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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMusk & DOGE SH*T "made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing"
Elon Musk thinks DOGE wasnt worth it hundreds of thousands of dead people agreeThe MAGA tech billionaire says he wouldnt work on something like the Department of Government Efficiency. Its a shame that he ever did.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-doge-deadly-legacy
Members of DOGE with no government or foreign aid experience such as 23-year-old computer programmer Luke Farritor or 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who went by Big Balls were responsible for investigating USAID staff for evidence of insubordination. This allegation was then weaponized to destroy the entire agency. Musk declared: USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die. The following day, Musk said Trump had given him the authority to feed the agency into the woodchipper.
What a difference a few months can make. Musk has gone from swinging his chainsaw around at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), siccing his DOGE goons on career civil servants and bragging about his power to crush entire agencies to meekly arguing that he was a little bit successful.
But DOGE hasnt just been exposed as a fiasco it somehow accomplished the twin feats of utterly failing to reduce government spending in any meaningful sense and causing a global calamity at the same time.
DOGE will forever be a cautionary tale: This is what happened when messianic tech oligarchs and political neophytes were temporarily handed the reins of government. They didnt just fail they destroyed one of the U.S. most important organs of soft power. They made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing.
Kid Berwyn
(22,613 posts)Soon-to-be trillionaire and purebred NAZI Musk helped the planets rich destroy much of the strongest remaining obstacle to their greed the US civil service.
Miles Archer
(21,360 posts)1). He messed up agencies that had the regulatory authority to investigate his businesses
2). He "helped himself" to whatever data existed in the government databases and made a copy for himself...Social Security numbers, banking info, etc.
3).AND, because he sees Social Security as part of "the woke mind virus," he screwed up that agency so horribly that people can no longer get the help and assistance they need in a timely manner, whether it's in person or online or on the phone.
There are probably more, all unrelated to the lie about "cost savings." Those are the three big ones.
rampartd
(3,443 posts)on trump's behalf, musk convinced me that trump had the will, and the power, to take down the usa and install a soviet republic.
those social security numbers and such give him the power to bankrupt anyone/.org who opposes him.
popsdenver
(1,366 posts).........when you put a bunch of monkeys in a room, with bushel baskets of hand grenades, and lock the door....
except, in this case, the monkeys all figured out how to pull the pins and throw them.........
Initech
(107,159 posts)If we ever get out of this, every single employee of that wretched organization needs to be dragged out in handcuffs.
popsdenver
(1,366 posts)All the Republican Senators, Republican House Members, Republican USSC Justices, Trump's cabinet, advisors, Republican Governors......Basically his entire Republican CABAL ......
Trump wouldn't have lasted one week after his January 2016 installation if they hadn't all been behind him 100%
Initech
(107,159 posts)Trump wouldn't exist without them, they need to be held accountable too.
Baitball Blogger
(51,598 posts)Miles Archer
(21,360 posts)Two questions I'd want answered:
1). Trump's comments on Musk and the "vote-counting computers." What exactly, specifically, is he referring to?
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
2). What exactly did Musk do with the data he "scraped" from government databases? And if he SOLD any of it, he belongs in a prison cell.
Baitball Blogger
(51,598 posts)We'll have the ability to control the direction of the investigations if Democrats take over.
Miles Archer
(21,360 posts)1). We have to pick up the seats, and
2). Democrats somehow have to become comfortable with dealing with Republicans as aggressively as they deal with Democrats.
REMEMBER THE "BIDEN IMPEACHMENTS?" They really got those across the finish line, didn't they?
But they DON'T CARE. It's all "performance art" for an audience of ONE.
You might have seen the thread I posted on Bennie Thompson questioning Kristi Noem. If not, here's a PBS recap:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-rep-thompson-calls-on-noem-to-resign-for-making-america-less-safe
THIS is how we have to deal with REPUBLICANS, when we hold the actual power to see that justice is served. THIS is how to COMMUNICATE with them. No drama, no theatrics, Dems need to listen and watch and learn from Bennie.
