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Sen Coons endorses Musk's DOGE (Original Post) angrychair 18 hrs ago OP
wtaf obamanut2012 18 hrs ago #1
DOGE is going to have the conversation bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #2
No angrychair 18 hrs ago #3
Exactly -- it is a LARP obamanut2012 18 hrs ago #4
Seems like it might be unconstitutional to me. Wiz Imp 18 hrs ago #6
I say it's a scam for shoveling cash to billionaires, and the Senator should be careful what he endorses struggle4progress 18 hrs ago #5
Some of us have to be on the inside. It's smart to do so. Jit423 18 hrs ago #7
Fear of Crypto Money part whatever BeyondGeography 18 hrs ago #8
Well, we can always bash the advisory committee like Obama's so-called "Catfood Commission" even though Silent Type 17 hrs ago #9
The stupid continues and spreads. TheKentuckian 17 hrs ago #10
Traitor alarimer 17 hrs ago #11
our democracy is at stake, eh? huh WhiskeyGrinder 17 hrs ago #12
If it slashes the Military budget... most here will be happy. WarGamer 17 hrs ago #13

bucolic_frolic

(46,972 posts)
2. DOGE is going to have the conversation
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 04:33 PM
18 hrs ago

whether we like it or not. maybe it's best to engage, be involved in the conversation to try to avoid wholesale scalebacks.

angrychair

(9,732 posts)
3. No
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 04:36 PM
18 hrs ago

It has no legal or regulatory authority. We should be drowning then in lawsuits not hugging and sitting around a campfire with them.

Wiz Imp

(1,789 posts)
6. Seems like it might be unconstitutional to me.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 04:46 PM
18 hrs ago

I thought Sen. Coons was smarter than that. They are not going to save billions of dollars, if they follow through with their ideas, they will totally destroy the US Government and the US Economy.

Silent Type

(6,652 posts)
9. Well, we can always bash the advisory committee like Obama's so-called "Catfood Commission" even though
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:00 PM
17 hrs ago

it had recommendations for bolstering Social Security trust fund and raising payments to those on the low end of the benefits scale.

Instead nothing happened and we are a few years away from an automatic SS cut of around 17%. Will we get another chance to do something under the gun, or will GOPers make the changes?

Point is, think Coons is right to want to be involved with decisions that will impact us all, and not just be a critic. Screaming and hollering ain't gonna stop the DOGE from meeting and issuing findings. Now getting those "findings" enacted by Congress is another question. Hopefully we'll do well in Midterms.

alarimer

(16,574 posts)
11. Traitor
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:17 PM
17 hrs ago

Musk is a fucking piece of shit who is out to profit wildly from this.

THIS is how you lost elections- by caving in to the enemy. Musk is our ENEMY. So is Trump,

Fucking fight for once.

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