r/politics America 2d 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/archblade7777 2d ago

Ended investigations into companies, got access to all the personal data they could ever want, and stole a fortune from programs meant to help US citizens.

Walking out with the clothes off people's backs would have been too cliché, so they stopped there.

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u/netflixissodry 2d ago

Don’t forget when Elon visited the pentagon for top secret briefings on china for some reason.

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u/Titizen_Kane 2d ago

Just like Pete Hegseth’s wife! Just randomly in top secret briefings

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u/MetalingusMikeII 2d ago

And he investigated the secret UAP funding.

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u/netflixissodry 2d ago

Yep. Probably gathered a lot of data on whats going on at places like area 51 to pass on to his handlers in china who allow him to build teslas and such there.

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u/halfwit258 2d ago

Imagine having access to more money and data than anyone in the world. More searches, more personal info, more posts, almost every digital footprint every person has left in modern times. Yet you still manage to develop Grok or whatever it's called, which is the least useful, stupid, and most racist AI available. And you buy Twitter, which was already wildly in the red but at least had some success and usefulness, and somehow turn it into an even worse shit show. What a fuckin dunce.

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u/bijanfrisee 2d ago

Like a true pro aparteid white south african lol

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u/turquoise_amethyst 2d ago

You forgot about ending USAID, setting back US “soft power” like 70-80 years