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Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.
Not guilty
It should have happened at the beginning, when they first showed up, and started making demands in the lobby. They were an unauthorized force of illegal pirates, trying to access classified systems. They should have been gunned down the moment they tried to force their way past the front desk.
Then they "authorized" their existence, and now they have authority to go anywhere they want.
What are they like vampires being invited in?
DOGE is a terrorist group, don't fall for the agent narrative/propaganda.
Will it happen, though? Trump staged a coup 4 years ago and no one did a thing about it. DOGE has been fucking around for months now and no one has done a thing. No one in the USA is going to do a thing about anything, post a meme on Lemmy maybe? They're paralysed and unable to take action. They'll never react.
I think it's fair to say that not enough was done about the coup attempt, but there were hundreds of cases successfully prosecuted. That's not 'nothing'.
Trump was never prosecuted, was allowed to run again and is president again after his coup. Nothing was done. It's going to get much worse because NOTHING WAS DONE.
The distinction they are making is that it wasn't nothing, it just wasn't nearly enough. Woefully so. However, some people tried, but the assholes were already installed to stall and block the attempts. There were legal processes being followed, but the right was not faithfully doing their jobs. This was because they were specifically installed in those positions to not do the right thing.
Didn't Luigi have a brother???