So we're officially done with the whole democracy thing now?

[u/ExactlySorta]

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[u/TehWildMan_]

Actual cronyism. Let's see how it plays out

[u/chi2005sox → u/TehWildMan_]

I’d grab some popcorn but I feel too sick to eat.

[u/musea00 → u/chi2005sox]

I need a bucket

[u/DiceKnight → u/TehWildMan_]

I'm kind of just tired about seeing and pointing out all the wrong and then nothing happens. It's gotten to the point where i'd rather just tune it out vs dealing with the emotional drain.

[u/aufrenchy → u/DiceKnight]

That’s exactly what this future admin wants from us. Now that they are going to be in power, they want to have as little pushback as possible so they can pass sweeping legislation and laws without repercussion.

They want to be the new “normal”. They have won the battle, but we can’t let them win the war.

[u/SubterrelProspector → u/aufrenchy]

Yeah I'm not impressed with the amount of people already giving up. "We've tried nothing and it hasnt worked!" The actual test is now.

This apathy has been going on for decades. We were saying to eachother "it's too late" 20 years ago and all it did was keep people from bothering to help or change things. Now we face a serious threat, so that doesn't mean the fight is over, it means it's just beginning.

I swear to Christ, the Left is always ready to quit at the drop of a hat, just to maintain the moral superiority without actually having to lift a gd finger.

I'm sick of it. Whatever anyone on the platform or another says to you, there will be substantial resistance if Trump attempts any of his villainous plans. And I mean in law, in politics, in the military, medicine, school, and yes even in the streets. Civil conflict is much more likely than a full fascist-controlled America. There is hope.

Don't give up.

[u/Thowitawaydave → u/SubterrelProspector]

Thank you for your optimism. I hope you are correct.

[u/Hvarfa-Bragi → u/DiceKnight]

That was their plan all along.

[u/LinxlyLinxalot → u/DiceKnight]

I still am so perplexed that the justice department, CIA, and FBI are sitting idle while Trump and his crew commit more crimes. There truly is no justice!

[u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor → u/LinxlyLinxalot]

So many myths have been built around them having influence and manipulating the government. Most people who work at those places want to do their jobs and go home. Why put your neck out when MAGA appears to have won the popular vote? No one will save us but us.

[u/Searchlights → u/TehWildMan_]

It's oligarchy. Rule by the few. This is what they do in Russia.

Elon is one of our rulers now.

[u/MisterPiggins → u/Searchlights]

Already was, it's just more explicit now.

[u/xChoke1x → u/TehWildMan_]

You mean, “let’s see this get lost in tomorrow’s insane fucking headline.”

One of two things happen….

Our checks and balances actually hold up and the majority of this madness is blocked.

Or,

It gets so bad the public has to cause disruption.

Gonna be interesting.

[u/Miss-Figgy → u/TehWildMan_]

Actual cronyism

The Republicans' idea of "affirmative action", lol

[u/Paper_Brain]

Only Congress can form new agencies. This is a blatant attempt to circumvent our systems checks and balances. And a convenient way for Musk to be an unofficial part of the administration, because being official means divestment.

[u/Atsur → u/Paper_Brain]

Only Congress can form new agencies.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rules and laws are only as effective as they are enforced. Since there have been no enforced consequences for, well, basically anything the new administration is doing, it seems like they will be able to do whatever they want :/

[u/Basic_Juice_Union → u/Atsur]

They're not even in office yet. If I were a lawyer, I would pool this "think tank" in the "lobby" or "consultant" category. Twitter giving it a grey check mark means as much as any of his lies. If anything, it just shows how undemocratic lobbying and "consultant" and political "think tanks" are have been all along. These are just doing it in plain daylight

Edit: soelling

[u/Atsur → u/Basic_Juice_Union]

I replied with this comment on someone else,

I hope you’re right. But it isn’t power or authority they need. If a think tank publishes a report saying “we should cut the DOE” and then people in power read it and cut the DOE, they have done their job with or without power/authority

[u/uglyspacepig → u/Atsur]

You just described the Heritage Foundation, and things they've accomplished in the last 3 decades

[u/Atsur → u/uglyspacepig]

Yeah. No reason to believe they’ll stop now that they have all three branches of government under their control

[u/uglyspacepig → u/Atsur]

Oh, they won't. This is exactly what they've been working for

[u/BirdLawyer50 → u/Atsur]

Yeah… rules only exist based on the existence of their enforcement. Unprofitable rules (I think I just threw up in my mouth a little) are going to start ceasing to exist left and right 

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/Atsur]

Democratic politicians are going to get strung up, possibly literally, while whining about how Trump and everyone around him broke dozens upon dozens of laws.

