DOGE is shaping up to be the biggest failure of all time. All pain. No gain. Shrouded in secrecy, lies, and false projections. A scam on the American people.
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everyone tutting around pre-spending their $5000 DOGE check should be getting a bill. (multiple bills. for years.)
as it should also include all the money DOGE has wasted and all costs needed to fix the massive government data breaches that will take decades and billions to fix.
... and worse than that. At NLRB, they demanded and then abused high-level access, exfiltrated sensitive data, and immediately leaked credentials to Russia.
NPR has a very good report; here's how I summarized it:
Ironically doesn't the GOP proposed increase Defense to 1 TRILLION per year from I think it was around 800 BILLION currently? And lets be reminded that defense dept. is the only place that NEVER has audits for waste, fraud & abuse. In it's contracts with contractors it allows overcharges. And we
allocate and actually spend more then the next 8 countries in top defense spending in the world. I think we could cut 200 Billion from defense without any affect on our power in the world but first WE NEED A REAL AUDIT WITH NO EXCUSES. It can be done & be classified.
We need to come to a reckoning that the billionaire class include a lot of psychopaths that want to utterly destroy the most vulnerable, build concentration camps, Further reduce the number of those rabble-rousers in the middle class and get women folk back in the kitchen using a fictional Jesus.
it was never about cost cutting. it was always about tax cuts for the rich. they still can't show you waste fraud and abuse. it was always bullshit from the beginning .
More crooks with hands in the cookie jar, destroying our institutions, destroying our national security, and costing taxpayers dollars. Fire their ass out the door and indict them.
If the democrats take the house in the midterms they will gain control of committee's and subpoena power. Once Doge staff placed under oath things will get interesting.
This is what happens when you bring ignorance to a task requiring much knowledge and experience. But it’s likely that cost cutting was just a smokescreen for other nefarious agendas.
Agendas like accessing data illegally, eliminating regulation of Musk’s firms and robbing the US Treasury.
They cyber hacked into a LOT of personal and institutional data. God only knows where it is being stored, where it was sent to (foreign powers/enemies) and how it's going to be used in the future. That was the whole point, not saving money...
Cost of DOGE should include how many contracts and deals were made to DOGE preferred companies. Not just how much these immature, willfully ignorant sycophants get on a payroll.
ADOGE has done nothing more than weaken our nation and our national security. It will take generations for us to recover what they’ve stolen and destroyed
And it's not a tragedy that the two entities that put musk and trump into power, Tesla shareholders and red states voters, are the ones set to get fucked the worse.
And yet there are British politicians pompously declaring that the UK need "a bit of DOGE" in the civil service, in local councils - as idc they have no idea of what thoroughly useless exercise this has been in terms of actually producing cost efficiencies.
Too bad the courts and legislature are completely broken. Hard working taxpaying Americans will just have to wait for rescue from…oh wait, no one is rescuing us? Well, was nice knowing y’all were okay with collapsing our government over *checks notes* eggs being expensive. Idiots.
Wrong! It's only a failure if you think DOGE's goal was to save the government money. No. It was to get into secure systems and screw them up, and figure out how to monetize them for the Oligarchs. And to piss off liberals and treat Federal workers like dirt. Because, "grievance."
I think you are correct as to fact but not emphasis. We delude ourselves when we take ANYTHING Trump, Musk or his sychophants say at face value. So while it is true that DOGE will fail to discover $2T in "waste, fraud and abuse," and should be held to account for that, we need to see the real goal.
Go on Joe Rogan and explain what is going on.
As long as Dems only talk to each other & not reach out to the right, there is no hope.
They rely on weak DC DEMS Rolling over.
It WAS NEVER ABOUT WASTE AND FRAUD! DOGE is all about data mining. Period. He fooled Trump by flashing money. He will use our data in his AI projects. Information is extremely valuable and can/will be weaponized. He will/has sell/sold it to Russia.
Peter Thiel pressured the 🍊🤡 (who only wanted to stay out of jail & grift) to take JD Vance as his running mate. The data was always the plan. Dive into Dark Enlightenment, R.A.G.E., & Thiel’s philosopher Curtis Yarvin.
We can’t all DOGE to dismantle something they don’t understand. We have IG’s Inspection General to investigate claims and determine what needs to be corrected. Trump fired them and they have not be replaced. Trump’s appointments are unqualified for their office. They are corrupt.
