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Carmen's avatar

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.

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Becky Daiss's avatar

Known bad businessman who is put in charge a massive overhaul of government agencies about which he is clueless fails badly. Who woulda thought.

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kathleen's avatar

And remember: Musk may be going, but the teenagers are still there, stealing all of the data they can as fast as they can.

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Bubbens20's avatar

The promised “savings” were merely a distraction from the REAL DOGE goal: Massive, illegal theft of confidential federal data on all Americans.

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Jerry in Colorado's avatar

$160 billion in “fraud” but not a single indictment. What a complete sham.

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Justin Eldridge's avatar

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"!.

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Jerry in Colorado's avatar

How can you do so much damage and have so little to show for it financially?

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BTAM Master's avatar

By how much has the general angst and suffering percentage increased? Musk and Trump can certainly take credit for that!

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Steve Reddy's avatar

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!

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Brenda Feeney's avatar

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.

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Steelhead_Junkie's avatar

I hope this analysis goes beyond this substack

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W Patterson's avatar

Isn't that Trump's normal business plan?

Failure?

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Jared's avatar

That chart is classic Elon

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Stephen Wunderlich's avatar

Let’s not allow him even the attempt to make up the catastrophic difference.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Thank you Caleb and all

who put these important

reports together.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

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.

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P. Ehrlich's avatar

The word "savings" is a misnomer.

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