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Musk sucks at logic. You can disapprove of DOGE's goal and also point out that they're lying about how close they are to it. There's no contradiction or hypocrisy there.
more accurately. you can complain about their method to reach their claimed goal... and about the fact that they aren't reaching it.
IE their claimed goal is to save the government lots of money. Objectively the government spending less is a good thing. However losing things that the government does that help people, is objectively bad.
So yes, it's both too much bad, and not enough good, if the dodge cuts, slash jobs, wreck social security, medicaid, medicare. Harm scientific research in medical and other aspects of life. Wreck the US's soft power by killing goodwill programs that help other countries. Wreck projects that help our own people etc....
and so yes, if we wreck all the projects that help people and save lives... AND barely accomplish any savings in the process. That is an extreme double fail, in which something like DOGE can simultaniously be doing far too little, and far too much at the same time. (because they are making a huge negative impact to the quality of life for millions of americans... and they aren't even close to making a visible scratch in saving money.
They love their chainsaw analogy - this is like going to a surgeon to get an abdominal tumor removed, but the surgeon takes a chainsaw to your foot instead. Now you can't walk and you still have a tumor. The doctor took both too much and not enough. It's not hard to understand, but I guess they think it's clever to pretend they don't get it.