DOGE Needs Bigger AI to Protect & Enrich TechGods

The Department of Greedy Executives (DOGE) disrupted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after a number of "Senior Advisors" visited their offices.  DOGE has been using the "greed and leverage boys' take-over playbook, even stealing the Senior Advisor label from private equity underwriters (PEU).

The public is generally in favor of Trump II, the digital Caligula.  Maybe it's been a long time since their last PEU workplace takeover.  For many, Musk's outfit brings back bad memories.

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway took up Trump/Musk's government evisceration.  The discussion begins around the 5:00 mark.  The pair speak strongly about DOGE being a coup and not legal.  They mostly talked about Trump and Musk but spent a few minutes on Elon's henchmen.

"These idiots, these children, these arrogant little pr---s - come in and say, 'We're going to call the federal marshals, or the President has ordered you to step aside"

Elon, the free speech absolutist called out Swisher and Galloway, characterizing them as:

"cruel, mean and deceitful human beings" who are "threatening" young DOGE professionals

Meanwhile, Elon is leading a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI.  The Guardian reported:

The bid is backed by xAI and several investment firms, including one run by Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded the stealth government contractor Palantir. Ari Emanuel, who’s the CEO of the entertainment company Endeavor, has also joined the group through his investment fund.

Apparently DOGE learned in its first two weeks that it's "going to need a bigger AI" to junk all those federal workers.  

I offer a new motto for the Red Team's consideration:

DOGE Motto:  To protect & enrich our TechGods.  

Update:  WSJ identified investors backing Musk's xAI bid for OpenAI include Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital, Jon Lonsdale's 8VC and Ari Emanuel's Endeavor.   It's a bipartisan greed team!

Update 2-11-25:  WaPo reported DOGE's 19 year old Edward Coristine holds Senior Advisor positions with Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, and the State Department.  He also holds positions at DOGE, USAID and the Office of Personnel Management.

Update 2-16-25:  Databricks billionaire CEO said this:

"Kliger’s leave of absence must have been approved by his manager, and that this approval would only be given to high-performers."

Which calls into question Kliger's assertions of all he sacrificed to join the Department of Greedy Executives (DOGE).  That information was available to all who subscribed to his Substack for $1,000 a month.  He has since dropped the monthly rate to $8.

Kliger's Databricks "staggering stock grants" are likely waiting for him as long as he complies with the leave of absence rules.

Update 3-2-25:  Naked Capitalism has a great piece on the "tech rebrand" of democracy.

So we’re moving towards the automation of government on crappy hallucinatory AI, “AI coding agents” writing government software for different agencies and being trained in part on existing government contracts. AI huckster termites are eating away at everything like the DOGE staffers at HUD who are from an AI real estate firm. 

The goal appears to be a US version of the neoliberal shock the US directed at Russia in the 1990s, which led to a collapse of real wages and life expectancy worse than the US Great Depression.

Update 3-5-25:  TechGod of Spying Palantir stands to grow its AI business with Uncle Sam.  Palantir cut its teeth protecting Bilderbergers.