That’s been his entire career, has it not?
No, he’s not. He’s faking the entire premise of “DOGE” being about “efficiency” in order to obfuscate the fact that its real goal is to be a partisan purge, replacing career subject matter experts with MAGA loyalists at all levels of the bureaucracy.
Hell, he’s not even trying to be sneaky about it! It’s just the barest of fig-leaves, cynically designed to act as an exploit against journalistic ethical standards that naively require “objectively” reporting his claims as if they were being made in good faith. Even though the claims blatantly are not and everyone paying attention knows it, including the journalists themselves, the media can’t call out the bullshit without upending decades of tradition and inviting even more attacks (also in bad faith) against their integrity than they’re already getting.
More importantly to the purge is taking control of all the payment methods of the US government. He can control anything if he controls the money. He can funnel it all to himself, or cut off funds for anyone he doesn’t like or any department that threatens him. Congress has no control and neither does Trump.
And he is using it to quell regulations and investigations into Tesla and SpaceX. Which is a crystal clear conflict of interest and instead of the US Marshals deputizing his security staff they should be arresting him.
Quelling investigations into himself is the third thing in the “arson, murder, and jaywalking” [1]^ Musk is committing.
Oh look, they’re cooking the books. Who could have predicted this?
And after getting called out for ‘mistakes’ enough times, they’ll just stop being ‘transparent’ because “we don’t deserve it” anymore since we were so mean to him and his team.
It’s already not transparent. DOGE is immune to freedom of information requests because of how they restructured it.
They also fired the workers who handled most FOIA requests, so there is nobody to fulfill them anyways.
FOIA was awful already. Your lucky if there is a real FOIA coordinator and in a lot of places it just takes the time away from someone’s (potentially important) essential function.
Republicans SOP is to degrade a part of the government then point to how bad it is.
Yes, but he’s surely fucking things up. There are likely no upsides though.
I mean he certainly is incompetent but the idea that you could actually achieve anywhere near the results he is claiming with a bunch of racist teenagers in a month is absolutely insane.
It would be nice if we actually had the government audited to find waste and fraud. But it would take probably near a billion dollars and at least a years time and large dedicated team from a respected public accounting firm. Or even simpler, you could just increase GAO’s funding and actually read their goddamn reports.
It’s so sad that our nation is so clearly being hoodwinked and who knows the long-term damage it will cause as he just destroys any semblance of functional government with his reckless acts. What we are witnessing is pretty much the definition of fraud.
Does he need to lie? When you take an axe to the entire federal hovernment you’re bound to save money, same as the average person would if they stopped buying food and paying mortgage. You may end up homeless and possibly dead but it will reduce your spending.
But they are not. They are cancelling contracts where they have to pay damages, laying off people who probably were retiring anyway for a half year and paying them. None of that saves money
Honestly who fucking cares if DOGE is actually efficient. Elon is an appointed executive branch official who hasn’t been confirmed by the senate. He is wielding power unconstitutionally and needs to be removed immediately.
So standard operating procedure he uses at Tesla? Of course he is
Department of Government Enrichment
except that it isn’t the government it’s enriching…
DBE Department of Billionaire Enrichment is what it’s looking like.
Just like Goring lied to Hitler.
It is simple any time a republicans mouth is moving it is lying.
One might say, he’s dodging reality… I’ll see myself out…
Oh I like that lady’s sign: “Department of Greedy Elon” is perfect.
Elmo lied? He would never!
Except.that time of the robo taxies
And that time about the boring company doing tunnels 100 time cheaper
And that time with hyperloop causing tens of billions of investment in impossible tech that any 5th grader could debunk
And that time about rockets on Tesla’s
And that time that unfounded Tesla
And that time about solar roofs
And that time about Tesla full self driving
And that time about those laughably stupid robots
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For this reason they created a website:
