Jesus what a burn

Nothing says Government Efficiency like making a BRAND NEW DEPARTMENT with MILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars!

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Government Accountability Office: Am I a joke to you?

These stupid fucks don’t even realize we already have something that does this. It’s just not as in your face since you have to actually read about it.

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- This was my first thought to lol. It's so shocking to me that people honestly don't think there's already some form of government agency or organization that monitors and evaluates fiscal budgetary spending and legitimacy. And then not only that, is actually applauding the creation of a new one headed by some billionaire that just happened to throw the president an ass ton of money like 48 hours ago lol.
  
  I guess I really shouldn't be surprised anymore but whatever.
  
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Hey, my man, Lonnie, is gonna make the guberment just as awesome as Twitter, which is doing great.

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- *Leon
  
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or blowing a fuckload of money on it and having nothing to show for it

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- Just blow the money on... blow
  
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While you're right about his intentions, I'm pretty sure he's just pumping Doge Coin so he can dump it for a quick profit.

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He's just gonna fire 70% of the people who work there and not pay their severance, only keep the "hardcore" ones, watch the whole system crash and burn as services come to a complete standstill and then give himself a 50 billion dollar paycheck for his "hard work"

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He'll require every American to write the IRS a multipage letter each year where they must explain why they deserve their tax rebate.

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- If they make less than $500K/yr then yes, probably.
  
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And this will be by design

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People are so bad at punctuation now. Idiots like this just perpetuate it. Where's the last period on your acronym? It's even more cringe as a result.

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So ungrateful, you should be impressed the generator pulled off the text as cleanly as it did(.)

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- He typed "a gold sign that says D.O.G.E" and you know it(.)(.)
  
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Department of Government. Efficiency?

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It works as Department Of Getting E, I guess, which would appeal to the ‘80s/‘90s ravers among us.

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Is that picture AI-generated? Has that weirdly plastic look

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It's all he does now.

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- Powered by klorbulon-x Ai or some shit
  
  Whats it actually called? I know the real name is equally as stupid.
  
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also doesn't look like a troglodyte, it's definitely fake

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To be fair, Musk does also have a weird plastic look in real pictures...

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Billionaires should not exist.

Elon is a good example.

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Something tells me Elon isn't going to sell his stock to take over this governmental position.

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- It's cute that you think that would matter to Trump
  
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How to do efficiency:

Step 1) take over corporation/government entity and fire everybody who is getting paid. Strain the rest way beyond their breaking point until they can't deliver anymore either.

Now you may be thinking "won't this completely destroy the company's ability to even function?", and you'd be right, but that's fine as long as you

Step 2) blame the liberals.

Step 3) ???

Step 4) Profit!

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You forgot the precursor steps to step 1.

Complain about government budgets/taxes/the deficit/etc

Reduce/stagnate funding for critical programs

Critical programs begin to fail

Blame the left/liberals/socialists/communists/other boogeymen

Take over government entity
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I cant wait for his midlife crisis to be over.

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I cant wait for his ~~mid~~life ~~crisis~~ to be over.

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- I celebrated the deaths of Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, and that one US General who caused the minor invasion of like 9 countries in South America and Asia for shits and giggles. His name escapes me, now.
  
  I expect I will celebrate Musk's death as well, cheers!
  
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Where's the period after the "E"?

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Reminder, period trackers on social media are not to be trusted... :-|

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- why? is it targeted advertising?
  
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He figured he would be efficient and just delete extra periods.

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- I feel like there a metaphysical bar that billionaires have to limbo under to become billionaires that is a hard cap on IQ.
  
  Who among the super rich isn't on a spectrum STRICTLY ranging from "completely stupid" to "completely evil"?
  
  I don't think they have literally any other personality traits at all. No friends outside of business partners or people trying to get a piece of it.
  
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Douche Of Gargantuan Enormity

I like how the E in the shitbag AI photo has no period.

