The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Mail and all the rest of the legacy media are reaching for their smelling salts and taking to their fainting couches because Donald Trump’s destructive minion has continued his carnage apace. What’s to become of our bureaucracy with villain Elon Musk and his Merry Band of Doges running rampant through the insane construct? The latest is that the acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration has resigned her position because of the imposition imposed on her by Doge. Whatever will become of the bureaucracy?

‘Tis true.

Head of Social Security abruptly resigns after clash with Elon Musk over DOGE's access to sensitive data https://t.co/c5njFGxfJz

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) February 18, 2025

Because of “President Musk’s” threat to defund National Public Radio, alleged singer Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla and now this. The Washington Post had this headline: “Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data”. With this subhead: “Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.” From the article:

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.

Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, left her position Sunday after the disagreement, the people said.

I know this sounds mean, but Michelle was only there until Trump’s nominee comes on board and she sounds a little like dead wood to me.

President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.

Um, so Dudek is a team player and not part of the bureaucratic resistance like Michelle King was? Sounds like a good move. Plus, it sounds like it routed out more dead wood.

In selecting Dudek, Trump bypassed dozens of other senior executives who sat higher on the agency’s leadership hierarchy, touching off alarm in and around the agency, which has already faced years of budget and staffing difficulties.

“At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits,” said Martin O’Malley, the Social Security commissioner under the Biden administration and former Maryland governor.

“It’s a shame the chilling effect it has to disregard 120 senior executive service people,” O’Malley said. “To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency.”

For those unfamiliar with the Senior Executive Service, they are the Federal employee version of the Generals who are the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon:

The Senior Executive Service (SES)[1] is a position classification in the United States federal civil service equivalent to general officer or flag officer rank in the U.S. Armed Forces. It was created in 1979 when the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 went into effect under President Jimmy Carter.

That dim Jimmy Carter, again! The New York Times had beef with the villain Musk too:

Speaking at the White House last week, Mr. Musk asserted without providing evidence that a cursory examination of the Social Security Administration found that people listed in its systems as being 150 years old were receiving benefits. And in a post on X on Saturday evening, Mr. Musk posted an image that he said was from a Social Security database that he suggested indicated dead people were collecting payments.

I am sure there is a paper trail or digital trail, but would anything other than Musk dragging in a corpse holding a direct deposit notification satisfy the Gremlins at the New York Times?

Bruh, if I wanted to rummage through random personal shit, I could have done that at PAYPAL. Hello???

Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as “ALIVE” when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem.

Obviously.

Some of these people would have been alive… https://t.co/L17rSBR1Tb pic.twitter.com/6hBqAJ5TbF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025

That’s a reminder that Senator John Fetterman is NOT on the side of Good Governance, Bruh.

In this short clip, the Washington Examiner reporter is worried that Donald Trump promised to “fight for and strengthen” Social Security and yet he is letting the villain Elon Musk and his Merry Band of Doges rampage through offices:

Listen Boo, the best way to begin to fight for and strengthen Social Security is to find and eliminate the fraud, waste and abuse.

Go Doge, Go!

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