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 😉
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.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, it has been edited for a better meaning
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 :)
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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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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.
feels like im playing plague inc. and these are all joke news
Please, someone uninstall this version of the game!
Drinking asbestos paste lets you escape the simulation
And it’s delicious
The government doesn’t want you to know this
They want it all for themselves
So… if I apply for a super high IQ job that’s unpaid, does that prove I’m under qualified?
Yeah the real intelligence test is whether or not you apply, and if you do, you’ve already failed.
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.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
…… while not understanding the percentiles they gave you on the online IQ test.
They will be paid, just not by the government.
You thought lobbying was bad? Lol
So a billionaire wants people to work 80 hour weeks for nothing. People tell him to fuck right off. As in, find a cliff and keep walking.
I don’t think these positions will remain empty. Corporations will send a few lobbyists to check if the cost/power ratio is beneficial and if so, just flood the department.
I hadn’t thought of that, but this is 100% exactly what will happen. BP oil will surely pay someone VERY handsomely to ‘volunteer’ 80 hours a week toward eliminating all oversight of drilling rigs in the gulf.
My first thought was spies… because they are already on someone else’s payroll.
Also, bootlickers and extremely desperate people that would take on any job.People “desperate for any job” are actually desperate for money and willing to work for it. They won’t take an unpaid position, what are you thinking?
Smart people don’t work for the bad guys for free Jack.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Can this department kick it off by eliminating itself, since it’s a wish.com version of https://www.gao.gov/
It’s really great that his government efficiency department is in fact duplicative. An excellent microcosm
Now all that’s left is for the GAO to audit DOGE and discover fraud.
Like when the FBI investigated Trump and found corruption and therefore he was removed from ever running in our elections?
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
I think it’d be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
Fuck. I can’t out-stupid this guy. I won’t win.
Just to make sure I understand. Musk is going to run an orgination who will advise the federal government to cut regulations that are in the way of him making more money. And this is in no way a conflict of interest.
That’s specifically why it won’t be a government agency. So they won’t be bound by any ethics rules. Make no mistake, this is not a silly one-off. This is the first step of privatizing the government.
This message was brought to you by Brando. Water’s stupid.
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.
Good grief. It’s like he asked ChatGPT “how do I hire people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect?”
Dear meme-lords: I need something with much more facepalm than the Picard one. A “super facepalm” if you will. Thank you.
Perfection.
You need super high IQ people to create memes like that
Clearly. I’m also prepared to pay the handsome sum of $0. Where is my cabinet position?
That was my reaction almost exactly. It’s like Dunning-Kruger the job description.
At least they’re too cheap and lazy to properly push their fascist takeover.
It’s just gonna be rich failsons who are loving off their trust funds. It’s gonna be bad
yes they tried that in Turkey, president’s highly incompetent son in law was made minister of Finance. At the start (2018) of this I think pounds/Turkish lira was sth like 4. He stayed for two years and it ended with maybe something like 10-12. As of now it is around 50 (people after him weren’t that great either). Since nowadays production of almost anything in Turkey is tied to imports, prices of daily consumption goods as well as rent, housing etc went up by that amount too (salary increases not even comparable). good luck USA
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
100% Musk’s idea. Because he doesn’t think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.
Co leader Vivek Ramswamy is the founder of DOGE coin.
TIL. I always assumed doge coin was his thing since he seemed to promote so much. Either way, these guys are insufferable nerds.
Edit: I just read he actually referred to himself as the “Dogefather.” Fucking cringe.
Trumps staff already beat you by prefacing that only super high-IQ people understand the humor
Also, fuck that guy.
Edit: and by ‘that guy’ I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.
Ew, I’d rather not fuck Elon. He’s not my type.
Yeah, no one should actually be fucking Elon
No X in name, so not Leons idea.
The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.
