by Kindler
Like every noteworthy con man, Donald is entrepreneurial only when it comes to creating new ways to lie and cheat others. So here’s a new twist – why not create an initiative with a name that completely misleads people about what that initiative actually is?
Which brings us to the SO-CALLED “Department of Government Efficiency” or “DOGE.” I am pleading with you not only to NOT use these names but also to call out the media or social media influencers every time they do. And here’s why:
Probably most people reading this know that no president – much less a mere president-elect with zero constitutional powers at the moment – can simply create a new government agency by snapping his fingers. The Congressional Research Service has made clear that the power to create new federal departments is vested in Congress, not the White House. And that makes sense, since a real agency needs actual statutory authority to define and limit its mission as well as a budget to carry it out.
Yet if a poll were conducted tomorrow asking if “DOGE” is a government agency, I’m willing to bet that a large percentage of the respondents, and a majority of Republicans, would say “yes”. Nor could I blame them for doing so, since the answer appears to be embedded in the question itself, as in the old trick question, “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” Of course something called “Department of” must be a Department of Something!
Hence you see Donald’s ingenuity when it comes to dishonesty. But there’s another stinky wrinkle here, which is Elon Musk’s blatant conflict of interest. The Musk-Ramaswamy task force was quite clearly named in order to create this acronym, which happens to take the name of the cryptocurrency “Dogecoin.”
The history of this cryptocurrency is way too stupid to get into here, but the important thing to understand is that Musk has a history with it – to the point that he was sued for hundred of millions of dollars by Dogecoin investors for allegations of market manipulation. It seems pretty obvious that he came up with the dumb commission name in order to get the dumb acronym, but contrary to some press coverage, this is not a “joke” any more than Trump University was. Nah, it’s yet another money-making scam.
Dogecoin value spiked after Trump announced the commission, just as it has done multiple times over the years after Musk has brought attention to it, leading to the allegations (which he recently dodged in court) above. And Musk keeps getting richer off these slimy little tricks.
So, whenever this unofficial commission is referred to by the D word, both the lie and the market scam get normalized, legitimized and advanced. I’m sure that the media will point to its ground rules that they employ the words that the politicians behind them use, but once again, you can’t treat shysters who refuse to play by any rules the same way you treat decent people who respect the law, the truth and basic social norms.
So, call it the “Musk-Ramaswamy Task Force” or the “Muskaswamy Mafia” or the “Billionaire Beavis and Butthead Brigade”, but please don’t spread their self-serving deceptions. Language to these power-mad narcissists is just another tool of control – let’s piss them off and ruin their little scheme by refusing to play the game.
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