• deadkennedy@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Lost.

    Not saved. Lost. Elon and the Musketeers lost this nation half a trillion dollars.

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      And don’t forget the 10 trillion in lost war plane sales due to "toning them down in case our allies turn on us’, just like he has turned on Canada and Europe.

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      No, the HAVE lost this nation half a trillion, and they are still losing more. Just “they lost” sounds like a past thing that’s over now.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        …that’s not what happened.

        This is like a fuck off huge gas turbine generator spinning at full chat and then just starting to take parts off of it and snipping fluid lines. One of the features of turbines is that they will continue to run for a bit even when they’re heading in the direction of catastrophic failure, since it’s all angular momentum and no reciprocation. But it IS going to catastrophically fail.

        This is the system just eating itself and money being - at best - siphoned into someone’s pockets, or more likely, just being outright wasted. The USAID cuts, for instance, basically locked an absolute shitload of consumables and perishables in warehouses to spoil. That’s what we’re talking about. And that’s only the most obvious example.

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        I’m not sure where they expect the loss, but I’m sure it’s not regular people whose paychecks have taxes withheld, and who file their taxes without major fraud.

        They’ll lose money off people like the mango Mussolini whose corporate shell game is so complex that he used to brag the IRS couldn’t afford to hire enough people to audit his taxes