Will Musk be the next Trump?

[Brian Peacock]

Yarrr!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Immigrant citizens being allowed to vote? Musk believes it's bad. Well at least it's bad when other immigrant citizens vote. Especially if they're not white.

Musk’s remarks were made during an appearance on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” a podcast hosted by the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Published Tuesday, the interview shows Musk warning that the United States could turn into a “communist hell” should immigration trends continue, which he argued have shaped several elections.

Given Musk’s enormous influence on the 2024 election, where he spent more than $275 million backing Trump, critics couldn’t help but be stunned by the irony of Musk’s complaints.

“Elon Musk, a South African immigrant born in Africa who votes in Texas, is annoyed that Somali immigrants born in Africa get to vote in Minnesota,” wrote former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a social media post on X. “There's only one thing he doesn't have in common with his fellow African immigrants in Minnesota… Elon Musk, according to his brother Kimbal, came to this country as an ‘illegal’ immigrant.”

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[NineBerry]

This really must be the shittiest timeline in all of the multiverse

[Sean Hayden]

—nah, there’s another one that’s identical in every way, except you don’t know how to ride a bike.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Inflicting harm in various ways to 'attack waste, fraud, and abuse'? Priceless.

Aside from some billions, but who's counting?

'Musk’s DOGE Chainsaw Massacre Ended With Higher Spending'

Federal spending went up under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the exact opposite of its mission.

A new report from the New York Times found that federal spending actually went up under DOGE. In fiscal year 2025, the federal government spent $7.01 trillion, while in fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.95 trillion, according to data from the Treasury.

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While DOGE claimed it “made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government — slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of grants and pushing out civil servants,” the Times found that most of what DOGE said it cut was incorrect.

DOGE had published a list of canceled contracts and grants, but the largest 13 were incorrect.

The top two contracts were with the Department of Defense, which Musk claimed had been “terminated” and had saved taxpayers $7.9 billion. In reality, the Defense Department still has those contracts, according to the outlet.

The Times also found that only 12 of DOGE’s top 40 largest claims were accurate. DOGE also made several inaccurate claims about what it cut, including double-counting cuts, including contracts cut during the Biden administration, and exaggerating its cuts.

Additionally, four of the contracts that DOGE said it had cut had been reinstated by courts, the outlet reported.

Musk had originally claimed his DOGE project would save the U.S. $2 trillion, but later cut that figure in half, claiming it would only save $1 trillion. Towards the end of DOGE’s time in the Trump White House, Musk claimed DOGE cut $150 billion in federal spending, but did not provide details.

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In addition to Musk’s reportedly bogus claims about government contracts, DOGE was responsible for cutting thousands of federal workers and targeting congressionally appropriated funds.

Courts later ruled, however, that federal employees at multiple agencies had to be rehired, ruling they were improperly fired. It was the federal government that wound up paying the bill to rehire them, as the government had put them on paid leave when they were let go. Federal employees also collected the back-paid salaries from when they were not working.

The federal workforce, firings, rehirings, paid leave, and productivity losses were estimated to have cost more than $135 billion in the last fiscal year, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on the federal workforce.

[pErvinalia]

Incompetents.

[Brian Peacock]

It's all just an entertainment product at this point.

[NineBerry]

Allahu Akbar!

[JimC]

He can stick a lithium ion battery up his bum!

[Svartalf]

honestly, that's a waste of good product when a common rock or stick would do quite as well