Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?

[Doctor Phibes]

OK, let's just keep lying about how it's the government employees on the take, and security scroungers and dead Democrats. Find somebody to blame, and move on, in other words.

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@Jolly said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

You fix the problem. What's your solution?

Stop being dishonest about fraud, and address the actual problem. And speak to the other side, and then maybe even listen to them.

A little bit of honesty about the situation would be great, from both parties.

You couldn't get both sides to agree on free sex. Dream on.

You could, but all the Dem women want to bring their strap-ons…

[Jolly]

Hoo-ah!

[jon-nyc]

[Doctor Phibes]

[89th]

Yeah it’s bad. How can he be so smart and so dumb.

I had just made that comment about the survey claim in the DOGE interview thread.

[Horace]

Musk literally never said that the National Park Service paid that money. But it's interesting that in order to dunk, this guy felt the need to reframe Musk's words slightly. Later in the interview one of the DOGE guys mentioned that it was connected to the Dept of the Interior, which I'm sure has a larger budget.

[Horace]

This is what they're probably talking about:

[Horace]

How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?

[89th]

What are you talking about? Musk says clearly in the video:

[Horace]

@89th Musk said "the government" paid it. (Turns out it was an unsigned contract at the Dept of Interior.) The dunker on Twitter claimed that Musk said "The National Park Service" paid it, then gave the park service's annual budget, and declared victory. Musk never said the park service was paying the survey contract. Anyway, the details as they've been uncovered, are above, and the claim that it's a single survey for $830m still doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but there is a lot of money being paid for survey consulting, which DOGE is ending.

[89th]

Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.

[89th]

@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?

You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”

Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.

[Horace]

@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.

Asked and answered.

[Horace]

@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?

You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”

Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.

Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.

[89th]

@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.

Asked and answered.

Ok, you think the government was being charged $1,000,000,000 for a one question survey. Got it.

[Horace]

@89th You're literally not reading my posts.

[89th]

@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:

How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?

You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”

Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.

Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.

Mark my words, even if they digitize the entire iron mountain process, it will not change the pace of federal retirements. Btw they said it will only take a couple of months. So let’s check back in the summer to see if it’s done?

[Doctor Phibes]

If it takes a complex analysis to determine whether or not somebody was being honest, he wasn't being honest.

[Horace]

I'm on record from the get-go that I'm not optimistic about DOGE, but I appreciate the effort, and I will happily wait and see. The claims have certainly been exaggerated and misleading or dishonest in many cases.