I hadn't watched live hearings in a while and since I needed a few hours away from coding last night I thought I'd watch one. So I watched the DOGE committee hearing (mirror) live.
In a nutshell:
- Cause: Elon's little helpers finding billions being sent out last year to NGOs that
- existed for less than a year
- are chaired by political allies of the previous admin
- oh and the spending decisions were also made by political allies of the previous admin
- So there should be a hearing. Get to the bottom of it. Was there something fishy going on? Simple.
- Witnesses are clearly partisan, have nothing to do with the billions, and beyond their opening remarks nothing really gets said except the scoring of partisan points.
- The whole thing basically has 2 conflicting conspiracy theories that each side of the aisle is trying to prove, more than once at the cost of the witnesses.
There were 2-3 reasonable reps that were not playing soap opera. But, no new insights. Billions of taxpayer money... and no one takes the time to seriously conduct a hearing. No results.
I hate to say this but I'd almost welcome our future AI overlords, because if this is the cream of the crop of humanity in 2025, we're in deep shit.