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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.
This would make my year. I hope you’re right
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.
Typical of useless employees: show some results even if they are in detriment to the business. The important thing is to show that you are doing something.
Part of me wonders whether the whole thing is just a set up so Trump can look good for shutting them down...
No, that would require planning and forethought.
DOGE was always just an excuse to fire a bunch of government workers, cancel contracts (except for Musk), and run the government into the ground. If trump did fire Musk for overreach it would be afger the damage is done and trump will just proclaim mission accomplished.
Defunding the nation, and undermining its function, is the win they wanted, and they're getting it.
People forget the point is to hand things over to corporate America. Hence this article is out of touch, and based on the author's feelings about Musk's feeling...
...whilst completely being ignorant of the plan. The plan is corporate run libertarian fifedoms. Corporate mini-states.
Turns out the federal government is actually pretty efficient. Who would've thought!
Every time there's a World War, a bunch of industries are put under the control of the government in a process called Nationalization, or a "War Economy"...
...this is because it's highly efficient. This is an excellent argument against free market libertarian types. They don't put business in charge of government (like is being done now, eg. Privatization) they put the government in charge of business/industry.
I wouldn’t call it “efficient” but I would call it optimal given the complexity.
"Optimal given the complexity" fits the definition of efficient.
I think it certainly can, since humans are involved, and humans are messy.
A lot of government stuff should be automated in software, but that takes an immense amount of time to develop. Like… why are taxes so hard when the IRS always has all my data?
Efficient? Not as much as it should be. But good luck wrangling that many people’s needs at once.
I mean, simple file should already be a thing, and the IRS would prefer it be easier for everyone to file. But h&r block and turbotax have lobbied heavily against it because they'd lose money with easier filing. One way to make things more streamlined and efficient would be to get rid of middle men and focus on making internal systems better.
But this administration wants the internal systems to be broken and needlessly complex so that they can outsource it to their preferred middle men so that they all make a lot more money.
A lot of government 'redundancy' is the auditing/oversight process where people check other people's work. Plus ensuring there is adequate staffing for the busy times, like tax season!
But a lot of the things like not having taxes automatically calculated for the vast majority of the population or similar complex systems is the fault of the legislature. They wrote the laws that kept the IRS from building the system that lets people confirm their taxes are right and add exemptions.
Efficient and complicated. Not that these dipshits would understand that.
Next: Elon Musk will try to fake one and will pull a full on Eric-Cartman-style "screw you guys, I'm going home" when his incompetence is inevitably revealed..
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"
The people Trump fired this way in the past didn't pay for his campaign.
Trump works for Musk, not the other way around.
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.
I think its a game of "who owns the zeitgeist?" Its why "Rumble" exists; why fascists sought their own media ecosystems; its why Elon bought twitter.
There is some threshold where another billion buys you no more power, or at least, significantly less than your last billion. Hence buying a the worlds largest microphone, twitter, for what seemed like an overpriced market value.
So if Elon controls Trumps access; or even more threateningly, if Elon captures the zeitgeist, and Trump is no longer in control of narratives, or Elon is able to create and inject his own, thats a real material threat.
Trump is going to die soon; whoever inherits this cult is the real threat.
Oh, one can dream.
Someone should send them an email l to summarize their work from the past week
