This is all lies. Reporting has made clear that - Food and health spending is still paused, or contracts have been cancelled entirely (e.g. Ready-to-use therapeutic food for starving children) - Money owed for work done during Biden still hasn't gone out - Musk's people are the blockers - ThreadSky

kwcollins.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

This is all lies. Reporting has made clear that
- Food and health spending is still paused, or contracts have been cancelled entirely (e.g. Ready-to-use therapeutic food for starving children)
- Money owed for work done during Biden still hasn't gone out
- Musk's people are the blockers

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alexjamesjenkins.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Killing PEPFAR alone has been responsible for this many deaths, and counting https://pepfar.impactcounter.com/

courtjezter84.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Kmart closed years ago

kwcollins.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I assume this is some badly executed attempt at a nickname, but for whom I don’t know

jmcunning.bsky.social•4 hours ago

DNC chair Ken Martin maybe

jelamonsterart.com•9 hours ago

How the fuck does he know if no one has died?

cinnawind.bsky.social•8 hours ago

He calls it a “sanity check” on the contracts which we know is false. Sanity would have been working with the IGs, not this butchering of the programs and agency that is proving impossible to out back in place.

trenchdiggr.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yes, all lies. And anyone on the inside who reports facts demonstrating that these are lies, us put on administrative leave or fired. Active lying accompanied by active suppression of the truth. Pure evil.

blue-n-al.bsky.social•5 hours ago

He confessed to lying at cabinet meeting

vickiecarey.bsky.social•8 hours ago

veracha.bsky.social•9 hours ago

We can clarify that no one he cares about has died

webrant.bsky.social•7 hours ago

As well as 16,660 adult deaths and 1,773 infant deaths so far, according to PEPFAR tracker alone.

https://pepfar.impactcounter.com/

https://bsky.app/profile/kwcollins.bsky.social/post/3ljipc45rp223

milquetoast-man.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I’m, also and far more importantly, LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED OR WILL DIE BECAUSE OF MUSK FREEZING USAID. Way to bury the lead.

darthelmet.bsky.social•8 hours ago

He should be in jail

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•8 hours ago

He should have his finances seized and never to be returned, and be in jail.

lauraapollo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"Nearly 15,000 people - including more than 1,500 children - are estimated to have died already because of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s savage cuts to USAID..."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-15-000-died-already-201953492.html

ghostyspook.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It takes ‘a few weeks’ for money to get ‘processed’ now what the f

jcdpb.bsky.social•9 hours ago

wild how he seems to have adopted this very bizarre trump-like typing pattern with the "nickname (parenthetical about the nickname) other nickname" about some completely insular tiff that no one else is aware of

shannonfrias.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Foodstuffs? WTF

every1panic.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Of course it is.

What’s true:
*They care what people think of them.
*Keep fighting back, it’s working!

beccaroob2.bsky.social•9 hours ago

How would he know if anyone died?
They cut them off from meeting or communicating with other agencies ffs

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•8 hours ago

People have died. A woman that couldn't get oxygen died really early on. There have undoubtedly been many more deaths.

beccaroob2.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And there were 6 child deaths I think from new Ebola like pathogen. Likely not preventable but still

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The oxygen one was directly from aid being removed.

We'll undoubtedly see disease deaths that were preventable from this pathogen though and from many others, but that happen because they destroyed USAID.

Funding being restored isn't going to fix all the damage either.

