DOGE Attempting the "Lost Cause" Narrative Takes a Lot of Balls
DOGE was a cult, not a noble effort
Only three months after Elon arrived in DC waving a chainsaw to symbolize his effort to cut the federal behemoth down to size, the DOGE post-mortems are already being written. The Atlantic has a long article called “The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk”, opting to use both “decline” and “fall” in the title because apparently neither word fully captures the magnitude of Elon’s shit-eating. DOGE staffers are negging the agency, Elon is giving off GOB Bluth “I’ve made a huge mistake” vibes, and Trump hasn’t tweeted about Elon since April 4. The moment has been perfectly captured by whoever made this (which is a riff on something done by that goofball Stalin):
Virtually no one disputes that DOGE has failed — how could they, given the numbers? But some are trying to obscure the cause of DOGE’s failure. Elon’s fans are trying to spin DOGE as a noble attempt that was thwarted by outside forces:
The narrative coming from DOGE lost causers is basically this: