Rick Wilson: "DOGE" was Muskian bulls**t from the very start & created more costs than it saved

[Miles Archer]

The Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson joked Donald Trump is "sick of winning" and pointed out the shortcomings of Musk's DOGE project. The Tesla CEO had been tasked with cutting government spending and promised the department would be closed within the first two years of the presidency.

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"I was told that DOGE was going to create trillions and trillions of dollars in cuts from wasteful government spending and as it turns out it was a net negative," Wilson said. "It created more costs than it saved. It was, from the very start, Muskian bulls**t."

Wilson went on to suggest Musk's strategy was more about cutting what he did not like in government rather than actively pursuing government spending oversights.

Musk's strategy according to Wilson was, "an aesthetic dislike of X, anything that's woke, and because of his hatred of the woke he wanted to slash things that included words like 'justice, equity, climate, bias,' the usual things that trigger the MAGA."

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-doge-2674336902/

[cbabe]

1. Can I have my turn now?

[GopherGal]

3. DOGE was bullshit, careless arbitrary cutting

The sky is blue.
Water is wet.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Wilson Couldn't Be More Correct

First, every estimate of savings they promoted had 3 too many zeroes.
But, the cost to do it was missing a zero.
With all the hire backs, and the disruption in workload, it's totally reasonable to estimate costs greater than savings.

[thought crime]

4. It was performance art

Elon Musk brought a kind of Nazi saluting edge lord energy to MAGA and letting him go wild "owned the libs" until the Teslas started to burn. Now that the DOGE show is over, he's on his way to becoming the first trillionaire while promising Sustainable Abundance driven by Tesla robots.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. "Sustainable Abundance driven by Teslax robots" being further Muskian bulls**t, of course. nt

[Miles Archer]

7. And Trump doesn't "GET" performance art unless he's the performer

When Musk did his bouncing prancing dipshit routine at Trump's MAGAt rally, a confused and annoyed Trump asked "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ELON?"

And, that's when the first cracks in the "alliance" appeared, the idea that Musk could possibly have a spotlight on the same stage as Trump.

Trump's not known for his "sharing."

Trump gets out there and does his moron dance and talks about windmills causing cancer and he thinks he's Master of the Universe.

Musk bounces up and down like a drugged moron on a pogo stick and sees what the rest of us saw...a drugged moron.

[Phoenix61]

6. DOGE was a, sadly, effective way to stop investigations

into Eloon.