as needed for the performance” of their respective duties, the judge ruled.
in case you missed it from the blurb above, why was the federal judge forced to let those two members of DOGE continue to have access to the treasury? let's let Scott Bessent, the newly appointed Treasury Secretary, explain it
in case you are too lazy to watch the video, here's a hint: both of them were already employees at the US treasury
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I hear a bunch of orchards just had a bunch of employment opportunities up. Sure do hope all these poor leeches land on their feet and start actually contributing to the nation's prosperity.
Cool, so American soft power will be reduced, and with only 294 workers, outside contracts will be brought in so more money can be moved to random rich fuckers. NEET!
Cool, so American soft power will be reduced, and with only 294 workers, outside contracts will be brought in so more money can be moved to random rich fuckers. NEET!
This is Edward Coristine, a DOGE employee who has been working in the agencies and interviewing career civil servants who have been asked to justify their jobs. According to Wired, he reports to Amanda Scales, the xAI employee who carries out Musk's will at the Office of Personnel Management. He has been given an email account at the General Services Administration and "A-suite level clearance" granting him access to all physical and IT spaces there. Wired also reports he has been given access to employees are worried he could gain access the agency's sensitive compartmented information facility, where the highest levels of classified national intelligence may be stored, processed, or discussed. Access to SCI normally requires a background investigation that may take over a year, though for a young person like Coristine it can go much faster. President Trump has been granting interim TS/SCI clearances [archive] by decree, so Coristine may have been cleared that way. The government might not think it's worth investigating people any more, but we think it's important and there is plenty of publicly available information available for inspection.
Coristine attended Rye Country Day School, a private K-12 school where tuition ranges from $50,675 to $57,350. He was on the wrestling team and graduated 11th in the Class of 2024. After graduating, he spent three months working at Neuralink then matriculated at Northeastern University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the school paper [archive], he never really wanted to go to college. He wanted to build his own thing like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, and he idolizes Elon Musk. He is a mechanical engineering and physics major, but may have dropped out or gone on sabbatical after his first semester.
His father, Charles Coristine, worked for JP Morgan on Wall Street before pivoting into the snack industry [archive] in 2011. His company LesserEvils does over $100 million gross sales yearly. In 2008, Charles gave $1000 to John McCain. No other donation information was found on OpenSecrets.org or FEC.gov under his name or the name of his company.
His apparent mother, Anna V. Martynova, is a 47-year-old woman from Russia. She appears to have studied at School 550 in Russia before immigrating to the United States, possibly with Alexander Martynov in 1995. She has held various banking positions and lectured in universities. She works as a senior director and portfolio manager at Legal & General Retirement America. She also has a company, Blue Sky LLC, which provides "miscellaneous ambulatory health care services." No political donations could be found. She has an infrequently-used Facebook account and is anna-smartynova on LinkedIn. More information may be available from Russian-language sources such as VK.
According to WhitePages.com, the Coristine family resides in a New Canaan, CT manse [archive]. Real estate agents Barbara and Arnie Sivba [archive], whom Anna and Charles described as "the bomb," helped them find a weekend place. They also own, or did own, a slightly more modest house in Larchmont, New York. Westchester county property records indicate they co-owned real estate at least as far back as 2007.
Charles and Anna are not the only entrepreneurs in the Coristine household. Opencorporates.com [archive] reveals a number of companies that Edward Coristine either formed or served in as an officer. It is not clear what goods and services these businesses provided or who their customers were. Verification and NAICS codes can be obtained from government web sites, but it was difficult to archive these.
Mistdeck LLC formed 12/2/2021, dissolved 9/10/2024. According to Connecticut records, Coristine apparently partnered with Eli Klaus of Pembroke Pines, Florida, in this venture. It provided "professional, scientific, and technical services." There is a Mistdeck GitHub, but it is devoid of information.
DiamondCDN LLC, formed 8/23/2022, dissolved 3/14/2024. Connecticut records indicate it provided "other computer related services." Coristine described his position as "Founder & CEO (Chief Everything Officer)." DiamondCDN has a Github page [archive].
Tesla.Sexy LLC, formed 12/2/2021, last annual report filed 3/2/2023. Tesla.Sexy is identified with DiamondLLC on PeeringDB [archive]. Per the State of Connecticut, it provides "professional, scientific, and technical services."
