As the courts hash out the legalities of the orders supporting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the public appears to support the effort despite the almost universal condemnations in the media. Despite the prediction from James Carville that the Trump Administration will collapse within 30 days, a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that most citizens support the cutting of government spending and size. While the courts must rule on the legal basis for these executive orders, the polling shows continued support for both Trump and his agenda after the election.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) also has declared that “remorse” was growing among voters who were souring against the Trump Administration.
Yet, the Harvard poll shows Trump with a 50% approval rating, (43% expressing disapproval). That is consistent with the RealClearPolitics polling average, giving Trump a 49.3% approval rating.
What was interesting amid the ongoing judicial and legislative fight is that 83% of voters preferred cutting government spending to raising taxes.
Some 77% also supported a broad review of government spending. A massive 70% believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud and 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion.
Sixty percent of voters said that DOGE is carrying out the need of the government to make significant cuts.
Once again, our courts are designed to resist popular demands when they contravene legal or constitutional authorities. However, courts are also sensitive to what is called the “countermajoritarian difficulty.” As Alexander Bickel discussed in his 1962 book, The Least Dangerous Branch, the courts straddle this line between protecting constitutional values and not becoming a type of super-legislature. The political question doctrine and other judicial rules are designed to remove federal judges from making policy or political judgments.
Voters are allowed to bring about significant, even radical, changes in government policies and programs. They are allowed to elect “change agents” to use existing powers to achieve those goals.
Anonymous keeps telling us how bad Tesla stock is doing.
Here’s the actual figures.
Feb 25 2024 stock price $192.29
Feb 26 2025 stock price $327.13.
It seems like Anonymous can’t do simple math.
The math tells us that Tesla sock is up by 40% in one year.
She thinks your to stupid to check.
I’m not saying Anonymous is retarded. But she seems retarded.
Definitely retarded.
I wonder if Trump giving Tesla a $400 M purchase for eclectic armored cars is a factor?
We wonder whether your brain is broken because you havent removed that dirty butt plug for several weeks?
Ask George to ask Gigi to top using your sign-in email address because its full blown retard for one person to pretend he is fooling anyone
You do know that was done during the Biden admin. Since then, it was removed and Musk says he knew nothing about it. Why are you posting on the good professor’s blog on government time? Dont you have some actual work to do? Isnt that what we are paying you for?
How can you have any such expectations of anyone while you admire an evil dicator by the name of Putin?
Talk about a counter-factual, red herring non-sequitur.
Putin lives rent-free inside your head.
I never said I admire Putin. You did. I said and have always said I was for ending the death, the destruction of the Ukraine/Russia war. Equating that with admiring Putin is a false premise by a unintelligent, simple mind.
Kristi Noem fires DHS leakers, plans to find more
“I have found some leakers. We are continuing to get more. They will be fired. There will be consequences. Remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy,”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/national-security/3329502/kristi-noem-fires-dhs-leakers-plans-find-more/
Would you be one of those people?
That was Biden
How do you know Anonymous is a Broad ?
Anonymous is either a broad or a womanish scared little man. Either way the feminine pronouns are appropriate.
@Thinkitthrough
I know in the past it was idiocy to address trolls; but in the era of paid, overtly aggressive and paid for troll farms (i.e. 2025) it is crucial. Thanks for the facts. I myself, regretfully, still get duped from time to time, and we have to balance the scales.
The oil industry received 4.6 billion in subsidies last year and who was in charge of the government last year.
Keystone pipeline shut down poof 13,000 jobs gone. I’m not saying Anonymous is retarded. But she seems retarded.
Turls has officially become slimy–intentionally conflating general opposition to waste, fraud and abuse, with the chainsaw unelected Real President Muskrat has taken to the federal government. The majority of Americans do not approve of how he is abusing the power to push around federal employees:
From Axios:
“In a Feb. 13-18 Washington Post-Ipsos poll, a net 34% of respondents said they approved of how Musk was handling his job, compared to 49% disapproving and 14% not sure.
The poll displayed a stark divide based on party ID, with just 6% of Democrats approving of how Musk has handled his job compared to 70% of Republicans.
