DOGE 'We're Going to Gut the Fish'

Friday, December 06, 2024

Congressional Republicans are planning to work closely with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the pair co-leading Trump's newly formed spending cuts project, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Vivek Ramaswamy says rolling back the Biden Administration's new loan to Rivian, a top Tesla Rival, is "high on the list" of priorities for him and Musk, sparking major conflict of interest issues with the pseudo incoming government department, DOGE.

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POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

What sort of animal are you? You obviously don't think you're a fish.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-05 06:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Musk said there would be a "naughty list" and a "nice list" for lawmakers.

POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

This guy's not even in government and he's threatening people.

Arrogant, entitled, fascist.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-05 06:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Elon Musk got Trump elected because he knows Trump is weak and easy to control.

Trump may have been the name on the ballot, but Musk is the person who won.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 06:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Musk: "We're going to gut the fish"

Translation: "We're going to gut America."

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 06:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Leon is a dip$#!+

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-12-05 06:19 PM | Reply

Vivek and Leon laying down some early markers:

Steve Rattner
@steverattner.bsky.social

Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516B dollars in government savings--it includes cutting all of Veteran's Affairs health care, eliminating the NIH, and ending funding for federal prisons.

bsky.app

Throwing in cuts to Pell Grants and Head Start is a nice touch as well. DonOLD loves the poorly educated afterall.

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-05 06:22 PM | Reply

Bye-bye to Biden's cancer moonshot:

Steve Rattner
@steverattner.bsky.social
DOGE leaders Ramaswamy and Musk have proposed eliminating all NIH funding, which among other things supports life-saving cancer research, contributing to a 33% decline in cancer death rates over the last 30 years.

bsky.app

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-05 06:27 PM | Reply

Muskaswamy needs another trillion dollar tax cut for themselves.

The Republican Party has spoken, "Fkkk America!"

FishPuss and Truds can't wait until Musk fires over 20,000 Americans from their jobs.

Poverty and depression will make America great again!

USSR! USSR! USSR!

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 06:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Point and laugh at the veterans who voted for -------

The magat scum gonna lose their healthcare!!!

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-05 06:45 PM | Reply

the Department of Government Efficiency

Anyone getting the feeling this is going to be the most 1984 thing to happen in our lifetimes?

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-05 07:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

More like The Purge. Only they'll be the ones purged.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-05 08:02 PM | Reply

"Musk said there would be a "naughty list" and a "nice list" for lawmakers."

They only have a very small margin in the House, and it's imperative that the individual Republican Corporate Congress Critters know that they get NO campaign money unless they play ball with the Mob Bosses.

The Made Men and Women in Congress are going to have to hit the mattresses.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-05 09:26 PM | Reply

It's too bad none of these House Representatives have enough confidence in themselves not need to be beholden to Musk/Trump.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 09:44 PM | Reply

It's too bad none of these House Representatives have enough confidence in themselves

Confidence is nothing. They need money more than they need oxygen.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-05 10:08 PM | Reply

They wouldn't need money if the oxygen coming out of them inspired confidence in their constituents.

But.

Considering most of them are greedy morons, lucky enough to be where they are because they kissed the ring of Trump, your assessment is correct.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 10:13 PM | Reply

lucky enough to be where they are because they kissed the ring of Trump

And dumb enough not to know how fleeting of a thing that is.

Oh well, everyone not part of "the fish" should make out well.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-05 10:19 PM | Reply

Destroying
Our
Government
Eagerly

DOGE For short.

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-05 10:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

What sort of animal are you? You obviously don't think you're a fish.

#1 | POSTED BY ZED

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV ... .

WHALE!

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-06 06:48 AM | Reply

ahahahahhaa

a cornucopia of leftist-dogma KLAN hyperbolic gibberish

--What a great FUN WAY to start the day....

aaaaaah hahahahahahahahaa

#19 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 06:59 AM | Reply

HEY I KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO

whatever they cut....get Hunter to sell some of his "art" works.....and paint some more....

the things he tried to pay rent with....

before you know it....and with their real market value worth...( that's minus the "pay to play" inflated price )_....you dips can raise....a couple

of hundred bucks.

aaaaaaah hahahahahahahahha

#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 07:22 AM | Reply

#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan

And I assume that you seel invertebrate tacos?

You know, that sounds like the sort of luxury any unemployed person can do without.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 08:25 AM | Reply

$120 Billion cut from the VA.

Thank you from your service.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-06 08:33 AM | Reply

The worst part is they have a plan.

So no matter how bad it gets, remember that that's the point and there is a purpose to the upheaval and discord they'll be creating.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-06 09:33 AM | Reply

reading this has confused me.

--so let's clear this up..

.....................

THE DRUDGE RETORT.

"INFO WARS" FOR THE LEFTIST-DOGMA KLAN.

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 09:34 AM | Reply

And I assume that you seel invertebrate tacos?

