Elmo and his band of thugs has been hitting the government agencies with a sledge hammer and for those people that see this as something to support then there is a way to show your support….buy DOGE stuff!
President Donald Trump’s political operation is selling DOGE membership cards, part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and Elon Musk‘s role in it.
“Today, I’m announcing that YOU can become an OFFICIAL TRUMP DOGE MEMBER!” Trump’s political operation wrote in an email to supporters Sunday night.
For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” If that is too pricy, there are also Trump DOGE T-shirts. One shirt for $40 depicts Trump and Musk. Another for $28 shows Trump, Musk, and the Shiba Inu dog, which inspired the original doge meme.
The White House’s efficiency initiative is one of the most visible parts of Trump’s second term.
DOGE has been the subject of numerous lawsuits from federal workers, Democratic state attorneys general, and good government groups. Trump initially appointed Musk to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” though a top White House official recently declared in a legal filing that Musk is not the DOGE administrator. Musk is a senior White House advisor and remains closely linked to DOGE.
Over the weekend, Musk upended federal agencies by claiming that employees would be fired if they did not respond to an email asking, “What did you do last week?” A number of departments have since told federal workers to pause potential responses ahead of the midnight deadline.
Musk spent over $290 million on the 2024 election to elect Trump. Trump and his allies have featured Musk prominently. Trump’s emails to supporters often seize on the latest DOGE headline, including Democratic lawmakers’ calls for Trump to rein in the world’s richest man.
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There is so much crap that Trump attaches his name to and so much crap that supporters will clamor to possess…
Me?
I rather flush my money down the toilet.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I believe that we do have many ways to reduce our federal budget – and some decisions will be difficult or unpopular to some – but this chainsaw approach is dangerous for so many reasons…
I see it as well and the time for someone to act is now…..start the process of change. chuq
Things are happening.. a little at a time perhaps.. but there are moral people in the midst of all this turmoil. This just broke now…
Twenty-one United States Digital Service technology staffers just resigned today in what is being seen as a mass protest resignation against the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a federal government employee with knowledge of the resignations.
These are, according to this source, “Your most skilled people – pretty much handling the top priorities – they all just resigned. Engineers, designers, data scientists, project managers, leading work on critical projects across the government..”
These are workers who were USDS, which is the agency that became DOGE.
“It is people who don’t want to be a part of this. For this group…it is a protest. They don’t want to be a part of it.”
Good for them! Stand up and be counted and they did just that.
It’s a spectacular level of incompetence that has Americans increasingly furious, as a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll shows.
A whopping 49 percent of respondents said they disapproved of the “job that Elon Musk is doing within the federal government,” while only 34 approved. The degree of animosity shouldn’t be understated either, with 41 percent “strongly” disapproving, while only eight percent “somewhat” disapproved.
This is not as popular as they are claiming…..at least from this poll…..chuq
If everyone took the same tack , all sewers would soon be overflowing as much as Trump’s bank accounts.
LOL Good one chuq
$1.7 trillion dollar deficit last year.
Yes and at this rate DOGE will have no effect on the bottom line. chuq
Pretty much says it all about Trump and Musk. Salesmen making deals and selling crap merchandise for a quick profit. That’s their plan for America; strip the assets, fleece the morons, then get away with all the money.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sounds like the ‘robber barons’ of old…..chuq