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In the new formatting of the TRUMP 2.0 administration, DOGE, a new ministry entrusted to the leadership of Elon Musk, appears. There is something that needs to be clarified about it.

What is (for now) the DOGE

An acronym for Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE represents an initiative in the administrative landscape of the United States, entrusted to the leadership of Elon Musk. This entity was conceived as a body external (remember this detail) to the federal government, operating as an advisory board with the purpose of providing strategic guidance for streamlining government spending and reducing bureaucracy.

In other words, it aims to dismantle bureaucratic structures, reduce excessive regulations, cut unnecessary expenditures, and restructure federal agencies, leveraging an innovative and technologically advanced business approach. His mission is to promote a leaner and more responsive government, capable of responding efficiently to the needs of the citizenry, minimizing waste and streamlining decision-making processes.

Now the question is, why Musk of all people?

Simple: the Pretoria-based billionaire is known for his futuristic vision and ability to implement technological solutions in various sectors, so Trump expects that he will bring a distinctive methodology based on data analytics, the use of artificial intelligence, and a kind of enterprise management within the governmental context. Transparency and administrative efficiency are called for, so as to allow for more transparent and accessible management of public resources.

DOGE, then, is not set up as a traditional government agency, but rather as an advisory entity working in synergy with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to drive large-scale structural reform.

That’s right: something external, paid for with taxpayer money, that will have influence on the inside.

A curious fact: Some believe that the potential impact of this department could be compared to that of the Manhattan Project, with an expected end date for its activities by July 4, 2026. The Manhattan Project was the “top-secret” research and development project contracted between the U.S., UK and Canada to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. What did the outcome of that project mean? Simply, so to speak, the change of the course of war and the appearance of the whole world, with the nuclear arms race, nuclear deterrence, etc., as a result.

What do “Trump’s people” want to do? Following this logic, a full-fledged atomic revolution of the U.S. administration. And maybe that is exactly what they will succeed in doing.

Something doesn’t add up…

Let’s repeat: an external entity with internal influence. At the helm, Elon Musk.

Assuming that the Deep State would be nothing more than the bankers telling the state and its apparatuses what to do and how, does it not seem to you that this is the same thing, only “normalized” by the state?

It is a legitimate question. Why would one accept a billionaire tycoon in transhumanism, finance, military research, telecommunications as an “outside influence” on the government? Isn’t that what so many other overlords of transnational potentates already do? Then what changes?

This is the right question to ask.

Elon Musk who is the largest private contractor for government entities of our time. Mainly of U.S. defense and security, with Starlink, but also of China, from which Tesla receives substantial funding. Now he will be the one who will have to say how to manage the federal agencies.

Clearly, the nature of the process that goes beyond the concept of “conflict of interest.”

We are witnessing a formalization of the Deep State, a step that will blur the fine line between public and private even more.

The word “Doge” symbolically refers to the head of the Republic of Venice, which was an oligarchic mercantile republic: is this an allusion to what this ministry or, more broadly, the Trump 2 government will be?

More importantly, why should Americans-and colonized peoples-accept such a thing? So many years of fighting against the Deep State only to find it in government. Great.

An era of new political relations, of new paradigms, is probably opening. If indeed Musk’s DOGE will be and do this, we will have to re-theorize many aspects of politics as understood in Modernity. Theory and practice.

For now, as we wait to see the DOGE come into operation, we can share some observations:

1. Political power in democracies is based on the principle of representation, which is the process by which citizens delegate some of their decision-making capacities (making political decisions, legislating, governing) to their representatives through elections. Without the legitimacy of representation, there is no democracy. Representation is based on popular sovereignty, citizens’ freedom of choice, and the accountability and responsibility of elected representatives.

In doing so, DOGE could truly legitimize a form of outside interference that arbitrarily nullifies, ipso facto, the need for and effectiveness of representation, falsifying democracy to the point of making it an aesthetic virtualization.

2. Admitting that democracy does not interest us, and also admitting its eventual termination or falsification through the activity of the DOGE, a kind of political hybrid would be formed, almost like an oligarchic patriciate. The fact that it is an external political entity suggests that there will probably not even be a need to be accountable to the government and that, perhaps, the government will have no decision-making power over DOGE. Literally a “parallel republic.”

This forces us to ask questions about the legal system and political practice of this configuration. It is unclear what kind and how much power DOGE will have in American politics. It is unclear what legislative backstop there will be. The threefold separation of state powers, as defined by the fathers of the modern era, suddenly collapses.

3. The president, we ask, what will he become? If a potentially limitless external entity will be able to influence the government, then who will really have the power, the DOGE or the President?

This is no small question. The election elected the president, not the DOGE. Musk was not directly voted in by anyone, yet he finds himself with enormous power, which we can also interpret as an extension and reshaping of his financial power.

It will be interesting to delve into the new course of American politics. What is certainly shocking is that the Deep State changes name and symbols, but not function. It is all about communication. Infowarfare works more than ever.

Then again, these American pranksters chose the name DOGE, from the maritime republic of Venice. A perfectly thalassocratic choice. The Empire of the Sea is preparing its fleet.