As the DOGE turns.

[DeluxAuto]

Wonderful the way this is working out.

Only a Dope Would Like DOGE

If you think this is a “department of government efficiency,” you are being played. Efficiency would be good. This is destroying vital government services, research, consumer protection, and aid.

The popular podcaster Lex Fridman, whose political worldview I have critiqued before, recently said that everyone should be supporting Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). Friedman had watched an interview that Musk and his DOGE team gave on Fox News, in which they defended the agency’s work. Fridman found it “eye-opening” and said that “All Americans should be cheering them on and hoping they succeed in their mission to make government more efficient. This should not be a partisan issue.”

I suspect Musk’s Fox interview was partly damage control, since polls now show that over half the country thinks Musk is hurting America, which shows that the majority of people are not nearly as naive as Fridman about what Musk is actually doing.
But let’s assume there are some people out there who still think the “Department of Government Efficiency” is a department of government efficiency.
Or perhaps they watched the Fox interview and were swayed by Steve Davis, DOGE’s day-to-day head, who said that while many people complain about DOGE, when he asks “Which line of the cost savings do you disagree with?” it turns out “they can’t point to any.”

Let us take Davis’s question seriously: how could anyone object to the agency’s cutting of “waste, fraud, and abuse” unless they wanted government to function badly?

Musk himself says DOGE’s job is “tech support” for government agencies, replacing outdated computer systems, eliminating duplicative bureaucratic processes, and streamlining services. Joe Gebbia of Airbnb, another DOGE colleague, said in the Fox interview that the agency was actually trying to improve public services, saying “government can have an Apple store like experience” with “beautifully designed, great user experience, modern systems.”

 

[DeluxAuto]

Wonderful the way this is working out. Musk and his Wunderkind get pointed at a target and dig out exactly where the monies going. Musk reports to Trump, they take the results public, and decide what to do about the situation. Any hammer lowering that takes place, Trump does it. Don't forget kiddies, Trump had the phrase "You're Fired" trademarked long before Elon came along.

So what is all the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth about? Perhaps it comes down to the fact that the public is being shown exactly what the government's been doing with the taxpayers dollar and the people that have been spending said dollars are terrified. And as events are unfolding it seems they have good cause to be terrified.

Hey, dipshit! Are you going to defend Elmo against his own admitted failures and words?

 

[Rebel5soul]

Only 15%? Hardly worth the effort.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Only 15%? Hardly worth the effort.

If the point went any farther over your head it would get altitude sickness.

 

[Rebel5soul]

If the point went any farther over your head it would get altitude sickness.

Right. *chuckle*

 

[DeluxAuto]

Right. *chuckle*

You can never back up your bullshit. It's why you're a joke and all of your threads are so easy to derail with facts.

 

[Rebel5soul]

You can never back up your bullshit. It's why you're a joke and all of your threads are so easy to derail with facts.

Really? You're fucking delusional. I've made no claims as to what DOGE may or may not find. Only that the audit needs to be done.

Further, shit for brains, the savings are circumscribed by this fiscal year. Meaning that there are monies allocated by congress that NO BODY can do a damn thing about until the new fiscal year, you know, the one that Biden had nothing to do with, that starts in Oct.

Moron.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Wonderful the way this is working out.

I've made no claims as to what DOGE may or may not find.

Okie dokie.

If you only did 15% of the work you were contracted to do, I'm sure your employer would be pissed.

Hint; we're the employer and musk is the failed employee.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Okie dokie.

If you only did 15% of the work you were contracted to do, I'm sure your employer would be pissed.

Hint; we're the employer and musk is the failed employee.

Oh golly, legal restrictions prevented you from saving more than $375 billion. Failure, you're fired.

 

[Bn2f]

Oh golly, legal restrictions prevented you from saving more than $375 billion. Failure, you're fired.

Haha!
Yet, another Nazi coming up a nut short.

 

[Bn2f]

Oh golly, legal restrictions prevented you from saving more than $375 billion. Failure, you're fired.

Don’t worry, rebel, I wouldn’t make that joke about you cos someone’s spare testicle can always be found in your mouf.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Oh golly, legal restrictions prevented you from saving more than $375 billion. Failure, you're fired

The COBOL fiasco had nothing to do with legal restrictions.
The lying about the money found on his website only for them to be forced to remove it when the lies were exposed had nothing to do with legal restrictions.

Btw, what exact legal restrictions are you yammering about?

You're out of your depth here, dipshit. Go hide under LoWat's skirt and shut your hole.

 

[Rebel5soul]

The COBOL fiasco had nothing to do with legal restrictions.
The lying about the money found on his website only for them to be forced to remove it when the lies were exposed had nothing to do with legal restrictions.

Btw, what exact legal restrictions are you yammering about?

You're out of your depth here, dipshit. Go hide under LoWat's skirt and shut your hole.

Idiot.

 

[DeluxAuto]

You can never back up your bullshit. It's why you're a joke and all of your threads are so easy to derail with facts.

