It's be really nice if boilerplate repeating Elon Musk's thus far unsubstantiated claim to be cutting costs included reference to the value of contracts he receives and mention of the tax cuts he stands to receive. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 18 hours ago

It's be really nice if boilerplate repeating Elon Musk's thus far unsubstantiated claim to be cutting costs included reference to the value of contracts he receives and mention of the tax cuts he stands to receive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/elon-musk-email-doge-federal-workers-trump.html

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bentripp.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The Times gave up context years ago

ghus53.bsky.social•17 hours ago

WHO IS CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING and PROSECUTING the Orange Criminal's and Musk-rat's many conflicts of interest?

This is a huge issue if Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg are actively collaborating with or silently acquiescing to Trump's felonious regime. WHY ISN'T THERE MORE NOISE, BOYS?

lasoup.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Also, I love how he tells us what Trump told him. It sounds weirdly like, “Mom said I could.”

bonobo.bsky.social•18 hours ago

There was a time when investigative journalist had to dig up this kind of dirt and it ended up as a banner headline. Now the villains just say it right out loud and it doesn’t even get a mention on page 6.

connorstedman.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It would be also be nice if it included reference to the fact that based on its record in court so far the entire enterprise is likely illegal.

apkgalway.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I suspect the plan is to makeover the US so that it looks like Russia with oligarchs running things

jeannetteblue.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And the reason Rump wants the rich to move here but not have to pay taxes because once they are here he’ll extract money from them directly.

fanofdemocracy.net•16 hours ago

That would be journalism and they are nothing but stenographers. 🤷🏻‍♀️

sarafinasings.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I disagree in part, as they are also liars.

bikemike.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Also that the country isn’t going bankrupt and that this is a manufactured crisis

maumagnificat.bsky.social•4 hours ago

When Trump expanded the asset bubble in 2017-2018, this unleashed a frenzy of reckless speculation resulting in the liquidity crisis - "Sept. 2019 Crisis in the Repo Market" - the injection shock preceeding Op. Warp Speed wasn't felt until 2020-2021. Intraday the overnight lending rate spiked 10%.

johniwaniszek.bsky.social•17 hours ago

he doesn't have legal authority to fire anyone

scaypgrayce.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Asking a lot of NYT, there.

sjfankellyanne.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Someone needs to make a chart or ticker that shows all of the supposed savings & all of the subsidies he keeps taking for himself.

numb.comfortab.ly•17 hours ago

They have been doing this forever, and this caused untold harm https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3kquyxihqms27

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Musk is costing us more now and will cost us more later. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-pledge-allegiance-to-flag-of-united.html?m=1

flatblade.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Conflict of interest. What a concept.

jimpharo.bsky.social•14 hours ago

That's not how this works. That's not how ANY of this works...

jrockme.bsky.social•18 hours ago

If/When they can eject Elon from the government, their should be an ad campaign about DOGE-ing of Elon and the savings from it

momsapplepie.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The country was not in danger of going bankrupt before the beserkers took office.

phill.hallambaker.com•18 hours ago

Even amongst CEOs, Musk is spectacularly greedy demanding a pay package of $55 billion from Tesla while his fascist politics have caused revenues to collapse.

danburyfciawaits.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Just appeared in my Facebook fee. An ad from the FAA....

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Musk doesn't understand the national debt either. All these people in the White House think the government is like a company. The government can't go bankrupt. A default because of Congress refusing to spend above a debt ceiling they made up could
happen. So could printing more money.

dawnmckinzey092567.bsky.social•17 hours ago

No one voted for Musk

spqesq.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He paid 280 million dollars for this access. He's not going to settle for a 10:1 ROI. He wants at least a 1000:1 ROI.

Of our money.

christopezemole.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Also, perhaps some discussion on what it means for the country to go bankrupt. As countries don’t go bankrupt like people go bankrupt. We were protected from severe economic hardship as the leader of the free world and economic power house with all of our western allies and us $ as the res currency.

ncjoanie.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Bullshit he is a freakin liar it’s give elitists tax breaks. The funny pathetic thing is the money they get from states.

shannonhouston.bsky.social•15 hours ago

While everyone is doing the economic boycott today (and everyday until further notice, right?!?!) why not make this the day you unsubscribe from NYT and WaPo and send that $ to The Nation, Wired, ProPublica, Mother Jones, hell, even Teen Vogue… and find good journalists to follow for breaking news!

