Elon Musk's Doge boys think this is a video game as Trump plots his 2nd coup

Sabrina Haake
February 5, 2025 
ALTERNET

Trump has given Ketamine-addled Elon Musk and six boys, ages 19-24, control over the US Treasury Department’s data and financial transfers.

Musk’s kids at DOGE, still hooked on video games, have moved cots into federal offices for pizza-and-drunk-power-fueled sleepovers. They have already accessed Americans’ private data, worth billions to Musk and his friends controlling Russia and China. Equally dangerous, their trigger-happy fingers can stop all federal money going to any person, corporation, or organization Trump dislikes. Ditto, to any competitor they’d like to see hobbled, and there are hundreds. As Kara Swisher said on CNN, Musk is “very into videogames, and so (thinks) he’s sort of ‘Ready Player One.”

If DOGE can control the movement of treasury funds and tax refunds, it’s a logical inference that they can access tax returns that support them. They can open competitors’ schedules and study any corporate expenditures and strategies that interest Musk; they can open their neighbors,’ their in-laws,’ their professors’ and their x-girlfriend’s tax returns. They can open the return of anyone who insults them on the news or social media. They can also wreak havoc on tax refunds, deductions, social security payments or any other federally funded transaction, and with the press of a button, wipe out all funding for any organization that displeases them, like USAID.

American heroes are fighting back

Musk, emotionally stunted and apparently stuck on 16, bragged about his new “powers” on X like the X-box bully he wants to be. He is a younger and richer version of Trump; which man is crueler or more insane remains to be seen.

Last week when Musk and his testosterone-jacked youth posse tried to access Americans’ private personal data, Treasury Department officials pushed back. The Department’s longtime Fiscal Assistant, Secretary David Lebryk, rebuffed Musk’s and DOGE’s request for “source code information,” specifically relating to the technical ability to stop federal payments.

Lebryk and his colleagues stood up to protect Americans. They were placed on leave, then quit, but the drama is only beginning. Call it intuition shaped through too many years of litigation, but I predict that Trump and Musk will cause maximal damage, then implode in spectacular fashion. Respectable organizations and elected officials will sue, as will most of the 2.6 million federal workers locked out of their offices, blocked from their computers and forced off the job. Everyone who loses a family member because Trump has cut air traffic controllers, regulators and inspectors will sue, as will farmers in central California with no water for crops this year because the moron-in-chief released the reserve for a photo op to prove his idiotic rant about a “giant spigot the democrats refuse to turn.”

Have faith that the courts will hold

The firehose of absurdity has been so extreme it took a minute, but people are slapping back. Over a dozen major lawsuits have been filed to challenge Trump’s illegal power grabs, including a class action just filed by FBI agents facing Trump’s shakedown. Many cases are headed to the Supreme Court, where even conservative justices will preserve a balance of power, if reshuffled, if for no other reason than to keep their own.

Here are the groups suing Musk and his band of children who need to be in school, AFTER they get a spanking: American Public Health Association, American Federation of Teachers, Minority Veterans of America, Vote Vets Action Fund, the Center for Auto Safety, Inc., and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

They are suing DOGE for lack of public transparency, among other claims, including violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The claims will only grow. You can read the pleadings and DOGE case filings online, pending in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. It’s still public information because Musk hasn’t taken over the judiciary’s database. Yet.

Keep it in perspective, find peace, and laugh when you can


Have courage. Speak out. When it gets to be too much, read Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now. Slowly. Then go for a device-free walk in nature. When you’re ready to laugh, watch Colbert and Kimmel, they’re snot-worthy funny and deliver the response Trump hates most: laughter. Another fun thing to do is to go on TruthSocial, follow Trump’s account, and tell Trump every day, every minute if you want, what a narcissistic idiot he is. Try it- it’s cathartic. He goes under @realDonaldTrump. (“@lord and savior” wasn’t available.)

Remember, Trump is an imbecile surrounded by zealots, children and empty-heads from Fox News. Also remember that he was elected by a hair, not a mandate. I’m going to start posting these numbers all the time to remind everyone that when Trump, Johnson and Fox News keep calling the election a landslide, they are lying, just to demoralize the rest of us:

Trump won 49% of the vote compared to Harris’ 48%, a difference of 1%. More importantly, 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all, a number that exceeds the number of voters for either Trump or Harris. In short, out of 245 million eligible US voters, nearly 70% of Americans did not vote for Trump. (75m Harris voters + 90m non-voters= 165 million, or 67% of 245 million eligible voters.) Only a math moron would present this as a mandate.

Don’t be afraid, and don’t be silent. Trump/Musk can’t round up 165 million of us for criticizing them, so do your part in making sure all 165 million of us speak up. Do it on social media, in your meet up groups, at church. Call your elected officials. Your Senator’s phone number is listed here. The Clerk of the House maintains phone numbers of all House members, call (202) 224-3121. Resist also with your wallet. Google Open Secrets to see which companies and people support Trump, and refuse to spend a dime there. Money speaks louder than words.

Mostly, don’t cave to exhaustion, that’s what Trump wants. Hitler only happened because Germans were too tired to stop him in the beginning. They didn’t know how far he’d go until they did know, and then it was too late.

Sabrina Haake is a columnist and 25 year litigator specializing in 1st and 14th Amendment defense. Her Substack, the Haake Take, is free.