The Big Fraud of DOGE

Final Up to date on: fifth August 2025, 12:34 am

Beneath an article Tina Casey lately wrote in regards to the prices of Elon Musk’s DOGE (“Division of Authorities Effectivity”) to US taxpayers, certainly one of our readers, “Matthew2312,” offered a really very good remark that deserves much more consideration. It is a essential matter, and whereas it’s not very cleantech targeted, it does have relevance for some EV, Tesla, and photo voltaic issues. Both means, although, it covers some vital factors that want extra consideration. So, learn on. —Zach Shahan

It has been apparent since February that your complete DOGE enterprise was constructed on lies. They claimed the USAID was riddled with fraud (the apple was “all worms” mentioned Musk). The largest fraud in overseas coverage historical past! However wait, that was dwarfed by the most important fraud within the historical past of presidency when DOGE found “tens of tens of millions of lifeless individuals” had been getting social safety. The record of DOGE-discovered fraudsters prolonged from the now-defunct Institute for Peace and USAID to the Pentagon to Social Safety and each nook of presidency. Even Trump puzzled privately, “is that this actual?”

So how many individuals have been indicted for this large fraud? Zero. How might arrested? Zero. Largest fraud within the historical past of the world and never a single arrest? Is there even an ongoing investigation? No. Why? The story was all a lie, a fantasy invented by Musk and his tech-bros who didn’t perceive the federal government or learn the information. The large investigation of over 100,000 (down from ten million) DOGE-identified Social Safety fraud instances yielded two attainable precise instances. Two. Out of ten million.

In the meantime, on the premise of those lies, Musk and Trump had been in a position to illegally (recision after the very fact doesn’t make it authorized) dismantle packages that helped among the most susceptible individuals in America and overseas. Mark Rubio’s Division of State by accident let slip an evaluation that USAID cuts alone will kill 600,000 ladies and kids. Shrug.

Folks inform me it’s only a automobile and to drive what you want. Usually I might agree, however shopping for a Tesla is not only about shopping for a automobile, it’s about empowering an evil man who will gleefully destroy probably the most susceptible on the premise of not more than innuendo and a story that matches his prejudice. He’ll fortunately “smash up issues and creatures after which retreat again into his cash and huge carelessness, and let different individuals clear up the mess he has made.” We all know his kind.