Trump announces Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. So where's it going to be headquartered? Glenwood Springs CO? NT

[alwaysinasnit]

2. Well folks, buckle up 'cause we're in for a bumpy ride with no shock absorbers.

[Walleye]

3. These fucking Nazis, is efficiency in the constitution?

Efficiently is often not the best way to do something. I don’t guess they will ever admit that. They’re starting out with an incorrect premise and it’s just so damn Nazi.

[Klarkashton]

4. Used to be you just changed the channel when these

Asshole cranks showed up on the tube. JFC now they are calling the goddamn shots for real.

[Dem4life1234]

6. Clown like these assholes

Used to be relegated to sideshows.

Not in politics. America has fallen.

[Klarkashton]

11. It's all broken and horrible. Done by people "doing their own research"

Using social media.

[keep_left]

5. Eloon's ridiculous "DOGE" agency is all about the "useless eaters"...

...as he sees them--destroying what little safety net is left in this country. Anyone on Medicaid in particular is going to be screwed, especially the Medicaid expansion for the working poor. And of course, Eloon's own material interests (defense and spy agency contracts) get a special carve-out from any oversight of his "DOGE" agency.

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[highplainsdem]

12. It's about doing to the US what Milei has done to Argentina.

[Volaris]

33. Im glad im not the only one who caught that cutesy little acronym.

He thinks he's clever..

[dalton99a]

7. Efficiency Solution #1: Fire employees who are or were Democrats.

Just watch

[Kali999]

8. DOGE

Is the name of Musks crypto. I believe. Sounds like Monty Python, hope they goose step.

[awesomerwb1]

20. It is not Musk's crypto

It does not belong to him. He just likes to hype it. The irony is that DOGE, stands or stood I should say, for Do Only Good Everyday.

[keep_left]

22. It's not his--it's a "meme coin", apparently "traded" on the crypto "market"...

...by people who don't have more useful things to do. Eloon is a big fan of this moronic meme culture, particularly when it comes to Pepes and other Nazi frog memes. He recently posted numerous memes plagiarized from the banned subreddit r/Frenworld, for those who remember that shitshow.

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[C_U_L8R]

9. A new department with zero funding

What are they gonna do, rob Fort Knox? Oh, wait a minute...

[The Madcap]

10. Government efficiency

Classic oxymoron. What makes these clowns think they can solve it ?

[Klarkashton]

13. Musk is some lucky doper that wants to be the

Emperor of the world. It isn't sustainable, it never is but in the meantime he will do a hell of a lot of damage.

[In It to Win It]

14. Oh my lord, we're cooked!

[Hugin]

15. This cinches it...

Irony is dead, long live irony.

[superpatriotman]

16. Any comments from the current administration?

It’s eerily mute on announcements like this.

[Emrys]

17. Well, Musk really sent "shockwaves" through Twitter when he "dismantled", "slashed", "cut" and "restructured" it

In light of that roaring success, what could possibly go wrong, especially with an agency named after a cryptocurrency?

So what is it, this DOGE? From the off, it sounds like it's wanting to have its cake and eat it - "Department of Government Efficiency" that will at the same time "provide advice and guidance from outside of government" and "partner with the White House and Office of Management and Budget", run by two opinionated goofballs who've never served in government?!

It certainly sounds like the concept of a plan, maybe fueled by too much nose powder and assorted other substances.

As for "which is a lot of people!" - yup, it is, and you're after all their jobs. That's sure to go down well when you start laying off well-paying jobs in the pork barrel states.

One person's "waste" is another person's Earthquake Hazards Program. That worked out well when Trump tried to cut it in 2018, then had to reverse course before the year was out.

Someone should remind them that the Manhattan Project was a mixed bag, not a blueprint for government.

I can tell them how to save billions right off the bat.

Scrap this damn fool idea before it sucks up any more oxygen and wastes far more money than it ever saves, and run the idiots who cooked it up out of town on a rail.

[vanessa_ca]

18. Words fail me n/t

[LPBBEAR]

19. My first reaction

was laughter

My second reaction was....more laughter

I'm still laughing.

What a bunch of fuckups.

[IzzaNuDay]

21. Kakistocracy, here we come!

Nothing but the incompetent and craven folks on the planet.

As I might have mentioned 11/5/2024 is the FA day. FO gonna last until the US has a clue to vote out this sh!tshow!

[Jit423]

23. What we really need is a Department of Government Ethics

but none of the Trump administration would be qualified to run it. Oh, wait..

[Prairie Gates]

24. Is that funded in the budget?

You can just invent new departments under OMB without Congressional budget allocations?

OK, then. Tra la.

[Solly Mack]

25. List of agencies within the administrative state. What they seek to dismantle/restructure/cut/gut

The Manhattan Project of our time? Nuke the administrative state.

America is fucked.

Administrative Conference of the United States
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Board of Veterans' Appeals (VA)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional Research Service
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Corporation for National Community Service
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Drug Enforcement Administration
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (DOE)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Insurance Office
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
Financial Stability Oversight Council
Food and Drug Administration
Institute of Education Sciences
Internal Revenue Service
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Center for Education Statistics
National Credit Union Administration
National Labor Relations Board
National Recovery Administration
National Security Agency
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
Office of Financial Research
Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Steamboat Inspection Service
Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Chemical Safety Board
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Energy Information Administration
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
U.S. Federal Reserve System
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Government Accountability Office
U.S. Government Publishing Office
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
U.S. National Park Service
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Social Security Administration
United States Agency for Global Media
United States Civil Service Commission
United States Postal Service

[OrlandoDem2]

26. How efficient is it to have 2 people run a job-existent department?

[Emrys]

28. Oops. I think the expression is "Jinx!" n/t

[Prairie Gates]

31. ROFL

Indeed!

[Emrys]

27. Having two heads of this "department" doesn't seem very efficient.

Maybe, after a couple of years of frenzied inactivity, Musk and Ramaswamy will fire each other:

[allegorical oracle]

29. Efficiency? Sounds like something made up to advertise a laxative. nt

[ColinC]

30. If you havent caught on yet it spells out DOGE

Dogecoin is a crypto currency that has skyrocketed in value 245% in the last month.


Welcome to the meme government.

[hatrack]

32. Last I looked, it takes Congress to create a "Department" . . .

So Lone Skum would be, what, the Secretary of Bullshit?