Could anyone have foreseen this? Could anyone imagine that Americans' personal data would be the end game of Musk and DOGE? Yeah, talk to me about incompetence in the Federal government. Seems to have arrived with DOGE.
Even if there was fraud, these teenagers are just deleting and changing data and not following proper chain of custody evidence procedures, so there can't be any meaningful prosecutions. Some "audit"!.
It was never about saving, it was about gaining access to all our systems and grabbing the Social security trust fund. That is their next move, that and martial law!
What a joke and what chaos and destruction this has caused. And, practically no money was saved and when you consider T’s golf trips and parade, we’ll be lucky to break even.
Thank you for your critical reporting! I have just one request. We fall into the trap of calling these "savings" rather than unilateral, consequential cuts to critical government programs. It is important to continually remind us all that these are not savings (as in you could have used just one car but instead you bought two, so we'll sell the extra car and call that savings) but instead slashes with real world consequences. As just one example, the cuts to HIV/AIDS PEPFAR programs alone are projected by the Lancet to kill 500,000 children by 2030 (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-may-put-millions-of-children-at-hiv-risk-warns-lancet-report/articleshow/120113276.cms). These aren't "savings." They are chilling decisions to put countless lives at risk in order to free money to give to Trump cronies. We must resist using the "savings" language that the trump regime is promoting.
DOGE has proven it's value to about the same degree that a Tesla truck has held its value. Even those dealers who sold them to the unsuspecting now don't even take them as trade ins. The outcome is predictable since both were managed by the same jerk. Oh yeah - you can run a government like a business both just like a white collar crime gang.
Could anyone have foreseen this? Could anyone imagine that Americans' personal data would be the end game of Musk and DOGE? Yeah, talk to me about incompetence in the Federal government. Seems to have arrived with DOGE.
Known bad businessman who is put in charge a massive overhaul of government agencies about which he is clueless fails badly. Who woulda thought.
And remember: Musk may be going, but the teenagers are still there, stealing all of the data they can as fast as they can.
The promised “savings” were merely a distraction from the REAL DOGE goal: Massive, illegal theft of confidential federal data on all Americans.
$160 billion in “fraud” but not a single indictment. What a complete sham.
Even if there was fraud, these teenagers are just deleting and changing data and not following proper chain of custody evidence procedures, so there can't be any meaningful prosecutions. Some "audit"!.
How can you do so much damage and have so little to show for it financially?
By how much has the general angst and suffering percentage increased? Musk and Trump can certainly take credit for that!
It was never about saving, it was about gaining access to all our systems and grabbing the Social security trust fund. That is their next move, that and martial law!
What a joke and what chaos and destruction this has caused. And, practically no money was saved and when you consider T’s golf trips and parade, we’ll be lucky to break even.
I hope this analysis goes beyond this substack
Thank you for your critical reporting! I have just one request. We fall into the trap of calling these "savings" rather than unilateral, consequential cuts to critical government programs. It is important to continually remind us all that these are not savings (as in you could have used just one car but instead you bought two, so we'll sell the extra car and call that savings) but instead slashes with real world consequences. As just one example, the cuts to HIV/AIDS PEPFAR programs alone are projected by the Lancet to kill 500,000 children by 2030 (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-may-put-millions-of-children-at-hiv-risk-warns-lancet-report/articleshow/120113276.cms). These aren't "savings." They are chilling decisions to put countless lives at risk in order to free money to give to Trump cronies. We must resist using the "savings" language that the trump regime is promoting.
Isn't that Trump's normal business plan?
Failure?
That chart is classic Elon
Let’s not allow him even the attempt to make up the catastrophic difference.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Thank you Caleb and all
who put these important
reports together.
DOGE has proven it's value to about the same degree that a Tesla truck has held its value. Even those dealers who sold them to the unsuspecting now don't even take them as trade ins. The outcome is predictable since both were managed by the same jerk. Oh yeah - you can run a government like a business both just like a white collar crime gang.