A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-feature-not-bug/
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-feature-not-bug/
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his purpose is not to reduce cost of government but to destroy it
and not just destroy it but make it impossibly too difficult to ever rebuild
remember it's not just fascism, it's Christo-Fascism
"Happy" Friday News Dump 😱
-Elon “Joseph McCarthy” Musk.
(McCarthy at least had to get elected)
all of Trump/Musk's cuts.
Date: Feb 17
Job cuts: 3000 Federal workers
Result: day cares closes, moms can't work, goes on fed subsistence, costs to taxpayers
Lie vs Fact $avings
https://theconversation.com/efficiency-or-empire-how-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-could-end-government-as-we-know-it-249262
People get pissed of when you mess with their money and livelihood.
Smoke and mirrors. Additional complexity that itself will require more effort to maintain. Cherry picking numbers to drive a narrative, even falsely.
Especially: math
Good example is blocking federal credit cards and creating a cumbersome process centered on ass kissing as a substitute.
https://boingboing.net/2025/02/21/musks-latest-bright-idea-paralyze-government-with-1-credit-card-limit.html
It is FALSE that there are a lot of extra employees.
Buckle up- this crash and burn will hurt