Still absolutely bonkers that this guy literally bought his way into a position to destroy any agency that could possible have oversight over his companies.
While destroying USAID and National Parks funding just for ‚fun‘.
mister_mediocrates on
„Jobs lost.“ As if they mysteriously disappeared. I despise this sort of language in media.
LollipopChainsawZz on
Horrible initiative. Just giving some random billionaire guy full access to government files. No security. What soever. Who knows who he sold what files to who.
chronomagnus on
Those children whose deaths he was responsible for while having a good time gutting nutrition and medicine aide aren’t coming back though.
sexeveg314 on
But at least all the replacement hires will be volksgenossen.
notatechproblem on
The whole „Elon had access (directly or indirectly) to critical voting systems that allowed him change the election results enough for Trump to become president in exchange for allowing Elon to destroy the agencies that were potentially going to send him to prison“ conspiracy theory sounds a lot less like a conspiracy theory these days.
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
All public figures should be calling attention to the irreparable harm that Musk’s DOGE operation has caused.
And the sheer audacity and disgusting hypocrisy of a person who frequently identifies himself as some kind of savior of humanity.
DOGE’s elimination of USAID has led directly to the deaths of over half a million people worldwide (so far), a significant portion of them CHILDREN mind you, and has also caused humanitarian crises around the globe.
And now reporting also indicates that DOGE’s cuts to foreign aid have crippled efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in Africa.
Musk’s/DOGE’s actions have also allowed China to fill the void left by USAID’s termination.
And to make matters worse, cuts to USAID did absolutely nothing to address the debt/deficit because it made up such a small portion of the budget to begin with.
The decision to abolish USAID has tarnished our good will and favorable reputation on the world stage.
Squandered our soft power and strategic advantages.
Lost us geopolitical leverage, diplomatic credibility, and the capacity to counter Russian and Chinese influence in these regions.
And again, this all came with a cheap price tag.
The Trump Administration/DOGE literally cut funding for the screwworm monitoring program and the USDA animal disease program.
DOGE also laid off over a thousand employees from the USDA’s animal and plant health inspection service.
And worse yet, these cuts happened just before the US lifted restrictions of Mexican cattle imports. As a result, the screwworm parasite has appeared in the US for the first time in 60 years.
Elon Musk might have some of his MAGA followers fooled, but the truth is, his entire DOGE operation amounted to a tremendous waste of resources and a fraudulent effort in itself.
DOGE was never acting on behalf of the American people, but was pursuing an agenda that was fueled by the right’s culture wars and the narcissistic, shallow ambitions of an unelected billionaire and his team of unqualified teenage lackeys who all believed they were the main character in Mr. Robot or something.
This effort was driven by the ideological convictions of a small group of incompetent „DOGE Bros.“ There was nothing sincere or strategic about it. One might say it’s all been quite *wasteful.*
Many of DOGE’s cancelled contracts, for instance, related to the elimination of perceived „DEI“ programs. Most of the cancellations listed had nothing to do with DEI, and deliberately included businesses that were disproportionately run by women and minorities.
Meaning that this effort was far more ideological than strategic. Elon and his Muskrats were simply going after whatever agencies they perceived as operating under some radical left agenda.
And all the while, there was never any acknowledgement of the fact that he had massive conflicts, his companies were subsidized to the teeth and he was taking active steps to protect his own interests, steal/divulge treasury data, slow down his competitors and manipulate information.
Most of Musk’s claims about DOGE’s „cost cutting“ and „fraud“ eliminating efforts were inaccurate or flat out unfounded.
Musk also took credit for „saving costs“ where credit wasn’t due. For example, he bragged about cancelling contracts that weren’t going to be renewed in the first place.
DOGE deliberately obfuscated data and quietly deleted many of its claims from its own website. And even then, its so-called „wall of receipts“ was still riddled with accounting errors, outdated data or other miscalculations.
At the same time, DOGE was gutting agencies responsible for scientific research and preserving public health, even agencies like the CFPB, which exists to protect consumers from financial predators.
In other words, it was colossal and cruel failure.
You want to talk about fraud? The call is coming from inside the house—the WHITE HOUSE.
So Musk can spare me with his white knight savior bullsh-t. He’s the VILLAIN in this narrative.
homebrew_1 on
Sadly Americans voted for this.
JohnStamosAsABear on
Dem’s need to commission a thorough autopsy on everything Doge did.
Like an itemised forensic accounting report.
