A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.
Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.
The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”
Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.
Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.
This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Fun fact, this is “assault” and the guy has a wonderful civil case.
Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.
Civil cases against government officers are however subject to qualified immunity while ones against the government are subject to sovereign immunity.
DOGE isn’t a real government entity, Big Balls isn’t on the US payroll and neither is the founder of Airbnb.
Believe it or not, the nebulous nature of the department actually is what makes them more likely to have qualified immunity because their role hasn’t been “clearly established” by case law. You couldn’t even talk say what “actions as a part of their duties” are. I’m not a fan of qualified immunity.
As far as suing the government over what DOGE does, good luck figuring out where an agency deputized by executive order fits in here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
Sounds like a great lawsuit.
Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it’s a fucking lawsuit
We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.
No no, not instead of - it’s in addition to.
The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.
Possibly because that story’s already been out for a few days
Not for long if you can’t trust the data.
Ya know, dead people have some crazy perks.
They don’t owe anything on their debts, for one.
Time to max out those credit cards!
Being “dead” isn’t ideal if you have a mortgage that the bank can foreclose on.
Nazis. These are Nazis.
Indeed…
I’m honestly not a fan of calling these people nazis, as there is a very clear definition of what a national socialist is, and throwing any far right authoritarians in with them diminishes that definition.
They’re MAGA, let’s tie that definition to their actions. This is MAGA behaviour, this is what MAGA does.
EDIT: Oh cool, so this is just an echo chamber then? We got people straight up calling me a nazi sympathizer for trying to make the point that maybe not every god damn authoritarian is a “nazi”.
You know, just call them whatever you fucking like. I’m done.
National socialist is just a spin to sound nice. Nazis were in no way socialists. It doesn’t make sense to me why you are trying to preserve this label, maybe you can explain and I just don’t get it.
They are Nazis and this guy is an idiot Nazi sympathizer.
Are you seriously calling me a nazi sympathizer? Fuck you.
If it quacks like a duck.
You’re technically correct. But nazi has become a shorthand for fascist over the years and they are definitely fascists.
No, by definition they’re not fascists either, but these words get thrown around so much that they’ve lost all meaning so sure. Call them whatever the fuck you like.
Would you like a long list of people who study fascism and absolutely disagree with your assessment?
This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.
To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg’s bravery to the early days of Social Security
I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding, don’t get hysterical. /s
Somebody call Seabass to kick this doge pricks ass.
If Harry and Lloyd were president and vice president, they would be smarter and more competent than who are currently in charge.
So we’ve officially got a Gestapo in the country now?
C’mon guys… let’s wake the fuck up here.
Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.
Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault?
Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there
They have been rolling with either DC police or the Marshalls. Can’t remember, but they are bringing guns and muscle.
Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it’s “illegals” now, the rest of us “parasites” next?
Yesss make them work for it
Isn’t that assault?
Sounds like assault and maybe other legal issues. They aren’t LEOs.
If anyone, especially someone for DOGE, makes physical contact with me in a threatening manner, I’m breaking faces. Self defense is legal, these aren’t cops, and that is assault. I’m also disgusted that coworkers didn’t help out. Restrain the attackers, have them arrested. The president can only pardon federal crimes but I’m sure some was some illegally at the local level.
That’s what is making me anxious is that people stood by and let this happen. Doesn’t give me hope for any sort of actual resistance when push comes to shove here.
Buy guns. Also, read manuals on improvised explosives and guerilla tactics. You can do this at your local library for free.
You can buy guns at the library?? Wow, libraries really are amazing places!
Buy guns.
New sentence.
Also arm yourself with knowledge.
New sentence.
The library is free for now.
End of comment.
Too late, already bought a gun at my library.
Well, it was from a sketchy looking dude behind the library but whatever
Hey - tell Dennis whasup
He said to tell you he didn’t know about that thing, it was like that when he found it
I mean. I know a librarian. I mean, “a guy”.
Have to do it soon. Libraries are under heavy attack right now federally, and if you live in a shit hole like Iowa, also from the state.
Keep weapons nearby.
Self defense is legal, these aren’t cops, and that is assault.
lol
These are the fucking brownshirts, good luck with that.
Then best make it hurt.
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