A fired fed talking about DOGE, quoted by @marcfisher.bsky.social: "They did no assessment of what works. They didn’t ... find out what made the most sense to cut. They’ve damaged agencies so badly that now they can say it’s not working. Maybe that’s what they wanted all along.” wapo.st/3RVdlKt 🎁 - ThreadSky

jilldlawrence.bsky.social • 53 days ago

A fired fed talking about DOGE, quoted by @marcfisher.bsky.social: "They did no assessment of what works. They didn’t ... find out what made the most sense to cut. They’ve damaged agencies so badly that now they can say it’s not working. Maybe that’s what they wanted all along.”
https://wapo.st/3RVdlKt 🎁

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gxb.bsky.social•53 days ago

"Maybe"?

drcrystinawyler.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's always been about the chaos and destruction.
That's it.

secretoriginz.bsky.social•53 days ago

avi-kado.bsky.social•53 days ago

See public ed in red states. Starve them to near death and complain about their performance

avi-kado.bsky.social•53 days ago

The kicker is that the data on charters and privates show they don’t do better

sparta47.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is how Trump makes America great again?

technicalsquirrel.bsky.social•53 days ago

ding ding ding, we have a winner

Billionaires are loved less than the government, so they had to wreck it.

burtonad.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yes, they wanted this all along. “Government Efficiency” was the lure in the phishing email: once the link was clicked you were shafted. Grifters and con artists didn’t sell what they offer.

virginialady16.bsky.social•53 days ago

Exactly

mcbeth0943.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yup that’s exactly what they’re doing.

poppy91.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yes, yes they did

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•53 days ago

Basic GOP SOP break the government, claim it doesn’t work, sell it to donors who provide worse services at higher cost.

bluememe.bsky.social•53 days ago

Exactly.

sybilte420.bsky.social•53 days ago

porcdalmatian.bsky.social•53 days ago

Wait - so you're telling me that Big Balls, Skizzy and Stinky Pete aren't the thoughtful, measured, forensic accountants we thought they were?

jaagibs.bsky.social•53 days ago

Doge is a scam. The only people believing otherwise think Trump is a successful businessman.

thatguykurt.bsky.social•53 days ago

That is what they want. Privatizing everything is the goal.

flsucks.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yep, break it, then point at it and claim it's broken. That's the MO and more than likely what they'll then use to claim Social Security needs to be privatized.

theoafuloffice.bsky.social•53 days ago

Of course. That was the plan all along. Declare everything irreparably damaged and sell the functions to themselves.

happywarriorbee.bsky.social•53 days ago

Is the penny only just now dropping for some people?

At least they are figuring out the goal of Project 2025

Putin got so much for so little

tvnred.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yah, this wasn’t some big secret strategy. It’s been clear for a long time this is how republicans operate

coopgrl.bsky.social•53 days ago

That’s why any so-called savings DOGE tries to claim is a fallacy.

The harm they have done to the services provided, science, the people involved, and the country as a whole and even the world is countless billions.

catmamma.bsky.social•53 days ago

Of course that’s what they want. They’ve been open about it for years but most didn’t take it seriously.

friskeywhisker.bsky.social•53 days ago

Bingo. That was the plan.

diamonddmn.bsky.social•53 days ago

Has been since Reagan. Tell people government doesn't work, break it and then say "see?".

happywarriorbee.bsky.social•53 days ago

The plan being Project 2025

Which Americans hated

thetoyotajackson.bsky.social•52 days ago

That's what Putin and his mob wanted since forever and a day.

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