What Musk is doing to our government — the NPS and all the other agencies whose systems he now controls — is a hostile takeover reminiscent of how a private equity firm raids businesses, bankrupts them, and extracts profits from their smoldering remains. It is an exploitation of our public wealth for private gain, endeavoring to save the Treasury a few pennies so the GOP can fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Government workers will be the first ones harmed by this process, losing their careers and income. But in the end all American people will suffer as we are robbed of public services we depend on and care about. Elon Musk is destroying the things that make America special to enrich the people who make America horrible, himself first and foremost.
DOGE is literally exposing Billions of dollars of corruption in a government that is Trillions of dollars in debt.
What is your solution other than the complete collapse of our country? We HAVE to cut spending and this is the first time anyone has made a real effort to do so.
My sweet fair child, he is gutting agencies that were regulating his own companies. He is unconstitutionally defunding orgs whose budgets are appropriated/mandated by congressional statute. He is doing it all without independent oversight (since Trump fired all the nonpartisan inspectors general). He makes sweeping demonstrably false claims about fraud while providing zero evidence, like how the U.S. was supposedly sending hundreds of millions of condoms to Gaza or that USAID is a “criminal” organization. Meanwhile the government continues to award him SpaceX and Tesla contracts. One of our largest federal contractors cannot ethically regulate and control the agencies that fund both him and his competitors. All of this is the textbook definition of kleptocratic corruption.
As I’ve said, DOGE isn’t exposing corruption, they are committing corruption by virtue of Elon gutting the federal agencies that had launched over 30 investigations of his companies. DOGE investigating NASA, where Elon is the largest contractor, is corruption. The nation’s single largest political donor deciding where government funds should go without ind. oversight — is corruption.
You do realize he's targeting agencies that have oversight or cases AGAINST HIM, right? He's not auditing ANYTHING, he's cutting first and hoping no one argues against it. You really think he's gutting the CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION AGENCY because he cares about the National Debt? Or, and stick with me on this one, he's doing it so NO ONE CAN STOP HIM RIPPING US OFF! They fired 300 - 400 employees from the National Nuclear Security Agency WITHOUT EVEN BOTHERING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY DO! And now, they are GROVELING to get them to come back because they figured out how monumentally stupid and dangerous that was. I'm all for getting rid of fraud, so why is he not touching THE MILITARY SPENDING? It's by far the largest chunk of the budget, and they've NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT because even they don't know where all the money is going. Oh, that's right, because HE gets a 💩load of money from them.
Looks like they are in the early stages of destroying the National Park System along with everything else. I don’t think this is what the people who voted for him were intending to happen. The National Parks get millions of visitors every year. People love them. I haven’t visited a National Park in years, but I want them to be there. They’re important.
I retired April2024 but as a fed employee at numerous national parks I can attest to the accuracy stated. People DIED for heaven's sake! Property was damaged and stolen. Human waste was on trails! Wtf!!! My ex-coworkers are frightened. The chaos is intended, no doubt.
My fingers are worn nubs and my voice is hoarse from contacting my congresspersons, none of whom I had the slightest bit of faith in to begin with. Is there anything meaningful we can do?
This angers me . Like so many others I’ve always sought refuge in natures beauty. Having visited so many National Parks I have seen the tremendous job all the park workers especially seasonal ones do. Without them the crush of people would certainly destroy the natural beauty they came to see. As terrible as this is it is just one more symbol that our democracy is dying right before our eyes while people just go about their daily lives. Folks we are in The Matrix
Y’all need to take a deep breath- use your head. If it’s important to you then don’t just bitch about it, do something about it. If your home was on fire would you sit on your hands while it burned and scream about how the fire department isn’t there yet or would you get off your entitled ass and be a proactive problem solver.
Our model is in the throes of entropy now. It's inevitable that the civilization we thought was "normal" is going to dismantle to larger forces, and be dismantled to a lesser extent by the pirates coming for the spoils. Musk and Trump and climate change and etc. are merely what's turned out to be some specifics of how this is happening in real time. The characters are random, the process is not. It has been in the math since the beginning.
People like Musk and his underling trump, have no appreciation of these natural wonders that are open to all of this unless they can make money from raping them. We need to fight to preserve these natural wonders because once they’re gone, they’re gone.
A group called Alt National Park Service is posting on Facebook and has started posting on Bluesky in case they get barred from Facebook. I recommend checking them out at both places and liking their posts (or, if that's not possible, doing a sad-face or angry-face emoji). https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social
What ppl fail to realize is everything else THEY'RE doing will not even matter once the planet is dead. U can't spend money on a dead planet, you can't even relax. It will be just like the "Mad Max Fury Road" movie. Except there will be no hot actor to save anyone who is left. It is an absolute 💯 sin what they're already doing to mother nature and her children. They're setting this entire planet up for failure. It will come back to bite them or their grandchildren in their a-holes but the innocent, the animals and plants will already be GONE.
What Musk is doing to our government — the NPS and all the other agencies whose systems he now controls — is a hostile takeover reminiscent of how a private equity firm raids businesses, bankrupts them, and extracts profits from their smoldering remains. It is an exploitation of our public wealth for private gain, endeavoring to save the Treasury a few pennies so the GOP can fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Government workers will be the first ones harmed by this process, losing their careers and income. But in the end all American people will suffer as we are robbed of public services we depend on and care about. Elon Musk is destroying the things that make America special to enrich the people who make America horrible, himself first and foremost.
