DOGE is a failure. Promoted by conspiracy theories, nonsense and incompetence, it ruined professionalism and capability and saved nothing. economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
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They succeeded in the primary objective: Exfiltrate all government data for Musk, Thiel, and Putin. Bonus: Every SCIF in DC is now backdoored by Russia like it was their embassy
jun 9, 2025, 7:36 pm • 6 1 • view
100%
jun 9, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, no one really knows how many uncertified servers are hanging off unclass federal nets.
jun 10, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
Boasting about destroying foreign aid was peak gratuitous destruction. thehill.com/opinion/inte...
jun 9, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
musk did benedict arnold one better by betraying two nations
jun 9, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh please. I thought the Economist would be better than this. Efficiency was never the objective of DOGE. Would any sane person have recruited that team if efficiency was the goal? They were all hackers, there to steal the data. Any data. They didn’t care.
jun 10, 2025, 6:43 am • 1 0 • view
That was the intent! It's a bad faith argument to suggest F'Elon/Tr*mp/DOGE/MAGA Repubs were trying to 'save' anything; they want only to ensure a wealthy, well-connected few don't have to pay what they owe or be held accountable for their crimes—and they will take every freedom we have to do so.
jun 9, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Might be a failure based on what? Did they succeed in getting access to all your personal data? What are they doing with all of your information.
jun 10, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
Using his own product. Literally.
jun 9, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
DOGE did exactly what it came to do - bring a wrecking ball to the federal government. The chaos they sowed and federal workers that left were all consistent with project 2025. Sure they were incompetent in doing this but now Vought will pick it up and finish the job.
jun 9, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
💯💯💯💯💯💯
jun 9, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
it was a data grab...
jun 9, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It was never going to be anything but a failure. Speaker Johnson fawning over Coristine, Shaotran, et al told me everything. Now, all one has to do to understand very sensitive ops detail is read the legal briefs. Not hyperbolic to say the planet now hangs by the thinnest of threads.
jun 10, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
Another ‘intelligent idiot’. He has always been a fool and a fraud. Maybe some of the dorrito dust crowd will tell Murdoch where to sink his anchors . These are not good people
jun 9, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Musk's, and his followers, efforts were always doomed because they show a fundamental ignorance of, and disinterest in, governance. The purpose of capitalism is profit- and creating efficiencies to optimize profit. The purpose of governance is capacity and capability. Governments exist to DO things.
jun 9, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
This is what happens when you elect f*cking idiots to high office. They will immediate hire other f*cking idiots to f*ck everything up as much as possible. But that WAS the goal, anyway....
jun 9, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
There is plenty of evidence that DOGE was/is doing what Trump desired and Trump was highly pleased with its performance. It is 100% Trump's failure. It is not Musk's failure--he was just the tool in Trump's hands.
jun 9, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
It saved us from thinking this administration might be competent in even the slightest way.
jun 9, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
But they've cost much in dollars, civil rights, federal workers rights, rule of law, rights to privacy, and destruction of federal agencies the US citizens rely on. #fightthefascists
jun 9, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view