I think it will become trillions, and have far worse effects than just mere money. Those cut services and removed employees, were mechanisms and lubricant for effective, timely government. They are now gone, and the machine will eventually break from the stress. This damage is slow, inevitable, and irreversible.
Meanwhile we still have the TSA.
The point was never to increase efficiency, it was to give musk access to confidential data.
And shut down loads of social federal programs along with literally anyone that could get in the way of his “businesses”.
No shit
That was the real plan all along, wasn’t it?
It’s hard to differentiate between the malicious lying and the incompetence of execution. The results come out the same, either way. It hurts all of us, except for the very wealthy.
except for the very wealthy
Now that was the point all along
Absolutely.
This should surprise no one.
Anyone who thought “doge” was a good or even acceptable idea should not be allowed to participate in politics. Or play with small objects that may be a choking hazard.
If it was actually about efficiency, I’d still have my job at a company that increased efficiency in a certain aspect of the government by 800%
just to be clear, you’re are saying that they should playing with choking hazards, right?
because that seems the most appropriate
There were more than enough “independents” gaslighting about it all along, though. Same sort of dipshits that think it might be good to “shake things up”.
Without defining any of what that means, of course. Yeah, it’d be great to let people that cannot spell COBOL and who are not old enough to rent a car, get in there and just monkey around with working systems, just because. All with no real plan, no vetting, no oversight and no legal right to even be there…
Without defining any of what that means, of course.
I think this is one of the core problems of humanity. People are driven mostly by feelings. I guess that works mostly okay on smaller scales or simpler worlds. Feeling like this field is better for grazing than that one is probably pretty harmless, and if your little 2000bce tribe dies out it’s not a global problem. But now we have very complex systems that affect millions of people, and idiots are still going “Well i just feel like shaking things up would be good”
What was infuriating was to hear a few so-called “independents”, Enlightened Centrists, and Democrats saying, as this was happening, things like “well, we really do need someone to do something about waste, fraud and abuse, but I’m not sure these guys are doing it right”.
Why the fuck do people even accept the goddamn framing of the extremist right wing? What evidence is there of extreme amounts of any of that repeated babble phrase (repeat after me, children!) “waste, fraud and abuse”, most especially in the departments that were under attack from these partisan hacks with zero experience and zero expertise? I mean, JFC, some of the dipshits in there weren’t even old enough to rent a fucking car. What the fuck do they know about anything? And you are handing kids the keys to the place with no oversight, no vetting and no legal right to be there?
So to accept the bullshit framing and then to proceed from that false premise to only say: “gee whiz, I don’t think these kids just out of diapers might know what they are even doing?” in such a tone was just so exasperating.
Come now it wasn’t a waste. Elon made bank! Fat stacks of money in fact.
And all the back doors are installed.
And still has plenty of government contracts
Someone should impose some consequences. Perhaps? Maybe? No? Then I guess it was an okay thing to do. Based on how consequences work.
It would not be okay if YOU do it.
Imagine if one day there was an investigation into everything that was done and the instigators were prosecuted.
Looking forward to reading this and the comments.
Having said that and assuming my interpretation of the headline is correct and that the headline is factually correct, my response is DUUUUUUUHUH HUH HUH HUH.
Because DUH HUH HUH HUH HUH.
