Not to mention that no one talks about the possibility that making government slow and trudging might actually be a FEATURE that yields a more stable process.
Efficiency could mean America could be upended in a year or two by some lunatic.
(For those who don't know me, I am sadly not kidding. Elon is literally the worst manager I've ever had and the least of it is that he stuck me with well into five figures of legal bills he was supposed to pay for.)
I just finished Character Limit, and it's striking how much it allows you an insight into various people's character just by reporting the facts of what happened and what was said.
But one of the few bright points in the story is I would see people I'd known from the past who had been good people then trying really hard to make sure bad things didn't happen, and they were still the same!
What’s the over/under on not giving employees off MLK day but giving everyone off April 20th and releasing like 3 separate winky press releases about it
On the bright side, he's apparently picking fights with Putin's direct proxies. That's pretty on-brand for Elon. It's also a win/win, beats them cooperating which they TRIED to do and won an election doing. Villains seem to have the most trouble working nicely with each other, somehow.
I wish he kept living in a way to keep us all ignorant to how pathetic and awful he is. That thai cave rescue situation where he got butthurt for being told his submarine idea was not feasible and so he called the actual expert diver a p3do was when i realized he's a fragile self obsessed loser
One small thing that gives me solace in these trying times is my strong belief that Musk knows it. I like to tell myself that unlike most of these awful people Musk is cursed with self awareness and it’s constantly eating at him.
Felon45 & Co will invent a "Department of Definitely Federal Important Official Whatevz" soon I`m afraid, they are turning the clown cabinet from hell into a Monty Python skit, minus humour that is. Just a thought.
It’s certainly possible. His big assets seem cross collateralized in a potentially catastrophic way. And the valuations are mostly all based on the illusion of his magical genius. But of course who knows what he has stashed away and where in the event of collapse.
Elon Musk is a perfect example of a person who got labeled smart in the third grade and no one questioned that and they have been using money to bolster that opinion.
Sadly Musk is a loser with the biggest bully pulpit in the world, the most money in the world, the most defense contracts in the world, and maybe even the biggest ego in the world.
Dangerous combo for a man with a Napoleon Complex.
I'm startled that there hasn't been a mass online effort here and in the EU and Brazil, to boycott each and every single one of Musk's products.
Starting with X, Grok, Tesla and major pushes to defund his government contracts....considering Musk is all about cutting our programs.
Oh I can in no way picture Muskie having a shred of creativity at any point in his life. I would entertain the notion that he stole the drawing a classmate in some fashion though
Every time I see the name “department of government efficiency” I laugh at how much of a fucking loser Elon is that he’s less inventive than a Harry Potter book… then I get annoyed
Hot take: Coons is damning Elon with faint praise. Remember that Musk is promising $2,000,000,000,000 in savings. If "DOGE" delivers $10,000,000,000 in savings then he's off by a several orders of magnitude.
I choose to interpret "tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars" to mean anywhere in the range between tens of dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Poor thing he needed friends. He had to buy himself into what he thinks is the cool club. They gave him the title of an agency. That's not even a real thing. That he has to share with another, wanna be hack. They're basically just glorified lobbyist.
its the department of weirdo dorks. unelected bureaucrats in non-existent departments ranting about unelected bureucrats in actually existing departments. beyond parody.
SAME, but also I get annoyed by people calling it the DEPT of Gov Efficiency and playing along with their marketing scheme for their crypto plans. Technically it's the OFFICE of Gov Efficiency (at least for now presidents can't set up a department) and I'd rather see folks insist on calling it OOGE
People see/saw him as a big inovator but the truth is that he never created something on his own. He just took over someone elses work and portrayed it as his own.
Efficient: adjective
performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry
My favourite thing is that since DOGE has no funding, and therefore no way to pay its best and brightest, it will most likely recruit from the 'basement incel' segment of the job market.
the only thing he did when making "twitter" more efficient was to cut most of the staff so he could corrupt it without question - it was a plan all along
You are incorrectly interchanging dork with nerd. Nerds are kind but awkward. Dorks are weird and aggressively off putting - he is most definitely a dork.
It was growing by 100k a day.
It seems to have stabilised.
If Мøśćøш Мùśк is half as 'successful'
With the American govt. as he has been with
хŢшıţţęя, it truly will be a Brave New World.
He's fat and so white, he's practically transparent. With his hair transplant and ugly face, he truly is a fucking loser.
His family has a lot of baggage in South Africa; lots of baggage.
We are! One that was funny 15 years ago and is beyond stale, but some guy keeps insisting we laugh at it, because he loves it, and his humor hasn't evolved, and he has like all the money.
He hasn’t lost yet but there has to be a way to bring his bottom to him. I believe karma is going to spin around on him like a rattlesnake that’s eager to strike. Mark my words.
It’s so pathetic. It’s like when a parent gives their kid the “extra special, super important” job of opening the cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving. I don’t know how long he’ll be in Trump’s kitchen, but like every other fresh pick, it’s not gonna last.
In middle school student government a few of my buddies ran as members of the “Pizza Party” and gave speeches where they walked onstage to the Star Wars Imperial March. Same energy.
He is the biggest dork in the world. He is that guy who yells out riffs during anime club and, when nobody laughs, yells them louder. I'd call him Justin Hammer but that's an insult to Sam Rockwell.
