DOGE Depositions

I finally got around to watching hours of depositions of the DOGE kids that leftist groups forced on them purely to harass them, saddle them with huge legal expenses, and, more importantly, discourage anyone else from ever volunteering for their heroic effort.

This is what is…

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 16, 2026

… known as lawfare. Legal processes are abused to make people’s lives miserable, not because they did anything wrong, but because others disagree with them on policy. Those disputes should be fought entirely in the political arena, but the left does not fight by Marquis of Queensbury rules. They do whatever works.

In this case it is even worse because these DOGE kids are not political actors and certainly not MAGA activists. They were literally there to perform a narrow technical task: identify wasteful and DEI grants in order to save government spending. They are not even decision makers. They are essentially clerks who flag questionable grants and compile lists, after which political appointees decide what to do. One of these kids even testified that he had donated to Obama, but that did not matter to the mob.

The whole exercise was completely beyond the pale and totally devoid of substance or justification. The lawyers pushing this spectacle failed to identify a single serious problem. By the end they were so desperate that they started questioning the witnesses about one ridiculously wasteful grant that apparently slipped through the cracks. In other words, they ended up arguing the opposite of their own case, effectively conceding that DOGE had been doing a great job while desperately clinging to the idea that it had not achieved total perfection.

But of course that was never the point. The objective was intimidation. The kids were harassed, others watching will think twice befor

Just learned about this last week. Offered legal support as needed.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2026