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hamhock666 | 1 year ago

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scottLobster|1 year ago

No, they're hiring people with no relevant experience who in one case was fired from a previous job for leaking confidential information. Another is an unapologetic cartoonishly not-subtle racist.

It's amazing to me how every time DOGE is challenged its supporters come back with "I'm sure they're doing the right thing" despite all evidence to the contrary.

I'm starting to think this ends with DOGE cutting like a few hundred million dollars of random stuff, taking out even more debt to cut everyone $5000 checks, swamp every media channel with bogus "WE CUT FIFTY TRILLION DOLLARS TO GIVE BACK TO THE PEOPLE!!!" and you guys will just lap it up without question.

ModernMech|1 year ago

It’s worse than that. They’re going to give themselves $4T in tax cuts for the 1%, cut Medicaid for $800 billion, and claim DOGE will make up the balance, even though it won’t make a dent.

The debt will go up $3T, the savings will never come (again), poor people will lose healthcare, and when people wisen up, Republicans will revert to talking about how Democrats just want to “tax and spend”.

marcusverus|1 year ago

>despite all evidence to the contrary.

What evidence? Be specific.

solarmist|1 year ago

No, it means having a security clearance. It has a very specific meaning.

Having been thoroughly investigated by the FBI to not be an enemy or a threat to the United States.

mullingitover|1 year ago

> I’m sure DOGE is not just hiring random bums off the street

The fact that there isn't any transparency about their hiring process is a big flashing red light that there was no hiring process.

These people are against DEI "because we should only be hiring the best, not focusing on race/etc."

So be transparent and show the damn receipts to prove you hired the best. Who did they screen. How was it that Big Balls beat out a pool of qualified applicants.

I'll wager they can't show their receipts because they don't have them. These anti-DEI people really just want to lazily revert back to a good ol' boys network, hiring only from their in-group or just hiring the very first candidate they personally like, regardless of their actual qualifications. The hiring process went something like this: "this kid was recommended by some billionaire's brother-in-law, and he went to an elite school so obviously he's qualified. The End."

alwa|1 year ago

What gives you that confidence? I know that I wouldn’t trust 19-year-old me anywhere near a mature, nation-scale system that lives depend on.

Zamaamiro|1 year ago

That's a definition of "vetting" that nobody else but you seems to have proposed. Feels like a strawman.