DOGE?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Elon Musk has autisim, I suspect he has ADHD, and the WSJ reports that he regularly uses drugs.

How long do you think he will be able to focus on this? And how long until Trump grows annoyed with him?

Don't governerment officials have to pass a background check and drug screning?

This isn't real government. This is just an "afterschool club" that has no real role/power.

Oh it will have power. But you're correct that this is not real if real is what has existed in the US Executive Branch up to this point in history. We are in entirely new territory.

If they don't have laws and statutes to back their powers and actions up, they will take a beating in the courts.

What courts? You think Trump’s SCOTUS is going to stop this? This is an official presidential act and has full immunity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Elon Musk has autisim, I suspect he has ADHD, and the WSJ reports that he regularly uses drugs.

How long do you think he will be able to focus on this? And how long until Trump grows annoyed with him?

Don't governerment officials have to pass a background check and drug screning?

They also need to do financial disclosures and to divest any investments that might pose a conflict of interest. I was asked to sell all of my Microsoft and Amazon stock when I was in federal IT. How can a guy who owns a car company and an aerospace company and an IT company not have a conflict of interest if he's going to be telling regulators of those industries how to be more efficient?

No they don't. That is why it is structured this way. It is just an outside advisory group for Elon and Vivek to play pretend. Trump can take their 'advice' and/or blame them for anything that goes wrong.

Just another example how Kamala was right. Trump is not a serious man.

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Anonymous wrote:Elon Musk has autisim, I suspect he has ADHD, and the WSJ reports that he regularly uses drugs.

How long do you think he will be able to focus on this? And how long until Trump grows annoyed with him?

Don't governerment officials have to pass a background check and drug screning?

They also need to do financial disclosures and to divest any investments that might pose a conflict of interest. I was asked to sell all of my Microsoft and Amazon stock when I was in federal IT. How can a guy who owns a car company and an aerospace company and an IT company not have a conflict of interest if he's going to be telling regulators of those industries how to be more efficient?

No they don't. That is why it is structured this way. It is just an outside advisory group for Elon and Vivek to play pretend. Trump can take their 'advice' and/or blame them for anything that goes wrong.

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Unclear why anyone thinks there will be any laws applicable to anything Trump does. He has full immunity for any presidential action. He’ll do whatever he wants, however he wants. This is what America voted for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of Paw Patrol.

Love that they picked two people to do one job for the new agency tasked with eliminating inefficiencies

Can I just say I love how we non-Magas are poking fun at this and not getting our panties all twisted up. This whole thing is a joke. Yes it is still dangerous, but it is a joke and I will not let it raise my blood pressure like I did in the previous trump administration. I’ll keep my head down and work to build political power in non-public ways.

[Anonymous]

Threat to democracy?

Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY.

- Elon Musk, November 13, 2024

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Anonymous wrote:the launch could be funny but some serious cleaning needs to happen from Govt.

My father received a letter from Social Security. The first page was printed on both sides and conveyed more than was needed. A second page contained only a signature line and the website. He worked in the private sector and send feedback on line to SSN suggesting that the signature line could be at the bottom of the other page, thus savings reams of paper. He also suggested that people be asked on line if they wanted a printed and mailed letter or could just read the message on line. He received a response from SSN saying that its computers could not be set for another line of type so the extra page was necessary. It also said that letters had to be mailed. My 80 year old ex-Big Accounting father made a good point that was easily implemented and completely ignored. It's not like saving the cost of an Apache helicopter but he was blown off.

The thing is it’s not easily implemented. I work at a large gov angency and making any sort of tech update is a huge undertaking. Even minor changes to our form templates require multiple levels of approval and then time for IT to update the system (they usually do batch updates and not just one-offs because it takes a long time for the updates to run on everyone’s computers). It’s not just as simple as going in and clicking a button to select a new font for the whole system. Also if you change the font it may fix the signature line on one type of letter but create a new issue on a different type of letter. The overall picture of correspondence is much bigger than your dad’s single letter. And yes it would be nice to move everything online, but a sizeable portion of the American public is tech illiterate.

I think the people claiming it’s so easy to fix these types of things have absolutely no idea the scope of work required to run a large agency.

Should we have better technology? Yes, I’d love that. But every time one administration budgets for some sort of upgrade the next administration comes along and scraps it for something better and so forth.

So your dad is right in identifying there are problems within the government, but it’s not like he came up with some brilliant easy to implement idea that was ignored.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of Paw Patrol.

Love that they picked two people to do one job for the new agency tasked with eliminating inefficiencies

Can I just say I love how we non-Magas are poking fun at this and not getting our panties all twisted up. This whole thing is a joke. Yes it is still dangerous, but it is a joke and I will not let it raise my blood pressure like I did in the previous trump administration. I’ll keep my head down and work to build political power in non-public ways.

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I’ll be curious to see how Elon and Vivek decide to cut a third of the federal budget though. $2T is a bigly amount.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of Paw Patrol.

Love that they picked two people to do one job for the new agency tasked with eliminating inefficiencies

Can I just say I love how we non-Magas are poking fun at this and not getting our panties all twisted up. This whole thing is a joke. Yes it is still dangerous, but it is a joke and I will not let it raise my blood pressure like I did in the previous trump administration. I’ll keep my head down and work to build political power in non-public ways.

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I’ll be curious to see how Elon and Vivek decide to cut a third of the federal budget though. $2T is a bigly amount.

That would bring us back to pre-covid numbers.

Impossible, huh?

[Anonymous]

Paper pushers everywhere are wondering now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of Paw Patrol.

Love that they picked two people to do one job for the new agency tasked with eliminating inefficiencies

Can I just say I love how we non-Magas are poking fun at this and not getting our panties all twisted up. This whole thing is a joke. Yes it is still dangerous, but it is a joke and I will not let it raise my blood pressure like I did in the previous trump administration. I’ll keep my head down and work to build political power in non-public ways.

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I’ll be curious to see how Elon and Vivek decide to cut a third of the federal budget though. $2T is a bigly amount.

That would bring us back to pre-covid numbers.

Impossible, huh?

It would also bring us back to pre-Trump tax cuts and the rest of his borrowing which added up to over $8T. So yeah, I think it’ll be interesting to watch. The GOP has some governing to do and no one else to blame. Should be good!

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Anonymous wrote:Paper pushers everywhere are wondering now.

Nah. They’re laughing. Elon has no idea.

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of Paw Patrol.

You win the internet today!