Why does nobody in the government want to play a game of DOGE ball?

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□ [“Maxine Waters Leads Democrats to Department of Education Building for Latest Meltdown"]

It just sounds like they're desperate for an excuse to get Civil War 2.0 started.  On Wednesday night, they demanded an "emergency meeting" with the acting director, so...  They just want to barge in?  It's not clear why they would or wouldn't have authority to enter the building but the guards could probably see a reason to keep them out.  Does anybody just go in or do they need authorization?  No idea, but obviously Democrats in Congress would claim they can do anything they want.

So why aren't they doing anything with Congress?  You want to keep the Department of Education, it should be easy to submit a bill to 'keep the DoE around forever' and put it to a vote.  That's democracy, ain't it?  If you just want to talk, you could stay at home and chat with friends.  Or subpoena whoever you want to talk to, you're f*cking Congress, remember?

I'm sure there are committees regarding education stuff which some/all of these people are probably on, but it's also a relevant question of how much actual authority members of Congress have when they aren't doing Congress-y things.  Bullying some low-level security guard isn't really going to help your case, as much as Congress might enjoy it.  You want someone to get shot?

Don't know if it's true, but I saw somewhere that they had sworn that they would stay all day and night until they got in, and then were gone before noon.  The state capitol protests lasted longer than that yesterday.  Trump+ have been showing how they just start work and get things done right away, Congress is showing off how they aren't remotely capable of doing anything like that.  This could be a valuable lesson on the distinction between the legislative and executive branches.

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□ [“Trump:  'Billions Have Been Stolen at USAID and Other Agencies – This Could be the Biggest Scandal of Them All – Democrats Can’t Hide'"]

There's only 24 hours in the day, so I haven't even been able to pay much attention to what's been found from the USAID money, much less who the recipients are connected to or what other government organizations are handing out money like this.  $260 million to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.  A few more countries like that and he would be a billionaire.  Oh wait...

Even more went to organizations that fall under him, like Anti-Corruption Action Center, based in Ukraine and responsible for overthrowing the elected leader, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014.  Another Soros group, East-West Management Institute, got the same money to fund attacks on Georgia and Uganda, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia, to change or manipulate their governments.

And they give almost the same amount of money - $268 million - to fund journalists.  $1.3 billion to Hezbollah.  Another billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which works in Palestine to fight Israel.  And this is just the first step in learning who all is involved.  We haven't even gotten to seeing how they respond to the funding suddenly being cut.  They'll be mad.

And DOGE has just discovered the waste of $100 billion by Medicare and Medicaid.  How much of this did they even try to account for?  You'd think Congress, the courts and the executive law enforcement branch would be very interested in talking to the people in charge when this was all happening.  Those who are responsible must know that they're being targeted, one way or another, so we'll see how prepared they are for this.  DOGE has gone to other offices, they're getting ready to hit the Pentagon.

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February 7, 2025

□ [“'Joe, You're Fired': Trump Revokes Biden’s National Security Clearance and Intelligence Briefings"]

Biden did this in 2021 so it's not exactly new.  The excuse he gave totally applies to him now.  “I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings.  What value is giving him an intelligence briefing?  What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”

In Biden's case, he might not even know if this has been taken away.  But the people around him probably do.  They've been able to get access to whatever he has for at least the last four years, and Biden gives away classified information to his autobiography co-writer.  That couldn't be investigated because Biden was too old and weak to bother, according to the investigator, so this was a natural step.

But it does indicate that we're moving to the next step.  I'm sure that Trump+ has been checking out those around Biden, but it makes me wonder, what about Obama, Clinton and GWB?  You'd think any of them could have the same issues.  To be fair, none of them are known to be mentally incompetent, and I'm sure there is a basic 'respect of the presidency' argument.  Trump doesn't want to obviously purge his predecessors without a major reason, and one which should be easy to prove to the public, not just in court.

□ [“Trump to Fire Kennedy Center Chairman and Multiple Trustees, Appoint Himself Chairman"]

But this?  I don't follow the Kennedy Center so I don't see any point to this.  It's one thing to reduce personnel, but why would Trump be bothered to run this?  As always, I wonder if there's some sort of cult in this place.  I think the only time I've ever heard of it was Heart singing "Stairway to Heaven" in front of Obama and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, so that does suggest a cult, but it's not real evidence.  Wouldn't this distract Trump from signing more executive orders?

There's also a lady who isn't sure that all that glitters is gold, but no one ever mentions her.20250207

Judge Temporarily Pauses Trump Admin From Placing Thousands of USAID Workers on Leave
February 7, 2025

□ [“Attorney Tom Renz: DOGE — 'A Lawyer’s Perspective'"]

Interesting look into Trump's executive order.  DOGE is simply a modification of the United States Digital Service, established by Obama in 2014 to improve government software, making things simpler, easier, more effective, cheaper.  The POTUS didn't need Congressional permission to create it or to modify a previously-established organization, meaning that Congress has few-if-any legal grounds to fight this without actually passing a law against it.

That's just so simple, it's brilliant.  We don't elect the people in government offices - like Anthony Fauci or the most-recent Democratic Presidential candidate - so the left's complaints about that are irrelevant.  Meanwhile it's just a change to the purpose of DOGE.  It's not clear by looking at the titles, but it even kept the same acronym.  So it was funded and protected from day one to get started.

Also interesting, there's an end date for this organization, July 4th, 2026.  When that happens, there will be some celebration going on, maybe even fireworks.  This does show they have a plan, even if there's no real clue what direction this is going.  They've also set up defense and funding in a very smart way.

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