Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

This seems really bad. Did they intentionally pick the worst possible people?

This is uh, a more than a little disturbing. Is JD Vance going to say that he deserves grace too?

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I’m amazed at the mental gymnastics I’m witnessing from people trying to defend 100% of what’s happening.

When people were criticizing the age of the people on the team, the narrative was that they are young and energetic adults and that it’s offensive to bring their age into question.

As soon as one of them (age 25!) was discovered to have written some blatantly racist remarks, the narrative flipped to pleas to forgive them because they’re just kids.

Not to mention how quickly this all went from shining a light on the situation to insisting that we blindly trust claims of corruption with no evidence or even independent review.

It’s all so absurd to watch. Regardless of where you fall on the political side, the intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy is so blatant that you can’t possibly ignore it unless you’re resigned to being so hyper-partisan that anything goes as long as it’s done by your team.

> and yet the absolute frustration is that there is nothing that anyone but the judiciary system can do.

Why would there be? The people hired Trump to be the CEO, the CEO hired Musk (personally, I think it is mostly to serve as a distraction while real personal/political goals are handled elsewhere), but regardless, any government only works when most leaders (and voters) have mostly good intentions.

It is not feasible to have a check and balance on every decision, everything would grind to a halt.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone here been able to find one of the sites where "the COM" convenes or am I too old to see?