To his credit, I have never seen anyone destroy a company and its reputation as efficiently as he trashed Twitter.

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He’s shilling Dogecoin, that’s all. He needs some simps to be his bagholders.

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Eh, that meme came and went. It does give him plausible deniability for this reference though:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice

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- FYI: Elon Musk on his crypto portfolio: I only own bitcoin, ether and dogecoin
  
  He sits on a pile of Doge that’s worth less than half of what he paid. He was never shy of manipulating stock or (crypto)currency valuations as there are never legal consequences for him. Let’s see if enough of his horde of simps is dumb enough to be his bag holders of Doge.
  
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Dude isn't even efficient at his own jobs. Supposedly works 100 hour weeks. Can't delegate.
Dude accepts government handouts for his companies. Can't finance his own ideas or ventures.
Dude purchased a company as a joke and lost money/revenue streams/users/entire countries. Can't even reduce costs while maintaining the things that make him money.
Dude used his most profitable venture as leverage for the joke purchase. Can't even make a joke purchase without endangering his best known and most profitable company.

At what point has this guy been efficient at anything but conning the government out of money and grifting genuinely smart people into working at his companies.

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I mean controlling media sure shows if you're right about all this considering he's supposedly on track to be the world's first trillionaire in under a couple years - ok just over 2 years

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- I've been saying for a while that I'd like to stage a peaceful protest taking over billionaire properties. It's not like they don't ask have 30 other properties to go stay in.
  
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He's 53?

Damn, for having that much fucking money, he looks a fuck ton older than he could.

I genuinely thought he was like 62 or something, had yo Google his age and yeah, still 53.

That's a lousy 53.

Dude could afford to be in such good health just by hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot, yet he looks like someone filled a grocery store plastic bag with mac&cheese and gave it to an developmentally challenged 5-year old to make a face out of.

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Spending years heavily abusing a variety of drugs does that to you.

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- Well, yes and no.
  
  You're not wrong, but... I honestly know a lot of drug abusers of that age who seriously look much better than him. So it's not only drug abuse, it's also a shit diet and probably zero exercise.
  
  Sure, being the richest asshole in the world probably is a bit stressful, but I think he's just a fucking slob, drub abuse or not.
  
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Lol, you should have seen him before all the cosmic surgery 😅

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He looked 53 in college

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hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot,

This is the part that is such a head-scratcher for me. He clearly cares about his outward appearance thanks to the million-dollar hair transplant and whatever meds he's on to keep it that way. But the rest? Yeah, I thought daily personal training, custom-built menus, personal chefs, and a personal assistant to keep that circus moving, were just SOP for rich bastards like this. It would seem that impulse and lack of foresight are traits that impact everything.

Alternatively, maybe what we're seeing is peak performance for Musk as an organism, and his overall health is actually way worse than we think.

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Imagine being hyped that your chosen candidate literally lets you buy a government agency to run. Pathetic.

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Where is the burn? 53 is the age you are supposed to have a midlife crisis.

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Very rich (hah) for a guy who uses government funds to build his explodey space rockets.

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Not the greatest example, imo.

SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts with far more cost efficiency than any of its competitors.

The most glaring example is the Commercial Crew Program. They were given far less money than Boeing, and it looks like they might end up being the sole US provider of commercial crew to the ISS.

Starship HLS (moon lander starship) is government funded, but core Starship is not, it's financed with private equity - so the rocket explosions haven't been on the taxpayers' dime.

That all said, Elon doesn't really run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does - which is probably the smartest business decision Elon has ever made.

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- SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts
  
  "Better than Boeing" is very low bar, ATM. But SpaceX technology appears to be lagging India - which put a probe into Marsian orbit for $75M a full ten years ago - and Russians - whose Soyuz rocket continues to provide the cheapest LEO lift at $3800/kg.
  
  SpaceX is in the traditional American contractor model of Late and Overbudget. What's more they don't pay their bills on time.
  
