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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] How to live like a Doge
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:57:59 -0600
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On 2/19/2025 9:22 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> This is very much off time, but sufficiently entertaining to break all
> the rules.
> 
> Elon Musk made a good choice with the title of Doge, possibly because
> the Venetians had also used the same name for their elected leader.
> The following article hints on how the Doges were elected and what
> limitations on their activities were deemed necessary to discourage
> corruption.  Eventually Musk will probably need to legitimatize his
> position as Doge.  This article might be a useful guide.
> 
> "How to live like a Doge"
> <https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/fodors/top/features/travel/destinations/europe/italy/venice/fdrs_feat_163_7.html>
> 
> I especially like the part where the newly elected Doge is expected to
> toss (silver) coins, from a silver bucket, into the assembled
> multitudes, during the coronation.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 

It's early for conclusions (although humor is always apt!).
DOGE is the renamed USDS, initiated by the Obama 
administration.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/what-is-doge-and-what-does-it-do-an-explainer-as-trump-musk-make-changes/3677054/

Like Mr Reagan's Grace Commission and VP Mr Gore's quite 
effective paring of waste in 1993~4, Mr Obama made some 
effort early on in the same direction.

So far, Mr Musk, and others including Mr Zeldin, seem to 
have made good progress. But the problem is many times 
larger than results to date.

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-lee-zeldin-announces-epa-found-billions-dollars-parked-outside


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