This is a very good and useful news story. It reports on DOGE’s understanding that people hate them and what they’re planning to fix it.
It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech) was already being done by 18F, a gov agency they blithely destroyed.
It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech) was already being done by 18F, a gov agency they blithely destroyed.
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The Washington Post
As turmoil spills into public view, Elon Musk’s DOGE is racing to finish slashing federal bureaucracy and move on to the more constructive work of building digital tools for the government.
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-William Marshal
They are just trying to completely get rid of many programs & services they don’t like bc of their attacks on diversity & globalization without replacing them like the equal employment offices & USAID.
Except stuff like USAID they just want gone completely bc of musk’s sick obsession.
But one day, when his algorithm fails and he crashes to earth, he’ll learn the final patch update: Karma doesn’t do customer support.
End of scene..
It’s always easier to tear down and destroy something than it is to actually create something.
And they were, and are, so bad at destroying stuff I can’t imagine them making anything useful.
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In case you'd like to send your thoughts or whatever.
1. they wouldn’t shut down the free IRS tax filing tool
2. they wouldn’t need access to the personal info they’re harvesting in every dept.
Their job is to get rid of Gov services for the ppl, and harvest data they can sell.
First, you build up tools that are meant to make something more efficient... Then, if needed, you cut away things that aren't needed as a result of those improvements.
"Smartest person" my ass.
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Starlink affilliated businesses:
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Bezos businesses: https://bit.ly/4i99CnY
https://opdreadnought.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSWqn7UHYM
He wants a stranglehold on state subsidies and a permanent gateway into the state.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.22.10.pdf
I want to see the paper trail on those $50 hammers.
And, the inspectors general that were fired were doing the job that muskrats are claiming to do; but many of them were investigating Skum’s contracts. Correlations much?
I guess I'm just old fashioned.
Just sayin'
It's a gambling move, not a sustainable approach.
I ask, "where's the evidence of analysis of these so-called efficiencies?" But that's silly.
R's don't actually care. "Efficiency" is just the story they tell to feign concern. In truth, they've always just wanted to tear govt down.
Sanewashing Musk's reckless plundering of our government.
This is happening in my agency!! (Was not me, someone else)
We are getting played
https://bsky.app/profile/theothermichelle19.bsky.social/post/3lk2qopp5rk2e
From @foreignaffairs.com:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/08/chinas-techno-authoritarianism-has-gone-global
Coupled with the Congressional Testimony warning against 5G: https://justisforall.org/2018/12/14/dr-sharon-goldberg-and-senator-patrick-colbeck-testify-against-5g/
Musical Accompaniment: State Radio's "Bohemian Grove," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6L3UDMBY_Y
Also - this all could have be fixed by just taxing the 1% fairly. Never forget that fact!
Government waste detected. Please send it the way of 18F.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/trump-golf-trips
And you know magats give a rip about truth or proof of truth.
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I thought he wasn't government employee
Congress never approved this.
People will be redundant .
This is Skynet.
He had all your data, financial, medical, your pension details, social security number in his computers weeks ago.
He owns you.
Upset him, his companies, his ego enough, and his Politboro will investigate you.
He has the power.
If deported tomorrow to Saudi, he still owns your data.
Just gotta update the propaganda.
Gee. I wonder what the scope and intent of those “Digital Tools” will be…
(Some prefer Leon since the POS is not wreaking havoc by his damned self, yet I posit that there are lovely people with that name whose shouldn’t be unfairly besmirched.)
And if Mars is your objective, centuries and more PEOPLE!
Of course I am also European and consider the USA a hostile power attempting to destroy democracy.
"It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech)"
We need you to take out the trash