DOGE will be considered one of America’s most disastrous boondoggles. “Doge” will be a verb for when you spend a lot of money, break a bunch of stuff and end up making things worse. - ThreadSky

mrjoncryer.bsky.social • 14 days ago

DOGE will be considered one of America’s most disastrous boondoggles.

“Doge” will be a verb for when you spend a lot of money, break a bunch of stuff and end up making things worse.

Reposted from The New Republic

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.

So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

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funkhouse.bsky.social•14 days ago

They should have called it "Seagull". Flies in, shits all over everything, flies out.

the-shadow-5.bsky.social•14 days ago

The term boon"doge"led will be used for extremely damaging rip-offs.

tonymcfee.bsky.social•14 days ago

Except they’re more likely to pronounce boondoggle correctly.

sandearl.bsky.social•14 days ago

This makes me so goddamned mad. Wish I could spit at him.

steviezbrooklyn.bsky.social•14 days ago

"Honey, I Doged our rent and grocery money on improving our household money using hookers and blow."

anthonyogozalek.bsky.social•14 days ago

Since Elon & his DOGE team want to locate & stamp out corruption, they only have to look at themselves in the mirror, Jon Cryer.

thedarkrattler.bsky.social•14 days ago

When you Doge something so badly, it leaves a bad musk in the air.

missy-ubermom.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’m just trying to survive the “Doge Era.” (Boondoggles? 😆You’re dating yourself Jon & I’m a bit older than you. Note: we’re at the age where we try, diligently, to keep our age secret! 🤷🏻‍♀️)

gsingleton.bsky.social•14 days ago

It will be. But the thing that’s really bothering me about it remaining to exist is that Trump is going to install Russell Vought to take DOGE over and he’s a co-architect of the Mandated for Leadership 2025, aka Project 2025.

This guy has a really dark side to him. I believe more so than Musk.

adollynamedsue.bsky.social•14 days ago

By then it won’t matter, they have stolen all OUR DATA and they will not allow themselves to be held to account. They will use this to create the full surveillance state- they need to be stopped and put in jail now, but that’s not likely 😞

sfvioletnyc.bsky.social•14 days ago

I kept saying this was Lone Skum’s goal along. He had zero interest in govt efficiency- he just wanted our data for his AI compound in Texas, I’m afraid to know what he is doing with it all

chameleonaethos.bsky.social•14 days ago

And let it be a modern scarlet letter on the resume of anyone associated with it... after their prison sentences.

stormyblue.bsky.social•14 days ago

Tesla will go down as bad as DOGE.

toastchanges.com•14 days ago

I still there is something to be said for a Nazi treatment of the word 'doge'.
dogist
dogism
The Doge Party
It's a doge bar now!
It's "move fast and break things + oodles of techbro-yness + a big as racism" all in one soup.

bklynnative.bsky.social•14 days ago

AKA frat boys

ceindeed.bsky.social•14 days ago

But… but… where are those 150 year olds we were told about ??

tanyap-toronto.bsky.social•14 days ago

i've always been convinced that those who are likely to commit fraud just assume everyone else is too. case in point i'd say.

nocturne9.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sure, but they've most likely stolen a lot of person data and are making money themselves selling it on the dark web or doing their own hacking with it. They got what they came for.

tassie.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’ve always used the phrase “doofus ex machina” to mean when an idiot shows up out of nowhere and makes everything much, much worse.

forayacrafts.bsky.social•14 days ago

Thats called....Doin' it DOG-E-style!

thebriandavidson.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s this era’s “FUBAR”.

antonshadow.bsky.social•14 days ago

According To Several Firms Investigating DOGE's Claims, The Biggest Incidents Of Fraud Are Being Committed By DOGE Itself, As 95% Of Everything They Are Showing The Public Is Complete Bullshit, And The Firms Are Even Exposing Them Using PUBLIC RECORDS.

jm78mmm6.bsky.social•14 days ago

And predictably so

ps-sara.bsky.social•14 days ago

DOGE is the new FUBAR.

ssgtmullitard.bsky.social•14 days ago

⬆️⬆️⬆️
This

dmrdynamics.bsky.social•14 days ago

E.G.:

"I bought a very nice and well-equipped playpen for my infant son. But all he did was to doge it."

foxtongirl.bsky.social•14 days ago

You're sure to find this interesting, Jon...
(Chief NZ Political journalist Jack Tame/host & guest) Short discussion.
https://youtu.be/06zKPVV9D6w?si=iJFI7pfnkJTubSNr

jessjellings.bsky.social•14 days ago

Fun fact: For the first month I pronounced it "dodgy". Pretty sure I was right.

pmmcdaniel.bsky.social•14 days ago

Or a synonym for COUP

pmmcdaniel.bsky.social•14 days ago

They were never trying to save money…that was a lie to keep MAGA supporters happy.

They were happy to spend as much money as it takes to dismantle our government.

bugsy70.bsky.social•14 days ago

Failed coup. Attempted and failed.

lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’m going to start using that in a sentence on the regular. No kidding.

sinjinbtu.bsky.social•14 days ago

I really thought thats what it was before :)

schpl0rtz.bsky.social•14 days ago

“Boondoggle” is also an excellent word choice

sandraeb.bsky.social•13 days ago

They weren’t looking for fraud they were stealing data

risefromtheashes.bsky.social•14 days ago

“Muskkked”

kimmasters.bsky.social•14 days ago

I might prefer Elon as that verb.

blathin384.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s the muskrats live motto!!! Break shit, get rich, and break more shit! He won’t stop until he, single-handedly, has killed this planet. He is efficient at that… his stupid a$$ rockets damage our ozone layer!!!!! Let that sink in for a minute…. I’ll wait, along with 8bn + ppl

four-torpedoes.bsky.social•14 days ago

What Lawn Boer did was get into ALL of our personal information. Information the head of Project 2025 now has access to.

friesandersen.bsky.social•14 days ago

DOGE, AI, Tesla, it’s all BS.

annamaniak.bsky.social•14 days ago

I prefer to call it a clusterfuck. 😅

ktheintz.bsky.social•14 days ago

The term has potentially wide application; imagine a mechanic saying "it took me all day on that car, the owner had doged it"

matthew2411.bsky.social•13 days ago

Worst concept ever, that will be studied for years to come, about how not to conduct the "business of governing".

dtpheifer.bsky.social•14 days ago

I missed when it was just a picture of a cute Japanese dog.

phillysky.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is a solid script! Don’t doge me on production costs.

detroitzoran.bsky.social•14 days ago

Great! Except I want total accountability when the smoke clears. You don't just get to waltz in like a big fat dork with a stupid black Maga hat and think you can just slither out of here when you've made a humongous mess out of everything costing future generations more than they know.

jasonboerema.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’m still wondering why there hasn’t been an outage by the fact that DOGE is an illegal “ department “! Only congress can establish departments. And here’s these assholes stealing our information, making our government a literal mess and getting paid millions in taxpayer dollars!

aldamar.bsky.social•14 days ago

Already is.

tombryant.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh man, I’m old enough to remember when that was called “George W. Bush”

zallgoodbaby.bsky.social•14 days ago

And that's saying a lot, considering all the boondoggles we've had in the last almost four months...

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