Summary
Donald Trump appointed billionaires and major donors like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead his new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), aiming to cut $2 trillion from federal spending and dismantle regulations.
DOGE will operate outside federal oversight, focusing on slashing programs and weakening regulatory agencies, including the IRS and Department of Education.
Critics warn that DOGE and broader deregulatory measures will benefit wealthy corporations, aligning with Trump’s agenda to extend tax cuts for the rich and favor oligarchic interests over public welfare, further cementing U.S. plutocracy.
To everyone that thought we had an oligarchy: You haven’t seen anything yet.
The way it’s looking is almost a guarantee that crime will have to increase as well. Which they’ll try to crack down on hard, which just means compressing and compressing anger until it finally explodes with people slaughtering the rich and burning down their houses and businesses.
They’ll act like the people are the criminals, yet the people were the ones being stolen from the entire time, and had no justice being dealt.
Yeah, I chuckle to myself when I see some bothsiderist doing the WELLACKTCHOOALLY with the tired “leftist” critique about how it was always thus…as if.
Americans are gonna get poorer, then they’ll just blame it on the Dems.
Lol, of course they will. They control the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. They essentially can do whatever they want. Something goes wrong while they’re in charge? It’s the dems!
Wait, I thought they were there to lower egg prices!
I’m willing to bet a Venn Diagram between cronyism, corporatocracy, oligarchy, plutocracy, fascism, autocracy, kleptocracy, kakistrocracy is almost a circle so I use most of them interchangeably, as debating the variance is splitting hairs. Any one of them will vacillate between the others over a long enough timeline regardless.
The point is our “democracies” are an illusion to varying degrees of blatancy. No matter where you live, the wealthiest individuals and corporations have more power than the rest of the population, and their success is interchangeable with “national security”.
I agree with the sentiment here, but remember that DOGE doesn’t have any actual power. it’s just an advisory board
