A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

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    Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.

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      Why isn’t this DOGE person arrested for assault?

      Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there

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      Because it’s sensationalised and he didn’t physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.

      But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.

      They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy

      The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.

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      They have been rolling with either DC police or the Marshalls. Can’t remember, but they are bringing guns and muscle.

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    So we’ve officially got a Gestapo in the country now?

    C’mon guys… let’s wake the fuck up here.

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    This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.

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      To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg’s bravery to the early days of Social Security

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    Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it’s “illegals” now, the rest of us “parasites” next?

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      That’s exactly it. Owners want people desperate, because desperate people work for less. As you point out, they start with “illegals”, but they will eventually come for the old and the disabled too, because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line? We need to be clear: this is not about government efficiency or even a crackdown on “illegals”, but a war — the owners’ war on us workers and our kin.

      They’ve been manufacturing consent in a similar way in Germany, agitating against immigrants and dubbing some or all people in your situation “Sozialschmarotzer” –“social parasites”–. Under the pretense of fighting those threats they conjure, they’ve been dismantling social security — without DOGE’s viciousness, but bit by bit.

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        because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line?

        This is true for those who have support locally. I don’t have anyone I can rely on locally right now if this starts happening to the DML. There is no other safety net for me. The safety net I do have was already riddled with holes and partially on fire BEFORE Jan 20th.

        Also, this hasn’t even started happening and already people are struggling paycheck to paycheck and won’t risk it by protesting – at least not to the point where we can get sustainable numbers over weeks in all 50 states.

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    We’re only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire…they all need to be on death row.

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      If Harry and Lloyd were president and vice president, they would be smarter and more competent than who are currently in charge.

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    once these demons get their Nuremberg trials, we should bring back getting hanged, drawn and quartered. maybe add something else too. nazis deserve nothing less.

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      Musk can be put in a Starship and sent on a collision course with that Tesla he launched. Clarance gets drawn & quartered by his motor coaches. Trump is given a hamburger that is extra greasy and purposely designed to cause medical complications. DeSantis can be put into a Florida Disneyland teacup ride, but set to the highest setting for a dozen hours straight. RFK is left in a vat of leeches.

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        I’m thinking something more fiery for Elon. Give him a close up look of a Starship launch. A REALLY close up look. Strapped to the ground, directly underneath the engine bells as they ignite.

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        Why would you do that to those leeches? I speak, of course, of the annelids, not the terrible humans leeching off of us.

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    Absolute fucking hero. If my time ever comes I hope I have the same moral fortitude.