Elon Musk's Doge Wants to Be Notified About Any Requests for Oversight

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-14/elon-musk-s-doge-wants-to-be-notified-about-foias

by TheAlchemist • 1 year ago

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drawkward• 1 year ago

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

zfg• 1 year ago

Transparency? Accountability? Why would anyone want any of that.

Let's just keep things informal.

brokenmachine• 1 year ago

Hopefully informality can go both ways...

Will no one rid us of these turbulent priests??

Terr_• 1 year ago

"We need enough warning before auditors arrive that we can hide the incriminating evidence."

It specifically mentioned FOIA and was the first time I noticed this administration cite the public records law in any document.

So they do know laws exist, they just pretend not to know about them.

yodsanklai• 1 year ago

Genuine question, is separation of powers a thing in the US? Either it's not, or Trump/Musk will be stopped and possibly punished, or these articles are exaggerations and don't reflect the truth.

Spivak• 1 year ago

We do and it does work, but we're talking about a plan some 17ish years in the making to collect all the pieces of Exodia. It really is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't around just how much they hated Obama— the most powerful man in the world, a black man?! The Barack HUSSEIN Obama era and how the party changed their mission to one of burn it all down at all costs. The Tea Party which started this mess was a direct response to Obama. The GOP got two once in a lifetime draws with Trump to finish the set and now all three branches are all aligned.

inverted_flag• 1 year ago

It really is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't around just how much they hated Obama— the most powerful man in the world, a black man?! The Barack HUSSEIN Obama era and how the party changed their mission to one of burn it all down at all costs.

This can’t be overstated. Trump rose to prominence because he was one of the loudest voices among the birther crowd.

smgit• 1 year ago

You can also thank the arrival of social media for amplifying delusions - "You think I am wrong or stupid?? Then how did I get so many Likes/Views/Followers"

With that population scale delusion amp working 24x7, we get the most over ambitious attention craving people rising up the food chain faster than they usually could. But speed is useless in ecosystem evolution. Anything moving faster than the rest of the system will run into issues faster too.

m463• 1 year ago

Isn't this taking a page out of uber's book of techniques?

(they would know when a regulator asked for a ride and somehow an uber wouldn't be available)

Elon Musk's Doge Wants to Be Notified About Any Requests for Oversight

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