It all seems to add up to something big. On a daily, sometimes hourly, basis, Elon Musk claims that his team of fiscal commandos has found yet more government fraud, terminated another wasteful contract or even scrapped an entire agency. Mr Musk's supporters believe that, through tech wizardry and sheer willpower, he is slashing the federal deficit in a way that has eluded politicians for years. But this narrative has a glaring flaw: our review of official data shows that Mr Musk's efforts have scarcely made a dent in spending.

Every working day the Treasury publishes a statement detailing withdrawals of cash from its primary deposit account, providing the best high-frequency indicator of government spending. Since Donald Trump took office a little more than three weeks ago, outlays have averaged $30bn a day. Compare that with the same period last year under Joe Biden: federal spending back then came to about $26bn a day. Outflows from the Treasury have actually risen since January 28th, when Mr Musk first claimed his "Department of Government Efficiency", or DOGE, was saving the federal government $1bn a day. Looking at the bigger picture, the government's spending trajectory in the current fiscal year, which began in October, basically resembles that of the past two years.

!neolibs who could possibly have foreseen this????

Surprisingly he lived a long life after burning it

Women be crying

I posted about this too... I hated him being abusive and now this "he died" gaslamping stuff is giving me serious panic

YES, I shamelessly stole these from /r/tinyorangekittens

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!animalposters DUTY CALLS

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— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 5, 2025

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 5, 2025

The Trump Resort, Gaza in 2030 pic.twitter.com/8ERR1Nyiz5

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Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/5zn6HMLSJd

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— Caт Вee ✡︎🪶 (@CatShoshanna) February 5, 2025

this site is so stupid, they talk like literal apes. i tried to find infighting for mbux but it's so fricking hard cause they talk exactly how they claim "bipoc" talk.

The thread starts out posing this question:

Next reply gives his very detailed analysis that repeats the same exact points but with different words:

We ALMOST had cuckposting but thankfully in this guy's story tyrone actually gets ignored

heh, bipoc are actually better than me because their parents aren't from the same mother

Now we get (somewhat) cuckposting in reply to 2 and 3

Mass Effect trilogy, notorious for its uhh... male slop moments??? lmao

Mass Effect 5 just needs to be well written & not focused on modern themes/politics. Kinda simple really.

Complain about the game leaning into "straight males", but guess what? That's most of the audience. pic.twitter.com/T34ATl3xkO

— Michael (@LegacyKillaHD) January 31, 2025

Travis Kelce dyes his beard, proudly stolen from @autodrama.

!g*mers !chuds

The Woke and DEI ANALytics are HERE!

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JB is that you? (-91)

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You're equating slavery to supporting a political candidate which is pretty disgusting.Btw many people supported the candidate because of terrible leadership failures on the left. Trump is a byproduct of bad policies all around. Nobody would have considered him if the left hadn't failed so epically. Don't get me wrong, Trump is a narcissistic idiot but the left failed us in more ways than one. (-8)

Actually, just no.Trump is not the result of failings on "the left". Trump is the natural end of the trend in the Republican party that has been happening since Reagan. The pattern has been consistent. Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump have made terrible domestic and foreign policy decisions that have royally screwed us over. Each worst than the last. Democratic presidents have not been perfect, but they have been doing their best to pick up the pieces of inherited disasters, and then they get blamed for the fallout of decisions their Republican predecessors made that were not easily fixable. Clinton was the only President in the past four decades to balance the budget and start to decrease the nation debt which skyrocketed under Reagan. Obama was left with remnants of a phony war that W started. People like to blame Obama for increasing debt, but a lot of the increase in his years in office was consequence of things he couldn't control. People blame Biden for inflation that is a direct... (20)

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Mmm sounds like you're uneducated on Donald Trump being a racist. Let me educate you….Trump invited leaders of the HBCUs to the White House in his first term, proceeded to help get them more funding. The Platinum plan was drawn up to create safer urban neighborhoods with the highest policing standards. Introduced new criminal justice reform most of which greatly affected the black community….all of this comes at a time when the Left is telling you he's racist, but Americans that have interacted with Trump tell you he is one of the most genuine humans in the world. Which is shown by his Numerous Humanitarian awards/nominations. (0)

Assuming he isn't racist, who cares? What I can't stand about the man is that he is weak as a human and he misuses his power for stupid stuff. I am a Republican but I walked away from Trump when I heard him badmouth John McCain's POW status…this tough talk from the coward who failed to serve in the same war. Taking away security details for his enemies is petty and immature (MAGA morons wont care to admit it but Biden reauthorized those security details…that is how a real man behaves…you rise above the petty crap).Like Trump MAGA losers are all tough at the keyboard but everyone I have met IRL can't even look me in the eye when I ask challenging questions, like the McCain scenario…one guy, a vet, denied it happened then when I showed him the clip he made some lame claim about editing or whatever.I heard the quote as it aired in real time. Trump is a coward.Character counts. (1)

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Yeah, frick freedom of speech!! (-12)

"oh no, I have to care about other people to be accepted by society"!!!!!!!!!!!! If you sit there and spew hatred and then people genuinely don't like you as a person, then people DONT want to hear you, be around you, or spend time with you dude. That's just reality and basic human relationships. If you cannot reconcile that concept, consider thinking that if you are not capable of considering the other person when you interact with them, you're probably stuck on caveman shit. Genuinely - if you are an unkind butthole in this current society - people don't want to spend time with you. That's the end of it. They don't want to hear from you because you think LESS of real human beings. Because you think that poor people don't deserve the same respect and dignity as other human beings. Because you are willing to condemn innocent people to death because of their religion, race, sexuality, or otherwise. That is NOT the human connection or intended experience. "Do no harm" commit no evils, ... (3)

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I just sent the following email to MSNBC:

Last night, Rachel Maddow lied brazenly about the history of the gay rights movement, specifically regarding the Stonewall Riots. In her report, she stated the following:

"Hundreds of people showed up to protest the Trump administration… https://t.co/VVrByuIGOD

— Joseph Jones (@JoeGayHistorian) February 15, 2025

Talks (well signs) about reddit at 4:25

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— Big Lots (@BigLots) November 16, 2022

Bonafide Boomer living up to the name.

I know the last one, Franky, or whatever, isn't dead yet, but it doesn't look good.

I think Trump could squeeze in being Pope as well as being president. He's the best at multi-tasking.

I dont know if he's catholic or not, but I don't see why that should be a barrier.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ijxhyj/iowa_eliminates_30day_eviction_notice_policy/mbhp9t1/?context=8

"There's that compassionate Christian conservatism and family values again."

Pure fricking evil

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ijxhyj/iowa_eliminates_30day_eviction_notice_policy/mbht5lx/?context=8

THREE DAYS NOTICE!

In today's market, even a month can be tight to secure new housing and move all of your worldly possessions

Frick America (Iowa). Late capitalist hellhole.

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Thinking about the time my gf casually mentioned that it defeats the purpose of wearing diamonds for them to be conflict-free, because then they don’t contain souls https://t.co/8FV6nALfrB

— Voyage of the Meme (@fleshsimulator) February 15, 2025

!Meowr !alligatorfrickhouse !babykillers

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!incels is it really over for you if you are sub 6 feet/180cm and don't have above average looks? No surprise like 30% of young males are incels.

"Don't go for shallow girls. If height is that important to her, then you dodged a bullet with that one dude."

The amount of bullets the average subhuman is dodging in a day

The instability, the trumpflation - really not good for folks that enjoy the market.