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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago

Department of Obvious Grift and Extortion perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Dumb Oligarch Gets Everything

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Department Of Grifty Edgelords.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

Die Of Gonorrhea, Elon

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Department of Oligarchy, Graft, and Edgelords

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

graft /grăft/ noun

Deceitful or fraudulent use of one's position, especially in public office, to obtain personal profits or advantages. Money or advantage obtained by such means. 

intransitive verb

To gain money or advantage through deceit or fraud. 
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm pretty sure they mean grift, since graft's most well known meaning is transplanting living tissue.

Your meaning is exists only in the US and it's not that universal.

I was making a joke given the most well known meaning.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Department of Government Extermination.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Don’t Oligarchs Get Everything?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Donald Openly Gargles Erections

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Department of Goebbels Employees

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Destroying Our Goverment Entirely 👀

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Doofus Operating Goverent Entity

Dicks Organising Gorvernment's End

Don't Overexplain, Greed Everywhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I really like the first one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Department of Government Extermination

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Best I saw was department of greedy elon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Dickhead Oligarch Getting Enriched

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Dumbass Overlooking Governmental Existence

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dicks Out Government Enemies

Dicking Over God’s Exceptionals

Dicking Over Generally Everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dicks Out, Get Eating

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Dickish Orangutans Grifting Everyone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's a Shiba Inu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Deftly Obfuscating Grotesque Exploitation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Department of Government Enshittification

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Department of Gratuitous Elonery

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Duplicitous Orange Guy Expires

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Move fast and break things (hopefully they follow court orders)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

MFABT != DOGE