He's very effective at losing money.
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"At the suggestion of Elon Musk [...] I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government" -Donald Trump
[Trump noted] the task force would be responsible for “making recommendations for drastic reforms” to the government.
The fact that this man doesn't understand that our entire system of checks and balances is what makes recommendations (and implements) drastic reforms, just shows how much of a fascist he is.
Adding Musk to his own special "task force" meant to "recommend" changes, which would, in reality, just be another avenue of control, is a clear attempt to centralize power.
Corpochristofascism
Not exaggerating - these people literally want to turn us into slaves. They’re going to take EVERYTHING they can from us.
Nothing says "efficiency" like a racist, drug addicted manchild with untreated ADHD who never sleeps.
Well, narcissistic idiots who’ve built their empires on lies and exploitation flock together.
MrRobot plot IRL just droped!
This just goes to show that nobody ever graduates school. What happens in elementary school in terms of popularity contests reoccurs in junior high and high school, college, businesses, religions, and governments. Humanity is still in its adolescence and until we actually mature as a species, we will constantly be on the brink of death or we will find a way to make it happen.
I heard someone say they fellate each other. Oh no, that was a video I saw of Lonnie interviewing the orange bad sucking each other off.
Step 1) Rename the country to something more hip. Possibly USX.
Step 2) Have everyone sign a pledge to work twice as hard.
Step 3) Cut everything that has a budget.
Step 4) Profit?
Don't forget to dock their pay if they do something unproductive like sleep.
He will make it as efficient as he did with Twitter!
It all starts with a name change, as always. Maybe "Holy Roman empire" will be dramatic enough for his tastes.
His dumbass will probably want to do something like 'FasceX'
This should be in commercials. There's Trump's Stupid ideas and Musk's ideologic stupidity. What a fucking Reese's these two would make
Wasn't he supposed to be on Mars by now? I can see why Dementia DonOLD likes him, he tanks businesses just like him, he lies just like him, he makes bullshit promises again just like him, and I could go on....
Chump sucking off a foreign national/wannabe dictator...
Tale as old as time.
Donald trump says Elon musk will lead “how to shovel more money into my pockets and the private sector while dismantling more government” task force.
Bruh fired people who wrote efficient code...
Trump made the remarks Thursday during a campaign stop at the New York Economic Club. “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,” Trump said. “Elon has agreed to head the task force,” Trump added while noting that the task force would be responsible for “making recommendations for drastic reforms” to the government.
Not sure I love the sound of "drastic reforms to the government". But if we're stupid enough to give gim the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania again, it's what we deserve.
Pay attention to who has the signs out in their yard for Dementia DonOLD. If he gets elected, watch them all flip like they never voted for him when shit all goes bad.
Sounds like Project 2025, the thing he claims not to know about.
That's exactly what it will be. "It is totally not Project 2025 because Musk made it up after heading the task force, right.... right? Wait, he came up with all the exact same actions as Project 2025? That must be coincidence."
As Gerrymandered as most red states are now and all the voter suppression tactics, I don’t know “stupid enough” would be the cause. The popular vote WILL go to Kamala. It’s whether the gaming of the electoral system can be overcome.
Gerrymandering affects the house. It's the electoral college that affects the presidential election.
Those of us ignorant enough to vote for Trump also vote for the Greg Abbott's and Ron DeSantis' of the country. It's not a popular position these days but we, the little people, includes the poo-brained asshats voting for Trump and the fascist takeover of the American South. But they're too stupid (or more accurately, willfully ignorant) to understand the scope of what voting for maga and maga-adjacent Republicans really means.
I guess through a kinder lens our maga neighbors don't have the perspective required to understand the truth of the world they live in. Some might be wholly incapable, but most just don't care enough to try. But the societal bubble the average maga voter lives it makes the ethos look pretty appealing. The rhetorical techniques used by maga media and personalities are like psyops level effective.
It would be irresponsible and incorrect to lay it all at the feet of voters or politicians of any political party. Every American is responsible for what's going on in the country right now.
Honestly, the fact that it's even close enough for that to matter is a damning indictment of our society. How January 6 wasn't the end of Trump's political career and the start of a prison term, I'll never know.
He should have hanged for it.
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