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Summary

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) began recruiting "high-IQ small-government revolutionaries" willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.

Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.

Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

"High-IQ" aka boot lickers who agree with everything Musk says or does and are willing to do so for no compensation. And let's consider those who have the financial means "work" for free. The over privileged fundees who think they earned their wealth by hard work even those its all daddy's money... Rining any bells? Unpaid positions are exactly what we don't need to help with combat our economic woes anyways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago) (1 children)

Ok, get this. You elect politicians to "help slash federal spending".

What the hell is Musk even doing and why is he outsourcing this job to unpaid idiots, when politicians already get paid to do this?

Okay, I'll do a few suggestions for free:

  • Stop subsidizing companies. All of them.
  • Tax the rich to boost the federal income.
  • Legalize all immigrants so they can be tax paying citizens.
  • Crack down on employers using illegal underpaid illegal immigrants.
  • Provide universal health care. Sick people don't work.
  • Cut down on police force spending.
  • Cut down on car infrastructure spending.
  • Cut down "defense" spending in artificial oil wars.
  • Help Ukraine to defeat Russia, so Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes, so that USA can also cut down on cost for maintenance of nukes.
  • Expand renewable energy. It's free energy yo, and it creates jobs for tax paying citizens.
  • Stop mining fossil fuels. It will cost more to clean that shit up than is earned.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 33 minutes ago

Undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion in 2023, they don't benefit from them but imagine if all of them get to pay taxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah, this will be the Department of Dunning-Kruger. The workers are idiots who think they are supergeniuses. Led by an idiot who thinks he's a supergenius.

During Trump's first term, this was just a metaphor, suggested by random comedians. Now, life will imitate art to its full extent.

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

I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!

--Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

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

High IQ people only wanted to do paid work for SpaceX because going to space is amazing.

I'm fairly sure none are working because of him though

Even paid work for any other Musk jobs would be an act of desperation. Fortunately, I suspect the unemployment rate will grow with Trump in charge.. Because it is likely more profitable to beg than make minimum wage (and he won't be increasing it). So maybe he will find people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I think this will be easy to hire for; imagine the damage you can do to competition, or the low cost regulatory capture you can achieve, by just getting one clever manipulator near this not too bright narcissist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Maybe he should ask Trump since everything he does is the best and has never been done better or before.

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

Nobody was smart as he thinks they should be will work for free - especially not for him and the orange idiot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

lol good luck picking candidates among highly intelligent incels and maga members

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago

Fun idea: Flood their contact addresses with fake applications and fake credentials like certificates with high scores on made-up IQ tests or Mensa membership cards.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

There are oxymorons and then there is musk, the oxyless moron

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can't just make a department. Sorry Leon, only maga morons believe that. The actual government and CONSTITUTION work differently than what you think...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, they would also need the other two institutions to pull this off. Oh wait, shit. Well the supreme court should be able to stop this. Oh wait, fuck.

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

What do you think Clarence Thomas would do for a Klondike bar? Do you think he'd support this weird, smart person recruiting bullshit? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago

They will make their money by fleecing the government of course.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot

Your opponent is Elon Musk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Fuck. I can't out-stupid this guy. I won't win.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

I think it'd be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago
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