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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Haven’t seen any talk about the DOGE website launching w/o proper security policies here It’s easy to dunk on, but the reality is they’re clearly going to learn everything the hard way Something sensitive will get turned off or be exposed and all I hope is that it doesn’t kill someone in service to our nation
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
It’s funny how people ignore the huge number at the top of the website and then find something small to critique instead of the fact BILLIONS of tax dollars were being stolen and he is the only person to ever stop that.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
“Only person to ever stop that” is an insane thing to say man. The number on top of the website is a big “trust me bro” from a group of people with zero context about how government systems work who have already walked back some of the wilder headline claims (after they had their intended destabilizing effect) Do I think tax dollars get misused? For sure, same as it ever was. Do I think Elon is personally defending me, my values, and my country? No way. After a certain point, a billionaire fundamentally cannot empathize with somebody outside their tax bracket because their experience of reality is so aggressively different than a normal persons. He hasn’t had an existential concern in decades.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
You would choose to spend your tax dollars on this? $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa” $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia” $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt” That’s a legit question you should be able to answer because it’s black or white yes or no.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Broadly yes. I’m legitimately unconcerned because we both know one sentence doesn’t describe what’s actually happening and if I’m being super real I generally assume that a 3 letter agency is using these programs as cover to do something useful for us. If the solution is just “cutting the spending” for its own sake, it’s not compelling to me because I’m under no delusion I’ll get back anything meaningful on my taxes. If there is a tangible thing that the money is guaranteed to go towards instead (which we generally know can’t happen bc that’s not how appropriations work) I’d be happy to compare programs on those merits But I’m not in a slash for slashings sake camp because I think that’s effectively bread and games for people that LARP as small government diehards Again, I think reasonable people can disagree about that. https://warpcast.com/cameron/0x6c91b96f
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
Appreciate the thoughtful replies even if we disagree <3 This is our big disconnect: "I generally assume that a 3 letter agency is using these programs as cover to do something useful for us. " USAID is actually a slush fund for the CIA (outside the oversight of Congress) and that every single one of these payments is actually a defacto intelligence operation, which has nothing to do with serving Americans and in fact its being used to destablize the world, this is what the CIA does. The other half of the funds are being routed to NGOs which funneled into PACS which then go straight to DC politicians pockets. Elon is not just randomly cutting spending, they rooted these systems and they see the real entire picture and they know what USAID actually is. The good thing is -- this will all come to light or be proven false in the next 6 months. They have receipts for everything. https://x.com/ashleyrindsberg/status/1886446854621045166?s=46
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Where do you draw the line for congressional oversight being good or bad for spending? If we extend the logic a little bit, the EO wave, most of the Trump admin actions, and Elon himself all fall under that bucket of problematic. If it’s just bc he’s on your team, it doesn’t hold much water to me yknow?
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
I was a lifelong Democrat and then quit voting. I don’t support Trump. We could have this convo and remove the names Trump and Elon and any party and just talk about numbers and my argument wouldn’t change. USAID was genuinely a CIA slush fund and every single one of those payments were funding intelligence operations abroad. This is an open secret in DC. The other half were given to DC politicians thru NGOs to buy houses and go on ski trips, we are talking billions to dollars. The average taxpayer pays $20k a year. How many peoples tax payments did it take to fund these payments? If this was a Democrat doing this (which they created it literally so it would never be) then everyone would be cheering. But it’s not because that side of the broken 2 party system is the one that the intelligence agencies have control of. They are pedophiles and 50% of them are going to be on the Epstein list. This is how they control them and this is how USAID existed.
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