Project DOGE is Over the Target
I find the coordinated attacks on Elon Musk, the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, and widespread vandalizing of the popular electric vehicles disgusting. Obscene, actually. A plot line right out of Atlas Shrugged.
At the same time, the unhinged response fills me with hope.
Musk has become Public Enemy Number One, more so than Donald Trump himself it seems, ever since he became head of the Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Remember, this is the guy who cut about 80 percent of the woke staff at Twitter and quickly succeeded in making the social media app bigger and better! So no wonder they’re freaking out. The angry assaults on Elon and his team of young tech bros are so over the top—so desperate—I’m thinking that they must be getting close to rooting out trillions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse as promised.
DOGE is “over the target,” as they say.
Consider, for example, the Department of Education. Created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, we are told that this federal bureaucracy is essential to the education of our children. But it’s not, of course, and all the years since its annual meddling in local schools—and exponential budget growth—have ushered in increasing dismal educational performance.
With all the misinformation, doom mongering, and hysterical propagandizing about DOGE, I’m fixing to set the record straight, and to blow open the Overton Window of what could be possible to accomplish in the next two years. With a national debt exceeding $36 trillion, it’s critical we think big, and go even bigger, to avoid fiscal disaster. That means putting all the sacred cows on the table, and debunking, line item by line item, the big government shills in the captured media.
Enter our new video series, Project DOGE. Starting with the Department of Education, we have released a series that exposes some of the biggest, most wasteful, destructive programs and departments of the federal government. Thanks to the efforts of DOGE, you’ve been reading about the boondoggles at USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy. But that’s just the tip of the foreign-aid-handouts-iceberg. And what about the Department of Defense, the massive agency tasked with keeping us safe from foreign invasion, that habitually fails audits and really has no idea where most of those tax dollars actually went. And you knew I would put the Public Health Industrial Complex—the bloated agencies that categorically failed us during the Covid pandemic—under the microscope. Project DOGE takes on all these destructive, budget-blowing dinosaurs, and much, much more.
The series was initially released on CiVL, where it garnered over 1 million views in a matter of days, with an off-the-charts 12% engagement rate.
I’m a big DOGE fan. I’ve even read the Executive Order that created DOGE by repurposing an existing department originally created by Barack Obama. Ironically, that department’s mandate was to ensure the implementation of Obamacare went smoothly, focused on technical systems and data integrity. That’s pretty funny if you happen to remember what a clusterduck the rollout of Obamacare actually was, but it also debunks DOGE critics’ very first talking point about executive overreach.
Karma’s a bitch.
But being a big DOGE fan doesn’t mean any of these lofty reforms will actually happen.
Recent budget votes in Congress suggest that there are plenty of Republicans who would love to bloviate about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse without the uncomfortable necessity of voting for budgets and authorizing legislation that would make the DOGE reforms permanent. We will need a powerful grassroots push to get this done, bigger still than the amazing efforts to push nominees like Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., and Jay Bhattacharya through a recalcitrant Senate. Project DOGE helps to set that stage, making real action a political imperative for many of the same politicians who have voted for, and fed at the trough of, these boondoggles for decades.
So get ready, it’s time to unleash the DOGE. You can watch Project DOGE here.
