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Summary

DOGE staffers Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang tried pressuring the Bureau of Reclamation to open a California water pump to aid Los Angeles during January’s wildfires, though the system couldn’t reach the city.

When denied, they flew there to do it themselves but failed due to maintenance and access restrictions.

Critics called DOGE a “slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”

Trump later ordered dam releases, flooding farmland. Critics called DOGE’s actions reckless and uninformed.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I wish I had the confidence of a DOGE tech bro even for a week.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish someone would put me in a room with these losers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No shit. Little boys would be crying for their mamas.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First, the power was off due to planned maintenance. Second, Shang wasn’t an official federal employee yet, meaning he couldn’t access the pump. Hassen couldn’t do it either, CNN reports, because he had to fly back before the power would be restored.

“They didn’t get their photo op,” an unnamed source with knowledge of the incident told CNN, adding it represented “what DOGE has been this entire time — this slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”

lol that's amazing levels of incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Who paid for the flights? American tax dollars or Elon, because it was poorly planned and inefficient which goes against the ideology of DOGE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Anyihing where Trump or Musk are involved there's incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

These Doggy stooges are sooooo freaking annoying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

If DOGE was a movie, it would be Sausage Party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They look like my dad after he finds a new jacket at Costco.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yelling at various department managers and threatening to call Musk might work for the agencies they’ve gutted, but yeah fucking with any fire department during an active wildfire…I don’t care who you are, you’re gonna have a bad time. Possibly shovel related.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They weren’t fucking with the fire department. They were trying to open massive water pumps (incapable of delivering water anywhere near the fires mind you) that have the capacity to flood entire towns. If you or I did that we’d be facing terrorism charges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Got it, thank you for bringing context. The image of a shit shovel to the face was just too satisfying to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

A couple of terms that need to be resurrected and put into common use during this MAGA Occupation:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang are fascist toadies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

this whole organization runs exactly like a Seth Rogen / Michael Cera / Jonah Hill movie, except no one is likeable.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Reminder: pronounce DOGE as “doggy” to deny them legitimacy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes! I always talk about Musk's Doggy-Department.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Or just DGE like it would be if it were an actual bureau, DOGE is what they want because it minimizes legitimacy of government itself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been pronouncing it "doogie" because it makes it seem as silly as it is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I like your approach. It certainly makes me think of how all the people involved are like way too young.

I’m going to keep going with “doggy” because it reinforces to me how the decision making is on par with toddler logic

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

failed PR attempt

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Elon Musk needs to be tried and sentenced to death given the level of his crimes committed in and to the US.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Smart people thinking they know everything. I know plenty of preteens that are the same way. They don't seem to understand there's a difference between knowledge and wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya know when you're a teenager and you have these delusions of grandure, and think the world would work just fine if you were allowed to run it, because these "Stupid Adults don't know ANYTHING!"

That's DOGE

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Stupid Adults don’t know ANYTHING!”

I mean... these are adults.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only if you look at their chronological age and not their behavior.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

All I'm saying is is that I could have absolutely have done a better job as a teenager then these fuckwits.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Bout sums it up.

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