Which is what Putin has tasked him with.
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NOT True! NOW that we saved a couple Million we can Afford BILLIONS in Contracts for Elon Musk and El Salvador and Greenland and my Kids is Starving because they Cut his Funding!
Doesn’t matter to the supporters. They believe he has streamlined government and saved gazillions. And if you don’t like DOGE there must be something wrong with you. Why wouldn’t you want a more efficient government without fraud and waste? Do you want waste?
And we let him. I propose a sea burial. But let him try to explain fir...nah get in the box!
I think we should help him fulfill his dream of going to Mars.
The suit is not finished, but we'll send the missing parts a few days later! Promise! Wink wink!
Same as he did with Twitter. What is new?
I mean I've been told this is the year to fudge on your taxes since the IRS is fucked so I mean maybe there's some silver lining. Frankly Elon isn't as bad as- hold on someone's knocking on my door, I'll be back in a bit.
Might not be the year to break laws though, considering even judges can't save you
just FYI, its easier to audit a poor/middle class person because they dont pay 600 lawyers to play with where the money is for tax loopholes. Unless youre a multimillionaire you'll probably end up regretting fudging anything unfortunately.
The goal was never to save money but find ways to enrich himself.
Ending democracy, that's their true goal.
The working class has never had any form of democracy
That's not true at all, even if you want to restrict yourself and only consider direct democracies as true democracies, you have at least Switzerland as an example.
In Sweden and Denmark, workers can even choose representatives to sit on the board of directors of the companies where they work (however, only for companies with more than 25 or 35 employees).
This entire post and thread is about the US
He didn't save anything he's stealing it.
I’m also concerned with the “fraud, waste and corruption “ that was the infrastructure bill. It’s becoming more and more clear we’re sitting on a timebomb of infrastructure built over a century ago and that we’ve ignored for at least half a century. It’s going to keep getting worse and worse , keep getting more expensive to repair: we’re way past time to invest in infrastructure and that was only the start toward getting back in a decent state of repair.
… just watching a video where they were debating whether it’s worth to rebuild a 137 year old tunnel in heavy use. How is that even a question?
People don't understand that a state isn't a private company, and you can't manage the state like in the private sector.
He also is not great at managing companies either.
The US budget is $7 trillion. Even if we pretend he saved $150 billion, that's 2% of the budget.
THAT was not the point
The destruction of the Nation, was.
Yes, and…..
Yes but he was able to direct the blank checks to himself and his buddies so the day is saved actually.
Correction:
Saved his own ass, in numerous ways.
Heard of the whistleblower related to DOGE who claims the tech group hired by Musk had already tried to breach government for years or so?
And how with each DOGE visit to a given department it always followed tactics of distraction and getting stored data, then suddenly leaving?
And how there's suddenly many breach attempts by suspicious hackers linked to Russia right after DOGE visits?
Or how the biggest culprit of government bloating by hecking far, the Department of Defense, same department who has failed several audits, was never a target of DOGE?
Hm... Not suspicious at all. Sadly I can't recall the source, but I think it was on YouTube.
NPR reported on that whistleblower: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
He saved all of our personal and national security information to give to the kremlin
150 billion
Yeah and if you actually believe that to be true then I have a bridge to sell you. These dumb fucks sold 8 million as 8 billion
I'd be surprised if it's even close to 15 billion
It's probable that it's way less than that, and that's not factoring in whatever it'll cost to unfuck everything he's done. Not that that's likely to happen anytime soon.
Also not counting in the brain-drain that is already happening.
I hope it'll be better for all you normal human beings in the US at some point in the future, I really do, but fuck me if this shit isn't scary all the way on the side of the Atlantic, and that's coming from someone living right next door to Russia. I'm way more scared of what'll happen when the US goes full 4th Reich.
I guess one could argue you're already there to be fair, but I still hope it went too far too fast and a backlash is incoming.
It also completely ignored the cost of the consequences, which is likely going to easily outpace any money "saved".
Oh inwasnt even gonna go there. Once you start pulling those threads it just becomes an absolute Avalanche of shit
Also they lost like 500Bn according to the IRS due to cutting IRS staff alone, not including revenue lost as a result of cutting services that the government provided and revenue lost as a result of other nations no longer doing business with the USA such as arms sales, energy, rocketry, hospitals, and other transactions.
By all accounts DOGE is losing money.
Same answer as the other reaction: if i start pulling on those threads then there is no end
These dumb fucks sold 8 million as 8 billion
Even aside from stuff like this, things they claim to be saving tend to be cut contracts. Contracts that have already been paid, but will no longer have to provided what they'd been paid for.