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Ohh That's Rich- miller scheme thwarted by SSA employee refusing order (Original Post) Figarosmom Yesterday OP
Wish I could recommend this more than once MolecularDust Yesterday #1
I did it for you Lifeafter70 Yesterday #2
Me Three! The Roux Comes First Yesterday #3
This is why the Administration is destroying the federal work force. Midnight Writer Yesterday #4
Calling them sick KT2000 Yesterday #5
That's right! It's a criminal enterprise and they are psychopaths. littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #14
What a bunch of little nihilistic assholes those doge boys were. 1WorldHope Yesterday #6
Last night I watched Judgment at Nuremberg again wnylib Yesterday #7
We don't give out social security numbers to illegals. Puppyjive Yesterday #8
I'm betting there were others like you too. Figarosmom Yesterday #9
I assumed they were targeting asylees, refugees, TPS, deferred action, or others who had qualified for an... pat_k 23 hrs ago #16
wow -- that's fantastic what that employee did. k&r nt orleans Yesterday #10
The disgusting part of all this is that they didn't care what happened to the people they were planning to hurt. patphil Yesterday #11
What I find most crazy is how this shrinks the economy IbogaProject Yesterday #13
A desperate work force is their aim Figarosmom 23 hrs ago #17
It shows that the GOP knows they can gaslight the general public Stargazer99 4 hrs ago #28
Of course not. Poor people aren't really people. Iggo 18 hrs ago #20
ALL of the people on that list are both alive and either US CITIZENS or here legally? ShazzieB Yesterday #12
But they were probably all some variation of brown to tan. littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #15
Yeah, that makes sense. ShazzieB 23 hrs ago #18
When they are getting paid by the head, which they are, ... littlemissmartypants 21 hrs ago #19
Woah!!! oasis 16 hrs ago #21
It's still a sign of how broken we are that the guy who gave the order MadameButterfly 9 hrs ago #22
Needs way more coverage malaise 9 hrs ago #23
The incompetent.... MarcoZandrini 8 hrs ago #24
Transcript for readers. usonian 5 hrs ago #25
Ty, so one govt employee stood up and did the right thing questionseverything 4 hrs ago #26
I posted May 2025. Thank goodness for bravery when all others cave. usonian 4 hrs ago #27

Midnight Writer

(25,928 posts)
4. This is why the Administration is destroying the federal work force.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 03:20 PM
Yesterday

They want government thugs that will facilitate their rule, not civil servants who work for the people.

littlemissmartypants

(35,114 posts)
14. That's right! It's a criminal enterprise and they are psychopaths.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:37 PM
23 hrs ago

Characteristics of Psychopaths
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Completely void of conscience and empathy
3. Adept at manipulating others
4. Willing to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willing to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willing to use force, intimidation, and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willing to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Completely lacking any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions cause
11. Rationalize their own immoral behavior
12. Attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own bad conduct
13. Will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Display utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of others
15. Exhibit pathological lying, will compulsively say anything without any concern for the truth to advance their own agendas
16. Able to fake normal human emotions and empathy with the exception of joy, laughter
17. Have a distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Totally fail to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strongly believe that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
https://psychopathyis.org/stats/

1WorldHope

(2,200 posts)
6. What a bunch of little nihilistic assholes those doge boys were.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 04:07 PM
Yesterday

Steven Miller is below the dog poop I scoop up in my yard everyday.

wnylib

(26,703 posts)
7. Last night I watched Judgment at Nuremberg again
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 04:22 PM
Yesterday

and realized how important it is that many of our judges and federal employees are refusing to go along with inhumane and illegal orders.

For people not familiar with the movie, it takes place in occupied Germany in 1948. It is fiction based on fact about 4 judges on trial for crimes against humanity because during the Nazi regime they went along with orders to convict innocent people who were then executed or sent to concentration camps where they died. They were tried before a US tribunal in the same German courtroom where they had sentenced people to death.

One of the judges being tried told a tribunal judge that he never thought that his convictions of people in court would ever become the horrors that occurred under Nazis. The tribunal judge answered him, "It came to that the very first time that you sentenced someone to death that you knew was innocent."

In other words, you prevent atrocities from happening by refusing at the start to cooperate with inhumane and illegal practices.

Puppyjive

(1,015 posts)
8. We don't give out social security numbers to illegals.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 04:40 PM
Yesterday

Doge and Elon have about brought social security to it's knees. I left because I knew I could never comply with their shit.

Figarosmom

(14,303 posts)
9. I'm betting there were others like you too.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 04:44 PM
Yesterday

Good dedicated people who didn't want to aid in the destruction of the country. At least I hope so. Congrats on being on the good side.

pat_k

(14,309 posts)
16. I assumed they were targeting asylees, refugees, TPS, deferred action, or others who had qualified for an...
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:44 PM
23 hrs ago

... an Employment Authorization Document.

