DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."
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Elon built a pr image as the great genius savior. It was all bs, we are seeing what the people at twitter saw.
What the people at Tesla saw when he rage fired them.
He's an incompetent,megalomaniac,drunk with power.
He's a fraud
Move fast and break things might be marginally ok in a high tech enterprise, or a hostile takeover.
Move fast and break things is a bad process / procedure when it comes to government functionality. People get hurt and some might actually die as a result of these actions.
They aren't carefully reviewing things or doing audits. They are using their access to steal data that they don't even understand, and then gutting the entire organization so one of the oligarchs can buy up what's left. There's no precision to these butcherings.
I don't know why you (and others) keep using words like "careful review", it was never ment to be a careful review! That is just to deceive oneself. Stop with that bullshit. The end goal is to demolish the government.
This is why I don't use a chainsaw to remove a splinter in my hand. Also, because I'm not a bloviating billionaire idiot who has Dunning-Krugered myself into a position that I'm completely unqualified for and completely incompetent at.
Pretty sure it was the one in Africa that saved kids…oh wait…or was that in Antarctica…wait…are there kids in Antarctica…?? no…must have been Armenia…One of those darn A places…
This man tells a team of engineers who specialize in tech how to design cars.... He has no tech experience. So putting him in charge of a group of his peers while also on (not large enough imo amounts of) ketamine.... What did we expect? Truly?
Trying to bring back people that they fired from the VA and the people that warn us about dangerous diseases that might be coming. This is a fine mess that the MAGAts have gotten us into. DOGEbag has no idea what it's doing. It's only job is to terrorize us.
Why is an immigrant from South Africa and has absolutely NO experience in how American government works, making decisions that directly affect the lives of millions of Americans? Apparently Elon Musk is the immigrant who is taking away our jobs!
C'mon now. Elon, not only the richest man in the world and the second brightest man in the world next to our Fuhrer said there may be mistakes. Pro Tip: do some research before you pull the plug on things. Seems we.habe too many stable geniuses. I know where I would make cuts.
His bluff was called again with regard to tariffs. He can't pull the trigger because he's already collapsing the economy. Every time he says he's going to enact them the market falls 700 points.
Who really believes anyone could learn a department's operations , identity inefficiency, and effect real change that will improve operations without excessively harming outcomes all in a couple of days !?!?!?
I wish more pundits would stop talking about what 🍊 promised or ran upon. It's obvious he and his gang lied about everything, and while it's important that more people (magas) see and feel it, we've crossed the rubicon. Time to focus on the present nightmare, not broken promises.😠
There was insufficient time to conduct a "careful review" and if AI figured into an attempt at review it points out just how ineffective AI can be. It is operator dependent, programmer dependant. So like so many software systems, garbage in, garbage out.
The chaos IS the goal -- Enough chaos still breaks the program/department but gives cover for those causing the harm. STOP thinking that there is any remorse, that there is any effort to undo the harm. Chaos is both the goal & the harm.
The whole administration is unstable. Firing people then have to rehire them because they made a mistake, cutting funding to programs then they realize that was another mistake, enacting tariffs then walking back some. Send an email with 5 bullet points, then some saying no, don’t. What hot mess.
DOGE are a gang of reckless fools whose entire purpose is to damage the ability of the US government to do anything except its core function... causing oppression and harm at home and abroad.
Maga is updating their red-hate-hat. Every attack on Federal services is at Putin's direction. Global destabilization is the goal. Leon is making billions accommodating the destruction.
Doge is taking a axe to our government not caring if there is a reason but simple because they can!
Unelected not approved by congress! Why are we allowing this rampage on our government? Why are the republicans allowing this? Who are the republicans representing?
Is this what you voted for?
When I got fired, I lost access to my work email within hours. If you get fired by work email, are you going to check your work email to see if they hired you back? Doubtful
This sounds like when they split the immigrant kids from their families and then couldn't put them back together again. Republicans can't govern or prepare for consequences beyond their expectations.
Crazy what happens when you let a drug addict and his 20-something year old sycophants make their own branch of government oversight when none of them have any experience in that field at all
Anybody that knows anything about downsizing knows that it is a several month process where every process, value add and roles are analyzed and understood. No one can walk in and take a chain saw to a job requiring a surgical knife or you kill the patient.
Exactly. What was it? 17 Inspector Generals fired just after the inauguration, before the CPAC and its salutes, while simultaneously campaigning for AfD in Germany.
