US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would appoint Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he is elected to office in November.
“At the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement… I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York.
Not that it matters to his supporters buy he litterally said that he can be bought for a couple of pretty words.
There are parts of the federal government that are wildly inefficient. So it isn’t entirely misguided to want to improve that. Appointing Musk to redesign the government’s operations is a terrible idea (based on Tesla operations).
At the federal level most of the perceived inefficiencies are really just bloated budgets to ensure funds are available when needed, like for the military. The perception of inefficiency usually comes from the public not accepting the need for redundancy or that a lot of regulatory work is time consuming and expensive.
When conservstives talk about efficiency they mean fire people and slash budgets they oppose existing, like the NOAA. They don’t actually mean efficiency.
“Too efficient. Let’s put a moron in charge to shake that up.”
Fuck man, we already tried that in 2016.
This has to all be a wacky nightmare.
It is a troll. Musk is giving Lord Dampnut a shit ton of cash and support on shitter.
In return Mar-a-Lardo said he would put Musk in charge of the Department Of Government Efficiency.
It is a Dogecoin reference. Musk is being an edge lord.
Not saying that Cheeto Benito wouldn’t do it, but it is mostly just fun for Elon at the expense of the people who he is spinning up over it.
Elon needs to get back to his CEO duties of abusing ketamine and shitposting on twitter all day long.
Musk is CEO of 3 companies and has the time for a Government job?
Being CEO is a part time job.
Isn’t it at least 5?
SpaceX
Tesla
Twitter
Neuralink
Boring Company
Now tell me that being a CEO is such a hard and stressful job that one man could be in charge of five companies.
You know what would happen if I did my job for five different companies?
I’d get fired.
People like that consider being on the phone working. Flying on a plane, working.
Golfing? Working.
Shitposting on Twitter? Working.
Doing rails of ketamine? Working
Having sex with underaged sex workers, believe it or not, working
Someone did a study on this and found that ceos typically count their working hours as anything that is related to work including commuting. Picking up dry cleaning, even lunches since you have them with clients or are allowed to eat at your desk.
If we counted our hours the same way, then we would count things like preparing lunch and doing laundry.
Yelling at Taylor Swift? Still count as work hours.
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The guy who lost $35B in a year and destroyed the business model - that guy?
I mean, depending on what your goals are, that could very well be described as efficient.
Like, if your goal is to destroy the American government, could anyone do it more efficiently than Elmo?
Fits nicely with Trump’s reputation
the guy that lead the Cyber Truck project? that guy?
I had to scroll up to see if it was The Onion.
I’ve been saying for a few years now that I don’t blame anyone anymore for biting the onion. It is FAR TOO HARD to figure out what is life being absurd, and what is an absurd satire headline.
The lines aren’t blurred anymore. There are no lines. The lines have ceased to exist at this point.
I don’t understand life anymore, and I’d like to go back to politics being boring instead of being a circus.
And that’s assuming the headline you’re reading even has any bearing on the actual article, or that the article itself is factual, both of which are increasingly more common worries now.
Yet another reason not to vote for Diaper Don I guess
So, he basically bought himself a job in our government. I kinda want to say that’s illegal, but this is the circus we live in now. Complaining about the clowns is probably a waste of time at this point
And the whole reason the department is being created is because it would be called DOGE
So if Trump is elected the USA will be run like Twitter
*Xitter (pronounced shitter)
He’s going to Xitter the US of A. 75% loss of value since he became involved.
Didn’t Trump fill that roll by just not filling a huge portion of the government?
