It may be this decade’s ultimate irony. At the very least, it made one hell of a headline for Saturday’s “Wall Street Journal”:

“DOGE Staffers Fear Getting DOGE’d Themselves.” *

[* Scott Patterson and Ken Thomas, WSJ, June 7, 2025.]

They were mostly young, well-educated, but inexperienced; and they were suddenly given jobs of great responsibility and importance, no doubt flattered to have been the chosen ones, promised great things in terms of future prospects. They were working for the richest man in the world and the occupant of the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. They really can’t be blamed for their arrogance and stupidity.

But the men who created the agency that hired them — the two who will suffer no financial hardship or moral uncertainty whatsoever — are certainly to blame. Because now, all the young, naive agents of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency — DOGE — who were recruited to slash costs by cutting government jobs and creating massive unemployment, are having to face the possibility that they themselves may be the next in line at the unemployment office.

They are in jeopardy of being DOGE’d.

On a human level, I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who, through no fault of their own, suddenly loses a job and a source of income. It is devastating, both emotionally and financially.

But looking at DOGE, not as a group of people but as its own entity — a dark, destructive, demonic, soul-sucking force, slashing away indiscriminately at everything in its path without a thought for the end result — well, then, the irony of the situation becomes almost too good to be true.

There are creatures on this earth — cockroaches, for example — that cling to life for a time even after the loss of their heads. And some other-worldly demons are said to be capable of resurrecting themselves after seemingly having been destroyed. While it remains to be seen whether DOGE will carry on without its head now that Elon Musk has fled Washington, it seems safe to assume that there will be changes . . . and possibly cutbacks in staff.

In all likelihood, DOGE — an illegitimate spawn from the time of its inception — will ultimately prove to be the genesis of its own destruction. Unfortunately, as with most of life’s mistakes, it will be the most vulnerable people who will suffer for it.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/9/25