Oh no, it was. But it was driven from an automatic assumption that any spending they can't immediately understand the purpose or benefit of is inherently wasteful.
no, the guy who wore his own son as a bullet deterrent hat because he knew the kind of people who want him dead would have qualms shooting a kid would be a lot more proactive about his peons dying.
If you look at these statistics, and then at ol' Musky's face, and believe for even a moment that he's having an actual emotional reaction to the numbers, I believe that the trillionaire would like to remind you that acting lessons come very cheap. Photos taken out of context for the sake of adding weight to a story is a common practice. And, no matter how much has been lost anywhere in this country for any reason, all of the wrong people still profited from it. On our backs.
yeah we still gotta do the boring reporting on it though. would be nice if the headlines were as savage for this as they are for "once again not a pastor" style posts. its called for.
Guilltoines are an almosrvancient and no longer neccessary instrument of the past and we have evolved as a society. We have the technology to create a billionare blender that could function like a scaled up version of the one many of us have in our kitchens, with an easily cleanable see through plexi that could allow the public to watch and enjoy the spectacle like never before.
It was NEVER intended to save money. It was intended to shut down departments that benefit the average person. It was intended to funnel data to Musk and other companies, so they could profit from it. It was intended to fuck up things for people of color, in the hopes they would die. It was intended to hurt everyone that ISN'T the 1%.
Weather.gov is the website I used very regularly after Trump was elected and that area got cut fund people were fired everything seems to be very inconsistent and for both part inaccurate. It's a bunch of BS I just want to know what the freaking weather is.
the guy who joined trump in order to rob the poor and steal everyone's personal information and then fucked off once he had it wasn't trying to help at all?
between 400k and 700k Americans is the guess I've seen, and I haven't seen any estimates on how much Americans spread contagion to other countries, but an international total is really hard to pin on one guy.
Au contraire... A LOT of money was saved by DOGE, the cuts axed a half-dozen investigations into Musk and his companies. If they'd continued he'd have had to spend many millions on lawyers and fines.
He saved money, it was just HIS money, not taxpayers'.
and the totality of the war in Iran. Bibi had a favourite candidate, and it wasn't Kamala, anyone not voting for her doesn't give a shit about Palestine or Iran.
Apparently he's been to the island at least once and had been to several Epstein events. However during that time he annoyed them so badly that they pretended that Epstein was shutting down his island just so he wouldn't be pestered for another invite. Can you imagine Epstein talking to a client who knew Elon and saying "don't let Elon know we're having a big Christmas Pedophile party next week."
It's goal was to steal your data and funnel contracts into musks companies, and boy howdy it succeeded. Killing non-white people was his happy little bonus.
Let's not forget compromising every government database and system, installing backdoors and spyware, and generally making it so we'll never be able to trust our data is secure from foreign or corporate spies unless we scrap it back to the stone age and start again.
That's why our new nazi party in Germany winning a state will be devastating. The state agencies can't be uncoupled from the federal ones. No, we can't just let them win a state so people see for themselves how badly they'll fuck up. On day one all the juiciest data will be sucked out of the system and sold (probably to Russia)
RedSkizzers
This man needs to rot in prison.
Cranbananarama
So it DID accomplish its goal then.
Illinifan88
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1emMyMjdsdWMwMmhub2YzcWd6MzVxaDczN3E0Zm4xOTg1NGY1c2pvMCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/gIqusaeYxgSiY/200w.webp
cheshiredat
TheRealArclight
Khanamana324
Doge didn’t fail, it accomplished exactly what it was created to do: steal our private info and break shit.
usingYourMomAsAHat
Its almost as if cutting costs was never the goal at all
jimicus
Oh no, it was. But it was driven from an automatic assumption that any spending they can't immediately understand the purpose or benefit of is inherently wasteful.