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country, they're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession
This is why if an audit is going to be done it needs to be an actual accounting firm that can perform a forensic audit and not this so-called department of government efficiency, which is none of those things
That's right.
You can't review the activities of a 10K employee international agency in just a few days. This was intended to destroy an agency that was investigating Musk's starlink company.
All this is old fashion scorched Earth policy
Burn the whole place down
I’d say that dt is fully compromised w/Russia & needs to be forced out as well any officials removed from office
If you seriously think Dt administration is for US it’s a lie
A hook & crook special
Our tax dollars built these programs and services to help the world and our standing to combat lies about the US. It's also the right thing to do. We pay our taxes and the federal government creates services for the betterment of all. We are not a business!
And we have to ask: if we know you are STEALING OUR MONEY, why should we send it to you? Gov Mills confronted fat ass with the reality that states can stop fed withholding taxes, effectively keeping the tax $$$ in the state.
Not where Musk can move it into his offshore entities
Heartbreaking story about food supplied by a company in Georgia to stop children dying from famine on 60 minutes last week.
They got the ban lifted but not the ability to get that food where it needs to go.
Trump / Musk have one ‘review’ tool - a hatchet. A swift and imbecile sword. That’s their extent of leadership and only one of many reasons why THEY are the ones that need to be vanquished from their jobs.
What part of you can’t simply reinstate funding of USAID funds to contractors when the entire staff were terminated?!! There’s no one to disseminate these funds. And in cases where funds to a product are released. The product needs to be shipped & then distributed. DOGEbags are MORONS!
My late husband was an auditor with the Dept of Transportation IG and be for that a DOD auditor. You can't understand the structure or savings or waste or fraud without audits.
10 TRAITOR Democrats voted to centure @algreen.house.gov for standing up for #Madicare
SEE YOU IN THE PRIMARIES BITCHES
Ami Bera (CA)
Ed Case (HI)
Jim Costa (CA)
Laura Gillen (NY) Marie Gluesenkamp (WA)
Jim Himes (CT) Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH), Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
I can hear the laughing of the diminutive tech bros when they hacked stuff. They had no idea, they knew they had no idea, so they did anything they wanted. Of course now they have no knowledge of what is gone or EVEN how to put it back.
Speaking as a software guy, they are the worst kind of hacker.
The DOGE Department is getting paid 40 million dollars a month. They have screwed up our Government Systems. DOGE has already been caught in Lies. They made up savings that wasn’t there. They have Fired Essential Workers, then tried to Rehire them. DOGE has created Chaos
Why nobody is contesting the fact that he cheated is beyond me because so many of us out here know he cheated He bought the election. He did not win it!
Trump and musk are both the Dark Triad. Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy. The most difficult psychological disorder to overcome, and the most dangerous.
The inept hired the inept to steal wealth from the
American people. That’s what trump and musk are doing. Federal employees are suffering as a result of trump’s greed, avarice and ineptitude. The whole country could go down like in 1929. History is repeating itself.
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Time to stop the Mad Tsar!
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It’s to shock the public. Confuse the media and disorient people so they feel overwhelmed and unable to respond. Shock and awe and flood the zone. They are strategic. Focus on the obvious and important issues first. Prioritize. And stay engaged.
Y, opens the door for lots of Professional Negligence cases , which have been completely ignored for decades in the DC swamp , so I think it's good to brush up on topic .. PN it can have criminal implications, that qualified immunity does not protect fed officials from.
The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, where criminal charges would be filed, is a diehard MAGAte who has declared himself, Trump’s attorney. IOW, no prosecutions forthcoming.
Once that is established, if we can determine that readiness was affected , for the NC regulator topic, we can request do a petition , for congress to look into .
The Nuclear commission mass firings is very serious .. heck, one time my past employer made a mistake w Nuclear gauge= 100 k fine .. it's serious like THAT .. and fired people, especially w wrong info on their dismissal docs , such as performance issues, can file for defamation, on PN case
I agree completely w that part , can't say all I know about it .. other than he has no specific relevant experience for his job ..
But, but opens a big can of worms I think, because they can't change the definitions, and if enough people talk about it and demonstrate ... Might work
That is what happens when you let fucking imbecile children play with people’s lives and jobs like they are taking out opponents on overwatch. They should be sued into 3rd world poverty. And sent to jail.
