• PapaSkwat@lemy.lolEnglish
    89·
    3 days ago

    He’s been the face of it. What did he cut that he now regrets? Not nearly enough, I’ll tell you that.

    Edit:

    Musk told the group that the recently announced elimination of more than 70,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs “wasn’t a DOGE decision.”

    Ha ha ha because what’s left of his base would eat him alive. As if they believed the news.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      42·
      3 days ago

      Common sense… it’s doge or trump… We’ve never seen mass attacks like this, all of a sudden a guy comes around bragging that he’s going to cut the federal jobs like crazy, carries a chainsaw around boasting about cuts, calls every government service ponzi schemes and useless.

      How dumb does anyone have to be to buy it if he says “oh that wasn’t me”. He can’t even make a fall guy. You can’t blame the democrats on this one… they don’t have an ounce of power.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, the VA just decided to wipe out 70k people at the same time DOGE is trying to fire everyone in every department? No one is going to believe that stupid fucking excuse. Well, their base might, but they never learned critical thinking due to religious indoctrination and a general lack of public education.

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          You have to be able to ignore everything reality is showing you to trust the propaganda those voters swallow willingly without a second thought

          • Petter1@lemm.ee
            1·
            3 days ago

            Yes, and it is so scary, they seem like they turned off their brain completely 🥲

            If just educating system of US would not suck… maybe that would have mitigated this issue 🤔

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      What did he cut that he now regrets?

      His hair. Everything else he doesn’t regret cutting, he just doesn’t like that he’s not being idolized for it.

  • schema@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 days ago

    His cringe “trolling” is backfiring since naming it DOGE ensured that it will forever be connected to him.

    This fucker literally posed with a chainsaw on stage, and now he’s saying he’s not responsible for the cuts.

  • tpihkal@lemmy.world
    451·
    3 days ago

    Ah, he’s pulling a card from the CCP playbook. You can do whatever you want as long as you can look the public straight in the eyes and firmly deny doing something, while actively doing it.

      • lemminator@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        Does it? TIL I always thought it meant “official” or some such, but had no bearing on whether they were elected or not

        • Draces@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 days ago

          an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people’s needs.

          I’m starting to think they made it up

          • pivot_root@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people’s needs.

            Irregardless, that describes the exact opposite of Elon. He’s concerned with personal compensation at the expense of people’s needs.