Who the hell is the administrator of DOGE? We still don't know!

Can someone please explain this to me in a way that doesn't sound absolutely insane.

That's today's entry in the ongoing saga of "Who the hell is actually in charge of DOGE, the crime ring rampaging through government records, cancelling government contracts(?), and firing government workers without so much as even learning what what their actual jobs were." White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt implies that well maybe there is a DOGE administrator, sure, but she's certainly not going to be telling the press who that top-level government appointee is.

This follows yet more attempts from federal judges to find out, from US government attorneys, who the DOGE administrator might be. Once again, the government couldn't answer the questions.

It's definitely not Elon Musk though, because that'd be pretty brazenly illegal! So instead it's Some Guy. You wouldn't know him. He goes to a different school.

Oh, and it turns out most of the "savings" DOGE has been bragging about, on that website that Elon Musk's crack team of racist hackers cobbled together but forgot to secure, are complete horseshit.

There are quite a few questions here. The first and most obvious is: Is there or isn't there a %#$#@!^^^#$@@ DOGE administrator? This shouldn't be a guessing game. When federal courts ask the question "who is in charge of this agency, the one being sued for doing seemingly illegal things," pretty much the last answer you would expect in response would be "the government doesn't know."

The presumption would have to be, then, that there is no damn administrator—that they've combed through everyone in Trump and Musk's orbit and can't find a single person willing to take on a role that will immediately saddle them with immeasurable legal liabilities due to all the apparent crimes going on. That seems ... unlikely? Have former Trump attorney turned "US attorney" Ed Martin guy do it, the man seems to absolutely love doing crimes targeting government workers. There's no way they can't find somebody willing to break the law for Ketamine Man and his sidekick, Agent Orange.

That, in turn, suggests that Elon Musk is indeed the "administrator" and has been from the beginning, but there's no paperwork saying so because even Trump's pro-coup criminals know that appointing Musk without Senate approval makes the whole enterprise wildly illegal—so they're trying to just cover up the "wildly illegal" part in the hopes that, uuuuuuh, everyone will forget.

Here's another question? What do the supposed "journalists" of the White House press corps think they're getting out of attending these pressers—ones in which What's-Her-Face LatestVersion spews a fountain of obvious lies in a spectacle cribbed from North Korean or Russian state media? Why are you there? Why are you even asking questions of this person, who is clearly too uninformed, too dishonest, or too stupid to be able to answer even trivial questions? How does this help the public? How about abandoning it, and switching to 24/7 coverage of turtle races staged on the White House lawn—surely that would be more informative? Interview the winning turtles, it's the job you were all born for.

Now would be the time to make the switch, since the White House just announced that the White House will no longer be allowing the press corps to choose its own pool reporters for events.

Ah, authoritarianism. And to think that particular fight started because the Associated Press didn't scrub "Gulf of Mexico" from its new reporting even though Dear Stupid Dementia-Addled Crooked Rapist Felon Leader announced that he wanted them to use his new, more awesomer name.

Again, though, I'd really just like a very simple explanation of how it is that a new federal department has been formed that's firing a six-figure number of federal workers, almost move that with certainty will drive the country into a new economic recession, and not a goddamn person in the country appears to know who is in charge of it or what their actual powers might be. Even fascist governments aren't that f--ked up.

But ours, apparently? Ours is. And we may never know who is in charge of the department now crashing the national (and world) economy, because it's a secret, and we wouldn't know them anyway, and they go to a different school.

UPDATE 12:30pm: But wait! Do we have a sacrificial lamb now? DC Examiner is reporting that the White House is now pointing to US Digital Service member Amy Gleason as its "administrator." What's not yet clear: Whether Gleason knows this. And she wasn't the administrator as of last week, so ... hmm?