DOGE is doing trumps bidding and trump's goal is to divide what we call "The United States". The civil war did the same thing and trump is trying again. Trump with Putin's guiding him he is working to disrupt, divide and separate this country. It's much easier to conquer a smaller ununited country.
Everything DOGE does is the opposite of careful. The sloppiness is a feature of the knee-jerk cruelty. It’s almost as if teenaged sociopaths are involved. Oh, wait…
There's been no review! They have no idea how the departments run or interact with other departments! This is just about destroying the life the American people have paid for and built over time for the people! Musk and the twice impeached felon are trying to destroy and steal everything we've done.
They don't know what the fuck they are doing and they aren't keeping track. Does this remind anyone of how the last Trump administration lost track of all those separated children? Fixing the damage they've done will take decades. Absolutely irresponsible.
DOGE is purely a figment of maga imagination but it sure is destructive to clear the way for more tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the rest of us.
Elon Musk is just about the worst businessman in American. He would be no where today without the billions given to him by the US government and American taxpayers. He says he fears for his life. He should given the needless destruction he has caused in such a violent, haphazard way.
Nothing says "Efficiency" like cancelling programs, restarting them and then finding out you haven't or maybe have while firing people you then need to re-hire but can't find because you erased all their personnel info and if you do find them sending them to offices that have no desks or computers.
Any employee (or CEO!) of a major corporation who went off half-cocked like the DOGE Musketeers, only to have to try to undo their damage a day later... and continued to work this way...
This looks like rushed decision-making with little follow-through. If DOGE is already reversing USAID program cuts, it’s clear there was no thorough review. Brett Murphy’s comment about this being “the opposite of a careful review” is spot on it’s hard to trust such haphazard decisions.
May I suggest that you compare news stories about DOGE from reputable outlets across the political spectrum? No disrespect intended — I find it helpful myself to see how the same actions are characterized for different audiences.
I agree. That's what I do. There's a lot of bias out there but facts are facts. Always best to filter out agenda driven info & look at facts I find. The fact is that massive fraud & waste has been discovered & is being dealt with. I have no agenda BTW, unlike the majority of news outlets.
I appreciate that you’re looking for facts. As somebody who studied to be a writer, I’m always aware of bias, but I also feel strongly that data without context is easy fodder for deception.
DOGE refers to a lot of things as waste or fraud as a persuasive tactic. They post lists, numbers, and charts as an appeal to logic, but they utterly fail to explain WHY the goods or services they cut were unnecessary — and that makes their website look like a shining example of propaganda to me.
"We're gonna get some stuff wrong, okay." No, it is not actually. It's not efficient to make so many mistakes that you have to do things over all the time.
When you use an algorithm to make decisions it depends on information given to it. Since they do not know what people actually do in those positions they cant use an algorithm. These are not factory workers who are redundant.
"a buffoon on Ketamine, tasked with purging the US civil service" ... who has taken control of US social media as part of Trump's attempt at "the seizure of democracy".
Putin has zero desire to be “careful” while destroying America. He wants the media & the citizenry to be guessing, arguing, blaming, until it’s too late to actually do anything.
It's a confusing shitshow by design. That way you can barely keep track of what has been taken away from you. It's very very much like an abusive DV scenario, tbh.
That's what happens when Elon Musk put tech kids in charge and then used a chain saw as an example of how he decided to cut spending. No common sense. Doesn't have the business acumen he thinks. Tesla and X are tanking. Starlink too maybe? Two losers leading the country into a financial abyss.
It’s the opposite of ANY review. Why the rush to cripple America and harm as many citizens as possible? It’s obvious that they have zero idea how anything works around here
Maybe a thorough analysis of government spending by competent independent accountants would have been the way to reduce government spending. What has happened is unacceptable and ignorant.
Wow 😲 Musk and his "F"ing toy boy tech genius there are multiple data trail that can be tracked and to what they did so data can be unerased. And of course there must be backup files available...🤔 Surely 🤔???
Sorry I was vexed and wrote far too quickly. I was being ilterate... Correction below...
Wow 😲 Musk and his "F"ing toy boy tech geniuses there are multiple data trails that can be tracked as to what was done so data can be unerased. And of course there must be backup files available...🤔 Surely 🤔???
Musk has no people skills. In government people skills are the basis for providing services to the American people who pay for everything. He is a coder that is just weird. Using his child as protection against an assassin who would potentially shoot him in the head while he is wearing flax jacket.