But when asked if they approved of Musk shutting down federal government programs he deemed unnecessary, a smaller slice of Republicans (56%) gave their blessing, while 25% said they weren’t sure and 18% disapproved.
By the numbers: In several recent national polls, more respondents disapproved of Musk or the job he’s doing than approved of him.
Over half of respondents (55%) in a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Feb. 13 to 17 said Musk has too much power in making decisions affecting the U.S., while 36% think he has about the right amount of power.
A Pew survey of U.S. adults taken Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 showed that Americans had more negative (54%) than positive (42%) views of Musk (DOGE’s dissection of the federal government has dramatically escalated since the poll was conducted).
And a Feb. 15 to Feb. 17 Emerson College Poll showed 45% of respondents disapproved of the job Musk was doing, while 41% approved and 14% were neutral.”
A Washington Post survey of 100 Gigi’s
GFY Gigenius
Megyn Kelly celebrated on her show Joy Reid being fired which prompted Don “also fired person of color” Lemon to lose her sheet.
🤣
The DOGE would be unnecessary if Congress did their own audit to document how much of the yearly budget they appropriate every year, and how much or our $36,000,000,000,000 debt, is due to past and current “waste, fraud, and abuse”, and then charging the executive branch/DOJ to claw back what was identified and to prosecute the fraudsters. The trillion dollar question is why Congress has not done this and if Congress has been negligent for not doing so? Are members afraid of what would be found, and to where, and how much of, the money fraudulently obtained was ultimately directed?
What is the debt genius?
I wouldn’t be caught dead in a cyber truck.
Anonymous keeps telling us how bad Tesla stock is doing.
Here’s the actual figures.
Feb 25 2024 stock price $192.29
Feb 26 2025 stock price $327.13.
I’m not saying Anonymous is retarded. But she seams retarded.
“Feb 26 2025 stock price $327.13.
I’m not saying Anonymous is retarded. But she seams retarded.”…… Today is February 25, 2025 genius and Tesla is selling at $302. The few occasions I make to this site I can be assured of reading your ignorance. Nice name sweetie. Cheers
So lawn boy once again admits he is Gigi. Now using GIgi email but signing in as anonymous.
His ARBD and TDS has gotten so bad he isnt even good at hiding anymore.
Turley once again shows his complete ignorance with how the federal govt funds its spending. When he accepts this, “What was interesting amid the ongoing judicial and legislative fight is that 83% of voters preferred cutting government spending to raising taxes….” without rebuttal, then you know he is as clueless as Trump and Musk. For all of you that are ignorant of the basics, once again, the federal govt is monetarily sovereign, it does NOT tax (federal taxes) or borrow (treasuries) to fund federal spending. The US dollar is NO longer asset backed (NO MORE GOLD STANDARD geniuses, that stopped in 1971). The US dollar is only backed by the “full faith and credit of the United States”. Nothing backs the US dollar except the word of the US govt to honor the debt. Yes geniuses, all money is debt. The only constraint on how many NEW dollars the federal govt can create is inflation/currency depreciation. Given this scenario, why would a monetarily sovereign govt needed to balance its budget? It wouldn’t geniuses. It would only create a recession/depression because dollars are being taken out of the economy. Musk/Trump want to balance the budget because they are ignorant of the monetary system. Turley, no doubt, wants the same thing. Since the 1800s, every time the federal govt has balanced its budget a depression has followed. Take care geniuses.
Fvcking moron.
A depression is defined as consecutive negative GDP growth.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING is part of GDP.
If GOVERNMENT SPENDING goes down, that will negatively impact GDP initially. Oops.
Cause and effect. Get a grip, spastic.
No offense, but you are an obnoxious azzhole. Modern Monetary Theory is embraced by academic kooks and cranks, exclusively.
The Federal Reserve indirectly controls the supply of money through open market operations – buying and selling assets. It sets the Fed Funds interest rate – the interest rate banks must pay for an overnight loan to meet reserve requirements – then the FED engages in open market transactions to create the necessary supply/demand equilibrium to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its targeted level.
