cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/8529912

From WABE Politics News:

Mega billionaire Elon Musk, in a friendly interview with his aide and conservative influencer Katie Miller, said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and […]

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    4 hours ago

    How does he measure success here? That’s the real question.

    What he and his idiot teenagers were doing had all the earmarks of a complete clusterfuck, at least when it comes to doing anything like sound governance for the American people.

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    7 hours ago

    I don’t trust a word he says. Musk is a serial liar and there’s no evidence he’s changed his views. He’s never apologized for his previous actions. We must keep boycotting all his companies and never give up until he’s penniless and behind bars.

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      You mean crimes. The successful part was his crimes. And now he’s trying to fuck over Europe and the UK.

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    He got a copy of all federal records of all US citizens (as well as any non-citizens that have worked in the US). It was wildly successful (for him) but he has no need to ever do it again.

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      He also completely fucked any of the government organizations that might regulate him or his companies.

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      Let’s not forget the starlink satellite on the White House (and probably every building they had access to) that I’m sure they conveniently forgot to disconnect and take down

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    “ONLY SOMEWHAT SUCCESSFUL”??? How many people’s lives did he ruin for his own shitty failure of an experiment? How much critical expertise was ripped away from the government, never to return?

    I remember the last time I felt any respect for Elon Musk was when he spoke out about climate change. Here’s a quote:

    We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. – Elon Musk

    The government is like the Earth’s climate. You don’t make drastic experimental changes and hope for the best. People have been studying governments for literally millennia, and the climate for decades.

    Trying a huge change to the government without knowing ahead of time that it has a large chance of success (based on actual research), has got to be the stupidest type of experiment you can do with the government.

    I guess the big difference between DOGE cutting jobs and ruining not only people’s lives, but the government itself… The difference between DOGE doing that and humanity pumping as much carbon into the atmosphere as we can, is that one of them has the ability to actually affect Elon personally in the future. What a piece of irredeemable garbage he is.

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      How many children died from usaid cuts. I read recently that an estimated 600,000 people died just from the cuts to AIDS medicines.

      Almost a half million in a few months.

      That’s partially on him. And everyone else who let him do that.

      God only knows how many people he killed. He’s a murderer.

      And dont even get me started on his junk unscientific neuralink “experiments” on animals.

      Which was being investigated by many of the departments he gutted.

      He has maimed and killed (painful horrible deaths) so many animals based on junk science.

      And is still doing it today.

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    This fucker needs to be investigated over all the agencies that were regulating or investigating him, that he shut down.

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    The fact he’s even admitting anything is how you know it was a complete and total failure.

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      I bet he would have tried to fire someone who had an only somewhat successful project

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    Taxes are deflationary (they are the death of money), rather than cut spending - you could just slap a bunch of taxes on Musk and others hoarding of wealth.

    That’s the problem with spending cuts, you might be cutting deflationary spending, or price stabilizing spending. Not all spending is inflationary.

    A homeless person often costs the government more than an unemployed person, because usually they’re gonna still be collecting some benefits here and there, often they end up in jail, or are more likely to use public housing, or do crimes which need policing/court involvement… It all stacks up.

    Preventing people from becoming homeless is deflationary.

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    Allow me to introduce you all to the corpo reality distortion gradient of results:

    • 0/5 – “Somewhat Successful”
    • 1/5 – “Surprisingly Successful”
    • 2/5 – “Successful”
    • 3/5 – “Disruptive”
    • 4/5 – “Pretty Much Revolutionary”
    • 5/5 – “Revolutionary”
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    I mean…you can only be responsible for so much pain and death.

    He must be really irritated it’s not the 40s and he can’t openly murder or displace liberals.