It’s funny how quiet maga is about doge now. It’s been an absolute failure for everyone not named Elon Musk.
jmarinara on
But but, he used AI?
Lonely_Refuse4988 on
DOGE was a front to extract sensitive US government data and secrets and send it over to Russia! NSA confirmed that Russian hackers were accessing the DOGE servers that Elon attached to government networks.
Good luck, America! 🤷♂️
23ioo on
The DOGE employees are still at federal agencies and re appointed at really high GS levels. They’re not done with whatever they’re doing.
icebergslim3000 on
What a fucking waste of time
dominiond66 on
This is the pattern of a Republican administration. Mass firing of professionals/experts and rehire inexperienced loyalist to Trump, not our nation/democracy/Science or the truth.
This process poisons our government and the essential work we would expect them to do. They created dysfunctional government and then the public hates government. That is what Republicans want … to mistrust/hate government. It’s the foundation of authoritarian rule/fascism! SOS-USA!
Jerk182 on
What burns me up is this jerk was born in South Africa and holds citizenship in three countries! Sold what little Tesla stock I had and refuse to spend any money in his direction. Will never buy a Tesla.
Essotetra on
Unlike trump, he won’t be too old and gone to throw in prison down the road.
soxperry on
Musk constantly fought with Trump’s cabinet about this. Early in the first year, there were several plane crashes. A few days later, Musk sent a memo to fire air traffic controllers. Musk claimed it was only because they were DEI hires. Duffy, the guy from Road Rules, said that was absurd; he would never hire DEI, and that Musk was just trying to fire anyone. These two fought back and forth for a while in a cabinet meeting as Trump sat back and watched. After a while, Trump chimed in, saying we should hire MIT graduates because only geniuses should be Air Traffic Controllers. Witnesses say Trump made the MIT comment as if he were unaware that he had started the entire conflict between DOGE and his department heads. Nonetheless, the entire cabinet nodded in agreement with Trump’s idea.
Yes. This is real. It happened last year. It’s in *Regime Change*.
Ok-disaster2022 on
Bu those cuts removed experience workers who knew the regulations and laws and were loyal to the Consitution. The new hire will be just that: new hires without experience and who may have to prove loyalty to Pedo Trump over the constitution.
DeadbeatJohnson on
They got what they wanted and are still there. These articles are silly.
„Musk knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, & we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide.“ -Donald Trump
Throwupmyhands on
Every DOGE employee needs to be sitting in a cell alongside Musk.
GreenAnder on
Nice passive voice there, maybe grow a pair
gybzen on
It’s okay, Elon already had his little college interns inject code into our voting machines, stole literally every American’s secure federal data, and shut down all the agencies that were investigating him. So it was all a success!
boatloadoffunk on
Never forget Big Balls!
HistoricalPlum1533 on
So glad my tax dollars went to this rather than into social security… fucking assholes
EddieVanzetti on
Where are these agencies huh? Because I finally gave up on the goal I had been working towards for fifteen fucking years of working for the fed because of this fucking administration. Even before the orange asshole, getting hired took a year and a day if you were lucky.
Important-Factor-552 on
Destruction of government evidence
VoiceOfRealson on
Nah.
This is just the „second stage“ of DOGE – installing the *REAL* deep state.
MoreDaringPancakes on
Post the video of purely evil fuckwits laughing when the child rapist asked them if they had any problem with how musk was fucking everything
Agreeable_Mud_8338 on
This was drumpfs gift to Elon
Rampage the services and erase all your wrong doings…
It’s pretty obvious
Inj3kt0r on
You guys made the same guy a trillionare.
a_gay_to_remember on
Great, thanks for more or less dismantling the scientific research system in the US, you fascist fucks.
It’s been a complete nightmare for early-career scientists such as myself (not to mention literally anyone else) to try and secure jobs, funding for research, etc. Several of my colleagues have left for Europe or China, and it’s likely this brain drain is gonna continue.
God forbid any of us wanted to try and better the lives of others!
Ohmygoodness1001 on
San Francisco ran him out of town. Total dirtbag. He destroyed Twitter. Edit: Thanks Europe for reading my post. Yep, he’s a bad guy just like you suspected.
CPUsCantDoNothing on
It did not end. They’re now the NDS.
Sublimotion on
The lost jobs were just petty sacrifices to complete his transaction of $300 billions to Trump to buy all of the government’s personal data.