It is not government, but actually the commercial banking sector that creates dollars through thin air via the alchemy of fractional reserve banking. If the Fed wants to increase the money supply, it will buy US Treasury securities from a dealer bank.+1
When the FED buys assets from banks, it results in an increase in dollar deposits on the bank’s balance sheet. But banks are only required to hold a fraction of those dollar deposits in reserve on their balance sheet, so they lend the rest out. The effect of which is called a “multiplier effect” because it puts many multiple times more dollars in circulation than the FED actually spent to buy the securities.
Go away.
+1. In recent history when market based interest rates were near 0%, the Federal Reserve began engaging in “quantitative easing”, which meant the demand for Treasury securities was so high the FED began buying riskier assets to try to induce inflation and penalize those who were hoarding Treasuries at a near 0% interest rate.
Since the article was about DOGE cutting waste, and one of its most recent targets was USAID, I figure this astounding first hand account of a reporter’s attempt to follow up the resulting actions at a USAID office in Cairo, Egypt is on-topic. Staggers the imagination.
USAID In Egypt Had Me Detained For Walking In And Asking If It’s Following Trump’s Orders
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/25/usaid-in-egypt-had-me-detained-for-walking-in-and-asking-if-its-following-trumps-orders/
“I’ve also been tracking how USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, via a series of NGOs, has been running what amounts to a massive human trafficking operation across South America, through Central America, and straight up through our borders. President Trump is working to hold accountable those responsible, but there is so
much more to the global workings of this clandestine government agency. I recently traveled from Davos to the ancient city on the Nile. With USAID’s nefarious activities dominating the news, I decided to visit its Cairo office to see how it was responding to Trump’s recent order slashing USAID activities. To call USAID Egypt an office is misleading. It is a military-style compound.”
Poll is bunk because it does not ask questions about what DOGE is doing in the real world. Also no poll can make it ok to violate the constitution and federal law.
I am assuming that if Congress has not specified exactly how certain funds are to be spent that POTUS decides.
I am also assuming that even if congress has targeted certain funds, the President can, if he things the implementation is questionable, the power to halt and investigate.
How many CIA projects do you think are explicitly targeted?
I know nothing about the CIA projects. And there is a big difference between investigation questionable grants and indiscriminate blocking of grants.
Lol! Turls, can I tell you how entertaining it is to see you doing your trump stooge job and trotting out this outlier poll while R reps are getting screamed at during the town halls they’ll soon stop doing? Hilarious…
Hmmm, should we sue the poll taker?
Good job ignoring the fact that just because trump and a ketamine dosed billionaire illegally fire the IG’s for each department doesn’t mean doge, or doggy, or dodgy replaces the GAO legally.
You’re a clown, Jon.
This clown cannot cite the Constitution for Congress’ authority to create “independent” agencies within the Executive branch.
Article II
THE executive Power shall be vested in A President of the United States of America
Suck it lawn boy, you booger eating stooge.
Look at your ignorance in full display. A president can indeed create independent agencies…, they just don’t get budgetary control. They can be advisory. Congress controls the budget. And a position high enough to make budgetary decisions on the order of what sir ketamine is trying to play off requires senate confirmation…
The GAO has the type of oversight responsibility Musk is faking like he has.
But hey he sure looks awesome all dosed out wearing shades and proving he’d seriously injure himself using a chainsaw. For my money they should’ve pulled the cord and let him rip through the crowd of c pac.
Can’t quite figure out after all this time whether you’re more disingenuous or flagrantly stupid. Either way, you’re a b hole.
Elon Musk is saving Americans billions of dollars with Trump promising the redirect those savings to Americans.
Meanwhile out of touch greedy elites party like never before
***Alex Soros and Huma Abedin hold star-studded engagement party at Anna Wintour’s home: photos***
“Fox News Digital obtained photos of guests leaving the engagement party, which took place at the SoHo home of Vogue executive Anna Wintour, showing former President Bill Clinton and Hillary attending the party along with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Also in attendance were Hollywood couple Adrian Brody and Georgina Chapman, as well as fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and her husband, media mogul Barry Diller.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alex-soros-and-huma-abedin-hold-star-studded-engagement-party-at-anna-wintours-home-photos
The NIH spends about $1.44 billion per approval of a drug by performing the basic and/or applied post research for the drug. This money is not repaid by the drug company. Rather, when the drug is approved, the pharmaceutical company gets to patent it, to receive a monopoly on its sale, and to turn around to charge the highest price it can get from customers (the tax payer). Not only do we pay for the testing to approve the products of these businesses, the majority of their drugs are significantly funded by taxpayers in the initial development of the drug. American tax payers pay tens of billions a year to help companies develop a product which the companies mint money on. Looks like DOGE missed this.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10148199
Now, I’m not saying Musk is retarded. But he appears to be retarded.
