Snow Ploughing Kean, Jr.’s Latest Snow Job

I watch a lot of YouTube. History, mostly. So I am subjected to all manner of pop-up ads – two recent ones from Kean, Jr. being among them.

In one ad, an elderly woman (effectively, a stand in for the Congressman) asks us to “thank him” for supporting President Trump’s common-sense reforms to eliminate “waste, fraud, and abuse.“ In other words, the hard work of DOGE.

I get the empty marketing. If you repeat a tag line long enough, in people’s minds it morphs into a fact. It is the only true alchemy.

So, what has DOGE’s “hard work” accomplished? One could conclude that it has accomplished nothing. Or less than nothing. As previously observed by me in InsiderNJ, the promise was to quickly save $2 trillion.  That then became $1 trillion. And is now claimed to be $150…