DOGE had one purpose: Building Trump’s technocratic dictatorship
Have you noticed lately the enormous outpouring of praise and adoration from “conservative” Republicans and their media buddies for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for doing such an amazing job at cutting costs? Such praise is unwarranted because DOGE cut very little and was merely being used as cover for Donald Trump’s true objective: building a technocratic dictatorship capable of completely destroying what little remains of liberty in America.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out (via Technocracy News and Trends):
The first thing Musk did on January 24, 2025, was to fire 17 Inspector Generals (IGs), the watchdogs overseeing federal agencies, including those who were investigating Musk’s companies. Since then, Musk has raided 15 agencies, including HHS, SSA, Treasury, General Services Administration (GSA), the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Labor, and Transportation. None of the promised $2 trillion of savings has materialized.
Essentially, every government leader who has resisted DOGE has been either fired, resigned, or otherwise shoved out.
In the wake of hubris caused by Musk/DOGE, AI has seized control of all our data and given it to companies like Palantir, GROK (Musk’s X.AI), and OpenAI. (Emphasis mine)
DOGE promised to produce $2 trillion in budget cuts, but after 110 days, Musk has only managed to shave a few billion dollars from annual federal spending. What DOGE was very successful at, however, was expanding Donald Trump’s technocratic dictatorship and vastly expanding his domestic surveillance capabilities by building a “master database” containing the personal data of held by numerous federal agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Citing whistleblower complaints, Rep. Gerald Connolly divulged last month that DOGE is building a “master database,” a single exhaustive repository containing personal data held by numerous federal agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
“The DOGE team is reportedly engaged in an unprecedented effort to build a massive database using data from SSA and across the federal government,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote in a letter to the SSA Office of the Inspector General. (Emphasis mine)
As I mentioned above, one of the first things Musk did was fire 17 Inspector Generals. This means the Connelly’s letter was received by Donald Trump’s Acting Inspector General of Social Security, Michelle Anderson who . . . wait for it . . . denied Connely’s accusations.
In an article I wrote a few weeks ago, I documented how Trump was setting things up to use the IRS to go after his political enemies using information obtained via DOGE. Included in that article was evidence that the taxpayer information harvested for this purpose could later be used to make it possible for government to expand its capacity to spy on EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN.
Elon Musk used DOGE to stage a “hackathon” at the IRS with the goal of creating a single “mega API” — a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another — for accessing IRS data and then partnering with Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, to handle the data obtained.
Two top DOGE operatives at the IRS, Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, helped orchestrate the hackathon. Corcos is a health-tech CEO with ties to Musk’s SpaceX. Kliger attended UC Berkeley until 2020 and worked at the AI company Databricks before joining DOGE as a special adviser to the director at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Corcos, who is also a special advisor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, planned to use DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS and other data more easily accessible for cloud platforms. Once completed, anyone with access will be able to view and manipulate that data.
Recently, it was revealed that data collected by DOGE is being used by Musk and Trump to root out those deemed to be “disloyal” to the mango messiah. And get this, they’re using Musk’s AI technology to do the job (via Rawstory.com):
Elon Musk’s team is using a custom version of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to scour the sensitive government data scooped up by the Department of Government Efficiency, raising serious concerns about privacy, conflicts of interest and national security.
The DOGE team is expanding use of the AI chatbot, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, but it’s not clear which specific data had been fed into the generative tool or how the custom system was set up, and five experts told the news organization that the arrangement may violate security and privacy laws.
“Given the scale of data that DOGE has amassed and given the numerous concerns of porting that data into software like Grok, this to me is about as serious a privacy threat as you get,” said Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the nonprofit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. (Emphasis mine)
One of the recipients of this massive collection of personal data is Palantir, a company owned by technocrat Peter Thiel that was specifically chosen by Trump to surveil Americans (via NewsMax.com):
The New York Times reported that Palantir, the AI-focused software and military contractor, has expanded its “work across the federal government in recent months” after it had been tapped by President Donald Trump to create “detailed portraits” or a digital ID on Americans “which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies,” such as from the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Health and Human Services Department, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education.
Palantir employees told The Times that the company’s engineers had been “quietly” discussing creating a digital ID for Americans and that they had grown worried about placing such sensitive data in one place. Anonymous government officials also told The Times that Palantir’s pick to create a program compiling data on Americans “was driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.”(Emphasis mine)
Creating a digital ID? Donald Trump’s AI “Stargate Project has been hailed as the cornerstone of his “Golden Age of America” and the answer to the so-called crisis at the border, but the reality is that it will be the “holy grail” of government control and the eventual mandating of digital IDs.
Peter Thiel has been involved with the Donald Trump presidency, going back to 2016. However, from presidential appointments to Trump’s pick of JD Vance as the VP, Thiel’s fingerprints are all over the place, particularly when it comes to building Trump’s technocratic dictatorship (via Fortune.com):
Networks are powerful. And Thiel has long been at the center of some of the tech industry’s most influential ones.
There’s the crew that got its start at PayPal; the seminal internet payments company Thiel cofounded and ran as CEO for several years before it was sold to eBay. The company’s cofounders and early executives, dubbed the “PayPal mafia” by Fortune in 2007, include Roelof Botha, who went on to run venture capital firm Sequoia Capital; Max Levchin, who founded the $18 billion buy-now, pay-later company Affirm; and Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind space exploration company SpaceX and long-standing chief executive of Tesla.
But that’s just one of Thiel’s networks. There is also the alumni network of the Stanford Review, a student newspaper Thiel started with a colleague while he was an undergraduate at Stanford University, where venture capitalists David Sacks and Joe Lonsdale wrote before going on to work in tech. Thiel’s fellowship program, which incentivizes promising candidates to drop out of universities to pursue bold tech ideas, has spawned Vitalik Buterin, cofounder of the Ethereum blockchain network; Dylan Field, the cofounder and CEO of design software company Figma; and Lucy Guo, who cofounded Scale AI.
These networks have wielded tremendous influence across Silicon Valley for two decades, shaping the ideas, funding, and strategies that underpin some of the most successful companies and innovations. With the Trump–Silicon Valley alliance now a defining aspect of the administration, Thiel’s circle is poised to take its clout to the next level and play an ever-bigger role on the world stage. (Emphasis mine)
It should also be noted that several DOGE employees have previously worked for Palantir.
Steve Davis, a Musk deputy in charge of DOGE’s operations at the Social Security Administration, intends to interweave the agency’s records with “all data across government,” according to the Washington Post. And in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration, it has been revealed that a number of DOGE employees already have access to the Social Security numbers, contact information, and medical histories of Medicaid and Medicare recipients.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and an army of “conservative” Republicans in Congress want you and me to believe that DOGE was some noble cause tasked with finding ways to reduce government spending and expose fraud. The reality, however, is that it was designed for one primary purpose: building Trump’s technocratic dictatorship.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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