Opencorporates suggests he founded Swath Limited (UK), incorporated 12/6/2021, dissolved 6/6/2023. The UK record [archive] shows the founder was born in December 2004. It is unlikely this is the Edward Coristine who graduated high school in 2024, but it is possible. The founder's profession is shown as engineer.
Coristine also used to have a web site called Investors for the Community. The web site is gone and no archive has been discovered, but we do have a snippet from the About Us page:
Meet Edward Coristine - the tech-savvy, multi-talented, and trustworthy individual who's taking the world of cybersecurity by storm! With his expertise in the latest tech trends and his passion for wrestling and tennis, Edward is the perfect blend of brains and brawn.
The Investors for the Community Instagram [archive] still exists. It posted fourteen photographs (including one duplicate) in July 2023. They all follow a similar pattern: a tech company-related photograph and a bit of investment-related text promising analysis or insight. It is unlikely Coristine took the photographs and he does not give credit to their owners. There is no actual analysis presented on Instagram, nor are any analysts identified by name. The final post was a money printer meme.
It's not clear what Investors for Community was. Was it an elaborate LARP? A web design exercise? A scam? Was it related to Coristine's other companies?
The Investors for Community Instagram identifies likely personal Instagrams @edpalguy and @d_z1010. The latter name is obscure; it may be a reference to the DZ-1010 model railroad crossing gate [archive] or the ZD1010 [archive] line of Asics wrestling kneepads, but neither solution is very compelling. These accounts have been deleted and do not appear to be available in archives.
In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Coristine claimed to have worked several regular jobs. He has been a camp counselor at Camp Playland of New Canaan, a system engineer at Path Network, a warehouse team member at his father's snack company, and an assistant bike mechanic at 10538 Bicycles. Wired also reports he spent three months at Neuralink.
The bigballs LinkedIn has been deleted along with most DOGE social media, but some traces of him remain. Coristine did not delete his Facebook, but he only posted on it twice as a child; it is innocent and charming. He has a GitHub profile [archive], on which he describes himself as a technologist with a passion for improving humanity. He recently contributed to balltrackerfrontend, that's how we know it's our Edward. His purported Twitter account, edwardbigballer, appears to have been hijacked or was never his. Recent posts are clearly intended to disparage Trump or Musk, but such posts extend back to December, before Coristine was outed as a member of Doge.
Coristine does not appear to have been involved with law enforcement, but Wired reports a Telegram handle associated with him was used to solicit a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. I have not been able to corroborate this and it's not clear whether the cyberattack was serious, a prank played on a friend, or a stress test for one of his software projects.
For better or worse, Coristine lacks most of the qualities you might expect in a minor political appointee. His parents have money, but they don't give it to politicians. He attended an elite secondary school, but has not distinguished himself or been groomed in post-secondary. He did not apply through any of the usual internships or fellowships. His work history is unclear, but some of it appears manufactured. The foreign connections and alleged cybercrime are concerning for one who has unprecedented access to information systems. He hasn't even feigned an interest in public service, vacillating between a desire to "improve humanity" and a desire to be a tech mogul like Zuckerberg or Gates. Or maybe he thinks they improved humanity, in which case we're boned.
Edit (2/7/2025):
Bloomberg reports Coristine was fired by Path Networks in June 2022 for leaking internal information to a competitor. He retained privileged access to their network after his termination and said he could have wiped their public-facing servers, but he wasn't that kind of person.
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.
“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” said a June 2022 message from an executive of the firm, Path Network, which was seen by Bloomberg News. “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.”
A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine's brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”
Afterward, Coristine wrote that he’d retained access to the cybersecurity company’s computers, though he said he hadn’t taken advantage of it.
“I had access to every single machine,” he wrote on Discord in late 2022, weeks after he was dismissed from Path Network, according to messages seen by Bloomberg. Posting under the name “Rivage,” which six people who know him said was his alias, Coristine said he could have wiped Path’s customer-supporting servers if he’d wished. He added, "I never exploited it because it's just not me."
His comments, made in a Discord server focused on another competitor company, worried executives at Path Network, who believed there was no legitimate reason for a former employee to access their machines, according to a person familiar with the incident. The person asked not to be named, citing the sensitivity of the matter.
