Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Musk 'Efficiency' Effort So Unserious They Named It DOGE

President-elect Trump is appointing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an effort to cut government spending, eliminate regulations and restructure federal agencies. To give you an idea of how clownish the project already is, they're calling it the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Dogecoin is the name of a cryptocoin created as a joke to mock crytocurrency speculation. People bought it for the lulz and it's currently worth 39 cents.

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Cod Bless the United States of Trollmerica

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, will get a payroll check from the US

While simultaneously running how many businesses with contracts with the federal government.

Do any of you magat scum have any concept of what corruption actually IS?

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-12 09:49 PM

"President-elect Donald Trump picked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech company founder Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, to lead an effort to cut spending, eliminate regulations and restructure federal agencies."

What he is proposing is nothing new; it's called "Austerity" and they did it in Great Britaib and it caused much unhappiness and lon term accomplished nothing. Musk's proposal causes paib only for yhe working class none for the rich! Kill the programs that care for our elders (me) and replace them with nothing. Kill ACA a/k/a Obamacare and leave millios with nothing, L think thst's what MAGA means; If you don't have cash to pay forb healthcarem sorry you die! Oh well!

#2 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-12 10:21 PM

To propose Austerity here, now in th United States is unnevessary and just evil. Our economy is doing very well despite the lies from Trump and Republicans. There is absolutely no nrrf tocut two trillion from the budget. What's needed is to let the Trump tax cuts for the billionaires expire as it is scheduled to in 2025. If it does our deficit stops growing amd wre start paying down debt as Bill Clinton proved and in doing so he set off the greatest economy and growth in wea;th since FDR.
Historically in our history from the 60s to todqy there is only one "big dog" and it ASN'T EVER bUDSH OR tRUMP!

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#3 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-13 12:08 AM

What's needed is to let the Trump tax cuts for the billionaires expire as it is scheduled to in 2025.

He will make those permanent. Probably, like everything else, on Day One.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-13 12:13 AM

This administration's guiding principles: Immaturity and contempt.

#5 | Posted by cbob at 2024-11-13 05:53 AM

That matches their miserable base's guiding "principles."

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-13 08:39 AM

We all know what "efficiency" means here.

It's how can we redirect the most money possible to our pockets.

I wouldn't be surprised if the bloat remains largely intact, they'll just direct the money to fewer, more favorable sources.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-13 09:32 AM

This is a clear case of price manipulation. Doge was trading at 16 cents on election day. Jumped to .21 on wed, fell to .19 Thursday. Then on Monday, a day before the announcement, the price spiked to .35, making all of Elon's Doge holdings worth more than double what they were a week prior.

#8 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-11-13 01:35 PM

The fix here is just to put the taxes back in place back to at least 2000. No cuts needed. Adjust for inflation sure...

#9 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-11-13 03:32 PM

Y2K taxation level would get you +2-3% at best. That's not enough to cover the existing deficit, let alone pay down existing debt.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-11-13 04:52 PM

If it takes two people to be in charge of an imaginary effeciency department neither of them are good enough to run a real agency.

#11 | Posted by Tor at 2024-11-13 07:51 PM

You liberals are just scared they will be successful with this and make you look stupid and greedy like you are.

#12 | Posted by boaz at 2024-11-14 11:46 AM

You liberals are just scared they will be successful with this and make you look stupid and greedy like you are.

Posted by boaz at 2024-11-14 11:46 AM | Reply

You're drunk on stupid.

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-14 11:48 AM

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm

Apropos of Elon & Vivek's excellent efficiency adventure, back in 1989 Bush sr set VP Dan Quayle up with something called The Council on Competitiveness. It was basically a backroom operation where corps cld toss in a few bucks and get a regulation killed. This will be the same.

#14 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-14 11:52 AM

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