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 sooooâŚ
i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the "ministry of truth" (censorship department) or the "ministry of peace" (war department)
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
Yep, with the re-election on trump, USA just took a big leap towards the dystopia of 1984
They won't cut any actual spending, just the benefits from the spending. They'll redirect those funds right into their own pockets.
Maybe OSHA so that he can make his factories as
dangerousefficient as possibleMedicaid and social security. You donât 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.
Because there's literally zero fallout for him, ever. He can't fuck up enough to face repercussions. Now that he's got orangishblob backing him he can literally kill a bunch of people without consequences.
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)?
Itâs not an invasion, itâs 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 đ
Have we all forgot that Doge wasnât originally a crypto? It was a meme. The coin is just riding off of that.
wow
such fascism
much crushing authoritarianism
I never understood that either - why destroy any chance at credibility one might've had?
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.
the coin put the original meme in its shadow at this point. Also it's not that culturally relevant anymore, whole doge kinda still is.
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.
Itâs already happened, AI is incredibly quick
I can't wait to see how this becomes the project Manhattan of our time.
Sounds like theyâre 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 whatâs left of our government.
Doubtless when it results in the death of millions of innocents.
"The great" "The American Patriot"
What is it North Korea?
Not yet, but he's working on it!
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.
Poor.
"mine again"
I guess that is how they got Gaetz on board. They meant they wanted to send kids back into the mines and he thought they meant something even more disgusting.
Jesus Christ, I opened this link thinking it was an Onion article. What an absolute joke.
Welcome to Costco... I love you!
Joke-country. Exists purely for the lulz.
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
by switching to crypto, they reduce power of the federal reserve
This isn't the Idiocracy we were promised! I'd happily take president Camacho over Trump.
The "Great Elon Musk"? This is a meme, right? Anon is at it again?
Is this... A real post from the mangoman? I don't dare to check myself, i might find the answer and then it's my fault i looked.
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 đ jesus christ dude
NISSAN, the National Intelligence Social Security Association N..... what's the n-word...n.... national!
Hey genius, he's naming it off the same old meme that the crypto coin was named after. Because he's not just a weird, stupid jackass, he's also autistic and on "prescription" stimulants.
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
What's "larping" about this?
I would prefer any gouverment thing to be named after a dog instead of being named after 3 random letters
