The Machine Fights Back

A scary but revealing DOGE story

More frequently now than just ”occasionally”, articles are appearing that provide “the news that didn’t make the news”; what Paul Harvey would call “the rest of the story”. Harvey’s feature would always be cute and interesting, a nice ending to his daily radio commentary.

Today, the raw meat of current events leaves little room for cuteness; the stakes are too high for pleasantries. “The nation’s future is hanging in the balance” isn’t hyperbole. The people in control are playing for keeps.

Balancing my previous “Happily Ever After” is this foreboding piece, “The Machine Fights Back” by Joe Hoft, author of “The Steal”, Vol. 1-3.

Beyond informing, it should make you quite angry. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Here’s the opening paragraph:

When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury’s payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism.

Simple things were left blank:

Payment categories

Payment rationales

Basic audit controls

The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.

Here’s what Treasury didn’t want exposed:

Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing. When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was “unequivocal and obvious fraud,” the answer revealed decades of corruption: Half.

The rest of The Machine Fights Back here.

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