Trump and Musk

the project 2025 stuff has felt far away until now but calling it the department of government efficiency is actually terrifying, it sounds like something you'd hear under nazi germany

edit: I looked into it more and it seems to just be about the government spending/budget but it's annoyingly unspecific, makes me wonder what they're gonna cut first

Almost anyone who has argued for more efficiency in recent years just meant deregulation.
It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…
i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the "ministry of truth" (censorship department) or the "ministry of peace" (war department)
- Yep, with the re-election on trump, USA just took a big leap towards the dystopia of 1984
- i'm trying to find what they (project 2025) are intending to rename health and human services. don't find it at the moment but it's definitely some orwellian bullshit. "ministry of life" or something.
  edit - department of life
Medicaid and social security. You don’t have to wonder
He's going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn't do a detailed analysis, it's just mass firing.
Maybe OSHA so that he can make his factories as ~~dangerous~~ efficient as possible

Translating from neoliberalese, "government efficiency" means tearing apart every utility and government function that a profit can be made out of and sharing between your favorite oligarchs. Think the US healthcare system, but for everything.

For those thinking "well this couldn't include things like the military", it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. "The next company" here being, likely, another country.
- I never get a good answer regarding why they think a government should be ran like a business. They don't fill the same niches, and the Constitution clearly lays out the role of government:
  ...form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...
  Nothing about consolidating profits into the hands of a few, nothing about profits at all, actually. Nothing about buying/manufacturing and selling goods or services
  And why do they always trot out the worst possible examples of businessmen as who they want to run said imaginary corpocountry (Trump is self explanatory, but Romney's entire ethos was buying companies and bankrupting them)?
- It’s not an invasion, it’s a merger! Perfectly fine!

God damn

What a grift

Yup. I made a joke to my wife before the election about taking out a loan and buying a shit ton of musk stock/doge coin and truth social stock then selling it off after the election. Their stocks are going to be too volatile for my liking now, but there was an opportunity for a payday. We ultimately didn't do it because it seemed wrong to bet against our country, but the extra money would be nice.
- Look at Pete Rose over here 😁
As someone who holds a few hundred thousand doge because it cost peanuts; i can't wait to see how this goes.

Have we all forgot that Doge wasn’t originally a crypto? It was a meme. The coin is just riding off of that.

wow
such fascism
much crushing authoritarianism
It was fun at one point. When collective efforts through the currency put the Jamaican bobsleigh team into the olympics. A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.
Now it's just sad.
- A time before we collectively realized how terrible crypto is both for economy and environment.
  Oof, sorry you have been so badly brainwashed. I would be angry if I were you.
I never understood that either - why destroy any chance at credibility one might've had?

it is a matter of weeks, possibly days, before musk makes a stupid joke about being "head of DOGE" and then photoshops his head onto the picture of the dog.

you have been warned.

I can't wait to see how this becomes the project Manhattan of our time.

Sounds like they’re dividing and selling our govt to oligarchs a la Russia.
By turning the US government and economy into a nuke, and collapsing the whole country... probably.
- not so much turning the government into a nuke, but more so developing a nuke that will obliterate what’s left of our government.
Doubtless when it results in the death of millions of innocents.
The US goes kaboom

Jesus Christ, I opened this link thinking it was an Onion article. What an absolute joke.

"The great" "The American Patriot"

What is it North Korea?

Welcome to Costco... I love you!

Make America... What again?

Owned by corporations, apparently.
Musk is vying for government contracts, and it doesn't take a genius to see that if he's put in charge of "government efficiency," he's going to turn NASA's research and engineering into skeleton crews. I can guarantee it won't be Blue Origin picking up the slack after NASA is no longer able to create spacecrafts.
Make America Cyberpunk Now!

Joke-country. Exists purely for the lulz.

I just woke up to my Doge making $1000 overnight. Should I sell?

Edit: Fuck it, I don't need the money right now. I'm gonna hold it for the tiny chance that it goes to the moon.

Yes
I sold, I have some regrets. I've been holding since 2014.
- By all means, buy some and hodl. The rest of us will thank you later, once you're left holding the bag like a sucker.

Department of Peace

Department of Government Efficiency

Department of Truth

Department of Plenty

Department of Love

Don't tell him about C3PO... or all those other fun ones around.

The Red Circus.

Only good news about this is thanks to Daddy Doge being head of the government Doge means I'll be rich in '27 when Doge (the currency) hits $2.

Can't beat em join em

Lay in the bed you made

72 million people despised the idea of this. I guess they don't matter to you
- Plenty more could have gotten off their ass and voted to prevent this, imo
I did my part and everyone who voted matters. Those who didn’t get to suffer with the rest of us.

i agree. we are in the stupidest timeline. this guy doesnt even know about the doge meme or the dog itself. my god. crypto currency 😂 jesus christ dude

NISSAN, the National Intelligence Social Security Association N..... what's the n-word...n.... national!

I would prefer any gouverment thing to be named after a dog instead of being named after 3 random letters

The "Great Elon Musk"? This is a meme, right? Anon is at it again?

This isn't the Idiocracy we were promised! I'd happily take president Camacho over Trump.

What's "larping" about this?