Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE.

ulukinatme

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I imagine the “employee bloat” is pretty significant and it can be pared, but I agree, this directive should have went to the heads of the agencies. I’m guessing DOGE will get the responses and send to the agency heads for action.


That was my first thought too. Feels an awful lot like Office Space. If you've spent any time in an office environment, there are definitely a few employees that should be asked this because they don't do shit all day lol. The federal government surely has their own examples.

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That was my first thought too. Feels an awful lot like Office Space. If you've spent any time in an office environment, there are definitely a few employees that should be asked this because they don't do shit all day lol. The federal government surely has their own examples.

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It seems like the questions should be asked, but agencies within the federal government are voicing the fact that it needs to be coordinated with them.
 

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It would be nice if Elon wasn’t so fucking annoying and I could be more supportive in his efforts. He’s obviously overconfident in things he actually doesn’t know too much about. Undermines a lot of the good work he could do with DOGE. Give it to someone more focused and tell him he’s the space Tsar or something and make him focus on a manned mission to mars in the next decade or some shit like that. I’m fine with keeping his team of autists on board like Big Balls though just with actual adult supervision
 

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It would be nice if Elon wasn’t so fucking annoying and I could be more supportive in his efforts. He’s obviously overconfident in things he actually doesn’t know too much about. Undermines a lot of the good work he could do with DOGE. Give it to someone more focused and tell him he’s the space Tsar or something and make him focus on a manned mission to mars in the next decade or some shit like that. I’m fine with keeping his team of autists on board like Big Balls though just with actual adult supervision
I feel that would have been best, tell him take us to Mars. I think he probably made a huge donation to trump in exchange for a seat at the table.
 

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You do realize that the "findings" DOGE cited are publicly available and have been broken down? There have been news stories published as well as long threads on Elon's own site, X, about it. This stuff isn't difficult to find if you're actually interested.
 

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I'll delete my post, was wrong for them to cut the video like that.
I tell ya, really annoying when you see this kind of stuff, and in this age of the interwebz it's hard to get away with it fully. You'd think people would be smart and quit trying to fabricate garbage. Hate it, doesn't matter which side does it.
 
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You do realize that the "findings" DOGE cited are publicly available and have been broken down? There have been news stories published as well as long threads on Elon's own site, X, about it. This stuff isn't difficult to find if you're actually interested.
Yes and my original comment was that they aren’t showing all of the data collected. Show me where they name the databases and show the tables the data was extracted from. That’s the only way to know they are publishing all of the data on their site. I doubt they are.
 

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Ehhhh at least the Nazis got reinstated on Twitter
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Reducing the deficit >>>> Owning the libz

Eliminating USAID doesn't even cover more than 6% of the interest payments on the deficit.
Gotta start somewhere.

Low hanging fruit should aways be the first cut. The cuts will sadlessly progressively become more difficult. The counties in the DC metro are going to get hit. That's life. That population is upset. None of them matter politically. Virginia is hypothetically competitive but not really. Any loss in Virginia is probably offset by people in other states enthused to see objectively stupid plans cut.

USAID has so much bad spending in it. People don't care about LBGT dance festivals in Serbia or whatever stuff they dug up.

From watching the news, checking twitter, right now...all the right people are mad. As the cuts go up the priority of cuts, it will get a bit more difficult. But the cuts must happen.
 

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You do realize that the "findings" DOGE cited are publicly available and have been broken down? There have been news stories published as well as long threads on Elon's own site, X, about it. This stuff isn't difficult to find if you're actually interested.
Please post the ability to deny the DOGE reports here.
Let's have a real conversation about the validity of these claims.
 
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Snowflake Elon.

Bill Is hilarious. But, as far as politics and reality goes. Bill Is very closed minded. He can't have a conversation with any other walk of life without his dry humor taking center stage. Any conversation/interview he partakes in, becomes the Bill Burr ideology.
He's great as a comedian, but the worst at empathy and the search for answers.
 

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Circa, not sure what this is.
 
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