The reaction from democrats and the NGO industrial complex shows why Doge was needed. And Musk being the mascot takes the heat away from the actual department heads that are actually making cuts.
"So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's an autistic guardian, a watchful protector. A Doge knight."
So if/when Doge gets real backlash Trump can use them as a crumple zone and distance himself. Much like project 2025 scare tactic
There is nothing funny about Gaza. I’m slightly offended at that remark, although, I’ll give you that Trumps solution is ludicrous, but also cruel and horrifying
Polling is turning but I wouldn't count musk out yet. He has had a lifetime of turning audiences to his side for his financial gain / political missions. Super bowl is just the start.
Unless he somehow gets his wealth cut in half from Tesla tanking because mainly blue coded people bought them and...he's burning those bridges. He will be the center of US politics for the feasible future and may (I would predict will) become the most influential figure in global politics in recent history. All he needs is 1 or 2 wins in Europe and we are off too the races.
I look forward to many reluctant reports covering him. In your heart you know you want the politics logo to be him doing his X jump pose. You know it.
As a resident of Palm Beach county—who used to live in Miami and still has friends there, I was shocked to hear Karol speaking as if DeSantis is well liked and approved of across the state. It's simply not true. I know people who actively hate him. He's been horrible for Florida. And I worry that her speaking of him in this way will give people the wrong idea about him as a person and as a governor, making him seem legitimate, when he is actually a disaster.
He won re-election by 20 points (and won blue Palm Beach County and blue Miami Dade!) and his approval rating is constantly in the 50s or above. He is a massively popular governor who has attracted millions of people to his state with his policies. "Making him seem legitimate" is an insane thing to say out loud.
It's not so much the length that makes these hearings hard to watch, it's the vapid sound bite fishing and general nonsense. I've had cotton candy that was more substantial, filling, and nutritional than these hearings...
For DOGE can't the president let anyone look at any fille he wants? Is there a law that someone must pass security screens before the president shows them his computer screen?
Also, is there actually any legal way to stop them when they would just be pardoned?
You can block access presumably... but that would like have to come from the departments which are complying. As long as Trump likes what's happening... it's going to keep happening. But if public opinion turns...
I'm still laughing over referring to the DOGE kids as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Autists."
The word I've been mulling over lately - thinking of DOGE, the Homan Juggernaut, and Trump's ongoing parade of executive orders and Big Stick diplomacy - is "overreach." He's doing what he said he'd do, and for now most of it's popular enough. But eventually Homan is going to run out of gangs and terrorists and violent career criminals, and deport someone their community likes....or the 'terrorist' cartel takes out a special forces unit or border town. DOGE will fall out of favor when the obvious targets are exhausted and there's still hundreds of billions left to cut, and they take aim at a program that even MAGA would prefer to keep. Trump will eventually sign an executive order that sends the majority of the country into conniptions, or one of his grand ideas - Gaza Strip Golf Invitational? - careens violently into Murphy's Law.
Overreach is inevitable. Every president since Clinton has indulged in it. Bush 41 was unbelievably restrained (e.g. limiting Operation Desert Shield to The 100 Hour War, freeing Kuwait but leaving Saddam Hussein in power) but he stumbled when he agreed to new taxes after "read my lips" and the 1992 recession; his pragmatism cost him a second term.
The opposition always cries Overreach! from the start, but there are only so many 80/20 issues to go around and most presidents exhaust theirs quickly. The MAGA zealots will never get tired of Too Much Winning, but he won with a broader coalition than those true believers, and eventually enough of their sacred cows will be turned into Trump Steaks to put his popularity back underwater.
He didn't really have a honeymoon period last time; I'm interested to see how long this one will last.
the polling will tell the tale... IMO voters LIKE it when government waste gets cut. It's on the Dems (and left leaning press, let's be honest) to highlight how these cuts are hitting the bone. It's up the Trump and DOGE to show WHY these cuts matter beyond imaginary numbers.