While many news outlets (@democracynow.org, @propublica.org, @wired.com) are doing a good job documenting DOGE's failures, what's not getting enough attention are these two management approaches driving every DOGE "decision": zero-based budgeting and AI "analysis." Together those spell disaster.
DOGE is acting on impulse. Its initial impulse is to destroy democracy. When the public gives outcry, they gaslight and appear to backpedal. But never forget their mission. They are vile traitors who have no legitimate power.
Impulse and algorithms and ignorance- diversity has become a bad word- even when referring to biodiversity of plant species for example or “POC” assumed people of colour, when it was referring to point of care (in healthcare)
Musk is doing a lot of these things to entertain his followers. Musk seemed to revel in the destruction of USAID specifically because people were cheering him on.
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What the people at Tesla saw when he rage fired them.
He's an incompetent,megalomaniac,drunk with power.
He's a fraud
Move fast and break things might be marginally ok in a high tech enterprise, or a hostile takeover.
Move fast and break things is a bad process / procedure when it comes to government functionality. People get hurt and some might actually die as a result of these actions.
#resist
But i hope MSM starts waking up and reports this over and over and over. (Sorta like they did to Biden's poor debate).
fuck things up entirely, then sort of fix it, then fuck it up again
(especially rich white men)
From 2024: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/
Also "in 2019, he decided to close all of Tesla's retail locations. Within two weeks that decision had been reversed, in no small part due to the legal consequences of breaking so many leases." #DOGE #Musk
So much for
“move fast; break things”.😡
This Texas Freshman Dies at 70.
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Unelected not approved by congress! Why are we allowing this rampage on our government? Why are the republicans allowing this? Who are the republicans representing?
Is this what you voted for?
#ArrestDOGE
#ArrestDOGE
#ArrestDOGE
#ArrestDOGE
Oops Elon fired the auditors and investigators.
Your oppression is their profession
You can't review the activities of a 10K employee international agency in just a few days. This was intended to destroy an agency that was investigating Musk's starlink company.
Burn the whole place down
I’d say that dt is fully compromised w/Russia & needs to be forced out as well any officials removed from office
If you seriously think Dt administration is for US it’s a lie
A hook & crook special
Not where Musk can move it into his offshore entities
Deport that asshole
They got the ban lifted but not the ability to get that food where it needs to go.
Sums up doge 💯
Meanwhile...they are on the highest pay for Govt workers
SEE YOU IN THE PRIMARIES BITCHES
Ami Bera (CA)
Ed Case (HI)
Jim Costa (CA)
Laura Gillen (NY) Marie Gluesenkamp (WA)
Jim Himes (CT) Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH), Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Speaking as a software guy, they are the worst kind of hacker.
grifters gonna grift.
They have no clue what they are doing.
American people. That’s what trump and musk are doing. Federal employees are suffering as a result of trump’s greed, avarice and ineptitude. The whole country could go down like in 1929. History is repeating itself.
Trump Butcher of Ukraine:
277,000 Ukrainian refugees in America to be deported to their slaughter by mad Tsar.
Time to stop the Mad Tsar!
#UkrainianRefugeeUSA #SlavaUkraine #Zelenskyy #TrumpButcherUkraine #USDemocracy
Yeah, It's hard, but not impossible .
But, but opens a big can of worms I think, because they can't change the definitions, and if enough people talk about it and demonstrate ... Might work
... would be shown the door immediately.
"Waste, fraud, and abuse?" That is what DOGE is.
Staggering! How brainwashed are you damned people???
They want people to worry about being fired, losing services, worried about bashing elon, trump, create chaos for them to disrupt everything.
"a buffoon on Ketamine, tasked with purging the US civil service" ... who has taken control of US social media as part of Trump's attempt at "the seizure of democracy".
Sometimes an outsiders see things most clearly.
They want "move fast and break things."
They want chainsaws, not scalpels.
They are 14 yo adolescent boys who still think it's cool to destroy - not realizing destruction has ALWAYS been easier than creation.
That’s the critical thinking Mr dipshit exercises in all significant decisions.
OOPS!
FULL STEAM AHEAD!
OOPS!
Repeat endlessly-
This is what DODGY considers “efficiency “… 😵💫🤡
Wow 😲 Musk and his "F"ing toy boy tech geniuses there are multiple data trails that can be tracked as to what was done so data can be unerased. And of course there must be backup files available...🤔 Surely 🤔???
Time to take our country back.