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.”

  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 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·
      3 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·
        3 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."