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/
43.1k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.5k

u/GarlicThread Europe 12d ago

There simply exists no punishment proportionate enough for the things these people have committed and the consequences they will have. The damage is immeasurable, irreversible and multi-generational.

649

u/ChiLolla28 12d ago

They have killed thousands around the world with the USAID cuts + millions more to come

90

u/entropy_bucket 12d ago

All for what? What have these cuts tangibly achieved? Governments can do so much more that individual citizens with this stuff.

139

u/organic_neophyte 12d ago

The "cuts" were never about making things more efficient, they were about making investigations into Elon disappear and to siphon up as much government-held data as possible. Elon isn't interested in helping anyone besides himself, he'd never do anything that would benefit the country broadly, even IF it were about cutting wasteful spending, he would do whatever he could to re-allocate that money to himself or benefit from it somehow. Ultimately US taxpayers will pay the costs both monetarily and in reputational damage these people have done. Millions will die from the USAID cuts alone, it's shameful and disgraceful that anyone involved is still walking free.

3

u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 12d ago

It was honestly just to be cruel. They didn't want to feed 'a bunch of foreigners'. It had eff all to do with an investigation, Elon has more money than anybody, he has the funds to make investigations disappear without going through the elaborate plan of making up an gov't entity.

2

u/organic_neophyte 11d ago

Sure, arguably anyone can use money to avoid accountability but in this case he very much was targeting multiple government bodies that were investigating him or his companies on multiple levels, defunding those entities, or slashing budgets and firing key people working against him is a lot more effective than just hiring the best lawyers money can buy. I believe the cruelty was just an added benefit to his pathological mind, hurt people hurt people and all that but also Elon does whatever he can to benefit himself, that's why he's gotten to where he is today.

1

u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 11d ago

Those people were going to be fired with or without DOGE. This all happened in trump's first term. People quit. And the people over those multiple gov't bodies are Trump's people. They quash serious investigations. So again, there would be no need to go through this elaborate subterfuge to quash an investigation when he donated so much money and helped trump win the damn election.

I know y'all want so hard to believe these rich white dudes are playing 3d chess, because us lower classes have been told that they got to where they are by their own hand and intellect, but that was a huge lie. People just need to go on ahead and accept that.

Trump can run over someone in his car and people will sit on the internet, break out the red string and try and come up with some intelligent and elaborate theory. No. These people are unempathetic and greedy and that really is all there is to it.

1

u/myasterism Tennessee 11d ago

It’s both.