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February 18, 2025, 12:29 p.m.

It is important to pay attention to the language of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” and to determine that three of the four words in the name are targeted illusions. Doge is not a department and does not focus on the efficiency of the government.

Do you remember all the things that the Tech industry told us that they were true, but that wasn’t true? Uber was a pleasant idea for the “sharing” of trips-which can be a pleasant idea-which caused the media as well as the supervisory authorities in states and cities in the whole country and the world to not notify the “ride” or to take care that “rides” created an on-demand taxi service, the attempted to escape for years to Contract protection or the reduction of the bikes or the reduction. Airbnb was also in accordance with the “hosting” – “guests” – in their house, while considerable parts of the housing offer of the global cities in de -Facto -hotel rooms without accompanying regulations. The ingenious use and abuse of the English language have enabled many of Big Tech’s greatest successes.

Now even people who oppose the actions of Musk’s “department” are in the same trap to use the words of Big Tech.

First, “department”. The word department seems to be an anodyne type to describe what Musk’s Doge is. However, the word “department” in Washington means something specific: a government unit created by the congress, which was confirmed by the Senate after a hearing of the public committee. Donald Trump or his legal advisors know that; The executive order that creates this “department department” in its small print is really just a renaming an existing agency, the United States Digital Service. This is important: If you call this service as a “department”, she invests with a weight that it does not have.

Second, the concept of “government efficiency”. Just like “sharing” a car ride or “hosting” of a “guest” in your house, it is difficult to apply for the term. Efficiency is impartial and neutral; Who can apply for something to do something – something – better and less? But Doge does not focus on efficiency. The disturbance of an entire agency created and financed by the Congress – USA – is not the same as the search for efficiency in this agency.

In fact, “Disrupt” is a favorite word of the technical industrial and the right term for what Doge USAID is do not “closed” or abolished. Trump cannot close or abolish USAID or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Only the congress can do that.

The early actions of Doge illustrate that Musk or a right -wing team, which musk actually understands this reality, illustrates this reality in the decisions of the USA and the CFPB, although they were approved by the congress, and both companies under exploitation contradicting contradictions, the artifacts of their creation of the congress as “independent”, but within the Federal Ministry of the Federal Ministry of Congress, and what the State Ministry, and what the State Ministry has, and what the ADS -Ressideration is, on the favorable Resside -Funding method, on the relevant redundry -/rynity -/ressiders’ method on the way to the stress of the reduction -/RESSIS -DESSID -DESSID -RESSID -Resside -Resside -Resside. -Side method acts. Appropriation of the congress.

All of this pun and this technique is important because Musk uses clever words to distract the political accountability of both Trump and Congress. The government still works as always. Tech -Bros do not finance or remove the government and create or create government departments or agencies. Only the congress does.

The true crisis is still what it was before: not Elon Musk or Doge, but a congress that remains in Thrall too Trump and does not provide the normal controls that our government needs.