Hey, you DOGE tech tots! Look over here! Here's some (potential) waste, fraud and abuse in the gummint:
The US Department of State is planning to spend $400m buying new Tesla armoured vehicles, even as the carmaker’s boss, Elon Musk, leads efforts to slash government spending under Donald Trump.
A procurement forecast produced by the department showed the $400m (£320m) proposed spending on “armoured Tesla (production units)”. They are likely to be Cybertrucks, the newest model of the company’s electric pickup, given Musk’s claims that the vehicle is bulletproof.
The revelation raises the possibility of more conflicts of interest for Musk, who is one of the biggest beneficiaries of US government contracts through the companies he controls.
Musk’s stake in Tesla accounts for the bulk of his $383bn wealth, but his rocket company, SpaceX, is the most important contractor providing space launch services to the US government.
Yet Trump has also put Musk in charge of the so-called department of government efficiency, or Doge, named after an internet dog meme. Musk has set about gutting government departments he has accused – without providing substantiated evidence – of huge amounts of fraud and waste. Doge’s efforts have been criticised as illegal by many experts, who have said it is part of a string of actions by the Trump administration that appear to disregard the US constitution.
The Department of State forecast document suggests the Tesla contract will be awarded at the end of September...
An armored, brake- failing, exploding Cybertruck (a.k.a., WankPanzer); what could possibly be wrong with that? Good of the US taxpayer to buy up Cybertrucks that no one is buying in order to cushion Musk's losses!
We linked to this news yesterday in "Skeets" but thought it was worthy of more exposure, since it highlights the grotesque nature of what unelected President "Harry Bolz" Musk is up to: a government that no longer works for the common welfare, but rather is one that's being set up to enrich the Malignant Fascist's billionaire oligarch bootlickers like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos.
And this potential atrocity isn't the only payday Musk is receiving from the US taxpayer:
Elon Musk prompted yet another heavy backlash online after it was revealed that his rocket company SpaceX was still receiving multi-million dollar contracts from the U.S. government amid his crusade to slash trillions of federal funding.
“You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit,” attorney and researcher Will Stancil wrote on X.
Stancil shared a screenshot that appeared to confirm that Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was awarded a NASA contract worth just shy of $39 million on Tuesday...
But, after all, this is the regime of the most lawless, corrupt, sociopathic, unethical, autocratic, megalomanic moron ever to occupy the Oval Office. So, Americans need to get used to having their tax dollars sucked up by the likes of Musk (wait until the MAGAts unveil their tax cuts for the rich!) while their freedoms and quality of life go in the MF/ Musk wood chipper.
(Photo: saluting all the way to your bank / Angela Weiss/ AFP/ Getty Images)
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