He is as much a coward as he is a fool.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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I really hope this becomes a modern day Icarus story of a billionaire who flew too close to the sun and then set off a radical turn events for the better.
Elon Musk is saving the US money in the same way that not paying your mortgage saves money. The real question to ask is not "how much are we spending on X" but "Are the benefits we receive for paying for X worth it?" No surprise, that deeper analysis is NOT being done because fans of the right are just out for blood in the form of cancelled government programs. After all, why not? Trump has told them for years now that the government lies, that every single program is flush with waste and so on. They are basically getting what they asked for, except they never considered the deeper effects. This is why the right wants uneducated masses. If they aren't using critical thinking skills, they're perfect supporters.
I think the reason for the spending cuts is so they can justify a massive tax cut for the rich. They will be essentially paying nothing, but your pleb taxes will go up and your pleb services canceled in the name of plutocratic profit.
For sure. Like usual, he's not motivated by just a pure hate for government programs. As always, it's a grift. Look at the $TRUMP crypto project. He doesn't feel bad fleecing his biggest fans. And why should he? They will never figure it out. They will just blame their lack of money on Biden or something.
Fuck what Nazi Skum wants. Fuck him till America is saved or at least the traitorous pissant is hanged for it.
Please Americans give the democrats the congress, so they can force Elmo into multi-week hearings Hunter Biden style. Make him lie under oath so much he’ll never recover
Why, so they can show up in pink dresses and wave signs some more? The majority of them are just the other side of the oligarch coin at this point.
Murca needs electoral reform to a system of proportional representation.
Bold of you to assume the current administration will let you vote, except maybe as for where specifically the concentration camps for LGBTQ people will be built.
It's one of those funny nuances of the USA though. Their elections are handled by the states, so they can only rig so much.
If you think the current batch of democrats will do this even if they have control of congress, be ready for disappointment. The dem establishment is too busy trying to preserve the status quo to actually stand up for the right of the people.
Unfortunately at this point I don't see lying under oath being much of a crime anymore
Maybe he should jump up and down and wave his arms like the top part of an "x".
No mention of the judge's decision that the firings were likely illegal? That's some shit journalism.
Good, maybe he'll stop. Sheer incompetence was our only saving grace with the first Trump admin. Let's hope this time is more of the same in that regard, as well.
The billionaire bureaucrat has claimed this defense to his organization’s cost-cutting measures before, saying that DOGE simply makes recommendations for cuts to agency heads, and then it’s up to those heads to execute them.
"It's not MY fault they did what I told them to do!"
Its not just that but they fired multiple agency heads for not obeying his orders. Its farcical when he's choosing the agency heads
This feels like part of the plan. They make agencies do it and distribute blame for the crash. Elmo is already a scapegoat for Turp. Now they can roll that shit downhill.
I imagine he'll throw one or more of the kids under the bus.
Annoyingly people will forget that he put them there.
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