HOW DEMS BUILT THE WORLD'S BIGGEST RAKE, THEN STOMPED ON IT: THE DOGE ORIGIN STORY
1. Obama creates WH office to hire Silicon Valley types exempt from rules (USDS)
2. 2017-2020, staff use it to undermine Trump WH from within
3. Biden puts it under a political appointee
4. DOGE
Clare Bayley worked for MIT’s Women’s & Gender Studies Department, then for . She’d later work for Lesbians Who Tech. But the job she held in between was perhaps the oddest: Beginning in 2018, she worked for Donald Trump’s Executive Office of the President. Kink.com
That's because even though Obama set up USDS under a political appointee, Trump turned the other cheek and treated them as civil servants. They played his kindness for weakness, hiring a cavalcade of far-left activists. One employee moonlights as a "kink aware professional":
Operating from within Trump's Executive Office of the President, USDS conducted extreme DEI. At a conference for lesbians in 2018, an entire panel was nothing but USDS queers.
Amy Paris was hired by the Trump USDS in May 2020, making him one of the highest-ranking transgender-identifying people in government. He used his position to push for airport screenings geared towards transgenders, and non-gendered passports.
I'm not picking on them for being weirdos; there is a serious policy issue here. Here's an email Bayley sent to staff from her Trump EOP email address in September 2019, lecturing on "cis white males" with "toxic-masculinity":
DEI hiring doesn't so much filter for minorities as it does for activists. USDS employees “would not help any tech or program that had to do with Trump’s immigration policies. They would stall, say we don’t have the resources. They’re smart and savvy."
Some USDS staff have since embedded in permanent federal roles across the federal government. Others may have cashed in. USDS wrote a report saying an organ transplant database needed to be rebuilt. Then its staff quit, started a company, and got a $1.4M organ contract.
So: Did Trump and Elon politicize DOGE? No, it (that is, USDS) was politicized years ago. Openly Dem during D administrations & independent during R ones-where independent actually meant leftist. This betrayal, inside his own EOP, likely taught a lesson.
Dems and activist federal employees set the table with the White House entity known as USDS, and now @elonmusk is serving revenge that’s been chilling for four years.
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