I’d wager the DOGE scam was all about gathering demographic information to be sold, probably to Russia. If they say $62B in savings, I’d guess the real number is less than $10B and for that, millions of people will die around the world, and millions of Americans will have their lives disrupted. 👎👎👎👎
DOGE goal was the key. Peter Thiel, billionaire and backer of JD Vance, owner and largest share holder of Palantir, a data analysis company working with ICE to expedite and target people to deport, using data illegally stolen from the feds’ databases by Musk. https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/
Read NPR whistleblower story! He’s infiltrating our private servers and disabling controls allowing Russia in! The whistleblower was threatened as well. If he did it there he’s done it across the board! Treason!
Shame. I feel ashamed and embarrassed our great country has allowed this to flourish. Arrest people accessing my data and stealing all the benefits be stolen from us. My taxes pay for all the protections to be a citizen; are they cutting my taxes in half too?
Not a car company nor are they Musk himself blowing and going as he chooses. Reminder he bought Twitter for 44 Billion and it now has NO value to most of the world.
The losses from lost tourism, less trade, and fewer jobs will dwarf those numbers. Pennywise, pound foolish. Meanwhile, the proposed tax cut will blow the Federal deficit up and probably wreck the United States' standing as the reserve currency. Hard times ahead.
Don’t forget their being allowed access to some of the most secure and private databases in the country. After the smoke has cleared on this shitshow, people need to be arrested, GIVEN DUE PROCESS, and hopefully jailed
He's not cutting costs, he's just cutting. What he's doing will end up costing considerably more than if the agencies had been left intact. There is now no one to do the necessary work. That's why they've had to rehire people they fired by mistake.
And let’s not forget all the data breaches. Everyone’s hair should be on fire, including Trump’s MAGA followers. Have a look here. They even have your https://login.gov password according to the NYT
The only success they wanted was to stop the investigations on Elon. With that it was a success because they fired all who was investigating him and his companies!
So, wait... The rapist fraud criminal brought his government welfare billionaire buddy, and they're scamming the country?
I bet Vladdy has all of the IRS info on every American now.
Russian people should drag down Putin and we should drag traitor Trump out of the White House in chains.
It was never about savings, he never expected to accomplish those numbers, its an attempt to cripple the government so it no longer functions and he can run wild with his businesses and corruption. Period.
👆🏾👇🏾”DOGE se perfila como el fracaso más grande de todos los tiempos. Todo es dolor, sin ninguna ganancia. Envuelto en secretos, mentiras y proyecciones falsas. Un engaño al pueblo americano.”
With no transparency and broken promises, it drains public trust and resources—leaving Americans to bear the cost of a political vanity project posing as policy.
Got the names of lawsuits and whistleblowers from labour relations. Transferred SS to X. Pentagon on spaceX. Killed NPR/PBS to quiet dissent. Dismantled cyber crime units to avoid detection.
It's like they had a plan...
DOGE was a FRONT to broach governmental computers’ data. Goal was not to delete waste fraud & abuse but to collect personal information, procedures processes & reprogram. Every department computers were copied onto DOGE’s computers. Dept computers reported being programmed to export files outside?!
Not a failure at all. The $$ savings for the US? It was all BS. This is about dismantling govt agencies, gaining information for manipulation and greed. When the safety nets are gone they will have a new slave class
Yet, no one is amplifying it. Instead, Stephen Miller found the perfect distraction for the dumb downed masses & cover for Congress to ignore what's happening.
Abrego Garcia.
Only 15% savings from a promised 2.5 trillion. Is a big deal considering the corruption & damage that's being done, imo.
And the costs in terms of consequences are increasing exponentially, from large numbers of ordinary people losing facilities & benefits to small numbers of very wealthy people being able to get away with more & more corruption
They stole all of our data and effectively killed any investigations into Musk’s various companies. Those were at least two of his goals with ‘DOGE’. It was never about efficiency or savings.
Besides the lying and grift what are the actual $63b in “savings”? Cutting govt. jobs that will cost us more in the long run - losing science, healthcare, safety, climate change work, revenue sources etc
All the embezzlement in these departments, but not one name, no arrests? Were all the embezzlers reptilian shapeshifters? Charge appearances as to confuse?
We’re in the midst of gutting our professional IT staff and throwing away untold troves of knowledge that support the systems that have made Social Security a consistent source of needed income for US citizens for 90 years.
The depth of dishonor, damage, failure, corruption & cruelty of current POTUS, VP & minions has no bottom. A stain on their families, their party and our nation. A convicted felon with a lifetime record of dishonor, bankruptcies & failed relationships is ruling the USA, Sad! #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸
I’ve said it before, when he named it DOGE I was a tiny bit skeptical of its legitimacy. You could say I was “concerned” that it might, in fact, be a bit of a scam.
