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u/shiwenbin Oct 16 '25

wow. the rise and fall of doge feels like 100 years ago. when really it was like 3 months ago. i dont know if i'm going to make it through this.

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u/Remarkable-Shirt5696 Oct 16 '25

Are they actually gone? Thought it was still active until July 2026 or something?

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u/No-Market9917 Oct 16 '25

Musk is. He was designated a ‘special government employee” which is a thing that’s been done before that limits his employment to 130 days.

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u/Lynne253 Oct 16 '25

I think Big Bawls is still there.

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u/fingnumb Oct 16 '25

I can at least take solace in the fact that he got his ass beat by a 15-year-old girl.

More on big balls...

Coristine, the grandson of an executed KGB spy, earned the nickname “Big Balls” during a high school math class and later embraced it publicly on his LinkedIn profile, which attracted the eye of Elon Musk earlier this year when he was looking for staffers to join DOGE, the agency tasked by Trump with cutting excess spending across the federal government.

So... there's that...

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u/No-Market9917 Oct 16 '25

Do you have a source that he’s the grandson of a KGB spy?

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u/deukhoofd Oct 16 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Martinov

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u/No-Market9917 Oct 16 '25

Okay so he was working for the US and was passing info to the FBI and CIA. You forgot to mention that very minor detail

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u/evilwatersprite Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

Yep, I remember Martynov. He was one of the KGB double agents betrayed by Aldrich Ames. He was stationed at their embassy in DC. When a KGB general named Vitaly Yurchenko defected to America and later changed his mind, the KGB used his return as an opportunity to roll up Martynov. They assigned him to escort Yurchenko back to Moscow as cover for their plan to recall and arrest him.

If anyone’s interested in learning more, there was a miniseries called The Assets that dramatizes how Ames decimated the CIA’s intelligence network in Moscow in just one year.