DOGE

[HALL85]

Cutting through all of the nonsense on the news. There’s two concerns I would have.
1) Have Musk’s people going into the federal agency signed NDA’s? This is standard procedure for any consultant. The fact that somebody might be 25 years old is just downright silly.
2) Is Musk’s organization being paid for this work? That would give me some heartburn, because the work should be bid out Although, I doubt this happens with every government contract.

Bottom line is Trump is actually doing the things that he ran on. Musk is the new bogeyman because they have run out of Orange Man Bad lines.

Looking back, when Musk bought Twitter a lot of talk about what a foolish decision it was. Not sure if he’s getting the return financially, but his ownership has changed the dialogue on free speech, and the platform is now giving him an opportunity to amplify the savings opportunities they will uncover under DOGE, totally sidestepping the MSM.

 

[HALL85]

Footnote: When the opposition is Chuck Shumer, Maxine Waters and Cori Bush protesting, that’s not a winning strategy.

 

[Rockaway]

Another dem losing strategy being against government being made efficient like private firms absolutely heresy to do this in their minds.

 

[Shaheton]

Another dem losing strategy being against government being made efficient like private firms absolutely heresy to do this in their minds.

I’d like the multiple agencies at issue to comply with requests for info so democrats can focus on the issues and show the greater good that is being served, for all to see…that’s how democrats will shove it where the sun don’t shine. I don’t think they have anything to hide.

 

[Robot_Man]

Let's leave aside the many conflicts of interest and potential ways for Musk and his acolytes to abuse this access. Would everyone be okay with a Democratic president giving George Soros this sort of access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service?

Or if you think the Soros comparison is irrelevant, how about a fellow PayPal Mafia alumnus and frequent donor to Democrats, like Reid Hoffman?

 

[HALL85]

Let's leave aside the many conflicts of interest and potential ways for Musk and his acolytes to abuse this access. Would everyone be okay with a Democratic president giving George Soros this sort of access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service?

Or if you think the Soros comparison is irrelevant, how about a fellow PayPal Mafia alumnus and frequent donor to Democrats, like Reid Hoffman?

Has either Soros or Hoffman created a business like SpaceX that has enabled NASA to outsource a huge part of the space program because it is faster and less costly? (A contract that Obama initiated BTW). Has either created a technology like Starlink that has helped a country communicate during a war or US citizens do the same after a natural disaster?

If they did, it might be a more reasonable comparison.

 

[Robot_Man]

Has either Soros or Hoffman created a business like SpaceX that has enabled NASA to outsource a huge part of the space program because it is faster and less costly? (A contract that Obama initiated BTW). Has either created a technology like Starlink that has helped a country communicate during a war or US citizens do the same after a natural disaster?

If they did, it might be a more reasonable comparison.

We're talking about payments here. It's specifically why I mentioned another guy who was involved with PayPal.

 

[HALL85]

We're talking about payments here. It's specifically why I mentioned another guy who was involved with PayPal.

Well if Biden awoke from his slumber during his term and asked Hoffman to go into the US Treasury and streamline it, it wouldn’t bother me at all.

Once again, though, Trump ran in this policy (touting Musk to do what he is doing), and he won…this is not a bait and switch…it’s what the public wanted.