US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would appoint Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he is elected to office in November.

“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 and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    The guy who lost $35B in a year and destroyed the business model - that guy?

    • Billiam
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      I mean, depending on what your goals are, that could very well be described as efficient.

      Like, if your goal is to destroy the American government, could anyone do it more efficiently than Elmo?

    • FuglyDuck
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      the guy that lead the Cyber Truck project? that guy?

    • @pigup
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      More like: the guy who helps Putin in Ukraine with starlink policies and hardware and by assisting Trump since Putin for sure has nasty child rapey kompromat on him.

      Elon is a piece of shit, but I suspect he’s doing what he’s told.

  • @Furbag
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    Translation: “I got an endorsement and a lot of money from Elon Musk, so I’m giving him a government job as a kickback where he can “regulate” his own businesses to enrich himself even further at the expense of literally every other American.”

    Oh man, I can’t see a conflict of interest at all. Nope, no siree.

    • @Freefall
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      He is maintaining his record of putting the worst possible person he can find in positions of power.

    • @shplane
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      Betsy Devos but worse

  • @[email protected]
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    Musk is CEO of 3 companies and has the time for a Government job?

    Being CEO is a part time job.

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      Isn’t it at least 5?

      SpaceX

      Tesla

      Twitter

      Neuralink

      Boring Company

      Now tell me that being a CEO is such a hard and stressful job that one man could be in charge of five companies.

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        You know what would happen if I did my job for five different companies?

        I’d get fired.

      • @militaryintelligence
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        People like that consider being on the phone working. Flying on a plane, working.

        • Billiam
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          Golfing? Working.

          Shitposting on Twitter? Working.

          Doing rails of ketamine? Working

          • @TheEighthDoctor
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            Having sex with underaged sex workers, believe it or not, working

        • @M600
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          Someone did a study on this and found that ceos typically count their working hours as anything that is related to work including commuting. Picking up dry cleaning, even lunches since you have them with clients or are allowed to eat at your desk.

          If we counted our hours the same way, then we would count things like preparing lunch and doing laundry.

          • @Dainterhawk999B
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            Yelling at Taylor Swift? Still count as work hours.

  • @Myxomatosis
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    733 months ago

    Elon needs to get back to his CEO duties of abusing ketamine and shitposting on twitter all day long.

  • @Today
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    533 months ago

    I had to scroll up to see if it was The Onion.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      I’ve been saying for a few years now that I don’t blame anyone anymore for biting the onion. It is FAR TOO HARD to figure out what is life being absurd, and what is an absurd satire headline.

      The lines aren’t blurred anymore. There are no lines. The lines have ceased to exist at this point.

      I don’t understand life anymore, and I’d like to go back to politics being boring instead of being a circus.

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        And that’s assuming the headline you’re reading even has any bearing on the actual article, or that the article itself is factual, both of which are increasingly more common worries now.

  • @Freefall
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    Our government isn’t a meme you incel fuck. That clown is exhausting.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think hiring the CEO of MULTIPLE Businesses who bought a WEBSITE for $44000000000 and has MULTIPLE Government Contracts to a Government Role is a BIGLY SMART Move with LITERALLY no Downside or room for Swampy Activity!

    • @[email protected]
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      He’s good at promising without delivering, which is great if your idea of government efficiency is “have the best press while embezzling tons of money”.

      • RubberDuck
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        The Russian state should be a warning not a guide to model after.

  • Maple Engineer
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    He’s going to Xitter the US of A. 75% loss of value since he became involved.

  • NegativeNull
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    He just wants to be able to shut down the FAA, who keeps enforcing rules he doesn’t like (and SpaceX keeps breaking)

    • @ralakus
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      • @T00l_shed
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        73 months ago

        I hate that it’s the reality. Fptp is so anti democratic.

        • @[email protected]
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          Then organize a ballot measure for RCV or your preferred alternate system. Too late for this November but you can do something for future elections at least at the state level.

          • @T00l_shed
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            Not a yank, but yes. Electoral reform was promised, but never happened. I’m pissed.

        • @[email protected]
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          https://fairvoteaction.org/

          e: FairVote Action, a non-partisan group working towards election reform.

          Join to help them grow and give this issue a larger voice, and don’t wait until autumn 2027 (which is often what happens and which is too late). This needs a sustained and noisy effort so those in charge are made to start listening.

          I’ve started name checking them in threads such as this one for visibility. I’d like to see this problem addressed as soon as possible, and it ain’t fixing itself.

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          They’re either Trump supporters, have foreign interests, or are so fucking brainwashed they’d rather throw the whole country away than admit they don’t understand American civics

          Unfortunately as long as we have FPTP and the electoral college we aren’t a democracy

  • Bizzle
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    Imagine if the people in charge of our country took it seriously instead of whatever this clown show is.

    Can’t wait to vote Kamala, and least she won’t make things worse.

  • @GoofSchmoofer
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    His way of making the government efficient will be to just have no bid contracts go to all of his businesses.

    • @[email protected]
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      Which is the safest thing to do since he has name recognition…

      Source: I worked in a contracting office and literally these words have been spoken by almost every contracting official.

    • @RestrictedAccount
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      It is a troll. Musk is giving Lord Dampnut a shit ton of cash and support on shitter.

      In return Mar-a-Lardo said he would put Musk in charge of the Department Of Government Efficiency.

      It is a Dogecoin reference. Musk is being an edge lord.

      Not saying that Cheeto Benito wouldn’t do it, but it is mostly just fun for Elon at the expense of the people who he is spinning up over it.

  • @yesman
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    I’m getting really sick of the “conventional wisdom” that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.

    Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.

    • @[email protected]
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      Government is inefficient if you elect people who believe it is and set out to prove it.

      People who say “run things like a business” don’t know shit. Every job I’ve worked at has had tremendous waste, but no one was looking closely because it’s private.

      Like, right wing nut jobs would lose their shit if they learned a government office was buying fresh fruits for workers but most of it was going bad and being thrown out. But that happened every day for a while.

      There’s also been a lot of “why is this machine still running? How much are we paying AWS for this??”

      There’s also been a lot of "we don’t need to do accessibility on our website because most of our customers don’t care, and no one’s making us ".

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      Yep, exactly. Also, look at how the USPS works.

      Republican chuds: “Big Guvmit can’t do anything right, it’s the worst, they are hurting my freedom, argle bargle!”

      Also Republican chuds: “Back the blue (unless they break up a terrorist action called in by our former failed president) and our military is the bestest and shiniest in the whole wide WURLD!”