Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.
This dipshit thinks he can save the country 2 trillion dollars by firing government workers.
Even if he fired every single government position in the entire country, he couldn’t make up 2 fucking trillion dollars out of that. The budget for payroll is, what? Like 15% of the total spending?
He doesn’t genuinely think that’s true. It’s all a grift.
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I mean, it’s good but “E for Everyone” is also available.
Edited with your suggestion :)
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cross it outso we know how good @ArgentRaven@lemmy.world helped ya 😉
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I had to look up what an “endomorph” is; sounds like it’s the “built like a tank” body type. So I mean, c’mon man. I know the kinda people you’re aiming for, but you hit a bunch of other people in the process. Not judging you too hard, I’ve done the same thing (and will probably continue to make the same or similar mistakes), but… Yeah.
Edit: to explain my discomfort, based on what I’ve read, “endomorph” is a body type that could be described as stocky. Not fat, not obese or stupid or a meathead, but just stocky. I’ve known people like that, and none of them were the kinda people who’d get fooled by Trump. They weren’t stupid, they were in very, very good shape, and they were kind people. The implication in the post, however, is that people who have that body type are easily grifted by Trump & Co.
(Also, fat shaming isn’t a very nice thing to do. You might think obese people are ugly or gross, but they’re still people and they still have feelings. Don’t be a dick.)
Gravy seals. Yall’qaeda
See, those would be better terms to use. It wouldn’t fit the acronym, but they’d be more precise and not imply that chunky people are easily grifted.
It was not meant to imply “that chunky people are easily grifted”, my intent was that Elon & Trump were the endomorphs, but it was obviously easily misconstrued.
Either way, your point was valid and it has been edited :)
Thanks for the constructive criticism, it has been edited for a better meaning
The funny thing is this sweep will likely be very indiscriminate so among those fired many will have voted for Trump hoping groceries will be cheaper. They will learn first hand what happens when you entrust government to psychopaths and techbros.
This dipshit thinks he can save the country 2 trillion dollars by firing government workers.
This dude has no intention of saving anyone but himself.
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Eliminate military budget
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Eliminate all social services, payroll, including ACA, social security, etc.
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Suck Putin’s dick
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Profit.
- Eliminate military budget
Hah! Good one.
Here’s another bad joke:
Elect Russian puppet, trump.
You know what the punchline is?
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“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Future headline : “Department of Government Efficiency still completely without staff as those meeting the high requirements to take the job are smart enough to have zero interest in doing the job under those conditions"
Alternate future headline: “Department of Government Efficiency plagued by yet another scandal as its 45th employee is charged with fraud for attempting to personally gain financially from fraud they were perpetrating in the government”.
How does one apply to live in such futures? Because this timeline looks like a bunch of rich douches will join the committee, use it to get richer and live happily ever after.
I’m guessing they cut government departments, then privatize them by outsourcing the work to their own companies. Sounds like a solid grift.
Spoiler
Lot’s of people are gonna apply, cause the payment is the chance for grifting
So you need to be rich enough to not need the salary, morally flexible enough to work for Elmo, and stupid enough to brag about your IQ.
…… while not understanding the percentiles they gave you on the online IQ test.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
They will be paid, just not by the government.
You thought lobbying was bad? Lol
Ok, get this. You elect politicians to “help slash federal spending”.
What the hell is Musk even doing and why is he outsourcing this job to unpaid idiots, when politicians already get paid to do this?
Okay, I’ll do a few suggestions for free:
- Stop subsidizing companies. All of them.
- Tax the rich to boost the federal income.
- Legalize all immigrants so they can be tax paying citizens.
- Crack down on employers using illegal underpaid illegal immigrants.
- Provide universal health care. Sick people don’t work.
- Cut down on police force spending.
- Cut down on car infrastructure spending.
- Cut down “defense” spending in artificial oil wars.
- Help Ukraine to defeat Russia, so Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes, so that USA can also cut down on cost for maintenance of nukes.
- Expand renewable energy. It’s free energy yo, and it creates jobs for tax paying citizens.
- Stop mining fossil fuels. It will cost more to clean that shit up than is earned.
I want YOU to be POTUS. Right now.
Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes,
Interesting. During the Cold War, that was unthinkable, mostly because there’d be nobody to counterbalance a US monopoly on nuclear arms. Things have proliferated considerably since then, so perhaps a nuclear Russia isn’t as important. If anything, they’re proving themselves to be a liability.
I just wanted to add some context for one of these bullets.
The US is upping the amount it spends on nuclear weapons maintenance and production because China has reentered the game as a major player. They’d been stable at 300-350 warheads for decades but is expected to ramp up to producing 100+ per year by 2030.
So one major adversary has just been replaced by another. Everything old is new again, including the cold war arms race.
How are they making them? Just fuel reprocessing? You can make them pretty cheap as a side effect at scale of you want to. US can’t though.
Reprocessing of old pits.
It’s more a matter of precision, purity, infrastructure, and staffing.
And you can have them effective/guaranteed to work, safe/without personnel or environmental contamination, or cheap. Pick two.
Undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion in 2023, they don’t benefit from them but imagine if all of them get to pay taxes.
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my bingo card is almost full, just missing universal basic income - people with money, spend money, supporting businesses and thus “the economy”.
Why would Russia have to disarm their nukes? That doesn’t make any sense. Getting them to surrender the occupied territory would be enough.
That would be nice, but they won’t suddenly surrender.
Russia already lost 500000-700000 men. This war only ends when Moscow is in ruins or when the nation is bankrupted.
You can’t just make a department. Sorry Leon, only maga morons believe that. The actual government and CONSTITUTION work differently than what you think…
Yeah, they would also need the other two institutions to pull this off. Oh wait, shit. Well the supreme court should be able to stop this. Oh wait, fuck.
What do you think Clarence Thomas would do for a Klondike bar? Do you think he’d support this weird, smart person recruiting bullshit? Absolutely.
Aw, that’s cute…
Man that leopards are gonna get so fat on conservative faces.
They will have to sub contract out some of their face eating.
What an idiot. Just ask daddy for a small 1 million dollar loan. Its just that easy.
This is fucking hilarious! More proof, maybe the best proof, of how much of a dumbass Muskrat is.
Nobody was smart as he thinks they should be will work for free - especially not for him and the orange idiot.
lol good luck picking candidates among highly intelligent incels and maga members
M-elon Head to run the department of slavery with un-paid workers. What an unstable ‘genius’.
These people who get so incredulous about “soft” social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it’s Newton’s 4th law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.
What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?
Fascists love the notion of a natural order, because it gives them license to hold power over people “lower in the hierarchy.” They’ll use anything and everything to establish whatever “natural order” serves their purpose at any given moment, and IQ works quite nicely in a lot of situations.
It’s so fucking cringe…
Ah, this will be the Department of Dunning-Kruger. The workers are idiots who think they are supergeniuses. Led by an idiot who thinks he’s a supergenius.
During Trump’s first term, this was just a metaphor, suggested by random comedians. Now, life will imitate art to its full extent.
IS use to mean Information System. It now means Intellectual Slavery.
So, slavery will soon be making a comeback in 2025.
it never went anywhere
Good point.
So a golf club?
