re: Elon: DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts

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No, I said his strategy was poor and I was proven right.

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You can't applaud Thomas Masses and Chip Roy right now on one hand and bemoan Matt Gaetz on the other. That would be hypocritical.

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You can't applaud Thomas Masses and Chip Roy right now on one hand and bemoan Matt Gaetz on the other.

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Thomas Massie and Chip Roy were literally fighting the guy Gaetz got in as SOH

So yes, yes I can.

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And yet, people still identify MAGA/AF as "small government" and celebrated DOGE like it was going to fix our debt/deficit issues.

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So, you're here to attack MAGA for believing that DOGE will eliminate $2t, but in the same breath, you also say they are not for small government.

You do realize those 2 arguments don't jive, right?

You're in here celebrating how there won't be as much savings while simultaneously trying to pretend that you, and not the people who want $2t cut, are the real small government conservative.

If you were half as smart as you think you are, your posts wouldn't be riddled with embarrassing logical inconsistencies. Like all the other simpletons, you think only you can dictate which policies are "small government."

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But they are on the same page in terms of spending

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You wouldn't know that from the results of his strategy and that's the whole point.

Again, I criticized his strategy and said that it would do nothing positive and possibly negative. That was proven correct. The person he got in place ended up having the same fights as the person who was replaced... I believe spending even more and sending even more to Ukraine. That replacement also got zero appropriations bills in front of Congress.

Explain to me how the strategy was effective with those results

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Prorate the balance of the cut to $2T across the board.

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You including SS and medicare?

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, you're here to attack MAGA for believing that DOGE will eliminate $2t, but in the same breath, you also say they are not for small government.

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The hypocrisy of what they say and what they do when action actually has to be taken is the larger point, yes.

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trying to pretend that you, and not the people who want $2t cut,

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They never wanted that money cut just like MAGA never wanted the money cut either.

This is the beauty of "populism". Say whatever the people want like it's Middle School, school council and you're promising a free vending machine in the lunch room, without any ability to do it or sincerity in actually wanting it.

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Explain to me how the strategy was effective with those results

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To be honest I think vacating McCarthy's seat was personal retribution for Matt Gaetz because of the way McCarthy smeared Matt's friend congressman Madison Cawthorn who did not win reelection because of McCarthy.

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To be honest I think vacating McCarthy's seat was personal for Matt Gaetz

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It 100% was

Emotional thinking is not rational thinking and that is a perfect example

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because of the way McCarthy smeared Matt's friend congressman Madison Cawthorn who did not win reelection because of McCarthy.

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I imagine this was part of it but there was a lot more, however a lot of people don't like Gaetz because he's your typica arrogant l career politician nepo baby

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SlowFlowPro

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Then stop derailing the thread.

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I imagine this was part of it but there was a lot more,

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Yes. The entire setup by Greenberg was probably part of it.