DOGE should be pronounced as an in-between "dodge" or "duce" (italian): [DOHJ] being the closest English pronounciation. Very fitting given the allusion to both Duce and the Venetian office of Doge.
(Someone who speaks Italian can probably give a better example.)
Yes, there's fat to cut - but what to do with tens of thousands of voting formerly employed academics and civil servants, with good access to lobby-groups, business cartels and unions?
Because the capitalists don't want to end the grift - they profit off of it, and see the state and the nation purely as a machine for their profit and power.
The blob of clerks et c don't want to get their probosces cut off, bloodsucking parasites that they are.
The unions, need I even say anything?
The media. The celebrities and "culture workers".
All the people who control the system has it set up just the way they like it: the people - of any origin - is a herd the value of which purely exists to create profits for the rulers.
What the Globohomo-blob is doing is fostering a generation or three that will see real Fascism as their only way out: they are in fact making real OG fascism look good.
Yeah - I'm under no illusions that what I have is almost certainly a false hope, somewhere between me discovering how to unify gravity with QM and winning the lottery - which is to say, not even remotely likely.
Stuff needs to change - desperately - but whether that change will be *allowed* to happen is another question.
Yes. I love your comment. When this all started I amused myself by counting the number of news talking heads who obviously had no idea what a Doge was in historic terms. Not a single one turned out to have a clue. I keep imagining Elon Musk in one of those funny, lumpy hats and an elaborate brocade bathrobe. If they can do just 10 percent of what they say they can do, it will save us billions. Washington DC and surrounds will be a site of teeth gnashing and garment rending the likes of which have never been seen before.
The Argentinians have had just over 1 year of change. The budget has been balanced, vast numbers of regulations abolished along with whole govt departments. Inflation over 200% a month has gone to about 3% a month. Homelessness gone. After 70 years of Peronism/socialism the economy is starting to grow, this is starting to usefully employ some of the "public servants" sacked and locked out of their govt offices.
The chain saw to govt is working well. Needs to happen in every western country. When a state govt in Australia employees 30,000 extra public servants during its 3 year term what do they do? There is NO improvement in services or better govt. Just more money wasted on people doing nothing useful, or worse yet stopping, those of us who do want to do something.
Musk sacked 75% of Twitter staff and production work went up. He told "working from home" people to come back to the office or PRETEND to work for someone else. So true!
"So it’s simple - to restore efficiency to government, remove all parts of the government which are in violation of the Tenth Amendment, including the Regulatory State, the Deep State, the Military Industrial Complex, the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Surveillance Industrial Complex, and the Intelligence Community, and the like, and stop their pay and benefits. They will go away and find something else to do, just like their counterparts in the Communist Bloc governments of Eastern Europe did back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to the collapse of those systems of governance, for the same reasons that will eventually cause the collapse of the US government. We can either collapse gracefully and in a somewhat organized manner, or all at once, like the Soviet Union, where Soviet Air Force officers were selling off fighter jets in order to get enough money to eat - or losing them in poker games…
I’d offer fairly steep odds that DOGE, as much as I wish them every success — wild, breathtaking, fantastic success — will produce a big fat report, some theatrics and maybe cut a vulnerable program or two, but make no real difference.
The problem isn’t just “inefficiency” and foolishness, it’s organized crime and plunder via corruption. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and some pretty ruthless people who are on the receiving end of those trillions. Is it really plausible that they’re going to let a couple of “bros” spoil the party?
Trump rewarded them for their support, and he may even be sincere in thinking they can pull it off. But ask yourself this: Musk’s multi-billion dollar moon contract is over budget and behind schedule, with the likelihood of success disappearing over the horizon faster than convoys of self-driving electric semi-trailers. Will he call that program out?
DOGE should be pronounced as an in-between "dodge" or "duce" (italian): [DOHJ] being the closest English pronounciation. Very fitting given the allusion to both Duce and the Venetian office of Doge.
(Someone who speaks Italian can probably give a better example.)
Yes, there's fat to cut - but what to do with tens of thousands of voting formerly employed academics and civil servants, with good access to lobby-groups, business cartels and unions?
