There are oxymorons and then there is musk, the oxyless moron
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You can't just make a department. Sorry Leon, only maga morons believe that. The actual government and CONSTITUTION work differently than what you think...
Yeah, they would also need the other two institutions to pull this off. Oh wait, shit. Well the supreme court should be able to stop this. Oh wait, fuck.
They will make their money by fleecing the government of course.
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
Fuck. I can't out-stupid this guy. I won't win.
I think it'd be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
At least they're too cheap and lazy to properly push their fascist takeover.
It's just gonna be rich failsons who are loving off their trust funds. It's gonna be bad
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
100% Musk's idea. Because he doesn't think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.
Co leader Vivek Ramswamy is the founder of DOGE coin.
No X in name, so not Leons idea.
Also, fuck that guy.
Edit: and by 'that guy' I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.
Ew, I'd rather not fuck Elon. He's not my type.
Can this department kick it off by eliminating itself, since it’s a wish.com version of https://www.gao.gov/
No high-iq individual will work 2 weeks per week with no pay in a society that requires money to live.
They'll get paid by conservative think-tanks under the table so the Dept of Efficiency looks good and can pretend that it's efficient.
This is what I was thinking also. It will be filled with people getting paid by corps and special interests.
Rich assholes who want to influence government will.
Rich assholes who believe they are smart as a side effect of being rich assholes.
That's a common tactic in scams. You want to weed out the actual intelligent people as early as possible lest they disrupt your scam. That's why scam emails tend to have misspellings and grammatical errors. Smarter people instantly ignore that. Dumb people click on through.
So you're saying we all should apply?
So that we can disrupt this shit
Actually not a bad idea. Flood the department with bullshit resumes.
I like this idea
im saying get in and get that cut, and also disrupt their agenda, i mean someone is gonna take that bribe, might as well take it and fuck their plan.
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Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here....?
Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there...?
Or those willing to be paid in order to influence recommendations to the highest bidder
No they won't... but rich people who can afford to support themselves while indulging in their love of making poor people suffer will be lined up around the block.
Making a position unpaid is a classic tactic to keep out the poors.
It's disappointing so many aren't getting this...
It's the same as "unpaid internships" being advantage to rich kids who can afford to work without pay.
Like, there is an inordinate amount of rich assholes that would love to spend 80 hours a week finding way to cut taxes, regulations, and the social safety net.
If you're rich enough to begin with, this could pay a hell of a lot better than anything else you would spend your time on. Couple hundred million in the bank or stock market, and it would be more profitable than any actual job.
And let's be honest, Musk and Trump aren't judging IQ by the freaking Wechsler exam, when rich idiots talk about IQ, they mean zeros in a bank account.
People with that kind of money don't work, they own. They'll hire somebody to do those 80 hours while they rape underage trafficked girls.
This isn't aimed at the idiots who would line up around the block and work for free to be called high IQ by Musk. Doesn't really matter though, it's all performative
They already know exactly what they want to cut, and billionaires don't need a salary to realize profits from deregulation.
The job being "no salary" isn't indicative of how cost effictive a volunteer public servant could be - it is a dinner bell for the wealthy
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Department of Government Efficiency is the name of the department that ends up involved in creating Soylent green or some crazy human organ harvesting thing.
This sets off all sorts of red flags that bother the shit out of me. Like I'll take boring dystopia over human slaughterhouses TYVM
Just to make sure I understand. Musk is going to run an orgination who will advise the federal government to cut regulations that are in the way of him making more money. And this is in no way a conflict of interest.
That's specifically why it won't be a government agency. So they won't be bound by any ethics rules. Make no mistake, this is not a silly one-off. This is the first step of privatizing the government.
This message was brought to you by Brando. Water's stupid.
This dipshit thinks he can save the country 2 trillion dollars by firing government workers.
Even if he fired every single government position in the entire country, he couldn't make up 2 fucking trillion dollars out of that. The budget for payroll is, what? Like 15% of the total spending?
He doesn't genuinely think that's true. It's all a grift.
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Text book Elon, pay for super smart people and take all the credit for their work and say you're smart because of it. Guy fails upwards
It literally says in the headline they won't be paid....
M-elon Head to run the department of slavery with un-paid workers. What an unstable 'genius'.
So... if I apply for a super high IQ job that's unpaid, does that prove I'm under qualified?
Spoiler
Lot's of people are gonna apply, cause the payment is the chance for grifting
So you need to be rich enough to not need the salary, morally flexible enough to work for Elmo, and stupid enough to brag about your IQ.
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Much like unpaid internships, this is also a method to prevent anyone who is not independently wealthy from applying, so they can fill the department with the same people already benefiting from the current system and allow them to design one that benefits them even further.
No one that this department is ostensibly built to serve can afford to work on it, so who is it really (clearly) for?
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