Democrat Frost slams DOGE: Billionaires ‘cosplaying as government officials’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5026681-maxwell-frost-doge-musk-ramaswamy/
Democrat Frost slams DOGE: Billionaires ‘cosplaying as government officials’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5026681-maxwell-frost-doge-musk-ramaswamy/
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> “Let’s be honest about DOGE and this whole thing, it’s a joke, we’re talking about two billionaires who are cosplaying as government officials…. we gotta look at the proposition here: the proposition with these two guys is that to make the government more efficient, we gotta fire a bunch of people and take away a bunch of funding. And that lack of nuance and actually providing real oversight on how we can make the government work in a better way shows me firsthand that they are not coming at this on the right foot and not coming at it from the right place.”
Excellently put, especially as he goes on to point out elon’s conflict of interests due to his government contracts—not to mention single-handedly sinking a staggering $250 million dollars into getting donald reelected. You know he expects a payoff for *that* investment.
Just a way for Musk and Ramaswamy to offload US federal programs and institutions into the private sector, line their own and their friends pockets.
The thing is that TFG is just copying Bill Clinton’s appointing of Al Gore to lead a panel on reshaping the US government, only TFG is doing it stupidly, as is his wont.
If he weren’t such a mendacious idiot, it is actually something he could have done legitimate good with. But he’s a craven moron, who, even after stumbling into a good idea, destroys it with his *merde* touch.
The whole point of DoGE is to clear up enough money to give billionaires another huge fucking tax cut.
That’s it. There’s no secret sauce, just a slow robbery.
Citizens United strikes again; we must repeal! We are so fucked and Republicans will just blame the Democrats again when felon tRump fucks them over with all 3 branches of government again. His leopards are already feasting from conning them again!
First of all – we need to get this straight: They are NOT cosplaying.
They are unelected bureaucrats. They are the deep state.
It is so much worse. Each appointment is designed to destroy the department they are assigned to so the case can be made to privatize it.
We are in for some shit. Count yourself lucky if you are alive in 2028.
Missed opportunity to call them “unelected bureaucrats”
We must not lose focus on the fact that the reason the Billionaire Boy’s Club is so hellbent on cutting trillions from the budget *is because the Trump Tax Cuts created TRILLIONS of dollars of deficit*.
GOP thugs smash-and-grabbed the federal budget with tax cuts without bothering to figure out how to pay for them. Now they want to CUT, CUT, CUT so the rest of us pay for how rich they’ve become over the past six years. Yay…
Cosplaying implies they don’t have and will not have any actual power. But we all know they will and they are going to everything they can to ruin the federal government and regulators.
They’ve cosplayed working their entire life and are masters of exploitation…. Sounds perfect for government…..
If you want to be taken seriously, don’t use the term “cosplay”.
Toytown government.
Oligarchs on the inside trying to find more efficient ways to externalization costs and extract more wealth from economy
So what? All this slamming and look where we are. According to headlines MAGA has been slammed and humiliated and eviscerated and bombshelled time and time again yet here we are.
All I see are a bunch of democratic shills in the comments mad because Trump and Elon won
I thought democrats hated big government?
*Slammed*?!? Holy shit that must have been rough! Do you think Musk et al will be able to recover from this or are they down for the count?
Surprised not many other people see the serious problem with this
Say it louder.
Ooh, “Cosplay Cabinet!” I’m stealing that!
Cool, slam away. But, y’know, maybe fucking something besides just talk?
I’m sure “ices” or “unleashed a blizzard upon” could have been used instead of slams
It’s simple, they’ll presume a role for length of time before it just casually gets taken seriously. It’s their new version of flooding propaganda in the media. They’re going to gaslight America and swing votes/politicians with click bait and money.
Oh is that not usually the same thing?
Slam? Yes, slam.
Damn, the Dems are really fighting back!
The utter disregard for the lives of others and the common good is vile. The lack of care about government “for the people” is a disgrace.
I’ve always hated it it when people said we need a good businessman (never “person”) to run a country. The bottom line is only one factor…it shouldn’t be at the expense for quality of life (or life or death) of constituents. And WHY do billionaires need more money???
That’s the thing. They’re not cosplaying anymore. They’re government officials.
Perfect analogy.
Imagine having the audacity of holding elected officials responsible for how our tax dollars are spent.
He’s right, and if we close our eyes and count to a thousand the deficit will shrink on it’s own!
Well. We just had the first shot in the upcoming class war.
I think it’s more interesting that “cosplaying” is now being used instead of the traditional term “masquerading”.
The whole administration is nothing more than cosplay, tRump and his wealthy friends being placed in positions of importance who have no experience. This second tRump administration is that really badly product sequel we wished we never saw.
They can act as govt officials all they want. They’re not. Many dumbasses will believe they are legit because it was never stressed how important knowledge of governmental function actually is within our society or education system. But the rest of us know they are merely advisors.
We still need to be very concerned about all of this. There are far too many special interests in a not so inclusive environment to dispense the function of government justly. I feel like we’re fucked. I predict a socialist uprising, which by this point, in some aspects, would be a welcomed thing.
It is pronounced daa_gee, like the British word dodgy. Dodgy means dishonest or unreliable! Please say it correctly.
This is a power grab.
Where should power in a society be? With the people in the form of a representative democratic government? Or with the wealthy?
The wealthy are trying to grab power back from the people. That’s what this is about.
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