When I first heard about this absurd fake department, I imagined Elon and Vivek as toddlers in a playpen, throwing out the toys to see if they can break them, and laughing uproariously.
The things they'll be breaking are our 250 year old treasures.
I see Al Gore on 60 Minutes explaining why they weren’t going to do what they proposed as part of “Reinventing Government.” And he was a second generation U.S. Senator not anchored to Vivek Ramaswamy
I laugh, because doge.
And because it isn’t a real department and doesn’t have an office or a budget and he wants people to work for free. How efficient can that be?
“Bring your own computers. Make sure the batteries are fully charged.”
I just read a book on aging written by a Nobel laureate in chemistry and the narrative bumps into Elon Musk a few times and the author all but calls him out as a complete, and I do mean complete, idiot.
My head is exploding listening to NPR this am. Half the country voted to dismiss expertise, experience, education, science. And most are so low info they don’t even know or care.
He could have kept up the Iron Man con if his ego wasn't a stack of fragile eggshells. All it took was some kids trapped in a Thai cave and he pulled the curtain on himself.
I'm wondering just what it will end up being legally speaking, as you can't just declare new government departments out of thin air, Trump not knowing how the fuck the government works kept on tripping him up during his first term. It'd be much worse if Trump just appointed Elon head of the OMB.
It really should be named "The Dept. Of Government Efficiency Dept.," since there's already a department that does the jobs Elmo and Swammy want to perform. It's called the General Accountability Office.
as someone who was a cringe redditor myself when I was 13, it’s just deeply embarrassing to see that unique brand of circa 2009 foolishness still exist in exactly one human being who just happens to be the richest on earth
The “Department of Government Efficiency” sounds like it’s plucked straight from a dystopian novel. And I refuse to call it by its acronym, because Doge was a wonderful creature who brought so much joy to people just by existing. I won’t tarnish his memory with the current crap.
especially since it doesn't exist............. it is "the concept" of a something but still has to go through congress first to be created and made legitimate
I’m sure right now he’s gleefully planning how he’s going to wreck the lives of millions of vulnerable people in the most mind bending stupid ways. He’s genuinely one of the absolute worst people.
But he's a lucky loser and we (via the mass media) only notice the lottery winners. Even though the numbers of losers are MUCH larger. And their total losses are also larger than the winner's profits--because someone is running the lottery and the bank always takes its cut off the top.
The irony of Musk just following in Al Gore’s footsteps, creating a pasteboard version of Gore’s 1994 “Reinventing Government” initiative, about which Gore was dinged for having claimed to have invented the Internet.
Somehow --don't ask me how--I was unaware of him until around 2018, right around when he started getting political. So I never was cognizant of the "Elon Musk, genius" milieu. I just knew him as someone who seemed kind of...stupid.
He has since proven to be not only evil, but STAGGERINGLY stupid.
Apparently he is co-President and First Lady 😂 Him and Donald are going through the 7 DAY Itch. Donnie is stuck with him now😂 They are going to implode soon.
The only thing Elon is efficient at is the speed with which he can destroy everything he's allowed to touch. The man is an abject, utterly incompetent moron who has absolutely no idea how anything works.
I appreciate your view about him, a LOT, he is a horrifying monster of a person but he is not a loser in that he is the wealthiest human being on Earth. Unfortunately he is winning in the biggest way while being a completely disgusting human. #fuckelon
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Efficiency could mean America could be upended in a year or two by some lunatic.
The two concepts are polar opposites in nearly every metric.
There’s some history that fortunes can be lost. There’s other that suggests his heirs heirs heirs heirs will be wealthy.
It’s certainly possible. His big assets seem cross collateralized in a potentially catastrophic way. And the valuations are mostly all based on the illusion of his magical genius. But of course who knows what he has stashed away and where in the event of collapse.
Dangerous combo for a man with a Napoleon Complex.
Dodgy
Just like everything elmo does
Starting with X, Grok, Tesla and major pushes to defund his government contracts....considering Musk is all about cutting our programs.
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lbb6fkljl22b
I still think he's being optimistic.
performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry
Power & influence come to mind
He is just such a fucking dork
He's much worse. He's an insufferable dipshit.
It seems to have stabilised.
If Мøśćøш Мùśк is half as 'successful'
With the American govt. as he has been with
хŢшıţţęя, it truly will be a Brave New World.
His family has a lot of baggage in South Africa; lots of baggage.
The things they'll be breaking are our 250 year old treasures.
I feel like for now the Cyber truck is still god tier level annoying.
God damn I hate Musk so much. We have a toddler who is much more dangerous than Trump because he isn't completely incompetent wielding real power now.
And because it isn’t a real department and doesn’t have an office or a budget and he wants people to work for free. How efficient can that be?
“Bring your own computers. Make sure the batteries are fully charged.”
This is why it is always “the economy stupid”
That Maga complained about! They voted for it!
Picture Vivek & Elmo pushing around a housekeeping cart as they empty the trashcans out of white house offices.
The Tesla models are S, 3, X, and Y.
He has since proven to be not only evil, but STAGGERINGLY stupid.
In other words, he fits right in with the GOP.
Though, lately, I’m also annoyed by how much of a fucking loser Vivek Ramaswamy is.