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
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    5 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.

    • SillyBadger@lemmynsfw.com
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      5 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
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        5 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
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          5 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”

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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      5 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.