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by mint5 123 days ago
Okay… well it was extensively reported like everywhere so I don’t know what you’ve been doing but it’s sure not reading the NYT, NPR, CBS or the similar.

Okay so you somehow haven’t seen any of the many many accounts of doge being extremely unreliable but today you’ve seen people tell you they are unreliable.

After hearing that, to you, surprising new info did you consider googling it or cross check it in anyway before replying?

have you so much as tried googling “are doge estimates reliable?” After hearing other people call them into question?

Anyway here’s the AI google summary for you to get you started:

Based on analyses of the "wall of receipts" posted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in early 2025, their savings estimates are not considered reliable by budget experts, government contractors, and media outlets. Investigations have revealed that the claimed savings are heavily overstated, often misleading, and sometimes factually incorrect.

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DOGE already address all of those political hit piece articles. The claims made in them were spurious such as that they could not use the full amount of the contract. DOGE addressed this criticism by saying over 99% of contracts end up fulfilling their full amount. I'd be wary of what you read in the news especially when it relates to politics. Those news sites even thought Elon Musk was saluting a long dead genocidal maniac when he waved to the crowd - but specifically only Elon Musk and not any other person who made similar waves - why would that be?
Noice, defending musks hitler salute.

Tesla is a meme stock and will one day explode like a game of hot potato.

Going online and defending every poor decision musk makes won’t change the reality that these days musk is a drugged out buffoon with a penchant for white nationalism who pays people to cheat at videos games for him.

His main selling point these days is how He has a loyal core group of cheerleaders that sticks with him no matter what. It’s prolonging the inevitable.

Yep, he definitely was pledging allegiance to a long dead person while at the same time wearing a necklace honoring jews. yep. you got him.
I’ll defer to the majority of German newspapers - Germany is kind of an authority on this topic - it was a nazi salute.

The son of the apartheid, musk, even literally videoed in to Germany’s modern day extremist party, the afd, that same day.

Not a coincidence - musk is a racist white nationalist.

The Germans tabloids hate him because he was destroying the German auto industry with better vehicles and isn't supporting their liberal party. Musk has never done anything racist ever.
You’re right! Elon musks is gods gift to man, an infallible modern day Einstein who’s absolutely not racist or off the deep end.

How did I not realize the thousands of reports suggesting otherwise were actually all examples of nefarious propaganda by the consortium or haters. How unjust! We must reject anything that paints the angel in bad light!

I sincerely appreciate being enlightened!