The guy who lost $35B in a year and destroyed the business model - that guy?
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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?
the guy that lead the Cyber Truck project? that guy?
Fits nicely with Trump's reputation
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Translation: "I got an endorsement and a lot of money from Elon Musk, so I'm giving him a government job as a kickback where he can "regulate" his own businesses to enrich himself even further at the expense of literally every other American."
Oh man, I can't see a conflict of interest at all. Nope, no siree.
He is maintaining his record of putting the worst possible person he can find in positions of power.
Betsy Devos but worse
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
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.
Elon needs to get back to his CEO duties of abusing ketamine and shitposting on twitter all day long.
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.
Our government isn't a meme you incel fuck. That clown is exhausting.
I think hiring the CEO of MULTIPLE Businesses who bought a WEBSITE for $44000000000 and has MULTIPLE Government Contracts to a Government Role is a BIGLY SMART Move with LITERALLY no Downside or room for Swampy Activity!
He's good at promising without delivering, which is great if your idea of government efficiency is "have the best press while embezzling tons of money".
The Russian state should be a warning not a guide to model after.
He's going to Xitter the US of A. 75% loss of value since he became involved.
Imagine if the people in charge of our country took it seriously instead of whatever this clown show is.
Can't wait to vote Kamala, and least she won't make things worse.
He just wants to be able to shut down the FAA, who keeps enforcing rules he doesn't like (and SpaceX keeps breaking)
If you don't like it, vote.
His way of making the government efficient will be to just have no bid contracts go to all of his businesses.
Which is the safest thing to do since he has name recognition....
Source: I worked in a contracting office and literally these words have been spoken by almost every contracting official.
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.
I'm getting really sick of the "conventional wisdom" that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.
Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.
Government is inefficient if you elect people who believe it is and set out to prove it.
People who say "run things like a business" don't know shit. Every job I've worked at has had tremendous waste, but no one was looking closely because it's private.
Like, right wing nut jobs would lose their shit if they learned a government office was buying fresh fruits for workers but most of it was going bad and being thrown out. But that happened every day for a while.
There's also been a lot of "why is this machine still running? How much are we paying AWS for this??"
There's also been a lot of "we don't need to do accessibility on our website because most of our customers don't care, and no one's making us ".
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And the whole reason the department is being created is because it would be called DOGE
That tracks as they're both petulant children who know nothing about running a business...except how to torpedo them with their own hubris and ineptitudes after losing gobs of money. Hopefully, after this exhausting and long-winded election cycle is over we can never hear their stupid names or voices again!
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
Dear Donald J. Numbskull: the fact that Elon never sleeps and kisses your ass does not mean he's efficient, or even understands the concept.
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So if Trump is elected the USA will be run like Twitter
*Xitter (pronounced shitter)
God could you imagine.
Vote.
"Too efficient. Let's put a moron in charge to shake that up."
Fuck man, we already tried that in 2016.
That's fine, I already have a million reasons to vote against him, what's a million and one?
Trump doesn’t understand that Musk made up the title for the acronym
Didn't Trump fill that roll by just not filling a huge portion of the government?
Yet another reason not to vote for Diaper Don I guess
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.
Not that it matters to his supporters buy he litterally said that he can be bought for a couple of pretty words.
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