Well, America, I hope you’re happy. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla saw its profits plunge 71% in the first quarter, and now the billionaire who has been busy ruining the U.S. government is sad and it’s all your fault.

On an April 22 call with investors, a sullen Musk spoke of his recent preoccupation with sledgehammering government agencies under the guise of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“The DOGE team has made a lot of progress in addressing waste and fraud,” he said, despite ample evidence to the contrary. “But natural blowback from that is those who were receiving the wasteful dollars and the fraudulent dollars will try to attack me and the DOGE team and anything associated with me.”

You see? All you wasteful-and-fraudulent-dollar getters are attacking the nice rich man who,

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