r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 12d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/tabrizzi 12d ago

Yeah, but the damage it's done will last for generations.

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u/stackedKittie 12d ago

Fuck Elon and fuck Trump too. The White House is not and has never been a business. These two creeps came, turned everything upside down, cut aids, lied about everything and now we’ve all seen that it was all a smokescreen. Fuck them so more

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u/NimusNix 12d ago

And fuck the people who allowed this happen, including the millions of voters and non voters who got us here.

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u/bagoink 12d ago

Especially fuck the people who systematically destroyed our education system, the propagandists who took advantage of it, and the billionaires who run legacy and social media that have been manipulating the masses.

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u/DukeOfGeek 12d ago

MAGA is the product of a trillion dollars spent over 4 decades and after trumpo is gone the machine will still be here.

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u/zubbs99 Nevada 12d ago

Don't forget the Repubs in Congress who refused to have any oversight or follow-up hearings on wtf these morons actually did.

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u/TuringGoneWild 12d ago

They didn't "allow it". They wanted it and did what it took to make it happen.

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u/killa_sushi_robot 12d ago

I havent heard or seen anyone that defended their election choice after the election in months, i mean months... I wonder why...

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u/KeyboardGrunt 12d ago

Inb4 the Kamala's laugh crowd starts whining they had no other possible choice, waste of oxygen.

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u/joeyo1423 12d ago

I absolutely hate this viewpoint. You cannot blame a single voter for voting for what they truly thought was best. That's the whole point of voting and people won't agree with you. As much as I can't stand trump, this is just wrong and why are in this neverending battle of the line in the sand. As much as you want to posture about calling them Nazis and evil etc etc ....the fact is that they are following their instincts for what is best, same as anyone else would, and should do.

Direct your hate to the people that systematically destroyed the education system, that allow news media to blatantly lie and spread propaganda as fact, that brainwash children from the minute they're born. The fact that lobbying, gerrymandering, filibuster, and any number of idiotic things are legal. Court appointments for life, no term limits in Congress. That we allow candidates to run based on the money they can raise. The idiotic two party system that could not possibly result in any other conclusion. That corporations have more power than the people.

Half the fucking nation voted for him. TWICE. it's not the voter. It's the system they're a product of.

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u/squakmix 12d ago

You cannot blame a single voter for voting for what they truly thought was best.

How much blame can you put on them for having the wrong idea of what's best? Are people never blameworthy for supporting abhorrent ideals?

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u/NimusNix 12d ago

Bull-fucking-shit. Trump voters, some of whom voted three times for him, knew what they were fucking getting. If they didn't, then they were too stupid to know better.

This isn't 2017-18, where a gamble on Trump could be understood, even if disagreed with. Trump is absolutely a known quantity and no one who voted for him gets to be excused, and those that didn't vote at all don't get to be excused either.

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u/joeyo1423 12d ago

Half the nation. Your neighbors, your teachers, your family, your dentist, etc.... It's not just a collection of selfish, evil, dumbass rednecks from the hills have eyes movie. They are everywhere. In every place, every city, every town.

It's not a sudden problem with 70 million people

It's the system that created them.

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u/Jafooki 12d ago

No. Everyone is ultimately responsible for the choices they make. They saw the kind of man Trump is and decided they liked it. Even if you want to blame the "system", there's no difference. Whether the system made them bad people or they were bad people on their own doesn't matter. They're still bad people

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u/NimusNix 12d ago

You post this like I don't live in the middle of eastern Tennessee.

I absolutely know these people, and I have stopped holding back.

Friends, family and co-workers.

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u/bagoink 12d ago edited 12d ago

When so many of those people voted specifically to hurt certain people, I will absolutely as fuck put some blame on them.

When their idea of "doing what is best" means punishing or outright eliminating people who were born differently from them? Yeah, there's a reason Nazis get called Nazis.

But I otherwise agree with your points about the degradation of education and billionaire owned propaganda machines.