And let me add to the many voices that I'm sure are referencing 'The Department of Redundancy Department' (courtesy The Firesign Theater). We knew it would come to this eventually.
Just, tossing a number out there. Like… 99 is just under 100, right? Yeah. That sounds good. Next he’s going to decide which ones to do away with based on what he assumes their names imply
They are not eliminating agencies - they will be selling it off and distribute it to themselves and their loyal cronies. They are establishing a Russian-style mob family rule.
What's with the magic #99?
Truth is I don't want to know what this crazy man has in mind. What he spits out and makes the news is plenty of lunatic crap
One of the features of France's Ancien regime was wealthy people being able to buy government/court positions. The regime which is still going, I think? I haven't checked France recently
Is he fond of that wonderful classic...99 bottles of beer on the wall? A country of 330 plus people not automations. This guy is a dangerous lunatic that has NO business near American Public Policies or Administration Depts. He is vying to be emporor of the Galactic Federation of Brogarchs. #FTG
Heres what will happen with musk.
Hes like a little obsessed kid and when he gets it in his mind and trump tries to change his mind it wont happen,then they will absolutely clash.
A tale of 2 immature, attention seeking, self-described know-it-alls, both thinking THEY KNOW BEST
At least there's THAT to look forward 2
I don't see Leon surviving UNLESS 45's been directed (ahum, I mean threatened) to keep him on
This idea that you can just throw out government agencies like it's a ticklist is nonsense. There are a lot of government agencies because the world is complicated and there is a lot of regulation to do. Having these regulations is a good thing! Don't believe this small government crap from Musk!
In some ways he's correct (unfortunately). Did you guys know that there's a "Foreign Agricultural Service", which is the intelligence service of the fucking "Department of Agriculture"?
Yeah, that's right. The Department of Agriculture has their own "CIA"
from the looks of its Wikipedia page, FAS's job is - in the simplest of terms - to make sure we don't get fucked over in the international agriculture trade.
Why does an immigrant who I heard (someone please verify this with facts) worked in US illegally at some point get to run US GOV efficiently dept overseeing his own contracts? Help someone help me to understand.
The best people to understand how to change government are those who never worked in government. History does repeat itself. Look at how Marvin Runyon screwed up the Postal Service so much that they had to bring in Bill Henderson to quietly clean up the mess and move the mail.
Ah yes, creating bureaucracy to destroy bureaucracy. Pure genius from the man where every company he's involved are inefficient and unfocused... because of him. Often running in spite of him
He's probably just going to shut down everything and particularly stuff in his way for his companies or views
Also half the reason you don't hear about most agencies is because they do their job and no one really needs to worry about it.
No one thinks about water quality until there's some toxic leak and the water supply's testing agency in question issues a warning to the public and deals the punishment.
This is how he went about "improving" twitter which broke most things... Cutting out a whole bunch of "useless code" and firing people based on how many lines of code they wrote. Man only has one trick and it literally never works, and he's the among the most powerful in America now
It’s clear Musk wants to apply the same business theories he used for Twitter on the US Government. And the GOP just wants to roast marshmallows on the ensuing flames.
An actual slice and dice budget exercise would require that Congress actually do real budgeting with budget bills and such. Instead of the GOP method waiting until the last minute, staging a shut down, then doing 1% across the board cuts or whatever.
Making cuts to airport security and airline oversight might not be so easy. I know a lot of countries who wouldn't be too fond of the idea of unregulated passengers and planes entering their air space.
"There are around 206 bones in the human body. There's so many that people have never even heard of. I think we should be able to get away with 99 bones."
He has money in all parts of our government. It’s easy for him to inject himself everywhere. He doesn’t like this country. He comes a racist area of South Africa.
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Elon is such a moron. And apparently a Russian informant now, too
I'm sorry for defending him for so long
Bureau of Industry and Security
Truth is I don't want to know what this crazy man has in mind. What he spits out and makes the news is plenty of lunatic crap
Hes like a little obsessed kid and when he gets it in his mind and trump tries to change his mind it wont happen,then they will absolutely clash.
At least there's THAT to look forward 2
I don't see Leon surviving UNLESS 45's been directed (ahum, I mean threatened) to keep him on
Gonna try and get Kendrick to post about how cool X: The Everything App is.
Yeah, that's right. The Department of Agriculture has their own "CIA"
I feel like that's why he's doing it.
The only dorkier thing he could have said was if he thought there should be 42.
We should rank them on benefit to society.
And the billionaires themselves cannot participate in any way in the selection process, due to clear conflicts of interest.
He's probably just going to shut down everything and particularly stuff in his way for his companies or views
No one thinks about water quality until there's some toxic leak and the water supply's testing agency in question issues a warning to the public and deals the punishment.
It’s clear Musk wants to apply the same business theories he used for Twitter on the US Government. And the GOP just wants to roast marshmallows on the ensuing flames.
I went through that once with Al Gore's "reinventing government" when I was actually in the government.
They are going to change a bunch of org charts, put people in charge of stuff they know nothing about, and call it a day.
They are not serious people.
“Let’s let everyone carry everything on airplanes and see what happens.”
bbbbzzzzttttt …he flies off in his private plane.
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Someone on X is going to tell him to narrow it down to 69 and he’ll decide that is the goal because why the fuck not, everything is stupid
"I got 99 Departments and Women's Rights Ain't One. Hit Me!"
We’re fucked. We’re so fucked. We can’t even do anything about it. Fuckfuckfuck.
Okay. Back to work.