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Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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Re: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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So we should finally start seeing legal repercussions for all involved, and a great undoing of everything they’ve done?

Legal repercussions for all involved lowest rank technical staff and a great worsening of all they have done and even more. Just like it happens after every other govt blunder :)

To be fair it's not like the script is any different outside of government either.

Re: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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IMO, DOGE's main goal and legacy was/is to grab government agency code and plant trojans.

When the time is "right", seize it all. We are just about there.

We have secret police, concentration camps, and now, federal occupation of a city.

Does anyone see a pattern?

Re: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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Politico is owned by right-wing billionaire Axel Springer, who enforces various conservative ideological stances at his publications and who in 2020 asked his staff (slightly tongue in cheek) to pray for a Trump reelection.

Uh, pretty sure Mr Springer passed away 40 years ago. His media empire retains his name, but it's CEO is Mathias Döpfner.

But, you are correct that Axel Springer SE (the media company) has a right-wing slants, at least on some issues.

Re: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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post #20

So we should finally start seeing legal repercussions for all involved, and a great undoing of everything they’ve done?

Legal repercussions for all involved lowest rank technical staff and a great worsening of all they have done and even more. Just like it happens after every other govt blunder :)

I think it is insincere to call what doge and its employees did a “blunder”.

Their actions were intentional and malicious.

That’s like calling deciding to deny a same sex couple a marriage certificate a bureaucratic “blunder“ when it is in fact a targeted act using your position to supplant existing law to malign others based on your own interests.

Re: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legal repercussions for all involved lowest rank technical staff and a great worsening of all they have done and even more. Just like it happens after every other govt blunder :)

I think it is insincere to call what doge and its employees did a “blunder”. Their actions were intentional and malicious. That’s like calling deciding to deny a same sex couple a marriage certificate a bureaucratic “blunder“ when it is in fact a targeted act using your position to supplant existing law to malign others based on your own interests.

Bad choice of a word, my bad.
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