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Trump: “perfect resumé Elon, now let’s finish off America for our beloved Pootie”
yes lets put the man that single handedly collapsed the EV market and obliterated Twitter in charge of "streamlining" the government, that is a great idea!
Having Elon anywhere near government anything is a terrible idea and he's an awful human but what's this about the EV market? I thought it was doing fine. Twitter though yeah that has been just...a large wtf per minute value for sure.
Yeah, the EV market is fine, just Tesla sales which have dropped some, lowering numbers for the total EV market. Sales continue to be strong for other EV manufacturers, just one brand slowing down for some strange reason..... Almost like someone has started to alienate their core customer base....
Yeah, I'm actively shopping for an EV and Tesla is not on the list. Not just because of Elmo though. I need physical buttons for the AC and radio and I like my cars to be pretty. But Elmo is definitely another reason why I'm not even looking at a Tesla.
yeah if you look at the stats of the market, its been all over sites like Bloomberg and Forbes, the EV market is imploded because "Americans don't want EVs" but when you break it down by manufacturer the market is overall growing if you excluded tesla, but Tesla is the largest maker in the segment so as they dive the market as a aggregate takes a hit.
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That's exactly why they want people like him. The goal is to hit the government in the knees and then say "see? The government can't walk, we need to get rid of it"
Ah yes Elon Musk the Joseph Goebbels of a trump administration
Bruh fired people who wrote efficient code...
Donald trump says Elon musk will lead “how to shovel more money into my pockets and the private sector while dismantling more government” task force.
If this actually happens, it will be a shit show of epic proportions.
I think it’s going to be a spectacular year for employment lawyers.
Surely even conservatives can see that Musk is an idiot.
I recall a time, not too long ago, when conservatives hated Musk with a passion and wanted him to fail at everything he did.
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Trump made the remarks Thursday during a campaign stop at the New York Economic Club. “At the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete and total endorsement…I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government,” Trump said. “Elon has agreed to head the task force,” Trump added while noting that the task force would be responsible for “making recommendations for drastic reforms” to the government.
Not sure I love the sound of "drastic reforms to the government". But if we're stupid enough to give gim the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania again, it's what we deserve.
As Gerrymandered as most red states are now and all the voter suppression tactics, I don’t know “stupid enough” would be the cause. The popular vote WILL go to Kamala. It’s whether the gaming of the electoral system can be overcome.
Honestly, the fact that it's even close enough for that to matter is a damning indictment of our society. How January 6 wasn't the end of Trump's political career and the start of a prison term, I'll never know.
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Sounds like Project 2025, the thing he claims not to know about.
That's exactly what it will be. "It is totally not Project 2025 because Musk made it up after heading the task force, right.... right? Wait, he came up with all the exact same actions as Project 2025? That must be coincidence."
Step 1) Rename the country to something more hip. Possibly USX.
Step 2) Have everyone sign a pledge to work twice as hard.
Step 3) Cut everything that has a budget.
Step 4) Profit?
Don't forget to dock their pay if they do something unproductive like sleep.
He will make it as efficient as he did with Twitter!
It all starts with a name change, as always. Maybe "Holy Roman empire" will be dramatic enough for his tastes.
His dumbass will probably want to do something like 'FasceX'
Great. So the Gov’t will have a quarter of its current value.
Governments should not be measured in "value" of any financial aspect, but rather the quality of living of the citizens they govern. Electing a leader of questionable human rights morals would be a disaster.
“Value” is not a term reserved for financial discussions. Don’t ruin the joke.
Chump sucking off a foreign national/wannabe dictator...
Tale as old as time.
This should be in commercials. There's Trump's Stupid ideas and Musk's ideologic stupidity. What a fucking Reese's these two would make
Not exaggerating - these people literally want to turn us into slaves. They’re going to take EVERYTHING they can from us.
On the one hand, government jobs are known to be very cushy compared to industry where the harsh realities of late-stage capitalism are in full swing.
On the other hand, Elon is in no position to fix the government inefficiency problem. He would call for some ridiculously stupid and uninformed decisions to be made based upon his business ethos of nuking (potentially important) things and starting from scratch.
His idea of efficiency is having his employees work 60-80 hours a week and firing people that don't. That does not work with government jobs which are often unionized.
Exactly. Also, that sort of efficiency is a myth because people can't sustain that workload for more than the time required to upskill and get out of that company. You lose good people with knowledge of your operation doing what Elon does.
That's why his "solution" is going to be to replace them by contracting private companies. These will of course happen to exclusively be companies owned by Musk and or Trump.
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Well, narcissistic idiots who’ve built their empires on lies and exploitation flock together.
This just goes to show that nobody ever graduates school. What happens in elementary school in terms of popularity contests reoccurs in junior high and high school, college, businesses, religions, and governments. Humanity is still in its adolescence and until we actually mature as a species, we will constantly be on the brink of death or we will find a way to make it happen.
I heard someone say they fellate each other. Oh no, that was a video I saw of Lonnie interviewing the orange bad sucking each other off.
"At the suggestion of Elon Musk [...] I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government" -Donald Trump
[Trump noted] the task force would be responsible for “making recommendations for drastic reforms” to the government.
The fact that this man doesn't understand that our entire system of checks and balances is what makes recommendations (and implements) drastic reforms, just shows how much of a fascist he is.
Adding Musk to his own special "task force" meant to "recommend" changes, which would, in reality, just be another avenue of control, is a clear attempt to centralize power.
Elon Musk nonsense aside, a Department for Government Efficiency is honestly not a bad idea. Apparently, the military is tremendously wasteful, as are most other government departments. This could genuinely save some taxpayer money and free up funds for good things.
I am aware of the Government Accountability Office. I want something more powerful than that. The Government Accountability Office is a toothless organisation without the resources and power needed to really identify and defeat Government inefficiency.
Maybe we give the existing department teeth instead of creating another office. Seems more efficient.
We will need a Department for Government Efficiency to determine that.
MrRobot plot IRL just droped!
He's very effective at losing money.
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