The reaction from democrats and the NGO industrial complex shows why Doge was needed. And Musk being the mascot takes the heat away from the actual department heads that are actually making cuts.
"So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's an autistic guardian, a watchful protector. A Doge knight."
So if/when Doge gets real backlash Trump can use them as a crumple zone and distance himself. Much like project 2025 scare tactic
There is nothing funny about Gaza. I’m slightly offended at that remark, although, I’ll give you that Trumps solution is ludicrous, but also cruel and horrifying
Polling is turning but I wouldn't count musk out yet. He has had a lifetime of turning audiences to his side for his financial gain / political missions. Super bowl is just the start.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/general/reports-suggest-elon-musk-might-spend-40m-on-super-bowl-ads-targeting-government-waste/ar-AA1yGCZn
Unless he somehow gets his wealth cut in half from Tesla tanking because mainly blue coded people bought them and...he's burning those bridges. He will be the center of US politics for the feasible future and may (I would predict will) become the most influential figure in global politics in recent history. All he needs is 1 or 2 wins in Europe and we are off too the races.
I look forward to many reluctant reports covering him. In your heart you know you want the politics logo to be him doing his X jump pose. You know it.
As a resident of Palm Beach county—who used to live in Miami and still has friends there, I was shocked to hear Karol speaking as if DeSantis is well liked and approved of across the state. It's simply not true. I know people who actively hate him. He's been horrible for Florida. And I worry that her speaking of him in this way will give people the wrong idea about him as a person and as a governor, making him seem legitimate, when he is actually a disaster.
He won re-election by 20 points (and won blue Palm Beach County and blue Miami Dade!) and his approval rating is constantly in the 50s or above. He is a massively popular governor who has attracted millions of people to his state with his policies. "Making him seem legitimate" is an insane thing to say out loud.
It's not so much the length that makes these hearings hard to watch, it's the vapid sound bite fishing and general nonsense. I've had cotton candy that was more substantial, filling, and nutritional than these hearings...
For DOGE can't the president let anyone look at any fille he wants? Is there a law that someone must pass security screens before the president shows them his computer screen?
Also, is there actually any legal way to stop them when they would just be pardoned?
You can block access presumably... but that would like have to come from the departments which are complying. As long as Trump likes what's happening... it's going to keep happening. But if public opinion turns...
I'm still laughing over referring to the DOGE kids as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Autists."
The word I've been mulling over lately - thinking of DOGE, the Homan Juggernaut, and Trump's ongoing parade of executive orders and Big Stick diplomacy - is "overreach." He's doing what he said he'd do, and for now most of it's popular enough. But eventually Homan is going to run out of gangs and terrorists and violent career criminals, and deport someone their community likes....or the 'terrorist' cartel takes out a special forces unit or border town. DOGE will fall out of favor when the obvious targets are exhausted and there's still hundreds of billions left to cut, and they take aim at a program that even MAGA would prefer to keep. Trump will eventually sign an executive order that sends the majority of the country into conniptions, or one of his grand ideas - Gaza Strip Golf Invitational? - careens violently into Murphy's Law.
Overreach is inevitable. Every president since Clinton has indulged in it. Bush 41 was unbelievably restrained (e.g. limiting Operation Desert Shield to The 100 Hour War, freeing Kuwait but leaving Saddam Hussein in power) but he stumbled when he agreed to new taxes after "read my lips" and the 1992 recession; his pragmatism cost him a second term.
The opposition always cries Overreach! from the start, but there are only so many 80/20 issues to go around and most presidents exhaust theirs quickly. The MAGA zealots will never get tired of Too Much Winning, but he won with a broader coalition than those true believers, and eventually enough of their sacred cows will be turned into Trump Steaks to put his popularity back underwater.
He didn't really have a honeymoon period last time; I'm interested to see how long this one will last.
the polling will tell the tale... IMO voters LIKE it when government waste gets cut. It's on the Dems (and left leaning press, let's be honest) to highlight how these cuts are hitting the bone. It's up the Trump and DOGE to show WHY these cuts matter beyond imaginary numbers.