3 more years of waste busting

6/21/2025 10:07:43 AM

Lemme tell you something -- Bustin' makes me feel good!

6/21/2025 3:09:41 PM

$200 million to renovate the ballroom of the White House. Very important renovations.

7/31/2025 6:13:38 PM

It's all from "donations", so don't even worry about it!

7/31/2025 7:41:56 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/nws-rehire-workers-deep-doge-cuts-rcna223684

8/7/2025 11:10:50 PM

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0

Quote :

" Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar"

10/8/2025 11:12:42 AM

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-cdc-end-all-monkey-research

Quote :

"Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear"

Quote :

"CDC’s order was communicated by a relatively unknown former DOGE employee named Sam Beyda, several sources tell Science. Beyda—who was recently named CDC’s deputy chief of staff, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed to Bloomberg News—has a sparse online presence with no obvious evidence of a science background. He graduated with a degree in economics from Columbia University in 2023, and in 2020 he co-authored an editorial expressing interest in volunteering to be a human subject for a COVID-19 vaccine challenge trial. A few weeks ago, Beyda told CDC to wind down its primate research program, according to a government official who is familiar with the situation but who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. The agency has an acting director, but, according to the official, Beyda said he was speaking for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently has made curtailing animal research part of his Make America Healthy Again agenda. (Beyda has also been newly tapped to lead several initiatives that will restructure CDC, Bloomberg reports.)"

11/21/2025 10:55:36 AM

https://wapo.st/4b14KAy

Quote :

" The year Trump broke the federal government How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy."

there is absolutely zero excuse for any of this and the people behind it need to be shunned from public life

12/21/2025 3:32:58 PM

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/doge-employee-stole-social-security-data-and-put-it-on-a-thumb-drive-report-says/

Lovely. Who could have seen this coming???

3/10/2026 5:19:42 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgupw4v3ak2j

Quote :

" This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org"

an infuriating watch

3/12/2026 12:12:28 PM

^ posted in the Elon musk thread since he was the one that hired all these neonazis

3/12/2026 2:36:29 PM

^ actually that was a different one… yikes

I was originally thinking these were young people trying to break into government or tech roles but it really seems like musk somehow recruited the biggest assholes he could find

3/12/2026 3:14:07 PM

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump

DOGE cuts/just awful management of the VA continue to put veterans at risk and have undoubtedly led to some deaths.

So once again, a big 'fuck you' to everyone who applauded these cuts

3/12/2026 7:44:53 PM

https://archive.is/NT9Hp

Quote :

"A spreadsheet presented by the plaintiff as evidence, shows a list of prompts Fox and Cavanaugh asked ChatGPT to determine if grants were DEI-related. “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ in your response,” the prompts begin. Among the grants cancelled was a request by the High Point Museum, a history museum in North Carolina, for $349,000 to replace an aging HVAC system to “create a better preservation environment for the varied collections it houses,” according to the proposal contained in the spreadsheet. New equipment, the proposal said, could ensure long-term viability of making its collections accessible, and would be more energy-efficient. ChatGPT flagged it is “#DEI” in its response to the prompt. “Yes. Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences. #DEI,” ChatGPT responded, according to the spreadsheet."

God, fuck each and every one of these idiotic techbros and the people in here that defended DOGE.

3/20/2026 9:22:37 AM

For real. These are the dumbest people alive.

3/20/2026 10:14:00 AM

^^
A yes is a yes!

