The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Within just the last week or so, Elon Musk’s DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers and executives have done the following: Pushed a website live to track “savings” that showed no savings for several days, and made it trivially easy for random people on the internet to make changes to it. Published classified information on that same website. Got called out for accidentally inflating that savings amount by $7,992,000,000, and doubled down on their inaccuracy before they fixed it. Fired hundreds of people who work on nuclear security, then scrambled to rehire them, except they had nuked all the work email addresses and personnel files so they didn’t know how to get in touch. Basically the same deal, except with the US Department of Agriculture employees working to protect the country from a looming bird flu crisis. Rehired a 25-year-old engineer with a stack of racist tweets to his name. Spouted a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories about who’s getting ... Read full article.