Why the American People and the Courts mostly approve DOGE

[daveman]

Nothing.

Uh huh. So why are you defending corrupt Democrats who were?

 

[Hector12]

Uh huh. So why are you defending corrupt Democrats who were?

Broadly speaking, I agree with the Republicans on the issues of race, crime, and immigration. I agree with the Democrats on the issues of taxing, spending, and the environment. If I only voted for politicians who agreed with me on everything, I would never vote.

I like the Democrat Party that existed from the elections of 1932 to 1964. I think the civil rights legislation and the War on Poverty were well intended mistakes.

 

[daveman]

Broadly speaking, I agree with the Republicans on the issues of race, crime, and immigration. I agree with the Democrats on the issues of taxing, spending, and the environment. If I only voted for politicians who agreed with me on everything, I would never vote.

I like the Democrat Party that existed from the elections of 1932 to 1964. I think the civil rights legislation and the War on Poverty were well intended mistakes.

Democrats' taxing, spending, and the environment will bankrupt this nation. There is no rational reason to support them on these issues.

 

[Hector12]

Democrats' taxing, spending, and the environment will bankrupt this nation. There is no rational reason to support them on these issues.

Global warming is an existential threat. We need to quickly migrate away from fossil fuels to the use of environmentally benign sources of energy.

 

[daveman]

Global warming is an existential threat. We need to quickly migrate away from fossil fuels to the use of environmentally benign sources of energy.

Not everything can be electrified, and the grid won't sustain replacing most ICE vehicles with electric.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The insanity of the Biden administration finally became apparent to a majority of Americans who have long questioned a lot of foreign aid but are now also with cause properly questioning how honest and effective/efficient their government is for the people of America.

Open borders, 'wokeness', fraud, waste and corruption are now important to the people and they mostly applaud a government who is correcting that as quickly as they can.

And that common sense mentality is now gaining a foothold in Europe.

"If you beamed in from Mars, you could learn everything about the state of the West and its politics through a split screen last week.

On one half is an unhinged b-rated street-theater, suicide-march of mostly geriatric Democrats protesting Elon Musk’s effort to cut fraud, waste, and abuse — dandies like an EPA grant of $50 million to a group that believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine,” $8 billion to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to use proper gender-fluid pronouns and grants for drag queen shows in Ecuador.

Across the Atlantic at the same time were the pursed lips and stone faces of the priggish European Union bureaucratic elites warned by Vice President J.D. Vance about their increasing illiberalism — in particular their censorship and criminalization of political views in conflict with the EU’s yawning bureaucratic decrees. . . ."

And the money paragraph in the article is:
". . . The problem for progressives is the bureaucracy is increasingly counter-majoritarian: voters on both sides of the pond do not approve of the cultural revolution or the layers of bloat and waste that accompany it. . ."

Jeffrey Epstein, former Democrat counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, in a rare case of pure intellectual honesty for a Democrat, spells out a lot of it in this article.

Why voters and courts are supporting a bureaucratic slim-down

On both sides of the Atlantic, voters want small government.

nypost.com

Question: What justification do those on the left have to oppose cutting the waste, fraud, inefficiency, ineffectiveness, incompetence, corruption out of our federal government?

The Washington Post claimed back in June 2024 -

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But Trump is doing something about it. TDS is so bad, the Left detest Trump trying to reduce Federal spending.

 

[Foxfyre]

The Washington Post claimed back in June 2024 -

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But Trump is doing something about it. TDS is so bad, the Left detest Trump trying to reduce Federal spending.

Can't get past the WAPO paywall. But I agree Trump and DOGE are doing something about it. At least they are doing what they can to slow it down and hopefully reverse it.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Can't get past the WAPO paywall. But I agree Trump and DOGE are doing something about it. At least they are doing what they can to slow it down and hopefully reverse it.

Here's an Archive version -

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The original link worked for me, no paywall.

 

[Foxfyre]

Here's an Archive version -

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The original link worked for me, no paywall.

You may not have yet exhausted your minimum number of articles to read free?

Who knows?

 

[Hector12]

Uh huh. So why are you defending corrupt Democrats who were?

USAID is about one percent of federal expenses. It serves useful goals.

 

[Hector12]

Uh huh. So why are you defending corrupt Democrats who were?

I am surprised a Republican has the never to raise the topic of corruption. This is true of Trump:


Convicted Felon
Found liable for Fraud, Defamation and Sexual Assault
Indicted in Election Fraud and Willful Retention of Documents related to the National Defense
No longer allowed to sit on the Board of a Charity in the state of NY due to fraud done with the Trump Foundation charity
Cheated on all his wives

 

[Robert W]

Global warming is an existential threat. We need to quickly migrate away from fossil fuels to the use of environmentally benign sources of energy.

If that was true, this entire forum would be all for the Democrats so called solution.
Who is responsible for your extreme alarm? I can show you a lot of places globally that are actually cooler and those fretted over are actually not setting heat records. We have experts denouncing this scare campaign. Who told you the lies? We are using oil supplies that scientists tell us are replenishing. Science will do a lot to cut down petroleum use. But it is not any emergency.

 

[Hector12]

If that was true, this entire forum would be all for the Democrats so called solution.
Who is responsible for your extreme alarm? I can show you a lot of places globally that are actually cooler and those fretted over are actually not setting heat records. We have experts denouncing this scare campaign. Who told you the lies? We are using oil supplies that scientists tell us are replenishing. Science will do a lot to cut down petroleum use. But it is not any emergency.

Whoever told you that we are "replenishing" oil sources lied. Oil sources are finite.

 

[Robert W]

Whoever told you that we are "replenishin

g" oil sources lied. Oil sources are finite.

 

[Hector12]

Robert W, if you have read The Myth of Fossil Fuels, explain Thomas Gold's argument in your own words. If you can't to that, you do not understand it.

 

[justoffal]

So pknopp , what in the article is fake news? The author is a prominent Democrat. What specifically did he get wrong? Can you answer the question in the OP?

He is a dutiful drone.
It's all REAL news

Jo

 

[daveman]

USAID is about one percent of federal expenses. It serves useful goals.

Enriching corrupt Democrats is not useful.

 

[daveman]

I am surprised a Republican has the never to raise the topic of corruption. This is true of Trump:


Convicted Felon
Found liable for Fraud, Defamation and Sexual Assault
Indicted in Election Fraud and Willful Retention of Documents related to the National Defense
No longer allowed to sit on the Board of a Charity in the state of NY due to fraud done with the Trump Foundation charity
Cheated on all his wives

It's always funny when Democrats claim to be on the side of law and order.

 

[daveman]

If that was true, this entire forum would be all for the Democrats so called solution.
Who is responsible for your extreme alarm? I can show you a lot of places globally that are actually cooler and those fretted over are actually not setting heat records. We have experts denouncing this scare campaign. Who told you the lies? We are using oil supplies that scientists tell us are replenishing. Science will do a lot to cut down petroleum use. But it is not any emergency.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

From Politifact:

• Of seven polls taken since mid-February, one, by Harvard-Harris, found 72% support a government agency focused on efficiency, but the question didn’t specifically ask about DOGE.
• The Harvard-Harris poll also found 60% saying DOGE "is helping make major cuts," without asking if respondents supported those cuts.
• Two other polls found divided opinion on DOGE, and four found DOGE and Elon Musk attracting more opposition than support.