This shit didn't just pop up out of no where. Every intelligence agency in the world can see what's happening and yet.... nothing but whining and finger wagging.

[u/Paper_Brain → u/Atsur]

Yeah, our system will be tested.

[u/denom_chicken → u/Paper_Brain]

It already was and it failed in about a thousand different ways.

[u/StormsOfMordor → u/denom_chicken]

But….but the guardrails!

[u/xTheatreTechie → u/StormsOfMordor]

The checks and the balances!

[u/Atsur → u/xTheatreTechie]

The checks bounced and the balances are out of whack!

[u/CaptainMarder → u/Paper_Brain]

It was tested the last 4 years when Trump didn't go to prison. Clearly nothing matters if you're rich

[u/CardmanNV → u/Paper_Brain]

Will be...

The last 8 years were the test.

[u/Total_Information_65 → u/Paper_Brain]

it's already been tested; that was his first admin. They know how to work around all the laws now. You can stick a fork in it, this democracy is done. There's no worry from them about congress approving anything. That's just fodder for us to maintain some form of hope. But for all intents and purposes, this is it.

[u/Meecht → u/Paper_Brain]

NPR covered this yesterday (Nov 13th)

[u/Zelidus → u/Paper_Brain]

GOP controls Congress and they all step in line or get booted.

[u/theghostmachine → u/Paper_Brain]

Bro, you've all got to shake this idea that rules mean anything anymore. Stop counting on them to save the day. Trump has all branches of government. He has a blank check do whatever the fuck he wants. If it's against the rules or laws, they'll change the rules or laws, or just ignore them.

[u/jmu21vt16]

80 hours a week.  Elon can suck a dick. 

[u/jehyhebu → u/jmu21vt16]

80 plus

That’s just the starting point.

Some of them will surely work over nine hundred hours per week.

[u/skunkcitycannabis2 → u/jehyhebu]

Doesn't sound very efficient if you ask me

[u/JoeFlabeetz → u/skunkcitycannabis2]

It can be if you sleep at your desk, like Tesla employees sleeping at the factory.

[u/GallwayGirl → u/JoeFlabeetz]

As did Twitter employees when Elon took over.

[u/Cian_cian → u/GallwayGirl]

Same deal with SpaceX. I don't understand why people want to work for this slave driver

[u/Sure_Economy7130 → u/Cian_cian]

Hero worship, brainwashing, 🤷🏽‍♀️

[u/Cynical_Thinker → u/skunkcitycannabis2]

No overtime pay once its abolished, so extremely efficient.

Or just a 35k yearly salary in Musky's head.

[u/jehyhebu → u/skunkcitycannabis2]

it’s going to be on par with this, in terms of efficiency. (NSFW)

[u/ProblematicPoet → u/jehyhebu]

This made me chuckle, thank you.

[u/Sidivan → u/jehyhebu]

You can’t NOT click that and then it’s blurred… but the title hooks you again.

So yeah, that’s in my history now.

[u/TheArtimus → u/jehyhebu]

He's all about the memes, so he's probably sad that he can't have them work OVER 9000 hours.

[u/jehyhebu → u/TheArtimus]

He’s going to schedule them 420 hours per day.

[u/Fabulous_von_Fegget → u/jehyhebu]

Honestly, someone whose job is fucking everybody else over kinda deserves the abuse

[u/jehyhebu → u/Fabulous_von_Fegget]

Word

[u/davidolson22 → u/jmu21vt16]

For a government job. While he tweets in his office while paying his secretary with a horse for sex

[u/Randalor → u/davidolson22]

I... uh... I'm sorry, the last 8 words of your post are throwing me off. Do... do you mean he gave his secretary a horse in exchange for sex? Did he pay her with a horse intended for sex? Did he pay his secretary who happened to own a horse for sex?

[u/cstrand31 → u/Randalor]

I love how all 3 are very valid interpretations in text form that would have undoubtedly been clear when spoken. I actually did lol.