Because the capitalists don't want to end the grift - they profit off of it, and see the state and the nation purely as a machine for their profit and power.
The blob of clerks et c don't want to get their probosces cut off, bloodsucking parasites that they are.
The unions, need I even say anything?
The media. The celebrities and "culture workers".
All the people who control the system has it set up just the way they like it: the people - of any origin - is a herd the value of which purely exists to create profits for the rulers.
What the Globohomo-blob is doing is fostering a generation or three that will see real Fascism as their only way out: they are in fact making real OG fascism look good.
Yeah - I'm under no illusions that what I have is almost certainly a false hope, somewhere between me discovering how to unify gravity with QM and winning the lottery - which is to say, not even remotely likely.
Stuff needs to change - desperately - but whether that change will be *allowed* to happen is another question.
Yes. I love your comment. When this all started I amused myself by counting the number of news talking heads who obviously had no idea what a Doge was in historic terms. Not a single one turned out to have a clue. I keep imagining Elon Musk in one of those funny, lumpy hats and an elaborate brocade bathrobe. If they can do just 10 percent of what they say they can do, it will save us billions. Washington DC and surrounds will be a site of teeth gnashing and garment rending the likes of which have never been seen before.
The Argentinians have had just over 1 year of change. The budget has been balanced, vast numbers of regulations abolished along with whole govt departments. Inflation over 200% a month has gone to about 3% a month. Homelessness gone. After 70 years of Peronism/socialism the economy is starting to grow, this is starting to usefully employ some of the "public servants" sacked and locked out of their govt offices.
The chain saw to govt is working well. Needs to happen in every western country. When a state govt in Australia employees 30,000 extra public servants during its 3 year term what do they do? There is NO improvement in services or better govt. Just more money wasted on people doing nothing useful, or worse yet stopping, those of us who do want to do something.
Musk sacked 75% of Twitter staff and production work went up. He told "working from home" people to come back to the office or PRETEND to work for someone else. So true!
On a whim, I went and looked at the official registry tallying and sorting Swedish state agencies, departments, civil services, et cetera.
455. And a lot of them sort under each other, or under multiple departments, and under the the government and/or parliament.
At the same time.
Trying to do an org-chart ends up looking like if a rasta had used superglue on his dreads.
Top of the list, A-Ö?
Alcoholic beverages assortment-board. Which tells the state monopoly-corporation (Systembolaget) what kinds of spirits, beers et cetera to buy or not.
I could do that job from home for 1/10th the cost, let me tell you.
"So it’s simple - to restore efficiency to government, remove all parts of the government which are in violation of the Tenth Amendment, including the Regulatory State, the Deep State, the Military Industrial Complex, the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Surveillance Industrial Complex, and the Intelligence Community, and the like, and stop their pay and benefits. They will go away and find something else to do, just like their counterparts in the Communist Bloc governments of Eastern Europe did back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to the collapse of those systems of governance, for the same reasons that will eventually cause the collapse of the US government. We can either collapse gracefully and in a somewhat organized manner, or all at once, like the Soviet Union, where Soviet Air Force officers were selling off fighter jets in order to get enough money to eat - or losing them in poker games…
Good luck to Elon and his DoGE - pro tip: try not to name something after an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms." - https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/department-of-government-efficiency
I’d offer fairly steep odds that DOGE, as much as I wish them every success — wild, breathtaking, fantastic success — will produce a big fat report, some theatrics and maybe cut a vulnerable program or two, but make no real difference.
The problem isn’t just “inefficiency” and foolishness, it’s organized crime and plunder via corruption. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and some pretty ruthless people who are on the receiving end of those trillions. Is it really plausible that they’re going to let a couple of “bros” spoil the party?
Trump rewarded them for their support, and he may even be sincere in thinking they can pull it off. But ask yourself this: Musk’s multi-billion dollar moon contract is over budget and behind schedule, with the likelihood of success disappearing over the horizon faster than convoys of self-driving electric semi-trailers. Will he call that program out?
High hopes, low expectations.
You're probably right Lon.
But, like you, I bloody well hope not.
All appendages are suitably crossed for the success of DOGE
Agreed 100%