While the duo has defined the last year of U.S. politics, it appears Musk and Trump are now heading their separate ways.

“He’s finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him,” an anonymous source close to the Republican Party told Politico. “He’d go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people’s votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn’t work. It’s offensive to people.”

  • isekaihero@ani.social
    138·
    4 days ago

    I supported DOGE’s mission to cut federal spending and honestly I think DOGE was the last chance to save our Republic. The fact is the USA is a late-stage Republic and with every multi-trillion dollar spending bill we are witnessing the end of the Republic. Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is going to cost 3.8 trillion dollars. Remember the COVID inflation? It’s about to get even worse than that. Every new spending bill is bigger than the last, and pushes us deeper into the death spiral of hyperinflation. We are following in the same footsteps of every failed Republic before us. The Romans debased their currency, the Weimar Republic tried to print their way out. We are next.

    I see a lot of left-wingers comparing this administration to Palpatine in star wars. What if I told you DOGE was the last effort to avoid a Palpatine scenario?

    There are too many cronies in Washington DC. Too many entitled people who think they deserve wealth and power, who stuff our spending bills full of pork. The spending will be cut, but we had a choice. We could choose to cut spending willingly and preserve the current system, or we could go full steam ahead into hyperinflation and destroy the system, resulting in the collapse of the dollar. DOGE wanted the fed to cut spending willingly. Musk wanted to preserve the system. Now we will realize the alternative.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      21·
      4 days ago

      LOL - What if I told you that is not DOGE’s mission and it never was?

      The whole point of DOGE was to make federal employees AFRAID. That’s it, and in that, and only that, they have been supremely effective:

      https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/06/federal-workers-manage-uncertainty

      https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5304255/federal-workers-fired-mental-health

      https://theconversation.com/trumps-moves-to-strip-employment-protections-from-federal-workers-threaten-to-make-government-function-worse-not-better-248086

      This has been the stated purpose from the beginning. If you believe otherwise, then you missed them telling you this:

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

      “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

      As always, the cruelty is the point. It’s NEVER been about efficiency.

      • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Well TBF, I think they also existed to cover up the money that was being stolen to pour into these AI data centers, but disguise that missing money as “savings.” Pretty sure they thought they would be able to make so much money so quickly, that they would just be able to replace it before anyone realized all of those “savings” numbers were just bullshit.

        Not that they ever planned to actually bring any of the jobs back, but likely thought they could replace the money that was stolen and then just automate those jobs anyway bc AI is apparently magic

      • isekaihero@ani.social
        119·
        4 days ago

        You didn’t link anything that disproves DOGE’s mission. The reason for the wasteful spending is because of corrupt government officials. In order to cut spending, you have to deal with the cronies who are behind that wasteful spending.

        Like every failed Republic before, we’re on train tracks. We know how this all ends. Whether you like it or not, DOGE was the last chance to save the system.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
          81·
          4 days ago

          Again, it’s not about spending and never has been. It’s about making people afraid. Pay attention when they tell you this, if you buy the lies then you are complicit:

          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

          “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

          Cutting the funding is how they make people afraid. It’s the tool, not the goal.

        • SillyBadger@lemmynsfw.com
          3·
          3 days ago

          You’ll notice while they supposedly found all kinds of corruption, no one has been arrested or prosecuted… no one. All the supposed graft that was US AID, but no arrests. It wasn’t full of corruption as we were told. The White House certainly is though.

          The mission was to isolate and break America’s ties with allies and to get anti-Trumpers out of the Federal government, and DOGE was pretty successful with it’s part in that.

          • isekaihero@ani.social
            14·
            3 days ago

            They found corruption but the government is so completely corrupt that it’s protecting the criminals. It’s not that DOGE is irrelevant, it’s like David standing against an army of one million Goliaths with just three stones.

            • SillyBadger@lemmynsfw.com
              31·
              3 days ago

              Comparing a liar, rapist and morally bankrupt person - all of which you have evidence of, as did the juries - to David shows just how corrupt your mind is as well. “I never knew you”

    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
      101·
      4 days ago

      DOGE is nothing but a money funneling operation of your tax dollars directly to the wealthy while it weakens and destroys the institutios keeping this country afloat. It’s the exact same in motivation as the “Big Beautiful Bill” that shit stain you voted for put out. Good job guzzling bullshit and pretending it’s intellect juice.

      • isekaihero@ani.social
        116·
        4 days ago

        It actually did find over 11 million social security recipients aged over 120 years old. Cutting this obvious fraud - which is systemic fraud at this scale - saved social security over 500 billion dollars a year.

        DOGE has been a blessing from God and is long overdue. Unfortunately the corruption is too great. The loss of DOGE means there’s only one way this will all end. The same way every other failed Republic ended.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
          101·
          4 days ago

          No, no they did not. Stop listening to Breitbart:

          https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7

          "Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. The news organization WIRED first reported on the use of COBOL programming language at the Social Security Administration.

          Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.

          The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.

          A July 2023 Social Security OIG report states that “almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments.” And, as of September 2015, the agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old."