Jon Stewart gets so animated while monologuing about Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts that he actually smashes his prop mug on his desk.
The Daily Show host is near the end breaking down everything DOGE has been doing so far. He argues they’re focusing on things like cuts to research studies when they could be looking at the “$3 billion we give to oil and gas companies that already turned billions in profit” or the “$2 trillion we’ve given defence contractors to build a fighter jet that blows, when everybody knows that the next war is gonna be fought with drones and blockchain, whatever that is.”
“Capitalism is by definition exploitative. That’s how it operates. That’s fine. But then government’s role should be to ease the negative effects on Americans of that exploitation. Not subsidise that treachery with our money,” says Stewart. “I want DOGE to work. I want better efficiencies, I want to get rid of the alphabet agencies that don’t do enough, make the Pentagon pass an audit, but we are DOGE’ing in the wrong place if we want to really change the system.”
