A Radical Experiment: How Elon Musk Could Shake Up Washington

[dinsdale]

21 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 
Well come back to who’s crying once Trump enacts a few of the Project 2025 agendas.

 

 

 

 

Ah! Project 2025 again. Ok so give us some examples of what it is from Project 2025 that Trump will enact. If you're not willing to do that then it's time to stop going on about it. Of course Trump claims no ownership or involvement with Project 2025.

[herfiehandbag]

It is a "grift". 

 

Donald Trust loves money, wants money, needs money. Money is central to his whole personality, as a super wealthy man, with all the trappings, as a magnificently successful businessman with the absolute midas touch (!) and that in turn feeds into his political life. The Presidency itself doesn't bring a lot of money, expenses paid, relatively modest salary, nice house, but not money, the money he loves, wants, needs.

 

Elon Musk has money, an awful lot of it.

It is a grift.

 

Ramaswamy may bring some initial political legitimacy.

[Srikcir]

On 11/15/2024 at 5:59 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

A mere emoji is not sufficient to reply to that, so here you go.

 

A mere assertion that MAGA must investigate government waste and inefficiency is a means for MAGA to manipulate government agencies into beneficial waste for MAGA individuals. No specificity as one might expect from MAGA.

Here is the present situation on government waste and inefficiency. It has been operational for some time.

GAOverview: Understanding Waste in Federal Programs; Published: May 09, 2024

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107198

(sorry this requires reading)

Types of waste in federal programs and strategies to address it:

• Programs may be vulnerable to waste due to mismanagement of assets.
• Personnel may engage in wasteful practices by not following policies and statutes.
• Program officials do not always establish adequate oversight procedures.
• Improve asset management capabilities. 
• Ensure that officials know and adhere to policies and statutes.
• Develop adequate oversight procedures. For example: Ineffective software asset management increases the likelihood of waste.

Trump and Musk would have you belief there is nothing in place. But apparently POTUS #45 had no issues during his last term.

[Srikcir]

On 11/15/2024 at 5:59 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

A mere emoji is not sufficient to reply to that, so here you go.

 

A mere assertion that MAGA must investigate government waste and inefficiency is a means for MAGA to manipulate government agencies into beneficial waste for MAGA individuals. No specificity as one might expect from MAGA.

Here is the present situation on government waste and inefficiency. It has been operational for some time.

GAOverview: Understanding Waste in Federal Programs; Published: May 09, 2024

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107198

(sorry this requires reading)

Types of waste in federal programs and strategies to address it:

• Programs may be vulnerable to waste due to mismanagement of assets.
• Personnel may engage in wasteful practices by not following policies and statutes.
• Program officials do not always establish adequate oversight procedures.
• Improve asset management capabilities. 
• Ensure that officials know and adhere to policies and statutes.
• Develop adequate oversight procedures. For example: Ineffective software asset management increases the likelihood of waste.

Trump and Musk would have you belief there is nothing in place. But apparently POTUS #45 had no issues during his last term.

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

Elon's gramma is from Moose Jaw.

 

Elon's company want to stitch a computer into your brain.

[bendejo]

DT is the swamp.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."

 

There is a war of wills in the works.  Two arrogant egomaniacs in a world that's too small.  And both are quite fragile.  DT's way of doing things is usually described as transactional.  And Elon is not going to let the notorious deadbeat grease out of paying up. 

"Elon won't go home. I can't get rid of him, at least until I don't like him," Trump said.

Sounds ominous.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jokes-elon-musk-maralago-speech-1986217

 

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

16 hours ago, bendejo said:

Two arrogant egomaniacs

And narcissists. One cannot reason with a narcissist.

[john donson]

Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), ???

 

you think that coin is going to the moon now?

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/16/2024 at 12:52 PM, motdaeng said:

 

what did trump achieve in his 4 years as the president "emptying the swamp"? why does he have to do it now again? 

Apparently some on here were asleep for Trump's entire first term. Be assured he won't be employing any Sessions disasters this time.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/16/2024 at 1:18 PM, dinsdale said:

Ah! Project 2025 again. Ok so give us some examples of what it is from Project 2025 that Trump will enact. If you're not willing to do that then it's time to stop going on about it. Of course Trump claims no ownership or involvement with Project 2025.

I wonder if the poster you quoted looks under his bed every night to see if Project 2025 is lurking there.

[pattayasan]

50 minutes ago, john donson said:

Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), ???

 

you think that coin is going to the moon now?

 

It'll be legal tender by September.

[bendejo]

6 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

And narcissists. One cannot reason with a narcissist.

Hey, have you been trying to poke my ex-wife?

 

 

[cheerz]

On 11/15/2024 at 6:20 AM, Gsxrnz said:

Elon is a smart cookie, and Vivek is no slug. But the Washington swamp is deep and treacherous.  They need to come up with a plan that is so quick and effective, that the swamp monsters don't have time to react or wreak vengeance. 

 

Something along the lines of a blitzkrieg attack - a full court press across multiple fronts that prevents the various swamp creatures and TLA agencies from helping to defend each other and bog the two Likely Lads down in litigation.

 

I have no idea what that might look like. Maybe something as simple as disabling all the access cards and cellphones of a selected  80% of government employees at 02:59 on a Sunday.

 

Whatever they do, they have to wreak instant havoc in every department to avoid being devoured by the swamp.

 

And let's face it. If every government department did absolutely nothing for a month, the world would be a much happier place. I think Musk is well aware of this. He would have no issue with government coming to a total standstill. 

Dismantling all gov access cards immediately brilliant if  musk/vevek can pull it off

 

 

[pattayasan]

14 minutes ago, cheerz said:

Dismantling all gov access cards immediately brilliant if  musk/vevek can pull it off

 

what could go wrong?

[John Drake]

On 11/15/2024 at 3:04 AM, Social Media said:

The federal government is preparing for a major shift as one of Silicon Valley’s most renowned disruptors, Elon Musk

 

Elon Musk has centered his operations in Texas, not Silicon Valley.

[John Drake]

Easiest place to start is the Education Dept. Shut it down. Fire them all. It's not only useless, it is a part of the federal government that has seen objective analyses of its area of responsibility decline rapidly since its beginning. Then, move on to Justice and move out the time wasters, obstructionists, and DEI plants. Defense has too many generals and their toadies, too little ability to oversee and audit expenses. If an expense cannot be accounted for, people need to go to jail and the sum extracted form the next budget. And considering their disastrous performance over the past 50 years, State needs to be entirely dismantled, reconstructed, and overseas palaces such as the one in Bangkok sold off or rented out as condos to Russians and Chinese.