DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory (youtube.com)
Milton Friedman said in 1998 he'd eliminate Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Public Health and Services (half of it), Housing and Urban Development, Interior (should but difficult to sell off all the land the government owns), Labor, Transportation.
He'd keep Defense, Justice, State, Keep (to collect taxes).
Sacks said it wasn't in the cards to actually do this, eliminate cabinet-level positions.
Will the Machine allow this? asked Jcal.
Left media thinks nothing will come of this anyway, as they've seen it all before.
Because the system of government means if you get a position, you need to create some regulations to give yourself something to do, to work, but it also means you have to do that even when you there's nothing that needs to be done, and because it can be misused, an option might be just not having many actual positions, but hiring people to complete tasks, contracts.
‘Milei in Argentine has an 18-month head start on the US on this.’
Musk, Gabbard, Trump, and RFK (and Joe Rogan) used to be Democrats. (So is it a Democratic party?)
Democrats used to be ‘looking forward’ and not, as now, ‘pessimistic, greivance, and vengeful.’ Now, R is the party that looks forward.
Will the Democrats get another chance to be the liberal party after a period of rule by Republicans (or the Trump Party). So much pent up energy, in decades of langorous cultural depression, you can see people when they talk about the current possibilites in the US for doing vigorous business, not being ashamed of being a man or white or whatever, not accepting minority dominance just because power dynamics exist on a mass scale. We might see a bunch of new things, and people happy and working, but you can already see that they might not be all that humble or flexible while they get this breathing room. But if they establish a conservative and successful majority, that would perhaps necesitate again a liberal counterflow, or side flow. And the Left would have its purpose again. It's only natural the Left can't properly exist without its point of reference and provider, the Right.
Some speculate the reason Biden was smiling at that recent Trump-post-election-win meeting was that he was about to give Trump a bad hand by giving Ukraine more powerful weapons. While promising a smooth transition of power, not conferring, though, with the incumbent on this action.