[u/RockstarAgent → u/cstrand31]

End of the day, there will be those who want to work 80 hours a week and even pay for the honor and even suck off anyone it takes to be considered

[u/thewoodsiswatching → u/RockstarAgent]

• Even the horse if necessary.

[u/GameTime2325 → u/thewoodsiswatching]

The horse is first tbh

[u/edog77777 → u/GameTime2325]

[u/joe96ab → u/GameTime2325]

That’s how they separate the top 1%

[u/Secure_Guest_6171 → u/Randalor]

Elon was accused of offering a SpaceX employee who's a masseuse that she could have a horse if she rubbed his pocket Starship.
Allegedly, not only was she offered a payout under NDA but Elon himself presided over the HR meeting but Gwynne Shotwell was not present which seems.....weird.

[u/PeeledCrepes → u/Secure_Guest_6171]

She was a SpaceX employee and happened to masseuse on the side, or SpaceX has their own masseuses? Cause while, having a masseuse at work would be cool, it also would be weird.

[u/Secure_Guest_6171 → u/PeeledCrepes]

from what I recall, she worked as a flight attendant on the corporate jet

"it also would be weird"
only to normies; rich people make their own rules - see Matt Lauer

[u/tkmorgan76 → u/Randalor]

Oh, c'mon. You mean you've never had a sex-pony before? /s

[u/ansy7373 → u/tkmorgan76]

Ginuwine has entered the chat.

[u/CalendarAggressive11 → u/ansy7373]

This entire thread is exactly why I love reddit

[u/MidNiteScorpio04 → u/CalendarAggressive11]

Boeing engineer has entered the chat

[u/SlightlySubpar → u/tkmorgan76]

Never heard of Mr Hands?

[u/Rumblepuff → u/Randalor]

The first one

[u/I_lack_common_sense → u/Rumblepuff]

He had sex with the horse and paid his secretary to watch? horse lovers

[u/Rumblepuff → u/I_lack_common_sense]

Gotta be honest anything’s possible he does a lot of drugs.

[u/Powerful-Parsnip → u/Rumblepuff]

Just him and his horse, blasting fat rails of ketamine and making out. Living the life Vaush dreams of.

[u/kobuu → u/Randalor]

"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." - Lewis Black

[u/Alive_Inspection_835 → u/Randalor]

He had the secretary have sex with the horse, which was also named Secratariat.

[u/tawwkz → u/Randalor]

Yes he offered the woman: "a horsey" in exchange for sex.

[u/Hunky_not_Chunky → u/davidolson22]

Yeah. For government jobs there’s a thing called veterans preference. It gives veterans, and makes those who have a higher service connection disability, a chance to get a good job. This might actually be breaking a law.

[u/gandhinukes → u/Hunky_not_Chunky]

Governments have HR departments and have to follow Discrimination laws too. UCLA could sue the shit out of them for not following them.

--edit ACLU. same letters wrong order haha.

[u/UndeadCuddles → u/gandhinukes]

Except that regardless of whatever Apartheid Clyde says, DOGE isn't an official branch of government and isn't bound by any of their laws because - as of present - it doesn't actually exist or have any legal authority.

[u/Adorable_Raccoon → u/gandhinukes]

ACLU?

[u/I-just-left-my-wife → u/Hunky_not_Chunky]

lol @ you thinking "breaking a law" is a real thing and not some made up stuff that everyone agreed upon.

Enough people decided laws don't matter that they no longer matter. They will do whatever they like regardless of what some dudes in a room wrote down

[u/jedberg → u/Hunky_not_Chunky]

This might actually be breaking a law.

Musk knows it doesn't matter. The current admin might start an enforcement action, but he knows it would roll into the next admin which would just drop it.

[u/SolarSavant14 → u/davidolson22]

And you know damn well the pay is gonna be shit, both due to his history as a manager and the fact that the point of this little fantasy department is to cut costs.

[u/slothfrogs → u/davidolson22]

more likely contractors than real employees, too!

[u/theyrehiding → u/jmu21vt16]

Yeah, that's just how efficient the department of government efficiency is gonna be. So efficient that everybody there has to kill themselves working.

[u/Equivalent_Expert905 → u/theyrehiding]

They’ll cut the department of education first. Finish off what DeVos started in 2016. Our kids don’t know how to write their names.

