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Zorro

(17,536 posts)
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:40 AM May 30

The bully gets punched in the nose

More and more Americans are summoning the courage to fight back against President Donald Trump.

On Tuesday evening, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on a test mission after two straight failures. The launch went well enough this time, but while the behemoth was on the edge of space, it lost control, started tumbling and eventually broke apart.

Or, as SpaceX put it: “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

The same might be said of Musk himself.

He launched his “DOGE” effort to slash the federal government with explosive force, wiping out whole agencies overnight without regard for the law or the human toll. But his mission, hobbled by its own recklessness and by the courts, produced only a fraction of the cuts Musk had promised — while the billionaire’s tarnished reputation prompted a collapse in Tesla sales. On Wednesday night, Musk, who had been pulling back from his government work, hung up his chainsaw entirely.

In a broader sense, the entire Trump presidency, four months after its incendiary launch, is now experiencing a rapid unscheduled disassembly of sorts.

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The bully gets punched in the nose (Original Post) Zorro May 30 OP
Question - if Musk's goal was to slash spending gab13by13 May 30 #1

gab13by13

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1. Question - if Musk's goal was to slash spending
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:59 AM
May 30

why did he go into agencies with cyber-punks, hackers, and coders?

If Musk's goal was to cut spending wouldn't he go into agencies with accountants, money managers, Inspector generals?

The right wing narrative going around DU today is that Musk failed, just what the right wants.

Meanwhile, Russia and others have computer access to all of our agencies.

Not a time for celebration.

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