I gotta be honest, I thought DOGE was only ever gonna be some little toy for Musk to play with that had no real power. Didn’t think it would just take over an actual department and start doing real damage, I was really wrong on that one.

I hope that what I think could happen as a result of this does in fact happen

Imagine if some DOGE incel accidentally cuts off Raytheon and their whole team gets black bagged lmao

color revolution of usa incoming

Well, we’ll know sooner than I ever imagined how many CIA/FBI have the balls of their forefathers.

Apparently Trump is firing a fuckload of FBI agents. Of course I shed no tears over such things… but his buddy RFK Jr should’ve probably told him what happened to his uncle (and father, I suppose) when he started targeting such agencies.

It’s also just annoying that they do this in the most liberal (but more rightwing flavor) ways possible. “Nooo they targeted my precious boys on Jan 6!” For the record, I don’t think (most) of those dipshits deserved the sentences they got. I wasn’t exactly crying for them, but if we’re being real… shitting on Pelosi’s desk should get you an award. The Proud Boy fascist-style leader and such, well, it was a convenient reason to get rid of them.

Either way, this is the stupidest possible pretext to destroy the US “security apparatus.” Not that I think he’s actually doing that or trying to do that. More than likely this is for show or he’s a moron (or both). Still, firing a huge percent of FBI and presumably digging into the asses at DHS, NSA, CIA, etc. is going to undermine what they’re doing. Intended or not.

It’s like cutting USAID because “it doesn’t benefit Americans.” Well, it does (capitalists anyway), but I do wonder, again, if Elon/Trump are too fucking stupid (again… yes…) to actually know what “soft power” is.

Well, either way, it’s about to insanely boring or the opposite of that in the next year or so.

Between the tariffs which are obviously going to blow the backs out of millions of people, the incoming labor shortage because they chose deportation over amnesty and fair pay, and shit like just one by one destroying government “welfare” (in different forms) programs, the suffering knob is being turned up for absolutely zero reason when the other option is, I dunno… accept multipolarity and negotiate with China. Draw down the military presence. Stop whining about the border and making shit up about it. No, no, no… turn the pain knob. Isolate while simultaneously trying to increase imperialism. Seems sustainable…

yeah, defaulting on your innumerable small liabilities seems like a good idea

real business brain

It seems like letting Musk run rampant in the core of the dollar system would be a stronger signal of the inherent risk in that system than anything that has come before (like stealing Russian accounts, etc). I guess until there is another option available, most of the closest US allies will just have to go for the ride.

These DOGE pests need to be removed. Democrats are so pathetic for letting them run free. Where are the large-scale protests? Nothing is happening.

Don’t pay your mercenaries

The nedleB rules: don’t pay your guys, this only works if you’re american — because you have plot armor

He cut off payments to a Lutheran charity.

… That helps resettle refugees.

These freaks are all about church being the charity that should take the role of government social services… Then they cut them off. Fucking ghouls.

Learning from Trump stiffing contractors all through the 80s and 90s then.

It’s like the night of long knives but the commercial version

Except to himself no doubt. Is he like, a super villain that just stole all the fed’s money or something.