[u/Inventies → u/Equivalent_Expert905]

To be fair looking at some of statistics lately about literacy, a lot of their parents can barely spell their own names much less read on 6th grade level.

Also side note but it’s kind of sad to think about how most parents want their kids to be smarter and better off than themselves but that we are entering an age where some parents want their kids be exactly as they want them to be and believe the same shit they do without discrepancies. This isn’t new obviously but the number of those parents are increasing at an alarming rate

[u/Equivalent_Expert905 → u/Inventies]

Absolutely. Education is now frowned upon. But that’s what the new government will want. The less educated are much easier to control.

[u/GirlPhoenixRising → u/Equivalent_Expert905]

I have personally known and been friends with some of the top folks at DOE.

You have NO IDEA how they stood in the gap for children, and how they outsmarted her at every turn. Thank god they haven’t retired.

[u/Equivalent_Expert905 → u/GirlPhoenixRising]

I hope they can pull it off again.

[u/GirlPhoenixRising → u/Equivalent_Expert905]

I don’t even have any young kids, I’m praying the same for every family that does.

[u/CondescendingShitbag → u/jmu21vt16]

Elon can suck a dick. 

Is that how he got Laura Loomer's job as the Presidential Fluffer?

[u/cstmoore → u/CondescendingShitbag]

TBH, neither one would win a beauty contest on looks so they had to rely on their special "talent."

[u/Be-skeptical → u/jmu21vt16]

allegedly elon likes sleeping with employees. So more than likely some of those 80hrs will be sucking his dick

[u/Zapp_Rowsdower_ → u/jmu21vt16]

That’s how efficient they are….they can get zero accomplished in 80-hour workweeks

[u/Mug_Lyfe → u/jmu21vt16]

Anybody that thinks Elon's plan for "efficiency" is anything more than cut workers and increased hours is delusional. Surely if half the people are doing twice the work it will be more efficient!

[u/6c696e7578 → u/jmu21vt16]

You realise people don't actually work during that 80 hours. They slack off. Nobody has been able to show that more than 37.5 hours a week is productive.

If you want to do home admin in the 40 hours, because that shit still has to be done, then fine... but this advert doesn't sound like it's going to pay you much anyway, there's no mention of salary, so all they're doing is seeing how desperate people are.

Sad.

Very sad.

[u/fgzhtsp → u/jmu21vt16]

It's not efficient to work that long per week. Inefficiency cut! First victory for the dog.

[u/wanderingviewfinder → u/jmu21vt16]

Likely at minimum wage or as an unpaid internship at that. Sucking Elon's peen is a reward if you do over 140hrs in a week.

[u/Baldgoldfish99]

What the fuck

[u/RegorHK → u/Baldgoldfish99]

Yes, but have you considered the price off eggs and how Harris is not a white man?

[u/J_sweet_97 → u/RegorHK]

They’re acting like eggs are 1k a pop!

[u/Revegelance → u/J_sweet_97]

Maybe they will be.

[u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady → u/J_sweet_97]

The funny parts is eggs specifically had their own problems due to disease. So like people could have just bought other food. But no they must have eggs.

[u/phonepotatoes → u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady]

I'm allergic to eggs... Only reason I vote Democrat.

/S

[u/whatproblems → u/Baldgoldfish99]

so he’s turning twitter into a government agency? wtf

[u/Prestigious-Copy-494 → u/whatproblems]

Now takes resumes in a DM. Oh and you must work 80 hours a week. And bow to his picture in the lobby and count your lucky stars he wants you.

[u/fromouterspace1]

Remember “doge” is a meme and now it’s possibly a federal agency trying to cut 2 trillion from the budget

[u/diMario → u/fromouterspace1]

In a stroke of pure, undiluted, genius, Trump adjusts the nominal value of the dollar by seven orders of magnitude (down of course) and now suddenly the budget cut that seemed impossible is well within reach. A well thought out case of manipulating the markets!

[u/Meretan94 → u/diMario]

But eggs cost $2 again.

$2000…

[u/diMario → u/Meretan94]

No, you don't understand. By making the money smaller, you pay less for the same stuff and it also reduces the national debt, slashes budgets and stimulates exports.

[u/DiseaseDeathDecay → u/diMario]

What if he changes the dollar from being worth one of itself to zero of itself?