skt72.bsky.social•14 hours ago

@nytimes.com can’t stand up to Elon - they need their precious “access”

rottweilerhome.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Musk has admitted to mental issues that keep him from realizing the damage he is doing to others. In other words, Musk doesn't give a fck

cgrose.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Also: How does the US govt account for the firing and then rehiring attempts? The ensuing emergency costs? The legal costs?

judgeq.smokefleet.net•14 hours ago

Are you expecting fascism & theocratic dictatorship to be as logical as the 2016 & 2024 elections?🤣

emptywheel.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Likewise, it seems like super duper basic journalism to follow this quote with a description of all the false claims about savings DOGE has been caught making. (Of course, both Swan and Maggie are bylined.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html

industrialsmoot.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Nepobaby Maggie won't say anything too unkind because she has to keep her access. How can she sell more Trump books without access?

4gabriel.bsky.social•17 hours ago

What American people are they writing about?

freefall2367.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Wait a darn minute. Levitt said Elon wasn’t heading DOGE? Judges now you’ve heard Trump and his mouthpiece admit it.

loafsta.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Classic NYT - the political beat reporters can’t be bothered to read their own paper’s investigative reporting and incorporate those (already sourced and confirmed) findings into their constant stream of stories uncritically regurgitating administration claims.

kankansi.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Swallow and spit.

marcap.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Cancelled my subscription yesterday. Finally. Feels good.

apiercingtruth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Truth time: he hasn’t created any savings. He’s taking credit for savings created during the Biden Admin. It’s a rouse. He was stealing data for his AI program, the robots he keeps taming about. Social Security no, names, birthdate if every American. That’s priceless data for his AI. 1/

apiercingtruth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Imagine. The best AI in the world will be loaded with financial/banking, medical records, geneology, familial history, college records, etc. Elon would be way ahead of the AI marketing race with that info.

pj1304.bsky.social•10 hours ago

This is just PR for Musk and just plain bad reporting from the NYT.

johnsipher.bsky.social•16 hours ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-misleading-and-incorrect-claims-on-doges-wall-of-receipts

sbsb4.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Every time a Republican says “waste fraud and abuse” I want to hear every Democrat ask “what waste? What fraud? What abuse?” That republican tagline is why they win and we need to turn it against them.

emptywheel.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I also want them to point out that Trump fired 19 people who were chasing hundreds of billions of fraud and abuse in programs Trump rolled out during COVID.

tse24.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I keep wondering how you keep a country from going bankrupt by cutting back its revenue source??? How is a $5T tax cut going to save the Country from bankruptcy?????

alanwessman.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Also basic journalism to note that he is wielding a power not granted by the Constitution to random civilians who haven’t been approved by the Senate as a major appointment.

shannonhouston.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This would be covered in red pen in an undergrad journalism class but here it is in the NYT 🤮

threecorners.bsky.social•18 hours ago

So says "faux news rose" propagandist for a felon, liar, adjudicated serial molester and wannabe dictator.
Do you regret losing your agency madam!

junminx.bsky.social•18 hours ago

They could also start using language like "gushed Karen" instead of "said."

sarahposner.bsky.social•17 hours ago

and with polling disproving Leavitt's claim of popularity!

sybilltrelawney.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He seems to be about to award himself a new contract with the FAA—how can that even be legal? Yes, I suppose the concept of “legal” went out the window on January 20 but I’m still amazed no one in DC is howling about it.

askariali.bsky.social•15 hours ago

He's going to use the Treasury to keep himself from going bankrupt.

edwardtyler.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yes! Put it in a little chart for the information-lite yokels.

ricsilvestre.bsky.social•18 hours ago

That is TOO HARD for NYT journalists, Marcy.

mamarenee4.bsky.social•17 hours ago

And the investigators getting fired and/or investigations getting thrown out bc of his actions.

groku.bsky.social•17 hours ago

"Insisted" doesn't get it, let's see some proof evil Musk.

marygerstner.bsky.social•11 hours ago

If truthfully reported, that would totally destroy the storyline. it’s a money/power grab by oligarchs, with leon skum the primary beneficiary

mrxrules.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Did any reporter ask about how Congress is responsible for spending. That the executive branch has no responsibility to cut costs. Congress makes the budget. If spending needs to be reduced, Congress should do it.

paulellison.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Musk is full of it. The US can NOT go bankrupt.

feliatrix.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Then we wonder why the American public wallows in ignorance. How something like a second Trump presidency could even happen

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