The Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE)

[Wat_Tyler]

Why is the left so worried that these two guys just might make our government a bit more efficient? Is it because government waste has been the norm for the last 100 years, or so?

At least since the Civil War and probably before, like maybe the National Bank squabbles.

 

[Lazaran]

Hyperloop. Rescue sub. CyberTruck. All of Elon Musk’s own idea are bad.

Yep.

And when “Leon” launched that Tesla roadster into space, THAT was the moment I fully realized / recognized what an absolute imbecile / fraud / conman he really was.

Talk about “jumping the shark”…

 

[Politruk]

Why is the left so worried that these two guys just might make our government a bit more efficient? Is it because government waste has been the norm for the last 100 years, or so?

If you ever hear a pol promise to deal with budget problems by eliminating waste, ask if he intends to deal with energy problems by eliminating friction.

 

[Rightguide]

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

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

It will cut the low IQ people out of the government before they destroy the nation and redirect green new deal funds to real areas of national importance. It's more like putting two geniuses in charge of the distribution or liquidation of government assets.

 

[Politruk]

It will cut the low IQ people out of the government

Trump ain't high IQ and neither is Musk.

 

[Rightguide]

Trump ain't high IQ and neither is Musk.

High enough to be billionaires instead of your broke ass.

 

[Politruk]

High enough to be billionaires instead of your broke ass.

More like Forrest Gump rich.

 

[Rightguide]

More like Forrest Gump rich.

You need the learn how to be more convincing.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

You need the learn how to be more convincing.

He doesn’t realize Gump was a fictional character.

 

[dmallord]

Taylor Swift, who endorsed Kamala Harris for president, is reportedly seeing ticket prices fall for the latest leg of her “Eras” tour, which will play in Toronto this week — in some cases, prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars.

The series of concerts will mark Taylor Swift’s first “Eras” performances since President-elect Donald Trump decisively trounced Kamala Harris in the election last week, winning both the electoral and popular votes.

In a report published by the New York Post, tickets now start at $991, before fees, while just three days ago, the lowest price was $1,321 before fees, based on searches carried out on Vivid Seats. That represents a decline of more than $300 — a sign of weaker-than-expected demand.

Source: Breitbart.com



Travis is going to have to pick up a check or two to make up the diff...

Fact Checked

She's not whining over a market swing as you note. Go ahead and laugh. But people are still buying $991 tickets to see her perform and the seats aren't as empty as at a Trump rally.

Good job of gaslighting, bud. And Breitbart is not a reasonable source for your claim.

 

[colddiesel]

Trump ain't high IQ and neither is Musk.

You just make a target of yourself with that kind of stupid comment. A grade assholes perhaps, but neither and particularly Musk can be called stupid.

 

[dmallord]

A little geographically and linguistically challenged are we?

Toronto IS NOT in the USA. Toronto IS in (North) America.

MAGA members do not consider anything not in the USA as being America FYI. So your point isn't being made in your remark to a geographical clarification that 'America' is a broader term that just MAGA minds understand.

Your horizon is broader than the MAGA. So that puts you one up on them. But doesn't get you off the hook for the other poor views you espoused in jest, in tongue-in-cheek, or in support of the orange felon.

 

[dmallord]

You just make a target of yourself with that kind of stupid comment. A grade assholes perhaps, but neither and particularly Musk can be called stupid.

Clearly they can. Some do say that. Trump calls others stupid and worse. So there is that. Just because you disagree doesn't mean it must stop or is, at the very least, an unwise and unwarranted utterance.

We could all be better and be more civil. But here it is like the Wild West. You can vomit whatever you want and face little punitive actions. As such, the word 'stupid' wasn't used in the last remark, was it? That was your interpretation.

 

[colddiesel]

Clearly they can. Some do say that. Trump calls others stupid and worse. So there is that. Just because you disagree doesn't mean it must stop or is, at the very least, an unwise and unwarranted utterance.