You know, that sounds like the sort of luxury any unemployed person can do without.

#21 | Posted by Zed

HEY ALEX....

what the pha does this even mean ?

#25 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 09:35 AM | Reply

presenting our two finalist for the "alex jones post of the day"

both are worthy.

---The magat scum gonna lose their healthcare!!!

#9 | Posted by truthhurts

--Muskaswamy needs another trillion dollar tax cut for themselves.
The Republican Party has spoken, "Fkkk America!"
FishPuss and Truds can't wait until Musk fires over 20,000 Americans from their jobs.
Poverty and depression will make America great again!
USSR! USSR! USSR!
#8 | Posted by ClownShack

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 09:46 AM | Reply

I assume you are calling me a conspiracy nut. But how is it a conspiracy to say if they get rid of the va that va insurance will go away?

#27 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-06 10:25 AM | Reply

Va healthcare that is

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-06 10:27 AM | Reply

You have to remember that shrimptacodan is not from the US.

He actually wants this country to fail and hates US veterans.

Kind of like Elon actually.

#29 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-12-06 10:28 AM | Reply

Plenty of low hanging fruit to pick. Problem is, this committee doesn't have any real power. All it can do is make recommendations.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-06 11:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I assume you are calling me a conspiracy nut. But how is it a conspiracy to say if they get rid of the va that va insurance will go away?

#27 | Posted by truthhurts

reading the comments here is like listening to Alex Jones on info wars.

there is NO DIFFERENCE other than who the "bad"and "good"guys are.

#31 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 11:21 AM | Reply

You have to remember that shrimptacodan is not from the US.

He actually wants this country to fail and hates US veterans.

Kind of like Elon actually.

#29 | Posted by Sycophant

--holy coitus....where do I start with this stupidity.

so where am I from...Germany or Russia....has to be one of those since you're too GD ignorant to come up with

anything on your own...

--I want the country to succeed and that means getting rid of every GD despicable democrat anywhere in office.

last part of that is too stupid to even commment

but thanks for your entry into the INFO WARS WANNA BE DR CONTEST.

#32 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 11:27 AM | Reply

there is NO DIFFERENCE other than who the "bad"and "good"guys are.

#31 | Posted by shrimptacodan

As much as you'd like that to be true----As much as that would excuse your personal behavior----There are Good Guys and there are Bad Guys.

You can tell them apart by how much suffering they cause.

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 11:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

They can't do anything unless they somehow repeal the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946. The Administrative Procedure Act, not the Constitution of 1789, is the legal foundation of the the administrative state as we know it today. (Well, if you don't count the Civil Rights Act of 1964.)

en.wikipedia.org

#34 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-12-06 12:10 PM | Reply

They can't do anything unless they somehow repeal the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946.

So then, there is a way.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-06 12:15 PM | Reply

ou can tell them apart by how much suffering they cause.

#33 | Posted by Zed a

thank you for your reply and corroboration.

#36 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-06 01:52 PM | Reply

"They can't do anything unless they somehow repeal the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946."

You still think rules and procedures still matter? Who is going to stop them, some Democrat pointing to a few words on a page and shaking their fist in the air?

#37 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2024-12-06 02:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

thank you for your reply and corroboration.

#36 | Posted by shrimptacodan

No need to thank me. Just do better.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 02:18 PM | Reply

You can tell them apart by how much suffering they cause.

#33 | POSTED BY ZED

My Good Guy AI made it clear that Shemp is a Bad Guy using Bad Guy AI.

So I plonked that hateful maroon.

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-06 02:22 PM | Reply

- Posted by Hagbard_Celine

Welcome back, missed ya!

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 03:18 PM | Reply

The democrats are on line 1, they want their corrupt, overspending government back, and it's not even gone yet... Can't even make this ---- up.

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 03:41 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

The democrats are on line 1, they want their corrupt, overspending government back, and it's not even gone yet... Can't even make this ---- up.

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Are repubs going to cut oil subsidies or just EVs?

#42 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-06 04:11 PM | Reply

Oil produces more in tax revenue than it receives in subsidies. Green energy can't say the same.

#43 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-06 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- corrupt, overspending government

That will be the go to phrase future historians use to describe the second Trump disaster of a Presidency; top Pres Historians who have done so for decades now rate Trump as last or next to last of all Presidents.

Even the conservatives among the Pres Historians all rate him in the last five.

It's just easily confused Trumpers who 'think' he was or ever will be a good President for America's economy.

He's restocked the Swamp with billionaires, donors, and used Fox news contributors.

And that's supposed to be better?

#44 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 04:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oh, and relatives and sexual predators, drunks, and Russian propagandists.

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 04:22 PM | Reply

#44 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 04:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Pres Historians" are still bias. Keep letting other people tell you what to think.

Trump was elected by popular vote and electoral votes. You are now a minority who want's to tell the majority they had no right to vote the way they decided.

