Summary

DOGE staffers Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang tried pressuring the Bureau of Reclamation to open a California water pump to aid Los Angeles during January’s wildfires, though the system couldn’t reach the city.

When denied, they flew there to do it themselves but failed due to maintenance and access restrictions.

Critics called DOGE a “slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”

Trump later ordered dam releases, flooding farmland. Critics called DOGE’s actions reckless and uninformed.

  • @lepinkainen
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    128 minutes ago

    I wish I had the confidence of a DOGE tech bro even for a week.

  • @[email protected]
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    174 hours ago

    First, the power was off due to planned maintenance. Second, Shang wasn’t an official federal employee yet, meaning he couldn’t access the pump. Hassen couldn’t do it either, CNN reports, because he had to fly back before the power would be restored.

    “They didn’t get their photo op,” an unnamed source with knowledge of the incident told CNN, adding it represented “what DOGE has been this entire time — this slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”

    lol that’s amazing levels of incompetence.

    • @800XL
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      21 hour ago

      Anyihing where Trump or Musk are involved there’s incompetence.

  • @ehfkjrehfjer
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    124 hours ago

    I wish someone would put me in a room with these losers

    • @800XL
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      41 hour ago

      No shit. Little boys would be crying for their mamas.

  • @[email protected]
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    226 hours ago

    Yelling at various department managers and threatening to call Musk might work for the agencies they’ve gutted, but yeah fucking with any fire department during an active wildfire…I don’t care who you are, you’re gonna have a bad time. Possibly shovel related.

  • @TylerBourbon
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    54 hours ago

    These Doggy stooges are sooooo freaking annoying.

  • @Hayduke
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    75 hours ago

    If DOGE was a movie, it would be Sausage Party.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 hours ago

      Or just DGE like it would be if it were an actual bureau, DOGE is what they want because it minimizes legitimacy of government itself.

    • @Nastybutler
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      138 hours ago

      I’ve been pronouncing it “doogie” because it makes it seem as silly as it is

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        I like your approach. It certainly makes me think of how all the people involved are like way too young.

        I’m going to keep going with “doggy” because it reinforces to me how the decision making is on par with toddler logic

  • @OldChicoAle
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    45 hours ago

    They look like my dad after he finds a new jacket at Costco.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    4710 hours ago

    Ya know when you’re a teenager and you have these delusions of grandure, and think the world would work just fine if you were allowed to run it, because these “Stupid Adults don’t know ANYTHING!”

    That’s DOGE

    • @Duamerthrax
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      88 hours ago

      “Stupid Adults don’t know ANYTHING!”

      I mean… these are adults.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          68 hours ago

          All I’m saying is is that I could have absolutely have done a better job as a teenager then these fuckwits.

  • @Numinous_Ylem
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    77 hours ago

    Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang are fascist toadies.

  • @pyre
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    108 hours ago

    this whole organization runs exactly like a Seth Rogen / Michael Cera / Jonah Hill movie, except no one is likeable.

  • @StopTouchingYourPhone
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    4312 hours ago

    Imagine Bryton and Tyler showing up at your workplace in the middle of a crisis to take selfies and tweet about how they fixed your problems.

    • @[email protected]
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      1911 hours ago

      It feels like the plot of an episode of Parks and Rec, but like, stupider, and not funny at all