We could all be better and be more civil. But here it is like the Wild West. You can vomit whatever you want and face little punitive actions. As such, the word 'stupid' wasn't used in the last remark, was it? That was your interpretation.

Politruk makes one remark after another which are after further consideration decidedly and unequivocally stupid, his knee jerk reactions constantly set him up as an easy target , and I do not apologise for my interpretation. I can accept the contention that Musk and Trump are both thoroughly unpleasant, and totally selfish. When Politruk calls them 'not high IQ' however, that is clearly wrong. My view is that Trump is cunning and moderately clever and in Musk, I as an engineer can recognize an exceptionally intelligent and talented engineer. Civility is important, but facts and truth are more important, even if they hurt.

 

[Politruk]

He doesn’t realize Gump was a fictional character.

And Trump isn't?

 

[JohnEngelman]

Making government more efficient is a horrible idea.

Eliminating programs that benefit many of those who voted for Trump is politically dangerous to Trump. That is what will happen if two trillion dollars is cut from the federal budget.

 

[John Connors]

DOGE is more likely to cut funding for Non-profits, particularly activist ones. If they can save ten billion or so immediately by doing that, it'll give them the headlines they crave.

 

[Politruk]

At least since the Civil War and probably before, like maybe the National Bank squabbles.

Jackson never did have any good reason to destroy the Second Bank of the United States.

 

[Rainblow]

https://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/funny-trump-cabinet-appointee-tweets-24.jpg

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Taylor Swift, who endorsed Kamala Harris for president, is reportedly seeing ticket prices fall for the latest leg of her “Eras” tour, which will play in Toronto this week — in some cases, prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars.

The series of concerts will mark Taylor Swift’s first “Eras” performances since President-elect Donald Trump decisively trounced Kamala Harris in the election last week, winning both the electoral and popular votes.

In a report published by the New York Post, tickets now start at $991, before fees, while just three days ago, the lowest price was $1,321 before fees, based on searches carried out on Vivid Seats. That represents a decline of more than $300 — a sign of weaker-than-expected demand.

Source: Breitbart.com



Travis is going to have to pick up a check or two to make up the diff...

Breitbart .. lol

 

[dmallord]

Politruk makes one remark after another which are after further consideration decidedly and unequivocally stupid, his knee jerk reactions constantly set him up as an easy target , and I do not apologise for my interpretation. I can accept the contention that Musk and Trump are both thoroughly unpleasant, and totally selfish. When Politruk calls them 'not high IQ' however, that is clearly wrong. My view is that Trump is cunning and moderately clever and in Musk, I as an engineer can recognize an exceptionally intelligent and talented engineer. Civility is important, but facts and truth are more important, even if they hurt.

There is that... but it is not 'clearly wrong.'

I'll give you Musk, based on your premise of intelligence being required for what he does, but not Trump as high IQ.

No one around Trump has ever said that or even alluded to it. His family doesn't support that IQ thing at all. He was on the verge of failing high school when his father put him into a military academy instead. He didn't do well there. His sister said he paid someone to take his college SAT. He wasn't noted as having a high IQ at his alma mater. Rumor has it that he skated through his assignments with help from others. As noted by many at the White House, he doesn't have the attention span of an ant.

He was a guy who asked why they couldn't build a moat in front of a wall on the southern border and fill it with alligators. He wanted to order soldiers to shoot border crossers, and when met with shock over that, he backed up and said just in the legs to slow them down so they could be caught. When told there would be gates in the wall to allow cattle access to the Rio Grande, he went ape shit and suggested they put cranes there to lift the cattle over the thirty-foot walls instead so 'criminals' couldn't get through the gates. [Please, tell me your eyebrows are not raised over that idiot suggestion.]

Is that the guy you want to label high-IQ? I'm not buying that, fella. There are many more idiotic things in his wheelhouse that indicate bats are in his belfry, such as those crazy failed businesses, ad infinitum.

 

[Politruk]

If this DOGE is not really to be a federal department authorized by Congress, then the most that can come out of it is recommendations, to Trump. to issue executive orders.