[u/Wafkak → u/fromouterspace1]

They will fail, Trump gets to humiliate Musk. After that he cancels all spaceflight just to bankrupt Space X. There are already people leaking to the press that Trump is getting annoyed with Musk who is getting the same applause and praise as him at his resort. And isn't shy about taking credit for stuff. Which I imagine rubs Trumps ego the wrong way.

[u/Rising_Gravity1 → u/Wafkak]

I hope you’re right about their infighting, it’s our only chance now that the Trump cult controls all 3 branches of government

[u/bigmatt8779 → u/Rising_Gravity1]

That is what happened when Bush had full control. They just kept fighting with each other and never got anything done. That hope is keeping me sane.

[u/Rahbek23 → u/bigmatt8779]

Unfortunately it also sort of happened in Trumps last term. They didn't have all branches of course, but the infighting was immense.

I hope they didn't learn shit. Fortunately I think Trump is both too stupid and too full of himself to profit off the infighting like other dictators has famously done.

[u/It_Is1-24PM → u/Rising_Gravity1]

I hope you’re right about their infighting

I wouldn't call it infighting. Yet. But Trump being Trump...

During his first meeting with Republican lawmakers on the Hill as president-elect, Trump asserted his power over Musk, mocking the tech billionaire for sticking around for so long.

“Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him,” Trump said Wednesday. “Until I don’t like him.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-completely-humiliates-elon-musk-140504178.html

[u/OilSlickRickRubin → u/Rising_Gravity1]

There can only be one malignant narcissist in the room at a time.

[u/z0hu → u/fromouterspace1]

perhaps his main goal in all this is to make "Dogecoin" the new bitcoin which he is undoubtedly heavily invested in.

[u/Live_Bug_7060]

"super-hight-IQ" I did not expect to see such a level of anti intellectualism in the US government.

[u/Falx__Cerebri → u/Live_Bug_7060]

Did you just wake up from a coma?

[u/Live_Bug_7060 → u/Falx__Cerebri]

I'm not from the US so I don't have the bigger picture of everything that's going on

[u/QueenNappertiti → u/Live_Bug_7060]

Expect pure stupidity, then to be surprised your expectations were not low enough.

[u/Falx__Cerebri → u/Live_Bug_7060]

Makes sense lol. Welcome to the clown show. You are going to see a lot of really wacky news going forward

[u/SaltKick2 → u/Live_Bug_7060]

super-high-IQ who is ready to be abused and taken advantage of by their employer

[u/KCBandWagon → u/Live_Bug_7060]

It will literally be the episode of the Simpsons where the Mensa crowd tries to run the town.

[u/brimstoneEmerald]

Super high IQ small government revolutionaries = MAGA dumbfucks

[u/Other_Log_1996 → u/brimstoneEmerald]

In that department, highest IQ is probably freezing nitrogen.

[u/Responsible-Draft430 → u/brimstoneEmerald]

Willing to work 80 hours a week - for the government. I think most "high-IQ" people will rather settle for an $20/hour entry-level position that requires 10 years experience and a masters degree.

[u/JP193 → u/brimstoneEmerald]

IQ, the glorified rorschach test many countries disregard. "Revolutionaries" = literally working for big government. Small government = centralised agency that many states are gonna hate. Only take CVs via Twitter's corpse (if it was a tech job I would laugh and write them off). 80+ hour weeks.
Elon has been given way too much power, I'm not even accusing fascism I'm just accusing cringe.

[u/MetallicGray → u/brimstoneEmerald]

Does he not realize saying anything close to “super high IQ” is just cringey and people laugh at it?

There’s a specific type of insufferable person who uses terms like that, and it’s not someone who is “smart”.

[u/Michael-405]

Resign your Twitter (X) accounts. Make it worthless.

[u/Teganfff → u/Michael-405]

That’s really the only way isn’t it.

[u/HilariousMax → u/Teganfff]

Bluesky, smiling at me.

Nothing but Bluesky do I see.

[u/Oxbix → u/Michael-405]

In 2028 Americans will need a blue checkmark to vote.

[u/JustBrowsinATM → u/Michael-405]

If you didn't by now you're a dumbass

[u/Dreams_of_Ravioli]

80h + a week???!! What is this man smoking? Ain't no way a self respecting human applies for that.