Uncle Joe
(64,005 posts)Inflation has caused private jets prices to skyrocket.
Thanks for the thread Miles Archer
paleotn
(21,353 posts)Blues Heron
(8,186 posts)Botany
(76,159 posts)
that black people especially the ones in Africa are inferior to white people and the enemy of
what is good about his world. The cuts to USAID has already caused at least a million deaths
in Africa. And Trump sees the world in the same sick racist way too.
(Bill) Gates on Musk: Worlds richest man killing the worlds poorest children.
Miles Archer
(21,360 posts)I didn't care, didn't reply.
He may not have a card in his walled stamped in bold red letters saying "I AM AN AFRIKANER," but in terms of their "belief system," he'll always be an Afrikaner to me.
UpInArms
(53,897 posts)Nazi
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,046 posts)Should never have another peaceful day as long as they live.
Johonny
(25,226 posts)Doge stole from the poor and gave to the rich. Thanks GOP voters, you assholes.
dalton99a
(91,674 posts)Miles Archer
(21,360 posts)"I did it BECAUSE I CAN."
I saw a quote yesterday from Trump, who...before he demolished the East Wing...claimed he was told "SIR, you're the president, you can do anything you want with the White House."
It's always a "WHO'S GOING TO STOP ME" thing, and because Trump gave Musk a green light, no one was going to stop him until he got what he wanted.
dalton99a
(91,674 posts)MLWR
(734 posts)And this doesn't even mention the cost of that incredibly stupid and illegal endeaver to US, THE TAXPAYERS. They should ALL be sued into oblivion.
UpInArms
(53,897 posts)Power, disruption and the following chaos, in which they enrich themselves even more
IronLionZion
(50,685 posts)gfarber
(179 posts)There once was a tycoon named Musk
Who decided that DOGE was a must.
With bravado and cheer,
He cried, Chop it right here!
Till regret left his vision quite husk.
Young coders with scarcely a clue
Were tasked with what nations must do.
They hunted misdeeds,
From their swivel chairs leads,
And called civil servants untrue.
A lad nicknamed Big Balls, nineteen,
Played watchdog for things unforeseen.
With no aid or state skill,
He accused with a will,
Then watched as an agency screamed.
USAIDs criminal, he lied,
Feed it straight to the chipper, he cried.
With a tweet and a grin,
He let hubris win
And soft power was quietly fried.
At CPAC he brandished a saw,
Declared whole departments a flaw.
Months later, subdued,
He hedged and he rued:
I was somewhat successful, he'd craw.
DOGE promised to trim every dime,
Slash spending, efficiency prime.
But it cut without sense,
Brought collapse, not expense
And failed on both ledger and time.
A tale for the ages remains:
When amateurs seized governing reins,
They didnt just miss
They authored this mess,
Left the world poorer, sicker, in pain.
So carve it in verse and in stone:
When tech gods are handed the throne,
They dont merely stall
They dismantle it all,
And call nothing gained worth the bone.
jfz9580m
(16,444 posts)To make everyone sicker and poorer and to destroy the planet more. And its all one planet and sadly we are not insulated enough from each others actions by now for crazies anywhere to not help drive the whole damn thing into more miserable hellscapes.
Seinan Sensei
(1,306 posts)Billionaires do it for the $$$ - and we know too much is never enough
MAGAts do it because they are racist
Christian Nationalists do it because Jesus is coming again. When the last tree is cut down, the last ocean polluted, and the last resource depleted, then Jesus will show-up and create a new heaven and a new earth. No need, therefore, for clean energy and conservation.
duckworth969
(1,080 posts)Auggie
(32,795 posts)GiqueCee
(3,230 posts)... must be laid at the feet of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and his "Useful Idiot", Donald John Trump.
Trump has been in Putin's pocket for decades, and gladly does what he's told, so he's been Putin's willing tool to destroy America from within. Putin has harbored a white-hot hatred for the United States his entire life, and that's very likely the biggest reason he joined the KGB. Trump hates America because his malicious, greedy dreams have been constantly thwarted by something he hates even more: Laws and regulations. In his diseased mind, institutions like the judiciary exist only to serve his malign purposes; they're not supposed to get in his way.
