1. I gave you two examples of popular D presidents who tried to do the same thing in the rational / reasonable way you want. They both failed. Believing some version of their method could ever work today - in our even more hyper partisan political world - is the most stupid thing ever.calpoly said:" I'm afraid it has to happen this way, or never at all. "tequila4kapp said:
I understood my friend to mean every federal employee, not all people in his department/Agency.
Clinton and Obama tried the "rational and reasonable" approach to doing this. Both failed, likely because 1) the institutions of government are so vast and they work to protect themselves; and 2) Congress ultimately is motivated to never allow cuts (those cuts affect businesses and people in somebody's district). I'm afraid it has to happen this way, or never at all.
Re the airplane crashes…we don't know the official causes yet but initial indications are Pilot error (DC), mechanical malfunction (Philadelphia) and weather (Toronto). I'm not sure FAA staffing mattered at all.
This is one of the dumbest statements ever. You don't have to elect a narcissistic felon to bring in a narcissistic nazi billionaire that has no security clearance that hires teenagers to fire federal employees without merit.
Instead of complaining about the process for how this is happening D's should get in the game. The most effective way to undermine DOGE is to point out that meritorious items are being cut and to engage in the process to save programs that we need. A great recent example was the nuclear missile people. That was an F up by this administration. They are back...not because a teenager axed them but because they are truly needed. But maybe D's can't do that because they believe all of these items reported as waste are actually meritorious. Heck, maybe we really do need things like Brazilian rainforest pronoun diversity advocates. More power to those who think so, but in that case - elections matter.
2. Elections suck when you lose. Your party should nominate better candidates.
3. Yes, Musk is a Nazi. In fact I heard he's Hitler's secret love child, the byproduct of an affair with Goebbel's wife. Blah, blah, blah. Your side needs to shut up with this rhetoric. Everyone you dislike is a Nazi, Dictator, Fascist, etc. Try winning arguments and elections on the merits of your positions and beliefs instead of vilifying your opponents. See the Boy Who Cried Wolf...eventually people quit listening.
4. Nice try, but per CNN, Musk has Top Secret security clearance:
"Musk has a top secret security clearance, an official familiar with the matter tells CNN."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/musk-government-employee/index.html
I'm not going to look it up for you but there is similar reporting about the entirety of DOGE staffers.
5. There was an election where one person ran in part on the idea that the government needed to be downsized. He won rather convincingly. Individual merit is subservient to larger policy objectives selected through the democratic process.
