Sounds like a great lawsuit.
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I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.
Can't pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.
Doesn't mean people shouldn't still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he's bleeding everyone else.
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We just pardoned a corporation.
Correct. For criminal acts. As Mitt Romney said, "Corporations are people, my friend." (Yes, I know corporate personhood makes no sense, but this is the messed up world we live in.)
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Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it's a fucking lawsuit
We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.
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This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
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
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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
Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law
Not guilty
It should have happened at the beginning, when they first showed up, and started making demands in the lobby. They were an unauthorized force of illegal pirates, trying to access classified systems. They should have been gunned down the moment they tried to force their way past the front desk.
Then they "authorized" their existence, and now they have authority to go anywhere they want.
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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.
It might be because people don't do well in a crisis and tend to seek out the normal. Like grabbing your luggage in a burning plane, or standing around in a medical situation. How to fix this? The immediate one is to have someone take charge and give instruction to others. For example in the medical example, you don't ask for help, you point at people and give them a duty, like calling 9-1-1 or getting something to help the victim. They'll do it, they just needed direction because their brain is stuck.
More importantly in this case, we need resistance and protesting to become a normal thing that people see and are exposed to. Then when they get into a situation where a reaction is needed, they'll have something to fall back on what to do and how to act. For most people they're still stuck in the "get back to normal" mode and hoping that things will get better if they just wait it out.
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Self defense is legal, these aren’t cops, and that is assault.
lol
These are the fucking brownshirts, good luck with that.
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Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.
We're only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire...they all need to be on death row.
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
Because it's sensationalised and he didn't physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.
But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy
The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.
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So we've officially got a Gestapo in the country now?
C'mon guys.... let's wake the fuck up here.
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?
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DOGE == WW2 SS
They are trying to take over Social Security, so they can have the acronym.
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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.
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Sounds like assault and maybe other legal issues. They aren’t LEOs.
Tell me more about how DOGE isn't actually making the decisions in any department
If we totally have a problem with dead people wrongly receiving benefits, then Musk's logic is we should intentionally categorize people incorrectly as dead to counteract that? Rather than ensuring the database is accurate?
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once these demons get their Nuremberg trials, we should bring back getting hanged, drawn and quartered. maybe add something else too. nazis deserve nothing less.
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How much of a POS do you have to be to work for them or fElon?
Every one of those goons has names, and individually decided to go along with what they knew was wrong.
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Greg Pearre is the only US federal worker with a spine, sounds like.
Absolute fucking hero. If my time ever comes I hope I have the same moral fortitude.
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