@Typo-MAGAshiv @TheRedPike

I hope you expressed this same concern when Clinton, Obama, and Biden all overstepped boundaries.

Yes, very much so. This type of argument/attempt at dismissing another's claim works particularly poorly when you don't have any track record of the individual claimant's positions over the years. I'll note that in communities I've been active on for 20 years, the exact same people who were gung-ho for Republican and Neocon wars and constitutional/division of powers transgressions just conveniently memory-hole mine and their positions expressed in the past when it's expedient in the moment to attempt an unsupported partisan snipe.

DOGE doesn't actually control anything. They only give information and make recommendations.

They connected their own private server to official Government systems, with no oversight on what data they are allowed to access, collect, and do who knows what with later. Something that should raise alarm bells in the absence of partisan excuse making because they identify those collecting said data on "their" political sportsball team.

Sure, they throw out some high profile bones that they know their base will find delicious, but these work to distract attention from the full scope of what "DOGE" is doing or will do in the future.

@MentORPHEUS

cutting programs that benefit the lower earning 85% of Americans,

Except that hasn't happened, at least not yet. The USAID has been a shitshow for a long time. Last Feb there was an attempt at an audit, but it was quickly shutdown when they noted that the overhead was AT LEAST 40% of each grant. What the fuck? Twenty percent considered borderline criminal for private charities. None of this money benefits lower earning americans. It benefits higher earning americans and then, maybe, foreigners.

I find this whole "geee, we just found the Oligarchy in America and it is two tech bros" shit hilarious. Where the fuck have you all been the last two decades? Where were you when Obama bailed them out in 2009 because of their shitshow involvement in the equities markets? Where were you when they shutdown Occupy Wallstreet so they could get us to hate each other instead?

I'll be the first to tell you I have benefited from it all. But to quote Chappelle, "we are all in that house doing exactly what you think we are doing." It isn't some cranked up sperg and his gay friend doing this to you.