BIG BALLS

 Jeffrey St. Clair >>

+ According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, a 25-year-old software engineer named Marko Elez working for Elon Musk’s DOGE operation that is rummaging through the Treasury Department’s payment systems resigned on Thursday after the Trump White House was told of his connections to a now-deleted social media account that called for repealing the Civil Rights Act and said “I want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”

One post on the account, disparaging the number of people from India working at tech jobs in Silicon Valley, said: “Normalize Indian hate.” Another post from September declared, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” In July, he wrote: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”

According to the WSJ, Elez worked for Musk Starlink, SpaceX and X, where, according to his personal website, he “focused on artificial intelligence.” No one could possibly be surprised by this turn of events.

+ How did the guy (now Veep) who spread racist lies about Haitian immigrants in his own state killing and eating cats and dogs respond to news that a Musk staffer, one of two people given permission to rummage through the Treasury Dept’s financial transactions database, called for a “eugenics based immigration policy?”….He was just a kid (he is 25), bring him back!

+ I wonder if Vance’s wife, Usha Bala Chilukuri, whose parents moved to the US from India in the 1980s (her father landing a job as a mechanical engineer in the tech industry), feels that mini-Musk Marko Elez calling for true-blooded Americans to “Normalize Indian Hate!” makes him a “bad dude” or just another TechBoy prankster?

+ Christopher Harrison: “Thank goodness he didn’t post anything sympathetic to poor people or about getting everyone quality health care. Then JD would be calling for him to be cast out of the country for being a Marxist, if not sent to the wall.”

+ DOGE’s other “kid” hacker, the 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who once called himself Big Balls, was fired at his previous job with a cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets and not in an Edward Snowden kind of way. Now, the teen has access to the secret data of the US government and many of its employees, citizens, and businesses.