• DOGE Is Pronounced "Dodgy"

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 08:50:32 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
    |
    | Late Sunday night, the group erased or altered more than
    | 1,000 contracts it had claimed to cancel, representing more
    | than 40 percent of all the contracts listed on its site
    | last week. The deleted items included five of the seven
    | largest savings that it had claimed credit for just last
    | week.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-wall.html>

    --bks

    dodgy
    adj 1: of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk;
    2: marked by skill in deception;

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 13 11:49:47 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    |
    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html>

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Fri Mar 14 07:21:03 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:49:47 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    |
    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html>

    --bks

    Paywalled trash.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 15 13:07:03 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Sat Mar 15 09:32:53 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:07:03 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    --bks

    As if we can trust anything your paywalled garbage prints.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 13:34:55 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Kremlin Girl <[email protected]> wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ... >><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    As if we can trust anything your paywalled garbage prints.

    Har! Kremlin Girl gets caught with her knickers down.

    --bks

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  • From Klaus Schadenfreude@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sat Mar 15 10:22:14 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/15/2025 6:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:07:03 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    --bks

    As if

    As if you ever posted without lying.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Sun Mar 16 08:59:17 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:34:55 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    Kremlin Girl <[email protected]> wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ... >>><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    As if we can trust anything your paywalled garbage prints.

    Har! Kremlin Girl gets caught with her knickers down.

    --bks

    What are you talking about?

    It's paywalled.
    It's garbage.

    Duh.

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  • From Paul Ragna@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sun Mar 16 10:29:46 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/16/2025 5:59 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:34:55 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    Kremlin Girl <[email protected]> wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    As if we can trust anything your paywalled garbage prints.

    Har! Kremlin Girl gets caught with her knickers down.

    --bks

    What are you talking about?
    Your petulant whiny childishness, of course.

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  • From Siri Cruise@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sun Mar 16 10:49:59 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    NoBody wrote:
    On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:07:03 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

    | DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
    |
    | Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims
    | on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The
    | Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

    |
    | See How Elon Musk's Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its
    | Savings Claims
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4._CXO.NIlmPiEdmX7F&smid=url-share>
    (URL will bypass paywall)

    --bks

    As if we can trust anything your paywalled garbage prints.


    How much does Times charge for a URL they labelled with
    unlocked_article?

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sun Mar 16 16:59:13 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-04 13:50:32 +0000, Bradley K. Sherman said:

    |
    | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has deleted
    | hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued "wall of
    | receipts," erasing $4 billion in additional savings that
    | the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
    |
    | Late Sunday night, the group erased or altered more than
    | 1,000 contracts it had claimed to cancel, representing more
    | than 40 percent of all the contracts listed on its site
    | last week. The deleted items included five of the seven
    | largest savings that it had claimed credit for just last
    | week.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-wall.html>

    --bks

    dodgy
    adj 1: of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk;
    2: marked by skill in deception;

    Playing an online Scrabble game the other night I was surprised to
    learn that "doge" is actually in the dictionary: the chief magistrate
    of Venice or Genoa.

    I doubt if Italy would let Dr. Elon Evil enter the country though after
    all the trouble Mussolini caused them.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Mon Mar 17 22:17:57 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-18 01:59:53 +0000, Governor Swill said:

    On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:59:13 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Playing an online Scrabble game the other night I was surprised to
    learn that "doge" is actually in the dictionary: the chief magistrate
    of Venice or Genoa.

    Venice, "Doge's Palace" is a famous landmark on the Grand Canal.

    Yeah I think I know exactly what you're talking about now that you
    mention it, I saw it in a documentary recently about how they restored
    it to its earlier grandeur.

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  • From Siri Cruise@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 17 20:43:58 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    super70s wrote:
    On 2025-03-18 01:59:53 +0000, Governor Swill said:

    On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:59:13 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Playing an online Scrabble game the other night I was surprised to
    learn that "doge" is actually in the dictionary: the chief
    magistrate
    of Venice or Genoa.

    Venice, "Doge's Palace" is a famous landmark on the Grand Canal.

    Yeah I think I know exactly what you're talking about now that you
    mention it, I saw it in a documentary recently about how they
    restored it to its earlier grandeur.
    dogie
    noun
    do·​gie ˈdō-gē
    chiefly Western US
    : a motherless calf in a range herd

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 11 11:46:17 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | While stumping for Donald J. Trump during the 2024
    | presidential campaign, Elon Musk said he could cut $2
    | trillion from the federal budget. After Mr. Trump took
    | office and placed Mr. Musk in charge of the budget-slashing
    | so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Mr. Musk
    | lowered that projection by half, to $1 trillion in the
    | upcoming fiscal year.
    |
    | In a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk appeared to set
    | his group's goal lower still.
    |
    | "I'm excited to announce that we anticipate savings in '26
    | from reduction of waste and fraud by $150 billion," Mr.
    | Musk told Mr. Trump, referring to the fiscal year, which
    | runs from the beginning of October 2025 to the end of
    | September 2026.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/musk-doge-drops-goal.html?smid=url-share>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 13 14:54:48 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | In a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk appeared to set
    | his group's goal lower still.

    |
    | After several months of cutting government contracts,
    | grants, leases and workers, Elon Musk seems to be realizing
    | what budget nerds have long known: His oft-repeated goal of
    | cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget through
    | executive action alone is extremely difficult.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/13/upshot/musk-doge-1-trillion-goal.html>

    --bks

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sun Apr 13 18:05:27 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in news:vtgj7o$8cr$[email protected]:

    | In a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk appeared to set
    | his group's goal lower still.

    |
    | After several months of cutting government contracts,
    | grants, leases and workers, Elon Musk seems to be realizing
    | what budget nerds have long known: His oft-repeated goal of
    | cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget through
    | executive action alone is extremely difficult.
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/13/upshot/musk-doge-1-tril lion-goal.html>

    --bks



    Musk, like Trump, has made his whole career
    out of squashing workers to make money for
    himself.

    That anyone would think either gives a flying
    fuck about America is laughable.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 21 13:33:34 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Rapid unscheduled disassembly of DOGE:
    |
    | The federal '5 things' emails have fallen apart, as Elon
    | Musk readies exit
    |
    | When Elon Musk and President Donald Trump commanded all
    | federal workers to submit weekly emails listing five
    | accomplishments, they warned of harsh consequences: Failure
    | to comply would count as a resignation. Musk called the
    | emails an accountability measure needed to ensure staff
    | even had a "pulse."
    |
    | But records obtained by The Washington Post, as well as
    | interviews with three dozen managers and employees across
    | government, reveal that officials refused to comply with
    | core aspects of the directive from the beginning.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/doge-musk-trump-federal-employees-emails/>

    --bks

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