I think it will become trillions, and have far worse effects than just mere money. Those cut services and removed employees, were mechanisms and lubricant for effective, timely government. They are now gone, and the machine will eventually break from the stress. This damage is slow, inevitable, and irreversible.
The point was never to increase efficiency, it was to give musk access to confidential data.
And shut down loads of social federal programs along with literally anyone that could get in the way of his “businesses”.
That was the real plan all along, wasn’t it?
It’s hard to differentiate between the malicious lying and the incompetence of execution. The results come out the same, either way. It hurts all of us, except for the very wealthy.
except for the very wealthy
Now that was the point all along
Absolutely.
Meanwhile we still have the TSA.
Come now it wasn’t a waste. Elon made bank! Fat stacks of money in fact.
And all the back doors are installed.
And still has plenty of government contracts
What was infuriating was to hear a few so-called “independents”, Enlightened Centrists, and Democrats saying, as this was happening, things like “well, we really do need someone to do something about waste, fraud and abuse, but I’m not sure these guys are doing it right”.
Why the fuck do people even accept the goddamn framing of the extremist right wing? What evidence is there of extreme amounts of any of that repeated babble phrase (repeat after me, children!) “waste, fraud and abuse”, most especially in the departments that were under attack from these partisan hacks with zero experience and zero expertise? I mean, JFC, some of the dipshits in there weren’t even old enough to rent a fucking car. What the fuck do they know about anything? And you are handing kids the keys to the place with no oversight, no vetting and no legal right to be there?
So to accept the bullshit framing and then to proceed from that false premise to only say: “gee whiz, I don’t think these kids just out of diapers might know what they are even doing?” in such a tone was just so exasperating.
Someone should impose some consequences. Perhaps? Maybe? No? Then I guess it was an okay thing to do. Based on how consequences work.
It would not be okay if YOU do it.
Imagine if one day there was an investigation into everything that was done and the instigators were prosecuted.
No shit
Looking forward to reading this and the comments.
Having said that and assuming my interpretation of the headline is correct and that the headline is factually correct, my response is DUUUUUUUHUH HUH HUH HUH.
Because DUH HUH HUH HUH HUH.