JoeyCrafter was a member of Telegram groups called “Kiwi Farms Christmas Chat” and “Kiwi Farms 100% Real No Fake No Virus,” both referencing an online forum known for harassment campaigns. Typically, the site has been used to share the personal information of a target, encouraging others to harass them online, in-person, over the phone or by falsely alerting police to a violent crime or active shooter incident at their home.
today, a federal judge partially blocked DOGE workers that were auditing the treasury financial systems Article | Archive
in case you missed it from the blurb above, why was the federal judge forced to let those two members of DOGE continue to have access to the treasury? let's let Scott Bessent, the newly appointed Treasury Secretary, explain it.
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I'll add this. Creating a timeline is essential, regardless of our differing views on DOGE. Apologies for the delay; I've been taking breaks. I actually added it as a lolcow thread by mistake. I only browse the Chris Tyson (I made the shitty OP) and MrBeast thread. Never went on Autistic Thunderdome until recently.
Idk where to ask this but this is the closest to the topic I guess, does anybody know where the links are to the datarepublican website? I saw some autism research posted by a kiwi about the USAIDS funding some tranny/video game terrorism shit with screenshots and links but I forgot which thread. Thanks in advance.
This is how things work in the real world.
So, when you are in a country in Africa.
They want to develop their mineral deposits, so they open them up for bidding.
American, European, and Chinese companies all bid on the right to develop it to make more money and supply their industries.
AID from a country is generally used to get your way and give your company an easier time getting the rights and developing the different markets in a way where you can profit.
This is how things work in the real world.
So, when you are in a country in Africa.
They want to develop their mineral deposits, so they open them up for bidding.
American, European, and Chinese companies all bid on the right to develop it to make more money and supply their industries.
AID from a country is generally used to get your way and give your company an easier time getting the rights and developing the different markets in a way where you can profit.
Dustborn was a terrible Woke game that only got played by Null so people could throw popcorn at it. USAID wasn't spending money on development rights in Africa. It was spending money on distributing and supporting Woke propaganda you retard.
There's so much waste in government spending so DOGE (in theory at least) is necessary. Elon being Elon will likely fuck shit up, but when hasn't he done that. It does kinda make me laugh that the only people he could convince to work with him are tween edgelords. He couldn't find 10 dudes in their 20s/30s with no online footprint? Did he need 10 more autistic tards like himself?
Until he touches DoD, yawn. USAID has no defense contractors with billions tied up in all sorts of shit like defense does. DoD is where you get to see who is really in charge.
BFS identified the DOGE Boys as "the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced." Several Senate committees have asked for Treasury to tell them what's going on, and Treasury is refusing. Wyden is now demanding they hand over logs.
I just finished my Coristine post, and this comes out:
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.
“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” said a June 2022 message from an executive of the firm, Path Network, which was seen by Bloomberg News. “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.”
A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine's brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”
Afterward, Coristine wrote that he’d retained access to the cybersecurity company’s computers, though he said he hadn’t taken advantage of it.
“I had access to every single machine,” he wrote on Discord in late 2022, weeks after he was dismissed from Path Network, according to messages seen by Bloomberg. Posting under the name “Rivage,” which six people who know him said was his alias, Coristine said he could have wiped Path’s customer-supporting servers if he’d wished. He added, "I never exploited it because it's just not me."
His comments, made in a Discord server focused on another competitor company, worried executives at Path Network, who believed there was no legitimate reason for a former employee to access their machines, according to a person familiar with the incident. The person asked not to be named, citing the sensitivity of the matter.
But what even is the theory of DOGE? How are they defining waste? Is that even what they're going after? (Spoiler for my next big post: Probably not.)
One last tidbit from Bloomberg:
JoeyCrafter was a member of Telegram groups called “Kiwi Farms Christmas Chat” and “Kiwi Farms 100% Real No Fake No Virus,” both referencing an online forum known for harassment campaigns. Typically, the site has been used to share the personal information of a target, encouraging others to harass them online, in-person, over the phone or by falsely alerting police to a violent crime or active shooter incident at their home.
“I had access to every single machine,” he wrote on Discord in late 2022, weeks after he was dismissed from Path Network, according to messages seen by Bloomberg. Posting under the name “Rivage,” which six people who know him said was his alias, Coristine said he could have wiped Path’s customer-supporting servers if he’d wished. He added, "I never exploited it because it's just not me."
All the pomposity of a teen skiddie. I wonder if that's what Elol saw in him.
So far we've got one DOGEr who fired themselves by having tweeted about Elon's favoured race and another who's previously been fired for not being as smart as he thinks he is. Which one is next?
