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highplainsdem

(52,617 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:27 PM Nov 12

Musk just posted that his new spending-cuts department will post all actions online, which will be "entertaining"









Elon Musk
@elonmusk

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.

Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!

We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining 🤣🤣


The entertainment value will be epic
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Musk just posted that his new spending-cuts department will post all actions online, which will be "entertaining" (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 12 OP
The guillotine had better entertainment value dalton99a Nov 12 #1
Everything is on the block except for all of Musk's socialism-funded programs. TheBlackAdder Nov 12 #21
Come back to X! Solly Mack Nov 12 #2
Doubling down on bureaucracy C_U_L8R Nov 12 #3
Slouching toward Bethlehem at breakneck speed. yorkster Nov 12 #4
Will they be cutting more pandemic teams and other crucial ecstatic Nov 12 #5
And an illegal immigrant to boot. Surprised Traitor Trump did not make him travelingthrulife Nov 13 #31
Does he not understand that the Executive office does not control the budget... Yavin4 Nov 12 #6
They assume the GOP congress will rubber-stamp everything. Irish_Dem Nov 12 #14
Some of those cuts feed families in red states Yavin4 Nov 12 #22
Yes the pain will be felt across the board except for the wealthy. Irish_Dem Nov 13 #30
Muskrat is a terrifying species of psychopath, isn't he? "Entertainment value" ? Hekate Nov 12 #7
"Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant" dalton99a Nov 12 #12
Audit Musk & Vivek's tax returns at140 Nov 12 #8
Yeah, because our super informed public kerouac2 Nov 12 #9
OK, it's now gone completely to his head. Maybe the coke at Mar-a-Lago was uncut. Emrys Nov 12 #10
Sorry but if this is your main form of entertainment... Initech Nov 12 #11
They can't cut the spending. roamer65 Nov 12 #13
The GOP controlled Congress? WarGamer Nov 12 #18
The House is still unresolved. roamer65 Nov 13 #24
STOP VISITING and POSTING X!!!!! AkFemDem Nov 12 #15
Every time you do this BTW AkFemDem Nov 12 #16
Two incredibly horrible people are going to do what? Klarkashton Nov 12 #17
I wonder why we would try to boost Egyptian Johonny Nov 12 #19
Not opposed to such studies, except by these MFers. If findings are truly on-line, people might Silent Type Nov 12 #20
Not when it is 100% propaganda. travelingthrulife Nov 13 #32
I'll bet this lasts until about April Iris Nov 12 #23
Post removed Post removed Nov 13 #25
Trashing EVERY single FUCKING "tweet". notroot Nov 13 #26
"the Department of Government Efficiency" Dave Bowman Nov 13 #27
How can he hold the job if he's not american? lindysalsagal Nov 13 #28
He's a naturalized citizen but he entered illegally. travelingthrulife Nov 13 #33
Yeah because the public has a fucking clue who is useful and who isn't. Takket Nov 13 #29

C_U_L8R

(45,719 posts)
3. Doubling down on bureaucracy
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:34 PM
Nov 12

And adding a layer of jackassery and stoner idiocy.
Yeah real efficient there, Elmo.

Doge, my ass.

ecstatic

(34,448 posts)
5. Will they be cutting more pandemic teams and other crucial
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:36 PM
Nov 12

departments like last time? I wonder how many Americans will die this time around? Why would you have someone with zero emotional intelligence working a job like that?

Yavin4

(36,511 posts)
6. Does he not understand that the Executive office does not control the budget...
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:39 PM
Nov 12

..what am I saying? These clowns are idiots.

Irish_Dem

(58,693 posts)
30. Yes the pain will be felt across the board except for the wealthy.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 07:24 AM
Nov 13

The MAGAs will find a way to blame everyone else.

kerouac2

(734 posts)
9. Yeah, because our super informed public
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:47 PM
Nov 12

Understands everything behind the programs and expenses they will slash. People literally voted against their own self interests and programs and benefits they use. What a sick joke.

Entertaining is code word for owning libs and drinking the tears of those they hurt.

Emrys

(8,000 posts)
10. OK, it's now gone completely to his head. Maybe the coke at Mar-a-Lago was uncut.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:47 PM
Nov 12

His "department" won't be cutting anything, even if he hires catturd2 to kick some asses. There are other arms of government that are expressly designed to cover these matters, unless he imagines his pruning of government is going to abolish them.

The released information about his new little plaything implied a strictly advisory role. If it had any real power, he'd have to divest himself of his business interests and probably face confirmation hearings.

It doesn't take much imagination how a loose-lipped prat like Musk could play havoc with the stock exchange by releasing info about his latest brainstorm at key times. Musk has form for doing that.

"The entertainment value will be epic" - probably. Pointing and laughing at Musk seems to be something few tire of quickly.

Setting up a website and asking for comments from the public - what could possibly go wrong?

Initech

(102,198 posts)
11. Sorry but if this is your main form of entertainment...
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:48 PM
Nov 12

You are truly, unequivocally, totally fucked up in the head beyond all repair. Like seek help immediately fucked up.

AkFemDem

(2,180 posts)
15. STOP VISITING and POSTING X!!!!!
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:59 PM
Nov 12

Seriously, stop it.

No, you’re not keeping people informed- you’re driving more traffic to his site. We all fully expect him to be posting exactly the kind of content you are sharing. If Democrats, who by all accounts make up somewhere between 40-60% of this country, stopped giving that man the hits he so craves and loves, then his childish trolling would be powerless.

Delete your account. Everyone, delete your accounts!! Resist all urges to go and peek. Get your news from the mainstream media, not Twitter/X.

Johonny

(22,136 posts)
19. I wonder why we would try to boost Egyptian
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 11:13 PM
Nov 12

Tourism. Other than maintaining tourism is the one thing that helps keep radicals out of power there.

Silent Type

(6,972 posts)
20. Not opposed to such studies, except by these MFers. If findings are truly on-line, people might
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 11:24 PM
Nov 12

realize what’s going on.

travelingthrulife

(846 posts)
32. Not when it is 100% propaganda.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 07:40 AM
Nov 13

They will learn nothing but whatever Musk/Trump pulls out of his butt. Then they will use this to cause further division.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Dave Bowman

(3,701 posts)
27. "the Department of Government Efficiency"
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:33 AM
Nov 13

That sounds like something from a Kafka novel. Or a Monty Python sketch.

Takket

(22,603 posts)
29. Yeah because the public has a fucking clue who is useful and who isn't.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 06:14 AM
Nov 13

They’ll all say EVERYONE is useless right up until some service they were used to getting doesn’t show up anymore.

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