I saw on Faux News where they were claiming an “average savings of $938 per tax payer” from the DOGE cuts. The math doesn’t work that way, but their followers will eat it up. But if that were the case, their “math” would amount to over $145 Billion.
They should all be arrested immediately and placed into a dark cell to think about there actions.. Investigate each and every one of them as domestic terrorists and traitors
Following DOGE logic, I started saving by refusing to pay my mechanic, power bill, and for groceries.
Mechanic won’t give me my car back, but I do get to sit hungry in the dark, so I’ve got that going for me.
The point of DOGE was to gain access to systems they otherwise couldn’t. If there ever is a true investigation a lot of people will be in prison including Pam Bondi. She will do the most time bc it was her job to prosecute actual crimes.
And the fallout will be felt for at least a generation. You cannot snap your fingers and replace scares of experienced scientists, researchers, bureau heads, educators, and workers. The brain drain of our country will have catastrophic effects.
The mission was chaos and distraction from their true intentions. Destroy our institutions to enable the oligarchs to enrich themselves at the expense of civil society.
I’d like a dashboard tracking “savings” from jobs cut as a % of the overall federal budget listed by program. So you can say “DOGE saved the US tax payers .0000X% of the federal budget by firing Y # of people at the DOE. But in exchange we lost the ability to maintain our stockpile of nukes.”
All of their “savings” will end up costing even more to bring back. They got rid of things we need and want… this is like if I stopped paying my mortgage and called it “savings”. Eventually, there will be costly consequences from those “savings”.
DOGE appears to be a complete success, if the goal was to decimate our economy, cripple the US government, and sell our secrets to the Russians and Chinese.
Did anyone really think they were trying to do anything else?
I'm thinking claims of efficiency was a shade to find and destroy all Musk's companies illegal acts and investigations headed towards indictment of them.
I want to dress this " savings" bullshit. If you stop driving, stop buying snacks, shut down your internet and stop using your heat or air, I guess in theory you'd be "saving" money. But at what costs. Elon is the real fraud
I'm not seeing the failure. President Musk's DOGE has completely gifted all of our personal and governmental information to Russia. ALL of it. It's Russia's biggest espionage victory in the history of forever.
Among other awful things, we can definitely expect the misinformation machine to get much smarter. Just when things are bad enough to feel like magas might be waking up....
It fails at its stated mission, but it succeeds at accomplishing its actual mission of stealing mountains of private data from government systems. Data=power.
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as it should also include all the money DOGE has wasted and all costs needed to fix the massive government data breaches that will take decades and billions to fix.
NPR has a very good report; here's how I summarized it:
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/bad-doggies/
Agendas like accessing data illegally, eliminating regulation of Musk’s firms and robbing the US Treasury.
What it is, is a reshaping of our government to fit a far right machine with a front to the uneducated that it’s saving them money.
It’s almost like this was completely unnecessary if the rich just paid their share.
So, in their point of view...
$BILLIONS is the unit
Who benefits from that?
No sympathy for traitors.
Our government (& the opposition) seem to have very little understanding of what is happening in America.
And while we’re here, what did Musk mean by these remarks just prior to the election?
https://youtube.com/shorts/k89aYdZOC_I?si=Su1O_KbpF_1pU0Nn
Me: Trump has been scamming the American public for decades. He's a master grifter.
#youvotedforthis
Bigballs, a kid named Bigballs walked in and was given all your sensitive Data.
As long as Dems only talk to each other & not reach out to the right, there is no hope.
They rely on weak DC DEMS Rolling over.
That is who/what is running the US.
WE ARE FUCKED. America next time don't vote for a sociopath to be president
And that's BEFORE figuring out the cost side to the rabid sabotage and looting done by DOGE.
This is incredibly bad, but no big surprise from "the King of Overprises", the ketamine fiend himself.
I bet Vladdy has all of the IRS info on every American now.
Russian people should drag down Putin and we should drag traitor Trump out of the White House in chains.
It's like they had a plan...
DOGE is not (and never was) about government efficiency.
It was always a 100% data grab by Musk.
Data is power. Data is currency. Data is now in Musk’s grubby hands.
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Abrego Garcia.
Only 15% savings from a promised 2.5 trillion. Is a big deal considering the corruption & damage that's being done, imo.
We’re in the midst of gutting our professional IT staff and throwing away untold troves of knowledge that support the systems that have made Social Security a consistent source of needed income for US citizens for 90 years.
https://keeptrack.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-an-ai?r=d569l&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Mechanic won’t give me my car back, but I do get to sit hungry in the dark, so I’ve got that going for me.
I bet Vlad knows more about the United States than the USA does.
Did anyone really think they were trying to do anything else?
Don't forget that!