on a secret island?

Maybe Elon can set up shop there and get a furry cat and an eye patch. He'd be a real life Blofeld.

…from the likes of us.

Best book I ever read on the subject was Douglas Rushkoff
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

The blurb from Amazon is below — and it’s all true. Rushkoff was invited to speak to a select group of businessmen, but they misunderstood his worldview and he, well—

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event": the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can escape a disaster of their own making―as long as they have enough money and the right technology.

Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. Through fascinating characters―master programmers who want to remake the world as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced incentivized capitalism will prevent environmental disasters―Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change the world have no interest in doing so. He argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn’t happen by rediscovering community, mutual aid, and human interdependency.

Anticipating the mass layoffs and institutional collapse that have recently rocked Silicon Valley, Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest is "a necessary and timely read" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with a prophetic message about the future of tech and our human community.

'If he had tried to pull this stunt at DoD or Langley, someone in that building would have put a bullet in his head...and had the full legal authority to do so under color of National Security.?

If the treasury sec. himself gave the bambino the password, where did the Treasury Secretary get it? Does the secretary's 2nd in command give out the password?

What is the protocol for providing the password? Is the provider required to first check for security clearance? What level of clearance must one have to access the payment system?

Does it take a security clearance to swipe into the room where the mainframe is? Is it virtual access?

It was easy to predict all of this.

To be negotiated later.

Weird.

Duct tape and paracord. Lock him on a toilet in the can.

TAKE HIM THE PHUCK OUT!

A lifetime of earnings, for many of us. Little fucking douchebag.

we'll know we've lost our country.

This way Musk and Trump can switch payments on and off remotely.

Bank on it

to selectively determine who will or will not get paid.

Blue states refuse to cooperate with ICE? Cut off social security payments to that state’s citizens until the governor capitulates.

School district persists in teaching equality? Cut off their federal funds.

And yes, match voter rolls with federal payouts and extort compliance from Dems.

It’s definitely why Musk went straight to the heart of our govt with his evil little shitbros getting into all the code last weekend

won't get future funds, until spending previously authorized by Congress via their normal processes are restored, and unauthorized entities are disallowed from these payment systems, w/o monitoring. Such a single person in such a sensitive system as payment systems should never had unfettered access, and any person w/ an auditing background will tell you this.

As a matter of fact, I suspect that such access would be illegal.

And I fear that if we the people refuse to pay taxes, our wages will be garnished and heavy fines imposed.

And what the ironic thing is? We all know that we do have legitimate expenses that the Fed. govt needs to pay, and muskrat is doing willy nilly on the whole process. Before long, w/ the millions of bills that the govt receives, for rents it owns, beneficiaries that it owes money to, the whole shooting match, is going to be screwed up, the system of checks and balances are going to be messed up by these 'cowboys' who are getting into these systems, w/ literally no checks and balances.

Just wait, something critical is going to happen and it is all going to be on tRUMP for f**king things up. His name is going to be sprinkled all over the mess and he can't run anywhere to hide.

They put some kind of doomsday into it. "If I'm killed the Treasury gets turned into ashes" or something like that.

and megalomaniacs.

live to a ripe old age.

That's what I've heard

Blame you. Beast keep. The secret Service at Bay..

... that even the vilest Republican would draw a line at this point, and join with America's defenders, rather than to just stand by and let this evil fuck and his witless minions destroy this country for Putin.

He lost my tax records. The IRS had no record of me after the short COVID shut down. I have been paying taxes for 50 years. So save all your paperwork. I ended up having to send the IRS a paper copy by snail mail along with a paper check.

Keep copies of all your Social Security documents and Tax forms. Watch your bank accounts carefully. Don't trust the government to do anything correctly with their computer systems.

I just ordered a new Social Security card. Maybe you should do too, in case they lose you in the system. Then you can prove you are in the system. Confusion and dysfunction are symptoms of a failing empire. And Putin and pedo pal Trump love the destruction and suffering.

resubmit the stuff. An IRS person who worked for the IRS told us (a friend of ours) to resubmit. I'm still nervous about doing so.

asking for a friend

No one?

I swear to the Lord who made me. Couldn't happen in a nation with bigger collective balls.

It's really not hard to fix. Idiot Republicans could stop this.

Also, I believe as Joe Biden does: that the nation itself has a soul.

In this moment, I leave the implications to you.

Link to tweet

and my bank account information, (because I use direct deposit for my SS check). Who would have figured I can't trust the exalted federal Treasury any more than I can trust a robber.

Scott Bessent gave these people the keys to the vault, in order to commit this attack.

The Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent. Some advice and consent?

I am only one of tens of millions in the same situation. Who will be held to account?

I took actions to secure my bank accounts and my credit.

When you went into that voting booth, did you know you were voting for this? Or did you think it was all about the price of eggs and gas? Or DEI? Or CRT…?

As someone once said, “Elections have consequences.” (Remember him?)

And those people include psychopaths, narcissists, and machiavellians.