 

[AceDesSpades]

I’ve expressed skepticism about how much DOGE can accomplish. I’ve observed similar initiatives get launched and trumpeted by several administrations in my lifetime. Without budgetary and legislative powers vested in Congress, these various commissions are task forces haven’t accomplished much.

This piece written by the WSJ identifies a number of ways significant changes can be made. Perhaps there’s reason for hope that some meaningful improvements and cost savings can be achieved. It’s worth reading.

Here are a few excerpts:

DOGE’s first order will be to pause enforcement of overreaching rules while starting the process to roll them back. Mr. Trump and DOGE could direct agencies to settle legal challenges to Biden rules by vacating them. This could ease the laborious process of undoing them by rule-making through the Administrative Procedure Act. A source tells us they’ll do whatever they think they legally can without the APA.
The DOGE duo believe this will provide the legal justification for reducing the federal workforce. As we recently noted, the federal head count has ballooned by 120,800 during the Biden years. Civil service and union protections make it hard to fire workers.
But Mr. Trump will quickly resurrect the Schedule F reform that he sought to implement at the end of his first term but was scrapped by Mr. Biden. These would eliminate job protections for high-level federal employees so they can be removed like political appointees.
DOGE could also streamline permitting with “categorical exclusions” from environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act. The Biden Administration provided such exclusions for green-energy projects. Trump appointees could do so for more projects that are likely to have minimal environmental impact like oil and gas pipelines in developed rights-of-way.
The DOGErs also promise to attack redundant, unnecessary and ineffective programs. Take the plethora of government work-training programs and funding for medical research that the private industry is already doing. Some but not all of this might require legislation.
Mr. Musk says he wants to slash $2 trillion from a $6.5 trillion budget, which is fanciful without touching Social Security and Medicare, which Mr. Trump won’t do. But there are other ripe targets, such as fraud in Affordable Care Act subsidies. The Paragon Health Institute estimates such fraud at $15 billion to $20 billion this year. Agencies could also move to fixed-price contracts so taxpayers aren’t on the hook for contractor cost overruns.
The Health and Human Services Department could bar states from exploiting a Medicaid loophole to squeeze more money out of Washington to balance their budgets. HHS could let states impose work requirements on able-bodied, working-age Medicaid enrollees, and bar states from using Medicaid funds for other social spending. The Trump team could also roll back the Biden climate and wage mandates on federal contractors, which make it harder for smaller companies to compete.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/departm...86dab?st=Vv6zuL&reflink=article_copyURL_share

I can see it now, the annual gala, the Doge Ball...

 

[AceDesSpades]

Fact Checked

She's not whining over a market swing as you note. Go ahead and laugh. But people are still buying $991 tickets to see her perform and the seats aren't as empty as at a Trump rally.

Good job of gaslighting, bud. And Breitbart is not a reasonable source for your claim.

*chuckle*

I just started a thread about people just like you.

 

[AceDesSpades]

This is how self-serving, self-promoting, and self-preserving eco-system functions.

All their “projects” are over budget, behind schedule, and complete failures. But this is not by accident, but by intention. The purpose of the “project” was never to fulfill its stated goal, but instead was enrichment. This is why swamp-dwellers who begin their careers in politics with very little in their accounts retire as multi-millionaires.

When one hears of Harris’s billion-dollar catastrophe, it can cause schadenfreude-driven laughter. When one reads about reckless government spending, such as $3 million spent to study steroid-injected hamster fights, it causes laughter. But the appropriate reaction to the robbery of your funds must not cause giggles, but righteous indignation.

The establishment’s rage against Trump is driven by this fear that Trump will bring an end to this daylight robbery. They hate Trump voters because they empower him to drain the swamp.

Trump’s Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) is an excellent idea, but it works only when individuals are being inefficient by accident or due to apathy. What is happening here isn’t inefficacy, but corruption. The swamp-dwellers are efficient and even innovative, but strictly for initiatives that enable enrichment.

Rajan Laad, American Thinker



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