US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would appoint Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he is elected to office in November.
“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 and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York.
Translation: “I got an endorsement and a lot of money from Elon Musk, so I’m giving him a government job as a kickback where he can “regulate” his own businesses to enrich himself even further at the expense of literally every other American.”
Oh man, I can’t see a conflict of interest at all. Nope, no siree.
Dear Donald J. Numbskull: the fact that Elon never sleeps and kisses your ass does not mean he’s efficient, or even understands the concept.
His way of making the government efficient will be to just have no bid contracts go to all of his businesses.
Which is the safest thing to do since he has name recognition…
Source: I worked in a contracting office and literally these words have been spoken by almost every contracting official.
Christ, what an absolutely terrible idea. Of course the magachuds would be stroking off to such an idea…
God could you imagine.
Vote.
He just wants to be able to shut down the FAA, who keeps enforcing rules he doesn’t like (and SpaceX keeps breaking)
Not that it matters to his supporters buy he litterally said that he can be bought for a couple of pretty words.
The guy who lost $35B in a year and destroyed the business model - that guy?
I mean, depending on what your goals are, that could very well be described as efficient.
Like, if your goal is to destroy the American government, could anyone do it more efficiently than Elmo?
the guy that lead the Cyber Truck project? that guy?
Fits nicely with Trump’s reputation
Musk is CEO of 3 companies and has the time for a Government job?
Being CEO is a part time job.
Isn’t it at least 5?
SpaceX
Tesla
Twitter
Neuralink
Boring Company
Now tell me that being a CEO is such a hard and stressful job that one man could be in charge of five companies.
People like that consider being on the phone working. Flying on a plane, working.
Golfing? Working.
Shitposting on Twitter? Working.
Doing rails of ketamine? Working
You know what would happen if I did my job for five different companies?
I’d get fired.
Elon needs to get back to his CEO duties of abusing ketamine and shitposting on twitter all day long.
I had to scroll up to see if it was The Onion.
I’ve been saying for a few years now that I don’t blame anyone anymore for biting the onion. It is FAR TOO HARD to figure out what is life being absurd, and what is an absurd satire headline.
The lines aren’t blurred anymore. There are no lines. The lines have ceased to exist at this point.
I don’t understand life anymore, and I’d like to go back to politics being boring instead of being a circus.
And that’s assuming the headline you’re reading even has any bearing on the actual article, or that the article itself is factual, both of which are increasingly more common worries now.
I’m getting really sick of the “conventional wisdom” that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.
Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.
Yep, exactly. Also, look at how the USPS works.
Republican chuds: “Big Guvmit can’t do anything right, it’s the worst, they are hurting my freedom, argle bargle!”
Also Republican chuds: “Back the blue (unless they break up a terrorist action called in by our former failed president) and our military is the bestest and shiniest in the whole wide WURLD!”
Government is inefficient if you elect people who believe it is and set out to prove it.
People who say “run things like a business” don’t know shit. Every job I’ve worked at has had tremendous waste, but no one was looking closely because it’s private.
Like, right wing nut jobs would lose their shit if they learned a government office was buying fresh fruits for workers but most of it was going bad and being thrown out. But that happened every day for a while.
There’s also been a lot of “why is this machine still running? How much are we paying AWS for this??”
There’s also been a lot of "we don’t need to do accessibility on our website because most of our customers don’t care, and no one’s making us ".
He’s going to Xitter the US of A. 75% loss of value since he became involved.
And the whole reason the department is being created is because it would be called DOGE
This has to all be a wacky nightmare.
It is a troll. Musk is giving Lord Dampnut a shit ton of cash and support on shitter.
In return Mar-a-Lardo said he would put Musk in charge of the Department Of Government Efficiency.
It is a Dogecoin reference. Musk is being an edge lord.
Not saying that Cheeto Benito wouldn’t do it, but it is mostly just fun for Elon at the expense of the people who he is spinning up over it.