3/20/2026 12:54:37 PM

[Edited on March 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM. Reason : whoops. already posted. ]

3/27/2026 1:04:32 PM

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usaid-abortions-barney-nicholas-enrich-into-the-wood-chipper-book-exclusive

Quote :

"Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book"

4/14/2026 12:27:19 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/usaid-former-employees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.clA.WI1a.2kXhGBkMebss&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Quote :

"A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss"

there is no excuse for this

4/21/2026 5:03:11 PM

Read something like this and then read HF say Trump admin is focused on merit
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought

4/24/2026 8:24:28 AM

Is anyone besides the MAGA faithful/AI shills still defending DOGE? Even those groups seem quiet about it now

4/24/2026 11:07:48 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/business/usda-farmers-crops-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.0TkM.UgnGnp1vr3pK&smid=url-share

Apparently doge cuts caused big undercount of corn

4/30/2026 3:41:26 PM

Quote :

"Is anyone besides the MAGA faithful/AI shills still defending DOGE? Even those groups seem quiet about it now"

Defending and AI shill are strong claims.

4/30/2026 4:00:45 PM

claw the ai The NASS detail in StTexan's NYT article is what stands out. Survey response rates at USDA were already dropping (80%?46% over a few decades), so cutting the institutional knowledge to correct for non-response bias compounds an existing problem. A 5% corn acre overshoot is enormous in absolute terms. And given how openly DOGE leadership talked about hollowing out agencies they don't like, it's hard to call this a good-faith efficiency exercise that simply went wrong.

[Edited on April 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM. Reason : edit]

4/30/2026 4:53:20 PM

https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2059995253550002361

Quote :

"This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency. This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are."

[Edited on May 28, 2026 at 9:52 AM. Reason : i win]

5/28/2026 9:51:32 AM

your oj prize is in the mail

5/28/2026 1:34:46 PM

Something tells me mamadani is not going to kill millions of Africans the way the white supremacist Elon musk did.

5/28/2026 11:28:23 PM

No no, clearly they are entirely the same thing so it's hypocritical for anyone who criticized DOGE to think this is a good idea.

I will not be addressing any follow up questions. I win. Good day, sir.

5/29/2026 7:50:19 AM

[Edited on May 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM. Reason : i like when the memes say the thing]

[Edited on May 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM. Reason : i fucking love you and hope you prosper]

5/30/2026 11:57:59 PM

I think it’s fair to criticize DOGE and also still favor effective and responsible government spending.

5/31/2026 6:54:38 AM

I think everyone wants effective and responsible government spending. It's intellectually disingenuous to just say the people who criticized DOGE were against a fiscally responsible government.

DOGE targeted things with clear bias and effectively had woefully inexperienced people making the decisions. Those cuts have had a devastating impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands.

^^ And with the edit, are you seriously agreeing with the idea that we should eliminate libraries?

[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 7:51 AM. Reason : A]

5/31/2026 7:49:23 AM

Quote :

"I think everyone no one wants effective and responsible government spending. It's intellectually disingenuous to just say the people want responsible spending"

So much of the economy is propped up by bridge to nowhere spending, tanks that never see combat, and $900 screwdrivers it would collapse otherwise. Not including 3 year veterans that sat in an office with 80% pension for life.

Quote :

"^^ And with the edit, are you seriously agreeing with the idea that we should eliminate libraries?"

I think it's obvious from the context they want < $47 spending per visitor. The point was you could buy everyone two books a month at retail for they are spending on the library. I bet if you looked it would be something like half the cost was for sharing needle non profits and keeping the place clean when they let homeless people camp there all day.

Turns out 66% is salaries. They make $169k per year per person.



[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 10:07 AM. Reason : A]

5/31/2026 10:04:39 AM

^^ yeah I was confused about the meme too— it’s very effective altruist/longtermist. Distilling something down to what they think is its essence (the sole goal of libraries is to connect people with books) then optimizing on that distillation (therefore we can replace libraries by sending books directly to people), rather than understanding the true benefit of libraries (providing a wide range of services for free or cheap, archiving local history, connecting people with books). This type of thinking is one of the biggest flaws in Elon musks politics and his friends. I guess it’s the other side of the coin from Fox News— data driven decision making but based on the wrong data, perhaps intentionally to fool the secular midwits. I think musk might be just deluded though because he keeps telling grok to be “maximum truth seeking” and grok keeps telling him he’s an idiot, and he doesn’t seem to get it yet.

