Late last week, tens of thousands of Yes Men subscribers “accidentally” received a “confidential email” from a “DOGE fan site” formerly located at DogeZone.info. The email said that since the pseudo-agency’s lie about cutting costs had been exposed, recipients should now spread word of DOGE’s actual goal: dismantling democracy and replacing it with a corporate — i.e. authoritarian — system.
“Because public opinion still matters, we have decided to help DOGE blast off the fog of public confusion and lay bare the full breadth of their Plan, which we’re sure Americans will embrace and admire as one when they know its full beauty and logic,” the email said, before asking recipients to post “dank memes” that would “blast off” that “fog of confusion.”
One hour later, another email from “DogeZone” threatened the same recipients with “legal pursuit to the fullest extent thus far allowable, or likely to be allowable in the near future, by the established and future laws of the United States of America” if they shared any bit of the “accidentally released” email.
“Even if [DogeZone] is satire,” wrote one Redditor, “it has to be taken seriously. Because this is a pretty good summation of what Yarvinites [i.e. neoreactionaries] believe and want to do.” “The movement is 100% real so it doesn’t really matter if the website is a parody or not,” wrote another.
“DOGEZONE wasn’t a parody, it was a paraphrase,” said Jim Haugen of the Yes Men. “We wanted to give journalists a pretext to cover the terrifying, but somehow no-longer-newsworthy, fact that DOGE is part of a systematic, well-thought-out plan to replace workers with AI (PDF) so that a small group of ‘neoreactionaries’ can take control of our collective institutions.”
If you’re part of the federal workforce, you already know that many of you are resisting DOGE. Federal unions have remained a key institution — with new groups springing up, like Federal Workers Against Doge and Federal Unionists Network.
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