So Anonymous what you are really saying is that you want the NIH not only to fund drug research but after drugs are approved you want the federal government to manufacture and sell all the drugs in America. Right out of central planning. Where have you been when the Biden administration funded research on electric cars that were eventually sold by private companies. We heard nary a peep of outrage from you when you agreed with a project. There’s a bullet train in California funded by the government you should be on it because you’re on a path to nowhere. You loved Musk when he was making electric cars and keeping his mouth shut. You should see someone about your envy thing. I’m not saying that you’re retarded. But you appear to be retarded.
“…you want the NIH not only to fund drug research but after drugs are approved you want the federal government to manufacture and sell all the drugs in America…”
That’s what you wish I said. Nice try. I’m saying drug companies should pay the entire bill of developing their own products and save you and me billions upon billions. They might make less money, but so be it. Reality.
“The NIH spends . . .”
That comment is a lie from start to finish.
Here’s just one: The FDA, not the NIH, is responsible for drug approvals. And drug companies pay a “user fee” to the FDA for each drug submitted for approval.
GREAT NEWS !!!!
Latest sales figures show 34% increase year over year for electric vehicles in Europe.
Tesla sales are DOWN 45% for the same period.
Tesla stock down 10% today.
Tesla stock down 25%% year to date.
When Musk borrowed money to buy Twitter, he pledged a huge chunk of his Tesla stock as collateral.
I suspect Muskrat will be having some interesting discussions with his creditors.
The oil industry in the US received $4.6 billion in cash subsidies from the government last year. The latest study of total largess — direct subsidies, tax breaks and ancillary monetary incentives across all fossil fuel business operations — from American taxpayers, in 2022 alone was $757 billion. But apparently DOGE missed this.
https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-proposals-to-reduce-fossil-fuel-subsidies-january-2024
I’m not saying Musk is retarded, but he appears to be retarded.
Really? You leap from oil subsidies to Musk – acknowledged by virtually all to be one of the most intelligent people on earth – appearing to be retard? I think you need to connect a few more dots to make that argument sound plausible.
So, you’re saying people who manage the nuclear stockpile are okay for DOGE to hone in on, but the $700 billion-a-year to the oil industry… nothing to see there. Let is know when you have a serious thought.
Anony is using a fact-sheet proposal from Janu 2024—maybe he forgot that Musk was not around until Jan 25?
Why isn’t Musk going after oil subsidies which dwarf government worker’s salaries? Simple question.
Start small, work your way up to the big ticket items, so by the time you get there, they will work with you, and they know you mean business
You really think Musk is going after oil company subsidies? You think he’ll go after the subsidies he gets?
#74. Harvard’s studenten want fewer taxes? Shocking…
Gigi responds to Elon Musk’s DOGE email:
1. Last week, I attacked stupid, disingenuous, and hypocritical Turley.
2. Last week, I opened my foul mouth in attacks on fellow commenters.
3. Last week, I pretended to know what I was talking about.
4. Last week, I handed out lies, disinformation, and conflicting statements like Space candy.
5. Last week, I displayed utter low-intelligence by quoting (without full quotation marks), paraphrasing, or plagiarizing
material from such stellar and reliable truth-bearers as HuffPost, Salon, and Vanity Fair.
Somebody mentioned Judge Ho and Mayor Eric Adams, and DEJA VU! Haven’t we been here before??? Like with General Flynn and that idiot Gleeson, and EUREKA! Me and Penelope Dreadful did a thing on that back in 2020 when Judge Sullivan and his chum, Amicus Gleeson, got put down by a DC Circuit Panel, although they kept at it. Here it is!
John Gleeson, Esq.
DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON, LLP
919 Third Avenue
New York, New York
A Real Law Firm Practicing Real Law With Real Lawyers! Really!
