The Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE)

[AceDesSpades]

It's like putting 14-year-old boys are in charge of the government:

"OMG! Doge, dude! that's hilarious!"

The Doge of Dodge?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

If it was a serious effort to make government more efficient, they wouldn’t have given it a joke name. They’re jusr doing it for the LULZ.

 

[glamorilla]

Not brat enough?

 

[AceDesSpades]

You chose to see a joke name.
We get that. Under ever rock.
Racists and Misogynists and Xenophobes, OH MY!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Elon Musk will be the Procurement Efficiency Pipeline Executive—the PEPE of DOGE.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Cut quick, the wit

glam

 

[AceDesSpades]

Pepe le Pew takes out the garbage?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

You chose to see a joke name.
We get that. Under ever rock.
Racists and Misogynists and Xenophobes, OH MY!

It’s a joke agency because Musk and Trump know that the rubes lap shit like that up. No policy, just LULZ.

 

[ll74]

So two brilliant private sector business minds who not only get economics, but also wasteful federal spending in a government that’s crowding $40T of debt is a dangerous idea?

I think not.

Conflict of interest much?

"We need to cut your business subsidies and increase mine to be more efficient "

<Insert ego stroking of 47 here>

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Pepe le Pew takes out the garbage?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

No one likes a mean bitter drunk.

 

[AceDesSpades]

No one likes a mean bitter drunk.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Here's how it could have been a joke: he picked a prodigal.

The model of inefficiency, the anti-Musk.

Riches-to-rags...

 

[AceDesSpades]

Player Piano

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It pissed me off they he killed the cat in Chapter One. That wasn't necessary.


So I take it out on libturds . . . .

 

[AceDesSpades]

Schrödinger's pussy hat

 

[AceDesSpades]

MC Schrödinger

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Big time conflicts of interest here.

I've heard ethics agreement is delaying a lot of the transition work already. 47 has t yet signed it.

If they lack policy authority and budget control it’s a nothing burger. I’m skeptical about this producing any meaningful change. Maybe my skepticism will fade as more details come out.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Homeland Security was created so quickly that it created a lot of overlap and redundancy that has yet to be addressed.

I am sure that they will find things that Congress can happily streamline for votes to prove they did something

(almost nest-to-nothing).

 

[ll74]

If they lack policy authority and budget control it’s a nothing burger. I’m skeptical about this producing any meaningful change. Maybe my skepticism will fade as more details come out.

In the 45 administration, the approach was craft one regulation, eliminate two.

Just found this resource from Brookings-

Examining some of Trump’s deregulation efforts: Lessons from the Brookings Regulatory Tracker​

Lengthy and comprehensive analysis. They have a regulatory tracker for each administration as well.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Efficiency is like Motherhood, hard to attack and not an easy job. My guess is that Musk will hand over some limited cash to the States and hand that financing function to the finance department and sack thousands. The States will fight like cats in a sack for extra funding and the Feds will tell them to raise their own funds. It will be ugly. Some States will do it well, others, very very badly.

Excellent prediction. Relegating government functions to the states without providing sufficient funding seems like a very Musk/Trump thing to do.

 

[jomar]

Well, the executive branch has been put together piecemeal over the centuries and a lot of it doesn't make sense organizationally -- e.g., NOAA is part of the Commerce Department. It might be an improvement if somebody systematically reorganized it along more rational lines.

I read somewhere that NOAA could be on the chopping block

 

[south7eventh]

I recall in Yes, Minister, Hacker was in charge of the fictional "Department of Administrative Affairs." This sounds something like that.

Jim Hacker became Prime Minister in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’.The progressive blob protecting the species and ensuring that the old liberal clique survived. This is certainly not the case post November, 5th there is no Sir Humphrey figure surviving to challenge Elon and Vivek in DOGE.

I am sure you regard the Trump team as uncivilised, uncaring and unclean but they are supported by a majority of the electorate.

 

[DeluxAuto]

The guy who ruined Twitter and lost billions is in charge of a government department that was made up especially for him via his $200 million gift to trump.

Super fuckin efficient.

 

[Lance_Castro]

The guy who ruined Twitter and lost billions is in charge of a government department that was made up especially for him via his $200 million gift to trump.

Super fuckin efficient.

Ha ha ha!