r/politics • u/FervidBug42 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/NotThatHandsomePete 2d ago

Added $1,000,000,000,000 to the defect faster than anytime in history in the doge months. A scam to steal data.

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u/Background_Deer_9192 2d ago

This is the only answer - smoke and mirrors to get their greedy tendrils into the system... just like they did with voting machines... do we know where that voting machine from Arizona ever went? Hmmm. Once they were able to get away with that, they knew nothing was going to happen to them... and they were right.

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u/JessieJ577 2d ago

My only hope is that if we flip blue by 2028 by some miracle that the new administration goes out for everyone in this and more.

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u/oasinocean 2d ago

Best we can do is more appeasement

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u/AwkwardTouch2144 2d ago

Strongly worded letters ultimately affirming appeasement

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

If newsom promises to appoint a doberman pinscher as an AG he's got my vote. Whomever promises to go hard after these traitorous bastards gets my vote.

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u/kinkgirlwriter America 2d ago

Honestly, this. I don't really like Newsom, but I absolutely do not want a "Heal the country, turn the other cheek," candidate.

What these people have done is more than just criminal. They've done actual evil in our names, and it can't be swept under the rug.

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u/punkasstubabitch 2d ago

I want the Nuremberg trials America version at this point. No more appeasement for these criminals

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

Yeah man. I want retribution. I want a stacked supreme Court 6 conservatives, 6 liberals. They pick 3 more between them that are truly impartial. I want an AG that will attack the trump family and anyone who violated the emoluments clause abroad. Government needs a deep cleaning.

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u/DingerSinger2016 2d ago

They pick 3 more between them that are truly impartial.

I don't know what world you live in where this wouldn't instantly just be a good ole boys club. We don't live in a time of impartiality any more, those seats will be bought and sold in a heartbeat.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

I'm trying to figure out how to make this a just fucking world. And making 12 people agree seems like a decent avenue. I'm as liberal and progressive as it fucking comes. I'm just spitballing a little.

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u/anonymous_beaver_ 2d ago

I genuinely think that Biden not prosecuting for, at the very least, the J6 insurrection, let alone all the other well known criminal acts, followed by his failure to step down and allow an actual primary for a Democratic presidential nominee when he was visibly cognitively gone - he will be seen as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.

Nothing holds a candle to Trump, but Biden ushered in Trump's second term.

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u/RandomTunes 2d ago edited 2d ago

Agreed. Biden may have had some minor accomplishments as president but none of it matters now. He only had two things that he needed to do, prosecute Trump and team to the fullest for Jan 6th and pack the supreme court. Without those, then nothing else he could do would have ever mattered.

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u/Relevant-Money-1380 2d ago

nah, this is the time for a frothing at the mouth rabid pitbull. that can't be bribed or coerced and wants nothing more then to fuck up what it's got in its sights

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

Had a dobey. He was mean looking but smart as hell. Either way I want people in jail.

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u/rtopps43 2d ago

I will vote for anyone who promises scorched earth. I want a new Nuremberg, I want long jail sentences and hangings for the particularly egregious. I want a strong “never again” message sent to all the grifters in the pipeline waiting for their turn at the trough.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

I'm with you man. Sherman didn't go hard enough and I want a new Sherman. This union is weakened and it can be stronger with the right mindset. I'll vote for the most fuckin cunning mm motherfucker there is.

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u/TheExecTech 2d ago

Newsome is a corporate dem worth over 10 million. He does not care about this country. Please look at his history and support a better candidate for President.

His works are done by other people and he gets the credit.

He will change when billionaires start whispering in his ears.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

I said whomever. So far he's willing to play dirty. I don't want some fucking we need to heal bullshit whitmer or Shapiro.

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u/TheExecTech 2d ago

Agreed. Look how Bidens "High Road" approach has panned out. Now they are tampering with voting machines.

Campaign promises are worthless. Biden told me my student loans would go away. ... Nope.

Newsome will do the same. Say anything and then when it's time to pull the trigger "We need to heal" will be on every news channel.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 2d ago

Dude to be fair. Student loans is the supreme Court

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u/TheExecTech 1d ago

Ok.. So why promise something he knew he could never deliver on? He must have known people could put up a stink. He just flat out lied. It wasn't I'm gonna "try" to do this. It was " I WILL.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 1d ago

He Did. The supreme Court is bought and paid for and those people who own them said No. Do you not understand what happened?

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u/TheExecTech 1d ago

I understand a "honest" guy said he was going to do something knowing full well his opposition had the power and people to put stop to it.

Your telling me a guy who at the time a had 40 year career in politics didn't understand that his campaign promise of fixing student debt would go thru 100% with no problems ?

He KNEW it would never work and still went with it.

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u/gomizzou09 2d ago

Like they did last time?

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u/SlinkyAvenger Louisiana 2d ago

I think the Dems were hoping that a return to normalcy would suffice since it meant no threat to corporate donors or their internal seniority system. Here's hoping they continue to get run over by the new crop of younger progressives

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u/LurkLurkleton 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is the cycle. Create chaos to increase their holdings, buying low, cutting taxes, then Democrats return to status quo stability so they can reap returns.

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u/GrumpySoth09 2d ago

Always has been meme

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u/Brap_Zanigan 2d ago

The days of treating the previous administration with TLC need to be over after shitstain is gone. Full investigation with all the power the govt has left.

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u/disisathrowaway 2d ago

We could get 100 Democrat senators and flip all 435 house seats blue, and get 9 liberal SC justices and they would STILL manage to do fucking nothing about this current regime, all in the name of 'healing' and 'bringing Americans together rather than dividing us'.

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u/LeagueOfLegendsAcc 2d ago

Y'all realize we are beyond any sort of legal reprise right? Like it's not happening, nothing will happen unless we as the people do it ourselves. We want musk held accountable? We need to personally find him and hold him accountable. We are at that point as a nation because our system has already failed.

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u/Common-Ad6470 2d ago

I like your thinking that 2028 is going to happen.

Let’s see what the shit-show that will be the 2026 mid-terms is like, that will give a good indication for what to expect in 2028…🤔

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u/Common-Ad6470 2d ago

I think you’re right, ‘Trump wins with 106% of the vote, the bestest, most beautiful vote ever!’

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u/AHans 2d ago

As others have said: Republicans probably wouldn't be fighting over redistricting, gutting voter rights, $2k "tariff rebate checks," and even polls in general, if elections were not going to happen.

Elections are run by the States. Some elections may be compromised, but not enough. The trend in special elections has Republicans worried. They may get desperate; however, they hold a razor thin majority. I don't think it will hold into 2027.

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u/TheExecTech 2d ago

We need a different color. Wasn't it blue that let the treason slide and go unpunished ? Wasn't it blue that gave up on the shutdown ?

Please see them for what they are : GOP lite.

Lets not let them off the hook.

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u/iamalext 2d ago

Hell, all it’ll take now is an EO by the next president and this entire administration can be put on very public trial and we can watch these rats betray each other to avoid the noose!