You know Obama created DOGE, right?

[Mick1]

A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump’s DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn’t create anything. Obama did.

Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.

Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts.

Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities.

DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they’re embedded in.

But wait, there’s more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that’s right. All of them.
His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.

Congress can’t defund it because it’s not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can’t sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.

Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep State) IT backdoor.
Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency’s internal systems. The Administrative State can’t stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.

They legally outplayed the system and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Obama created DOGE.

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[Genuine Realist]

I’m going to cut and paste the complete Post on substack, of course claiming complete authorship like the sociopathic thief of intellectual property I am.

You should open a blog there. Much larger audience, potentially. Since Bari Weiss began the Free Press there, some three years ago (to which everyone should subscribe), the platform has become THE place for individual pundits.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

[Mick1]

Renz wrote it on his own Substack. The Left has already fact-checked it with their own unique(ly skewed) perspective:

What is DOGE? Exploring the initiative’s creation, legality and purpose | Snopes.com

Fact Check: Did Barack Obama create DOGE and Donald Trump just renamed it? – MEAWW News

A DOGE Origin Story: How Barack Obama Laid The Groundwork For Elon Musk

 

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[Genuine Realist]

The Note I actually wrote:

https://substack.com/profile/64073585-frank-dudley-berry-jr/note/c-105479033

I included an acknowledgment of Renz. Substance is close to being a victim of its own success. Everyone and his brother has a blog there.

I’ll stand with my advice. You should consider your own.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by Genuine Realist.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

[Mick1]

I’ll stand with my advice. You should consider your own.

I agree. Now, I just need a name for it…do any of these grab you?

 

1. The Radical Middle
2. Militant Moderation
3. Both Sides Now (But Actually)
4. Goldilocks Politics
5. The Centrist Manifesto
6. Middle of the Rant
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8. The Bipartisan Heckler
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11. Common Sense Extremism
12. The Overton Window Shopper
13. Purple Pilled
14. Neither Here Nor There
15. Zero Sum Fun
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21. The Moderate Menace
22. Nuance or Never
23. The Radical Squish
24. The Contrarian Compromise
25. The Golden Mean Times
26. Holding the Center Hostage
27. Centrists Without Borders
28. The Partisan Whisperer
29. Extremist for Balance
30. The Civil War Referee
31. Moderation: Impossible
32. The Policy Porcupine (Hard to Hug, But Worth It)
33. Middle Ground or Bust
34. Both Sides Against the Middle
35. The Bell Curve Battalion
36. Pox on Both Houses Weekly
37. Split Ticket Circus
38. Centrism Is My Co-Pilot
39. The Swamp Drain Plug
40. The Sensible Zealot
41. The Rational Middle Rager
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47. Boring Yet Correct
48. Swing State of Mind
49. The Common Ground Pounder
50. Live Free & Compromise

 

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[BeyondThunderdome]

I’m guessing Obama didn’t staff it with idiots who are taking a hatchet to important programs they knew little or nothing about.

Should there be some cuts? Probably. But not the way they are going about it.

NO MALARKEY

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