Stipulating that this math is going to be wrong, we have upended the government's ability to function for... at most... and probably much less than... 2.2% of the overall federal budget.
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That was never the true purpose. This was a con. In 3 months, Musk now has his fingers in every system of govt and can route things anyhow he wishes indefinitely. Need fake data? Done.
Pretty smart con, wasn't it?
In fact, it was brilliantly evil.
"Efficiency" .. lol. Orwellian.
One of the true purposes
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
Not to mention the brain drain, the damage to the economy from firing hundreds of thousands of people, & then the fact that these same people will not be paying taxes & will be getting unemployment benefits... IF they can get them anyway, after their reason for termination was "poor performance".
Saving $150b while passing a tax reduction bill that conservatively increases the deficit by $4.5 trillion explains why Musk is always high on ketamine. It takes drug abuse to be that shameless
and stipulating that this number is almost certainly bullshit it has to be put on the ledger with having lost the Treasury in excess of $500 billion. So they're deep deep in the hole.
It will cost us vastly more than that in just the damage to NIH and CDC in terms of experience, competition in research, medical treatment breakthroughs and most important, lives.
People will surely die as a result of what has been done.
while Republicans in Congress approve a budget that sky rockets the deficit, making a few hundred billion in savings laughable. But hey, it is hurts working Americans, it must be good!
Government workers are 0.05% of the federal budget, and firing them saves zero. What it does is leave all of the money for the departments and programs unattended for pilfering.
And it crucially destroys public infrastructure so that institutions dedicated to public service can no longer witness and resist their unlawful actions.
That’s not counting all the waste he actually created, or the cost of cleaning up the mess, and defending the government against the people illegally harmed by the mess, and paying the settlements when the government loses those cases, or even beginning to deal with the loss of good works.
But destroying the fed gov was the *goal*, as P2025 made clear. And since the New Deal, the GOP has been opposed to effective govt that helps Americans. GOP wants privatize a few things (bc profit abv people--ALWAYS) and do away with ev-thg that makes life better for ordinary ppl (bc fkkk people).
So far they have NEVER found any waste or abuse in any federal agency.
Specially in social security.
SS-Agency has an accuracy rating of 99.99%
And the numbers these children goons are throwing out, are all fake numbers as discovered by congress.
But these goons are collecting your private data!
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Pretty smart con, wasn't it?
In fact, it was brilliantly evil.
"Efficiency" .. lol. Orwellian.
👇
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/
People will surely die as a result of what has been done.
Specially in social security.
SS-Agency has an accuracy rating of 99.99%
And the numbers these children goons are throwing out, are all fake numbers as discovered by congress.
But these goons are collecting your private data!
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When he claims it’s doing well, that’ll give an idea how wrong he is about any predictions about DOGE’s success.
I doubt Tesla will recover from him, hopefully the U.S. federal government will fare a bit better.