  As an American firm, they're the best of the worst. Intentionally, they're experimenting with interesting techniques, but they aren't outcompeting their global peers.
  
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- We don't care about your stock price or dividends.
  
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If such a government agency existed, I'd expect C-level executives to be first on the chopping block of inefficiencies since they're absolutely pointless.

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LeI’m n is so desperate for power, ugh. Those two fucknuts working together is another excellent reason to make sure DT does not take office. How horrible too, a vaguely defined department of “efficiency “? From the idiot who goes around on his production floor doing shit like “why does the driver go backwards twice before going forwards? Eliminate that step” (it prevents cross threading, but Leon doesn’t know that).

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Nah fam, that looks like the department of gathering evidence

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I imagine this is what would happen if you gave a five year old billions

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To play Devil's advocate isn't he autistic?

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- Most autistic people still act like adults
  
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- That's no excuse for being a raging asshole.
  
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- He embraced that concept in the same way a lot of people do, as a perceived superpower of being smart. Note he particularly claimed to have Asperger's nearly a decade after the DSM removed it as a distinct diagnosis. People flocked to Asperger's as a self diagnosis of "Autism light, I'm an asshole, but it's ok because I have a condition, but I don't have any real downsides because it's not 'full' Autism".
  
  Now with it gone as an official diagnosis, people still embrace high functioning autistic as some sort of badge of honor/superpower and explanation for why they can be assholes. So you continue to have ton of people self-diagnosing to rationalize a more comfortable, lazy interaction with the world. "neurodivergent" is cool because it has the word "divergent" in it, and who would be so lame as to be "neurotypical", which is used almost as a slur among folks eager to self-diagnose autism.
  
  In short, I'm not particularly inclined to put much stock in anyone's self-proclamation of autistic. I've seen people struggling with it for real and I frankly find it a bit offensive how a lot of internet people have flocked to bragging about their "autism" given how much struggle people have with the condition.
  
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- Is an inflated sense of self importance a symptom of autism? Of course there is also the "I have lots of money therefore whatever I think is by default true" which I would not associate with autism but more with second generation billionaires who manage to convince themselves that their success is solely a result of their skills and competence.
  
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What a fucking dickhead

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This is the prequel to The Terminator, where he travels into the past to prevent Sarah Conner from having an abortion, so he can later travel back from the future to kill her son.

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Wouldn’t that mean a bigger government?

The man has no shame, you got to troll him

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Easiest way to troll Elon Musk is to say the word "cisgender" in earshot

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- Nah, that wouldn’t make him look weak to his supporters, that’s what most leftist don’t get.
  
  You can’t insult them on your level, you have to insult things they actually care about.
  
  Hence calling them weird and its effectiveness.
  
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Oh my Fuck I thought that was a meme that someone made.

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A 53 year old man trying to meme like 30 year olds did a decade ago. He isn’t bussin no cap, this is the equivalent of a rage comic, but with him applying for a currently nonexistent financial leadership position in donOLD’s cabinet.

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Fuckin weird af

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I’m glad they put Sebastian Stan in charge instead

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Cringe fellow-kids, galaxy-brained dipshit

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I read the title as "Jesus was a bum."

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I'll never get over people comparing this man to Tony Stark.

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It wasn't a burn, it was just the obvious truth.

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He looks like "Poochie" from The Simpsons.

I bet Elmo has all kinds of cool ideas for making the government "more efficient." Like not going after billionaires to pay their share of the tax burden.

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Everyone in this thread is absolutely fuming over a goofy meme image, and thinks that chastising someone for being silly because they decided they're too old for it is "what a burn", lol.

Wow.

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There's a wider context. Trump has declared his intent to have Musk be in charge of "Government Efficiency".

This suggests he bought his way into a position and considers it a joke, a pretty dumb one too. Also, another stab at trying to make Dogecoin a thing again is highly likely.

So mililons of dollars to buy his way into an administration position that he made up and the end result is a dumb meme... It's just some rich person bullshit.

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