It is an obscenity that those who have the power to rein in Trump's excesses are too chickenshit to defy him. They know that he makes a point of amassing volumes of dirt on those he considers enemies, real or imagined. And, being Republicans, they're more concerned with their reelection than with fulfilling their Oath of Office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic, so nothing has been said or done about Trump's brazen treachery.
The M$M is bought and paid for by his billionaire donors, and their fear of reprisal from his shadow militia of braindead supporters keeps any discussion of "Russia, Russia, Russia", as Trump labeled any potential investigation into his treason, from ever seeing the light of day. The proof of it is out there in plain sight; but his minions won't say the quiet part out loud, and threaten anyone who might with all manner of horrible consequences.
Here's hoping that, after a Blue Tsunami in '26, the new Democratic leadership in the House will splatter his fat, pimply ass all over the landscape with the exhaustively documented proof of his treason. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Heh, heh, heh. And they should make sure that the public knows that continued support of this monster by Senate Republicans will be the death knell of the political careers of those that don't wind up in prison.
I have a bottle of Dom Perignon chilling in anticipation of his demise, political or literal, which ever comes first.
kacekwl
(8,843 posts)It was a massive overreach by insane Republicans and will certainly happen again in some form if they continue in power. Anyone who wss paying attention knew if trump was elected again this was going to happen in accordance with project 2025. The warnings were right in our faces and somehow they "won".
CaptainTruth
(8,020 posts)Irish_Dem
(78,955 posts)He and his minions have access to all govt payrolls and can bankroll themselves for life.
And have plenty of data and dirt to make a fortune.
yellow dahlia
(4,159 posts)That was one side of my first protest sign this year.
The other side of the sign listed agencies that were being decimated. It was many, and that was early on.
spooky3
(38,197 posts)Hotler
(13,711 posts)Stealing ID's and personal info and medical records.
BurnDoubt
(1,348 posts)3Hotdogs
(14,934 posts)A problem came to his attention. Fucking birds were eating seeds and produce. The problem was, they stopped fucking and were just eating - --everything.
Mao's solution: A bounty of about .5 yen, dinero, shackles or whatever on dead birds. The documentary showed peasants, chasing birds to the point that they would tire, drop to the ground and get killed for the bounty. It worked. Millions of birds were killed.
Next year or so, the worst locust plague in centuries,
duckworth969
(1,080 posts)for seven months.
And I kid you not, I saw ONE bird.
And the poor tiny little thing had a guy with a slingshot hunting it.
No joke.
Saw no cats either. The only dogs were on leashes.
But there were big ass rats in the alleyways
IronLionZion
(50,685 posts)if pandas weren't federally protected, they'd be eaten.
milestogo
(22,397 posts)There was no assistance for those of us who just got dumped. No extension of unemployment benefits.
J_William_Ryan
(3,261 posts)The problem is Republicans wont learn from that tale, wont learn from the failure that was DOGE.
Theyll continue to pursue the same failed, wrongheaded conservative dogma, she same failed, wrongheaded anti-government agenda continuing to harm millions of Americans.
purr-rat beauty
(916 posts)Hold him accountable for the damage the DOGEbags have wrought
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(153 posts)Blue Owl
(58,102 posts)My anger could power a small town
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OldBaldy1701E
(9,889 posts)After the orange gibbon and Nosferatu McGobbels.
And, right before J-unior D-eviant.
Wednesdays
(21,515 posts)"We pwned da libs!"
Justice matters.
(9,236 posts)And now, just like Trump does.
BurnDoubt
(1,348 posts)It did, after all give Musk and Kraznov a feeling of superiority and the accompanying Stiffy.
So... Not For Nothing.
Jspur
(779 posts)government contract which cost me my Federal Contracting job. I hope people never forget the misery he has inflicted by getting people killed and also causing people to lose their jobs and livelihoods.