DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.
Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.
What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.
The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.
Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere.
Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.
Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.
Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
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🚨BREAKING: NEW footage shows ICE/Border Patrol agents holding both of the victim’s empty hands when they fire the first shot, in Minneapolis.
In the video, you can see the U.S. citizen’s hands in the front, being held by agents, empty.
An agent in grey appears to grab the U.S. citizen’s LEGAL firearm, that is holstered on his side, and runs back.
Once the U.S. citizen is unarmed, agents open fire on him.
@LosPollosTV For those who dont want to waste their time the tl;Dr is that this fucking moron thinks if you're neighbors are being kidnapped and beat in front of you you should salute at them and run the other way like a spineless coward
@intellegint I feel you dude. I keep telling myself that doing little things matters but... Sometimes its hard to believe. It's an unjust world where we just accept that 15% of people (and rising) are lost causes anyway. Hope you feel better or have folks you can talk to soon. you matter too
In retrospect it was kind of suspicious when the president hired 80,000 guys with masks and machine guns and sent them to cities that didn't vote for him.
@hornets Man i love this team i just want them to have 1 halfway decent season so we don't get sold... Again. Please clean house and invest in a decent training staff so we stop being constantly plagued with injury. Get a 4 who isn't producing only like 40% of the time.
@hornets Positive vibes into next season I know this team can ascend just please take time to actually create some plays we can rely on when the guys aren't all healthy. And please for the love of God stay in Charlotte I cant handle this team leaving a second time lol
@Hermit_Thrush Interesting that one remains countably infinitely amused. Personally I would find a way to map amusement levels to a larger infinity to show the people i pander to how much of a cool nerd I am.