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Showing Original Post only (View all)Musk & DOGE SH*T "made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing" [View all]
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.
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Musk & DOGE SH*T "made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing" [View all]
Miles Archer
Sunday
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His two major "accomplishment," neither of which were part of the rationale that empowered him
Miles Archer
Sunday
#2
I don't know what can be done, or how "effectively" Republicans can block those efforts
Miles Archer
Sunday
#5
It was for something, to line the pockets of the oligarchs, they needed a tax cut.
Uncle Joe
Sunday
#4
In other words for them it was a success. The media need to stop pretending the intentions are good.
Blues Heron
Sunday
#7
Musk didn't like USAID because he is an Afrikaner from South Africa who was taught from his childhood...
Botany
Sunday
#9
The asshole single-handedly dismantled large parts of our government for shits and grins
dalton99a
Sunday
#14
There is a one element central to the pathology of Trump, Musk, and everyone like them
Miles Archer
Sunday
#17
"They made the world sicker, poorer and more miserable. And it was all for nothing."
MLWR
Sunday
#15
It was NOT all for nothing. Musk got all the data and back doors to the US Govt.
Irish_Dem
Sunday
#26
Musk & DOGE need indicted for identiy theft and violations of the HIPAA of millions of Americans.
Hotler
Sunday
#32