Elon Musk’s supposed savings aren’t entirely correct.
  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
    7·
    21 hours ago

    It would be funny if elon was actually only worth 400 million and not 400 billion.

    Incidentally, his net worth has dropped below 400 billion to 398 billion since i last checked. Is he losing money? Is this anything to do with tesla stock?, because roughly 2 billion is a serious amount of money

  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    Can we prove it? Is there actual real data showing anything that he HAS found? With real proof?

    Can we support our great President (/s) by showing him where the real inefficiency lays?

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      The Public: We want proof of inefficiency.

      Elon: We have proof of inefficiency at home.

      Proof at home: Elon posting a conspiracy theory on Twitter under an alt account and then vaguely confirming the theory under his main account.

  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    I mean he certainly is incompetent but the idea that you could actually achieve anywhere near the results he is claiming with a bunch of racist teenagers in a month is absolutely insane.

    It would be nice if we actually had the government audited to find waste and fraud. But it would take probably near a billion dollars and at least a years time and large dedicated team from a respected public accounting firm. Or even simpler, you could just increase GAO’s funding and actually read their goddamn reports.

    It’s so sad that our nation is so clearly being hoodwinked and who knows the long-term damage it will cause as he just destroys any semblance of functional government with his reckless acts. What we are witnessing is pretty much the definition of fraud.

    • throwback3090@lemmy.nzEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      No at Tesla he abuses his own workers and isn’t held accountable by the executive branch.

      Here he is abusing our workers and isn’t held accountable by the judicial branch.

      Totally separate.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 days ago

    Elmo lied? He would never!

    Except.that time of the robo taxies

    And that time about the boring company doing tunnels 100 time cheaper

    And that time with hyperloop causing tens of billions of investment in impossible tech that any 5th grader could debunk

    And that time about rockets on Tesla’s

    And that time that unfounded Tesla

    And that time about solar roofs

    And that time about Tesla full self driving

    And that time about those laughably stupid robots

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  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    3 days ago

    No, he’s not. He’s faking the entire premise of “DOGE” being about “efficiency” in order to obfuscate the fact that its real goal is to be a partisan purge, replacing career subject matter experts with MAGA loyalists at all levels of the bureaucracy.

    Hell, he’s not even trying to be sneaky about it! It’s just the barest of fig-leaves, cynically designed to act as an exploit against journalistic ethical standards that naively require “objectively” reporting his claims as if they were being made in good faith. Even though the claims blatantly are not and everyone paying attention knows it, including the journalists themselves, the media can’t call out the bullshit without upending decades of tradition and inviting even more attacks (also in bad faith) against their integrity than they’re already getting.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      More importantly to the purge is taking control of all the payment methods of the US government. He can control anything if he controls the money. He can funnel it all to himself, or cut off funds for anyone he doesn’t like or any department that threatens him. Congress has no control and neither does Trump.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 days ago

      And he is using it to quell regulations and investigations into Tesla and SpaceX. Which is a crystal clear conflict of interest and instead of the US Marshals deputizing his security staff they should be arresting him.