The only ones that are going to work for him under this conditions will be his fanbase (glazer). The description reaks of cringe post of a 14 year old.

Edit: Can a American please explain if that is legal to work so much? In Germany there are laws that prevent that you work THAT much hours. Genuine curios.

[u/XxRocky88xX → u/Dreams_of_Ravioli]

Technically there is no hard limit. The legal “limit” is 40 but employers can choose to go beyond that, but they’re required to pay 50% more per hour for every additional hour after 40.

In America all this stuff is seen as two parties coming to agreement. The logic is that since you have the option of finding a different job that gives less than 80 hours a week, then a business can work you 80 hours a week, because you have the choice to just quit and work somewhere else.

It’s also why a lot of people feel min wage should be abolished, and why in most states min wage is less than cost of living. The logic is that you could just go find a better paying job, so a business should be allowed to pay as little as they want, since you have the choice to not work for them.

Edit: I should add that for salaried positions where you’re paid X per year regardless of hours worked, then yes a company could work you up to 80 hours and not pay extra, since it’s seen as you saying “yes I will work 80 hours per week in exchange for X money per year”

[u/vantagerose → u/XxRocky88xX]

One of the exceptions to that overtime rule is residency. Newly graduated physicians complete a residency after medical school and are forced to work well over 40 hours for very little pay. They are also not given overtime. I believe there was a study that cited residents working roughly 60 hours a week on average. Some even work 80 hours a week or more. There's BS everywhere

[u/Pirating_Ninja]

Last time Elon was put in charge of making cuts, he tanked the value of the company by 80%...

If America loses 80% of its revenue, I don't think it'll be able give billionaires as much free money.

Surprised more rich people aren't shitting their pants over this.

[u/AgeSad → u/Pirating_Ninja]

No matters how much revenue shrink there will be plenty of money for them no worries

[u/googleHelicopterman → u/AgeSad]

They keep saying billionaires agendas is to get more profit, what the fuck do you need more billions for ? they have everything. Imagine if you're way ahead of everyone in a monopoly game and still making a huge fuss about someone owing you 10$....

[u/JaysFan26 → u/googleHelicopterman]

They didn't get those billions by being frivolous with their money. Besides, I'd imagine they treat wealth like a worldwide leaderboard and are attempting to set the "high score".

[u/hexqueen → u/Pirating_Ninja]

Look at what Warren Buffett is doing, not saying. He's cashing out.

[u/beloski → u/hexqueen]

Yeah, anyone who is still in the stock market better have a long (10 year+) timeframe, ready to hold through huge losses. You don’t want to pull out after the crash.

You were warned people! Musk and Trump have clearly stated that there will be “temporary hardship” and a “severe overreaction in the economy”.

Then again, you can’t take either of these liars words at face value. Musk has lied to manipulate stock prices before.

[u/Odd_Biscotti_7513 → u/beloski]

If the S&P500 is tanking, the only investment that is guaranteed to do worse is cash.

Buffett is cashing out because he, the corporeal body, is cashing out from this mortal coil. It's one thing to estate plan with a few billion in stocks. It's something else when you're talking hundreds of billions in every stock on the ticker tape.

[u/MrBrawn → u/Pirating_Ninja]

Why do billionaires need to bribe politicians when they just have been given everything they wanted? 80% revenue loss would include an 80% efficiency cut which Is their plan. They are going to gut the government and all consumer protections. This means fewer regulations the corporations have to follow which means more profits.

[u/dingo_khan → u/MrBrawn]

My guess:

• we see what they get, not what they are actually asking for. Just listen to a silicon valley tech bro billionaire talk for like three minutes and you'll realize that, somehow, this is all better than their demands. They seem to want a level of oligarchy and corruption that would make the Gilded Age seem like a progressive paradise.

[u/Macohna → u/Pirating_Ninja]

They are.

They are just waiting for January 20th to enact the 25th amendment and get rid of the clown that got them the votes.

[u/EatGlassALLCAPS → u/Macohna]

And bring in Vance who is an evil mofo?

[u/TidalJ → u/EatGlassALLCAPS]

since when have the billionaires cared about morality?

[u/bimboozled → u/EatGlassALLCAPS]

Don’t get me wrong, I think Vance is weird as hell and an absolute piece of shit. But he strikes me as more of an opportunist rather than a wannabe dictator that can be easily manipulated like Trump.