SupernaturalReactions
The goal was always to do harm and to cause distractions. They were quite successful. https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NzRiOHkweDl2cWswaXM4NHV6ZjdmbTkxMXBydHR1dWZqMDEwbWptcSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/sF1yw8VmegDqU/200w.webp
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
Elon: Some of you may die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take
akafluffy
no, the guy who wore his own son as a bullet deterrent hat because he knew the kind of people who want him dead would have qualms shooting a kid would be a lot more proactive about his peons dying.
UnattendedDeviant
SpaceX and Tesla, have benefited from at least $38 billion from government funding. I'll assume he didn't cut any of that.
marsilies
He cut funding to agencies that were investigating wrongdoings of him and/or his companies.
Flightmaster101
In fact they added more X contacts so mr n@zi could be a trillionaire.
akafluffy
He literally gutted the agencies that were auditing/regulating them.
RGN77
If you look at these statistics, and then at ol' Musky's face, and believe for even a moment that he's having an actual emotional reaction to the numbers, I believe that the trillionaire would like to remind you that acting lessons come very cheap. Photos taken out of context for the sake of adding weight to a story is a common practice. And, no matter how much has been lost anywhere in this country for any reason, all of the wrong people still profited from it. On our backs.
whereismymind86
I don’t want him to care, I want him to be jailed and all his assets seized
dcmirepoix2350
Should be paying back plus interest on all the subsidies we gave his sorry ass
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
I thought we all knew this long ago. Saving money was never the point. Fascism was the point.
bekkayya
yeah we still gotta do the boring reporting on it though. would be nice if the headlines were as savage for this as they are for "once again not a pastor" style posts. its called for.
bemibet
Its goal was to shut down all investigations into Musk's businesses, so mission accomplished!
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
Are they going to give the people they fired their jobs back? Will there be a law suit?
JackingMeHoff
This asswipe is responsible for roughly 300,000 total job reductions.
QuatermainFT
It's not zero saved. What they did cost the US between 22 and 500 billion.
certainlynotaserialkiller
JohnnySilverballs
And musk and the trump administration don't care at all. Musk got what he wanted out of it and that's all that matters to him.
BHPaperstacks
Guilltoines are an almosrvancient and no longer neccessary instrument of the past and we have evolved as a society. We have the technology to create a billionare blender that could function like a scaled up version of the one many of us have in our kitchens, with an easily cleanable see through plexi that could allow the public to watch and enjoy the spectacle like never before.
Chilichunks
Guillotines are a what 🤔?
BHPaperstacks
*an almost ancient and no longer neccessary instrument.
CallMeCourierSix
It was NEVER intended to save money. It was intended to shut down departments that benefit the average person. It was intended to funnel data to Musk and other companies, so they could profit from it. It was intended to fuck up things for people of color, in the hopes they would die. It was intended to hurt everyone that ISN'T the 1%.
And it was wildly successful.
CaptainDiddleFartingAround
Weather.gov is the website I used very regularly after Trump was elected and that area got cut fund people were fired everything seems to be very inconsistent and for both part inaccurate. It's a bunch of BS I just want to know what the freaking weather is.
PunnyTiger
the guy who joined trump in order to rob the poor and steal everyone's personal information and then fucked off once he had it wasn't trying to help at all?
YuffieK
Gotta be Number One on the genocide charts...
NotSomoneElse68
It's not a genocide, it's death by government. He'd need over 1.1 minion to make the to 10. So here's getting there. (He'd be #7 of it was genocide).
YuffieK
How many deaths from Covid can be attributed to Orangeman's first term incompetence?
akafluffy
between 400k and 700k Americans is the guess I've seen, and I haven't seen any estimates on how much Americans spread contagion to other countries, but an international total is really hard to pin on one guy.
CelestialSea
Au contraire... A LOT of money was saved by DOGE, the cuts axed a half-dozen investigations into Musk and his companies. If they'd continued he'd have had to spend many millions on lawyers and fines.
He saved money, it was just HIS money, not taxpayers'.
akafluffy
Yeah, but that money would have went to the entity supposedly doing the cutting, so it was straight up costing money to cost more money long term.
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Everyone who refused to vote for Kamala on "moral" grounds owns this.
akafluffy
and the totality of the war in Iran. Bibi had a favourite candidate, and it wasn't Kamala, anyone not voting for her doesn't give a shit about Palestine or Iran.