Idiot.

Even Derpy could rest this case.

 

[dmallord]

Said conviction is on appeal and it ain't over until it's over. Most legal scholars agree that the conviction will be overturned. At which point you will still claim he was convicted and then conveniently omit the reversal by the appellate courts so that it looks like you're telling the truth.

Meanwhile, it's in the early stages of the DOGE referrals. Which look like proof of fraud to me because it's linked to the data. Said data to be used in a court of law against those so referred and used by a jury in their deliberations. If the deliberations are done based on the data, then the convictions are impending. Which, again, looks like proof of fraud to me.

YMMV because it's (D)ifferent when you do it. Right?

WTF.

I recall your bleatings about Trump's innocence until proven guilty during his fraud trial. You said there was not evidence of such. Then, when the jury heard the evidence and determined he was guilty, you said he wasn't a felon until he was sentenced. He was convicted and sentenced, and you still refused to use the term felon as every other judge and legal beagle does. Then Derpy, you said that sentencing wasn't valid proof of felony convictions since he still had appeals pending. Every step of the way, you've defended a felon. Except now your tune is off-key.

Now, here you are saying a referral using data from DOGE and deliberations on the data by a jury [like the jury the felon had] must have convictions impending–looking like fraud to you, but then there are no charges yet, no case yet, no jury yet, no conviction yet, no appeals yet. Right? But here you are with a rope and hangman's noose at the ready well ahead of any legal cases going to court all because you support two assholes of the first order: Musk and the felon.

Asshole, IT IS different when you support it! Right?

 

[Bn2f]

WTF.

I recall your bleatings about Trump's innocence until proven guilty during his fraud trial. You said there was not evidence of such. Then, when the jury heard the evidence and determined he was guilty, you said he wasn't a felon until he was sentenced. He was convicted and sentenced, and you still refused to use the term felon as every other judge and legal beagle does. Then Derpy, you said that sentencing wasn't valid proof of felony convictions since he still had appeals pending. Every step of the way, you've defended a felon. Except now your tune is off-key.

Now, here you are saying a referral using data from DOGE and deliberations on the data by a jury [like the jury the felon had] must have convictions impending–looking like fraud to you, but then there are no charges yet, no case yet, no jury yet, no conviction yet, no appeals yet. Right? But here you are with a rope and hangman's noose at the ready well ahead of any legal cases going to court all because you support two assholes of the first order: Musk and the felon.

Asshole, IT IS different when you support it! Right?

Just about as good a takedown of this here plagiarizing, hypocritical, liar of a member as I’ve seen.
Well done Senor Mallord!

 

[LLCox]

Musk will be auditing the Pentagon and Ft. Knox any day now.

 

[ll74]

Musk will be auditing the Pentagon and Ft. Knox any day now.

So he didn't do that already?

I thought he was going into space today

 

[Rotadom]

MAGATs collect the most welfare by a large percentage than any other group. Cutting waste will hit them the hardest.

Whoops!

 

[Rotadom]

Musk will be auditing the Pentagon and Ft. Knox any day now.

So he didn't do that already?

I thought he was going into space today

Wait! Trump said he's not even sure there's any gold in Ft. Knox anymore

 

[heathrowinneo]

MAGATs collect the most welfare by a large percentage than any other group. Cutting waste will hit them the hardest.

Whoops!

but wait, trump is going to make a yuge gain when he brings back clean coal, going to run it through the carwash before it gets fired up. so much winning!

 

[schism666]

If the point went any farther over your head it would get altitude sickness.

ish feels 15% is good enough. it's how we ended up with vatass.

 

[LLCox]

Wait! Trump said he's not even sure there's any gold in Ft. Knox anymore

That $5K rebate check will end up being a roll of nickles... for the rich.

 

[Rotadom]

Wonderful the way this is working out. Musk and his Wunderkind get pointed at a target and dig out exactly where the monies going. Musk reports to Trump, they take the results public, and decide what to do about the situation. Any hammer lowering that takes place, Trump does it. Don't forget kiddies, Trump had the phrase "You're Fired" trademarked long before Elon came along.

So what is all the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth about? Perhaps it comes down to the fact that the public is being shown exactly what the government's been doing with the taxpayers dollar and the people that have been spending said dollars are terrified. And as events are unfolding it seems they have good cause to be terrified.

Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era clean energy program, unfreezing roughly $20 billion in funding meant to support projects like new solar energy arrays and efficiency upgrades for small businesses.

Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday ruled in favor of the eight nonprofits that sued Citibank and the Trump administration, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully terminated the program. Chutkan ordered the congressionally appropriated funds to be unfrozen at 2 p.m. Thursday and distributed to the nonprofits they were originally intended for.

The Trump administration said it will appeal.

 

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Tesla whistleblower wins latest legal battle in fight against Musk


A Tesla whistleblower who has fought Elon Musk and his company through the courts for years has won the latest round of a long-running legal battle.

Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised a safety concern in 2014 about a design flaw which could affect the cars' braking.