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Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (7 children)

...and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn't even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, "ok, I have to try to buy the government".

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When you have this much money, the life is just a game

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn't just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The drug adled guy who caused Twitter to lose 85% of its value and to become a racist hate filled Russian propaganda machine?

This should be good.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Xitter is worth as much as it was estimated before he paid an absurdly over market price for it but it won't matter because he got what he wanted out of it and will make all that money back by siding with fascism. So in reality, Xitter didn't lose any money, Elon just threw away a bunch of billions to make even more later and it worked. America chose this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think you give Musk WAY too much credit.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

https://www.gao.gov/

Creating a second department to do something there already is a department for so you can have funni name is peak efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

And two heads instead of one? Peak efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nah, this one's OFFFICIALLY non-governmental and just makes "suggestions". Because you can't just create new departments, nor get rid of them, without Congressional approval.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wtf is up with this timeline?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We're in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Makes even more sense when you realize Biff was based on Donald Trump!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This feels more and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy of the worse kind

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (3 children)

50+% America, you'll get what you wanted. Also those who didn't vote will get what they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Since only somewhere around 65% of people voted and Trump got almost half the votes that means approximately 2/3rds of Americans are at least okay with having Trump as president and fascists in power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not everyone that didn’t vote supports this. Some people just couldn’t get the day off because they’re living day by day and couldn’t take a day off to wait in line for 5 hours at the one polling place in their city.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You assume those who didn't vote, would vote for Harris. An unfounded assumption

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Inaction makes you complicit. Not voting does not give you any moral high ground, especially when one of the people being voted for is a fascist. These people would rather let fascism run free and wait for a golden unicorn instead of making slow and steady progress with imperfect candidates.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry, but if I completely skip evaluating Harris to make this easier... I would vote for a box of pizza before tRump.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

10 million less votes for Democrats and only 5000000 more votes for trump since last election. Yes I assume a large portion would have.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I think its ok if someone doesnt vote. I also think they forfeit their right to complain.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Now tell us your thoughts on latinos that don't agree with you. What do you hope happens to them?

Lotta libs soundin real fuckin evil lately

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

i’ll bite.

i hope they get exactly what they voted for.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago

Being in a functional union was nice while it lasted.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago

Just bulldoze the whitehouse and erect a circus tent

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

We're living in the Idiocracy. It's not the future, its now.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Just gonna be years and years of crypto scams headed up by the Federal Govt.

We're gonna do an Argentina.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I'm old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.

yet

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (6 children)

By law, neither can an insurrectionist, but here we are.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Isn't this kinda a conflict of interest

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure having one or more conflicts of interest is a requirement for Republicans and their allies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Wait until you realize that it’s not just Republicans….

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Unrelated, but can I block keywords on the desktop site, too? The less I see of this fucker the better

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Someone do something to this fuck

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Next up. We're renaming dollars to x-coin.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

Set the rivers on fire again!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The man who's cars kill people, should be in charge of efficiency. Perfect. Everything goes so much better when massive numbers of people die. Melon Head Musk is such a waste of DNA.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Hey, it's not only his cars that kill people, his assembly lines kill them too! And now he'll be in charge of all the assembly lines.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Congratulations America. You put the reins of power in the hands of toddlers coming up with cool names for made up comic book superheroes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How many senators or house members do we need to lobby to stop this?

More importantly, how do I get into a position to even begin attempting to lobby them?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Kabosu didn't die for this

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