I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here’s What They Had to Say For Themselves

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  1. Reddit_anon_man on

    Great read!

    “Over the course of a six hour long or so deposition, Justin Fox, a former investment banker turned DOGE bro, refused to define what he believes counts as DEI; admitted he used ChatGPT to scan government contracts for terms such as “Black” and “homosexual” but not “white” or “caucasian;” and said that one of the grants he helped slash was “not for the benefit of humankind” before walking that claim back.”

  2. Over the course of a six hour long or so deposition, Justin Fox, a former investment banker turned DOGE bro, refused to define what he believes counts as DEI; admitted he used ChatGPT to scan government contracts for terms such as “Black” and “homosexual” but not “white” or “caucasian;” and said that one of the grants he helped slash was “not for the benefit of humankind” before walking that claim back.

    I watched all of Fox’s deposition from start to finish. The terse exchanges, the circular arguments, the pregnant pauses, all of it. The videos, available publicly on YouTube, were released as part of a lawsuit by the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and American Historical Association. They provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE. Even with Fox’s inability to answer seemingly easy questions, the responses are still illustrative of the recklessness and hamfisted nature of a group of young, inexperienced people who caused massive damage across the U.S. government, leading to negative consequences outside of it. DOGE as an organization has been linked to 300,000 deaths due to its cuts and multiple significant data breaches. All the while, DOGE did not actually reduce the government’s deficit.

    Before joining DOGE, Fox was an associate at the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nexus Capital. Now he is a co-founder of a company called Special, with Nate Cavanaugh, another DOGE member. Fox says the company is “buying businesses in senior care, adopting technology to pay the nurses and caregivers more, so that the aging population has enough nurses to meet the demand.” Before joining DOGE, he had no experience in government nor public grant administration, he says in the deposition.

    Read more: [https://www.404media.co/i-watched-6-hours-of-doge-bro-testimony-heres-what-they-had-to-say-for-themselves/](https://www.404media.co/i-watched-6-hours-of-doge-bro-testimony-heres-what-they-had-to-say-for-themselves/)

  3. MissSharkyShark on

    Again, just further adding onto the mountain of proof that all Republicans care about is getting rich at the cost of cruelty to minorities. Its sickening how this doesnt piss off every American.

  4. surfnfish1972 on

    He looks exactly like what you would expect. Still cannot believe the Muskrat got away with this.

  5. Watched a few of the videos.

    Each of these douchebags comes across as widely narcissistic as fuck. Their eyes were dead similar to that Kirk woman grifter.

    They obviously didn’t give a shit about the impact of their decisions.

  6. MattJFarrell on

    If you’ve got an itch for deposition stuff, I have to recommend the podcast Knowledge Fight’s “Formulaic Objections” episodes about the depositions of Alex Jones and his staff about his Sandy Hook lawsuit. It’s fascinating how many people think they can outsmart the lawyer across the table from them in a deposition. If you’re being deposed, you’re already losing. Say as little as possible. But so many people think they can talk their way out of it. There’s no argument to be won here, only evidence to be gathered.

  7. For the DOGE and MAGAT crowd, cruelty to others is more important over personal benefit. They prioritize their ideology and dominance above ethics and morals. Government sanctioned harm is ok, even if the cause is manufactured.

  8. How about deposing the actual man who put a bunch of randoms in charge and is responsible for the damage they did? Where’s our buddy musk ?

  9. The_real_bandito on

    What’s funnier is that this guy is supposed to be one of Elon’s geniuses

  10. “In my opinion, what is certainly not wasteful is food stamps, healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid funding,” Fox says. Later he adds when discussing a specific cut grant: “those dollars could be getting put to something like food stamps or Medicaid for grandma in a rural county.”

    That’s such an disingenuous argument because he knew that’s not what the intention was. They weren’t saving money for Memaw, and his claim otherwise makes me realize how stupid they believe us to be. 

  11. t00oldforthis on

    They should make billboards of all these Elon stans, hopefully none of them can ever find work again.

  12. “I didn’t see anything wrong taking away these peoples’ livelihoods because it was in service of reducing the deficit.”

    “Do you reduce the deficit?”

    “No.”

  13. Death-by-Fugu on

    These dudes deserve to be hounded by their fellow Americans for the rest of their miserable existences

  14. iAMTinman_Dealwithit on

    Just want to say I appreciate you for doing this for the public. Have been watching, and ready to join whatever group will have me to stop this. Active in my state, but lines and goalposts keep getting crossed.

  15. drk_knight_67 on

    “Fox says the job was to “reduce wasteful spending and non-critical spend” in the context of the U.S.’s two trillion dollar deficiency. When asked if he felt any remorse for those who lost grants, he says,  “Sorry for those impacted, but there is a bigger problem, and that’s ultimately—the more important piece is reducing the government spend.”

    So he reduces the government spend while the DOD eats fucking lobster tails and rib eye steak.

  16. Responsible-House523 on

    All white privileged men passing their uninformed judgment on things they don’t understand. Sounds like the GOP to me.

  17. CeramicLicker on

    “Why would learning about anti-Black violence not be to the benefit of humankind, the plaintiffs’ attorney asks.”

    God, thank you. I’m so glad to see people asking these jerks actual follow up questions. Not that he’s capable of reasonably answering, of course.

    But it’s so frustrating how long they’ve been making it clear they don’t really consider black, or gay, or female, or disabled, or immigrant people people and how little they’ve had to account for that belief.

  18. OP doin’ the lord’s work. Hope you have carved out some time to spend outside or with your loved ones so you can restore your faith in nature and humanity.