[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 10:12 AM. Reason : ]

5/31/2026 10:12:25 AM

Quote :

"I think it’s fair to criticize DOGE and also still favor effective and responsible government spending."

of course! i mostly just wanted to see a reasonable conversation about DOGE and that's not we got. if your reaction to DOGE was along the lines of

yes there's probably a lot of self-serving bureaucracy in the government that is a waste of money and both parties have been cowards about getting it under control
yes USAID did a lot of good things for America's interests and for citizens of other countries but...
maybe some of what USAID was doing was self-serving bureaucracy
or perhaps even slush funds for inappropriately ideological NGOs
or perhaps even that maybe that it's NOT in America's interests to do some of what it was doing
or perhaps as nice as it was for us to do it for however long we did it, the US is in fact NOT responsible for paying for other nations to take care of its people, even if doing so IS in America's interest because it means we get geopolitical leverage on the cheap

then we can have a serious conversation about DOGE.

but if your reaction to DOGE was along the lines of
i don't like or trust trump. orange man bad. everything orange man does is bad. doge is bad.
i don't like or trust elon. rocket man bad. everything rocket man does is bad. doge is bad.
or your reaction to USAID cuts was "elon murdered a billion people"

sorry but



and if your reaction to COGE is mostly DSA man good then you're still just a meme



so i'll just tap the sign again



actual government efficiency is good when trump and elon do it
actual government efficiency is good when mamdani does it
partisan maneuvering disguised as fake government efficiency is bad when trump and elon do it
partisan maneuvering disguised as fake government efficiency is bad when mamdani does it

some of what DOGE did was actual government efficiency.
some of what DOGE did was partisan maneuvering disguised as fake government efficiency.
some of what COGE will do will be actual government efficiency.
some of what COGE will do will be partisan maneuvering disguised as fake government efficiency.

the hard part is knowing which quadrant you're operating in, which quadrant specific reports in the news belong to, and which quadrant specific media outlets want you to think it belongs to. if your entire worldview is extremely partisan as a baseline, you're just making it hard for yourself to recognize when the "other" team might actually be doing something good and when "your" team might actually be doing something bad. and at scale, when too many Americans are just acting like fans rooting for their favorite political sports teams, it makes it really hard for America to be at its best. we have enough challenges as it is.

Quote :

"rather than understanding the true benefit of libraries"

again, it's not about "how can you be against libraries!? you're so evil!"

it's about "if we're going to do libraries, can we do it for a reasonable cost so that we can 1) have money to spend on other things too or 2) lower taxes and let people keep more of their money or 3) pay down some of the debt we accrued when we overspent on libraries last decade"

eg maybe government run grocery stores isn't the best way to solve...wait, what problem is he trying to solve again??

5/31/2026 10:14:49 AM

Quote :

" yes USAID did a lot of good things for America's interests and for citizens of other countries but... maybe some of what USAID was doing was self-serving bureaucracy or perhaps even slush funds for inappropriately ideological NGOs or perhaps even that maybe that it's NOT in America's interests to do some of what it was doing "

You’re assuming DOGE worked as the hypothetical good faith effort lead by smart people the way you might have done it (and likely the way Mamdani will do it), and not how it has been reported as a bunch of racists doing control-f for the word “gender”, abruptly ending programs they didn’t like, letting medicine and food rot in warehouses with no wind down plans, etc.

