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Re:A few hours ago, the US has turned into a de-facto dictat... by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:53AM (#43100062)
Elon Musk's people have been remarkably bad at finding real examples of waste. Their hit rate is extremely low - almost everything they publicize turns out to be wrong.

You'd think they'd be able to scour the Federal budget and find a few real examples of waste to crow about, but instead they give us things like: $50 million in condoms sent to Gaza so that Hamas can make bombs??? And of course, that instantly turned out to be fake news.

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Re:A few hours ago, the US has turned into a de-facto dictat... by defrost on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:03AM (#43100124)
If you want some referenced substance with that:

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million

The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

All the same, try not being distracted by the smoke and noise of the circus, it's all just a massive dead cat on the table to distract while other quieter changes are made.

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