implicitly lumps Trump himself in as a "malicious actor".

Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6!

Maybe not something I would want said or repeated by my administration either, disregarding the veracity.

Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian.

in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security

Stop being so gullible.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-1...

Musk could also have simply looked up the SSA’s own website, which explains that since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.

> Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6!

> Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian.

It speaks to the strength of different agency administrators if they can walk into the next oval office, grab the duly elected President by the arm, and say "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" over and over again. Putting a stop to that wouldn't be so controversial, I think.

> Stop being so gullible.

You are disregarding the election angle and instead misdirecting, the system of validating votes (according to Krebs' own assessment) is dependent on a system with publicly-known flaws.

I understand that the aim can be to enfranchise and enable more voters, but to that aim my statements are agnostic, except for revealing more facts about the case.