‘They Are Not Whacking Enough’

It needed to be said, given how much outrage there is over the still modest cuts that DOGE is making to the federal budget. 

Not that I blame DOGE. The federal budget is a beast of unimaginable size, but with over $7 trillion in spending, the savings of $55 billion so far are minuscule. 

Not that you can tell from all the howling in the Pravda Media. Those $55 billion and counting are THEIR money to spend as they like, so every dollar cut is an existential crisis for the transnational elite. 

But for the rest of us who are getting ripped off and watching our country go bankrupt, the speed at which this is happening is still too slow. 

“Cut. Cut. Cut.” Kevin O’Leary told a CNN panel that he supports DOGE’s efforts to eliminate waste in government and anticipates even deeper and more cuts ahead.

“This is a concept in private equity: when you take over a bankrupt company, you go in, cut 20% more than your… pic.twitter.com/fSnZcGPQEa

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) February 18, 2025

So Kevin O’Leary said the quiet part out loud: CUT CUT CUT! The alternative is to cut too little at a time when the country is headed toward bankruptcy. 

One of the frustrations I have talking to my more liberal friends and family is that they assume that things can keep going on like this indefinitely. Sure, a few bucks are wasted, but think of the children! 

Yeah, well, that is insane. Our country has been speeding toward a cliff and is about to jump off into the void like Thelma and Louise. If we don’t hit the brakes, the children will die along with the rest of us in the car. 

Ed wrote about the divide between those of us who understand that everything is broken and those who believe the status quo can continue. If you think the status quo is sustainable you are rightfully frightened by what Elon Musk is doing. He is destroying something that works well, if not perfectly!

The truth is that the system is horribly broken and needs radical surgery, and the only solution is to cut cut cut as Kevin O’Leary says. 

As Ed rightly points out, this is the real political divide in the country: those who think this can continue indefinitely and those who know it can’t. Trump’s election and popularity is entirely based on enough people seeing that the system is broken. 

Plenty of people who dislike Donald Trump on a personal level are thrilled by what he is doing–because they know the system is broken:

🚨NEW: @FrankLuntz says former Biden, Clinton voters who flipped to Trump in 2024 “love” how fast he’s moving 🚨

“They love the pace of change. They were very fed up over the last four years. They wanted action … results. They looked at prices … affordability …… pic.twitter.com/oTl0EDs3mx

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) February 17, 2025

The solution? 

Cut cut cut cut cut! They aren’t cutting enough yet. The barbecue has barely begun to render that fat out of the budget. 

The Democrats are in full freakout mode, and many people who still think the current system can be saved are freaked out along with them. 

Elon Musk has your Social Security #! Uh, yeah, so? The Chinese hacked that a long time ago. Elon is in the Treasury! Hey, folks…the Chinese were in EVERY DAMN SYSTEM long ago. The Democrats didn’t care about China seeing our books, just our own auditors. 

Chinese hackers infiltrate US Treasury in major cyberattack, officials tell Congress https://t.co/zwzhQMDg63 pic.twitter.com/m4ZZADhmL2

— New York Post (@nypost) December 30, 2024

Democrats are right about DOGE being a “five alarm fire” for the status quo. But they don’t care that the status quo is the path to national destruction. 

As long as they get their cut of budget, they are fine with that.