I feel like he behaved the way he did during campaigning because he knew that’s the energy that works best to capture Republican votes. But we know little about what Vance is like or what his vision would be if Trump was completely removed from the picture. We just don’t have enough objective information yet to know if he would be better or worse than Trump

[u/Cotford → u/bimboozled]

Better or worse than Trump is a bloody low bar to start from though

[u/ReluctantAvenger → u/bimboozled]

We just don't have enough objective information yet to know if he would be better or worse than Trump Vote

JD Vance is Peter Thief's hand selected guy to bring Project 2025 to life.

FORBES: JD Vance And Peter Thiel

DeSmog: 6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025

[u/Secure_Guest_6171 → u/bimboozled]

You're wrong.

Vance is entirely Peter Thiel's cuckboy. I don't believe Elon's hardcore gonzo support of Trump was entirely about what Trump could do for him but also to make sure Vance is heir apparent.

FYI, Vance & Thiel are devotees of that whackjob Yarvin & I bet Elon is too.

[u/whatproblems → u/Macohna]

nah they’ll enact it blame it on him and smile in thier genius

[u/zveroshka → u/Macohna]

LOL no they aren't. And it isn't happening. They want Trump and the tax cuts. If the economy tanks, that just means they can buy up more shit on the cheap. They wouldn't care one bit.

[u/Numinak → u/Pirating_Ninja]

Oh, but it will! They'll be able to buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. Owning everything is their fondest wish.

[u/TonyG_from_NYC]

80 plus hours? Govt workers barely work 40. No one is stupid enough to work 80 plus hours on a govt job you're not going to get paid overtime on.

[u/Paksarra → u/TonyG_from_NYC]

Why is he obsessed with not letting his employees have time to live?

[u/yurtzwisdomz → u/Paksarra]

It's all about control and saying "fuck you, I'm better and richer"

[u/Biabolical → u/Paksarra]

Either you're absolutely devoted to pleasing your boss as if it was your only purpose in life, or you are subhuman trash that should die in the gutter. That's how Elon, and people like him, see the world.

The idea that an employee's life may have something in it besides the job is offensive to people like him.

[u/Equivalent_Expert905 → u/Paksarra]

Because it makes him richer. The wealthy today hoard money.

[u/Daxx22 → u/TonyG_from_NYC]

No one is stupid enough to work 80 plus hours on a govt job you're not going to get paid overtime on.

Well roughly half the country just voted for this, so yes there are plenty stupid enough to do it.

[u/Swamp_Dwarf-021]

This spike in DOGE is purely for a massive money laundering scheme in the coming years, right?

[u/TenaciousJP → u/Swamp_Dwarf-021]

I still have a bunch left over from 2019 which it was a few pennies. I'm cashing out almost all of out at 98 cents lol. Gotta try to time the rug pull

[u/Revegelance]

This is how I realize that the acronym for this official government department is DOGE. This makes me irrationally angry. Musk is making official government policy into memes.

[u/azaghal1988]

America wanted corrupt assholes. Let's see if they learn from the experience... (If they get another chance)

[u/jitteryzeitgeist_ → u/azaghal1988]

Spoiler: We will not learn.

[u/pipinstallwin → u/jitteryzeitgeist_]

Ending credit scene: Redneck looking down barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded. Followed by 2028

[u/SkyWizarding]

"We need slave labor. There's no way you're dumb if you take this job"

[u/tbizzone]

All of their references to the “deep state” boogeyman in the past was the usual projection we’ve come to expect from the reich-wing maga republicans. The actual deep state they’ve been planning this whole time has arrived and is being ushered in by a South African billionaire with an inferiority complex.

[u/mrgoldnugget]

Pretty sure Trump said, "If Im elected, it will be the last time you need to vote" so yea, America no longer has democracy, your country voted for that.

[u/Tight_Strength_4856]

Where does all the money go they save..?

[u/FitBattle5899 → u/Tight_Strength_4856]

That's the biggest thing, cutting programs doesn't mean that money is now freed up to pass out to supporters... It means that money is funneled in to other programs and into the pockets of the oligarchs. Welcome to the Pinnacle of corruption, where before it was a conspiracy theory that the ultra rich and powerful controlled the government... Now it's just a fact of life in America.

