Summary

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer nicknamed “Big Balls,” reportedly provided tech support to the cybercrime group EGodly through his company DiamondCDN.

EGodly, known for online of hacking government emails and cyberstalking FBI agent, publicly thanked DiamondCDN for DDoS protection in 2023.

Coristine, now a senior adviser at the State Department and CISA, did not respond to requests for comment.

Critics, including former CISA deputy director Nitin Natarajan, expressed concern over Coristine’s recent ties to cybercriminals while holding government network access.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I have to say, Trump’s tactic of doing so many impeachable things so fast that nobody even tries to impeach him anymore is working stunningly well.

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      He will never have any consequences the Supreme Court has made sure of that.

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        I mean, it doesn’t help that literally everyone is cooperating. Not a single person has refused to leave their post, locked themselves in, thrown a punch, fought back, gotten arrested. Every federal worker “fired” has rolled over and taken it.

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          Americans are pussies. They have been telling themselves that their right to bear arms is enough, so they never bothered to learn actual resistance.

          Their schools never taught anything about fascism except “we kicked their asses and saved Europe!” so the general population just aren’t capable of recognizing fascism on the rise.

          Now that its here, they still think they can stop it by playing fair.

          Pussies.

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            Implying that the “right to bear arms” crowd is the same as the “playing fair” crowd…?? Are you high or are you just that ignorant about US culture?

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              Every American i ever met in real life has been in favor of civilians owning guns. Maybe some of them wanted better restrictions, but i have never met an American that wanted to get rid of all guns.

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            I think plenty of them recognize it, they just can’t organize by themselves. The seeds of distrust have been planted long ago, now they’re starting to give fruit.

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          You want to know what happens to people who fight back? Look at Vindman and Snowden and Manning (not saying the latter two did everything right, of course, but they put themselves on the line). Democrats did nothing for them. If no one fights for the people who fight back, why would they just throw everything away? No one wants to be a martyr. No one wants to be left out to dry.

          We haven’t fought for the people who fight for democracy. How surprising is the consequence, really?

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              Agreed; but, to be fair, “leave their post” was one of the things the person homesweethomeMrL was responding to said absolutely no one was apparently doing.

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      As if impeachment would do anything. He was impeached twice in his last presidency and it didn’t do shit.

      When you pack the courts with Trump supporters there are no consequences.

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      I don’t know if anyone is trying but someone in Congress should keep a running list of impeachable offenses and keep filing the full list every week until they have enough votes from more moderate Republicans. Sooner or later he will piss off enough of Congress.

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      I mean, if democrats controlled the house he would be getting impeached, it’s not the volume or quality of the crimes, it’s the fact Republicans don’t care.