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And honestly, I'm not sure how easy it will be for Trump's incompetent government to restore the funding even if they gave it an honest effort.

beccaroob2.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I know they talk about it like it’s a tap they’ll turn back on
🙄
They simply lie about everything anyway and there’s too much crap hitting the fan for anyone to track

milothepsychic.starbase80.net•9 hours ago

Someone really ought to take care of that turbulent Musk fella.

jimbuzbee.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Someone should start an estimated and/or verified DOGE Death Count (DDC) web page.

lfillingham.bsky.social•8 hours ago

He says the money will take weeks to get out. It should be immediate if he hasn't broken Treasury.

tobellz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The kind of thing you get very practiced at saying when you're a shitty CEO.

monewsdaily.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I think there are legitimate gripes

There are actual studies/surveys about Musk as CEO that differ from your take.

lfillingham.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Hahahahahaha

monewsdaily.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Just the facts, Ma'am

tobellz.bsky.social•54 minutes ago

I guess it depends on how you define the role of the CEO. Modern CEOs are mostly paid to lie smoothly and effortlessly, telling different sets of lies to different audiences.

darudesnowstorm.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Efficiency!!

luluhoney.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Gotta say I thought only Trump could be such an astonishingly prolific liar.

texaskrusty.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Rule of thumb: if Elon says or types it, it is

* dumb
* a lie
* self-serving

taltondrumbo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

>>

It didn't "take a few weeks" for his boy band to manually change the database entries to shut down payments at Treasury, now did it?

<<

marcellograz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

"NOBODYHASDIED" screams the very super ultra genius as he guzzle another ketamine drink, trying to avoid the nightmares emerging from his rotten soul.

chuckmylife623.bsky.social•6 hours ago

As if 2 weeks is nothing when you’re starving. Melon musk wouldn’t know that though. Every time I see him I’m screaming “WHY are you HERE?!?” This entire administration lies. And Musk-rat.

kwcollins.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The failed experiment that is DOGE has made clear that any time Musk makes an empirical claim, don't report it as true until you get the receipts. And then check the math on the receipts because he probably fudged that too

400trix.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This has always been the case with Musk. He’s so allergic to the truth that he would go into anaphylactic shock if he ever failed to lie.

idahoavs.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Wait, the man who said the cybertruck would be able to float across a lake might be lying?

grissallia.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Seriously, who are you going to believe, national and international media reporting, or the Saviour* of the United States, his Honorable Lordship Elon Musk?

trilliumgirl.bsky.social•9 hours ago

MORE LIES from the lying liars who are tearing down our democracy.

ellemette.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Thank you for this. Hard to combat his lies when he owns the largest megaphone in the universe.

eyesopen21.bsky.social•9 hours ago

He must give at least 1 fuk, he xtweeted this.

andrewmo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why would you need to do a brief pause while you are doing a sanity check. Why would you not do the sanity check first.

adoofus.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Well, that would be the logical approach if your goal was actually to look for and eliminate wasteful spending. If your goal was to destroy the capacity of the government to operate, you would do what they have been doing while counting on the press to carry water for you.

andrewmo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The USAID people are all still fired

patrickpoll.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Musk lies. Dog bites man. DOGE bites the big one.

wonderingaloud.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Who elected him? Why is he making more decisions than congress? Why isn't ANYONE trying to stop him?

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•8 hours ago

People are trying to stop him. I' Congress isn't doing anything because Republicans decided to not uphold the Constitution.

diffusedwavelength.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why is he cussing? Why doesn’t he wear a suit at the White House, especially in the Oval Office? Does he even own a suit? Does he have any liquid assets to be able to buy one?

aloismaierhofer.bsky.social•7 hours ago

He is the "No suit with no man" type of being...

bertsy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Guess he just forgot to do the sanity check BEFORE tossing USAID into the woodchipper. Could've happened to anyone, really.

pmeyers7.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Let's send him to Sudan on a fact-finding mission and he can tell those lies to starving children face-to-face: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

theoldboy62.bsky.social•9 hours ago

besswww.bsky.social•8 hours ago

also love the excuse that basically these things take time to pass through various approvals which is a common criticism of govt processes.

pamelaporter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This is why I'm concerned about the FDIC. What if they just decide to not pay the insurance to account holders -- or selectively withhold it? I'm very concerned about this. Feel free to calm me down.

pamelaporter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Don't mean to ignore the plight of those not receiving aid (and I apologize because that's indeed what I did with my post.) It's just that I see this as an example of what's possible for all federal spending.

mightytightywhity.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Funny thing. The money you believe you have in the bank isn't yours. It's the banks. You gave it to them. No different then if you gave it to a random person on the street. Legally speaking

pamelaporter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I gave it to them with a signed contract that said it was insured by the FDIC and I am GUARANTEED a full refund up to $250K per account. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given it to them. Legally speaking. Of course, when our government won't obey SC orders, what does legal even mean?

