DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.
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That’s just their cover story.
mar 5, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
Why do they need a cover story? It’s not like they care.
mar 5, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
To keep the MAGA faithful fooled and on their side. And to set the narrative on fox news
mar 5, 2025, 2:12 am • 1 0 • view
DODGE is firing federal workers to dismantle the federal government.
mar 5, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
You can’t be efficient with a skeleton crew with millions of customers it’s opposite of efficiency.
mar 5, 2025, 6:59 pm • 5 1 • view
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social If Elon is cross-referencing the PII of government employees with their social media posts, it's very possible that he's targeting people that expressed negative sentiment about himself and Trump. It's not hard to do, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's happening.
mar 5, 2025, 2:21 am • 4 2 • view
mar 5, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 1 • view
Call your Senators & Representative every day! Especially if they're Republicans. It'll take you less than 10 minutes. Do it or don't complain that they're spineless!
mar 5, 2025, 7:03 pm • 4 0 • view
mar 6, 2025, 1:58 am • 3 2 • view
Has anyone else been wondering WHY any government office is letting these unconstitutional, illegal, DOGE idiots into their buildings & more importantly, their IT systems & data bases? I'm sure all the buildings have some kind of key card access security. Why aren't they simply locking them out?
mar 6, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
NOPE
mar 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
Why would any Democrat go and support that freak?
mar 5, 2025, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
DOGE never had any intention to uncover waste, fraud or abuse. They set out to find things they didn't agree with, and in doing so also found a lot of things they didn't understand. Instead of a professional audit, we got the "HULK SMASH" approach. It'll be decades before we can fix what they broke.
mar 5, 2025, 2:08 am • 31 3 • view
It’s a way to skirt congressional approval of agencies established by congress. It’s accomplishing that. This Congress is about as useful as an artificial plant.
mar 5, 2025, 3:04 am • 19 1 • view
It's the Republican way, just like gerrymandering. They have always been cheating, theiving, pieces of shit.
mar 11, 2025, 9:20 am • 6 2 • view
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
mar 11, 2025, 10:04 am • 1 0 • view
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Bro! This has been true since WAY before Scumbag trump, but now it’s like on steroids. Sheesh
mar 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
It’s more of a “ burn it all down” mindset I think.
mar 5, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 1 • view
Thank you Joyce. I need simple explanations of what is going on right now It’s dizzying
mar 5, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
My son’s co-worker with MS was informed that his medication assistance program was canceled by DOGE, leaving him with a $700/month out of pocket cost (that he cannot afford) for his necessary medication. How is that benefiting the country or making it more efficient?
mar 5, 2025, 3:28 am • 18 2 • view
Simply put this is atrocious! How do they expect people to live like this? Cutting assistance programs and others plans like Medicaid is only going to help Trump and Musk. They don’t give a damn about people😡😢
mar 5, 2025, 5:06 am • 1 0 • view
They have a genocidal plan that involves purging this country of anyone who isn't going to be a good slave. The disabled and elderly just aren't useful to their long-term plans, neither are those who oppose them.
mar 11, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
And then he won’t be able to work…. So they are taking self sufficient people and putting them on Medicaid and unemployment, which in the end will be far more expensive to tax payers.
mar 5, 2025, 5:34 pm • 3 0 • view
If Medicaid and unemployment exists long enough.
mar 6, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. They plan on destroying all social programs, and anything else the public enjoys with tax dollars, like stripping park land of valuable resources. Tax dollars will only be used to support the lazy, grifting, wealthy cunts, and their hobbies.
mar 11, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
That is malice.
mar 5, 2025, 4:43 am • 9 0 • view
So true!!
mar 5, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Three important words—DOGE firing people. I still don’t understand how DOGE has the authority to fire federal civil servants.
mar 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 18 2 • view
You and me both, Sister 🥺💙
mar 5, 2025, 2:51 am • 4 0 • view
Definitely need more cowbell.
mar 5, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
mar 5, 2025, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
Legally they don’t. But Congress has bent over for the dictator.
mar 5, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 1 • view
Boom. Nailed it. Well said.
mar 5, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 1 • view
Spending hours fretting over a make work email is not efficient, and neither is selling real estate you own so you can rent at higher prices.
mar 5, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. It's to break the government. I've noticed.
mar 5, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
They get to pocket the all that "billion dollar savings" they claim from lay offs and termination of existing contracts with vendors!🙄
mar 5, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
It's never been about efficiency. It is about destroying from within. Is it a coincidence that so many gutted government departments were about to investigate Musk's companies? As long as the oligarchs get what they want, they are happy to dismantle the whole system.
