Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.
There are oxymorons and then there is musk, the oxyless moron
Spoiler
Lot’s of people are gonna apply, cause the payment is the chance for grifting
They will be paid, just not by the government.
You thought lobbying was bad? Lol
So you need to be rich enough to not need the salary, morally flexible enough to work for Elmo, and stupid enough to brag about your IQ.
…… while not understanding the percentiles they gave you on the online IQ test.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
Department of Government Efficiency is the name of the department that ends up involved in creating Soylent green or some crazy human organ harvesting thing.
This sets off all sorts of red flags that bother the shit out of me. Like I’ll take boring dystopia over human slaughterhouses TYVM
At least they’re too cheap and lazy to properly push their fascist takeover.
It’s just gonna be rich failsons who are loving off their trust funds. It’s gonna be bad
yes they tried that in Turkey, president’s highly incompetent son in law was made minister of Finance. At the start (2018) of this I think pounds/Turkish lira was sth like 4. He stayed for two years and it ended with maybe something like 10-12. As of now it is around 50 (people after him weren’t that great either). Since nowadays production of almost anything in Turkey is tied to imports, prices of daily consumption goods as well as rent, housing etc went up by that amount too (salary increases not even comparable). good luck USA
M-elon Head to run the department of slavery with un-paid workers. What an unstable ‘genius’.
Text book Elon, pay for super smart people and take all the credit for their work and say you’re smart because of it. Guy fails upwards
It literally says in the headline they won’t be paid…
I know, look at SpaceX, Nuralink, TESLA, ERON must did noting but fund those companies. That doesn’t make ya smart. And then look at the CyberSuck, the one product Musky had a hand in, is a total piece of shit and should all be scrapped
Smart people don’t work for the bad guys for free Jack.
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
No X in name, so not Leons idea.
100% Musk’s idea. Because he doesn’t think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.
Co leader Vivek Ramswamy is the founder of DOGE coin.
TIL. I always assumed doge coin was his thing since he seemed to promote so much. Either way, these guys are insufferable nerds.
Edit: I just read he actually referred to himself as the “Dogefather.” Fucking cringe.
Trumps staff already beat you by prefacing that only super high-IQ people understand the humor
Also, fuck that guy.
Edit: and by ‘that guy’ I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.
Ew, I’d rather not fuck Elon. He’s not my type.
Yeah, no one should actually be fucking Elon
Staff it with rich fucks looking for relevence deep in that Musky sphincter and change it to “Department of Getting Eaten”. Efficiency accomplished.
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
Fuck. I can’t out-stupid this guy. I won’t win.
I think it’d be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
There are gonna be lots of applicants from the Intelligence Institute of Texas…
Ah, this will be the Department of Dunning-Kruger. The workers are idiots who think they are supergeniuses. Led by an idiot who thinks he’s a supergenius.
During Trump’s first term, this was just a metaphor, suggested by random comedians. Now, life will imitate art to its full extent.
I don’t know about you all but as soon as Trump was elected I immediately resolved to cut my personal spending by as much as humanly possible. I’ve already canceled many of my subscription services and I have reduced my use of Amazon and other online purchases to absolute zero. I’m going to work on paying down every dime of debt I owe as soon as possible and save every penny. Because shit’s going to get fucked in the next 4 years with these clowns in charge. It’s gonna be a light Christmas in my household this year.
I highly recommend you all do the same. Don’t be the last one holding the bag when the music stops and reality sets in. For example, look at the people in the UK after Brexit.
The UK was shit before Brexit, it was 14 years of austerity policies (read: cut health services, cut benefits, cut social housing, deregulation of services, legalisation of toxic dumping, I can go on…) by a right-wing “fiscally responsible” government who has left the current one with a sizeable financial black hole… that has brought the country to its knees.
If we had Brexit but still maintained public services, there’s a good chance the country would have been fine.
If we had Brexit but still maintained public services, there’s a good chance the country would have been fine.
It’s almost as if you couldn’t…
Why pay down the debt?
Interest rates aren’t a fixed number. And I suspect that they will increase by multiple factors relatively soon (like a year from now at the very least). Having credit card debt will soon be as burdensome as having a tuition debt. (Which is also extremely fucked but I digress.)
