What's the difference between 8 billion dollars and 8 million dollars?
Approximately 8 billion dollars.
7.992 billion to be exact
That's how they're snookering people, because most don't understand the size of these numbers. So its sounds like a lot even when they save a billion here and there but when we're talking federal budget even that is basically nothing.
If you have 1 million seconds to live that about 11 days. If you have 1 billion seconds to live it's about 33 years
DOGE is not meant to cut spending. It is to systemically root out opposition within the executive branch and promote the business interests of Trump, Musk, and their cadre.
This is a distraction to keep you occupied while they do something far worse.
And to be clear: they have access to the Treasury systems. That “something far worse” is a literal robbery - this is a classic smash and grab.
You don't understand. They're calling it $8 billion because that's how much it will take in four years to fix the problem cancelling the contract causes.
There will be no United States in 4 years if these terrorists aren't stopped.
The United Blockchains of America.
At least it'd be transparent
Good job guys! $8mil for a complete loss of soft power around the world and undue stress, pain and misery for all those you fired and stopped aid to. Congrats for being total pieces of human skinned garbage!
I saved so much money by cutting the gas, power, and water to my house! Can you believe the scam the previous owners were running by "paying utilities"?
Elon Musk has lied about the output of his companies since his very first company, zip2
He does it because no one holds him fucking accountable.
Yeah, I'm not surprised based on some of my interactions with purported "business geniuses", but it is quite sad just how utterly stupid people are that manage to have wealth and get taken in by a mere show of unearned confidence.
Worse than that, people throw fucking gobs of money at him when he does it
Can they fire all of the CIA assassins soon? Can they be sure to do it in a way that makes them feel disgruntled?
They're intentionally not touching law enforcement or anybody with guns.
Coup 101, keep your cops happy. This is why firing the nuclear cops was a bad idea and they tried reversing it immediately.
They'll be needed to shoot ~~protesters~~ domestic terrorists once things get even more desperate in Trump's third term.
Honest mistake. Just some extra zeros. Just like in DOGE
We'd save a lot more than that if that fucker would just stop breathing.
TIL: Musk can't do basic maths
Also, this is how he runs his companies
I’m shocked that Elon would lie! /s
Whoopsie!
I bet it'll be pretty difficult to tell people we saved 1000 times what the contract was worth...
What, they straight out lied? Who could have imagined such a thing?
But they will fix the mistake as soon as they know about them… or something like that
Not spending money on the necessities is not saving money.
It's just a couple zeroes, bro. Why so serious??
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