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carlquintanilla.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Putting the “doh!” in #DOGE. 🤡

@nytimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html?rsrc=ss

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wilkos.bsky.social•71 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/wilkos.bsky.social/post/3liigx62bec2n

charivarious.bsky.social•71 days ago

I don't think this is a winning media strategy. It's still characterized as a "savings" (better to say a canceled contract), & to the average person, $8M seems like an enormous amount of money. Better to focus on what we're losing (access to parks, scientific enquiry, fast tax returns, etc.).

thewolfeden.bsky.social•70 days ago

Lies. Always lies.

hhdasiu.bsky.social•70 days ago

Calling it “saving” is extreme overstatement.

bicyclebaskets.bsky.social•71 days ago

creativeblock.bsky.social•71 days ago

A 100,000% error. Impressive.

glennbooth-ny.bsky.social•70 days ago

Spending is increasing as per the US Treasury

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/12/elon-musk-is-failing-to-cut-american-spending

bradinmotion.bsky.social•71 days ago

fransmith.bsky.social•71 days ago

“Saved?” As if there’s no cost to these cuts.

taz1.bsky.social•71 days ago

Americans are so bad at math. UGH

em4fitzgerald.bsky.social•70 days ago

Million ,billion smillion ….whats the difference… we’re just trying to make good headlines

speedolini5.bsky.social•70 days ago

#BadDogE

djlu16.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh, the genius, Elon, isn’t very good when it comes to numbers.

aepanico.bsky.social•71 days ago

Posting a paywalled article does nothing to help.

carlquintanilla.bsky.social•71 days ago

Trusting you to subscribe and support. 🙏🏼

aepanico.bsky.social•71 days ago

I ended my subscription when they started ugly reporting of lgbtq+. The subscription was a luxury for me and something I can no longer afford.

joe0x7f.bsky.social•71 days ago

“Saved” ??????

proudplainjane.bsky.social•70 days ago

I can’t decide if it’s the stupidity or the cruelty that bothers me the most.

adler-auge.bsky.social•71 days ago

When can I start being paid like them and be off by 3 orders of magnitude?

bingo46.bsky.social•71 days ago

Fuckin' idiots.

bskywatcher.bsky.social•71 days ago

Oops, they did it again.

oldnormalguy.bsky.social•71 days ago

When your staff is a band of misfit, this is an expected result.

donkbrink.bsky.social•71 days ago

Well, this is embarrassing

arrest-them-all.bsky.social•65 days ago

#NachoPresident and #fElonia are "financial geniuses". no one ever said they had to be able to do simple arithmetic.

lyrebirdlove.bsky.social•70 days ago

In Aussie we pronounce #DOGE as #Dodgy
Dodgy is frequently used in Aussie.
Dictionary
Def from Oxford Languages ·
adjectiveINFORMAL•BRITISH
dishonest or unreliable.
"a dodgy second-hand car salesman"
potentially dangerous.
"activities like these could be dodgy for your heart"
of low quality.

618hoodoo.bsky.social•71 days ago

And immediately blown (and more) on trump at a football game.

kdsocal.bsky.social•71 days ago

So with Leon’s new contracts how far in the hole are we 🤦🏻‍♀️

lafloranona.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh, the Times! “Big error…” how about “BIG LIE!”

swmseattle.bsky.social•71 days ago

Which was actually $5.5 million.

bardoillusion.bsky.social•71 days ago

Muskrat's a book-cooker.

jaykwon.bsky.social•71 days ago

running4321.bsky.social•71 days ago

They have problems with zeros

cafetelaviv.bsky.social•70 days ago

Cynicists selling broken stories to their dumb followers.

#Doge Department of greedy exploiters

tuittheure.bsky.social•70 days ago

That's 5.3 Tomahawk missiles. Good job!

gna2511.bsky.social•71 days ago

As President Homer Simpson would say

erniepf.bsky.social•71 days ago

Doh!

