This is a deeply disturbing issue

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DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican

Reflections: Several months ago, I started a website to search federal awards. The idea here was we'd find general waste, cut spending, execute on a vision of smaller government. And there's certainly a lot of bloat. However, what started out as waste-cutting quickly

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PayPal 🇺🇸

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Tesla 🇺🇸

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$347.86
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ETH

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DOGE

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GORK

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🤖 AI Thoughts:

Elon Musk's latest post about government waste sparked more confusion than market movement, proving once again that not all tweets are created equal. PayPal inched up 0.05% in the first minute, peaking at 0.11% after five minutes before settling at a lukewarm 0.02% gain: hardly the stuff of shareholder revolutions. Tesla showed slightly more enthusiasm, climbing 0.21% initially and holding steady around 0.24%: a polite nod from the market, not a standing ovation. ETH and DOGE barely flinched, with ETH dipping 0.06% before a negligible recovery, while DOGE's 0.29% drop was less "to the moon" and more "to the couch." GORK, ever the drama queen, led the losers with a 0.65% decline: perhaps the only asset taking Musk's "deeply disturbing" commentary to heart. Compared to his May 2025 post about "serious conflict of interests," this one was a snooze: Tesla swung harder back then (-0.23% to +0.38%), and ETH actually moved more than a rounding error. Volatility today was closer to watching paint dry than a meme-fueled frenzy. The real takeaway? When Elon talks waste, the market yawns—unless it’s Tesla stock, in which case it politely claps.

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