DOGE's American Carnage: Then and Now
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šļø 11 March 2026
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Summary
"I've been Doged." Over 300,000 federal workers were purged by drug-fueled sociopath Elon Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency." In this week's Gaslit Nation, we'reĀ joined by Sasha Abramsky, contributor to The Nation and author of the explosive new book American Carnage: How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the U.S. Government. Abramsky details how Musk and his "Hitler Youth" tech bros, led by Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, infiltrated government agencies like a wrecking ball. They were set on sadistic public humiliation, bullying the survivors into submission to carry out a lawless coup to hijack our democracy.
DOGE carried out the greatest data heist in global history. The personal information for nearly 300 million Americans, including Social Security numbers and Medicare data, has been exposed to tech oligarchs. This data is already being weaponized to purge voter rolls and hunt immigrants and dissidents.
Trump and Musk depend on your demoralization. They want you to think they're invincible Bond villains, but as the resistance in Minneapolis showed, we can and must stand up to themāfor the sake of our very lives and the security of the world.
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Show Notes:
DOGE staffer had 'God-level' Social Security access and expected Trump's pardon, whistleblower says https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-social-security-data-whistleblower-b2935908.html
Elon Musk's DOGE Staffer 'Big Balls' Related to KGB Defector: Report https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-edward-coristine-big-balls-kgb-agent-2036520
Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths ā most of them children https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqcVzjZ_td4qU0vyr-xG_CgGOlTqkglEvufyMil2saeIo4sfDLbK8HIVQeZ-IHc%3D&gaa_ts=69b0d995&gaa_sig=ZVvlsPXRuxrYyW6L9eA4lEbo1EG_Vjg1-CiS5mFa7qlVjY9zdtc18EbEHPxglD0f-pxJDLWqvvxK-U_IjWKBjg%3D%3D
14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds https://gizmodo.com/14-million-people-could-die-in-next-5-years-due-to-usaid-cuts-study-finds-2000622755
American Carnage How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/bookshelf/american-carnage
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gaslit Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's |
| 0:22.8 | genocide famine in Ukraine. The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it. |
| 0:27.7 | This week, we are joined by Sasha Abramsky, a contributing writer to the nation, an author of |
| 0:33.4 | the new book, American Carnage, How Trump, Musk, and Doge Butchered the U.S. government. |
| 0:40.8 | So this will be an extra furious episode of the show for all the reasons. |
| 0:45.9 | Many of you have experienced yourself. I've gotten messages from listeners who have written to me |
| 0:51.7 | these words. I've been doged, meaning their jobs were, their |
| 0:57.3 | livelihood, all of it was axed. And so we're going to get into the massive carnage created by |
| 1:03.6 | Elon Musk. Sasha, walk us through how Doge came to be. In the 2024 election, was there some deal between Elon Musk and Trump |
| 1:14.9 | that Trump would let a drug-addled psychopath into our government? |
| 1:21.1 | No holds bars. |
| 1:22.3 | Just give him the keys to Social Security and all of it |
| 1:24.8 | and just let him go to town on his bond villain whims. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, I mean, they kind of was because Elon Musk throughout 2024 had been ingratiating |
| 1:35.4 | himself with the Trump machine. And in the summer of 2024, he not only wholeheartedly |
| 1:41.9 | endorsed Donald Trump, but he put in a ton of money into the election |
| 1:46.0 | campaign, and he liberated a bunch of technology for use to sort of try and access these |
| 1:51.2 | infrequent voters. Musk is very bad at a lot of things, but one thing he's very good at is |
| 1:56.5 | micro-targeting, especially young, angry white men. And he did it brilliantly. |
| 2:01.6 | He got people out to vote who never usually voted and who came out in droves in key states |
| 2:07.0 | to help elect Donald Trump. |
| 2:08.8 | And the trade-off was Musk wanted access to government and he wanted access not only to cutting parts |
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