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henchman1.bsky.social•71 days ago

Also, just cutting a program that delivered a service to citizens is not a "savings"

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops!

vsan23.bsky.social•71 days ago

That 8 million barely covers Trump's Superbowl and NASCAR appearances.

callidusdominus.bsky.social•69 days ago

Maybe an efficient cut would be getting rid of employees who can't tell the difference between a million and a billion! If only the New York Times had actually done proper reporting, then the US might not be in this mess. Because whether it's a million or a billion, DOGE is doing real harm.

pdxgene.bsky.social•71 days ago

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hlaferrara1.bsky.social•71 days ago

Engineers should be able to do high school math

Sorry Big Balls

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tomshenk.bsky.social•70 days ago

Yes, these are the smartest people Trump could find

cmerlin.bsky.social•71 days ago

It was actually $0 because what is eliminated more than pays for itself.

kenwegrzyn.bsky.social•71 days ago

I just call it DOG-E. Doggy.

"Bad dog! Drop it! Droppp it!"

wildlee.bsky.social•70 days ago

caligreg.bsky.social•70 days ago

Dodgy DOGE Digits

$55B in cuts claimed the DOGE website.
Massive errors show that numbers not right.
Confusing billion with million? Quite a laugh.
Like exploding SpaceX rockets. Bad math.

wildlee.bsky.social•70 days ago

wildlee.bsky.social•70 days ago

langdongrant.bsky.social•71 days ago

This is what happens when you send toddlers with flamethrowers to do a grown-up auditor's job.

peacejunky.bsky.social•67 days ago

lord of the flies

d-d-jones.bsky.social•71 days ago

The Dems absolutely need to come up with a number for the colossal waste that DOGE is causing.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•71 days ago

It wasn't even saving $8 million.

Cutting services is saving money. It is cutting services.

observer9.bsky.social•71 days ago

NOT SURPRISED BY THE INTENTIONAL DECEPTION BY ARROGANT LIARs. EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR A DECADE FOR SO MANY MUSK PROMISES, MOST OF WHICH NEVER MATERIALIZED: RESIDENTIAL SOLAR SHINGLES, FULL SELF DRIVING, ROBOT TAXIs, HYPERLOOP, ETC. A LITTLE BOY THAT DREAMS BIG. THANK GOD HE HAS SOME SMARTIES!

dogolaca.bsky.social•71 days ago

For everyone who discusses or writes about this, be aware that a lot of people don't know how to compare a million to a billion. Here's another way to describe it: it would be like paying someone in cash, and instead of using $100 bills, using the same number of dimes.

mrsdebdav.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's zero. They call it savings but it's actually destruction.

karenho.bsky.social•71 days ago

Please add alt-text.

ravenna321.bsky.social•71 days ago

Counting zeroes is evidently beyond these geniuses' capabilities, good thing they have their pizza greasy fingers all over my personal shit

kathleenzr.bsky.social•70 days ago

2 contracts a total of 7 million was given to DOGE leader Musk. Subtract that from the 8 million so 1 million 🤷‍♀️

avgeeknologist.bsky.social•71 days ago

Upside is, Elon's now a millionaire.

lslass.bsky.social•70 days ago

But it wasn’t actually 8. If you read the article is was $5.5. And it is unclear if there are unintended costs because of the cancellation. Facts matter. Especially in headlines and social posts.

joeritchey.bsky.social•71 days ago

I must've put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. ----, I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.

cuibonobaby.bsky.social•71 days ago

I "saved" $2000 by not paying my mortgage this month.

mrjlindy.bsky.social•71 days ago

The Golden Age to The Golden Shower in only a Month!

sanleehe.bsky.social•56 days ago

It's what they do - LIE and MORE LIES. They are shameful. and SO embarrassing!

zerosumbond.bsky.social•71 days ago

Now if that’s what they do with government records, imagine the state of Tesla’s accounting

v1g1lantesh1t.bsky.social•70 days ago

Some ways to speak out against the DOGE idiots in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/v1g1lantesh1t.bsky.social/post/3li5xxxiyos2g

realmonkey.bsky.social•71 days ago

Ah, well... It's the cold season. Also for Elon Busk 🤧

saltonsailor.bsky.social•70 days ago

Geez, they're only 18+ years old millenials, and you expect correct spelling?

amylking.bsky.social•71 days ago

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thinkermb.bsky.social•70 days ago

They are off by a factor of 1,000. If you receive $2,500 in Social Security each month, you may be receiving $2,500,000 or $2.50.