DOGE Tilting at WIndmills

DOGE Tilting at WIndmills

39 lines

Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy
The two co-directors
of the Department of Government Efficiency
A department that does not exist.

Are often derided by their critics
As engaging in the ultimate
Don Quixotian “Tilting at Windmills” exercise.

Promising the impossible dream
Of cutting the Federal government
And ending the dreaded mythical “Deep State”

But the “Deep State”
Has a way
Of capturing those
Who try to tame it.

In the end, DOGE will make a lot of noise
But very little will change
As they become yet another swamp monster
Devouring Washington.

The belly of the beast
Ground zero for a new American Empire
Run for and by the Deep State Swamp Monsters.
Masters of the known universe.

Long live the Swamp creatures
Who will never be defeated.

There will be another DOGE commission
Another President-elect
Vowing to tame the Deep State elites
The Deep State will laugh
All the way to the bank

That is the way of things
Those who have the gold make the rules
That the rest of us Must follow

That is the iron rule of power
And power always wins


On Jan 16, 1605, the Spanish novel Don Quixote was published, a story about a minor nobleman who reads so many chivalric stories that he goes a bit crazy and attempts to live out the life of a medieval knight errant.

One of the most important works in world literature, and called by some the first modern novel, it's been profoundly influential in the subsequent centuries. The word 'quixotic', for example, is derived from the works' eponymous main character.

One of the most famous scenes in the novel is when Don Quixote mistakes a bunch of windmills for giants and attacks them - with predictable disastrous results. From this scene, we get the expression "tilting at windmills," meaning someone who's engaged upon an unwinnable and misguided enterprise.

For tomorrow, write a story or poem about someone "tilting and windmills" -- i.e. attempting the impossible, in the mistaken belief the attempt is sensible and possible -- and failing spectacularly.