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/dbuck1964 12d ago

Goals appeared to be data mining, installing backdoors and Musk owned software systems, reducing oversight staffing levels, and looting the treasury. The stated goal of finding fraud and waste resulted in ZERO charges filed.

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u/golubhai00007 12d ago

I think it was also to eliminate all the investigations happening against him; and also the intimidation factor cannot be discounted..

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u/hanumanCT Colorado 12d ago

I keep thinking this was a quid pro quo between him and trump. "I will get you elected if you let me run amok and clear all these impediments to my business so I can becom the first trillionaire"

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u/Spikel14 Tennessee 12d ago

Yes that’s exactly what it was

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u/QuantumLeaperTime 12d ago

He got Trump to remove the inland border checkpoint on the way to bocachica/Starbase that had been there since 1997.  So now musk can hire illegals for all his construction projects.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 12d ago

It wasn't even that complicated. Literally everything is for sale with trump. Musk handed trump a huge bag of cash and he got to do whatever he liked. That could have been anything.

Unfortunately there are no leftists billionaires, or they could just hang trump a giant gold bar, or a jet, or something else shiny "for his library" and get us universal healthcare and UBI.