mar 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 5 0 • view
If they wanted to be efficient, they would've identified areas to IMPROVE.
mar 5, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 1 • view
There is no efficiency when you chainsaw your way through the employee list with no regard to what they do. 😡😤
mar 5, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
But the network news dutifully says it every time.
mar 5, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
mar 5, 2025, 7:14 pm • 2 1 • view
Exactly!
mar 6, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
What really gets me here is that he is winning with the smaller govt republicans with these cuts, disastrous as they may be, and that's not even what this is. His lying about everything really muddies the water enough to make it plausible to some that he wants to reduce waste. We already do that tho
mar 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 4 1 • view
Correct
mar 5, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view
Vance has a stake in AcreTrader, that allows foreigners to "snap up real estate deals." Now USAID debacle makes sense in bankrupting farmers.
mar 5, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 1 • view
Tech bros want the land to build sick network countries they run like CEOs and there are no laws…as launching pads to mars. It’s some effed up shit youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...
mar 5, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
That is 1 lie down and at least a thousand to go.
mar 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
DOGE firings are a distraction so more sinister events can happen and stay unreported
mar 5, 2025, 5:10 am • 3 1 • view
AMEN TO THAT!
mar 5, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearing the way for unfettered corruption, with immense collateral damage.
mar 5, 2025, 1:20 pm • 5 1 • view
Republicans lie Joyce. They want your property, your money, your liberty. And Biden did it.
mar 6, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Remarkable that any agency that was holding Musk accountable was gutted. Pillaging of USA by the very rich in broad daylight & it seems nothing can be done to stop it. Wow.
mar 5, 2025, 5:00 pm • 10 3 • view
Let’s also not pretend that government needs efficiency. Not saying a rich autist is the answer mind, but the government shouldn’t get a pass. More at daedalusmemo.com
mar 6, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
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mar 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly what does "move on" mean or look like?
mar 5, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
“A situation HE finds intolerable. Looks like Musk thinks HE’s the king. An immigrant that certainly needs to be deported. He’s not assimilating well. In fact, with the damage he has caused, anyone else would be in prison.
mar 5, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 0 • view
He and Trump can go to Guantanamo like the bosom buddies they are.
mar 5, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Bingo
mar 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
And DEI was simply an EXCUSE. No one is talking about the fact that Doge has cancelled thousands of government contracts. My neighbor lost his job. My company lost 90% of their contracts and may go out of business. NO ONE is talking about that!
mar 5, 2025, 3:06 pm • 8 2 • view
🎯
mar 5, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Just the opposite - they want to grind our government to a halt, damage it beyond repair, destroy accumulated expertise, and privatize the services it previously provided under the watchful eyes of our oligarch overlords.
mar 5, 2025, 2:11 am • 11 1 • view
Can you say Russian take over
mar 5, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
But of course. Being efficient is getting the most bang for your buck. Not getting rid of things you need.
mar 5, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
They're removing all obstacles to Elon's businesses.
mar 5, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 1 • view
Looks like DOGE is the remake of, The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis, but in steroids. Destroy our institutions in exchange for oligarchy and autocracy.
mar 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 7 1 • view
So they can rule over ashes.
mar 5, 2025, 4:37 am • 3 0 • view
💯💯💯 Insane, isn't it?
mar 5, 2025, 4:39 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. It’s a surgical excision of anyone looking at his illegal acts.
mar 5, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
Literally the opposite.
mar 5, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
They wrote it down. They can’t deny what they’re doing.
mar 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
I noticed Elon stood when tRUMP mentioned DOGE & bowed. He is not DOGE he is the monster implementing its orders! Then he again took a bow when Trump mentioned his name. Very telling!!
mar 5, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 0 • view
They are dismantling government agencies so they don't operate on purpose.
mar 6, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
I speak from experience. This has nothing to do with merit or waste, fraud, and abuse. No business would ever tackle that by lopping off employees without assessing who was doing what and how.
mar 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 15 1 • view
It’s because they really don’t know what’s involved in building things up and what’s actually involved in working. They are insulated by wealth to the extent we are considered parasites
mar 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 1 • view
DOGE is firing people to avoid oversight
mar 5, 2025, 3:07 am • 3 0 • view
It's really difficult to convince Americans that Musk is focused on government efficiency when the Acting President keeps cancelling other govt. contracts then awarding new contracts for his own companies to replace those cancelled. He is either a US Gov Dept head or a US Contractor. Can't be both.
