See, in order to finally infiltrate the DEEP STATE, rectify decades of waste and mismanagement, and shut down entire departments that research and provide meds for disease, we needed to have a 21 year old coder named Big Balls on the case (working alongside other 20-somethings, one of whom boasted online he “was racist before it was cool” but boys will be boys). If you’re not comfortable with these unvetted, illegally appointed weasels in charge of your personal data and financial info, it’s probably because you’re too woke!
No–you don’t understand. It’s precisely because he couldn’t pass a basic background check that makes him perfect for this crucial work. Are you sheeple finally beginning to wake up???
Addendum one:
Here’s how you know, immediately, this DOGE horseshit is a farce. If anyone–whether it was Trump, Musk, or Mickey Mouse–truly wanted to examine and eliminate government fraud and waste, they’d be deliberate, transparent, and get public buy-in (b/c approximately 99.9% of Americans would love to have more clarity about where their taxes go). The fact that this is being done in haste, totally in the dark, and by a handful of Musk minions should not only raise alarm bells, but be insulting and infuriating to anyone who is being played.
Addendum Two:
Any exercise in identifying government bloat that does not begin with the Pentagon / Defense Budget and immediate measures that ensure the wealthiest 1% pay their fair share (not more, not penalized, but simply pay the same percentage as you and me; no loopholes, no write-offs, or, in the case of men like Musk and Bezos, actually get *richer* via write-offs and chicanery only the super wealthy can afford and access) is, upon arrival, unserious.
Addendum Three:
Let’s make it simple. Most of us would agree that car repair shops take advantage of unsuspecting customers. Who here hasn’t been told they should get services they don’t need, or pay more than it should or would cost. Some of this we write off as opportunity cost; no one has the bandwidth (or interest, much less sanity) to become mechanics, so we pay a premium for our time. But if someone came to you and said “we’ve been getting ripped off….from now on I’m going to appoint teenagers who have never been trained or approved and have no experience but TRUST ME they are going to fix your car” you’d laugh. You’d be offended. You’d be scared. Now imagine this on a global scale. That’s precisely what’s going on.
Addendum Four:
I’d almost (almost) respect Trump & Co. if they’d had the (big) balls to run on Project 25; naturally–because, despite how understandably upset many Americans were about everything from inflation to the aforementioned government waste, etc.–they know how deeply unpopular most if not all of the Project 25 initiatives are. But *if* they’d run on that and said “hell yeah, take a look: we’ve been planning this since 2020, and many of the architects of this very plutocratic, racist, reactionary game plan have had hard-ons to implement this for decades, but until Trump, this was the stuff of chat rooms and semi-embarrassed bar-room bluster after too many draft beers,” I would tip my hat. Of course, Trump & Co. did everything possible to distance themselves, deny, and deflect (and our media, on queue, did precisely nothing–then, now–to connect the dots, ask difficult questions, anticipate the scripted answers and demand more detail). But now the very people–shock!!!–who helped write this are being pushed through by a predictably compliant and self-interested, ever-craven GOP majority. And instead of pitchforks, people are now debating if USAID is really on the up and up.
