it requires standing up an entity that almost certainly will add to the bloat and it will take years while more bureaucratic measures are established to prevent the fat being trimmed in the first place.
If this nebulous deep state actually existed they would've put three behind Elon's skull at this point if their goal was to somehow perpetuate its own existence. All Elon is doing is firing random office workers so he can get raw numbers to tout to Fox News.
I'm pretty goddamn sure that the fact that DOGE has basically been able to run unopposed is proof enough to anyone that the mysterious deep state illuminati doesn't actually exist, and never existed in the first place.
Even now we're seeing how judges are being used to proclaim that it's actually illegal to trim that fat and demanding those affected be given backpay. If you can't do it "properly" then you do it improperly and get it done.
It's illegal to mass fire federal employees with absolutely no warning and on bullshit reasoning (claiming "bad performance" doesn't work when you're blindly firing people), yes. That's been illegal for decades, this isn't unique to Trump or Elon. The federal government isn't a tech startup, "move fast and break things" doesn't work on a national scale.
Then the second you start cutting into it there's a massive media apparatus ready to say how it was a mistake and amplify the voices of whoever will complain about being let go.
Have you ever considered that maybe it's because they ARE making mistakes?
Massive ones? Actually take the time to think about which jobs they're cutting.
A "bureaucracy" with less people in it doesn't make it any less of a bureaucracy. A bureaucracy with less people in it just makes it a slower one, especially given the large volume of people that the Federal government is supposed to serve. Elon is doing nothing to fundamentally improve the federal government or the American experience.
Name 5 things Kamala Harris would have done to fix the economy that Trump isn't doing.
Her entire economic plan revolved around investing heavily in things like homeownership, childcare and entrepreneurship: increasing the child tax credit, banning algorithmic price fixing for renters, tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit, $40 billion housing innovation fund.
However, that's would've/could've. The reality we're living in is that Smoot-Hawley nostalgic Trump is now the president after campaigning on absolutely nothing but vague promises ("concepts of a plan") of lowering grocery prices and instituting blanket tariffs, and look where that's gotten us now.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it's pretty funny how you're going to bat for the man who coined the phrase "concepts of a plan" live on stage when asked to outline his replacement for Obamacare against Kamala, yet you're still somehow banging on about how Kamala lost because she supposedly had "no plan".
Name 5 ways that Kamala Harris would have worked for the middle class's "best interests" that Trump isn't doing.
See the above and also
she wouldn't have imposed massive tariffs on literally every single one of our trading partners out of nowhere. Buying a house or a car is going to be much more expensive and unattainable for the middle class now that Trump decided to throw a wrench in the supply chain with literally no plan to help move manufacturing or industry to America.
You can't, because Kamala Harris's only platform planks were "I'm not Trump" and "I'm a black woman".
She only talked about her race
one time when prompted during an interview with NBC. She actively avoided the topic and never campaigned on being the "FIRST [X] EVER", conservative news media, upset that they might have to deal with another Obama-situation where they have to watch their words more carefully if she won, hyperfixated on her being a black-indian woman. They turned her campaign into a culture war and wrote a narrative that overshadowed what she was actually campaigning on.
You (nor the news media for that matter) never actually paid attention to her platform, all you cared about was the culture war. "She's indian, not black!" or "She's black, not indian!" was more entertaining than any of the boring policy things that actually affect your immediate daily life.
The Biden administration's policies, which presumably Kamala Harris would have continued since she had no platform of her own, are what led directly to our economy being the shambles that it's in right now.
Name 5 Biden Administration policies that directly led to the economy being "in shambles" when he left. Was it reducing the price of insulin?
This is probably why he will pursue every other pardon except his, to highlight Hunter’s pardon.
The fact that any of you genuinely believe that this is coming from some kind of morally principled position is laughable. This is petty revenge, plain and simple. The only offense that Trump took when Biden pardoned Hunter is that he wasn't going to be able to witch hunt Hunter himself.
Does this mean that Trump could investigate Biden himself since he wasn't pardoned?
He'll never do so. He knows it's wasted effort because Joe Biden is one of the most milquetoast politicians to ever live. That's why he had to try and outsource his dirt-retrieval to Ukraine to try and get a leg up on Biden in the 2020 election. He couldn't even find direct dirt on Joe Biden, he had to try and go for his son, that's how plain Biden was, and that's why it's so funny how Biden got rewritten as some kind of Machiavellian mastermind by seething conservative media every year he was in office.
