matter what it is I think they should be more thoughtful about it. Okay isn't that kind of true of everything all the time? No you shouldn't be more thoughtful about it. You should cut with your chainsaw, see what gets broken, put it back together, move on.

DOGE is lowering morale among the people who are affected. Yeah of course it's lowering morale but have you ever seen a company where they're doing big layoffs and all the people were like yeah I'm so happy I work here this week with all the layoffs and stuff? No you can't do big layoffs at cost cutting and also maintain morale for the same period that you're doing the cost cutting. That's not a thing. You don't even bring it up. It's just not a thing. Nobody can do it. It's never been done. Nobody will ever do it. No morale goes down when you cut budgets. That's it. Gotta live with it.

How about this one? It's creating chaos. Yeah it's creating a little chaos but you're going to have to take that to the second level which is and that's bad because the chaos stole your democracy. The chaos slowed it down. No the chaos came from going fast so it's not about slowing things down. It's just a generic political word. Have you noticed that no matter what Trump does way before DOGE no matter what Trump did.

Let's see what's that say. So I was trying to get my attention on something like to see him get more aggressive. Yeah so all right so Trump is saying on Truth Social directly to Elon who responded that he wants to see Elon get more aggressive which would be more chainsaw, more chaos, lower morale. Now is that a mistake? No it's not a mistake. It's very good that Trump is inserting himself to say there should be more of it. That's exactly the right framing because if you're wondering if it's already going too far, it's too fast and it's too chainsaw, it's too much chaos, well there's the president of the United States saying you know we need more of it not less. And all the smart people are going to say yeah yeah more would be better.

Here's another one that's dumb. DOGE and Musk will rob the country. All right Musk was not elected okay.

DOGE needs to be more transparent. Could you imagine if DOGE were more transparent? Do you know what that would look like? We went into this organization they have 10,000 NGOs and 400 departments. We've decided that we'll downsize by 8 percent the Department of Energy Democracy for America Freedom and you'll be like what? What even was that? Well here's a long description of what that department did. I was like okay I'm not going to read that long description. And here's 7,000 more of them we did today. How in the world could they possibly be more transparent in a way that would help anybody? Because unless you're one of those geniuses who's really digging into these things you don't even know what the department does. You don't know if they need more of it or less of it. They could be the most transparent project in the world and you wouldn't know anything. You would just hear the names of things and now okay all right well that sounded like the name of it was good but they're cutting it. Why would they cut something that has a name that sounds good but maybe the name isn't very indicative of what it is?

Anyway if you find yourself tempted to say any of those things about DOGE I recommend taking a week off because you're not going to look smart in public.

And then I saw on X that X user named Matt Van Swol pointed out that Jeff Bezos laid off 1,400 people from his Blue Origin space company last week. So he laid off 1,400 people and not a single one of them is on 60 Minutes bitching. And then Matt says do you get it yet? Okay do you get it? Do you think that Jeff Bezos used the scalpel? Do you think he used a scalpel to get rid