DOGE dodginess
My fortnightly column for ππ©π¦ ππ¦πΈ ππ―π₯πͺπ’π― ππΉπ±π³π¦π΄π΄ is on - what else in this time of US presidential and global upheaval? - the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be headed by by two Far Right Libertarian corporate honchos in the coming Empire of Trump, who have been tasked with hacking down the size of government and with amputating the federal budget.
Is this (mis)adventurism of internal American concern alone? Not by a long shot. Together with Trump's utterly batshit shadow appointments, the consequences of this proposed diminishment will ripple outwards to the RoTW (rest of the world).
There has never been a large country, of any ideological denomination, run by a small government. Many political scientists consider it an impossible thing. And, yet, as Vivek Ramaswamy says of Elon Musk, they are preparing to take a "chainsaw" to Washington, DC - basically, to hack a banyan tree with a lumberjack's weapon.
The next thing we know, the two are going to fill up the positions they decapitate with corporate contractuals.
