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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles

President-elect Trump has tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory group focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of the government.

Trump announced Tuesday that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), an initiative meant to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures” and restructure federal agencies.

We live in the dumbest timeline

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn't expecting complete fascist victory to be so... cringe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

skibidi purges

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is literally going to be an embezzlement op isn't it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its gonna be the largest embezzlement scheme in US history, that much I'm certain. How much damage the pair will do to the federal gov I'm not sure, but I expect there won't be much left of it once they're done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Personally I'm betting on Teapot Dome: somebody in the Cabinet will be convicted of something like bribery, foreign influence, or electoral interference; and the cleanup will implicate multiple other Cabinet members. Trump needs to do this at some point anyway; he's already done all of the Nixon things like Watergate and interfering in foreign wars, and while he attempted a Teapot Dome last time with Ryan Zinke, he needs to actually have a Cabinet member removed or convicted in order to truly be a worse president than Warren G. Harding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

@corbin

How would that even happen with a Trumpist DOJ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

@BlueMonday1984 I am dead. From Fremdschämen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Such meme. Much wow. I see we’re continuing with giving dumb names to everything the Muskrat is involved in. Glad that hasn’t changed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kabosu didn't die for this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

I voted for Liz in 2020 :( instead they gave me diamond joe