Get ready for "Musk Or Us" to meet "DOGE R Us." And the astroturfers whose finances are about to get shredded will not like the outcome. 

The Protection Racket Media has seized (or is it pounced?) on protests at town-hall meetings over DOGE cuts to the federal bureaucracy. Politico gave us an example of the DOGE-is-unpopular media narrative this morning, in fact:

Rep. Jay Obernolte’s town hall in California last week was drowned out by shouts of “No king!” Rep. Glenn Grothman entered his Wisconsin town hall to boos and jeers, while Rep. Cliff Bentz of Oregon faced so much heckling that he threatened to leave.

But when the Republican lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday, few had wavered in their support for Elon Musk or his attempts to cut giant swaths of the federal government.

Gee, why are House Republicans defying the will of the people? Perhaps because the protests themselves are Astroturfed progressive stunts. The Washington Free Beacon followed the money, and it led to the very people whose oxen are in the process of getting gored by DOGE and Elon Musk:

When angry voters confronted Rep. Rich McCormick over DOGE at a town hall held in the Georgia Republican's deep-red district, the New York Times, Washington Post, and CBS News cited the scene as proof of emerging bipartisan "backlash" over Elon Musk's efforts to slash government spending. CBS included a quote from one of the protest's organizers, Maggie Goldman, describing her only as a McCormick constituent.

Goldman does live in McCormick's district, though she's far from a concerned supporter of the two-term Republican. A self-described "Democrat & Political Activist," Goldman, who did not respond to a request for comment, coordinated volunteers for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, according to her LinkedIn. Shortly thereafter, she ran for her local county commission as a Democrat seeking to enact a "more inclusive policy agenda." Goldman has donated exclusively to Democrats and sent Kamala Harris's campaign more than $1,500 last year, according to campaign finance records. On her Facebook page, she boasted of the national media attention the McCormick protest received, sharing screenshots of headlines alongside the caption, "We really were on 🔥🔥." ...

The George Soros-funded groups Indivisible and MoveOn were at the center of the demonstrations. Both groups launched national "mobilization" efforts targeting the "Trump-Musk agenda" and "Trump-Musk coup" during the recess period. MoveOn said its "members and allies will show up at congressional-led town halls and congressional offices around the country, targeting House Republicans whose votes will be crucial in opposing Trump and Musk's harmful policies." Indivisible issued a "Musk or Us Recess Toolkit" that showed members how to find their local town halls and urged them to "take the fight to Elon."

Nothing says "grassroots outrage" like [checks notes] Soros-funded groups sending out "recess toolkits." And nothing says "media narratives" like CNN focusing on twenty-one bureaucrats self-identifying as disposable as some sort of revolt:

Twenty-one United States Digital Service technology staffers just resigned today in what is being seen as a mass protest resignation against the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a federal government employee with knowledge of the resignations.

These are workers who were USDS, which is the agency that became DOGE.

“It is people who don’t want to be a part of this. For this group…it is a protest. They don’t want to be a part of it.”

Oh no! What will we ever do without 21 data engineers? Other than hiring new ones to replace them who are committed to the task at hand, that is, if in fact they're needed at all. Having 21 people walk off the job might be news at a company with 100 employees. However, even before the conversion of the US Digital Service to US DOGE Service, they claimed to have "700+ digital service experts hired into the federal government." In other words, three percent just walked out, which means that 97% are still working -- and I'd bet they won't miss a beat, either. 

The Protection Racket Media are getting desperate to sell this narrative, but it's utter nonsense. The latest Harvard-Harris CAPS poll shows 76% of Americans support Trump's full-scale efforts to find and eliminate government waste, including 62% of Democrats. Sixty-three percent support "freezing and re-evaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department that handled them," a reference to USAID, including 40% of Democrats. Fifty-nine percent support cutting government spending even if already approved by Congress:

Those all describe DOGE projects through the new USDS. There is no grassroots opposition to these agenda items; these protests are Astroturfed events plotted by the left-wing activist groups that are about to lose their federal funding stream when DOGE uncovers and ends it. The American public overwhelmingly supports those efforts. Why? Seventy percent say the federal bureaucracy is filled with "waste, fraud, and inefficiency," including 58% of Democrats, and 72% of Americans want a US government agency like DOGE that focuses on efficiency initiatives.  

Democrats and the Protection Racket Media are on the losing and extreme side of this issue. They know it -- and they are desperate to distract from it.