Extremely unclear now what DOGE is supposed to be doing. Not cutting spending or eliminating departments and regulations as Ramaswamy wanted. It sounds like it will be overhauling IT systems and going to Mars www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... - ThreadSky

johnmcquaid.bsky.social • 46 days ago

Extremely unclear now what DOGE is supposed to be doing. Not cutting spending or eliminating departments and regulations as Ramaswamy wanted. It sounds like it will be overhauling IT systems and going to Mars
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/21/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge/

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400trix.bsky.social•46 days ago

If they want to upgrade IT they’re about to find out the meaning of bug compatibility.

eric623.bsky.social•46 days ago

any Democrat that vouched for this shit needs to be kicked in the nuts

sunflowerdbadger.bsky.social•46 days ago

So, like the first thing kinda makes sense. You probably could make everyone's lives easier by updating shit like databases. But that's gonna cost money 💰 🤑 💸 not save it. The Mars stuff is just incomprehensible. Are these people even talking to each other?

newyorka.bsky.social•46 days ago

Would be lovely if Musk and Trump went to Mars.

galaxysantaiii.bsky.social•46 days ago

This the same bastard that said we're going to Mars in 5 years ten years ago

davidkuhne.bsky.social•46 days ago

Shows how messed up things are getting already when Vivek Ramaswamy comes off as the good guy in this debacle

blandphilosophy.bsky.social•46 days ago

Basically the entire US will be Elon's personal vehicle to get to Mars

wadewarrens.bsky.social•46 days ago

Elon’s not really a software guy, so his insight into IT is likely to be unimpressive.

toaster.codes•46 days ago

Eh, the only thing he actually made rather than bought was software. He’s just not an anything guy.

rini1983.bsky.social•46 days ago

Well, yay Mars, I guess? But didn't we all see The Net? Giving billionaires access to mess with critical IT infrastructure doesn't end well.

bpaige.bsky.social•46 days ago

There is no doge

hunterje.bsky.social•46 days ago

What does the DOGE do, you ask?

hunterje.bsky.social•46 days ago

(The key difference being when the Danny Kaye character makes up his total bullshit answer it's charming and witty and fun is had by all)

redpanda10.bsky.social•46 days ago

“It still has potential to be a very real thing.” Wow does that inspire confidence, 2 months after this “agency” was announced

mercuriusgeorge.bsky.social•46 days ago

when he says we're gonna take DOGE to mars it's truly unclear if he means this crazy office, the crypto coin, or some unidentified dog

stevetownsend0.bsky.social•46 days ago

It's a shitdept, the governmental analog of the eponymous shitcoin

virginiaopossum.bsky.social•45 days ago

TL;DR: Ramaswamy wanted to work within the law; Musk doesn't. Guess who won?

boloboffin.bsky.social•46 days ago

"overhauling tech systems so that Musk has backdoors into every federal computer that exists"

leolouie.bsky.social•46 days ago

That DOGE couldn’t find waste is all you need to see to understand government is running as efficiently as it needs to.

We have a revenue problem

#TaxTheOligarchs

aewriter.bsky.social•46 days ago

And pounding out the crypto grifting schemes, I reckon…

handofthekingz.bsky.social•46 days ago

Access to every computer in the government. The ultimate insider information.

jennburrill.bsky.social•46 days ago

Cause going to Mars is cheaper and more efficient than governing?

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•46 days ago

Make COBOL great again.

hughcolbert.bsky.social•46 days ago

How about they go to hell?

americaninlisbon.bsky.social•46 days ago

It's unclear to me if any of those morons understand how the government works. As an agency, it needs to be created and funded by Congress. As a private contractor, it needs a contract funded by Congress to get paid. This entire thing is confusing the shite out of me.

coloradocarly.bsky.social•46 days ago

It also should go out for competitive bids if it's IT work, and there must be clearance requirements. Baffling.

endtimesjen.bsky.social•46 days ago

Musk and Scump aren't just pure evil they are literally batshit.

han-shan.bsky.social•46 days ago

Elon should definitely go to Mars, as soon as possible. One way fare. See "The Marching Morons"

dandwig.bsky.social•46 days ago

He's to scared to go up in his own rockets, he's never going to Mars.

freeformz.me•46 days ago

Seems like Elmo’s M.O. though?

dave.am•46 days ago

Cool. Looking forward to federally supplied and mandated voting machines.

coloradocarly.bsky.social•46 days ago

I thought they hired a staff of 350 or some absurd number.

organizingpower.bsky.social•46 days ago

Fact check: no one is “going to Mars” in the next 4 years

fwphys.com•46 days ago

Well countries nuke each other hard enough some debris might go to mars

fwphys.com•46 days ago

^if

lordofthegeeks.bsky.social•46 days ago

Although I believe they are foolish enough to try, and likely kill some people in the process

catharsis23.bsky.social•46 days ago

Upgrading IT systems? It is really a smash and grab looting lol

sobesafc.bsky.social•46 days ago

On behalf of my disabled son, I obtained a Medicaid waiver in 2016, and then SSI during the pandemic

Nobody I could email. Unscheduled phone calls, physical signatures, fax machines, and the USPS

So outdated IT systems are a real problem

But if we're honest, DOGE is just a grift machine

decitect.bsky.social•46 days ago

There for the corporate welfare… that’s what the bribes and Twitter algorithm tweaking was for.

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