Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE
Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency is expected to announce a gubernatorial campaign after the new administration begins.
Summary
Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, is expected to step down to launch a campaign for Ohio governor.
Sources report friction between Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and incoming DOGE staff, with Musk's team criticizing his lack of participation and subtly encouraging his exit.
"Vivek has worn out his welcome," one Trump associate said.
DOGE, a task force to streamline federal bureaucracy, is not a formal agency.
He's running for governor of Ohio. God damn that poor fucking state. I mean really I know they deserve it to some extent cuz they keep voting for these people, but they have just some of the worst most soul-crushing politicians the last 30 years I've ever seen
It's terrible. Surrounded by idiocy.
Has the token brown MAGA finally realized his new buddies are using him to prove they're not racists, and now that Trump won, he's not needed anymore?
I almost guarantee you that Vivek thinks he's white. I have met more than one (wealthy) South Asian-American who literally consider themselves white and are just mystified when people react to them with racism because they're white. One old family friend who's family was from Sri Lanka was absolutely incensed that he couldn't say he was white on his passport.
I don't get it, but that is apparently not uncommon.
He was all for deporting naturalized citizens too, he is naturalized citizen himself
I used to work with a dude who, while 100% born and raised in the USA, looked like he fell off the fucking Tapatio bottle. Him and I would go on ambulance calls together, and the folks who only spoke Spanish would start talking to him; he would shrug helplessly at them and then I, like Hank Hill levels of white, would pick up the conversation on pretty solid spanish. (They'd always give him a shit about it, which I found fucking hilarious) It straight up stumped me for a second when he started talking about "us white people" and it wasn't a joke. Still not sure what the root of it was, but I found it to be a really powerful and interesting political science moment. Dude's daddy was rich and he didn't want for anything, their family were some of the only Latinos in the area, and also his Latino heritage was about 0% important to him, so those things may have each or altogether had something to do with it.
Efficient as hell: first day of the regime and we've made it so s department doesn't have two guys running it
It's not noon yet Trump isn't in charge and the DOGE is already coming apart at the seams.
Two people can't run the same bureau.
You'd think there would be some government agency whose purpose it is to identify redundancies like that...
The Department of Redundancy Department?
No no, think about it. One guy does the daily operations. The other does big picture stuff. Co-managing. I saw a documentary about it. It's genius.
DEI hire couldn’t cut it I guess.
Great, let's just leave it all up to Elon. What could possibly go wrong?
The only thing worse than 2 billionaires leading an unregulated government entity is a single billionaire leading it. Giving Elon completely unchecked power.
It's not like Vivek was going to even check Elon. It's funny how he left it before he even started though.
It's not a government entity.
I don't think it even exists. We all know Elon doesn't do any actual work beyond tweeting and giving the engineers his latest harebrained idea. Have they started hiring staff? Office space? Anything to prove they exist at all?
Came to say the same thing, it's not even a real department, trump isn't president yet. You can't leave a job that never existed.
On Twitter they were asking people to work there for free.
The man just did a Nazi salute while standing behind a podium with the Presidential seal on it at the Inauguration. All bets are off if you are thinking of government as it existed before this moment.
He has enough money to do what he wants. And there are enough idiots around him that believe his bullshit and applaud.
Cheer up, Brian! Now they can't blame anything on each other.
The one thing we have going for us is that this current iteration of fascists are way stupider than the last batch
The last bunch were stupid too. People made fun of Hitler's sub-literate use of German and his lack of education. Most of his flunkies were dimwits too. It didn't stop them committing wars of aggression, mass murders and genocide, though.
The odd exception was Mussolini, who was a journalist and novelist prior to becoming the gurning bullet-headed thug he was later famous for being. And, if we're talking about psychopathic shit-sacks in general and not just fascists, Stalin was an award-winning poet before finding his vocation as mass murderer and totalitarian despot.
Stupider, yes, but they seem to have learned one thing - fire all the competent people and replace them with lackeys who won't try to interfere with implementing your intrusive thoughts simply because they're illegal or pointless or impossible to do.
Seems like it’s Indians turn to experience the “scary minority” moment after Latin Americans and Muslims.
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Good news: Russian Apologist and certified Idiot Ramaswarmy loses his Job Bad news: Elon isnt going anywhere
Wtf is gubernatorial
Of or relating to a governor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_gubernatorial_elections
Guess immigrants and a blatantly racist party don't go well together.