Under the felon's regime, they are even seeking to denaturalize people.

They NEVER intended to limit themselves to seeking to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed a crime (that is, a crime other than the misdemeanor of entering without inspection or the civil offense of unlawful presence).

They NEVER intended to limit themselves to seeking to deport undocumented immigrants for simply being undocumented.

They ALWAYS intended to revoke every legal status, cancel every visa (except for White people), revoke every work status (unless the H1B or whatever holder is white, or is non-white, but is needed by a loyal and wealthy ally's industry).

The ultimate goal is to PURGE non-white people from the U.S. by whatever means necessary to make their insane delusion that the U.S. is a White Homeland a reality.

I've been waiting for some insane shoe to drop on Native Americans and Black People. I think Ann Coulter gave a hint of their aspirations when she talked about only people who could prove they had four grandparents born here being allowed to vote. That is, their dream is that every person who is not visibly identifiable as White can only remain a citizen if they can prove all four grandparents were born here. Of course, because of Jim Crow and discrimination in hospital admissions, a whole heck of a lot of Black people have grandparents who were born at home with no official proof.

patphil

(9,278 posts)
11. The disgusting part of all this is that they didn't care what happened to the people they were planning to hurt.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 04:53 PM
Yesterday

Destroying the lives of all the people on that list would bring great suffering to them and their families.
And, I'm pretty sure nearly all of them were either US citizens, or legal immigrants.
Many of them were most likely poor people who don't have the resources to fix the damage being done to their financial well being. Being declared dead by the Social Security Administration could result in actual deaths of thousands, if not 10's of thousands of people.

And the evil people who were going to do this will never have to answer for what they've done to this country.

IbogaProject

(6,138 posts)
13. What I find most crazy is how this shrinks the economy
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:08 PM
Yesterday

Which I thought the GOP was focused on?

Figarosmom

(14,303 posts)
17. A desperate work force is their aim
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:56 PM
23 hrs ago

Think about what they can get away with if we are all desperate for any kind of payday.

And how grateful they believe we should be.

Iggo

(50,101 posts)
20. Of course not. Poor people aren't really people.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 11:11 PM
18 hrs ago

Hang around rich people for a little bit and that becomes crystal clear clear.

ShazzieB

(23,015 posts)
12. ALL of the people on that list are both alive and either US CITIZENS or here legally?
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:03 PM
Yesterday

Holy money, I have no (non profane) words for how slimy, sleazy, and underhanded this plan was! Considering what I know about der Mass Deportation Fuhrer Stephen Miller and all the other crap ICE has been pulling, I can't honestly say I'm surprised, but I am outraged beyond belief on behalf of all the perfectly LEGAL people Miller tried to do this to and deeply grateful to the SSA for not going along with it.

Miller must have had DOGE or someone else go through the SSA database and flag every Spanish sounding surname (maybe other non Anglo sounding names as well, but I'm only sure about the Spanish ones). All I have to say that monster is this:



littlemissmartypants

(35,114 posts)
15. But they were probably all some variation of brown to tan.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 05:40 PM
23 hrs ago

The racism (and their sexism) is infuriating.

ShazzieB

(23,015 posts)
18. Yeah, that makes sense.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 06:09 PM
23 hrs ago

They probably flagged all the names they thought might go with brown or tan skin.

It also just dawned on me that this PROVES something we all knew: that they absolutely don't care if the people they put in detention centers and/or deport are here illegally or not. I hope there's someone out there with standing to sue ICE for intentionally trying to deport legal residents and citizens!

littlemissmartypants

(35,114 posts)
19. When they are getting paid by the head, which they are, ...
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 07:31 PM
21 hrs ago

I doesn't matter as long as they make their quota. It's scary and SO Messed up!

MadameButterfly

(4,244 posts)
22. It's still a sign of how broken we are that the guy who gave the order
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 08:01 AM
9 hrs ago

isn't behind bars. I know there have been government officials committing crimes in secret, but in the past if they were found out they suffered the consequences. Now, it's all out in the open and the criminals don't face justice. So of course they just keep criming. This one didn't work, so what can we try next?

questionseverything

(12,179 posts)
26. Ty, so one govt employee stood up and did the right thing
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 12:27 PM
4 hrs ago

One right thing, one step at a time

Maybe there is a way back to sanity

usonian

(26,900 posts)
27. I posted May 2025. Thank goodness for bravery when all others cave.
Sat Jun 13, 2026, 12:42 PM
4 hrs ago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

Many more Joseph Welch moments.

https://historicipswich.net/2025/11/20/joseph-nye-welch/



If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.”

Snip

You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
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