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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:
  1. 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
  2. So there should be a hearing. Get to the bottom of it. Was there something fishy going on? Simple.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
Is there a non-clown version...?
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There's always some clowning - people like comedy, so some will be voting for clowns. This is a clownvasion though.
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Clowns indeed
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