The effects of DOGE’s initial blitz through the federal government – which included dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), embedding staffers in almost every agency and illegally firing people en masse – are still playing out.
Contrary to Musk’s promises, DOGE’s success is vague and tough to quantify. Measuring the full impact and determining whether the agency even exists as a centralized entity anymore is difficult, complicated by an ongoing effort from the government to block disclosure of documents, which is itself a symptom of the chaos that the department created.
Although the disarray and destruction left by DOGE is evident across the globe, we still do not really know exactly how the agency operated and its true effects. Instead, humanitarian aid organizations are still trying to assess the extent of the damage that DOGE created while ethics watchdogs have launched lawsuits trying to compel more transparency out of the government.
Installing backdoors into all government computers, rendering the entire system compromised beyond salvage.
We know exactly what they did. They stole. Everyone knows this.
Hey, hey, hey, that’s not fair. They also dismantled departments that had investigations underway to Musk’s companies.
We also know there’s been no actual reduction in government spending as well.
It’s literally increased.
Indeed. Mostly because of starting, enabling or continuing the various unnecessary armed conflicts in the world right now.
Yes we do?
They embezzled money and fired competent workers to impose their will to cause massive damage to the democratic process.
They lied about everything and took money while doing so. This isn’t a fucking question.
Crimes.
On top of more crimes with crime on top and some treason sprinkled in for flavor
They gave palantir a direct pipeline of sensitive information tied to individuals government identity.
That’s it.
It cut a bunch of government programs, cancelled existing contracts, stole information and shrouded whatever it could.
They copied everyone’s personal data. Look at that shining example of human integrity that is Elon musk and tell me that doesn’t scare the bejeezus out of you.
They also got rid of all the investigations into Elon Musk’s companies.
He went after anyone investigating him . We know that at least.
Yeah we do. It was designed to fuck shit up
It had no function or value beyond attempting to dismantle the federal government in an attempt to consolidate power.
They had their hands in the cash drawer
One thing that’s safe to say is that if Musk didn’t have your personal data, he does now
Something, something, something, dark enlightent
Something, something, something, anti-democracy
Something, something, something, I control the government now
-Elon Musk and other billionaires
I want to slap authors who headline things in a way that make it sound like we never knew what an agency under a fascist regime was designed for. Then just go on to explain some things that they actually did. While ignoring the months-long reports of every criminally-accountable and law-breaking thing they’ve achieved.