Fickle-Molasses-903 on
What could go wrong hiring a Nazi?
TrinityCodex on
well, that was idiotic
ToeBeansCounter on
And he put his army of bastards in charge. Literally little Gen Z bastards he had out of wedlock
BalerionSanders on
If there are not trials for the literal millions of destroyed lives this “department” has caused, we might as well pack up and forget governance. What’s the point?
VPN__FTW on
The dumbest timeline.
ArcanelyChaotic on
I thought doge was disbanded months ago. WTF???
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Still absolutely bonkers that this guy literally bought his way into a position to destroy any agency that could possible have oversight over his companies.
While destroying USAID and National Parks funding just for ‚fun‘.
„Jobs lost.“ As if they mysteriously disappeared. I despise this sort of language in media.
Horrible initiative. Just giving some random billionaire guy full access to government files. No security. What soever. Who knows who he sold what files to who.
Those children whose deaths he was responsible for while having a good time gutting nutrition and medicine aide aren’t coming back though.
But at least all the replacement hires will be volksgenossen.
The whole „Elon had access (directly or indirectly) to critical voting systems that allowed him change the election results enough for Trump to become president in exchange for allowing Elon to destroy the agencies that were potentially going to send him to prison“ conspiracy theory sounds a lot less like a conspiracy theory these days.
All public figures should be calling attention to the irreparable harm that Musk’s DOGE operation has caused.
And the sheer audacity and disgusting hypocrisy of a person who frequently identifies himself as some kind of savior of humanity.
DOGE’s elimination of USAID has led directly to the deaths of over half a million people worldwide (so far), a significant portion of them CHILDREN mind you, and has also caused humanitarian crises around the globe.
And now reporting also indicates that DOGE’s cuts to foreign aid have crippled efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in Africa.
Musk’s/DOGE’s actions have also allowed China to fill the void left by USAID’s termination.
And to make matters worse, cuts to USAID did absolutely nothing to address the debt/deficit because it made up such a small portion of the budget to begin with.
The decision to abolish USAID has tarnished our good will and favorable reputation on the world stage.
Squandered our soft power and strategic advantages.
Lost us geopolitical leverage, diplomatic credibility, and the capacity to counter Russian and Chinese influence in these regions.
And again, this all came with a cheap price tag.
The Trump Administration/DOGE literally cut funding for the screwworm monitoring program and the USDA animal disease program.
DOGE also laid off over a thousand employees from the USDA’s animal and plant health inspection service.
And worse yet, these cuts happened just before the US lifted restrictions of Mexican cattle imports. As a result, the screwworm parasite has appeared in the US for the first time in 60 years.
Elon Musk might have some of his MAGA followers fooled, but the truth is, his entire DOGE operation amounted to a tremendous waste of resources and a fraudulent effort in itself.
DOGE was never acting on behalf of the American people, but was pursuing an agenda that was fueled by the right’s culture wars and the narcissistic, shallow ambitions of an unelected billionaire and his team of unqualified teenage lackeys who all believed they were the main character in Mr. Robot or something.
This effort was driven by the ideological convictions of a small group of incompetent „DOGE Bros.“ There was nothing sincere or strategic about it. One might say it’s all been quite *wasteful.*
Many of DOGE’s cancelled contracts, for instance, related to the elimination of perceived „DEI“ programs. Most of the cancellations listed had nothing to do with DEI, and deliberately included businesses that were disproportionately run by women and minorities.
Meaning that this effort was far more ideological than strategic. Elon and his Muskrats were simply going after whatever agencies they perceived as operating under some radical left agenda.
And all the while, there was never any acknowledgement of the fact that he had massive conflicts, his companies were subsidized to the teeth and he was taking active steps to protect his own interests, steal/divulge treasury data, slow down his competitors and manipulate information.
Most of Musk’s claims about DOGE’s „cost cutting“ and „fraud“ eliminating efforts were inaccurate or flat out unfounded.
Musk also took credit for „saving costs“ where credit wasn’t due. For example, he bragged about cancelling contracts that weren’t going to be renewed in the first place.
DOGE deliberately obfuscated data and quietly deleted many of its claims from its own website. And even then, its so-called „wall of receipts“ was still riddled with accounting errors, outdated data or other miscalculations.
At the same time, DOGE was gutting agencies responsible for scientific research and preserving public health, even agencies like the CFPB, which exists to protect consumers from financial predators.
In other words, it was colossal and cruel failure.