DOGE is literally exposing Billions of dollars of corruption in a government that is Trillions of dollars in debt.
What is your solution other than the complete collapse of our country? We HAVE to cut spending and this is the first time anyone has made a real effort to do so.
My sweet fair child, he is gutting agencies that were regulating his own companies. He is unconstitutionally defunding orgs whose budgets are appropriated/mandated by congressional statute. He is doing it all without independent oversight (since Trump fired all the nonpartisan inspectors general). He makes sweeping demonstrably false claims about fraud while providing zero evidence, like how the U.S. was supposedly sending hundreds of millions of condoms to Gaza or that USAID is a “criminal” organization. Meanwhile the government continues to award him SpaceX and Tesla contracts. One of our largest federal contractors cannot ethically regulate and control the agencies that fund both him and his competitors. All of this is the textbook definition of kleptocratic corruption.
So you disagree that DOGE is exposing massive amounts of government corruption?
And you dispute the claims about USAID?
Our government is trillions of dollars in debt. SOMEBODY has to start cutting. It has to happen and these are the only people willing to do so.
As I’ve said, DOGE isn’t exposing corruption, they are committing corruption by virtue of Elon gutting the federal agencies that had launched over 30 investigations of his companies. DOGE investigating NASA, where Elon is the largest contractor, is corruption. The nation’s single largest political donor deciding where government funds should go without ind. oversight — is corruption.
You're delusional or deliberately ignorant. You are giving organizations like USAID a pass.
Dude, you literally have no idea what these organizations do or what corruption is. Quit while you're behind. Please.
You do realize he's targeting agencies that have oversight or cases AGAINST HIM, right? He's not auditing ANYTHING, he's cutting first and hoping no one argues against it. You really think he's gutting the CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION AGENCY because he cares about the National Debt? Or, and stick with me on this one, he's doing it so NO ONE CAN STOP HIM RIPPING US OFF! They fired 300 - 400 employees from the National Nuclear Security Agency WITHOUT EVEN BOTHERING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY DO! And now, they are GROVELING to get them to come back because they figured out how monumentally stupid and dangerous that was. I'm all for getting rid of fraud, so why is he not touching THE MILITARY SPENDING? It's by far the largest chunk of the budget, and they've NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT because even they don't know where all the money is going. Oh, that's right, because HE gets a 💩load of money from them.
Looks like they are in the early stages of destroying the National Park System along with everything else. I don’t think this is what the people who voted for him were intending to happen. The National Parks get millions of visitors every year. People love them. I haven’t visited a National Park in years, but I want them to be there. They’re important.
I retired April2024 but as a fed employee at numerous national parks I can attest to the accuracy stated. People DIED for heaven's sake! Property was damaged and stolen. Human waste was on trails! Wtf!!! My ex-coworkers are frightened. The chaos is intended, no doubt.
Insane
My fingers are worn nubs and my voice is hoarse from contacting my congresspersons, none of whom I had the slightest bit of faith in to begin with. Is there anything meaningful we can do?
This angers me . Like so many others I’ve always sought refuge in natures beauty. Having visited so many National Parks I have seen the tremendous job all the park workers especially seasonal ones do. Without them the crush of people would certainly destroy the natural beauty they came to see. As terrible as this is it is just one more symbol that our democracy is dying right before our eyes while people just go about their daily lives. Folks we are in The Matrix
Musk needs to be arrested ASAP. He has no legal right to be meddling with any US official business. He is actively commiting federal crimes.
This is word for word what is happening to the Forest Service as well.
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You article is disingenuous! When the parks service themself says they have 20,000 employees.
Direct quote from their website: “Permanent, temporary, and seasonal employees: Approximately 20,000”
Y’all need to take a deep breath- use your head. If it’s important to you then don’t just bitch about it, do something about it. If your home was on fire would you sit on your hands while it burned and scream about how the fire department isn’t there yet or would you get off your entitled ass and be a proactive problem solver.
Our model is in the throes of entropy now. It's inevitable that the civilization we thought was "normal" is going to dismantle to larger forces, and be dismantled to a lesser extent by the pirates coming for the spoils. Musk and Trump and climate change and etc. are merely what's turned out to be some specifics of how this is happening in real time. The characters are random, the process is not. It has been in the math since the beginning.
People like Musk and his underling trump, have no appreciation of these natural wonders that are open to all of this unless they can make money from raping them. We need to fight to preserve these natural wonders because once they’re gone, they’re gone.
A group called Alt National Park Service is posting on Facebook and has started posting on Bluesky in case they get barred from Facebook. I recommend checking them out at both places and liking their posts (or, if that's not possible, doing a sad-face or angry-face emoji). https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social
I wonder how long this performative deluded and hamfisted witch hunt will continue until folks realize the call is coming from inside the house.
What ppl fail to realize is everything else THEY'RE doing will not even matter once the planet is dead. U can't spend money on a dead planet, you can't even relax. It will be just like the "Mad Max Fury Road" movie. Except there will be no hot actor to save anyone who is left. It is an absolute 💯 sin what they're already doing to mother nature and her children. They're setting this entire planet up for failure. It will come back to bite them or their grandchildren in their a-holes but the innocent, the animals and plants will already be GONE.