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Even on a protest organisation poster they feel obligated to add 100 words about diversity.
This subreddit was lefty as frick just weeks ago - they'd suppress crime articles about minorities.
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/u/BrotaMafiaNew: most reasonable ledditor on reddit.
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GAO and the OIG for each agency audits the fricking agencies you can find their reports online most people don't know this because most people just say shit to maintain the illusion that they know what's going on.
Bu, what's not politically expedient is that before publishing a report or releasing a finding, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is mandated to ensure the accuracy of all information. This involves a process of indexing and referencing, where each and every word in the report is explicitly linked to its corresponding sources—and you can't make omg based kek "uhm actually BIPOCs are talking all your money, wagie" tweets like that.
I swear to god the massive shift on reddit to shitlib genderqueers and now rockribbed crypto rightoids are all fricking chinkbots designed to destabilize the nation along with their tiktok chink mind control
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What are the consequences of failing an audit? What was the consequence for the Pentagon losing billions of dollars? Why didn't those audits find what DOGE is finding?
Is an audit with no real consequences relevant?
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They're reported to Congress and the agency heads have to come to papa when called to the carpet.
If Congress doesn't do anything, it's on them. The data was always there.
Now—DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency has about as much legal authority as a neighborhood watch—it can make noise, file reports, and act self-important, but it can't actually do anything unless Congress explicitly gives it enforcement authority.
The Government Accountability Office was created by Congress and has real legal standing under federal statute. GAO has statutory authority to audit and investigate federal spending under 31 U.S.C. §§ 701-720, but even it can't unilaterally force agencies to act—only Congress can enforce its findings.
GAO, when producing reports, has to be meticulously factual—every claim must be referenced, documented, and verifiable. If they say a grant is being misspent, they have to show the exact line item where that money is being wasted. If they only have verbal claims, they have to explicitly note that agency officials claimed it, instead of presenting it as fact. They allow rebuttals, Agency heads get 30 days to formally respond, and they follow strict statutory processes to ensure their findings are accurate and legally defensible.
That's not politically expedient.
Now DOGE wasn't created by Congress, has no statutory authority, and is basically are glorified consultants. It can issue recommendations and make noise about inefficiencies, and tweet factually questionable information to their hearts content, but without real enforcement power, it's just an expensive think tank with a government logo slapped on it.
The EO that claims to be "supercharging DOGE" (get it?
) will be challenged and held up in court six ways from Sunday. The Necessary and Proper Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, grants Congress the authority to establish and regulate agencies as necessary to execute its enumerated powers. Consequently, agencies only exist because Congress fricking created them, and as such, Congress holds the sole responsibility for defining their powers, limitations, and hiring regulations.
Changing shit like suitability criteria and declaring mass RIFs requires procedures to be followed like notice and comment periods for proposed rule changes in the case of suitability and following the CSRA in the case of mass RIFs.
DOGE is designed to churn out "findings" fast—a rapid-fire political weapon meant to create a flurry of bad headlines, tweets and based memearinos about government spending on trans NOGS before Trump runs out of political capital.
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Well, that's the problem. They don't want their pet projects being shut down because of promises they made to people that get the funding.
What DOGE does at least gets voters fired up about some r-slurred spending, so maybe that'll change who they vote for or what candidates promise. I'm optimistically pessimistic about it, but at least it's in the fore front of news.
!chuds !otherr-slurs
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Oh dear sweaty, thats a lot of words to say "I couldn't be bothered to actually read the primary sources, and relied on CNN instead." Consider the possibility that smarter people than you thought about this, and realized they didn't need to create anything, the cowtools already existed.
DOGE was created in 2014 by Obama, and empowered with full legal authority by Congress. Literally the only thing the Trumpster did was change what a single letter in an acronym meant, all of the statutory authority for their work has existed for more than a decade. Don't believe me? Go read the EO yourself.
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Sweaty, your bait is too obvious—go use it on Plebbit.
The fact that DOGE was "rebranded" doesn't change anything legally. It doesn't matter what the can says—the reorganization functionally creates a new, temporary entity with its own structure, its own workforce rules, and its own agenda (the "DOGE
agenda" ). That's why there are already lawsuits arguing that DOGE is improperly constituted as an advisory committee and should be subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
But all of this is irrelevant. Whether Trump made it, Biden made it, or Reagan made it, DOGE remains an executive initiative with advisory capacity and no independent enforcement power. It lacks independent statutory authority, it cannot enforce laws, issue binding regulations, or take action beyond what DDR directs.
It can issue reports. It can make recommendations. But it can't legally force agencies to act—not without Congress backing it or by violating the Separation of Powers.
DOGE was not given "full legal authority by Congress." It exists only because of an executive order, which means it has no statutory enforcement power. That's why they use can Signal for official communications, or why they think they can, since FACA also prohibits that. Agencies created through legislation have real power because Congress explicitly grants them authority—DOGE does not.
Maybe they should have hired me, idk. They probably don't hire Vets, just strags who jerk off to Curtis Yarvin and shitcoins. !nonchuds
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not reading your substack
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BIPOCBOT
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Week long kangaroo court "audits" by a Ketamine sperg drunk on endless power and his zoomer interns is a little bit different.
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