You want to talk about fraud? The call is coming from inside the house—the WHITE HOUSE.
So Musk can spare me with his white knight savior bullsh-t. He’s the VILLAIN in this narrative.
Sadly Americans voted for this.
Dem’s need to commission a thorough autopsy on everything Doge did.
Like an itemised forensic accounting report.
It’s funny how quiet maga is about doge now. It’s been an absolute failure for everyone not named Elon Musk.
But but, he used AI?
DOGE was a front to extract sensitive US government data and secrets and send it over to Russia! NSA confirmed that Russian hackers were accessing the DOGE servers that Elon attached to government networks.
Good luck, America! 🤷♂️
The DOGE employees are still at federal agencies and re appointed at really high GS levels. They’re not done with whatever they’re doing.
What a fucking waste of time
This is the pattern of a Republican administration. Mass firing of professionals/experts and rehire inexperienced loyalist to Trump, not our nation/democracy/Science or the truth.
This process poisons our government and the essential work we would expect them to do. They created dysfunctional government and then the public hates government. That is what Republicans want … to mistrust/hate government. It’s the foundation of authoritarian rule/fascism! SOS-USA!
What burns me up is this jerk was born in South Africa and holds citizenship in three countries! Sold what little Tesla stock I had and refuse to spend any money in his direction. Will never buy a Tesla.
Unlike trump, he won’t be too old and gone to throw in prison down the road.
Musk constantly fought with Trump’s cabinet about this. Early in the first year, there were several plane crashes. A few days later, Musk sent a memo to fire air traffic controllers. Musk claimed it was only because they were DEI hires. Duffy, the guy from Road Rules, said that was absurd; he would never hire DEI, and that Musk was just trying to fire anyone. These two fought back and forth for a while in a cabinet meeting as Trump sat back and watched. After a while, Trump chimed in, saying we should hire MIT graduates because only geniuses should be Air Traffic Controllers. Witnesses say Trump made the MIT comment as if he were unaware that he had started the entire conflict between DOGE and his department heads. Nonetheless, the entire cabinet nodded in agreement with Trump’s idea.
Yes. This is real. It happened last year. It’s in *Regime Change*.
Bu those cuts removed experience workers who knew the regulations and laws and were loyal to the Consitution. The new hire will be just that: new hires without experience and who may have to prove loyalty to Pedo Trump over the constitution.
They got what they wanted and are still there. These articles are silly.
„Musk knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, & we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide.“ -Donald Trump
Every DOGE employee needs to be sitting in a cell alongside Musk.
Nice passive voice there, maybe grow a pair
It’s okay, Elon already had his little college interns inject code into our voting machines, stole literally every American’s secure federal data, and shut down all the agencies that were investigating him. So it was all a success!
Never forget Big Balls!
So glad my tax dollars went to this rather than into social security… fucking assholes
Where are these agencies huh? Because I finally gave up on the goal I had been working towards for fifteen fucking years of working for the fed because of this fucking administration. Even before the orange asshole, getting hired took a year and a day if you were lucky.
Destruction of government evidence
Nah.
This is just the „second stage“ of DOGE – installing the *REAL* deep state.
Post the video of purely evil fuckwits laughing when the child rapist asked them if they had any problem with how musk was fucking everything
This was drumpfs gift to Elon
Rampage the services and erase all your wrong doings…
It’s pretty obvious
You guys made the same guy a trillionare.
Great, thanks for more or less dismantling the scientific research system in the US, you fascist fucks.
It’s been a complete nightmare for early-career scientists such as myself (not to mention literally anyone else) to try and secure jobs, funding for research, etc. Several of my colleagues have left for Europe or China, and it’s likely this brain drain is gonna continue.
God forbid any of us wanted to try and better the lives of others!
San Francisco ran him out of town. Total dirtbag. He destroyed Twitter. Edit: Thanks Europe for reading my post. Yep, he’s a bad guy just like you suspected.
It did not end. They’re now the NDS.
The lost jobs were just petty sacrifices to complete his transaction of $300 billions to Trump to buy all of the government’s personal data.
What could go wrong hiring a Nazi?
well, that was idiotic
And he put his army of bastards in charge. Literally little Gen Z bastards he had out of wedlock
If there are not trials for the literal millions of destroyed lives this “department” has caused, we might as well pack up and forget governance. What’s the point?
The dumbest timeline.
I thought doge was disbanded months ago. WTF???