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Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, I'm not a fan of the man, but this absolutely MUST come with the title of Lord

XXX DOGE Lord ^has^ ^a^ ^certain^ ^ring^

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I'm glad that I took vector calculus in college, so I can accurately model this fucking parabola of the country going straight into the ground.

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[–] Loce@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're living in the Idiocracy. It's not the future, its now.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 day ago

"But I didn't get no Big Ass Fries!"

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.

yet

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By law, neither can an insurrectionist, but here we are.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You are.

I'm outside the lines watching the circus burn, keeping my hopes up the audience notices it and get out while there is time.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They sewed the tent shut long ago.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Pocket knives can do miracles.

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 82 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

https://www.gao.gov/

Creating a second department to do something there already is a department for so you can have funni name is peak efficiency.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Sir, thats the government accountability agency.... thats the first one to be axed.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nah, this one's OFFFICIALLY non-governmental and just makes "suggestions". Because you can't just create new departments, nor get rid of them, without Congressional approval.

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[–] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 139 points 2 days ago (6 children)

...and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn't even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, "ok, I have to try to buy the government".

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn't just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 57 points 2 days ago

When you have this much money, the life is just a game

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 91 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The drug adled guy who caused Twitter to lose 85% of its value and to become a racist hate filled Russian propaganda machine?

This should be good.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Xitter is worth as much as it was estimated before he paid an absurdly over market price for it but it won't matter because he got what he wanted out of it and will make all that money back by siding with fascism. So in reality, Xitter didn't lose any money, Elon just threw away a bunch of billions to make even more later and it worked. America chose this.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Just gonna be years and years of crypto scams headed up by the Federal Govt.

We're gonna do an Argentina.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Just bulldoze the whitehouse and erect a circus tent

[–] illi@lemm.ee 80 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wtf is up with this timeline?

[–] apemint@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We're in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Makes even more sense when you realize Biff was based on Donald Trump!

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Next up. We're renaming dollars to x-coin.

[–] Ixoid@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

X-bucks, it scans better. Sorry not sorry.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

No x-bucks is alimony

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (22 children)

50+% America, you'll get what you wanted. Also those who didn't vote will get what they deserve.

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[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago

I'm old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Being in a functional union was nice while it lasted.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Unrelated, but can I block keywords on the desktop site, too? The less I see of this fucker the better

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Congratulations America. You put the reins of power in the hands of toddlers coming up with cool names for made up comic book superheroes.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Isn't this kinda a conflict of interest

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure having one or more conflicts of interest is a requirement for Republicans and their allies.

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