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I, at least, took it that way. Bells sirens flashing lights klaxons in every direction. Looking at just one doesn't deny the others.

pamelaporter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Seriously, I'm considering converting most of my savings to Euros this week and withdrawing it to keep it at home. I'm that freaked out about it. The way he's dissing the EU and Canada, I'm not even sure they'll accept the dollar in six months.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•8 hours ago

hear ya. I'm not sure what the nearest port is in the coming storm; wish I did.

fplynch.bsky.social•9 hours ago

https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-identify-drcs-mystery-illness-slowed-by-us-aid-cuts-democratic-republic-congo-usaid/

lindavangogo.bsky.social•4 hours ago

See what happens when you f**k with stuff.

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•9 hours ago

And he's lying about people not dying

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-death-oxygen-supply-cut-off-2030054

felinesareperfect.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Musk is obviously somebody who has no idea of what accountability or responsibility mean. He is just very used to doing whatever he wants, and fuck everybody else. He should not be anywhere near any of the levers of government.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•8 hours ago

cannot disagree

sungura-mclever.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Also it taking a few weeks to process payments sounds like rank bullshit to me

anbr2me.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why isn't Musk in jail is beyond fiction

m3nud4p4r1d4.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Humanitarian worker here. The Elon guy is an absolute disgrace. Most of our sector are closing programs and firing locals, it's a real mess and its cost are human lives.

mglovesfun.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I can't believe you didn't start with "people have died".

Because they have.

blueheronfarm.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Is anyone using community notes to correct his lies?

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I don't think they can anymore

blueheronfarm.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Oh. Ha ha. We're in danger.

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Also, there's no reason to pause spending to do any sort of check.

davidbitz.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I like the how matter-of-fact the statement "a brief pause to do a sanity check" is. There was no reason to pause before a sanity check. Check first, then pause!

birdsrreal.bsky.social•8 hours ago

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dicedcarrots.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Wild how far we are from "not everything I say will be right and i hope you do flag when I am incorrect"

spotweld.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I find it concerning that DOGE is attempting to present these cuts as if it were “found money” like it was a forgotten streaming subscription. But a moment of critical review suggests that these programs are being cut specifically because they were openly and transparently reporting their budget

yossigol.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Interesting fact: if each one of us keys one random Tesla this week, Elon Musk won't be the richest person in the world in a month.

trekologer.net•8 hours ago

They're obviously sensitive to the optics at least. Otherwise, he would just say 'fuck you we ended it'.

jrobie.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Naturally he's lying, but what twitter-brained nonsense is this k-mart business?

jotatx.bsky.social•9 hours ago

How is this even legal, break contacts unilaterally shouldn't be tolerated

saffronstranger.bsky.social•8 hours ago

That's the funny part:

It's not

jotatx.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Geez

saffronstranger.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Unfortunately the people who would enforce the law are not enforcing the law.

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It isn't legal, hence the lawsuits. The President can't decide to just not implement bills passed by Congress.

tobellz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And while the President does have a lot of power and can delegate it to his staff, the President's new BFF does not have any authority *at all*.

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Absolutely.

jotatx.bsky.social•7 hours ago

That's my point what mandate or legal binding doge has? How do you guys measure and keep their accountability?

tobellz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We don't. No one does. They are operating outside of the legal limits established by Congress and the Constitution and it sucks.

jotatx.bsky.social•8 hours ago

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