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Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE faces mounting pressure to show achievements amid criticism. Staffers, under pressure from Trump administration officials, seek public relations wins to counter negative headlines.

Cuts to federal offices led to mass layoffs, and efforts to modernize government services have been chaotic. DOGE prioritizes speed over security and protecting sensitive information.

Trump has distanced himself, stating agency chiefs, not Musk, control department cuts, preferring a "scalpel" over a "hatchet" approach. Public opinion has turned against DOGE, with 48% disapproving versus 34% approving, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

With limited time before their tenure ends, DOGE officials are desperate to show results.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Ooh traditional American victories included overthrowing a regime in a third world country, there's one he doesn't even have to do much to do.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

48% disapproving.

He’s destroying our entire government and 52% of Americans think ‘yeah, this is fine’ or ‘yeah, who cares?’

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

They don't understand what the people being fired do. There's no marketing or awareness campaigns for the GSA clerks that keep every government office in the country stocked with chairs; or the mental health nurses that pick up the phone at 2 in the morning.

People think it's some white guy just golfing while they collect checks.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

That's… an ironic image, to say the least.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

It's okay if little d fucks off and doesn't really work. He's rich and therefore, better than you. Worthington's Law.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

What’s all the BS they’ve been doing all this time? Is it not winning to crash about like a bull in a china shop wrecking things? What sort of “win” are they looking for? Are they looking for a Death Star shot where the entire country says, “as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

These idiots are so drunk on their own Kool aid that everyone in government is useless and corrupt and not actually working and that it's all a "waste."

Also that zillions of people are on government support that should not be, nevermind that its people, exactly like Musk, who have run their shitty corpos in such a way that people can't afford to exist anymore without government assistance.

I mean, technically he is right, there are a ton of people who should not be on government programs, that are, because profit profit profit companies have made life miserable and those people don't have a choice.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Musk is on government support. He has scores of billions in contracts, loans, subsidies, and incentives.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I thought a cool online name like Big Balls was win enough.

What a get.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 29 points 16 hours ago

I want DOGE to be put to sleep.

[-] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 19 points 16 hours ago

imagine this sentence 10 years ago!

rip Kabosu, your alias was not meant to be stained in such a way :(

[-] prole 9 points 16 hours ago
[-] buzzyburke@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Nah we can do it for both les go

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Or maybe just move to a farm upstate where they can run and play through the fields all day. No one to say “bad doge”, no one to stop from digging homes or chasing squirrels, no one to care when they play on the mud

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

I mean... If it's about efficiency, wouldn't the military be the first place to audit?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

This is a common misconception. The military isn't designed to be efficient on the back end. It's designed to win wars efficiently, which is an entirely different thing. The last time they tried to be "efficient" with the military the 101st ended up doing the world's fastest ground and air assault on rations because they didn't have enough food and water. And entire battalions got extremely sick from using local water when they absolutely had to.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

The last time they tried to be "efficient"

Thus sounds like a cherry picked example.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm not sure what that proves except that whoever tried it last time sounds like a moron.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

George W Bush in 2003. And no, it wasn't just that he was a moron. There were very smart logistics officers working on the problem. It's an inherent problem. The military normally would much rather over supply an area and write it off after the fighting. Because that means there's always a pallet of whatever you need and a plane or helicopter to transport it. Trying to meet the exact needs means that when something gets blown up, it's replacement isn't even in the right region of the planet.

So to be efficient at blowing shit up you have to accept inefficiency in the back end.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Find the student loan records and erase them!

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

I mean to say.. "Don't find the student loans records and don't erase them! Migrants hate that soon much! "

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

And the trans. Definitely...the trans would haaaaaate that.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

More trans people should come out as loan repayment lovers. It would be such a shame to just erase those loans away. And migrant families love paying the loans. Imagine if they had no loans to repay! What would their purpose in life be then with so much money just hanging around all the time.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 points 16 hours ago

The funny thing is that Elon Musk is the wealthiest man ever and enough hecklers chanting "no one likes Elon" in a sing song manner would bring him to tears

[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Those MAGA idiots

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 171 points 1 day ago

Someone should send them an email l to summarize their work from the past week

[-] SnotFlickerman 81 points 1 day ago
[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Taking drugs and fucking shit up are my strengths but I'm not to shabby at sexual harrasment or cheeky wanks at my desk either.

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like you've got executive level potential.

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[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 day ago

I thought destroying the government and setting up racism was the win?

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 81 points 1 day ago

Turns out the federal government is actually pretty efficient. Who would've thought!

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Efficient and complicated. Not that these dipshits would understand that.

[-] prole 4 points 16 hours ago

And super fucking important

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I wouldn’t call it “efficient” but I would call it optimal given the complexity.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

"Optimal given the complexity" fits the definition of efficient.

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[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

I'd say it's predictable ..... Had it been a success I think Trump would be shouting "One of my master moves, this is the mother of all my moves" Now we get to read "Trump has distanced himself" meaning it's failing and Musk is gonna be sacrificed without a thought "I don't know what Musk did, he acted like a loose cannon but I fired him for his incompetence"

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

The people Trump fired this way in the past didn't pay for his campaign.

Trump works for Musk, not the other way around.

[-] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

True, but what does musk have left to give to trump? If he's no longer useful, trump will have no problem dumping him and moving on. As soon as he thinks it's more beneficial to turn on musk than it is to suck his dick, he will. Loyalty is one way for him.

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago

There's still time to die a hero Elon. All you have to do is commit hari-kari and I will build you a statue.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Will the statue look like this?

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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

With limited time before their tenure ends, DOGE officials are desperate to show results.

Uh first I'm hearing of this

[-] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

The fall-out between Trump and Musk is going to be explosive! And it will come. Sooner than we think, I'd guess.

If Canadian and European movie theatres want to boost attendance, they might want to think about screening the whole thing.

When Trump inevitably threatens to have him deported, it's going to be the comedy event of the year. Oscar worthy.

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[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

What is this limited time thing?

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

When they were selling DOGE during the campaign, the pitch was they’d have a year or something to do their thing. The EO might have it spelled out can’t recall. But they also said they would just be an advisory group? Not insider threat hackers and political commissars at the top of every agency. Not sure why they are sweating a time limit since they dont care about any other law, regulation or protocol. I guess if they don’t deliver enough, Trump won’t do another EO extending their presence? They’re literally reworking agency stuff so that the DOGE staff have to sign off on commissioners actions, hiring etc so are they just going to revert that once the clock strikes midnight for DOGE?

I suppose the idea is that the admin wants to lock in all the creepy shit from project 2025 prior to mid terms since they know that all of it will end up being wildly unpopular and will result in republican losses in congress and potentially gridlock from that point forward… but again, their playbook essentially calls for the end of democracy, so why are they sweating something like the midterms…

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