Fascism always needs to cull people in power to make it seem like an improvement to the idiots. This is just that. What’s more interesting though is on paper how wealthy musk is, and whether any of that wealth will be used to battle the administration, and additionally if his companies will become nationalized/bought/sold/failed/disintegrated and he’ll fade into obscurity.
DOGE was more surgical and was used to take out groups in government the right hates. These programs did not cost much money at all and often saved money. Couple that with the costs of firing people illegally (legal fees, reinstating fired people when a judge orders it, the government paying other people more money to do required jobs that were eliminated, etc), and you have a massively expensive vendetta campaign.
Trump wants other people to cut money so he can give tax breaks to rich people
Elon used it to limit accountability and liability for Tesla instead of saving the money Trump intended to steal
Fascism always needs to cull people in power to make it seem like an improvement to the idiots. This is just that. What’s more interesting though is on paper how wealthy musk is, and whether any of that wealth will be used to battle the administration, and additionally if his companies will become nationalized/bought/sold/failed/disintegrated and he’ll fade into obscurity.
DOGE was more surgical and was used to take out groups in government the right hates. These programs did not cost much money at all and often saved money. Couple that with the costs of firing people illegally (legal fees, reinstating fired people when a judge orders it, the government paying other people more money to do required jobs that were eliminated, etc), and you have a massively expensive vendetta campaign.