DOGE
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DOGE is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between January 09, 2025 and March 03, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “can DOGE get nominative determinism on their side?”; “Anger over DOGE and deportations has a natural floor”; “What about Trump, DOGE, and the decline of federal state capacity?“. It most often appears alongside Trump, Amazon, America.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: January 09, 2025
- Last seen: March 03, 2026
Appears In
- Bureaucracy Isn’t Measured In Bureaucrats
- The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs
- Against Against Boomers
- Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day
Related Pages
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- Trump (3 shared issues)
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- Amazon (2 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Democrats (2 shared issues)
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- Republicans (2 shared issues)
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- SpaceX (2 shared issues)
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- Trump administration (2 shared issues)
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- 2024 US election (1 shared issues)
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- 2026 elections (1 shared issues)
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- A Generation Of Sociopaths: How The Baby Boomers Betrayed America (1 shared issues)
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- Afghanistan (1 shared issues)
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- Agent Economy Of The Future (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
More important, can DOGE get nominative determinism on their side? “Ramaswamy” means “Lord Rama”, who - although cool - is not really associated with smallness. But it seems like the word “Musk” may ultimately derive from the Indo-European word múh₂s, meaning “mouse”. This makes me bullish on DOGE’s eventual success.
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Such a strategy is easy to come by. Anger over DOGE and deportations has a natural floor. If Trump’s base starts abandoning him, it will be because of the tariffs. But tariffs aren’t a load-bearing part of the MAGA platform. Other right-populist leaders like Orban, Bukele, and Modi show no interest in them. They seem an idiosyncratic obsession of Trump’s, a cost that the rest of the movement pays to keep him around.
What will our children think of Millennials and Zoomers? Might they get mad about wokeness and the pillaging of the American education system for temporary political cred? What about Trump, DOGE, and the decline of federal state capacity? Any of these seems worse than whatever happened in the Boomers’ heyday. The US has a way of bouncing back; maybe it’ll happen again. Still, the Boomers can boast that they passed on a better life to their children. How sure are you that you’ll be able to say the same?
2: Yahoo Finance: Man Bet Entire Life Savings Of $342,195 That Elon Musk Would Fail. This is more heartwarming than it sounds - it’s about economist Alan Cole and a Kalshi market about whether DOGE would successfully cut the federal budget by some amount. Cole was an expert in tax law and knew that the budget is sufficiently constrained that it was literally impossible to cut it that amount, and so (after getting his wife’s buy-in) put his entire life savings on NO. NO turned out correct, netting him a 37% profit after one year.