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warmfeet

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5. DOGE was never about saving anything.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 07:35 PM

21 hrs ago

It was about destroying/damaging institutions and allowing Elon Musk a means to eliminate potential legal entanglements. DOGE accomplished what it set out to do. The ball is in our court now.

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The next big DOGE threat is already here [View all] Celerity Yesterday OP

This is SO off the charts bad, in SO many ways. yellow dahlia 22 hrs ago #1

Kick dalton99a 22 hrs ago #2

If it "saved" anything (it didn't), they wouldn't be hiding that information, they'd be bragging about it endlessly. Karasu 21 hrs ago #3

What does it matter "what it saved"? None of us citizens will.... ColoringFool 21 hrs ago #4

DOGE was never about saving anything. warmfeet 21 hrs ago #5

It was an excuse for the GQP to gut and defund popular and necessary services they had only dreamed about before. Karasu 21 hrs ago #7

Don't gov't appointees have to receive a "Letter of Appointment", which must be signed and certified ? eppur_se_muova 21 hrs ago #6

It saved the oligarchy from regulation. orthoclad 19 hrs ago #8

How did Musk become a "trillionaire" so quickly? kentuck 19 hrs ago #9

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire primarily due to the historic, record-breaking initial public offering Celerity 19 hrs ago #10

DOGE is the new name for bank robbery. They ripped off the biggest bank in the world. rickyhall 17 hrs ago #11