You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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    For what it’s worth, my congress cretin is loving polishing trump’s asshole and ceding away congressional oversight to the executive branch. At a town hall lady week, he said that the DOGE department was always DOGE, they just changed the acronym (wat?!) and it was always under the executive branch, not an independent federal agency.

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      There is a grain of truth in all of that.

      It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, that I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.

      They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service?wprov=sfla1