All you're doing is trying to block the road with whatever garbage you can come up with and the man isn't even in office yet.

#46 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 04:29 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Oh, and relatives and sexual predators, drunks, and Russian propagandists.

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 04:22 PM | Reply | Flag

That's odd of you to say when you won't even acknowledge Ashley's confessions in her diary, AND the fact that it was Hillary who got fined for the Steele Dossier - trying to steal an election.

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 04:31 PM | Reply

LMAO Biden was deemed incompetent to stand trial for his classified docs blunders.

#48 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 04:32 PM | Reply

This is the 6th time Corky

Dude's plonked.

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-05 10:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 04:35 PM | Reply

Keep letting other people tell you what to think.
#46 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

You're the poster child for Stockholm Syndrome.

Keep drinking your ivermectin!

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-06 04:35 PM | Reply

That's odd of you to say when you won't even acknowledge Ashley's confessions in her diary

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You have some kinky sexual hangups.

#51 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 04:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oil produces more in tax revenue than it receives in subsidies. Green energy can't say the same.

#43 | Posted by BellRinger

If it's so profitable then why does it need subsidies?

#52 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-06 04:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

LMAO Biden was deemed incompetent to stand trial for his classified docs blunders.

#48 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Biden handed his classified docs right over. What did trump do?

#53 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-06 04:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Sell them.

#54 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-06 04:58 PM | Reply

Traded them for the Building Permit for the Moscow Trump Hilton.

You know, to match the Dubai Trump Towers he's building now.

#55 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 05:14 PM | Reply

You know, to match the Dubai Trump Towers he's building now.

He is building nothing. He is operating nothing. He is sticking his name on things other people are building and operating. As usual.

#56 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-06 05:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

LMAO Biden was deemed incompetent to stand trial for his classified docs blunders.

By you maybe. But we already know how bad your reading comprehension is.

He was not charged because there eas no there there ... and the president could portray himself as an "elderly man with a poor memory" who would be sympathetic to a jury. No where in that document are the words "incompetent to stand trial".

Sounds like he was competent enough to get off scott free without being charged.

If only Trumpy was that smart.

Also of course the evidence "does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."

Unlike all the evidence that was brought against Trumpy and his minions.

Trumpy is still the only President in history to face criminal charges.

You must be so proud.

#57 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-06 05:37 PM | Reply

bsky.app

...
Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social

To the Dems that have "warmed up to" the DOGE idea with Musk and Vivek ... . This is gonna come back and bite you. They are not doing this for the right reason. It's for control.

We are spending more on interest to the debt than national defense. Budget health is going to take bipartisan solutions

December 5, 2024 at 5:43 PM
...

#58 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-06 05:55 PM | Reply

Schooley
@Rschooley

Imagine being in your 70's or 80's, worth billions, and spending any of your remaining time on earth working to make sure your tax rate doesn't go up, even if it means millions of other people your age will suffer. How is that not sociopathic behavior?

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-06 10:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It will be a long, painful walk, the next four years, where America will be "led" by someone quite incapable of empathy, who will do what he can to steal from the poor so his friends, the super rich, get to rule like gods. May the new royalty of oligarchs...well, I think there is a law against my finishing that sentence, so let me just say I hope the worst for them, they certainly wish the same for me and those on the lower rungs of the economic pyramid.

#60 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-12-07 10:06 AM | Reply

If the fish rots from the head down, I'm all for it.

#61 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-12-07 12:00 PM | Reply

Hey, let's put people back in charge of government to gut programs and positions at will. After all, a government of incompetents and maladjusteds worked out so well eight years ago, right? What's the worst that could happen, a war? A plague/

#62 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-07 05:23 PM | Reply

LMAO Biden was deemed incompetent to stand trial for his classified docs blunders.
#48 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-06 04:32 PM

Well, THERE'S a f___ing lie, but far from your first, nor will it be your last.

#63 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-07 05:25 PM | Reply

LMAO Biden was deemed incompetent to stand trial for his classified docs blunders.

#48 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Biden handed his classified docs right over. What did trump do?

#53 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-06 04:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

No he didn't. He had those documents for years and they were found at his home, in his garage in Deleware and his office at the university.

#64 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-07 07:00 PM | Reply

"No he didn't."

Yer an idiot. But we all knew that.

Try as you might you will not be able rewrite history.

As soon as he was made aware of them Biden cooperated and turned them over.

Trumpy cried like a six year old and fought to keep them like they belonged to him.

He also lied and created false documents and obstructed justice. Again.

#65 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-07 07:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

As soon as he was made aware of them Biden cooperated and turned them over.

#65 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-07 07:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ignorance of the law is no excuse and has no bearing on charges being filed or the person found guilty..

BTW, Trump is President elect because your dear leader's plan to thwart his election was childish and people saw through it. Get used to saying "President Trump".

#66 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-07 08:13 PM | Reply