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Steve QJ's avatar

“ With respect your comment that Musk bought his way in, there is great irony in what DOGE has brought to the surface is a human-level “algorithm” that is the billions in government dark money that has served to manipulate speech…”

Wait, what are you talking about here? Please be specific.

Also, Musk has demonstrated several times that he doesn’t understand the systems or departments he’s toying with.

“$50 million in condoms for Hamas,” claiming to have saved $8 billion on a government contract when it was actually $8 million (this was the single biggest line item in DOGE’s alleged savings), failing to understand how the social security database works and therefore claim that millions of 150-year-olds are claiming handouts, accidentally exposing confidential information on the DOGE website, gutting government departments that employ, primarily, military veterans (not the “elites” or “deadbeats” you’ve been led to believe), and this is just off the top of my head.

And all this while Trump adds $5 trillion to the deficit in tax cuts and Musk totally ignores the trillions of dollars of waste in the military. Seriously, if your goal was to efficiently end government waste, would you start with a department that accounts for around 1% of the budget? What “talent and qualifications” are you seeing for which your source is anyone but Musk himself?

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Frank Lee's avatar

If you have the time, and are not too triggered by Tucker, you need to watch all of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtXQNDJJm4

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Steve QJ's avatar

Tucker Carlson is an amoral propagandist who doesn’t even believe his own bullshit. He spent years propping up Trump while privately believing him to be a “demonic force” who he believed was only “good at destroying things.” He admitted to “hating him passionately” and looking forward to the day he could “stop speaking about him forever.”

So it’s not that I’m triggered by him (he dislikes Trump even more than I do!) it’s that he is an out and out liar, and sorry, but anybody who takes him seriously after he’s proven himself to be a liar is, to put it kindly, not thinking straight.

So no, I don’t care about the lies this professional spin artist has been telling. I’m not interested in second hand opinions. I want you to think about what YOU believe and why you believe it. If the answer is, because Tucker and Musk said so, there’s not much more to say, is there?

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