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
“Due to Gaza I cannot in good conscience vote for Kamala”
“You realize that’s what Bibi wants you to do”
“Not my problem”
- actual conversation I had in 2024
akafluffy
sadly, me too
metalrulercid
Great. Now send flaccid mollusk the bill. Don't tell me he fucked up, I knew before he started he had fucked up.
Arcadian1
What an evil man.
JayEnfield
"If you push this button, someone you don't know dies but you get a million dollars."
"Can't do it."
"I'll take 1,000 of them, and I want 1,000 of a machine that pushes a single button as rapidly as possible."
GrenithTheSkald
aChungusAmongUs
yeah but it got musk in position to make more money so mission accomplished
RichardPenne
UserNamesArentEasy
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
He wasn't at Epstein's island because he was so annoying pedophiles didn't want him there.
akafluffy
and so overeager that they probably figured he was a narc. That said, anyone overly excited to go to Epstein island should be in jail.
doodlydoofus
Apparently he's been to the island at least once and had been to several Epstein events. However during that time he annoyed them so badly that they pretended that Epstein was shutting down his island just so he wouldn't be pestered for another invite. Can you imagine Epstein talking to a client who knew Elon and saying "don't let Elon know we're having a big Christmas Pedophile party next week."
LurkingSarcasm
It's goal was to steal your data and funnel contracts into musks companies, and boy howdy it succeeded. Killing non-white people was his happy little bonus.
Iftheyredeadtheyrejusthookers
Our country has tried this before, every time has been a failure because they would just hack and slash without any thought
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Don't forget punishing the agencies investigating him.
NozzleBozzle
Also removing regulations, and demonstrating they can do what they like
SomeGeek75ygh
AND to install backdoors for Russian spies. Don't forget that.
Jt68686
Let's not forget, weakening the alphabet agencies that were probing into Musk's companies.
DragonThunderUndertaking
Don't forget to delete all the investigations into them and install back doors into all the systems so they continue to crank the game
chewmaca2
The ultra poor and hungry don't have anything to steal except life. He can't re-sell it but he can steal the money going to help them keep it.
Forensickle
Until he starts his new company Soylent-X
Starlatan
The fact it was 88 per hour coincidentally makes it all the more clear, as if it needed to be.
diabeetussmith
Is there anything i can do to mitigate the damage to the data stolen? I know my SSN was part of it but i doubt theres much i can do about that.
archon325
Let's not forget compromising every government database and system, installing backdoors and spyware, and generally making it so we'll never be able to trust our data is secure from foreign or corporate spies unless we scrap it back to the stone age and start again.
ToSisPoS
And stopping the investigations into his businesses
FatForYou
They don't give a shit what color of person dies. We aren't human beings to these animals.
Shaodyn
It was also out to cripple anything that could have regulated his business. Succeeded like crazy at that too.
whereismymind86
For now, doesn’t mean we can’t jail his ass and sieze all his assets and companies as national security threats on Jan 21 2029
Shaodyn
Why that specific date?
Daliena06
First full day of a new US president's term, I believe?
Shaodyn
Right.
spinymouse
That's why our new nazi party in Germany winning a state will be devastating. The state agencies can't be uncoupled from the federal ones. No, we can't just let them win a state so people see for themselves how badly they'll fuck up. On day one all the juiciest data will be sucked out of the system and sold (probably to Russia)
miserycones
Don't forget shutting down agencies that were in the middle of investigating Elon's companies for malfeasance
Jt68686
Haha glad people still remember
DOcelot1
And erasing all traces of his election interference
ontarioOT
Crime. They were breaking the law.
newwoolmonosta
hogeyegrex
Are. Are breaking the law.
BlindGardener
CBadger
He's getting angry. Angry gets shit done.
DarkParn
I need to watch this
williamfny
Jones steals every scene he is in.
CBadger
American Gods. Orlando Jones as Mr Nancy is pretty spectacular.