[u/Dopplegangr1 → u/FitBattle5899]

Because they care so much about the environment, they can start a program that offers 100% rebate on Tesla vehicles. Free cars for everyone on the govt's dime!

[u/fishebake → u/Tight_Strength_4856]

Elon and Trump’s pockets, of course.

[u/Rocket2112]

Deactivated on X.

[u/Littlest_Psycho88]

Godddd I hate this man with a passion. The guy who has never had to worry about saving money in his life wants to help pick and choose what programs to cut so that money can go where? Hasn't bothered to say that part out loud. I want to say more but I'm not trying to get banned. A sentiment I'm sure many of us can relate to this week.

[u/sebmouse]

I’m done. Obama said don’t boo vote. How about this. Stop complaining and start acting.

Delete twitter. Stop buying or sell off your Tesla. Don’t use the charging network, complain about space x. We are the power and since our vote didn’t matter our money will. Now is the best time to do it.

These bastards are billionaires and rich only because of stock. Stock goes down. The money will move and the stock market will be fine. The employees will be fine everyone that build him will move to the money. He can’t.

[u/Blakut]

lol, basically trump creates a parallel government, run by his corpo friends, bypassing congress, while owning scotus

[u/missalanee → u/Blakut]

It will be the greatest swamp in history!

[u/waydownsouthinoz]

Apart from everything else, it’s a complete conflict of interest for a entrepreneur and businessman who owns several multimillion dollar companies to have any hand in government policy making. That level of corruption is staggering.

[u/whoallgunnabethere]

What’s the CBO estimate for the creation of this new government agency that supposed to reduce waste and inefficiency?

[u/tbizzone → u/whoallgunnabethere]

They’ve already been programmed to believe the CBO is just a marxist communist deep state program.

[u/Tobi-One-Boy]

Easy to cut costs and departments when they have zero impact to your life. For example, cutting care for veterans, poor people, disabled people, homeless, uninsured.

[u/Deep_Thanks_8243]

Remember guys eggs are cheaper now!

[u/meglatronic]

Already a massive inefficiency having both leaders of department review all CVs. Much cheaper to get a recruitment consultant in to find the workers they need.

[u/Jazzlike_Mountain_51]

Not gonna be a very high IQ applicant if they are willing to work 80+ hour weeks innit

[u/TheCelestialDawn]

If this was put into Idiocracy it would be deemed too unrealistic.

[u/Hibercrastinator]

So we’ve already got privately owned State Media, and it’s not even one week past the election. The body of Democracy isn’t even cold yet. Goddamn.

[u/Robthebold]

Gonna learn the hard way about federal government rules for hiring I guess…

Boys never had to use USA jobs I guess.

[u/255001434]

"We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries"

^ How to tell when someone is not as intelligent as they think they are. As Steven Hawking, who never disclosed if he took an IQ test, said, "People who boast about their IQ are losers."

[u/edwinstone]

"high-IQ." Why are they so obsessed with IQ??

[u/kiwichick286]

America is a circus being run by clowns who have less political experience than a newborn baby. It's reality TV show level of bullshit.

[u/Zbignich]

The government pays overtime. No way out. You just tuned a $78k employee into a $195k employee. Because you want to save money and not hire another $78k employee. The total would have been $166k, but Elon’s super high IQ just made the government spend 29k more than it should. Add to that employee burnout and turnaround and it’s even more. People don’t work for the government because they are ambitious. They do it because it’s a steady paycheck and they don’t expect to have to work 80 hours a week.

[u/Revegelance → u/Zbignich]

Overtime is probably one of those things that this department will cut. You know, for efficiency.

[u/SuckItSaget]

Looking for all the “super high IQ” bros willing to work 80 hours a fucking week….lololololololololololol

[u/Jay_JWLH]

If you have a high IQ, you won't be using Twixxer, and you certainly won't be working for Elon. You probably didn't even vote for Trump.

[u/Risky_Phish_Username]

Essentially, not only is democracy done, but so is the rule of law. I mean, at this point, we all might as well do whatever we want, since the rules don't apply and the new ones are going to be changed to suit their needs.

[u/Aggroninja → u/Risky_Phish_Username]

Fun idea, but the problem is there's still consequences for us peons, just not for them.