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highplainsdem

(52,287 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:27 PM Tuesday

Musk just posted that his new spending-cuts department will post all actions online, which will be "entertaining"









Elon Musk
@elonmusk

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.

Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!

We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining 🤣🤣


The entertainment value will be epic
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Musk just posted that his new spending-cuts department will post all actions online, which will be "entertaining" (Original Post) highplainsdem Tuesday OP
The guillotine had better entertainment value dalton99a Tuesday #1
Everything is on the block except for all of Musk's socialism-funded programs. TheBlackAdder Tuesday #21
Come back to X! Solly Mack Tuesday #2
Doubling down on bureaucracy C_U_L8R Tuesday #3
Slouching toward Bethlehem at breakneck speed. yorkster Tuesday #4
Will they be cutting more pandemic teams and other crucial ecstatic Tuesday #5
And an illegal immigrant to boot. Surprised Traitor Trump did not make him travelingthrulife Wednesday #31
Does he not understand that the Executive office does not control the budget... Yavin4 Tuesday #6
They assume the GOP congress will rubber-stamp everything. Irish_Dem Tuesday #14
Some of those cuts feed families in red states Yavin4 Tuesday #22
Yes the pain will be felt across the board except for the wealthy. Irish_Dem Wednesday #30
Muskrat is a terrifying species of psychopath, isn't he? "Entertainment value" ? Hekate Tuesday #7
"Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant" dalton99a Tuesday #12
Audit Musk & Vivek's tax returns at140 Tuesday #8
Yeah, because our super informed public kerouac2 Tuesday #9
OK, it's now gone completely to his head. Maybe the coke at Mar-a-Lago was uncut. Emrys Tuesday #10
Sorry but if this is your main form of entertainment... Initech Tuesday #11
They can't cut the spending. roamer65 Tuesday #13
The GOP controlled Congress? WarGamer Tuesday #18
The House is still unresolved. roamer65 Wednesday #24
STOP VISITING and POSTING X!!!!! AkFemDem Tuesday #15
Every time you do this BTW AkFemDem Tuesday #16
Two incredibly horrible people are going to do what? Klarkashton Tuesday #17
I wonder why we would try to boost Egyptian Johonny Tuesday #19
Not opposed to such studies, except by these MFers. If findings are truly on-line, people might Silent Type Tuesday #20
Not when it is 100% propaganda. travelingthrulife Wednesday #32
I'll bet this lasts until about April Iris Tuesday #23
Post removed Post removed Wednesday #25
Trashing EVERY single FUCKING "tweet". notroot Wednesday #26
"the Department of Government Efficiency" Dave Bowman Wednesday #27
How can he hold the job if he's not american? lindysalsagal Wednesday #28
He's a naturalized citizen but he entered illegally. travelingthrulife Wednesday #33
Yeah because the public has a fucking clue who is useful and who isn't. Takket Wednesday #29

C_U_L8R

(45,685 posts)
3. Doubling down on bureaucracy
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:34 PM
Tuesday

And adding a layer of jackassery and stoner idiocy.
Yeah real efficient there, Elmo.

Doge, my ass.

ecstatic

(34,362 posts)
5. Will they be cutting more pandemic teams and other crucial
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:36 PM
Tuesday

departments like last time? I wonder how many Americans will die this time around? Why would you have someone with zero emotional intelligence working a job like that?

Yavin4

(36,315 posts)
6. Does he not understand that the Executive office does not control the budget...
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:39 PM
Tuesday

..what am I saying? These clowns are idiots.

Irish_Dem

(57,038 posts)
30. Yes the pain will be felt across the board except for the wealthy.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 07:24 AM
Wednesday

The MAGAs will find a way to blame everyone else.

kerouac2

(668 posts)
9. Yeah, because our super informed public
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:47 PM
Tuesday

Understands everything behind the programs and expenses they will slash. People literally voted against their own self interests and programs and benefits they use. What a sick joke.

Entertaining is code word for owning libs and drinking the tears of those they hurt.

Emrys

(7,926 posts)
10. OK, it's now gone completely to his head. Maybe the coke at Mar-a-Lago was uncut.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:47 PM
Tuesday

His "department" won't be cutting anything, even if he hires catturd2 to kick some asses. There are other arms of government that are expressly designed to cover these matters, unless he imagines his pruning of government is going to abolish them.

The released information about his new little plaything implied a strictly advisory role. If it had any real power, he'd have to divest himself of his business interests and probably face confirmation hearings.

It doesn't take much imagination how a loose-lipped prat like Musk could play havoc with the stock exchange by releasing info about his latest brainstorm at key times. Musk has form for doing that.

"The entertainment value will be epic" - probably. Pointing and laughing at Musk seems to be something few tire of quickly.

Setting up a website and asking for comments from the public - what could possibly go wrong?

Initech

(101,868 posts)
11. Sorry but if this is your main form of entertainment...
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:48 PM
Tuesday

You are truly, unequivocally, totally fucked up in the head beyond all repair. Like seek help immediately fucked up.

AkFemDem

(2,166 posts)
15. STOP VISITING and POSTING X!!!!!
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:59 PM
Tuesday

Seriously, stop it.

No, you’re not keeping people informed- you’re driving more traffic to his site. We all fully expect him to be posting exactly the kind of content you are sharing. If Democrats, who by all accounts make up somewhere between 40-60% of this country, stopped giving that man the hits he so craves and loves, then his childish trolling would be powerless.

Delete your account. Everyone, delete your accounts!! Resist all urges to go and peek. Get your news from the mainstream media, not Twitter/X.

Johonny

(22,015 posts)
19. I wonder why we would try to boost Egyptian
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 11:13 PM
Tuesday

Tourism. Other than maintaining tourism is the one thing that helps keep radicals out of power there.

Silent Type

(6,597 posts)
20. Not opposed to such studies, except by these MFers. If findings are truly on-line, people might
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 11:24 PM
Tuesday

realize what’s going on.

travelingthrulife

(665 posts)
32. Not when it is 100% propaganda.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 07:40 AM
Wednesday

They will learn nothing but whatever Musk/Trump pulls out of his butt. Then they will use this to cause further division.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Dave Bowman

(3,584 posts)
27. "the Department of Government Efficiency"
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:33 AM
Wednesday

That sounds like something from a Kafka novel. Or a Monty Python sketch.

Takket

(22,507 posts)
29. Yeah because the public has a fucking clue who is useful and who isn't.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 06:14 AM
Wednesday

They’ll all say EVERYONE is useless right up until some service they were used to getting doesn’t show up anymore.

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