mar 5, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 2 • view
Imagine living in North Korea That is what Trump wants for America People will toil in factories and on farms Everyone will be thin, hungry and willing to rat out resisters for food
mar 5, 2025, 10:05 pm • 4 2 • view
They are clearly not looking for waste, fraud and abuse. They are trying to break the back of our entire government.
mar 5, 2025, 11:31 pm • 3 1 • view
2025 again
mar 6, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
It's just cover for weakening the US to appease Putin.
mar 5, 2025, 2:04 am • 4 1 • view
Firing them to destroy the government. Eliminate ALL opposition Just makes it easier to end democracy & establish a dictatorship. That's the plan
mar 5, 2025, 3:23 am • 5 0 • view
First they destroy, then they privatize.
mar 5, 2025, 3:00 am • 5 1 • view
None of this is about efficiency or cutting costs. It never was. This is just an evolution of the "fiscal responsibility" propaganda the GOP has been peddling for decades. Now they're just conning the same rubes into believing they're finally doing it. They're not. bsky.app/profile/alys...
mar 5, 2025, 6:41 am • 13 4 • view
Let’s fire this administration
mar 5, 2025, 2:23 am • 4 1 • view
We need to doge up and have a removal. Any takers . 21 of them seems like the norm
mar 5, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 1 • view
It is to sell off the property we own so they can justify their cuts.
mar 5, 2025, 3:35 am • 2 0 • view
Yep, “efficiency” is just an excuse to destroy the govt institutions and knowledge. Similarly, fentanyl isn’t the reason for the tariffs. There is no good reason for the tariffs, other than to cause disruptions and make things more expensive, slow economy
mar 5, 2025, 2:08 am • 18 0 • view
An abusive bully always isolates its victims. We are now hated and isolated form our Allies. They also eventually make them feel like it is only them that can take care of you or cares for you. Sound familiar?
mar 6, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
mar 11, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
Its to make government no more
mar 5, 2025, 2:04 am • 11 2 • view
Remove him and his minions from office immediately by any means possible. Removal one way or another. #ROWOA
mar 5, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 1 • view
Concise and to the point. Well said!
mar 5, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
The goal is to destroy America to make way for a new world order.
mar 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 6 2 • view
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mar 5, 2025, 1:21 pm • 10 3 • view
They are getting rid of anyone who would be an honorable whistleblower first….. can’t have people reporting your crimes….
mar 5, 2025, 5:28 pm • 5 1 • view
It’s obvious that Elon and his DOGE gang don’t have any knowledge about what our government does.
mar 5, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view
The word dysfunctional is not a synonym for efficient. I hope this clears it up for Trump supporters who lack access to dictionaries.
mar 5, 2025, 3:01 am • 3 0 • view
They fired Andy Hazelton because hurricanes are whatever.
mar 5, 2025, 2:04 am • 7 0 • view
There are ways to do things.
mar 5, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Anyone else catch the hypocrisy of making a display of the young cancer survivor while defunding medical research??? My stomach turned so many times last night!
mar 5, 2025, 3:55 pm • 6 3 • view
DOGE isn't legal. See FACA lawsuit (requires balance on an advisory committee and background checks) and since shortly after that got traction, T started calling M a government employee M became ineligible to have contracts with the govt or for 2 years afterward.
mar 5, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Smoke and mirrors and bullshit to try to help billionaires and screw the little guy. Get real. 😏🥴 Still acting like ACTUAL hard-working, career people are waste,fraud & abuse while he sits at a buffet with a silver spoon, golfs and helps no one. Except Russia. 😏 Fuck That noise
mar 5, 2025, 3:11 am • 3 0 • view
Let’s take all of it and make some moves!
mar 5, 2025, 3:56 am • 1 0 • view
Any COMPETENT AND ETHICAL business would have done cost/benefit analysis studies before firing anyone. And….”profits” should not be a factor when when evaluating human needs (health, education, disaster relief, etc).
mar 5, 2025, 10:47 pm • 1 1 • view
I had been thinking the same thing. Cutting waste is not a problem it’s the insane way they are going about it. I also believe they could find a lot of waste in Congress. Start at the top . I can’t believe how much of our tax dollars are being spend for days personal travel.
mar 6, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
It’s less efficiency and lower service to us, the American citizens
mar 5, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
If you're spending all this time looking for waste and fraud in government, and you're not finding any, you're not really looking for waste and fraud.
mar 5, 2025, 2:08 am • 12 1 • view
The DOGE crew hasn't provided a single example of waste, fraud, or abuse.
mar 5, 2025, 2:13 am • 10 0 • view
He’s standing at the podium right now.
