Summary
Despite Elon Musk’s claims of “maximal transparency,” the Trump administration now argues that records from DOGE are exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
A court filing states DOGE, rebranded from the U.S. Digital Service, is a “free-standing component” of the Executive Office of the President and falls under the Presidential Records Act.
Watchdog groups have sued, arguing that DOGE’s activities, which involve sweeping access to federal agencies, must be publicly accessible.
That photo is perfect, they both look completely ridiculous (well, more so than usual).
“Your honor I’m not subject to that law under the clause I said so.” Judges love hearing that.
Judges also love not flying out of windows.
Name one judge that has flown out of a window
He’s afraid we will kill him but he keeps doing that kind of shit
What gives you the impression that he’s afraid of that? Pretty sure he thinks he’s a god or something.
His
human meat shieldchildGods can bleed.
It’s easy to claim transparency when you lie about everything
Every right leaning person I’ve talked with about this claims “unparalleled transparency” with these guys. What, a bunch of self written social media posts? Full transparency would be detailed reporting that would also we’d have the ability to verify via a third party. What these guys are doing is the equivalent of, “trust me, bro.”
For some reason the “do you own research” crowd seems to not be doing that.
Of course not, the bias is strong.
He claims transparency, but we see right through him.
Poop, sex, squish, uh oh, sister-o, pants shits
I’ll never get over the pretentious way the Orange Menace poses for the camera. And it makes me want to punch him every time.
He looks like a corpse with poorly done casket makeup
Are we certain this isn’t a Weekend at Bernie’s situation?
Every picture looks like he’s focusing not shitting himself
He looks to me like Biff Tannen just got another face-full of manure.
Prolly can’t figure out where and how the shit is stored.
I’ve seen a setup once, involving airflow, pgsql with a few different databases for different systems, a few CSV and Excel files stored on webdav shares, a few ETL scripts, some not working, in a weird graph, and a Microstrategy instance used to view a report or two resulting from that.
That was probably a job safety mechanism of the leaving data analyst, though. I’m not sure how such chaos could have been created on purpose and other things he did seemed very clean.
Or they just don’t want to and are arguing the definition of “agency”
DOGE’s FOIA exemption is a direct assault on accountability and public trust.
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/sI sometimes think of those redcaps as something out of a sci-fi movie where they take over any normal brain function.
You’re just being paranoid. You know what would help? A nice relaxing trip to the brain slug planet where you can lay in the sun with no helmet on.
I still wonder if BrainDead was cancelled not only because of low ratings…even if it was showing a bothsiderist lean at some point. It might have been a bit too much on the nose for the oligarchs’ tastes.
“Maximally transparent” in the same sense that Musk is a “free speech absolutist”.
His feelings about free speech are very absolute. Absolutely authoritarian. Get back in line and have you papers ready!!
In the same sense that “he’s not a nazi”… because he’s a fucking nazi!
It’s so transparent that you can’t even see it.
The corruption is just in your face. I bet “maga” is eating it right the fuck up, too, the idiots, because…libs:owned. Or something.
Some perhaps, but if you look at the videos from recent repug town halls, even maga is pissed. I’m talking reps can’t complete statements due to being drowned out by boos in +30 red districts. There are opportunities here for a real populist party to form if people are able to seize it.
Yeah, maybe. The oligarchs have proven themselves quite capable (in the past, anyway) of directing that anger anywhere else but where it should be directed, so I guess we will see.
reps can’t complete statements due to being drowned out by boos in +30 red districts
They’re still trying to blame it on “bussed in Democrat paid agitators”.
Isn’t that for the courts to decide?
The ones he ignores and the ones overriden by a higher court with the reasoning “we’ll get around to looking at what the courts already said was illegal.”. The Supreme Court basically just kneecapped the entire Judicial branch by implying the courts rulings don’t matter unless they come from the SC.
Well, yes, this was a court filling. DOGE attorneys make their case, opposing council makes their case, and the judge/jury decides. It’s just that DOGE attorneys filed a statement that directly contradicts public statements (to the surprise of no one).
Kafka couldn’t even think something like this up.
Words and law don’t work with them.
DOGE isn’t breaking the law here, they’re abusing loopholes. We have to acknowledge the law isn’t working for us and shut the loopholes.
Loopholes
It’s not even loopholes, it’s just farce. Substitute in fascist for anti-Semite. The only difference here is that the judges that matter are going to play along with the wordplay.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean Paul Sartre
You can dislike what they’re saying, that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
