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Because it’s happening outside of any legal oversight. One man is telling you “this is waste and fraud and abuse”, and you’re just supposed to believe it.

There also happens to be lots of historical precedent to this kind of aggressive purges that aim to install loyalists in government, not least Germany in 1933.

(Nazis also made a big deal out of stopping “sexual deviants.” Studies of trans people and their history were the first books they burned. And now the CDC in USA is removing that information everywhere they can. A strange coincidence.)






IMO, I think they're really just glorified accountants being propped up by a mix of Musk's ego and the left's seething hatred of Musk and anything trump touches:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886533392105177183


“Glorified accountant” is essentially how Adolf Eichmann described himself.

It’s not a get-out-of-jail card if you’re just crunching some numbers while following illegal orders.


Why do you think what DOGE is doing isn't legal?



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