mar 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Totally a waste and a fraud.
mar 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
If anything it’s screwing up the process
mar 5, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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mar 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 5 2 • view
Elon Musk has blood on his hands!
mar 5, 2025, 3:50 am • 3 1 • view
No, doge is destroying departments and federal workers that brought any kind of investigation towards musk, and IG’s that could investigate in the future! Besides this, musk is setting himself up for even more government contracts!!
mar 5, 2025, 10:18 pm • 5 2 • view
They can't steal the $ if they pay it out to other people. Doesn't look like congress will stop it, and I can't imagine scrotus not giving him a free pass. It'll blow the f*ck up, and I don't think it'll take long. No good guesses as to what happens after that.
mar 5, 2025, 8:57 am • 2 1 • view
DOGE = Dastardly Oligarchs Get Everything.
mar 6, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
For one thing, it's firing the people from agencies that were investigating Elon's companies. That's what you get to do when you spend $280 million getting Donald Trump elected.
mar 5, 2025, 4:03 am • 7 2 • view
Just one of a billion lies.
mar 5, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Hello to Huxley’s Brave New World: They want an immediate pool of folks who’ll work for a pittance & whose children will have as little access to education, opportunities & hope as possible- so they’ll then work for even less 💀
mar 5, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
🤡 cabinet, gangsters & oligarchs are already lining up to feed at the privatization piggy trough
mar 5, 2025, 2:19 am • 4 1 • view
I would like to know with all the "fraud" Musk has professed to have found, why no indictments? No names? No solid, verifiable facts?
mar 5, 2025, 11:08 am • 8 0 • view
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mar 5, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
It's a way to insert Elon Musk's businesses into government even more than they already are.
mar 5, 2025, 2:09 am • 22 3 • view
It's also why he doesn't seem to care about his businesses tanking. When you have access to everyone else's money, you can just steal it.
mar 11, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
He’s making room for his own AI to automate all government agencies.
mar 5, 2025, 2:09 am • 4 0 • view
Thank you!!!! Now can we move on and blast the real reason they are breaking our institutions?!!!
mar 5, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
We know, and we are not silent.
mar 5, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly 💯
mar 5, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
GAO has been making government efficient for over 100 years. DOGE is a duplication of services and IS the fraud waste and abuse.
mar 5, 2025, 3:16 am • 5 0 • view
Just saw an interview with musk biographer Walter isaacson, who discussed a "demon state" that comes over musk, that musk does not remember when it's over. Sounds like a medical disorder that needs to be checked, not a prerequisite for an unelected poser imposing "efficiency" on America.
mar 5, 2025, 4:24 pm • 10 0 • view
👍🏻💙🇺🇸
mar 9, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
What’s weird here Joyce is you are not telling people what they already know. If you care this much USE WHATEVER POWER YOU HAVE AND DO SOMETHING. Regular Americans have their hands tied.
mar 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t care what organization you’re downsizing for sake of efficiency, you need more than 2 days inside an agency to understand what it does and which programs to cut. This isn’t about waste, fraud and abuse. It’s about destruction. They are dismantling our government while we watch.
mar 5, 2025, 3:51 am • 7 2 • view
And we don’t have anyone to stop them. If we tried to make citizens’ arrest, trump’s jack-boot thugs would mow us down. Plus, the majority of us live hundreds, if not thousands of miles away.
mar 5, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
This is the most helpless feeling! Our security institutions are compromised, our congress is useless, our scotus empowered a trump tyranny. Trump has pi$$ed off more than half the Americans and the whole world. I think he should be very scared. Musk will be carrying all his kids!
mar 5, 2025, 8:38 pm • 1 1 • view
They want the money. It’s a bank robbery.
mar 5, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
mar 5, 2025, 2:25 am • 13 2 • view
They have mentioned skin color and gender frequently when talking about who they are getting rid of
mar 5, 2025, 5:49 am • 0 0 • view
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mar 5, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
Depth Of Govt Excuses - he chooses words that have the oxymoronic quality. What was that children's story about drawing them in using a lie?
mar 5, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Trumps removing watchdog people and federal workers before they look into him and musks criminiality. They are breaking the privacy act law. The law Should already be aggressively looking into doge and it’s intentions. Cuz it’s blurry for a reason. It’s illegal
mar 5, 2025, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
He is firing them because the $ sign next to their name cause he wants that money as a subsidize for one of his companies
mar 5, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
And tax breaks for corporations & the 1%
mar 5, 2025, 7:11 am • 0 0 • view