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funny but make no mistake, the entire purpose of doge is to find funds to divert to rich people
The money is already diverted. That’s what the tax cuts were in 2017.
This is just a way to upset various government agencies that might otherwise not be ok with law being upended to accomplish the goal of eliminating services our elected government has mandated.
The entire legislative branch is broken now.
I’m not American, but it seems to me, that to get to where you currently are, the legislative branch probably needed to be already busted.
This just shines a spotlight on how busted.
it’s a demonstration of how democracy is broken. It all depends on everyone to play nicely. You can cheat but if you’re caught you bow out gracefully. The checks and balances are all based on one part of the government pointing saying “we see what you did, you’re out.” But what happens when one side has no shame. What happens when they have no empathy for others?
Congress controls funding and it is explicitly not the President’s role. He is now circumventing the laws to get his agenda done without the support of Congress which should trigger an impeachment. Of course Congress is either already in his pocket or is too impotent to do anything so here we are.
At it’s core, yes, absolutely.
It should have checks and balances. The problem is that those checks and balances rely on people to take action. As you’ve stated, in this case, Congress should be the ones to stop unlawful power grabs by the President and start the impeachment process.
This shows very clearly that the people who are tasked with the duty of keeping those checks and balances in place are either unable to act (Democrats), or unwilling to act (Republicans). This sad reality means that the system is fundamentally broken to the point that it is liable to collapse. Trump/Musk/Vance are already making large swaths of the American population very unhappy with what they’ve been doing in the first 100 days. The only alternative to four+ years of this is basically a revolution at this point. Given how many “fans” they’re making in the Whitehouse, that possibility doesn’t seem impossible.
This.
FYI this’ll prob get removed because c/memes has a strict no political memes rule
!politicalmemes@lemmy.world is a better fit
The parasite class
“Why save billions, when we can save millions?”
Telsa
I’m five drinks in and this is still what jumped out.
I read the first post, spotted nothing amiss, saw this, thought it was a correction, then noticed they were both the incorrect spelling
Yeah. But how do we get off earth?
Since they started, how much money in subsidies found its way directly to the American co-president anyway?
well, the one that hit the news recently is that bullshit $400m ‘armored tesla’ contract for state department. the one they ‘oopsed’ and went back to remove tesla by name from.
That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla’s crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.
*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can’t stop a bullet.
Looks like that was initiated under the Biden administration?
The Tesla contract started in the Biden administration “to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles,” a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday.
Tesla was the only company to express interest in the department’s request at the time.
Doesn’t matter. Musk must withdrawal his company from consideration due to conflict of interest.
He’s not elected. He couldn’t give a f about conflict of interest.
Armoured tesla…
Was the cybertruck just a soft prototype of the TeslaTank© ?
Co-president? Elon is the only president.
Guarantee that’s not going to happen. In fact with all the savings from the other more critical services being defunded, Elon will have more money for his own projects.
GIMME ALL YOUR LUNCH MONEY, PUNK! DON’T YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING WHO CAN’T BUY GROCERIES???
… Now to buy second dessert with this sudden windfall!
Donald Trump’s dad made a lot of his money off of overcharging for FHA housing. Does that count?
Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they’re fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?
If that’s the case, which I suspect it is, we look really fucking dumb being so hyperbolic(or what would the word be here? I just woke up). Let’s not stoop to their level with nonsense like this, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made.
