The reality or otherwise of the press, does unfortunately (for your line of reasoning) affect motivations and outcomes. Tesla leadership will be reflecting on the sales trends. Most of their direction stems from forces outside their control in the classic sense: its market forces. But the other ones stem from politics, and like it or not, the leaders position in world politics IS affecting market views of his associated products.
It's interesting that its in cars, not batteries. The battery control logic and the stacks, the virtual power-plant models, they're too good. No amount of painting this IBM as a collaborator with dictators will prevent the sales there. But in the car space, it's not so clear.
Timing is everything. Starlink has leadership. Europe is reacting because of concerns from being excluded from the LEO marketspace. The news will be used, to influence investment, and attract staff to move. Not all staff who move will be the dumb rejects. People move for all kinds of reasons. It may include, dislike of the leadership.
Looks like the media controversies are driven more largely by false narratives from the "right" than anything that's really liberal or conservative in favor of America itself.
Definitely less basis in reality from that direction than from what's ill-defined as "liberal" today.
Doge is doing what every other administration in history has failed to do.
To cut debt why not say... increase corporation tax. Fix healthcare so it isn't a rip off. Deconstruct the various complexes: military, prison etc. Stop giving money to Israel.
Let illegal immigrants stay because they pay tax without getting social security.
I don't think Trump and Elon are serious people.
I still can't get over the stupid name. "DOGE".
Especially if we pronounce it "dough-ge"
In conversation, I feel forced to use the entire (non-acronym) name.
This is more-or-less (part of?) what DOGE purports to do. Just not the "complexes" that you want.
Why not just make it global? Shouldn't social security should be a human right. Also, why make laws around citizenship if you do not want them?
So the net result is a gigantic increase to the already ridiculous national debt.
The old gut the company, get it more in debt and pay rich person a big dividend trick, but applied go the USA.
Firing/laying off non-political appointee federal employees, aka civil service employees, will do nearly nothing to save money. The Federal government isn't a software company where one of the most expensive things is the cost of people.
If the budget is about $6,000B per year, 5% of that is $300B and if the target is laying off 10%, you are talking $30B. It sounds like a lot of money to a person but that means your federal budget is now $5,970B.
Basic budgeting concepts - if you wanted to save a lot of money you wouldn't be looking at something which only accounts for 5% of your budget. It would be like if your personal debt keeps increasing each year and you have a $800/mo car payment, $4000/mo mortgage, etc. and think eliminating 1 coffee run per week will save you.
DOGE Obliterating consumer protection agencies that cost next to nothing shows more about the intentions than any PR.
This leaves only a few "natural" cuts that will be very unpopular, but needed to come close to balancing the budget: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. DOD cuts will reduce military readiness at a time when we'll either need it (Taiwan) or be abandoning our military dominance. But even cutting DOD spending by 100% wouldn't clear the deficit itself so other things have to be cut.
This year's DOD spending is $318 billion so far, and the deficit is $839 billion. Cutting DOD spending by 100% would still have left a $500 billion deficit.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Have you bothered to look up the actual hard statistics that show that federal workers work more and harder than those in private sector companies?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/21/are-feder...
Warning: You will have to exit your echo chamber.
The article contains links to the original research.
Are you lazy, or just afraid of facts?
I provided a reference refuting your assertion that federal workers are lazy. You don't appear to have anything to back up your position, or you world have replied with it. Instead you tried to steer the discussion in another direction. Lame.
Here's a fun exercise: Go look up how much of that debt was incurred during the previous Trump administration.
Go ahead and look. We'll wait.
The problem people have with DOGE, is that it's in itself a fraud. Musk empire is based on government contracts and subsides. And somwehow, he's now deciding what's being cut.
As for fraud that DOGE is uncovering, can you point to some real fraud they found ? Not some bullshit tweets or their website riddled with 'mistakes'.
If they found real fraud, there should be indictments. There are 0 for now. 0.
Bend over far enough and you'll be able to see your back at some point. Impressive.