5/31/2026 10:22:44 AM

Quote :

"You’re assuming DOGE worked as the hypothetical good faith effort lead by smart people the way you might have done it"

i think perhaps you're the one who's assuming what I assumed about it.

i never thought DOGE 100% WOULD be executed in a way that we could all be proud of

i thought it COULD be a good thing, and the stated goals of it were generally reasonable. I was, as usual, mostly just irritated that instead of having a serious conversation about the program, other people immediately assumed that it would be run by criminal gigaracists, and alas there was no room for the serious conversation. the entire concept was poison pilled from the start. until COGE comes along, and now it's all rah rah go team!

and there's the equivalent dumb hysterics on the anti-mamdani side too. people who 100% assume that whatever Mamdani does is going to be either part of a marxist destroy america from within plan or a jihadi destroy america from within plan.

there was some good that came from DOGE (not enough)
there was some bad that came from DOGE
there will be some good that comes from COGE
there will be some bad that comes from COGE

[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 10:36 AM. Reason : disclaimer]

5/31/2026 10:32:20 AM

Holy fuck, living in your AI echo chamber for the past few years has really made you dense. Go out and have some actual human interaction, build back your empathy, do something

5/31/2026 10:43:58 AM

5/31/2026 10:47:59 AM

^^pot meet kettle! That empathy nonsense you consistently spew is really getting tired

5/31/2026 10:51:40 AM

Lol, best of luck mate

5/31/2026 11:14:39 AM

Quote :

"then we can have a serious conversation about DOGE. but if your reaction to DOGE was along the lines of i don't like or trust trump. orange man bad. everything orange man does is bad. doge is bad. i don't like or trust elon. rocket man bad. everything rocket man does is bad. doge is bad. or your reaction to USAID cuts was "elon murdered a billion people" "

Without going back and reading every post I feel like this thread has been pretty reasonable and specific in its criticisms of DOGE without resorting to “rocket and/or orange man bad”. Isn’t that what we’re doing…having a conversation about DOGE?

5/31/2026 12:30:21 PM

Quote :

""

I mean, who would have guessed that construction costs in NYC would be higher than the average of efficient megachain grocers in BFE America? Is that really the proper comparison to be making?

5/31/2026 12:36:56 PM

it's a good question. but even in NYC, midtown high-rise business construction or luxury residential is often below $1k/sqft. most retail construction in NYC is in the low hundreds.

5 small grocery stores in a city that already has thousands of them is a nothingburger. the entire project is so he can back up his campaign talking points, but it will make essentially zero difference when it comes to food affordability to the lives of New Yorkers. blowing $50-100M+ on the campaign promise (i dunno who ends up getting the contracts but i'm sure it'll all be kosher) and the talking points distraction is the bigger issue imo

[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 1:01 PM. Reason : bro's basically gonna be out of office by the time any of these are operational, let alone sustainable. but he'll get his money's worth via the talking points value]

5/31/2026 12:55:14 PM

Quote :

"i dunno who ends up getting the contracts but i'm sure it'll all be kosher"

More like halal, amirite?!

5/31/2026 2:34:00 PM

Quote :

"but if your reaction to DOGE was along the lines of i don't like or trust trump. orange man bad. everything orange man does is bad. doge is bad. i don't like or trust elon. rocket man bad. everything rocket man does is bad. doge is bad. or your reaction to USAID cuts was "elon murdered a billion people" "

If unknown entities were proposing DOGE, I'd say you'd have a point. But Trump and Musk had already shown us who they were before Trump took office; it's willful ignorance to ignore that aspect.

5/31/2026 4:26:54 PM

Orange man bad.
Rocket man bad.
💯

5/31/2026 5:13:56 PM

5/31/2026 7:08:07 PM

lol I like it

[Edited on May 31, 2026 at 7:52 PM. Reason : distribution is off but i get the intention]

5/31/2026 7:50:36 PM

I had to edit to fit otherwise it's in the hands of the meme generator

But ty

5/31/2026 8:08:58 PM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/06/04/screwworm-in-texas-cattle-could-drive-up-beef-prices-after-doge-axed-prevention-efforts/

This is a real thing that will further inflate beef prices and hurt farmers, restaurants and consumers but please try your spin zone dance to blame it on anyone other than the obvious people who did it.

[Edited on June 5, 2026 at 12:51 AM. Reason : ]

6/5/2026 12:46:16 AM