Insane

So, he’s partially right and mostly wrong. The Air Force DID, in fact, spend $1,280 per coffee cup on a total of approximately 400 large cups. That’s where his accuracy ends.

These were not disposable paper cups, but rather large electric mugs designed for use in aircraft.
The mugs were reusable
The mugs enabled the user to reheat the contents at will to help prevent waste
They are effectively electric heaters with special plugs designed for use on aircraft
The price was largely because they were considered “aircraft equipment” and thus had to be specially made and have an FAA air worthiness certification

Oh, and the best part:

This wasn’t discovered by DOGE and Elon had absolutely nothing to do with it. The purchase happened in 2016, and came to light in 2018 with CNN and other news outlets reporting on it as early as October 18 of that year. The only reason it even became an issue is because the handles were faulty, requiring the mugs to need to be replaced. In the end, it was decided to just have replacement handles 3D printed for 50 cents each instead of buying whole new mugs. Turns out the existing system was successfully able to bring waste to light and implement options to correct it just fine.

How this is somehow suddenly a mark of success or win for Elon/DOGE nearly 10 years after everything went down remains a mystery.

Comment by Acrobatic_Paint3616 at 01/02/2025 at 21:47 UTC

69 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Imagine believing this

Comment by Dantheking94 at 01/02/2025 at 23:00 UTC

15 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Elon musk is collecting social security information, Medicare information etc from federal agencies. He is the very definition of bureaucracy that he claims to fight against. Do not defend anything he does, cause his fight will never be for anyone but himself..

Comment by TurbulentStrike3717 at 02/02/2025 at 21:08 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Brings back memories from my childhood in the 90s where my dad was talking about $10,000 dollar hammers. Was that just a dream or did that really happen?

Comment by CautiousEmergency367 at 01/02/2025 at 22:19 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Well that's official then, how is anyone believing a word from this owner hungry conman

Comment by MusclesMarinara84 at 02/02/2025 at 00:04 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

Comment by Suspicious_Bend9419 at 01/02/2025 at 21:48 UTC

17 upvotes, 0 direct replies

We are supposed to believe everything this guy says don’t believe either side

Comment by Archz714 at 01/02/2025 at 21:58 UTC

22 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Lol, damn you'll all fall for anything

A screenshot from a platform owned by a millionaire, praising A dude who owns the platform?

THIS IS PROPAGANDA 101

Comment by yungvenus at 01/02/2025 at 22:03 UTC

25 upvotes, 0 direct replies

If anyone believes this, you need to get off social media.

Comment by GideonWells at 02/02/2025 at 22:18 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

How do you people fall for this good lord

Comment by StrongLikeBull3 at 01/02/2025 at 21:54 UTC

16 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Elon Musk is a nice man who has never ever lied about anything ever.

Comment by DiscoDancingNeighb0r at 02/02/2025 at 01:02 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Bro. Don’t believe everything you read. Cuz that looks like note pad and Elon doesn’t talk like that. Nor is there anything to prove this is true. Yet you believed it?

Comment by wohsedisbob at 02/02/2025 at 00:27 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Bad bot

Comment by [deleted] at 02/02/2025 at 00:39 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Yeah, the cuts to the FAA are going great

Comment by Healith at 02/02/2025 at 03:05 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The funny part is something similar is happening remember the guy talking about the military spending like an extra hundred thousand for some part that doesn’t cost much? Also the money given for condoms in Gaza?

Comment by Zaius1968 at 01/02/2025 at 23:40 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

If true that extra markup is going to black ops. He’s going to piss the wrong person off. Then it will be bye bye the hard way.

Comment by sketchysamurai at 02/02/2025 at 00:31 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Super looking forward to the actual explanation of this whatever-the-fuck announcement was supposed to be.

Comment by RonaldoLibertad at 02/02/2025 at 14:35 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Satire.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2025 at 16:13 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

God, if only he were just auditing the governments spending and outing the fuck ups. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Comment by Dabadoi at 02/02/2025 at 00:31 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Musk is stupid enough to misunderstand an invoice, yes.

Comment by suspicious_hyperlink at 02/02/2025 at 04:03 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I’m sure they are doing some good stuff, but it’s all pretty scary….the oligarchy stuff and all. Hopefully we come out of this in better shape than when we went in.

Comment by Hollywood-is-DOA at 01/02/2025 at 23:04 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

If they stopped money laundering they’d have sister Money for infrastructure and they don’t want that.