148 points

Plus DOGE published that their biggest cost reduction was 8 billion, but turns out it was, I shit you not, $8,000,000.00

And this is the people that are gonna let manage the treasury.

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99 points

The difference between 8 million and 8 billion is about 8 billion dollars.

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Shows what you know, it’s only 7.992 billion different!

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7 points

I have the urge to slap 99.9% of your face.

^^(kidding)

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6 points

Ew! Fuck! If you’re gonna use shudder MATH, then at least have the common courtesy to CW your post!

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Its even more egregious.

So far, doge claims it saved 45 billion on its website. When you add up the actual reciepts posted, it’s 16 billion. Of that 16 billion, half is this false 8 billion, which is 8 million, with 2.5 million already paid out, so actually just 5.5 million.

So even by their records, which are not trustworthy, they may have cut 8 billion. The 100 billion number? Just something Charlie kirk made up. No other hard data at all.

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6 points

Just something Charlie kirk made up.

When your face is that small, everything else looks much bigger.

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2 points

How are these people brazillionaires and I’m schlepping away to not get my home taken off me by the bank? I can string a sentence together and do basic arithmetic, and I can count to twenty without taking off my shoes!

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89 points

Hey, I lost a lot of weight by removing my limbs!

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33 points

So for the first leg you chop off, your BMI goes down. With the second one, it goes up significantly. Only chop off one leg.

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One leg and one arm though. The ideal body is very narrow lol

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1 point

Instructions unclear, I now don’t have a head.

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10 points

Loose 12lbs instantly!

…by chopping off your arm!

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7 points

Doctors hate this one weird trick!

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3 points

Plus, you got a really cute nickname! Torso Boy!

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65 points

I saved about $80,000 by not buying a Cybertruck!

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Next time try not buying two of them. The additional $80,000 is life-changing!

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If I don’t buy a Cybertruck every day for a year, I can afford a yacht! Now just add some avocado toast, if I’m feeling fancy.

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1 point

And a fine ooh la la to you too, Lord Fauntleroy!

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3 points

I have not bought several Cyber Trucks. At this point, I’m a billionaire myself

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2 points

But then you don’t get to lose fingers or burn to death.

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2 points

Damn. Well that’s a chance I’ll just have to take…

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You can “save” a bunch of money by not paying the Fire Department. It’ll look great on a budget, and then you can enjoy the beautiful skyline of your city burning!

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Oh hey, I think we did that in 2017 with our pandemic response team. I hear there have been no negative consequences

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11 points

There’s no evidence of negative consequences.

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9 points

That’s true! I just looked for the website and there’s nothing! Yay!!! I was worried something like 1.2 million Americans were dead because of it, but apparently not!

(Satire. The CDC website still exists. For now…)

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16 points

This is what they’re doing, but with literally everything.

The country is going to implode.

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5 points

Is that what happened with the forest fires?

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There is a degree to which wild fires could be solved “just” by ramping up land management significantly to remove invasive species, remove dead growth and overgrowth, etc.

The wildfires have been so bad primarily because of invasive species changing what grows where and breaking down natural fire protections, combined with climate change and reduced natural wildfires creating higher fire risk conditions

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My understanding is they also introduced Australian trees that drop huge amounts of combustible material to contribute to fires because they thrive in those conditions

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4 points

It reminds me of sim city budget.

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and then you can enjoy the beautiful skyline of your city burning!

But how could I? Especially without firemen to start the glow.

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3 points

Hard to enjoy when the air quality is so bad that you can’t even breath outside lol

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50 points

Always ask: saved, for what? The money is appropriated by congress. You’re actively working to cut services and programs, not eliminating fraud, waste, or abuse in any way. Not that you’d know, because you already fired the people who track fraud, waste, and abuse for identifying your violations, repeatedly.

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