No. 20-5143
IN Re: Michael T. Flynn,
Petitioner
Emergency Ex Parte Motion For Clarification of the Word, “Moot”
COMES NOW, The Amicus, John Gleeson, Esq., and for his Motion for Clarification, presents the following:
1. This Honorable Appeals Court used the word “Moot” in its recent Order stating, in brief, that “The District Court’s Order appointing an amicus is hereby vacated as moot.”
2. However, Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides TWO contradictory definitions of the word, “moot” one meaning an issue open for discussion, (hereinafter “good moot”) and the other definition meaning of no practical significance, (hereinafter “bad moot”.)
3. As a result, this Court’s recent Order is confusing, and I am not sure whether I still have a job, a paycheck, and any practical significance.
WHEREFORE, the Above Premises, stated, the Amicus respectfully Requests this Court to determine what the meaning of “moot” is for the case at bar.
Respectfully,
John Gleeson,
Amicus and a Real Lawyer
https://pansiesforplato.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/latest-gleeson-motion/
Yes, people will root for dismantling the government, but will then be stunned and angry when a service they need no longer exists. Like the “defund the police” people who were shocked to call 9-1-1 at 3 a.m., only to get a recording. And the farmers in the Midwest are pretty upset right now. They thought MAGA would help them, not slash the Dept of Agriculture and leave them high and dry. Oh well….
“Dismantling” is probably too strong a word. “Rightsizing” is more accurate. Doing what needs to be done without a lot of fluff. For example, you could defund the police, or you could defund the DEI Department at the police headquarters building. In both situations, you are getting rid of people, but I would argue that getting rid of the DEI folks makes the whole police thing work better.
I think there will need to be some transitioning of workers to departments and agencies where there are short staffs, like adding people to the social security and IRS hotlines. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians there, so there will be bumps along the way to getting the numbers right.
Given Musk’s chainsaw stunt, it’s safe to assume that he does want to dismantle American government. He is a megalomaniacal capitalist.
Every commenter on here understands the chain saw “stunt,” its illustration of getting rid of wasteful government spending, and its derivation from President Milei’s similar use of a chain saw metaphor. We also know the “golden chainsaw” was even given to Musk by Milei. Your pretending it was anything else just makes you look ignorant and fools nobody.
PS, the word “capitalist” is not scary to anyone with even moderate intelligence. It means some who only has any influence to the extent they produce goods that people want. This may be distinguished from, say, a megalomaniacal communist who, by contrast, uses the military and secret police to force people to live in slavery to the state.
“In both situations, you are getting rid of people, but I would argue that getting rid of the DEI folks makes the whole police thing work better.”
Not to mention the money that would have gone to pay the DIE folks (one must be included before one can have equity) frees up more money to spend on the farmers.
Are you really unable to distinguish waste and fraud from essential government services?
Musk is the one who is unable to distinguish between waste and fraud and essential government services.
Please be specific. What essential government services does he recommend be cut? You’ve so far dealt in unsubstantiated generalizations, which does not make you look credible.
The USDA, like any other government agency, does some good, not so good and some down right dumb. Some of the regulations are good. Others not so good. And others are down right dumb. Very rarely were they quick to respond. There are some good people who work there. And some others who are obviously useless. As with all the other audits and recommendations by DOGE, I think is a good thing. Might make the USDA more responsive, more common sense.
#74. USDA does an outstanding job in the old world. Clean , healthy, wholesome foods were standard. Now it’s all riddled with only God knows what. WTH is propylene glycol and EDTA and why is it in salad dressing?
No MAGA will watch that. They are allergic to facts and too dumb to understand it.
Unlike Franke, I won’t watch that because Legal Eagle is rolling deep in the TDS, so to him, anything Trump does is the worst evar
Two other prominent people said that waste in government must be addressed. One was Bill Clinton and the other was Barack Obama. Now there are three. One of the three means what he says and the other two were just BS artist telling the people what they knew the people wanted to hear with no intention of changing a damn thing. Promise made promises kept.
Clinton actually cut government and eliminated the budget deficit. Is the the one who means what he says?
Clinton did balance the budget by increasing the Social Security tax on income. Most of the deficit was lowered due to the increase of taxes caused by the dot com bubble. Then poof it all went away and the deficit went up by 100 percent.